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

The footage was literally like, it's worth more than my life.

Because if I just went out without the footage, what was the point?

Yeah, what the point of being there and being our life for any second?

Filmmaker Wad Al-Khattib spent her early 20s living inside a besieged Syrian hospital,

documenting the brutal reality and the moments of joy and humanity of everyday life in Aleppo.

When she finally was forced to flee in the dark of night with her husband and infant daughter,

Samma, she was determined to smuggle 12 hard drives of footage past a Syrian checkpoint.

After Al-Kib made it out, the UK's Channel 4 introduced her to filmmaker Edward Watts.

Together, they carved an extraordinary 90-minute video diary out of more than 500 hours of footage.

Al-Qatib dedicated the project to her daughter, and the film, For Samaama is now Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary.

Al-Katibin Watts tell us about spending two years crafting For Sama and the aha moment that inspired the final version.

But first on the news banter, Hollywood is queasy as Disney continues to obliterate Fox.

Stay tuned.

It's the business from KCRW.

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

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So we have just been informed in the last few days that Emma Watts, who was running 20th century studios, which had become a part of Disney when Disney acquired Fox.

Obviously, it used to be 20th century Fox. They changed the name. They're sort of defoxing Fox. And part of that is this departure of Emma Watts in this job running what had been the storied Fox Film Studio.

It's now a Disney label that I don't even know what its purpose is exactly.

She is leaving less than a year after the merger closed in March 2019.

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