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

In fact, it's completely planned, mapped, written, rehearsed. You know,

you can't make a movie that every angle is placed and stuff just by accident. It just doesn't happen like this. The Richard Link Letter trilogy, before sunrise, before sunset, and before

midnight, may seem largely improvised. But Julie Dalpy, who stars with Ethan Hawke and is Oscar nominated for co-writing the screenplay,

says it wasn't.

Plus, another Oscar nominee, the filmmaker behind the surreal documentary, The Act of Kling,

in which Indonesian Death Squad leaders gleefully reenact murders as if they were starring in a Hollywood movie.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John.

Hello, Kim. So this is a day of

unhappy banter. We're going to start with the tragic death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, obviously

a giant, an Oscar winner, a guy whose performances have thrilled people. But also, this is a yet

again one of these situations where a major star is in the middle of very major projects.

In this case, we were talking about the Hunger Games trilogy, the last two films.

And a studio has to figure out what to do.

We've seen this recently with Paul Walker's untimely death.

It seems at this point that Lionsgate has enough of the

second and third of these, the last two films in the trilogy done to proceed. But obviously,

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