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

Randall Poster is credited as music supervisor on hundreds of projects, including films

from Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson.

He says sometimes a seemingly perfect piece of music isn't.

Naturally, the problem is that songs have driven advertising in the last whatever couple of

decades. And so there's always some population that a song has a particular charge, you know,

takes them out of the movie. NPR contributor Jeff London talks to Randall Poster about his career

in music supervision. And Poster shares his thoughts on the use

of mega popular music in films and why he calls Martin Scorsese the sun in our creative

constellation. But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my

associate in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So, David Zaslov, where do we begin? Let me start with a bunch of recent stuff. I don't even know what order I can go in, but let's start with a decision that Warner Brothers Discovery made to start licensing HBO shows to Netflix.

This is, of course, so ironic because, as we remember, a few short years ago, I think

the head of Warner at the time called them the Albanian army and dismissed them.

And now we turn around and basically Warner Brothers Discovery is going with a tin cup to Netflix

because they need money to pay down their debt. And the show we've heard so far as we are speaking

that they are putting there is insecure. And it's not like they've never done this before.

And you know, they obviously put sex in the city into syndication. They've done other things with other shows. But the HBO brand, a lot of people

are upset when they changed the name of the streamer to Max, which they felt downgraded HBO.

And then once again, there's this feeling like you're sending HBO this very specific stuff,

at one of the few businesses that have a true brand in the industry,

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