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The 2023 edition of Deadline’s live-music event Sound & Screen: Film hit the stage November 9 showcasing the songs and scores from 12 of the ramping-up awards season’s buzziest movies. Panelists and performances came from the likes of Diane Warren and Mark Ronson and from movies as varied as Barbie and Cre…

In Apple Original Films' Flora and Son, single mom Flora (Eve Hewson) is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son Max (Orén Kinlan). Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed-up L.A. musician (Joseph…

Diane Warren has written hit songs for the soundtracks to movies from Mannequin to Armageddon. She has three original songs in 2023 movies, but her song for Flamin’ Hot is especially personal. Warren said she wrote "The Fire Inside" because she related to the movie's subject. Flamin' Hot is inspired…

What does it take to create the sounds of a boxing champ? Turns out it requires a mighty force of trumpets, heavy percussion, and the fear of trying not to disappoint legendary music producer Dr. Dre, said Creed III composer Joseph Shirley, who joined Deadline’s Sound & Screen live music event to discuss…

When creating a score to fit the nuanced humanity of the man on a brutal warpath, composer Martin Phipps had quite the challenge. It only became that much more complex when he reached out to director Ridley Scott, who offered him no specifics on a musical theme. “He’s a super smart guy, and he talks…

The Peasants Sound and Screen performance stood out with a full line of Polish dancers in the aisles. Composer Lukas Rostkowski, aka L.U.C., said the animated film's score also included a choir of refugee singers from Ukraine. "These ladies came from Ukraine to dance and they were just amateurs,"…

Society of the Snow tells the story of the rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972, the incident made famous in the book and 1993 movie Alive. But whereas Alive focused on the survivors, who had to resort to eating the dead crash victims to survive, J.A. Bayona’s Venice Film…

The Beanie Bubble is about the Beanie Baby craze of the 1990s and the drama behind the scenes. Zach Galifianakis plays Ty Warner, the founder of the toy line. Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook and Geraldine Viswanathan play the three women in Warner's life who found each other, and success, in the company. OK…

After the summer blockbuster success of Barbie, fans everywhere are singing "I'm Just Ken" along with Ryan Gosling. Songwriters Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt shared how the now Grammy-nominated song evolved into such a power anthem at Deadline's Sound & Screen: Film event. Ronson said he thought of…

When you’re composing music for a character named Thelonious "Monk" Ellison in the movie American Fiction, it should be pretty obvious where a composer like Laura Karpman might find her inspiration. “They wanted the music to sound like Beethoven, but I thought I’d take a different tack,” Karpman…

It wasn’t a tough decision for Anthony Willis when Emerald Fennell asked him to compose Saltburn, the drama that stars Barry Keoghan as a young and nerdy Oxford university student who becomes obsessed with a popular and wealthy student (Jacob Elordi). Willis had made the music Fennell’s Promising You…

Scoring Killers of the Flower Moon was a daunting prospect for Robbie Robertson. The Band co-founder, who died in August at 80, had a vision he wanted to achieve but was “terrified of delivering something ordinary,” explained orchestrator-conductor Mark Graham during a panel for Martin Scorsese’s…