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The Business

The Brothers Duplass Go Studio

What happens when indie filmmakers accustomed to shooting on a micro-budget with unknown actors and DV cameras get to work with stars and millions of studio dollars to spend?  Brothers Jay and Mark Duplass talk about hiding from their own crew, negotiating with Fox Searchlight execs and staying true to their Mumblecore ethos while making Cyrus.

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By Kim Masters • Jun 21, 2010 • 28m Listen

What happens when indie filmmakers accustomed to shooting on a micro-budget with unknown actors and DV cameras get to work with stars and millions of studio dollars to spend? Brothers

Jay and

Mark Duplass talk about hiding from their own crew, negotiating with Fox Searchlight execs and staying true to their Mumblecore ethos while making

Cyrus. (Watch the

trailer

.)

Banner image: Filmmakers/brothers Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass on the set of Cyrus

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    Kim Masters

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

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