The Business
Composer Alexandre Desplat; IMDB Founder, Col Needham
Composer Alexandre Desplat on doing the lonely job that he loves. Plus, the founder of IMDB.
By Kim Masters • • 30m ListenAlexandre Desplat wrote the music for Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom and Rise of the Guardians. Plus, Col Needham, the founder of IMDB on his influential and sometimes controversial website.
Banner image: (L-R) Alexandre Desplat and Renee Fleming. Photo by Mimi Ritzen Crawford
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Kim Masters and John Horn, film writer for the Los Angeles Times, banter about some of this week's top Hollywood news stories.
Read the story7 minComposer Alexandre Desplat
What do Argo , Zero Dark Thirty , Moonrise Kingdom , Rise of the Guardians and Rust and Bone have in common? Composer Alexandre Desplat. He wrote the music for these and a few more films this year.
Read the story12 minIMDB Founder
Col Needham is a self-professed movie geek. From an early age he would watch films multiple times and keep a detailed log of what he seen and related information. That pen and paper document morphed into a computer list which was the antecedent to the Internet Movie Database . IMDb is an industry tool as well as a fan site.
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