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Welcome to Deadline Sound & Screen
Deadline’s composer showcase of original music for some of the season’s most acclaimed films
By Diana Lodderhose
Welcome back to another edition of Deadline’s Sound & Screen showcase event where we shine a spotlight on some of the most intriguing and captivating film scores that have been elevating the stories heading into awards season this year. We love this event at Deadline, because we know how magical it is to see an orchestra perform the music behind some of the year’s most exciting movies.
This year’s event promises to bring together a host of lauded musicians working in the film world. We’ve got prolific songwriter Savan Kotecha, who co-wrote the title song of Amazon’s Anne Hathaway starrer The Idea of You. We’re also welcoming Toto Miranda, Yvonne Lambert and Josh Lambert from experimental band The Octopus Project, who will talk us through the score and song “Creatures of Nature” for Sasquatch Sunset. Composer and conductor Harry Gregson-Williams will be bringing you some of the music from the hugely anticipated Gladiator II, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 historical epic. Kris Bowers is also here to talk
about his score for DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot while Alex Somers and Scott Alario will dissect the music they composed for Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios’ fall festival hit Nickel Boys. Netflix is bringing three shows to the event this year: Songwriter Sean Douglas will offer up music from Will Ferrell project Will & Harper; Diane Warren returns with Aaron Zigman to talk The Six Triple Eight; and composersongwriters Clément Ducol and Camille will tease songs from the highly anticipated Cannes Film Festival hit Emilia Pérez
And if that’s not enough, we’ve also got songwriter Lykke Li here with composersongwriter Andrew Wyatt to talk
about Pamela Anderson starrer The Last Showgirl for Roadside Attractions, and composer John Debney will walk us through his score for Kevin Costner’s epic Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1. Plus, legendary composer Hans Zimmer will touch down to discuss the music he wrote for Steve McQueen’s World War II epic Blitz Without music, films are incomplete stories and the artform is one that helps paint a brighter picture for audiences. So sit back, get comfortable and enjoy the sounds of some of the most talented composers and musicians lending their expertise to some of this year’s most exciting movies.
Without music, films are incomplete stories, and the artform helps paint a brighter picture.
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MODERATORS Meet the
The Deadline staffers who’ll be guiding you through this year’s Sound & Screen
ANTHONY D’ALESSANDRO
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● 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 site’s sister publication AwardsLine, Anthony covered the box office
beat for Indiewire’s Thompson on Hollywood. He also co-produced Matt Walsh’s film A Better You.
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PANELISTS Your
Scott Alario Nickel Boys
Scott Alario is a visual artist and composer and has been a music collaborator with composer Alex Somers since 2004. The pair recently co-scored (with Forest Kelley) the 2019 Oscarnominated documentary film Hale County This Morning, This Evening directed by RaMell Ross. That co-score was the recipient of the Best Music Score award from the 2018 IDA Documentary Awards.
Kris Bowers
The Wild Robot
Award-winning composer and pianist Kris Bowers creates genre-defying music that pays homage to his jazz roots with inflections of alternative and R&B influences. From scoring documentaries such as Kobe Bryant’s Muse and Norman Lear: Just Another Version of
You, to scripted series including Shonda Rhimes and Paul William Davies’ For the People (ABC), Netflix’s Dear White People and Showtime’s Black Monday (executive produced by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg), Bowers’ work as a film and television composer is a testament to his versatility as an artist. In 2018, he scored Oscar-winning title Green Book and also served as star Mahershala Ali’s on-screen hand-double, providing fingering for close-up piano shots.
Bowers’ scoring work can be heard across a wide range of film and television from Amazon’s TV movie The Snowy Day (for which he won a Daytime Emmy) to Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Seeds of Time, Play it Forward, I Am Giant: Victor Cruz and Little Boxes, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix. In early 2018, Bowers scored the critically acclaimed drama Monsters and Men,
Scott Alario
Kris Bowers
which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. His work has also appeared in Ava DuVernay’s miniseries, When They See Us (Netflix), about the Central Park Five. Additionally, his original music and lyrics are featured as the main theme and end credits for Madden NFL 19: Longshot, as well as Madden 20. He recently composed both the score and soundtrack for Dreamworks Animation film The Wild Robot
Clément Ducol and Camille
Emilia Pérez
French songwriting and composing duo Clément Ducol and Camille Dalmais most recently won the Cannes Soundtrack Award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for their work on Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez. Ducol is most noted
for his work on the film Chicken for Linda!, for which he received a Lumières Award nomination for Best Music.
