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Only Murders in the Building Silo

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Lessons in Chemistry

Masters of the Air

Mr. & Mrs. Smith Fargo Shōgun PEACOCK/UCP

Benj Pasek (Songwriter)

Justin Paul (Songwriter)

Atli Örvarsson (Composer)

Leopold Ross (Composer)

Carlos Rafael Rivera (Composer)

Blake Neely (Composer/Conductor)

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Based on a True Story Ahsoka

Sherri Chung (Composer)

Kevin Kiner (Composer)

David Fleming (Music by)

Jeff Russo (Music by)

Atticus Ross (Composer)

Nick Chuba (Composer)

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By Joe Utichi

We’re back for yet another of Deadline’s beloved and groundbreaking Sound & Screen showcase events. And what an exciting evening of music we have ahead of us. Sound & Screen has always been a favorite of the Deadline team and our audience, not least for the very special magic it captures when the music behind some of the year’s most exciting television shows is performed live on this very stage.

Tonight’s event promises to gather some of the most garlanded and exciting musicians working in television today, including Atticus and Leopold Ross, the British brothers who come to Sound & Screen with two separate projects; FX’s Shōgun and Apple TV+ genre hit Monarch: Legacy of Monsters respectively. Atticus will be joined by Nick Chuba for Shōgun. There’s also Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, the songwriters behind La La Land and The Greatest Showman, who set their talents to work on the musical numbers featured

“Music is the glue that holds film and television together.”

in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. And Kevin Kiner, a Star Wars veteran who takes our stage tonight to talk about Disney+ and Lucasfilm Ltd.’s Ahsoka. Apple TV+ brings three more shows to the event, with Atli Örvarsson repping Silo, Carlos Rafael Rivera performing music from Lessons in Chemistry, and Blake Neely talking about Masters of the Air. Peacock

will present Based on a True Story, with Sherri Chung, while Prime Video brings Mr. & Mrs Smith composer David Fleming to the stage. FX will wrap things up with Shōgun, but not before bringing us Jeff Russo to perform music from Fargo. Music is the glue that holds film and television together. Without it, the epic stories we fall so desperately in love with would be but hollow shells, robbed of that magical ingredient that elevates the artform. We’re proud, yet again, to bring you inside the process of these talented composers and offer a musical journey through this year’s most thrilling TV.

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The Deadline staffers who’ll be guiding you through this year’s Sound & Screen

ANTHONY D’ALESSANDRO

Editorial Director/ Box Office Editor

● Anthony covers box office, breaking film news, awardsseason features and festival news. His first job in the film industry was at Savoy Pictures’ headquarters in New York where he worked in film distribution. In the summer of 1999, he was hired by Variety and moved to Los Angeles, and remained in the newsroom covering numerous parts of the industry, including box office, for about a decade. Prior to arriving at Deadline in the fall of 2011, where he co-edited the brand’s magazine, AwardsLine, Anthony covered the box office beat for Indiewire’s Thompson on Hollywood. He also co-produced Matt Walsh’s film A Better You.

PETER WHITE Executive Editor of Television

● Peter, who joined Deadline in 2017, is a respected veteran TV journalist who previously worked at UK-based Broadcast, where after starting there in 2013 rose to News Editor

responsible for putting together the weekly magazine as well as breaking daily news. Before that he was deputy editor of Television Business International magazine. He covers the television industry from Deadline’s Los Angeles bureau.

PANELISTS Your

Nick Chuba Shōgun

Nick is a composer living and working in Los Angeles. After studying at USC’s Thornton School of Music, he began working for Atticus Ross and has worked on numerous projects with him since 2014. Most recently, Nick composed the score for the feature film Thelma, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Festival. Other recent credits include Dr. Death and The Girl from Plainville with Leopold Ross, and Appendage and Operation Varsity Blues with Atticus Ross and Leopold Ross.

Sherri Chung

Based on a True Story

Award-winning composer Sherri Chung has been recognized internationally as a trailblazing composer for

film and television. Her music transcends genre, and fuses inspirations—both traditional and emerging—in support of filmmakers’ visions worldwide.

Sherri composed the score for HBO Max/Amblin’s animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, and most recently, the Peacock original series, Based on a True Story, the Netflix feature film, Happiness For Beginners and NBC’s Found Frequently recognized for her other television credits, including the CW network series Kung Fu, Batwoman and Riverdale, NBC’s Blindspot and Ava DuVernay’s limited series The Red Line, she has also scored numerous feature films, documentaries, and commercials. Recent film credits include Warner Bros. Studio’s Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase and The Lost Husband, the latter of which garnered her a Society

Nick Chuba

Sherri Chung

of Composers and Lyricists nomination for Best Score for an Independent Studio Film. She also composed the score for The Other Side of Home, which was shortlisted in the 2017 Oscars for Best Short Documentary.

