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    The Business

    The Hollywood News Banter

    Kim Masters and John Horn banter about some of this week's top Hollywood news stories.

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

    Kim Masters and John Horn banter about some of this week's top Hollywood news stories.

    - MPAA announces plans to enhance the explainers on PG 13 films. The Parents' Television Council responds.

    - John Fithian, President and CEO of the National Association of Theater Owners calls for fewer R-rated movies from studios.

    - Conflict between Disney and the two large theater chains, AMC and Regal, over the share of tickets for the upcoming Iron Man 3.

    -Paramount plans a Chinese reality TV show to cast some Chinese professional and amateur actors in Transformers 4. Hollywood "suits" like a marketing executive from Paramount and Sid Ganis, former head of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura will be the 'judges' on the competition show.

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    How We Watch TV and Movies Today and in the Future
    1. 0:00The Hollywood News BanterYou’re reading this
    2. 5:51Joshua Topolsky on the Convergence of Tech and Entertainment
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      Kim Masters

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

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      Darby Maloney

      Producer

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      John Horn

      Los Angeles Times

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    The full episode

    1 of 2
    How We Watch TV and Movies Today and in the Future
    1. 0:00The Hollywood News BanterYou’re reading this
    2. 5:51Joshua Topolsky on the Convergence of Tech and Entertainment
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