Dalmais, who is better known by her mononym Camille, is a prominent French singer who first gathered international attention as a member of the acclaimed Nouvelle Vague, before she focused on a solo career. She featured in the soundtrack of 2015 French animated film The Little Prince and her song “She Was” was a theme song in the 2022 movie Corsage about the Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
John Debney
Horizon: An American Saga –Chapter 1
Considered one of the most prolific and successful composers in Hollywood, John
Debney has won three Emmy’s and been nominated for seven. He’s also an Academy Award nominee and the youngest recipient of ASCAP’s Henry Mancini Lifetime Achievement Award. He is known for his versatility across comedies such as Elf, Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty; action adventures Iron Man 2 and Spy Kids (1&2); thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Call; animation SpongeBob: Sponge Out of Water, The Emperor’s New Groove and Jimmy Neutron; Disney’s The Jungle Book; and his Oscar-nominated score for The Passion of the Christ.
Debney has also had music featured in The Greatest Showman and recently composed the score for Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1.
Clément Ducol and Camille
John Debney
Your PANELISTS
Sean
Douglas Will & Harper
Sean Douglas is a Grammywinning songwriter and producer whose compositions span multiple genres. He won a Grammy for his work on Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You album and has worked with artists ranging from Thomas Rhett, Demi Lovato, David Guetta to Jason Derulo. He’s also written songs for Jessie J, Fifth Harmony, Nick Jonas, Chris Brown, Madonna, The Chainsmokers, Kesha, Selena Gomez and Sia.
His songs have been featured in a number of films including Crazy Rich Asians, Bad Moms, Little, Dr. Doolittle, Ferdinand, Space Jam: A New Legacy, The Addams Family 2 and Will & Harper
Harry Gregson-Williams Gladiator II
British composer, conductor, orchestrator and record producer Harry GregsonWilliams is one of Hollywood’s most prolific composers who started his career as an assistant to composer Richard Harvey before working as an orchestrator and arranger for Stanley Myers. He then went on to compose his first scores for director Nicolas Roeg. He then
collaborated with composer Hans Zimmer, which led to him providing music for films ranging from The Rock to Armageddon and The Prince of Egypt. Gregson-Williams recently completed the score for Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, which stars Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal. He’s also worked on scores for films including Meg 2: The Trench, Liam Neeson starrer Retribution and Aardman’s animated feature Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. Further scores include The Last Duel and
House of Gucci, both directed by Scott, and Disney’s live action Mulan. He was also the composer on all four installments of the Shrek franchise, earning a BAFTA nomination. He has received Golden Globe and Grammy Award nominations for his score on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He has collaborated with a number of directors including Ben Affleck, Joel Schumaker, Tony Scott, Ridley Scott and Antoine Fuqua.
In addition to film, Gregson-
Savan Kotecha
Harry Gregson-Williams
Josh Lambert
Sean Douglas
Williams has television credits that include Whiskey Cavalier, Catch-22 and two episodes of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams He’s also scored three of the five games in the successful Metal Gear Solid franchise and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Savan Kotecha The Idea of You
Savan Kotecha is a Grammy and Golden Globe nominated American songwriter and producer who has worked with
artists such as Lizzo, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Westlife, The Weeknd, Ellie Goulding, Usher, Maroon 5, Britney Spears, One Direction, Demi Lovato and Christina Aguilera. Kotecha is the exec music producer of the 2020 film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, for which he wrote and produced several songs. Other credits include Fifty Shades of Grey and Charlie’s Angels. He recently co-wrote the title song for the film The Idea of You with Albin Nedler and Carl Falk.
Josh Lambert, Yvonne Lambert and Toto Miranda (The Octopus Project) Sasquatch Sunset
The Octopus Project has been releasing music since 2002, following a musical path that veers through blown-out rock ‘n’ roll, vibrant electronics, surreal pop and expansive psych landscapes. Based in Austin, Texas, the group of multiinstrumentalists has released
six studio albums, starting with 2002’s Identification Parade. Touring venues and festivals worldwide and as handpicked support for artists as diverse as DEVO and Aesop Rock, they’ve earned a reputation for explosive live shows and immersive audiovisual experiments.
