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

The way the industry works now, I don't get to be the lead in a tiny independent film unless I can bring money to make it.

And the only way to do that is to do a combination of a lot of things.

Actress Rebecca Hall immediately connected with a script about TV reporter Christine Chubbock,

who in 1974 shot and killed herself while on the air.

But Hall says there's no doing a project like Christine unless she does bigger movies like

Marvel's Iron Man 3.

Hall tells us why she was so determined to star in Christine even though her agents were

less than enthusiastic

about a film with a small budget and a little-known director. And she talks about having most of her

role in Marvel's Iron Man 3 cut from the script in the middle of production. But first on the

news banter, China beckons with promises of massive rebates. Will Hollywood heed the call? Stay tuned. It's the business from

KCRW.

I'm joined by my banter buddy, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. Hi there.

So, Matt, this past week or so, the arrival of the head of Wanda.

Wanda is a giant Chinese company, the head of which is Wang Jan Lin.

He is supposed to be Asia's richest man.

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