Will Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ bring big changes to Netflix?; Roy Wood Jr. ‘pledges allegiance to the joke’
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As Greta Gerwig prepares to dive into production on her adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia, the director is attempting to persuade Netflix to release her film on thousands of IMAX screens worldwide. Will the streamer bite? Also, Gavin Newsom proposes an increase in tax credits for California productions. What hurdles does the California governor face? Kim Masters and Matt Belloni talk us through it.
Plus, Eric Deggans talks to comedian Roy Wood Jr. about hosting the American version of the long-running British current events quiz show, Have I Got News For You. Wood also addresses the ongoing paradigm shift in late night comedy — telling us why he thinks old-school ratings matter, but social virality and streaming numbers matter more.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business. |
| 0:05.4 | Comedian Roy Wood Jr.'s latest gig is hosting the new U.S. version of the long-running British |
| 0:11.1 | Current Affairs Quiz Show. Have I Got News for you? It airs on CNN, but he wants to make one thing clear. |
| 0:18.4 | He's not going to suck up to the bosses. |
| 0:20.3 | I didn't want there to be |
| 0:22.0 | any type of issue where I am accused of showing favoritism to the network that I'm on. I pledge |
| 0:29.3 | allegiance to the joke. So someone on this network is getting a little criticism about something. |
| 0:34.9 | When I see at the water cooler, I will apologize gently, and hopefully |
| 0:39.1 | I don't get punched in the face. Eric Deggans talks to the former Daily Show regular about |
| 0:44.2 | the challenges of adapting a beloved British political satire for an American audience. Wood also |
| 0:50.3 | addresses the ongoing paradigm shift in late-night comedy and why he thinks old-school ratings matter, |
| 0:56.2 | but streaming numbers and going viral on social media matters more. But first we banter. Stick |
| 1:03.0 | around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my buddy in banter. Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So, as I have said before in the show, |
| 1:17.2 | Netflix, in my mind, is sort of like a glacier that they came in, they were going to reinvent the wheel. |
| 1:22.6 | They were the smarter guys who were going to do things better than the dumb guys in Hollywood. |
| 1:27.0 | And incrementally, |
| 1:28.2 | they move toward the Hollywood model. But as you well know, the one line in the sand was, |
| 1:33.7 | we don't run our movies and theaters, no theatrical release. And this, notwithstanding a very, |
| 1:38.6 | very mingy little release for the knives out, sequel and things that they do to qualify |
| 1:43.2 | their pictures for Academy Awards. So now and things that they do to qualify their pictures for Academy |
| 1:44.4 | Awards. So now we hear that they are contemplating putting Greta Gerwig's Narnia, which is a |
| 1:51.5 | work in progress, potentially out on what, 1700 IMAX screens. And I don't know if there's any |
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