The Business

Hollywood News Banter

By Kim Masters • Jul 1, 2016 • 1 min read

Matt Belloni, executive editor of The Hollywood Reporter joins Kim Masters to discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.

It’s a battle of
Tarzan vs.
The BFG vs.
The Purge at the box office this holiday weekend.
Warner Bros The Legend of Tarzan has been plagued with expensive problems from conception to execution, and it’s unlikely audience will respond to the potentially dated-feeling story in the way the struggling studio needs.
Jason Blum’s horror film The Purge: Election Year, on the other hand, was made for only $10 million and could make more than triple that this weekend--a winning formula for Universal.

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By Kim Masters • Jul 1, 2016 • 1 min read

Matt Belloni, executive editor of The Hollywood Reporter joins Kim Masters to discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.

It’s a battle of
Tarzan vs.
The BFG vs.
The Purge at the box office this holiday weekend.
Warner Bros The Legend of Tarzan has been plagued with expensive problems from conception to execution, and it’s unlikely audience will respond to the potentially dated-feeling story in the way the struggling studio needs.
Jason Blum’s horror film The Purge: Election Year, on the other hand, was made for only $10 million and could make more than triple that this weekend--a winning formula for Universal.