From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

Well, he did suck on my finger. Yeah, he went to shake my hand, I thought, but it was actually

to grab my hand and suck on my finger. He's kind of testing you.

Filmmakers Alison Burke and Frank Karradwin described their first encounter with John

Wattowitz, the bank robber who inspired the Al Pacino movie Dog Day Afternoon.

And that was just the beginning of a 10-year adventure, making their documentary The Dog.

But first on the news banter, we check in on Toronto and talk about why A&E would cancel its second most popular show.

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KCRW.

I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter. Hello, Matt.

Hi there. And Matt, you just came back from Toronto, where the festival is winding down, the film festival, a big launching pad oftentimes for Oscar movies, but also movies that just want to make money.

Yeah, there are several acquisition deals this year at the festival, but none bigger than this Chris Rock movie, Top 5, which got a $12.5 million deal from Paramount.

Which is striking because Paramount,

you know, is not in the studio known for its largesse, generally speaking, and $12.5 million.

There's a lot of money. This is a comedy with Chris Rock playing a comic who wants to

reinvent himself as a serious actor. Yeah, unlike most of the festival movies that often are dark or dependent on awards caliber

performances, this is a straight up gut-busting comedy, Chris Rocket is best, and, you know,

when you see a mainstream commercial play at a film festival, studios tend to jump on that.

So this was definitely a bidding more in the biggest splash of the festival.

And otherwise, we just kind of solidified our sense about what's going to be an awards

contention a bit. Yeah, I think that, you know, there were no huge revelations or

breakouts, but I think the imitation game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a World War II

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