Also active as composers for video games and film, they were awarded the Special Jury Award for Musical Score at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival for their work on the film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. Their most recent scoring work includes Damsel, The Disappearance of Toby Blackwood, the Reading Rainbow documentary Butterfly in the Sky and Sasquatch Sunset.
Lykke Li
The Last Showgirl
Lykke Li is a Swedish singer, songwriter and model whose music blends elements of indie pop, dream pop and electronic music. She has made five studio albums and 24 singles (including three as a featured artist) with hits such “Little Bit” and “I’m Good, I’m Gone.” Her music has appeared in a raft of films such as Damsel, Rust and Bone and she co-wrote the original song “Beautiful That Way” for The Last Showgirl with Miley Cyrus and Andrew Wyatt.
Lykke Li
Yvonne Lambert
Toto Miranda
Your PANELISTS
Alex Somers
Nickel Boys
American visual artist and musician Alex Somers has produced and mixed a large number of records including those of Sigur Rós, Jónsi, Julianna Barwick, Briana Marela, Death Vessel, Sin Fang and Pascal Pinon. His work as a film and television composer includes projects such as We Bought a Zoo, Manhattan, Aloha, Captain Fantastic, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Black Mirror: Hang the DJ, Hale County This Morning, This Evening and Honey Boy. He’s also worked on projects such as Miss Americana, Charm City Kings and Causeway. He recently co-composed RaMell Ross’ adaptation of Nickel Boys with Scott Alario.
Diane Warren
The Six Triple Eight
Diane Warren is considered one of the most prolific contemporary songwriters of recent times. She’s written for artists including Elton John, Tina Turner, Barbara Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack and Roy Orbison. She’s penned a raft of No. 1 songs including Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time”, Celine Dion’s “Because You Loved Me” and Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want
to Miss a Thing.” She’s won a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe awards and his been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The 15time Oscar nominee wrote the song “The Fire Inside” for Flamin’ Hot and “Gonna Be You” for 80 for Brady and recently worked on The Six Triple Eight.
Andrew Wyatt
The Last Showgirl
Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer Andrew Wyatt began his career playing in New York bands such as The A.M. and Black Beetle. He gained wider notability as the frontman of the Swedish electronic pop band Miike Snow. He’s worked with other artists such as Liam Gallagher, Lady Gaga, Lorde, Bruno Mars and others. In 2019,
he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for his work with Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson and Anthony Rossomando on “Shallow” from A Star is Born. He has worked across films such as Music and Lyrics, Barbie and he co-wrote and produced the original song “Beautiful That Way”, sung by Miley Cyrus, in The Last Showgirl
Aaron Zigman
The Six Triple Eight
American composer Aaron Zigman is a Pulitzer Prize finalist whose concert music is championed by artists and orchestras worldwide and has firmly established himself as one of Hollywood’s go-to composers. His film career launched in 2000, when director Nick Cassavetes heard a
Alex Somers
Diane Warren
performance of Rabin by the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony. Zigman and Cassavetes went on to collaborate on six films, including the romantic cult classic The Notebook, for which the composer’s score sold a record number of albums.
Working with top studios and directors, he has scored more than 60 Hollywood motion pictures to date, including such substantial box-office hits as Bridge to Terabithia, The Proposal, For Colored Girls, The Company Men, Wakefield and the Sex and the City franchise. Similarly distinguished in television, he has penned songs for shows including the popular series Fame and the Showtime TV movie Crown Heights, for which his setting of the Hebrew peace prayer “Sim Shalom” received an Emmy Award.
He recently scored American Dream/American Knightmare, Antoine Fuqua’s acclaimed Suge Knight documentary for Showtime, and is currently working on the music for Truth & Conviction, a new four-part limited series from Kaleidoscope Pictures. Featuring his original score, The Six Triple Eight, Tyler Perry’s new World War II drama starring Kerry Washington as commander of the U.S. Women’s Army Corps’ all-Black battalion, is scheduled for theatrical and Netflix release in December 2024.
