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The Business

Lion's Gate; Labor Pains; Let's Do Lunch

Hosted by Claude Brodesser-Akner Mar. 27, 2006 Entertainment
What do the amazingly different but very successful films Crash, Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Saw have in common?  Nothing.  And that's the genius of Lion's Gate Entertainment.  Plus, clouds form over Hollywood's labor relations and the most powerful job in show business.
What do the amazingly different but very successful films Crash, Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Saw have in common? Nothing. And that's the genius of Lion's Gate Entertainment. Plus, clouds form over Hollywood's labor relations and the most powerful job in show business.

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