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Everything You Wanted to Know about Agents
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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Celebrities Can Be TaxingUsing 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
AFTRA-SAG Split; a 'Miss Guided' Novice WriterHollywood's actors' unions file for an untimely divorce. Then, what happens when a novice TV writer gets her own show.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Qualified to Act.; The ShoWest Goes OnIn 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' conference.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Big Gulp to BlockbusterJim 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Gaming Goes Casual; Pilot(Less.) SeasonVideo 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Studio Executive 'Wants to Direct;' Goodbye, HD-DVDWhat 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Variety up for Sale; Oscar PrognosticatorsThe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
How Green Is My Oscar.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 another.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ding Dong the Strike Is Dead!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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Wilshire and WashingtonIn 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Pixar's Big BirdAnimation 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).Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
So Much Reality TV It's Unreal!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).Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Will Boston Real Estate Guy Steve Samuels Get Scrod in Hollywood.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)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Will Striking Writers Take a Page from Directors'Deal.The directors seem to have made a deal with producers. Will thewriters follow suit. Should they. We're live today with TVwriter/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 team of reporters covering the strike for Variety.NOTE: Today's special LIVE edition of The Business is broadcast locally in the Los Angeles area only, but will be archived online.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
DRM; Awards; SwagThe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
That Was the Hollywood Year That Was!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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Best of The Business: On the BubbleThis 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 of Scrubs and Jericho, shows that came back from the brink of extinction earlier this year.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Best of The Business: All about Writers; Gifting in HollywoodThis 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Iraq War Movies Tank at the Box OfficeThere'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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Strike and American Screenwriting, II; Video Games Rock OnTo 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 American Screenwriting. Plus, while the writers strike, video games rock on - literally.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Will the Strike Kill the Soaps.; Inside Strike NegotiationsWhat'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 live at its usual time slot on KCRW as it will be pre-empted by special holiday programming. It will air at 7pm.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Do Movies Make Money.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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Will the Strike Kill the Soaps.; Inside Strike NegotiationsWhat'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 live at its usual time slot on KCRW as it will be pre-empted by special holiday programming. It will air at 7pm.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Strike and American Screenwriting, II; Video Games Rock OnTo 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 American Screenwriting. Plus, while the writers strike, video games rock on--literally.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting, Part 1To 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 Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Writers' Strike: Bad News for Network TVThe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Writers' Strike: Bad News for Network TVThe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
What's a Producer Do.; Hollywood-Washington UpdateWhat 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
'Wicked: The Musical' Wickedly Profitable for UniversalThe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
'Season Finale;' Tax-Incentive DerbyThe 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 tax-incentive derby.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ang Lee's NC-17; High Risks of Self-Distributing Low-Budget FilmsAng 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tony Kaye and the Hollywood 'Lake of Fire'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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tony Kaye and the Hollywood 'Lake of Fire'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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Painstaking Process of Placing Products in Programs for PayMad 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
An Assistant Says Goodbye, Part II; 'The Inkwell' IncidentThe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
You Got the Writing Job, Now You're Fired; Agency Assistant Fires His AgencyA 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.'Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Shepard's Progress; Residuals RevisitedSamuel 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Best of The Business: White Writer, Black Show; 'The TV Set'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 online.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Best of The Business: White Writer, Black Show; 'The TV Set'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 online.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Best of The Business: White Writer, Black Show; 'The TV Set'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 online.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Superagent to (Underage) Stars; The Burgeoning Video Game IndustryThe $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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Making Money in Hollywood; Celebrity SittersWho 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Life Imitates Art; Sumner's FolliesIt'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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Fundraising in Hollywood; (Re)Visiting the Spin DoctorWe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
To Strike or Not to Strike.; The Ex-Director of X-Men 3; CinemaScoreWhy 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
To Strike or Not to Strike.; The Ex-Director of X-Men 3; CinemaScoreWhy 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
To Strike or Not to Strike.; The Ex-Director of X-Men 3; CinemaScoreWhy 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Things Bruce Dern Said, but Probably Shouldn't HaveActor 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
