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The Business

Hollywood News Banter

Kim Masters and Michael Schneider, who's sitting in for John Horn, discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.

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By Kim Masters • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Kim Masters and Michael Schneider, who's sitting in for John Horn, discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.

- News out of CinemaCon, the annual trade show for theater owners, is that global box office is strong except among the youth in the US.

- More Murdoch family drama and news of a succession plan to run the various companies of NewsCorp.

- Disney news: Anne Sweeney has been replaced by Ben Sherwood to run ABC and the other Disney-owned TV channels. What will his news background bring to the job?

- Disney plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the online studio Maker Studios.

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    Kim Masters

    partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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    Michael Schneider

    Senior editor at Variety

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    Darby Maloney

    Producer

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