Podcast: KCRW's The Business
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Support KCRW's public radio podcasts. Join online at KCRW.com or call 800-600-5279. Hosted by Claude Brodesser-Akner, The Business looks deep inside the business of entertainment. A half-hour of thoughtful and irreverent dialogue with Hollywood's top deal-makers, filmmakers, moguls, artists and agents, The Business will clue you in on who's making pop culture pop and what's keeping Hollywood's Blackberries juicy.

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Actors talk about the exhausting and angst-ridden process of auditioning for television pilots.
Datum: 21.04.2012 00:48 • Größe: unbekannt

Morgan Spurlock on producing web series for the Internet. Plus, television masters on how to make a great TV pilot.
Datum: 14.04.2012 00:12 • Größe: unbekannt

Indie filmmaker Whit Stillman returns. Plus, SAG and AFTRA merge -- so now what?
Datum: 07.04.2012 00:20 • Größe: unbekannt

Morgan Spurlock talks about turning his cameras on the fans and phenomenon that is Comic-Con.
Datum: 31.03.2012 00:56 • Größe: unbekannt

"The Hunger Games" is the biggest movie to hit theaters this year. Producer Nina Jacobson tells us how the movie came to be.
Datum: 26.03.2012 20:32 • Größe: unbekannt

We look at the art of the heard -- but not seen -- voice actor. Three veterans on what it takes to succeed and why some great on-camera movie stars can't cut it.
Datum: 19.03.2012 20:53 • Größe: unbekannt

Navigating Pilot Season: How the ABC comedy Suburgatory went from idea, to pilot, to TV series.
Datum: 10.03.2012 01:04 • Größe: unbekannt

Navigating Pilot Season: How the ABC comedy Suburgatory went from idea, to pilot, to TV series.
Datum: 10.03.2012 01:04 • Größe: unbekannt

Director Jay Roach and Writer Danny Strong turn the Sarah Palin Pygmalian story into an HBO movie.
Datum: 03.03.2012 02:33 • Größe: unbekannt

Elvis Mitchell and Kim Masters discuss the Oscars and the Independent Spirit Awards, and share clips from interviews with some of this year's nominees. (Feb 23, 7-8pm)
Datum: 29.02.2012 01:12 • Größe: unbekannt

We look at the film industries in Brazil and Russia through the very different success stories of two filmmakers.
Datum: 25.02.2012 03:43 • Größe: unbekannt

Joshua Marston's film about blood feuds sparks its own feud after being disqualified for an Oscar. Marston tells his side of the story. Plus, the Independent Spirit Awards.
Datum: 18.02.2012 00:54 • Größe: unbekannt

Bill Lawrence, co-creator of Cougar Town, is taking his show to the people. He's self-funding viewing parties across the US where fans meet cast and have a drink on him.
Datum: 11.02.2012 00:51 • Größe: unbekannt

Visual effects supervisor Legat on working with Martin Scorsese and James Cameron, and how movies like 'The Godfather' could work in 3-D. Plus, a forgotten film pioneer.
Datum: 12.12.2011 21:45 • Größe: unbekannt

Selling the NC-17 rated movie, Shame. Plus, the fate and state of movie theaters.
Datum: 05.12.2011 21:41 • Größe: unbekannt

The writers behind Bridesmaids go from improv to screenwriting with a little help from their friends.
Datum: 28.11.2011 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The filmmakers behind The Artist discuss on making a B&W silent film, in the era of 3D blockbusters. Plus two of the comedy minds behind the Onion News Network.
Datum: 21.11.2011 22:10 • Größe: unbekannt

The voice of Elmo (Sesame Street) shares his love of puppeteering and the head of Walt Disney Animation reaches out to those striving to work in entertainment.
Datum: 14.11.2011 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Werner Herzog on his fascination with death row, his stop-at-nothing-approach to filmmaking, his "vile and debased" persona and the challenge of eating his own shoe.
Datum: 07.11.2011 22:15 • Größe: unbekannt

Twins Michael and Mark Polish on releasing their latest movie, For Lovers Only on iTunes. Plus, the three friends who made the indie hit Martha Marcy May Marlene.
Datum: 31.10.2011 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Known for big-budget action films, Roland Emmerich's new movie goes in a different direction. Anonymous is a historical drama that deals with the controversial topic...
Datum: 24.10.2011 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Felicia Day may not be a household name ? yet -- but to many actors and gamers she is an inspiration...
Datum: 17.10.2011 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

As the Fall TV season continues, we look at the challenges to making a successful comedy pilot. Plus Alex Kendrick, the man behind the hit Christian film, Courageous...
Datum: 10.10.2011 22:45 • Größe: unbekannt

Kurt Sutter, the controversy-stirring creator and show-runner of the FX series, Sons of Anarchy. Plus, a little inspiration from a Pixar animator....
Datum: 03.10.2011 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Seventeen years after surviving a tragic car accident, a Hollywood producer wants his career back. Plus, satirist Shearer gets serious about The Big Uneasy.
Datum: 26.09.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Director Rod Lurie on remaking Straw Dogs. Plus, Columbia University's Dr. W. Ian Lipkin talks about consulting on the Soderbergh pandemic thriller, Contagion.
Datum: 19.09.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Renny Harlin, who hit box office highs in the 90's, talks about making 5 Days of War and the big flop that's haunted him for years...
Datum: 12.09.2011 21:48 • Größe: unbekannt

Agent-turned-manager-turned Producer Gavin Polone on his new movie, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, and what it reveals about his star client...
Datum: 05.09.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Carson Daly, host of The Voice and Last Call with Carson Daly, on surviving NBC's late-night wars, the writers' strike and recent budget cuts....
Datum: 29.08.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Filmmaker Evan Glodell's breaking-in story. Plus, we go to the Sarajevo Film Festival. (John Horn guest hosts.)
Datum: 29.08.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The creators of TV?s acclaimed show Damages (cancelled by FX and reborn on Direct TV) on what lures top-tier talent to the show. Plus, our winning Moth StorySLAM story.
Datum: 22.08.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Carson Daly, host of The Voice and Last Call with Carson Daly, plus another story from our Moth StorySlam.
Datum: 15.08.2011 21:45 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling novel The Help, and her childhood friend Tate Taylor, who has written and directed the new movie based on the book.
Datum: 08.08.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Fran Dresher and Peter Marc Jacobson, on their new sit-com, based on their relationship. Plus, why you really need to be making short films to make it in Hollywood..
Datum: 01.08.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, the directing team behind the new Steve Carrell/Ryan Gosling movie Crazy, Stupid, Love. Plus, another story from our Moth StorySlam...
Datum: 25.07.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky on their working partnership and transforming their webseries into a TV show. Plus, a story told at the live Story Slam we hosted with The Moth.
Datum: 18.07.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Sketch comedians and screenwriters Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, authors of Writing Movies for Fun and Profit, on the very practical secrets to their success.
Datum: 11.07.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We revisit our interview with Barry Michels and Phil Stutz, two of the busiest ? and unconventional -- shrinks in Hollywood. Then we hear from their former clients.
Datum: 04.07.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

AMC's Veena Sud on the backlash when The Killing's series finale didn't reveal who did the killing. Plus, media reporter David Carr, star of the new documentary Page One.
Datum: 27.06.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Agent-turned-manager-turned Producer Gavin Polone on his new movie, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, and what it reveals about his star client...
Datum: 20.06.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We speak with John Wells about the creative freedom that comes from working in cable, and Mike Royce on co-creating that Peabody Award-winning Men of a Certain Age.
Datum: 13.06.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The producer of the origin story of the Marvel mutants recounts his own origin story -- from breaking in to Hollywood to morphing into a producer of big studio movies...
Datum: 06.06.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

In the 70's and 80's Jeff Wald had a flourishing career managing big-name stars. Drug use was an accepted and arguably a necessary part of doing business in Hollywood...
Datum: 30.05.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Jimmy Kimmel roasts the TV industry at the ABC upfronts. Then, a conversation with NBC Chair Robert Greenblatt, and reporter Stephen Battaglio on the next TV season.
Datum: 23.05.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Robert and Michelle King say that having The Good Wife, presented to advertisers at the upfronts is like being at an insurance salesmen convention, but with great jokes...
Datum: 16.05.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We talk with two veteran casting executives about casting TV shows. Then, Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank and Molly Smith talk about their new production company.
Datum: 09.05.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Steve Golin on the making and marketing an offbeat dramatic comedy with a troubled star and his history of collaborating with creative types...
Datum: 02.05.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Morgan Spurlock talks about Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, which was entirely financed by brand partners doing product placement in the film.
Datum: 25.04.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Phil Rosenthal, creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, deals with culture clash in Russia. Mad about You sitcom king Paul Reiser finds that success has a short shelf life.
Datum: 18.04.2011 22:27 • Größe: unbekannt

Mexican telenovela star Kate del Castillo faces Hollywood culture shock. Then, filmmakers Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen go in search of an audience for Marwencol.
Datum: 11.04.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Barry Michels and Phil Stutz are two of the busiest shrinks in Hollywood. We talk about their unconventional techniques and hear from a couple of their former clients.
Datum: 04.04.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, two formidable men in very different show business worlds: painter/filmmaker Julian Schnabel and reality TV icon Simon Cowell.
Datum: 28.03.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Maria Bamford, Al Madrigal and Paul F. Tompkins on the hard-knocks life of a professional comedian?
Datum: 21.03.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Comedy Central exec Elizabeth Porter on those raunchy celebrity roasts, which are meant to be outrageous and raunchy, but most of all utterly hilarious.
Datum: 14.03.2011 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

