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KCRW's The Business
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Last update: Mon Dec 01 08:01:12 -0800 2008
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How will the Wall Street meldown affect Hollywood studios and their coporate parents.
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.
Are Hollywood celebrities irrelevant in an election when their candidate's a star. Plus, mommy and me go to the movies.
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.
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.
Hollywood's studios are slashing producer deals in record numbers. What are these producer pacts. What does it all mean for the kinds of movies that we'll be seeing. We talk to Adam Fields, who's had pacts with most of the majors. Plus, what's in a production company name.
We talk to Shelley Billik, the Vice President of Environmental Initiatives at Warner Bros. Entertainment. She's spent the last sixteen years explaining to the industry that recycling vintage Halston doesn't make you an environmentalist.
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