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January 01, 1990 - October 08, 2012 + The Business Brief
The Day the Creatures Cried 
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On Monday, June 16, the Terminator, Jurassic Park’s T-Rex and Edward Scissorhands all shed a tear at news that their spiritual father had died...
Forget It, Claude, It's Hollywood
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb080616forget_it_claude_its
I want to tell you a little story about what it's like to do my job as
the producer of a show about the business of...
New Incentives to Pass Incentives
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Canada has always been an attractive place for film and television
production. They speak English –- or a version of it –- they have trained
crews, they...
Movie Ads Expand
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Down Low on the Up-Fronts
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb080526down_low_on_the_up-f
I once saw a motivational poster in an in-flight catalog that had a
picture of butterfly and it said "change is the essence of life. Be
willing...
Is Celebrity Culture That Bad?
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb080519is_celebrity_culture
Two seemingly unrelated events have been rattling around in my brain since last week...
Indie Film Earthquake
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb080512indie_film_earthquak
Although the folks at Caltech didn’t see anything on their
seismographs, there was an earthquake in Hollywood last week. It was
just a tremor behind the studio...
Game Over for Hollywood
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb080505game_over_for_hollyw
Last Monday marked perhaps the biggest kickoff in entertainment history, but Hollywood was just sitting on the sidelines....
Can't We Just Get Along?
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb080421cant_we_just_get_alo
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...
Hollywood Hooked on the Green Stuff
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb080414hollywood_hooked_on_
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...
The Actors' Unions Divide and Conquer...Themselves
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb080407the_actors_unions_di
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...
Union Taxation without Representation
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb080331union_taxation_witho
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...
Do We Need 3-D?
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In the next few years, movie theaters will be
flooded with 3-D films. Will this old-made-new novelty save the movie business?
Fear Not the 0's and 1's
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb080317fear_not_the_0s_and_
Hollywood rolled three new digital service last week -- Hulu, Voozoo and Vudu, but they still seemed scared of the world of new media...
