
Inside the Tom Cruise-Warner Bros. deal; Jon Batiste talks ‘American Symphony’
The Business · KCRW
January 19, 202434m 32s
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Show Notes
<p>Kim Masters and Matt Belloni look into the Tom Cruise-Warner Bros. deal and what that means for his projects at Paramount. </p>
<p>Plus, Masters speaks to Jon Batiste about being the subject of <i>American Symphony</i>. The musician explains how the documentary was originally conceived to follow his composition and performance of a symphony, but following his wife’s recurrence of leukemia, the project evolved into an intimate portrait of the couple coping with a life-threatening illness. Batiste shares how director Matthew Heineman spent eight months with the couple, resulting in over 1500 hours of footage, a premiere at Telluride, and distribution by Netflix.</p>