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The Business

The Hollywood News Banter

Kim Masters and John Horn banter about this week’s top entertainment news stories.

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

Kim Masters and John Horn banter about this week’s top entertainment news stories.

- The National Association of Theater Owners wants movie studios to shorten their trailers and not give away so much in the process

- Studio blockbusters will go head-to-head this Summer with massive pressure to recoup huge budgets

- Executive Mike Darnell, the godfather of reality television, leaves the Fox network after 18 years and an American Idol fall from supremacy

- Amazon studios ends its online "pilot season" in which viewers voted. The online studio has picked up five new shows including one starring John Goodman and created by Doonsbury's Garry Trudeau.

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    Kim Masters

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

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