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    The Business

    Instability at WarnerMedia, revisiting ‘Disclosure’ with Laverne Cox and Sam Feder

    Kim Masters and Matt Belloni offer a fresh banter about the current awkwardness at WarnerMedia. The company is set to spin off from AT&T and merge with Discovery, but the deal will be delayed while undergoing federal review.

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    By Kim Masters • Jun 11, 2021 • 28m Listen

    Kim Masters and Matt Belloni offer a fresh banter about the current awkwardness at WarnerMedia. The company is set to spin off from AT&T and merge with Discovery, but the deal will be delayed while undergoing federal review.

    In the meantime, WarnerMedia is going all-in on the marketing push encouraging viewers to see Jon M. Chu’s new movie “In The Heights” in theaters, even though the company is sticking by its plan to put all its 2021 movies on HBO Max the same day they’re released on the big screen.

    And The Business replays a conversation with director Sam Feder and executive producer Laverne Cox about their documentary “Disclosure,” which explores the history of trans representation in Hollywood.

    Cox and Feder talk about hiring an almost all-trans crew to make “Disclosure,” which is now a finalist for a Peabody Award.

    In this episode

    2 stories
    1. 1:13

      WarnerMedia faces an uncertain future

      News broke in May that AT&T would spin off WarnerMedia to Discovery and that David Zaslav would run the combined media empire, but that deal isn’t closing any time soon. The merger is subject to federal review, which could take a year or more.

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      10 min
    2. 11:11

      Replay: In ‘Disclosure,’ Laverne Cox and Sam Feder explore trans representation in media

      Hollywood’s depictions of trans people — and the impact of those portrayals on the trans audience — is the subject of the 2020 Netflix documentary “ Disclosure ,” which is now a finalist for a Peabody Award.

      Read the story
      17 min
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      Kim Masters

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

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      Kaitlin Parker

      Producer, 'The Business' and 'Hollywood Breakdown'

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    In this episode

    2 stories
    1. 1:1310 min

      WarnerMedia faces an uncertain future

    2. 11:1117 min

      Replay: In ‘Disclosure,’ Laverne Cox and Sam Feder explore trans representation in media

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