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

When John Batiste set out to make what he now calls a boring process documentary about

composing a symphony, he and director Matthew Heinman couldn't have predicted what would follow.

He said, you know what? I'd love to work on that with you. And within a month of us deciding to work on the film together, he starts filming.

We don't have any backers.

I get nominated for 11 Grammys the same week that I find out my wife's leukemia returns.

Batiste explains why he stuck with making American symphony, even after his wife, Sulaka Jawad,

was diagnosed and hospitalized.

The couple allowed Heinemann to keep the cameras rolling pretty much around the clock.

The film wound up premiering at Telluride and winning the backing of Netflix and the Obamas.

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

I am joined by my partner in banter Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So we both reported on different aspects of this Tom Cruise deal that was announced by Warner Brothers Discovery.

Tom Cruise has made an arrangement with them. He's had a long time home at Paramount,

and he has never had a formal deal there, but he's made most of his movies lately there.

And it was this relationship that Paramount clearly would have wanted to protect, although I think

it got a little strained when Mission Impossible 7 didn't perform that well,

and they're going to end up losing maybe 30 million or more on that film.

But still, they have top gun, huge grocer.

Obviously they want to make a sequel to that.

But it appears that the bloom went off the Paramount Tom Cruise rose,

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