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January 01, 1990 - January 23, 2013 + The Business

The TCA's: Getting Your 15 Minutes listen Download

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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,...

Hollywood Financial Forecast Calls for High Chance of Lows; Indie Games listen Download

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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!

The 100 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood listen Download

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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...

The Hollywood Year to Be listen Download

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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...

Best of the Business: Carrie Fisher listen Download

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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...

Best of the Business 2008: Favorite Features listen Download

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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...

That Was the Hollywood Year That Was! listen Download

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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...

'Che,' Longer than the Cuban Revolution; She-Pap listen Download

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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....

Why Doesn't Hollywood Love Theater?; Horror Goes Comedy listen Download

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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...

Hollywood Goes to the Middle East listen Download

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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...

In Bombay with Slumdog Millionaire; American Film Market listen Download

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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. ...

Shrugging Off Atlas Shrugged, Redux listen Download

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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...

Bradley Effect at the Movies; Danny Goldberg and the Music Biz listen Download

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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...

Mini-Majors, Endangered Species?; The Sundance Marathon listen Download

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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...

Could the Economic Downturn Be Good for TV Networks? listen Download

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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?...