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

It was so intense, and the prep for it was so intense, and the editing was so intense that at the end of the day, you just wind up living this movie, and so it didn't help any of our social hives.

Director Damien Chazelle first got into the Sundance Film Festival with a short film called

Whiplash. The plan was to bait the hook to expand it into a feature, and it worked. Chazelle's

full-length movie was the toast of the festival just a year later, and it's now in theaters. Then, new

exhibitions highlight how some Jews fleeing Hitler found refuge in Hollywood and forever changed American cinema.

But first on the news banter, Marvel plays to the crowd, and Interstellar's bumpy takeoff transforms the Oscar race.

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I'm joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter.

Hello, Matt.

So this week, Matt, as you know, since you are my colleague at the Hollywood Reporter,

I found myself in a room full of crazed fans.

These were Marvel fans.

I was somewhat in an unlikely manner invited to a Marvel presentation. I was thrilled to be invited, but I have very little knowledge of the Marvel

universe. And they made these really big announcements about their plans, not just for a year or two,

but through 2019. Yeah, I mean, this is their big reveal.

All of the movies they've got planned, it's two movies a year for the next couple of years.

Then it's three movies a year, all leading up to this two-part Avengers Three extravaganza by 2019.

Two movies a year and three movies a year, all of which are dated at this time, like specifically dated.

They can tell you what they are

opening, like, on May 5th, 2017 and going forward into 2019. It's kind of extraordinary.

This is the Hollywood equivalent of a dog marking his territory. I mean, you put yourself on a date,

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