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The Business

The Business is a weekly podcast featuring lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors. The show is hosted by award-winning jo... Read more

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Gloria Calderón Kellett calls for equitable storytelling, ‘Barbenheimer’ wins the box office

Gloria Calderón Kellett calls for equitable storytelling, ‘Barbenheimer’ wins the box office

Barbie and Oppenheimer have proven to be massively successful at the box office, but where does that leave the comparati... Read more

29 Jul 2023

28mins

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Hollywood VFX expert weighs in on AI, studios and guilds dig in

Hollywood VFX expert weighs in on AI, studios and guilds dig in

On the strike lines, rhetoric from studios and guilds makes it difficult to reach a resolution, while Disney’s CEO digs ... Read more

21 Jul 2023

28mins

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Bigger Banter: SAG-AFTRA strikes, Bob Iger extends contract

Bigger Banter: SAG-AFTRA strikes, Bob Iger extends contract

The Business analyzes SAG-AFTRA’s strike, which will effectively shut down Hollywood at an already perilous time. Plus, ... Read more

14 Jul 2023

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Screenwriter Billy Ray on WGA battle with AI; Amazon CEO probes shows’ budgets

Screenwriter Billy Ray on WGA battle with AI; Amazon CEO probes shows’ budgets

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy asks for detailed budgets of all the biggest shows made by its Hollywood studios. Why now? Plus, a... Read more

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Following the decision to fire top execs at Warner Bros. Discovery’s TCM, WB’s CEO David Zaslav feels the blowback and i... Read more

30 Jun 2023

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Randall Poster on life as a music supervisor, plus WBD’s struggles

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To pay debt, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is licensing HBO original series to Netflix, and fires the head of ... Read more

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Summer previews: Will movies deliver at the box office? Plus, Emmy changes, predictions

Summer previews: Will movies deliver at the box office? Plus, Emmy changes, predictions

A summer banter: Will the season bring the big box office returns studios are hoping for? Plus, Disney pushes back franc... Read more

17 Jun 2023

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Carol Burnett on her sprawling career in entertainment, CNN fires CEO Chris Licht

Carol Burnett on her sprawling career in entertainment, CNN fires CEO Chris Licht

CNN CEO Chris Licht is out from the network following a damning article in The Atlantic reporting his “alienating” behav... Read more

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The resilience of the movie theater industry and Cannes during the writers’ strike

The resilience of the movie theater industry and Cannes during the writers’ strike

While the WGA strike continues in the U.S., many writer-directors, actors were off promoting their films at Cannes. Did ... Read more

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Encore: ‘The Great’ creator on swearing, sex and ‘fun’ violence in 1700s Russia

Encore: ‘The Great’ creator on swearing, sex and ‘fun’ violence in 1700s Russia

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