Director Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura, Bruce Almighty, The Nutty Professor) has made the new documentary. I Am is a spiritual journey in which he reevaluates his life while talking with great minds about big social problems. He tells Kim that some in the business think he's "nuts," but that others, like...
Datum: 07.03.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Filmmaker Kevin Smith talks candidly about his admiration for Wayne Gretzky, his love of marijuana and his innovative plan to distribute his new movie, Red State, himself. We met with Smith as he embarks on a cross country tour screening the film in major venues. He discusses his rationale for bucki...
Datum: 28.02.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Composer-singer-songwriter Randy Newman has had 20 Oscar nominations and one win. This year he's nominated in the Best Song category for "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3. But despite his success he says he wishes he was really good. Then, David Friendly, the producer behind the Big Momma's Hous...
Datum: 21.02.2011 21:00 • Größe: unbekannt

Ever since entering the business, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky has been as much a savvy entrepreneur as an auteur director. Now with Black Swan receiving five Oscar nominations and reaching $100 million at the box office, he's still not sure Hollywood will embrace his next passion project. But before ...
Datum: 14.02.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

When television writer-producer Shawn Ryan created The Shield he helped make basic cable a go-to place for sophisticated original scripted programming. With his new Fox series, The Chicago Code, Ryan hopes to bring his brand of storytelling to a broader audience.
Datum: 07.02.2011 21:59 • Größe: unbekannt

He may not be the biggest Hollywood name behind The Social Network, but without his relationship with author Ben Mezrich Hollywood may not have made this movie. Producer Dana Brunetti, recounts how he and now-partner Kevin Spacey wooed Facebook co-founder Eduardo Severin into telling them the story....
Datum: 31.01.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

John Sloss, one of the Sundance Film Festival's most seasoned players, gives a window into selling movies as the independent film world struggles to recover. He talks about diversifying his business last year by distributing the documentary Exit through the Giftshop, and how that was both a solid bu...
Datum: 24.01.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

During their two-month ordeal the 33 Chilean miners made a pact that they would stick together and sell the rights to their story as a group when and if they emerged. Now attorney Guillermo Carey, part of a team that's formed a corporation to sell their story, talks about setting up a fund to take c...
Datum: 17.01.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We air a conversation from comedian Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Maron and comedian-writer-producer Louis C.K. discuss C.K.'s career in the TV business, as well as their their relationship as fellow comics and struggles as friends.
Datum: 10.01.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

John Horn of the Los Angeles Times and Michael Schneider of Variety join Kim Masters to drag in the new year and muse about what 2010 trends could affect 2011...
Datum: 03.01.2011 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The LA Times' John Horn, Variety's Michael Schneider and Kim Masters discuss the big show business stories for 2010. The three industry veterans break down the top stories and tell us what it all means.
Datum: 27.12.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The King's Speech director Tom Hooper talks about the anxiety of funding this historical buddy drama and the anxiety of learning Hollywood etiquette. He also gives a convincing argument for changing the MPAA ratings system. Plus, Franklin Leonard's 2010 Black List, the annual compilation of the most...
Datum: 20.12.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The Fighter is a natural awards-bait movie but producer David Hoberman says that in today's Hollywood, studios didn't want to make it. It started as a $70 million film produced by Paramount and ended up as an $18 million film made with outside money from Relativity Media. Along the way Matt Damon an...
Datum: 13.12.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Director Andrew Jarecki on the making of his first narrative feature, All Good Things. The film, starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella is inspired by the bizarre, real life story of Robert Durst ? the wealthy son of a New York real estate magnate ? whose wife went missing in 1982 a...
Datum: 06.12.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We revisit our conversation with filmmaking brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, whose movie, Cyrus, marked a turning point in their careers. They'd made feature films but never before with studio backing, never with known actors and never with significant budgets. As darlings of the indie world and tra...
Datum: 29.11.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson on seeing their story in the new Doug Liman movie, Fair Game. Plus, an audio diary of a veteran line producer, David Streit, looking to finance his first feature. A senior lecturer at AFI, after years of dreaming of shepherding his own movie from script to screen, this y...
Datum: 22.11.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The special-effects gurus known as the Brothers Strause made Skyline for a thrifty $10 million. They wanted to prove themselves as directors to the studios but found out they'd rather make their own films. Plus, we go behind closed doors to where deals are made at the American Film Market. We spend ...
Datum: 15.11.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The Hobbit movies have suffered a cursed road to the screen marked by studio financing problems, the loss of director Guillermo del Toro and a fire at a New Zealand studio. But nothing generated so much public anger and government attention as when the actors tried to unionize and Warner Bros threat...
Datum: 08.11.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We hear from Paranormal Activity producer Jason Blum on the challenge of making a sequel to the 2009 break-out hit. This time with studio backing from Paramount, the producers had to find a way to make the follow-up true to the ethos of its micro-budget original. Plus, producer of Toy Story 3, Darla...
Datum: 01.11.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

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.
Datum: 25.10.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Since 2005, Franklin Leonard, creator and keeper of The Black List, has kept Hollywood on pins and needles every December awaiting this compilation of the most loved unproduced screenplays making the rounds in town. Plus, Darlene Hunt -- creator and executive producer of Showtime's The Big C, starri...
Datum: 18.10.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Celebrated director Stephen Frears (The Grifters, High Fidelity, The Queen) talks about his new movie Tamara Drewe and his comfort level working in the independent film world. After two failed attempts at Hollywood studio movies, the indie director says he retreated to a more sensible place, away fr...
Datum: 11.10.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Kyle Killen created the Fox drama, Lone Star, which was recently canceled after just two airings. While that television dream didn't exactly work out as planned, his film career is hanging in limbo. He wrote the much lauded screenplay for the movie The Beaver, which was due out this year. Killen ta...
Datum: 04.10.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

"Jumped the Shark" may be the most famous thing Fred Fox, Jr. has ever written and in a way he didn't even write it-- not that phrase exactly. Fox is the Happy Days writer behind the now infamous episode that inspired the iconic catchphrase 'jumped the shark.' Fox discusses writing the episode and ...
Datum: 27.09.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Premieres, parties and press junkets at the Toronto International Film Festival. Kim Masters goes insides a junket to interview Conviction director Tony Goldwyn about working a festival. Then its off to an industry party where Nigel Cole, director of Made in Dagenham, compares this year's TIFF to tw...
Datum: 20.09.2010 23:42 • Größe: unbekannt

Director Ken Kwapis's latest TV project is the new NBC series Outsourced, which premieres September 23. The show follows an American running a call center in Mumbai, and has been accused of stereotyping the Indian characters. Kwapis discusses these accusations and the nature of provocative comedies....
Datum: 13.09.2010 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

To live in the Los Angeles area means we submit our lives to the control of a greater power. And I don?t mean Hollywood. There are actually two great natural influences that shape Southern California: the Pacific Ocean, of course, and plate tectonics in the form of the San Andreas Fault. Both are f...
Datum: 07.09.2010 02:44 • Größe: unbekannt

Battlefield Earth recently won the Razzie for being the "worst picture of the decade." The two credited screenwriters on that film -- J.D. Shapiro and Corey Mandell ? say, "Don't blame us!" We find out how their careers survived writing one of the most notorious movies ever. (This program was ori...
Datum: 06.09.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The documentary The Tillman Story was given a controversial R rating for language by the Motion Picture Association of America. We talk with filmmaker Amir Bar Lev about his failed effort to challenge that rating in an appeal. Then we hear from Joan Graves, head of the MPAA's rating's board, about t...
Datum: 30.08.2010 21:46 • Größe: unbekannt

Veteran television producer Winnie Holzman and Savannah Dooley go from being mother and daughter to writing partners. They run the ABC Family dramedy Huge, which is set in a weight-loss camp for teens. While Holzman is an old hand at TV this is the first project by 25-year-old Dooley. Because of he...
Datum: 23.08.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Behind every filmmaker stands an assistant. The former assistant to Phillip Noyce, director of Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, read scripts for four years until finally finding his latest project, Salt. Bea Sequeira talks about being a script reader and working in the shadows as an assi...
Datum: 16.08.2010 21:49 • Größe: unbekannt

In 1976 Star Wars was the first movie presented at Comic-Con. Now the four-day event, with about 125,000 attendees, is a huge marketing bonanza -- not just for comic-book movies, sci-fi, fantasy, horror and animation but practically any movie or TV show loosely connected to this fan base. We hear wh...
Datum: 09.08.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Producer Dean Zanuck, goes out on his own, independent of his Oscar-winning producer father and of studio financing to make his new indie movie, Get Low. He talks about being the third-generation in the family business of show business and of living up to his grandfather and father's legacy. The...
Datum: 02.08.2010 21:40 • Größe: unbekannt

This week on The Business, it's Reality-palooza! Three producers of big unscripted hits -- Intervention, Top Chef and The Hills -- talk about the reality of reality television. They reveal the keys to casting, the dilemma of who really "writes" these shows, what soft-scripted mean and how important ...
Datum: 26.07.2010 21:45 • Größe: unbekannt