Hans Zimmer Blitz
German-born composer Hans Zimmer is largely regarded as one of Hollywood’s most recognized and innovative musical talents. He has
composed music for more than 150 films, including The Lion King in 1994, where he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He began his career with a long collaboration with famed composer Stanley Myers, which included films like My Beautiful Laundrette before he embarked on a solo career which would see him score films such as Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Gladiator, As Good as it Gets, The Thin Red Line and The Last Samurai. Other scores include Pearl Harbor, A League of Their Own, Backdraft, True Romance, Batman Begins, Inception and many more. In his decadeslong career, he has amassed an impressive 12 Oscar nominations, with wins for The Lion King and Dune. He most recently composed the score for Steve McQueen’s Blitz.
Aaron Zigman
Andrew Wyatt
Hans Zimmer
FILMS The
APPLE ORIGINAL FILMS
Blitz
● Steve McQueen’s Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
AMAZON MGM STUDIOS
The Idea of You
● Based on the acclaimed, contemporary love story of the same name, The Idea of You centers on Solène (Anne Hathaway), a 40-year-old single mom who begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet.
1 Blitz
2 Sasquatch Sunset
3 The Wild Robot
4 The Idea of You
BLEECKER STREET
Sasquatch Sunset
● In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind— embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious and ultimately poignant journey over the course of one year. These shaggy and noble giants fight for survival as they find themselves on a collision course with the ever-changing world around them. It stars Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg.
DREAMWORKS ANIMATION
The Wild Robot
● The Wild Robot, based on Peter Brown’s 2016 bestseller, follows Rozzum 7134 (Lupita Nyong’o),
aka ‘Roz’—a brand new robot that gets shipwrecked during a typhoon on an island populated with animals but no humans. Roz has no idea how to interact with them, never having seen any of these creatures before. While on the island, Roz discovers an unhatched egg of a gosling
The FILMS
named Brightbill (Kit Connor). Unbeknownst to the new arrival, Roz was inadvertently responsible for his family’s death, but she makes up for it and becomes the unlikeliest of adoptive mothers, joined by an energetic fox named Fink (Pedro Pascal). While on their adventures, they aim to keep the gosling safe from all of those inherent predators lurking in the ocean and on the island.
NETFLIX
Emilia Pérez
● Emilia Pérez utilizes song, dance and bold visuals to capture the lives of four remarkable women in Mexico as they seek their own happiness. Among them is Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job who agrees to help the fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) fake her death so that she can finally live authentically as her true self. It also stars Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Édgar Ramírez.
1 Will & Harper
2 Nickel Boys
3 Emilia Pérez
4 The Six Triple Eight
Will
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Harper
● When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship. The film is an intimate portrait of friendship and transition.
The Six Triple Eight
● Tyler Perry writes and directs this American war drama, which is based on a 2019 WWII History magazine article by Kevin M. Hymel, based on the contributions of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-Black and allfemale battalion in World War II.
ORION PICTURES/ AMAZON MGM STUDIOS
Nickel Boys
● Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men.
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RaMell Ross directs the film set in 1960s Tallahassee, where Elwood Curtis is sent to the reformatory Nickel Academy for a crime he didn’t commit. In present day New York, a revelation about the abuses and trauma suffered by the Academy’s students leads to memories of Curtis’s lifechanging friendship with Jack Turner. Ross’s film is a dazzling achievement—a bold and beguiling exploration of trauma and buried American history.
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Gladiator II
● Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen and Denzel Washington star in Ridley Scott’s sequel to his 2000 hit Gladiator, which follows a now grownup Lucius, the nephew of the first film’s Emperor Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) and the son of Connie Nielsen’s Lucilla, as he returns to Rome on an unstoppable quest for the downfall of the Roman army and the uprising of the people.
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1 Gladiator II
2 The Last Showgirl
3 Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS
The Last Showgirl
● Set amid the glittering world of Las Vegas entertainment, Pamela Anderson plays Shelley, a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Gia Coppola directs the film, which also stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Billie Lourd.
TERRITORY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
Horizon: An American Saga –Chapter 1
● Kevin Costner directs and produces the first part of his four-installment epic from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jon Baird. It’s a multi-faceted chronicle covering the Civil War expansion and the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost— through the blood, sweat and tears of many.
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