From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Autumn DeWild has more than 20 years of experience photographing rock bands and directing commercials,

but she'd never gotten to make a feature film.

Then, out of the blue, a British production company asked her to pitch her ideas for a new version of the Jane Austen classic Emma.

I mean, he said, yay, I want to do Emma.

But did you say, well, why do you want to do Emma?

Or did you just say, I'm happy, so I'm not going to ask?

I mean, I feel like you would never say that about Shakespeare.

That is true.

DeWild says she didn't make Emma solely for Jane Austen super fans, like me, but Austinites will appreciate the way DeWild obsessed over every

period detail, even fighting for every tightly wound tiny ringlet on her title character's head.

But first on the news banter, Hollywood encounters the coronavirus. Stick around. It's the

business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany, the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So, Matt, obviously, anxiety is high.

The news about coronavirus is moving so fast.

I feel like we are recording at this moment in time,

and things could change within hours. They could change. And we are being counseled to be

calm and wash our hands, and I think we should be. All of that is good. But what we see,

of course, is that the entertainment business is in a very difficult position. It is being affected

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