Twilight: A New Dawn for Summit
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Twilight gave a faltering new movie studio an extreme makeover. We talk with Rob Friedman, the chief of Summit Entertainment.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.0 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time. |
| 0:12.0 | Everybody takes his own business, really, really, all the right life. |
| 0:17.8 | He doesn't clean. |
| 0:19.3 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.4 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:22.9 | This week on the business, Summit Entertainment was born with a billion dollars in the bank. |
| 0:27.9 | But it was the undead characters of Twilight that really brought it to life. |
| 0:32.1 | We'll talk to Rob Friedman, Summit's co-chair and CEO. |
| 0:34.9 | But first, on the Hollywood news banter, |
| 0:39.8 | Comic-Con comes and goes. |
| 0:41.6 | It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:51.5 | You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:52.4 | What's with him? |
| 0:52.7 | Him? |
| 0:55.5 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm joined in the studio by the business producer, Matt Holzman. |
| 0:59.4 | Matt, what's up? |
| 1:05.3 | Well, every studio has sent their emissaries to the gigantic geek fest known as Comic-Con, which just wrapped up. |
| 1:08.8 | And it's so not just about comics anymore, right? Everybody with something to sell, certainly with fantasy or teen appeal seems to be showing up there. |
| 1:15.0 | That's true, including Glee, which is a new show from Fox, which has about as much to do with comics and monsters in science fiction fantasy as a little house on the prairie. |
| 1:26.4 | But of course one of the big draws was Avatar, everybody dying to get a glimpse of that |
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