Rona Barrett, who brought Hollywood gossip and entertainment industry news to TV, discusses show business -- then and now. Then, with all this bad star behavior out there -- from Mel Gibson to Roman Polanski to Charlie Sheen -- we ask Dean Valentine, former head of UPN and Walt Disney Television, w...
Datum: 19.07.2010 21:45 • Größe: unbekannt

We look at the decision in the Celador versus Disney case. What was at issue? How will the decision awarding Celador a $270 million payout affect business in Hollywood? Then, Lance Daly directed a couple of 11-year-olds with no acting experience in his new movie Kisses. The Irish filmmaker wanted ki...
Datum: 12.07.2010 21:45 • Größe: unbekannt

Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks about being a brand in Hollywood, and we look at how those with even tenuous links to the series earn fame and fortune. Also, Australian Mark Lewis, known for his humorous indie films on going 3-D with Cane Toads: The Conquest otherwise known as Ava-Toa...
Datum: 05.07.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

As the HBO series Entourage begins its seventh season, we find out what goes on inside a real-life entourage with Jerry Schilling, a member of Elvis Presley's famed "Memphis Mafia." Like the fictional entourage, Elvis' inner circle of homeboys lived with "The King" and accompanied him everywhere as ...
Datum: 28.06.2010 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

What happens when indie filmmakers accustomed to shooting on a micro-budget with unknown actors and DV cameras get to work with stars and millions of studio dollars to spend? Brothers Jay and Mark Duplass talk about hiding from their own crew, negotiating with Fox Searchlight execs and staying true...
Datum: 21.06.2010 21:45 • Größe: unbekannt

Joan Rivers may be best known for her off-color humor, working the red carpet, and her love of plastic surgery. But in the new documentary, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern reveal a woman who is an amazingly resilient industry pro, so committed to work that sh...
Datum: 14.06.2010 21:48 • Größe: unbekannt

If a TV show isn't getting good ratings it goes "on the bubble." So how do the writers cope with the threat of cancellation hanging over their heads, and what happens when the bubble pops? We talk with two TV producers Liz Heldens and Scott Rosenbaum, who know life on the bubble all too well.
Datum: 07.06.2010 22:03 • Größe: unbekannt

A movie financier on the hunt for money finds an unlikely backer in Saadi Qaddafi, son of notorious Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. Plus, we sit down with actor Michael Sheen.
Datum: 31.05.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The Cannes Film Festival is full of big stars, yachts and artsy movies. But behind the scenes, at the Cannes film market, hundreds of independent producers look for money from foreign buyers to make their next movies. Jonathan Wolf, managing director of the American Film Market (AFM) gives us a repo...
Datum: 24.05.2010 21:45 • Größe: unbekannt

?Troll 2? Was An Infamous Turkey Of A Film That Haunted It's Child star Until It Became A Cult Phenomenon. Now He's Made A Documentary About The Weird Demise And Rise Of A Really Bad Movie It's Called "best Worst Movie." Plus George Romero -The Grandaddy Of The Zombie Film, Talks About His New Movie...
Datum: 17.05.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Comedy Central Recently Censored An Episode Of "South Park" Over Threats Aimed At The Show's Creators On A Radical Muslim Website. We Ask The Questions: Was Comedy Central Right? How Should Hollywood Studios Weigh Creative Freedom Against Potential Security Risks? Plus One Hollywood Writer Stands Up...
Datum: 11.05.2010 00:12 • Größe: unbekannt

Hollywood?s hostile work environment goes under the microscope. When a former Desperate Housewives actress filed a lawsuit against the creator of the show for abuse, gender discrimination and wrongful termination, we began to wonder what you have to put up with if you want to work in Hollywood.
Datum: 03.05.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Fox TV chief Kevin Reilly tells it like it is about the high-stakes game that is pilot season: the chemistry of casting, going with your gut and the sweaty palms you get when trying to sell new shows to advertisers.
Datum: 26.04.2010 21:45 • Größe: unbekannt

Battlefield Earth recently won the Razzie for being the "worst picture of the decade." The two credited screenwriters on that film -- J.D. Shapiro and Corey Mandell ? say, "Don't blame us!" We find out how their careers survived writing one of the most notorious movies ever.
Datum: 19.04.2010 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

Three-D movies are all the craze, but is all 3-D movie-making created equal? Do movie-goers care? We talk to the producer of two of the biggest 3-D movies this year and a man who's training cameramen on the latest technology.
Datum: 12.04.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The Roman Catholic Church is an ancient institution in a fast-moving world. After the sex-scandal, what's next in America and Europe? Is the future in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Also, President Obama's nuclear summit, and Poland's democracy on trial.
Datum: 12.04.2010 19:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Producer David Bergstein seems to have pulled the financial wool over Hollywood's eyes. We get answers to the question "how does this keep happening?" with prolific producer Art Linson. He worked with the last David Bergstein, bigger-than-life financier Elie Samaha.
Datum: 06.04.2010 04:00 • Größe: unbekannt

Netflix, Redbox, Hulu, iTunes?they're all competing to win the digital horse race. And, we go on a tour of the video store, that old gray mare they're helping to put out to pasture. Plus, producer John Wells goes to Washington to protest the NBC-Comcast merger. Matt Holzman guest hosts.
Datum: 29.03.2010 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

It's a gamble every time you buy a movie ticket. But a new financial market will make it possible to actually bet on the box office. Plus, making movie music with Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino.
Datum: 22.03.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, the Academy Awards?and the thankless job of producing the Oscar telecast. We talk to the co-producer of this year's show, film producer and former Fox Chairman Bill Mechanic.
Datum: 15.03.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

It's tough to get distribution for indie movies these days. But just what is distribution, and what can you do if you have a great little movie without it?
Datum: 08.03.2010 21:45 • Größe: unbekannt

It's a big awards weekend in Hollywood. We hear what it's like for a movie executive whose company has three of the five films in Oscar?s Foreign Language category and he still doesn't feel like a front-runner. But before the Academy Awards on Sunday, folks in the indie world are heading to their an...
Datum: 01.03.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Peter Pan's not just a fairy tale character. He could be the mascot of an industry obsessed by youth. This week, we talk to two TV writers involved in an age discrimination suit against the studios.
Datum: 22.02.2010 21:42 • Größe: unbekannt

A hefty new book conceived by director George Lucas examines the DNA of 300 American blockbusters. We examine how the book was made and what we can learn from it. Plus, how far will you go to become a successful screenwriter? The Hurt Locker's Mark Boal went to Iraq.
Datum: 15.02.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

New music from pop star Ben Folds, popular novelist Nick Hornby and William Shatner. Plus, we check out those star maps that point out houses of the rich and famous. And what can we learn about today's shrinking A-list from a book about one of yesterday's biggest stars?
Datum: 08.02.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We go behind the scenes and into the control room of American Idol.
Datum: 01.02.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

If we've learned anything from the Leno/Conan debacle, it's the value of a well written contract. We talk to one entertainment lawyer and find out exactly what he does to earn his 5 percent. Plus, the author of About a Boy and High Fidelity didn't write the movies based on his novels, but he did w...
Datum: 25.01.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The television business is crazier than ever. We try to make sense of it all with two veteran TV journalists. Plus, a look at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival with the fest's new director, John Cooper.
Datum: 18.01.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

It's a new year and the Oscar race is in the final stretch. We go behind the horse race with two industry veterans.
Datum: 11.01.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The year 2009 was a crazy year for the business, and 2010 should top it. This week, its the Hollywood year to be with Cynthia Littleton of Variety and John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.
Datum: 04.01.2010 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We look at the ups, the downs, the all-arounds of the Hollywood year that was with Cynthia Littleton of Variety and John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.
Datum: 28.12.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Pixar scored big with Up! this year, and now they're seven for seven. We chat with a member of the company's original brain trust and the director of Up! about Oscars, 3-D and making movies that almost everyone loves. Plus, James Cameron's Avatar cost hundreds of millions to make. How much green d...
Datum: 21.12.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We look at the crazy story behind the new movie Crazy Heart. It's got Oscar buzz now, but it almost didn't make it into theaters. Plus, Twilight has made hundreds of millions at the box office, but a lot of other people have been riding on the cape tails of everybody's favorite vampire movie.
Datum: 14.12.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

James Cameron's Avatar isn't just a hugely expensive sci-fi adventure ? it's a titanic bid to transform movies. We get inside the mind of one of Hollywood's biggest players with Rebecca Keegan, author of the new book The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron.
Datum: 07.12.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

Did the Academy's documentary short list short some docs? Plus, Hugo Chavez takes on Hollywood.
Datum: 30.11.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

In an industry where honesty is such a lonely word, the creator of a hit TV show says what he thinks on line. We talk to Kurt Sutter of Sons of Anarchy about his blog, Sutterink. Plus an Academy Award-winning writer on how show business is like every other business we know.
Datum: 23.11.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

A Hollywood rags-to-riches-to-rags story might have a happy ending after all. We talk to Troy Duffy, the controversial director of The Boondock Saints.  Plus, a not-so-fresh report from the American Film Market with Troma?s Lloyd Kaufman.
Datum: 16.11.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The Motion Picture Academy hands out the first Thalberg Memorial Award since 2000, but what exactly it?  Plus, DVD's are dying. What will take their place, and how will it change the way we watch ? and pay for ? movies?
Datum: 09.11.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Writer/actor/producer Grant Heslov moves to the director's chair on the new George Clooney movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats. Plus, "I'll make you a star! - for 5,000 bucks."
Datum: 02.11.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, how Warner Brothers used interactive tricks to power a surprisingly strong opening weekend for Where the Wild Things Are. Plus television writer/producer Dan Harmon toiled in basic cable on Comedy Central and VH1.  Now, as creator of NBC's Community he tells us how the game is differ...
Datum: 26.10.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

