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    The Hollywood News Banter

    Kyle Buchanan, senior editor for New York Magazine's Vulture.com, joins Kim Masters to banter about this week's top entertainment news stories.

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

    Kyle Buchanan, senior editor for New York Magazine's Vulture.com, joins Kim Masters to banter about this week's top entertainment news stories.

    - Will Smith, M. Knight Shyamalan, and Sony falter with After Earth

    - Warner Bros. and Paramount strike an unusual deal involving a South Park movie and the Friday the 13th franchise so that both studios can be a part of the upcoming Christopher Nolan film Interstellar

    - Google claims they can predict a movie's box office performance with 94% accuracy. Will the studios get in on this?

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      Kim Masters

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

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      Producer

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      Kyle Buchanan

      pop culture writer for the New York Times, author of “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road”

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