Peter Jackson: I can talk about The Beatles till the cows come home
Filmmaker Peter Jackson was 3 years old when The Beatles first appeared on \u201cThe Ed Sullivan Show\u201d on February 9,1964. His family didn\u2019t own a television and he didn\u2019t see the original airing because he believes New Zealand didn\u2019t broadcast the TV show.\xa0\u201cEven though I was born in 1961, I kind of don't really have a story or any memory of The Beatles in the \u201860s, which is crazy because I lived all the way through that period,\u201d Jackson remarks. His parents were not \u201crock and rollers,\u201d he says, but he recalls hearing the band \u201cendlessly through \u201865, \u201866, \u201867 because the radio was playing nothing else.\u201d Sixty years later, he produced and directed the Disney+ docuseries \u201cThe Beatles: Get Back,\u201d about the making of the 1970 documentary \u201cLet It Be.\u201d Jackson\u2019s series has been nominated for several Emmys, and the award-winning director discusses what led him to tackle this documentary project, and how his labor of love morphed from being a feature film to a series. But first, Kim Masters and Matt Belloni, founding partner of Puck News, discuss the Disney+ positive quarterly results, and what the decision to raise subscription prices mean for consumers, and the future of its streaming services.\xa0
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