From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

What I knew when I heard that song was, oh my God, I have to rewrite the whole movie.

So we played that for the crew, and it was definitely a turning point in production where everyone just said, this is our film.

Let It Go is the now ubiquitous Oscar-winning song from Frozen. The soundtrack

has gone double platinum. The movie has propelled Disney's profits. There are plans for a Frozen

Broadway musical, and this fall, a show on ice. We revisit our conversation with writer and co-director

Jennifer Lee and songwriter Kristen

Anderson Lopez. But first on the Hollywood news banter, highlights from Cannes, and as X-Men

opens, director Brian Singer denies sex abuse allegations. Stay tuned. It's the business from

KCRW. I'm joined this week by a banter buddy who's also a colleague, Matt Baleney, of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So, Matt, you were in Cannes, just sporting yourself on the beaches, I'm sure.

It was lovely.

And we have a few movies that have been very well received and a few movies that have been kind of brutalized, very high profile things. And that's kind of the can way, I guess, right?

Yeah, I mean, this year was interesting because there were a higher number than usual Hollywood-oriented movies from big-name stars and directors that premiered at the festival. And it really turned into kind of a buzzsaw.

I mean, some movies just were cheered and people loved, and others just got hacked to pieces.

It was very interesting.

Yeah, booing is not something you see at like Toronto or Sundance, but apparently it's a proud tradition it can.

And Ryan Gosling got it full force, I think, right? Yeah, Ryan Gosling brought

his directorial debut, Lost River, to the festival, and it was a complete debacle. There were booze

at the first screening, and the critics were just merciless. The same thing happened for Grace of

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