An active member of the film music industry, Sherri also serves as Governor of the Music Branch of the Television Academy.

David Fleming

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

David Fleming is an American composer known for his original music for film and television, including HBO’s The Last of Us, the Top 5 debut Amazon series Mr. & Mrs. Smith, starring Donald Glover & Maya Erskine, and the Netflix epic fantasy feature Damsel, starring Millie Bobby Brown.

In addition, in 2024 he scored the music for Barry Levinson’s Alto Knights, starring Robert De Niro, the SXSW film Americana, as well as the documentary Jim Henson: Idea Man, directed by Ron Howard.

David started his career moonlighting in New York ad houses, creating music for ringtones and liquor commercials. After winning BMI’s Pete Carpenter Fellowship,

he relocated to Los Angeles and soon began contributing music to major films, including the Transformers series. In 2024, he was nominated for the prestigious ASCAP Composers’ Choice Award.

In 2017, David composed the score for the BBC’s internationally acclaimed Blue Planet II alongside Hans Zimmer, which marked the start of a collaborative relationship with the Academy Award-winning composer, encompassing music for films such as Dune and Top Gun: Maverick.

Through his soundtrack work, David has also collaborated with popular recording artists such as Lady Gaga, Elton John, Pharrell Williams, Camilla Cabello and Beyoncé.

Kevin Kiner

Ahsoka

Annie Award-winning composer

Kevin Kiner has also been honored with multiple Emmy and other Annie Nominations, and has won 20 BMI Film & TV Awards, making him one of the most versatile and soughtafter composers in Hollywood.

Over more than a decade, working with George Lucas and Dave Filoni, Kiner scored

all seven seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which earned him the 2021 Annie Award for Best Music–TV/ Media for the series finale episode “Victory and Death”, as well as a Primetime Emmy nomination. His other diverse credits include HBO Max’s Peacemaker, Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico, HBO Max’s Titans

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Kevin Kiner

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and Doom Patrol, Showtime’s City on a Hill, AMC’s hit series Dark Winds and Hell on Wheels, CBS’s CSI: Miami and CW’s Jane the Virgin. From his intimate, soloistic guitar music to his grand orchestral music, Kiner has transported audience from deserts to metropolises—and even to a galaxy far, far away.

Blake Neely Masters of the Air

Blake Neely is an award-winning composer and recording artist, whose work spans film, television and the concert world. His scores can be heard in more than 40 television series, 25 films and audio streaming platforms worldwide. Born in Paris, Texas, he found music at the early age of four on the family piano. Encouraged by his teachers to learn the classics and write his own music, he quickly found a passion for composing. Graduating from the University of Texas in 1991 with a B.A. in linguistics, Neely was ironically rejected by the music school. To this day, he marks it as the most important event in his education, inspiring him to teach himself and pursue his career. Beyond the canvas of film and television, Neely‘s commissioned

works for The Washington Ballet have been performed at The Kennedy Center, The White House and The Washington National Cathedral. He has been a featured lecturer at the Sundance Institute, University of Southern California, Columbia College, UCLA, Hollywood Music Workshop Vienna, Conservatory of Music Puerto Rico, NYU, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and his alma mater, The University of Texas. Neely’s Cow on the Wall Studio is located in Los Angeles.

Atli Örvarsson Silo

Atli Örvarsson is an acclaimed Icelandic film and TV composer who has scored more than 40 feature film and TV projects. He has collaborated with renowned songwriters and composers including RZA, Hans Zimmer, Ólafur Arnalds, Khalid and Talos. His wide range of work spans orchestral and fantastical action of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 to dark electronica in The Edge of Tomorrow, and a thematic piano score in The Edge of Seventeen In addition to his film work, Örvarsson has scored Apple TV’s crime drama Defending Jacob starring Chris Evans and

many of Dick Wolf’s acclaimed procedurals including NBC’s long-running trio: Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med; and CBS’s FBI, FBI: International and FBI: Most Wanted

In his native Iceland, Örvarsson continues to work with the SinfoniaNord orchestra for his film scores. He also co-

Blake Neely

Atli Örvarsson

founded the INNI label to help bring talented Icelandic artists to a wider audience.

Örvarsson’s many honors include several nominations for the World Soundtrack Awards, a nomination for an SCL (Society of Composers and Lyricists) Award, a Hollywood Music In Media Award and his most recent nomination for a BAFTA Award.

