The Business
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Lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors, hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter.
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Aug 8, 2011 • 30min
Childhood Friends Take 'The Help' from Bestseller to Big Screen
This week, Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling novel The Help, and her childhood friend Tate Taylor, who has written and directed the new movie based on the book.
Aug 1, 2011 • 30min
A 'Happily Divorced' Couple Makes Hit TV; Sundance Shortslab
Fran Dresher and Peter Marc Jacobson, on their new sit-com, based on their relationship. Plus,
why you really need to be making short films to make it in Hollywood..
Jul 25, 2011 • 30min
'Crazy, Stupid, Love' Directors; The Business @ The Moth 2
John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, the directing team behind the new Steve Carrell/Ryan Gosling movie Crazy, Stupid, Love. Plus, another story from our Moth StorySlam...
Jul 18, 2011 • 30min
Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky; The Business @ The Moth
Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky on their working partnership and transforming their webseries into a TV show. Plus, a story told at the live Story Slam we hosted with The Moth.
Jul 11, 2011 • 30min
Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant Talk Screenwriting
Sketch comedians and screenwriters Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, authors of Writing Movies for Fun and Profit, on the very practical secrets to their success.
Jul 4, 2011 • 30min
Hollywood's Unconventional Therapists Revisited
We revisit our interview with Barry Michels and Phil Stutz, two of the busiest – and unconventional -- shrinks in Hollywood. Then we hear from their former clients.
Jun 27, 2011 • 30min
Veena Sud on 'The Killing;' NY Times Media Reporter David Carr
AMC's Veena Sud on the backlash when The Killing's series finale didn't reveal who did the killing. Plus, media reporter David Carr, star of the new documentary Page One.
Jun 20, 2011 • 30min
'Conan O'Brien Can't Stop' and Gavin Polone's Many Lives
Agent-turned-manager-turned Producer Gavin Polone on his new movie, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, and what it reveals about his star client...
Jun 13, 2011 • 30min
John Wells on the TV Biz; Mike Royce on 'Men of a Certain Age'
We speak with John Wells about the creative freedom that comes from working in cable, and Mike Royce on co-creating that Peabody Award-winning Men of a Certain Age.
Jun 6, 2011 • 30min
'X-Men: First Class' Producer Simon Kinberg's Meteoric Rise
The producer of the origin story of the Marvel mutants recounts his own origin story -- from breaking in to Hollywood to morphing into a producer of big studio
movies...
