Hollywood's Financial Shell Game
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Paramount shifted an expensive film like Shutter Island to 2010 and moved the lucrative G.I. Joe DVD to November to improve fourth-quarter numbers. Kim Masters asks: Is such short-term thinking worth it?
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Hollywood Studios' Day of Reckoning
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
The shakeups at Universal and Disney, while far from shocking, show a movie business undergoing such a dramatic transition, says Kim Masters, that even its usual arrogance might be tempered.
Pretty Women Pelted by Meatballs
Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
Megan Fox's Jennifer's Body tanks; Jennifer Aniston's Love Happens sinks; Oscar-hopeful The Informant! does just OK. All were felled by the animated Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs .
Hollywood's Fake Math
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Thanks to Transformers, studios claim it's the best summer box office of all time, but Kim Masters says the numbers are lying. Can James Cameron and the Twilight sequel save Fall?
Spidey's Billionaire
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Who's the eccentric mogul behind the $4 billion Disney-Marvel deal? Kim Masters on the CEO more mysterious and secretive than a comic book superhero.
NBC Universal Sees Red
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Conan's ratings are dropping and Universal Studios badly needs a hit. So why, Kim Masters asks, are the leaks coming out of NBC Universal blaming everyone except CEO Jeff Zucker?
Knives Out for Michael Mann
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Johnny Depp's new gangster movie Public Enemies may be stylish, but if it doesn't win at the box office, Hollywood will be gunning for its director, Michael Mann.
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