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

Composer Laura Carpman, now Oscar nominated for her work on American fiction,

has managed to find success writing music for movies, TV shows, and games,

even though the playing field was not level.

It's easy to blame yourself for things, and I think, you know,

I saw my beautiful male allies' careers

shoot up and mine didn't do the same. I started thinking maybe there was, maybe it was

forces beyond me. Laura Cartman talks to NPR contributor Jeff London about why she helped found

the alliance of women film composers. And she explains how sneaking a theme song

into a Disney Plus Marvel show helped her get hired on her first big budget movie. But first we banter.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So a couple of

executive moves to discuss. Dan Lynn is a producer. Some people remember he almost took a job

running DC at Warner Brothers Discovery, but didn't work out. He's going to be getting the movie

job at Netflix, taking Scott Stuber's place, sort of. But at this point, we think that Netflix will be making

fewer and less expensive movies, and he will be overseeing those and reporting to Bella Bragheria,

which is kind of interesting. She doesn't have movie experience, but Dan Lynn certainly does.

At Disney, David Greenbaum has replaced Sean Bailey. David Greenbaum comes from what was Fox Searchlight, now they call it

Searchlight, I think. He's got a big art house background and has great relationships with

art house filmmakers, a little surprising since the Disney movie label has been kind of like,

let's make a live action version of Beauty and the Beast. So maybe they're trying to

shake things up ahead of their shareholder meeting with the challenge and show we're making

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