A new book argues that media moguls act like spoiled brats, squandering the shareholders' money on toys that they don't really need. Plus, how do you create a TV spin-off that's original but not too original? We ask the producer of the CBS shows NCIS and the brand new NCIS: Los Angeles.
Datum: 19.10.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, how the recession and major changes in the entertainment industry are impacting the lives of film and TV writers. Plus, Disney and Universal are the latest studios to shake up the executives suites and send a tremor through the industry.
Datum: 12.10.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

A producer who was haunted by passing on the Blair Witch Project produces a low-budget horror film with big hopes of redemption.  Plus Irving Thalberg changed the studio system. Now his life is on display.
Datum: 05.10.2009 23:18 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, fans came out in full force to a recent celebration of all things Disney. But major changes are afoot in the Magic Kingdom. Plus, was the Toronto Film Festival a bloodbath for indie filmmakers or just a shift in the life cycle of independent film?
Datum: 28.09.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Does winning an Emmy matter to you, to me, to the business?  And, the Television Academy puts TV legends on-line.  Plus after 72 years, Guiding Light gets snuffed.
Datum: 22.09.2009 00:29 • Größe: unbekannt

The summer box office broke records, but was blockbuster season really all that? Plus, what does the Leno prime-time experiment mean for the TV business?
Datum: 14.09.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

Disney buys Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. Is it a super deal or super dud?  Plus, the division and drama continues in Hollywood's labor unions, and two top TV producers and their money-making program they call the "total engagement experience." Programming note: This program will be not ...
Datum: 07.09.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The producers of the hit show Ghost Whisperer on making great TV?and a successful marriage.  Plus, we talk to the newly-elected president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Datum: 31.08.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

India's Reliance Big just made a major investment in Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks. Has another sucker landed on our shores, or has Hollywood finally met its match? And while India is coming to Hollywood, one Hollywood production went to India ?  tales from Bombay with the producers of Bollywoo...
Datum: 24.08.2009 22:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Documentaries used to be relegated to PBS and college classrooms, but these days, they're just as liable to come to theater near you.  We talk to Sheila Nevins, who's had a big part in growing of the nonfiction business as head of HBO Docs for the past three decades. Plus, we revisit our sessio...
Datum: 17.08.2009 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, we look at the arcane, historical, fantastical and off-color jargon of the movie set.  Plus, when good executives recut bad films...inside the mind of a cinematic scissorhands. 
Datum: 10.08.2009 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, The Business goes to "The Con," the annual nerd-fest know as Comic-Con that?s become a major marketing stop for Hollywood.  Plus, a new documentary looks at Ozploitation...
Datum: 03.08.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Twilight gave a faltering new movie studio an extreme makeover. We talk with Rob Friedman, the chief of Summit Entertainment.
Datum: 27.07.2009 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

From Michigan to New Mexico, the production tax incentives derby is on in a big, big way.  We talk to one of the producers of Clint Eastwood?s Gran Torino, which moved from Minnesota to Michigan because of incentives, and two state legislators on opposite sides of the incentives debate.
Datum: 20.07.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has inducted 134 new members. We talk to one of funniest, actress Jane Lynch. Plus, the Supreme Court has cleared the way for cable companies to record programs so you don't have to.  What does it all mean for the television business and TV viewer...
Datum: 13.07.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

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?
Datum: 06.07.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

In a surprise move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that next year there will be ten Best Picture Oscar nominees, instead of five.  AMPAS President Sid Ganis explains why.  Kind of.  Plus, producers stand up and say, "I am somebody!" at their guild's new Prod...
Datum: 29.06.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Even in the age of Obama, black writers in Hollywood find there's no such as thing as post-racial, and a new Writers' Guild report concurs.
Datum: 22.06.2009 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

The changing entertainment industry and tanking economy have combined to put people below the line under the gun. We talk about what’s making it so hard and how its affecting the people on the ground with a veteran gaffer, a cameraman and an agent for below-the-line people.
Datum: 15.06.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Hollywood's video game nerds come out of the closet with a hip new event for less game savvy show biz types. Plus, executives are often maligned for re-cutting films, but sometimes they save filmmakers from themselves.
Datum: 08.06.2009 23:47 • Größe: unbekannt

Network TV scheduling turns into a brutal game of musical chairs. We talk to the creator of the NBC show Medium, which jumped to CBS at the last minute to grab a seat.
Datum: 01.06.2009 22:19 • Größe: unbekannt

A shaky economy and falling viewership meant nervous networks at the upfronts. Also, many new shows will be in hi-def. That’s great for viewers, but what does it mean for the people who make TV?
Datum: 25.05.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Why have the studios decided to get back in the video game business? Plus, even the biggest producer in the business is playing games. A chat with Jerry Bruckheimer about his new video game company. 
Datum: 18.05.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

NBC rolls out its new season with the help of a new programming consultant -- the advertisers. We talk to network co-chair Marc Graboff. Plus, massive changes in the way the business does business is causing even more stress than usual in a stress-filled town. The therapist who has his finger on the...
Datum: 11.05.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We look at selling Hollywood on the Hill with MPAA chief Dan Glickman. On April 21, the MPAA held its second "Business of Show Business" symposium in Washington, DC.  Plus, could bad news for big-budget studio films for adults be good news for cheaper indie fare?  We talk to Michael London...
Datum: 04.05.2009 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

A recent spate of films have scored underwhelming results at the box office. But is the death of big-budget studio movies for grown-ups greatly exaggerated? Plus, how do you rake in the biggest April opening in box office history?
Datum: 27.04.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, a new report bodes ill for TV’s 10 o’clock hour.  Plus, the author of a young adult novel is the last know her book is soon to be a major motion picture.
Datum: 20.04.2009 21:45 • Größe: unbekannt

With 3-D movies seemingly raking in the dough, why are theaters so slow to upgrade? Plus, the hair-raising world of Hollywood fundraising and Hollywood power wives.
Datum: 13.04.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Does Jay Leno’s move to 10pm mean the death of broadcast television’s hour-long drama?  Plus, walking the red carpet at the Streamy Awards, the Oscars for web TV.
Datum: 06.04.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Did you love Juno or Slumdog Millionaire? Then you should be worried about independent film as money dries up and the studios are giving up on art house movies. We talk with a man at the center of it all – John Cooper, the newly appointed head of the Sundance Film Festival. Plus, indie film may be...
Datum: 30.03.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We talk to Fox reality czar Mike Darnell about changes to that American TV behemoth, American Idol.
Datum: 23.03.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Kim Masters joins the show as host today. A scary question for the Chairman of the Walt Disney Studios: will DVD sales ever bounce back? Plus, the sweeps week dinosaur.  Why do they still exist?
Datum: 16.03.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The Los Angeles Times fights to be the newspaper of record in our “company town.†Plus, the epic battle over the Star Wars-fan movie Fanboys.
Datum: 09.03.2009 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

Assumptions may make an *%$@! out of you and me…but not during the Academy Awards.  We talk about how once again the safe bets paid off on Oscar night.  Plus, the SAG saga, Part Duh…will the actors ever have a contract?
Datum: 02.03.2009 21:00 • Größe: unbekannt

We go inside the secret world of media mogul Rupert Murdoch,  “the man who owns the newsâ€â€¦and a lot of Hollywood.
Datum: 23.02.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, we talk about the Oscars' sci-tech awards and ask: Why do Hollywood's techo geeks have to sit at the kid's table? Plus, producer Dean Devlin uses technology to lead TV into the digital future. His new TNT show, Leverage, is 100% digital, from camera to finished product.
Datum: 16.02.2009 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

Getting famous isn't all its cracked up to be. Just ask Peter Jacobson, aka Dr. Chris Taub on the Fox hit, House. Plus, Sumner's discontent: who is the aging head of Viacom, and what does that mean for the future of his company?
Datum: 09.02.2009 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

This week, two smart but naive ad guys from Chicago make it in TV, despite themselves. We talk to the creators of the new TNT drama, Trust Me.
Datum: 02.02.2009 22:00 • Größe: unbekannt

The networks have just finished their dog and pony show for the TV critics. We take a peek inside what's known as the TCA's. Plus, celebrity publicist Howard Bragman helps you find your 15 minutes.
Datum: 26.01.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

This week on The Business, a Hollywood lawyer predicts a rough road ahead for what used to be a recession-proof business. Plus, video games…go indie!
Datum: 19.01.2009 21:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The Hollywood Reporter's 17th annual "100 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood" list. What does is say about the progress of women in the business? How do power lists in general reveal Hollywood's insecurities?
Datum: 12.01.2009 14:12 • Größe: unbekannt

2008 was a roller-coaster of a year for show business.  What’s in store for the industry in 2009?  It's the Hollywood year-to-be with Lauren Schuker of the Wall Street Journal and Scott Collins of the Los Angeles Times.
Datum: 05.01.2009 13:30 • Größe: unbekannt

