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

This is a Hail Mary. This is a long shot. This is the last thing we can do.

But everybody was so excited to get that one chance.

Comedian Cristella Alonzo's journey from a small Texas border town to starring in an ABC sitcom

was one of the longest of long shots. The project seemed dead until a big gamble and a borrowed

soundstage changed everything. Then Barbara Rosenblatt is known as the Merrill Streep of

audiobook narration. If you watch Orange is the New Black, you know her as Miss Rosa.

But first on the Hollywood news banter, Netflix plans a move into feature films with a sort of sequel to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

But theater owners say, not so fast. Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my partner in banter, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Michael.

Hello, Kim.

So, Michael, as you know, Netflix has decided to make a foray into feature films, sort of.

And so far, there have been some bumps, but go ahead and

explain that. So they announced a few days ago that the long-awaited question mark, sequel to

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, subtitled The Green Legend, would make its debut on August 28th next year.

And the original plan was, simultaneously, it would run in a couple of

IMAX theaters in addition to being on Netflix. Now, of course, best laid plans, right, Kim?

I don't know how well these plans were laid. First of all, I have to question in deference to the

filmmakers who actually made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. They're not really involved with this

so-called sequel, including notably Angley,

the director. And there, I think, some of the characters, I don't know, kind of got dead at the

end of the first movie. So I don't know if this is really a sequel, more sequel-ish or

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