By Iain Blair

I was talking with famed producer Peter Guber, the former Columbia studio chief, who’s also a full professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television — he’s been a member of the faculty for 40 years — where he teaches an innovative course, “Navigating A Narrative World”. The course examines the power of narrative and storytelling, and the role these play in modern society. If anyone has a great insight into the industry today and how it’s changed, it’s him. “The movie biz has changed in 3 big ways since I first arrived at Columbia in the late ‘60s,” he tells me. “How movies are made, costs and distribution have all changed monumentally. And it hasn’t been an evolution — it’s been a revolution. And what’s happened in the past decade is that the rate of change has sped up. And now all different disciplines affect each other. And the digital world has changed the whole process. But one thing hasn’t changed  — at the end of the day, people at movies have to laugh, cheer or cry for the movie to be successful.”

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