As Princess Leia, she was saved from the Empire by Luke, Han and Chewy.  As Carrie Fisher, she's had to rely on a higher power to save herself from drugs and alcohol. Plus, going to the big show, Showest.
Datum: 29.12.2008 14:00 • Größe: unbekannt

We revisit our favorite feature stories of 2008: the woes of a video-game reviewer, going to the movies with babies, Hollywood's fascination with swag, and what it's like to be a lady in the testosterone fueled world of the paparazzi.
Datum: 22.12.2008 15:00 • Größe: unbekannt

The ups, the downs, the all arounds of the business of show in 2008.  We talk with Lauren Schuker of the Wall Street Journal and Scott Collins of the Los Angeles Times.
Datum: 15.12.2008 14:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Laura Bickford, the producer of Steven Soderbergh's new epic Che, on themaking and marketing a four-hour movie in an age of multi-tasking and quick cutting. Plus, a female in the testosterone-fueled world of the Hollywood paparazzi?
Datum: 08.12.2008 14:30 • Größe: unbekannt

You're in a play?  But I thought you said you were in show business?  We look at the weird relationship between Hollywood and LA's legit stage.  Plus, even though they're not actors, directors can get typecast, too.
Datum: 01.12.2008 14:30 • Größe: unbekannt

With a full-fledged production facility, major investments in film, and two world class film festivals, the United Arab Emirates is the next country to role the dice on Hollywood.
Datum: 24.11.2008 14:30 • Größe: unbekannt

We talk to director Danny Boyle about making his new film in India, a country that's on the move, but still sometimes on the make.  Plus, the bizarre bazaar that is the American Film Market.
Datum: 17.11.2008 14:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Hollywood's been beguiled and bedeviled by Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged since it was published in 1957. Fifty years later, why hasn't it been made into a movie?  We talk to legendary producer Al Ruddy, the first guy to get Rand's go ahead…in 1974.  (This is a rebroadcast of a program that o...
Datum: 10.11.2008 14:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Is there a "Tom Bradley effect" in the movies, or are low returns for movies with black casts just self-fulfilling prophecy? Plus, music mogul Danny Goldberg and the future of the record business.
Datum: 03.11.2008 14:30 • Größe: unbekannt

This indie film was all about the art until the studios got in the game. How will independent film change again now that the studios seem to be backing away? Plus, watching movies 'til you drop with the programmers of the Sundance Film Festival.
Datum: 27.10.2008 15:30 • Größe: unbekannt

Will record-low consumer confidence cause companies to pull their ads off network television or will broke Americans staying at home be a boon to the TV viewing? Plus, the director of Repo! The Genetic Opera may have his career repossessed.
Datum: 20.10.2008 15:30 • Größe: unbekannt

The making and marketing of a Christian hit which landed an impressive fourth place at the box office in its first weekend out. Plus, the first family of hair and make-up finally gets its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Datum: 20.10.2008 10:57 • Größe: unbekannt

As a lifelong Angeleno, and someone who appreciates the natural history of L.A., I must confess that I enjoy it when something in the news reminds us of our wilder past...
Datum: 10.10.2008 17:44 • Größe: unbekannt

The closely-contested, presidential race has brought Americans back into the political process, not to mention doing wonders for TV ratings. Plus, and the winner is…not the press covering the Emmys. And finally, the daughter of a black-listed writer comes to Hollywood.
Datum: 06.10.2008 16:00 • Größe: unbekannt

How will the Wall Street meldown affect Hollywood studios and their coporate parents?
Datum: 30.09.2008 15:21 • Größe: unbekannt

Do salacious rumors swirling around NBC's embattled programming chief signal his ouster? What has he done that's so bad, and what good is being overlooked?  Plus, a world without Don LaFontaine.
Datum: 22.09.2008 16:00 • Größe: unbekannt

Are Hollywood celebrities irrelevant in an election when their candidate's a star? Plus, mommy and me go to the movies.
Datum: 15.09.2008 15:45 • Größe: unbekannt

Hollywood's been sniffing around Atlas Shrugged since Ayn Rand published it in 1957. So why hasn't it been made into a movie? We talk to the first guy to get the go-ahead from Rand -- in 1974.
Datum: 08.09.2008 16:15 • Größe: unbekannt

We revisit our conversation on Hollywood assistants, with authors Peter Nowalk and Hillary Stamm. Plus, how does a studio spend $100 million on a movie when they don't own the rights?
Datum: 01.09.2008 15:30 • Größe: unbekannt

There's been a mad game of musical chairs in the agency business in the last few of weeks. The agency business is changing, but the relationship between agents and clients seems to be as quirky as ever.
Datum: 22.04.2008 02:19 • Größe: 13.3 MB

Using Tax Day as a very weak hook, we talk to the man who helped clear Wesley Snipes of tax fraud conspiracy charges. The question: what are the special challenges of representing a celebrity in court.
Datum: 15.04.2008 04:41 • Größe: 13.3 MB

Hollywood's actors' unions file for an untimely divorce. Then, what happens when a novice TV writer gets her own show.
Datum: 08.04.2008 07:30 • Größe: 13.3 MB

In a town where actors are more likely to wait tables than wait in the wings, how do you define a working actor. That's the central question in our lively conversation with two actors. How SAG answers that question may determine if there's a strike. Plus, this year's ShoWest movie exhibitors' confer...
Datum: 01.04.2008 02:55 • Größe: 13.3 MB

Jim Keyes was the former CEO of 7-11 stores. Now he's applying the lessons of the Big Gulp to the small screen at the troubled video-rental giant Blockbuster. Plus, Variety game reviewer Ben Fritz asks, "Why are hardcore video gamers so sensitive." And good agentry with writer and producer Rob Long.
Datum: 25.03.2008 07:48 • Größe: 13.3 MB

Video games are an $18 billion business in the US, and they just keep growing. Will Hollywood studios get in on some of that interactive action. Plus, will TV's increasingly pilotless way of making shows crash and burn.
Datum: 18.03.2008 00:25 • Größe: 13.2 MB

What happens when a studio executive comes out from behind his desk to direct a major motion picture. We talk to Kent Alterman, formerly New Line Cinema's EVP of Production and now the Director of Semi-Pro. Plus, we say goodbye to HD-DVD.
Datum: 11.03.2008 02:38 • Größe: 13.2 MB

The venerable Hollywood trade paper, Variety, is up for sale. What will a new owner mean to the business. We'll have a lively conversation with blogger extraordinaire Nikki Finke and PR veteran Howard Bragman. Plus, which Oscar prognosticators predicted with paramount precision.
Datum: 04.03.2008 02:25 • Größe: 97.7 KB

The divide between movies that make money and movies that get awards has been growing in the last few years. Why. And what does that say about how Hollywood is changing. Plus, the 1967 Oscars signaled a coming cinematic revolution. Is this year's crop of best picture nominees the harbinger of anothe...
Datum: 26.02.2008 07:39 • Größe: 97.7 KB

The writers' strike has meant reruns, reality and rankor. So how will things change now that the strike is over. Plus, when will the digital pie that the writers want a piece of actually be out of the oven.
Datum: 19.02.2008 05:59 • Größe: 97.7 KB

In the wake of Super Tuesday, The Business broadcasts from the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue. We talk to Variety's political guru, Ted Johnson, and check back with MGM CEO Harry Sloan, an elephant in a sea of donkeys.
Datum: 12.02.2008 07:59 • Größe: 97.7 KB

Animation had lost its luster until Pixar came on the scene and shined it up. We talk to one of their chief polishers, writer and director Brad Bird, about retired superheroes, rats that cook and Oscar gold. Plus, do movies make money (redux).
Datum: 05.02.2008 03:34 • Größe: 97.7 KB

TV was already getting more and more into unscripted fare before the strike. Now, there's so much reality programming it's unreal! We get the lay of the unscripted landscape with Joel McHale of E! Entertainment's show The Soup. Plus, while most of the industry suffers, video games rock on (redux).
Datum: 29.01.2008 08:46 • Größe: 97.7 KB

Steve Samuels is the third generation of successful Boston-based real estate developers. He's also one of many outsiders who've brought their fat wallet to Hollywood. Will he get his pocket picked or make the show business sit. (National broadcast)
Datum: 22.01.2008 08:40 • Größe: 97.7 KB

The directors seem to have made a deal with producers. Will the writers follow suit. Should they. We're live today with TV writer/producer David Milch and Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis to answer these questions and more. First, what exactly did the DGA agree to. Joe Adalian has been one of the...
Datum: 22.01.2008 08:39 • Größe: 97.7 KB

The big four record labels are finally offering some music free of copyright protection. Is it too little too late. And, no Globes, no Oscars = no box office. Plus, swag--Hollywood's silent scourge.
Datum: 15.01.2008 04:04 • Größe: 97.7 KB

From scandals to the strike to the surprise success of mega-sequels it's the Hollywood year that was! We get ready for the year ahead with our annual look at the stories of year just ended with Cynthia Littleton of Variety and Carl Diorio of the Hollywood Reporter.
Datum: 08.01.2008 01:59 • Größe: 97.7 KB

This week, it's the Best of The Business. The strike will put a gaggle of TV shows "on the bubble," and we're not talking about being drunk on champagne. So today, between Dove products and the producers of a remake of the 1939 classic film The Women, we revisit our conversation with the producers ...
Datum: 01.01.2008 03:46 • Größe: 13.4 MB

