The Business Brief

The Business Brief

The Business Brief

The Business producer Matt Holzman gives a four-minute brief on the top story in the entertainment industry this week.

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Game Over for Hollywood

Last Monday marked perhaps the biggest kickoff in entertainment history, but Hollywood was just sitting on the sidelines....

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Can't We Just Get Along?

Earlier this month, members of a union crashed an event where the head of a rival union was speaking. A mini-melee ensued, and a bunch of people were hurt including a 68-year old woman who was pushed to the ground. Luckily, these two unions are trying to organize California nurses, so there were plenty of band-aids on hand...

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Hollywood Hooked on the Green Stuff

Show business is the most glamorous business in the history of business. It's so glamorous that it's easy to forget that it's a business nonetheless...

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The Actors' Unions Divide and Conquer...Themselves

The actors' contract with the studios is up June 30, and a funny thing happened on the way to the negotiating table. I don't mean funny ha-ha, I mean funny bad, especially if you're an actor. The two actors' unions have decided that they will negotiate with the studios separately...

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Union Taxation without Representation

The writers' strike is over. But just when you thought it was safe to go back into production, here comes another, potentially contentious, labor brouhaha. This time it's the actors...

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Do We Need 3-D?

In the next few years, movie theaters will be flooded with 3-D films.  Will this old-made-new novelty save the movie business?

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Fear Not the 0's and 1's

Hollywood rolled three new digital service last week -- Hulu, Voozoo and Vudu, but they still seemed scared of the world of new media...

 

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Matt Holzman

Producer of The Business and host of The Business Brief

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