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

Do you think the movie would have been released if we hadn't on our story?

That is a great question. I think, yes, I think the movie would have been released.

In August, following back-to-back mass shootings, a colleague and I wrote a story in the Hollywood reporter about ESPN pulling ads for an upcoming movie called

The Hunt, a violent satire in which elites kill so-called deplorables for sport. After Fox News picked up

that story and Trump tweeted about it, Universal canceled the film's release. So when Damon Lindeloff,

the film's co-writer came to the studio recently to talk about his new

HBO series Watchmen, I had to ask about The Hunt. In all my years of hosting the business,

we've only done a two-part interview once recently with Kevin Smith. We weren't planning to do another

one anytime soon, but here we are. Damon Lindelof and I have a

heart to heart about the hunt. I offer a mea culpa for a missing email, and Lindelof tells us he

holds out hope that the film may one day get a release. But first on the news banter, Reed Hastings

says aloud what he's really thinking. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

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

Hi there. So, you know, I have talked on the show before about how entertained I am when Netflix,

the original streamer, the original disruptor, which was going to

come in and everything was going to be the Netflix way, gradually starts seeing that they have to

maybe do things a Hollywood way, gradually starts saying, you know, we, oh, if you bring us an

awards-worthy movie, we absolutely will do what we can to get a theatrical release. We're buying

this wonderful theater where we're going to showcase

your films in New York and L.A. And we care so much about, you know, the artists and we'll be

nicer to you. We won't treat talent interchangeably. And then along comes Reed Hastings at this New York

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