This week we present the best of The Business. In honor of the writers' strike and celebrating his hit new movie, I Am Legend, we revisit our conversation with Oscar-winning scribe Akiva Goldsman about the vital and disposable Hollywood writer. Then, 'tis the season for Hollywood gifting.
Datum: 25.12.2007 05:17 • Größe: 13.5 MB

There's been a surge in Iraq and a surge of Iraq movies here at home. It might be working in Baghdad but it's tanking at the local cineplex. We talk to the director of In the Valley of Elah, Paul Haggis. Plus, the strike promises a not-very-happy new year or winter or spring for Hollywood.
Datum: 18.12.2007 01:25 • Größe: 13.6 MB

To understand the current writers' strike, you need to understand the long and contentious relationship between screenwriters and the people who write their checks. This week, Part II of our conversation with Oscar-winning scribe Marc Norman about his new book, What Happens Next: A History of Americ...
Datum: 17.12.2007 20:12 • Größe: 13.6 MB

What's it like to negotiate during a strike. We talk with the man who led talks for employees during the acrimonious 1994 supermarket walkout. Plus, will the writers' strike be another nail in the coffin of once wildly profitable daytime soap operas.Note: This edition of The Business will not air li...
Datum: 17.12.2007 20:11 • Größe: 13.6 MB

A new report paints a bleak picture for Hollywood if it doesn't quit spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave. We speak with Roger R. Smith, the author of Do Movies Make Money.
Datum: 17.12.2007 20:11 • Größe: 13.6 MB

A new report paints a bleak picture for Hollywood if it doesn't quit spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave. We speak with Roger R. Smith, the author of Do Movies Make Money.
Datum: 11.12.2007 03:31 • Größe: 13.6 MB

What's it like to negotiate during a strike. We talk with the man who led talks for employees during the acrimonious 1994 supermarket walkout. Plus, will the writers' strike be another nail in the coffin of once wildly profitable daytime soap operas.Note: This edition of The Business will not air li...
Datum: 04.12.2007 05:27 • Größe: 13.6 MB

To understand the current writers' strike, you need to understand the long and contentious relationship between screenwriters and the people who write their checks. This week, Part II of our conversation with Oscar-winning scribe Marc Norman about his new book, What Happens Next: A History of Americ...
Datum: 27.11.2007 00:17 • Größe: 13.6 MB

To understand the current writers' strike, you need to understand the long and contentious relationship between screenwriters and the people who write their checks. We put that relationship in the therapist's chair with Oscar-winning scribe Marc Norman, author of a fascinating new book called What H...
Datum: 19.11.2007 23:16 • Größe: 13.6 MB

The writers' strike will effect everyone in Hollywood, but it's broadcast television that has the most to fear. We get strike analysis from executives who lived through the last one.
Datum: 14.11.2007 20:42 • Größe: 13.6 MB

The writers' strike will effect everyone in Hollywood, but it's broadcast television that has the most to fear. We get strike analysis from executives who lived through the last one.
Datum: 13.11.2007 00:50 • Größe: 13.5 MB

What does a producer do. We talk to two producers-turned-studio-execs about what they did then and what they do now. Plus, a chat with Hollywood's man in Washington, MPAA CEO Dan Glickman.
Datum: 05.11.2007 22:43 • Größe: 14.2 MB

The musical Wicked is a global phenomenon that's made scary profits for Universal Studios. We talk to producer Marc Platt about Hollywood's all-time most successful film--that isn't yet a film.
Datum: 29.10.2007 22:42 • Größe: 13.4 MB

The UPN and the WB lived but a short decade, but they changed television forever. Now, the former president of entertainment at the WB and a veteran TV journalist have written a compelling and cautionary tale for anyone thinking about starting a new network. Plus, get out your calculators---it's the...
Datum: 23.10.2007 05:39 • Größe: 13.5 MB

Ang Lee turned a gay cowboy movie into Oscar gold and box-office green, but can his new film overcome a rating of NC-17. Plus, the high-risk gamble of self-distributing a low-budget film.
Datum: 16.10.2007 02:30 • Größe: 13.5 MB

After a high-profile legal battle to take his name off American History X and replace it with a wacky pseudonym, Tony Kaye became persona non grata in Hollywood. Nearly a decade later, he's back with a new documentary in theaters and two features on the way.
Datum: 09.10.2007 04:23 • Größe: 13.4 MB

After a high-profile legal battle to take his name off American History X and replace it with a wacky pseudonym, Tony Kaye became persona non grata in Hollywood. Nearly a decade later, he's back with a new documentary in theaters and two features on the way.
Datum: 08.10.2007 22:14 • Größe: 13.4 MB

Mad Men is a series on the cable network AMC, set in the New York ad world of the 1960's.-- While the show showcases a variety of real world products, not all of them pay for the privilege.
Datum: 01.10.2007 23:25 • Größe: 13.4 MB

The William Morris mailroom is the high-stress, low-pay, sanctum sanctorum of show biz. It can lead you straight to the top or leave you in strait jacket. Plus, what does it mean when a writer takes his name off a film.
Datum: 25.09.2007 00:49 • Größe: 13.4 MB

A conversation about the vital, essential, but ultimately disposable Hollywood writer with Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman.-- Plus, an agency assistant says 'goodbye, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu' in an e-mail that got Hollywood's tongues awaggin.'
Datum: 18.09.2007 21:24 • Größe: 13.4 MB

A conversation about the vital, essential, but ultimately disposable Hollywood writer with Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman.-- Plus, an agency assistant says 'goodbye, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu' in an e-mail that got Hollywood's tongues awaggin.'
Datum: 18.09.2007 18:13 • Größe: 13.4 MB

Samuel Goldwyn said, "The harder I work, the luckier I get." We catch up with writer/director Richard Shepard who got "lucky" at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.-- Plus, residuals, revisited.
Datum: 10.09.2007 22:23 • Größe: 13.4 MB

We revisit our chat with a white writer on a black sitcom, then look at the way television shows make it to the season lineup through the lens of the very funny film The TV Set.****This program will not air in Los Angeles, preempted by Labor Day Music Programming.-- It will be available archived onl...
Datum: 03.09.2007 12:23 • Größe: 13.5 MB

We revisit our chat with a white writer on a black sitcom, then look at the way television shows make it to the season lineup through the lens of the very funny film The TV Set.****This program will not air in Los Angeles, preempted by Labor Day Music Programming.-- It will be available archived onl...
Datum: 02.09.2007 11:42 • Größe: 13.5 MB

We revisit our chat with a white writer on a black sitcom, then look at the way television shows make it to the season lineup through the lens of the very funny film The TV Set.****This program will not air in Los Angeles, preempted by Labor Day Music Programming.-- It will be available archived onl...
Datum: 01.09.2007 11:02 • Größe: 13.5 MB

The $37 billion business that mainstream journalists and Hollywood can no longer afford to ignore--it's a look at the burgeoning video game industry.-- Plus, we revisit our chat with agent to the (underage) stars, Bonnie Liedtke.
Datum: 28.08.2007 02:32 • Größe: 13.5 MB

Who gets paid what and why in Hollywood. We talk back-end, quotes and residuals with agent and manager-turned-producer Gavin Polone.-- Plus, halting the slippery slope for out-of-control celebrities who might be on their way to prison.
Datum: 20.08.2007 23:07 • Größe: 13.5 MB

It's a case of life imitating art imitating life! We talk with a filmmaker who had to convince U2 to OK his movie about a man trying to convince U2 to play a concert. Plus, has Sumner Redstone lost it.
Datum: 14.08.2007 01:03 • Größe: 13.5 MB

We talk to former studio chief and super fundraiser Tom Sherak about getting the big shots to share their kibble in a dog-eat-dog industry.-- Plus, on the occasion of Lindsay Lohan's re-arrest, we re-visit celebrity spin-doctor Mike Sitrick.
Datum: 07.08.2007 03:01 • Größe: 13.5 MB

Why would a director walk away from a studio dream job. We talk to the ex-director of X-Men 3.-- Plus, the writers ask: to strike or not to strike.-- Plus, old-school movie research results in high-tech results.
Datum: 30.07.2007 22:34 • Größe: 13.7 MB

Why would a director walk away from a studio dream job. We talk to the ex-director of X-Men 3.-- Plus, the writers ask: to strike or not to strike.-- Plus, old-school movie research results in high-tech results.
Datum: 30.07.2007 10:21 • Größe: 13.7 MB

Why would a director walk away from a studio dream job. We talk to the ex-director of X-Men 3.-- Plus, the writers ask: to strike or not to strike.-- Plus, old-school movie research results in high-tech results.
Datum: 29.07.2007 09:41 • Größe: 13.7 MB

Why would a director walk away from a studio dream job. We talk to the ex-director of X-Men 3.-- Plus, the writers ask: to strike or not to strike.-- Plus, old-school movie research results in high-tech results.
Datum: 28.07.2007 09:11 • Größe: 13.7 MB

Actor Bruce Dern calls his 'unrepentant memoir' Things I've Said, but Probably Shouldn't Have. This week on The Business, Dern says more things he probably shouldn't have and, this time, it's on tape.-- Plus, the networks roll out the dog and pony show for the TV critics.
Datum: 24.07.2007 00:40 • Größe: 13.7 MB