Benj Pasek & Justin Paul

Only Murders in the Building

Oscar, Grammy and Tony Award-winning songwriters/ producers Benj Pasek & Justin Paul are best known for their work on La La Land, The Greatest Showman and Dear Evan Hansen, each of which spawned albums that landed in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, including multiple weeks at No. 1 for The Greatest Showman, which in 2018 was the world’s best-selling album. In 2017, their song “City of Stars” (co-written with Justin Hurwitz) from La La Land won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song, with “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” from the film also nominated for the Academy Award in the same category. The following year, they went

on to win their second Golden Globe for “This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman, for which they won the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. For their original musical Dear Evan Hansen, they received an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Olivier Award, a Grammy Award, and the Tony Award for Best Score.

Onscreen, they most recently wrote the songs and served as associate producers for the critically acclaimed, musicalthemed third season of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building alongside collaborators Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (“Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” performed by Steve Martin), Sara Bareilles (“Look for the Light” performed by Meryl Streep and Ashley Park), and

Michael R. Jackson (“For the Sake of a Child” performed by Streep, Paul Rudd, and Martin Short).

Other recent screen credits include Apple’s original liveaction musical Spirited, Sony’s live-action hybrid musical Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, Disney’s liveaction Aladdin, Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls, Amazon’s comedy series Harlem, Apple TV+’s Dear Edward, NBC’s Smash, The CW’s musical episode of The Flash and the Amazon’s documentary film Pink: All I Know So Far (Grammy nomination).

Among their numerous honors, in 2007 they became the youngest winners ever of the Jonathan Larson Award, and in 2019, they became the first writers for stage or screen to be honored with the ASCAP Vanguard Award.

Benj Pasek & Justin Paul

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Carlos Rafael Rivera Lessons in Chemistry

Carlos Rafael Rivera is a composer and educator with a multifaceted career in Film, TV and the Performing Arts. His work includes scores for Netflix’s Godless, for which he received a Primetime Emmy, The Queen’s Gambit, for which he won his second Primetime Emmy and first Grammy Award, Universal Pictures’ A Walk Among the Tombstones, starring Liam Neeson, the hit show Hacks for HBO Max, Universal’s Chupa, as well as the global hit La Reina del Sur 3 for Netflix/Telemundo.

This past year, Carlos scored the Apple TV series Lessons in Chemistry, starring Brie Larson, for which he received a Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) nomination for score and won for his main title sequence; the Netflix limited series Griselda, starring Sofia Vergara; Bleecker Street’s Ezra, starring Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, and Robert DeNiro; as well as his continued collaborations with writer/ director Scott Frank on AMC Network’s Monsieur Spade and the Netflix series Department Q.

A protégé of Randy Newman, Carlos was named TV Composer

of the Year by the World Soundtrack Awards in 2021. He serves as Chair and Associate Professor at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music in Media Scoring and Production.

Atticus

Ross

Shōgun

Atticus Ross is an English musician who lives and works in Los Angeles. Known for his work alongside Trent Reznor both in the band Nine Inch Nails and as a film and television scoring duo, he has earned numerous awards and nominations including Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes, Oscars, Grammys, Emmys and BAFTAs. In 2020, Nine Inch Nails was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In addition, Ross has been praised by The New York Times, honored by the American Film Institute and the Society of Composers and Lyricists and received the NAACP Image Award for the soundtrack to the Pixar hit Soul, alongside Reznor and Jon Batiste.

Additional credits include The Book of Eli, The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Love & Mercy, Gone Girl, Waves, Mank and Bones and

All. Ross also scored Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary Before the Flood, The Vietnam War for PBS and Watchmen for HBO.

In addition to collaborating with Reznor, Ross often combines his talents with his brother and musicians/record producer, Leopold Ross, and his wife and singer Claudia Sarne.

Carlos Rafael Rivera

Atticus Ross

Leopold Ross Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Known for his performances and production work with a number of artists and his collaborations with his brother, Oscar-winning composer Atticus Ross, on a number of soundtracks, Leopold Ross is an English musician and

producer hailing from London.

Ross composed one of his first scores for the U.S. crime drama, Touching Evil. He also helped produce and engineer a whole host of artists such as the Transplants, Grace Jones, Bad Religion, Korn and the Dillinger Escape Plan. In 2009, he contributed writing and production to the score for the Hughes Brothers’ movie The Book of Eli alongside Atticus and Claudia Sarne.

In the late 2000s, he worked on a number of scores, most notably with his brother and Claudia Sarne on such films such as Broken City, Blackhat and Triple 9. In 2016, Leopold and Atticus collaborated with U.K. electronic artist Bobby Krlic (also known as the Haxan Cloak) on Steve Hoover’s documentary film Almost Holy.

