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

Today, it's the Better Late Than Never edition.

We talk about a couple of high-profile movies that were delayed for months.

First, we share a delicious leftover from filmmaker Tim Miller.

You may remember he came on the show to do a post-mortem on Terminator Dark Fate,

which, as it happens, had its release date pushed from July to November of last year.

Miller is also an executive producer of a film that was delayed even longer, but with better results.

Sonic the Hedgehog underwent some major surgery after fans turned on the character's look in the trailer,

Miller tells us about the blowback.

Then we revisit a conversation with Damon Lindeloff, co-writer of the upcoming movie The Hunt.

Last August, following a spate of mass shootings, a colleague and I reported that ESPN had

pulled an ad for the violent satire, in which elites hunt so-called

deplorables for sport. Fox News then went after the film, and Universal canceled its release.

Lindelof came by the studio to talk about his HBO series Watchmen, but I asked him about

The Hunt as well. Do you think the movie would have been released

if we hadn't run our story? That is a great question. I think, yes, I think the movie would

have been released. Now, The Hunt is back on. Universal will be releasing the film in March.

But first, we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my co-counsel and banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So I'm using the legal term because we're going to talk about the Harvey Weinstein trial. As we are talking now, the jury is deliberating. You know, this is obviously very closely watched by a lot of people. There is a set of quite complicated instructions to this jury. I saw this list of multiple charges that they could potentially find him guilty or not guilty of.

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