Actor Bruce Dern calls his 'unrepentant memoir' Things I've Said, but Probably Shouldn't Have. This week on The Business, Dern says more things he probably shouldn't have and, this time, it's on tape.-- Plus, the networks roll out the dog and pony show for the TV critics.
Datum: 23.07.2007 12:21 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Actor Bruce Dern calls his 'unrepentant memoir' Things I've Said, but Probably Shouldn't Have. This week on The Business, Dern says more things he probably shouldn't have and, this time, it's on tape.-- Plus, the networks roll out the dog and pony show for the TV critics.
Datum: 22.07.2007 11:40 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Actor Bruce Dern calls his 'unrepentant memoir' Things I've Said, but Probably Shouldn't Have. This week on The Business, Dern says more things he probably shouldn't have and, this time, it's on tape.-- Plus, the networks roll out the dog and pony show for the TV critics.
Datum: 21.07.2007 11:00 • Größe: 13.6 MB

While Jack Sparrow and his crew were raking in buckets of dubloons at the box office, pirates of a different kind were plundering Hollywood's treasure chest.
Datum: 17.07.2007 02:24 • Größe: 13.4 MB

While Jack Sparrow and his crew were raking in buckets of dubloons at the box office, pirates of a different kind were plundering Hollywood's treasure chest.
Datum: 16.07.2007 08:01 • Größe: 13.4 MB

While Jack Sparrow and his crew were raking in buckets of dubloons at the box office, pirates of a different kind were plundering Hollywood's treasure chest.
Datum: 15.07.2007 07:00 • Größe: 13.4 MB

While Jack Sparrow and his crew were raking in buckets of dubloons at the box office, pirates of a different kind were plundering Hollywood's treasure chest.
Datum: 14.07.2007 12:30 • Größe: 13.4 MB

While Jack Sparrow and his crew were raking in buckets of dubloons at the box office, pirates of a different kind were plundering Hollywood's treasure chest.
Datum: 14.07.2007 00:10 • Größe: 13.4 MB

What does it mean for your TV show to be on the bubble. We speak with the producers of Scrubs and Jericho about coming back from the brink of extinction.
Datum: 10.07.2007 03:04 • Größe: 13.5 MB

What does it mean for your TV show to be on the bubble. We speak with the producers of Scrubs and Jericho about coming back from the brink of extinction.
Datum: 09.07.2007 08:40 • Größe: 13.5 MB

What does it mean for your TV show to be on the bubble. We speak with the producers of Scrubs and Jericho about coming back from the brink of extinction.
Datum: 08.07.2007 08:02 • Größe: 13.5 MB

What does it mean for your TV show to be on the bubble. We speak with the producers of Scrubs and Jericho about coming back from the brink of extinction.
Datum: 08.07.2007 01:40 • Größe: 13.5 MB

He wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2004 indie comedy The Almost Guys, but given the rest of his experience in Hollywood, "the almost guy" is a label he's fighting to avoid.
Datum: 02.07.2007 22:41 • Größe: 13.6 MB

He wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2004 indie comedy The Almost Guys, but given the rest of his experience in Hollywood, "the almost guy" is a label he's fighting to avoid.
Datum: 02.07.2007 10:22 • Größe: 13.6 MB

He wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2004 indie comedy The Almost Guys, but given the rest of his experience in Hollywood, "the almost guy" is a label he's fighting to avoid.
Datum: 01.07.2007 09:44 • Größe: 13.6 MB

He wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2004 indie comedy The Almost Guys, but given the rest of his experience in Hollywood, "the almost guy" is a label he's fighting to avoid.
Datum: 01.07.2007 03:31 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Dove beauty products inked an inventive deal to help finance the long-languishing remake of the 1939 classic The Women. Plus, what's a first assistant director.
Datum: 26.06.2007 00:26 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Dove beauty products inked an inventive deal to help finance the long-languishing remake of the 1939 classic The Women. Plus, what's a first assistant director.
Datum: 25.06.2007 12:10 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Dove beauty products inked an inventive deal to help finance the long-languishing remake of the 1939 classic The Women. Plus, what's a first assistant director.
Datum: 24.06.2007 11:32 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Dove beauty products inked an inventive deal to help finance the long-languishing remake of the 1939 classic The Women. Plus, what's a first assistant director.
Datum: 23.06.2007 10:52 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Dove beauty products inked an inventive deal to help finance the long-languishing remake of the 1939 classic The Women. Plus, what's a first assistant director.
Datum: 23.06.2007 04:40 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Hollywood's spin-doctor on the recent epidemic of celebrity scandal. Plus, Hollywood fundraising for a Republican presidential candidate.
Datum: 19.06.2007 02:41 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Hollywood's spin-doctor on the recent epidemic of celebrity scandal. Plus, Hollywood fundraising for a Republican presidential candidate.
Datum: 18.06.2007 08:23 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Hollywood's spin-doctor on the recent epidemic of celebrity scandal. Plus, Hollywood fundraising for a Republican presidential candidate.
Datum: 17.06.2007 08:01 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Hollywood's spin-doctor on the recent epidemic of celebrity scandal. Plus, Hollywood fundraising for a Republican presidential candidate.
Datum: 16.06.2007 13:17 • Größe: 13.6 MB

We look at the wonderful world of the great white way through the lens of a new documentary called Show Business: The Road to Broadway.
Datum: 11.06.2007 22:59 • Größe: 13.6 MB

We look at the wonderful world of the great white way through the lens of a new documentary called Show Business: The Road to Broadway.
Datum: 11.06.2007 10:30 • Größe: 13.6 MB

We look at the wonderful world of the great white way through the lens of a new documentary called Show Business: The Road to Broadway.
Datum: 10.06.2007 22:10 • Größe: 13.6 MB

After NBC fired its president, we ask another former programming chief about the upside of getting canned.-- Plus, would-be presidents come to Hollywood in search of dead presidents.
Datum: 05.06.2007 00:24 • Größe: 13.6 MB

This week on The Business, will changes to the way movies are rated change what you see on the big screen. We'll talk to the head of the MPAA's rating board about what's new and why. And, what can different ratings mean for a movie's box office potential. Plus, a report from the Cannes Film Festival...
Datum: 30.05.2007 09:13 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Horror films are once again scaring up terrifying box office numbers! We check in with the director of the wildly successful Hostel movies, then cut to the producer of the Saw movies.
Datum: 21.05.2007 22:41 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Horror films are once again scaring up terrifying box office numbers! We check in with the director of the wildly successful Hostel movies, then cut to the producer of the Saw movies.
Datum: 21.05.2007 10:13 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Horror films are once again scaring up terrifying box office numbers! We check in with the director of the wildly successful Hostel movies, then cut to the producer of the Saw movies.
Datum: 20.05.2007 22:06 • Größe: 13.6 MB

An unusually candid conversation about race and writing for movies and television.-- Then, the new Writers Guild report on how white the writer's room remains.
Datum: 14.05.2007 23:01 • Größe: 13.6 MB

An unusually candid conversation about race and writing for movies and television.-- Then, the new Writers Guild report on how white the writer's room remains.
Datum: 14.05.2007 10:50 • Größe: 13.6 MB

An unusually candid conversation about race and writing for movies and television.-- Then, the new Writers Guild report on how white the writer's room remains.
Datum: 13.05.2007 22:43 • Größe: 13.6 MB

The record industry is dead.-- Long live the record industry!-- Then, a new movie studio is born.-- Finally, we look at what makes the Los Angeles Lakers "the entertainment industry home team."
Datum: 08.05.2007 01:45 • Größe: 13.6 MB

The record industry is dead.-- Long live the record industry!-- Then, a new movie studio is born.-- Finally, we look at what makes the Los Angeles Lakers "the entertainment industry home team."
Datum: 07.05.2007 07:22 • Größe: 13.6 MB

The record industry is dead.-- Long live the record industry!-- Then, a new movie studio is born.-- Finally, we look at what makes the Los Angeles Lakers "the entertainment industry home team."
Datum: 07.05.2007 01:10 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Is Spider-Man 3 the most expensive movie ever made.-- And why should we care.---- Plus, life's a pitch, and then you write...
Datum: 30.04.2007 22:03 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Is Spider-Man 3 the most expensive movie ever made.-- And why should we care.---- Plus, life---s a pitch, and then you write...
Datum: 30.04.2007 09:46 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Is Spider-Man 3 the most expensive movie ever made.-- And why should we care.---- Plus, life---s a pitch, and then you write...
Datum: 29.04.2007 21:32 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Is that laughter coming from your television fresh or canned.-- We talk to Chuck Lorre, creator of some of the most popular sitcoms in TV history.-- Plus, USC students practice the art of the pitch--and we ain't talking about baseball.
Datum: 27.04.2007 13:34 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Is that laughter coming from your television fresh or canned.-- We talk to Chuck Lorre, creator of some of the most popular sitcoms in TV history.-- Plus, USC students practice the art of the pitch--and we ain't talking about baseball.
Datum: 23.04.2007 22:08 • Größe: 13.6 MB

Is that laughter coming from your television fresh or canned.-- We talk to Chuck Lorre, creator of some of the most popular sitcoms in TV history.-- Plus, USC students practice the art of the pitch--and we ain't talking about baseball.
Datum: 23.04.2007 10:03 • Größe: 13.6 MB

We use the funny new feature film, The TV Set, to show how real television pilots fight their way to the little screen. Plus, a conversation with the agent-turned-author of Hollywood Girls Club, the deliciously salacious and sometimes true novel about women and power in Hollywood.
Datum: 17.04.2007 07:17 • Größe: 13.7 MB

