Which Way, Studios?
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Paramount shuffles its top executives and Universal may be next. Sony cancels a high-profile project just before cameras roll and Fox balks at the budget of their new Denzel Washington thriller. What the hell’s happening to the movie business?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.6 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time. |
| 0:12.3 | Everybody thinks his business, business, really, really, all right life. |
| 0:18.1 | He doesn't clean. |
| 0:19.6 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.7 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:23.0 | This week on the business, studios are shuffling their top executives, canceling expensive projects, and turning their backs on A-list stars. |
| 0:32.4 | What the hell is happening to the movie business? |
| 0:35.3 | We'll talk to John Horn of the L.A. Times and Stephen Galloway of the Hollywood reporter. |
| 0:39.9 | But first on the Hollywood news banter, it's the latest proof that the revolution is underway at the studios. |
| 0:46.3 | It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:52.0 | I can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:57.1 | What's with him? |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, I'm afraid he's going to Hollywood. |
| 1:01.1 | I'm joined in the studio by the business producer, Matt Holthman. |
| 1:04.5 | Matt, what's up? |
| 1:05.4 | So we're dedicating today's banter to stories that have something to do directly or indirectly with the larger show, which is |
| 1:12.1 | about the changing movie business, all these stories are more indicators that changes are afoot. |
| 1:16.8 | We're starting with the fact that Forbes has released its list of Hollywood's top actresses, |
| 1:21.3 | their top earners list. And no surprise, Angelina Jolie is number one at $27 million last year. |
| 1:27.1 | That's between June of 2008 and June of |
| 1:29.4 | 2009. The surprising, I guess to me, surprising number two is Jennifer Aniston, who somehow, you know, |
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