'True Blood' Music Supervisor Gary Calamar; Making 'Monsters'
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Gary Calamar, music supervisor of hit TV shows (True Blood, Dexter, House and Six Feet Under) on choosing the right songs to convey a mood and brand a show. Gareth Edwards on working guerrilla-style and doing his own effects to make his sci-fi thriller Monsters on the cheap.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.7 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time. |
| 0:12.4 | Everybody thinks your business, business, really, really, all the white life. |
| 0:18.2 | He doesn't clean. |
| 0:19.0 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.8 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:24.9 | This week on the business, the music supervisor of hit shows like True Blood, House, and Six Feet Under, on choosing the right songs. |
| 0:32.8 | Plus, how a guerrilla filmmaker got the low-budget movie Monsters made by doing his own camera work |
| 0:38.4 | and special effects. But first, the Hollywood news banter, stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:45.3 | I can imagine Hollywood. Everything is really driven by making money. What's with him? |
| 0:53.0 | I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. |
| 0:56.8 | I am joined by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:00.9 | Hello, John. |
| 1:01.9 | Hello, Kim. |
| 1:03.0 | So Disney, Disney bought Marvel, about a year ago, I guess, for a lot of money. |
| 1:08.2 | $4 billion to be there. |
| 1:10.2 | Okay, that's a lot of money where I come from. |
| 1:11.8 | And a lot of the Marvel properties were tied up elsewhere. |
| 1:15.2 | Spider-Man at Sony, X-Men at Fox, and Paramount had Iron Man and was going to have the Avengers. |
| 1:23.2 | But last week there was a pretty significant deal announced. |
| 1:26.9 | Disney bought back, basically. |
| 1:28.7 | It's sort of ransomed the next Iron Man and the Avengers from Paramount. |
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