We use the funny new feature film, The TV Set, to show how real television pilots fight their way to the little screen. Plus, a conversation with the agent-turned-author of Hollywood Girls Club, the deliciously salacious and sometimes true novel about women and power in Hollywood.
Datum: 16.04.2007 19:08 • Größe: 13.7 MB

We use the funny new feature film, The TV Set, to show how real television pilots fight their way to the little screen. Plus, a conversation with the agent-turned-author of Hollywood Girls Club, the deliciously salacious and sometimes true novel about women and power in Hollywood.
Datum: 16.04.2007 18:21 • Größe: 13.7 MB

For the past 30 years, Stan Winston's Studio has built some of the scariest and most memorable film effects by hand.-- But are digital effects rendering Winston's old-fashioned movie magic obsolete--or indispensable.
Datum: 16.04.2007 16:01 • Größe: 13.7 MB

For the past 30 years, Stan Winston's Studio has built some of the scariest and most memorable film effects by hand.-- But are digital effects rendering Winston's old-fashioned movie magic obsolete--or indispensable.
Datum: 10.04.2007 05:16 • Größe: 13.7 MB

For the past 30 years, Stan Winston's Studio has built some of the scariest and most memorable film effects by hand.-- But are digital effects rendering Winston's old-fashioned movie magic obsolete--or indispensable.
Datum: 09.04.2007 17:11 • Größe: 13.7 MB

For the past 30 years, Stan Winston's Studio has built some of the scariest and most memorable film effects by hand.-- But are digital effects rendering Winston's old-fashioned movie magic obsolete--or indispensable.
Datum: 09.04.2007 05:01 • Größe: 13.7 MB

HBO's hit show Entourage goes deep inside the business of show business. This week, we go deep inside Entourage with the show's creator, Doug Ellin.
Datum: 03.04.2007 03:17 • Größe: 13.7 MB

HBO's hit show Entourage goes deep inside the business of show business. This week, we go deep inside Entourage with the show's creator, Doug Ellin.
Datum: 02.04.2007 15:11 • Größe: 13.7 MB

HBO's hit show Entourage goes deep inside the business of show business. This week, we go deep inside Entourage with the show's creator, Doug Ellin.
Datum: 02.04.2007 03:01 • Größe: 13.7 MB

The Television Academy changes its Emmy rules to make them more fair--and less embarrassing.-- Also, so you think you've got the pipes to make a bundle voicing TV commercials.-- You'll know for sure as we give voiceover the once-over.
Datum: 27.03.2007 01:40 • Größe: 13.7 MB

The Swifty Lazar of kid's agents shares horror stories of Mafia moms, Clearasil emergencies and casting for the role of the 'chubby kid.' Then, what it means when your kid wants to be a star.-- Finally, all scripts are not created equal, so why do they all look like.
Datum: 21.03.2007 14:17 • Größe: 13.8 MB

The Swifty Lazar of kid's agents shares horror stories of Mafia moms, Clearasil emergencies and casting for the role of the 'chubby kid.' Then, what it means when your kid wants to be a star.-- Finally, all scripts are not created equal, so why do they all look like.
Datum: 19.03.2007 23:25 • Größe: 7.3 MB

A wave of Wall Street money washes into Hollywood, but will the investors be taken to the cleaners.-- Then, one man from the street puts up his personal money for a slice of an indie film. And, the writer speaks again!
Datum: 13.03.2007 09:21 • Größe: 13.8 MB

We go to Threat Level Red as we look at filming abroad in a time of terrorism and political unrest.
Datum: 06.03.2007 04:18 • Größe: 13.7 MB

Hollywood's littered with rich guys who've thought they could beat the game, but is producer Bob Yari the mark or the hustler.
Datum: 27.02.2007 02:34 • Größe: 13.7 MB

What do you do when your venerable music festival is in trouble. You turn Ozzfest into Freefest!
Datum: 20.02.2007 10:48 • Größe: 13.7 MB

How does Hollywood rank on the global trust barometer. Also, everyone -- in Hollywood -- hates novelist Chris Moore, and the seventh conversation in our series on the business of writing.
Datum: 13.02.2007 00:30 • Größe: 13.7 MB

Mr. Hollywood goes to Washington to launch a major charm offensive. Plus, the sixth conversation in our series on the business of writing.
Datum: 05.02.2007 22:31 • Größe: 13.8 MB

The good news is, you've finally landed that break-out part.---- The bad news,--they're covering your face with a squid.
Datum: 02.02.2007 18:02 • Größe: 13.8 MB

This week on The Business, the good news is, you---ve finally landed that breakout part.---- The bad news,-- they---re covering your face with a squid.-- [Bill Nighy: I used to say my fee over and over and over in my mind. That---s all I had left; there was no dignity involved so I stuck to the mone...
Datum: 30.01.2007 08:41 • Größe: 197.8 KB

The Oscars have morphed from a simple industry love-fest to a dog-eat-dog, high-stakes horse race.
Datum: 23.01.2007 05:49 • Größe: 97.7 KB

What do Spider-man, King Kong and Malcom in the Middle have in common.-- Special effects!-- Plus, is short film an endangered species.-- And the fifth conversation in our series on the business of writing.
Datum: 18.01.2007 04:21 • Größe: 97.7 KB

What do Spider-man, King Kong and Malcom in the Middle have in common.-- Special effects!-- Plus, is short film an endangered species.-- And the fifth conversation in our series on the business of writing.
Datum: 17.01.2007 23:02 • Größe: 97.7 KB

What will it be like to cover Hollywood in 2007.-- Plus, the writer speaks...again!
Datum: 09.01.2007 02:16 • Größe: 97.7 KB

We talk with super-star film composer Danny Elfman about what it takes to make great movie music.-- Plus, the weird world of being a reporter in Hollywood.This week's edition of The Business will not be heard on KCRW as it will be pre-empted by special holiday programming.
Datum: 02.01.2007 12:36 • Größe: 97.7 KB

What happens when a film director known for comedy with a human touch makes his first special-effects spectacular.-- Plus, guns! The low-tech movie effect we all love.
Datum: 26.12.2006 22:57 • Größe: 97.7 KB

This week on The Business, viral web stars like Lonely Girl 15 are huge on sites like YouTube.-- We'll talk to a hollywood agent trying to help them infect the mainstream.-- Also, the Writer Speaks, Part III!--
Datum: 19.12.2006 06:40 • Größe: 97.7 KB

Carrie Fisher talks about drugs, alcohol and recovery in show business. Also, the writer speaks, Part II.
Datum: 12.12.2006 04:47 • Größe: 97.7 KB

'Tis the season... for gifting in Hollywood.-- Plus, the Irish say writers are just failed talkers.-- We'll let you be the judge.-- Finally, how the record industry learned to stop worrying and love the web.
Datum: 05.12.2006 02:56 • Größe: 97.7 KB

We speak with a successful writing team, Mike Colleary and Michael Werb about the benefits and pitfalls of creative collaboration.---- PLUS - movies about the movies.
Datum: 28.11.2006 00:57 • Größe: 97.7 KB

A veteran film executive pays the price for becoming-- a director and breaking the rules of the Hollywood caste system. Plus, when Google paid $1.46 billion for YouTube, did it buy itself a pack of legal trouble.--
Datum: 20.11.2006 22:51 • Größe: 97.7 KB

In an industry where image is everything, what are the big talent agencies trying to say about themselves with their uber-designed new headquarters.-- Plus, is it really true that there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Datum: 07.11.2006 00:29 • Größe: 97.7 KB

America's 40 million Latinos are avid movie-goers, DVD buyers and TV watchers, so why doesn't Hollywood seem to care.-- Then, the Dixie Chicks get, well, Dixiechicked.
Datum: 30.10.2006 02:39 • Größe: 97.7 KB

This week, Alan Arkin was nominated for an academy award for his firstfeature film in 1966.-- Forty years later, there's Oscar buzz about his role inLittle Miss Sunshine.-- Plus, a conversation with the producing partners to thestars.
Datum: 24.10.2006 03:39 • Größe: 97.7 KB

It's a big-money edition of The Business. In a world where video-sharing site YouTube sells for $1.6 billion and Fox President Peter Chernin is paid $43 million, is it any wonder a movie that makes only $50 million is considered a flop.
Datum: 17.10.2006 08:05 • Größe: 97.7 KB

Can Microsoft's new Zune media player challenge Apple's digital download hegemony.-- Plus, fear not! Jackass Number 2 isn't the end of cinema as we know it. Also, banking on Hollywood.
Datum: 12.10.2006 05:32 • Größe: 97.7 KB

Can Microsoft's new Zune media player challenge Apple's digital download hegemony.-- Plus, fear not! Jackass Number 2 isn't the end of cinema as we know it. Also, banking on Hollywood.
Datum: 11.10.2006 19:40 • Größe: 97.7 KB

TV soap operas known as telenovelas are wildly popular all over the world, but how will they play in English here in the States? Plus, making indie films with Christine Vachon, the legendary founder of Killer Films.
Datum: 03.10.2006 03:25 • Größe: 97.7 KB

A dozen reality TV producers go on strike and threaten to change the balance of power between all TV writers and the networks they work for. Also, in Hollywood, make-up is hard to do.
Datum: 26.09.2006 00:06 • Größe: 97.7 KB