Jeff Russo Fargo

Jeff Russo is an Emmy Awardwinning and Grammynominated composer, scoring varied and compelling music for film, television and video games. Upcoming projects include Nicholas Tomnay’s What You Wish For and FX series Alien

Russo’s film credits include Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Rob Peace, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival; Bartlett Sher’s Oslo, which he co-scored with Zoë Keating and for which he received an Emmy nomination, Paul Dektor’s American Dreamer, Sabrina Doyle’s Lorelei, Noah Hawley’s Lucy in the Sky, Peter Berg’s action-thriller film Mile 22, and Jon Avnet’s Three Christs. His music can also be heard on shows such as Netflix’s limited series Ripley, FX’s Fargo, for which Russo received an Emmy in 2017 and three additional nominations, Peacock’s Mrs. Davis, HBO Max’s Love and Death, Amazon Prime’s The Consultant, Showtime Networks’ The Man Who Fell to Earth, CBS All Access’s Star Trek: Discovery, and Clarice, Paramount +’s Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and more.

In addition to composing music for film and television, Russo is a founding member, lead guitarist and co-songwriter of two-time Grammy nominated, multi-platinum selling rock band Tonic. Russo received a BAFTA nomination for Annapurna Interactive’s video game, What Remains of Edith Finch.

Leopold Ross

Jeff Russo

SHOWS The

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Lessons in Chemistry

● Set in the early 1950s, Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Brie Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives—and the men who are suddenly listening—a lot more than recipes.

Masters of the Air

● Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, and scripted by John Orloff, Masters of the Air follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they conduct perilous bombing raids over

Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler’s Third Reich, is at the heart of Masters of the Air. Some were shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was exacted on them all.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

● Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking revelation that monsters are real, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch. Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army officer Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell), taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows. The dramatic saga— spanning three generations— reveals buried secrets and the ways that epic, earthshattering events can reverberate through our lives.

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Silo

● This dystopian drama tells the story of the last 10,000 people on Earth, whose mile-deep home protects them from the toxic, deadly world outside. However, none of the township knows when or why the silo was built, and anyone who tries to find out faces deadly consequences. Rebecca Ferguson plays Juliette, an engineer whose search for answers about a loved one’s mysterious murder leads her to a big discovery that could jeopardize the safety of everyone.

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Ahsoka

● Former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano once served as the Padawan learner to Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars. A respected leader and warrior, Ahsoka grew into a formidable fighter before the Empire’s reign changed the course of galactic history. Although she walked away from the Jedi Order, she continued to stand up for those fighting for peace and justice in the galaxy long after the fall of the Republic.

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Midwestern housewife Dorothy ‘Dot’ Lyon after an unexpected series of events lands her in hot water with the authorities. North Dakota Sheriff Roy Tillman and his loyal but feckless son, Gator, have been searching for Dot for a long time and they enlist Ole Munch to hunt her down. With her deepest secrets beginning to unravel, Dot attempts to shield her family from her past, but her well-meaning husband, Wayne, keeps asking his mother, Lorraine Lyon, for help. A powerful CEO, Lorraine is unimpressed with her daughter-in-law, but when Dot’s unusual behavior catches the attention of Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead and North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr, Lorraine appoints her consigliere, Danish Graves, to aid her. Afterall, family is family.

Shōgun

● An original adaptation of James Clavell’s novel, FX’s Shōgun is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him. When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, its English pilot, John Blackthorne, comes bearing secrets that

could help Toranaga tip the scales of power and devastate the formidable influence of Blackthorne’s own enemies—the Jesuit priests and Portuguese merchants. Toranaga’s and Blackthorne’s fates become inextricably tied to their translator, Toda Mariko, a mysterious Christian noblewoman and the last of a disgraced line. While serving her lord amidst this fraught political landscape, Mariko must reconcile her newfound companionship with Blackthorne, her commitment to the faith that saved her and her duty to her late father.

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Only Murders in the Building

● From the minds of Steve Martin, Dan Fogelman and John Hoffman comes a comedic murder-mystery series for the ages. Only Murders in the Building follows three strangers (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. As they record a podcast of their own to document the case, the three unravel the complex secrets of the building which

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stretch back years. Perhaps even more explosive are the lies they tell one another. Soon, the endangered trio comes to realize a killer might be living amongst them as they race to decipher the mounting clues before it’s too late.

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Based on a True Story

● A dark comedic thriller, Based on a True Story is about a realtor, a former tennis star and a plumber who seize a unique opportunity to capitalize on America’s obsession with true crime.

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith

● Two lonely strangers land jobs working for a mysterious spy agency that offers them a glorious life of espionage, wealth, world travels and a dream brownstone in Manhattan. The catch: new identities in an arranged marriage as Mr. & Mrs. John and Jane Smith. Now hitched, John and Jane navigate a high-risk mission every week while also facing a new relationship milestone. Their complex cover story becomes even more complicated when they catch real feelings for each other. What’s riskier, espionage or marriage?

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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