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Dwayne Johnson has fun with the fans during the promotional event for Black Adam at Museo Anahuacalli on Monday (October 3) in Mexico City, Mexico.

Michaela Zee Bleecker Street has acquired the U.S. rights to the psychological sci-fi thriller “Slingshot,” starring Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham. Directed by Mikael Håfström (“Evil,” “1408”), “Slingshot” follows an astronaut who struggles to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan.

Fortress Talent Management, a leading agency for composers and music supervisors, has promoted Jake Kozarec to partner.

The Crown season six features a wealth of ’90s nostalgia.Created by Peter Morgan, the Netflix show’s final season starts off in 1997 weeks prior to the death of Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) and her lover Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) in a Paris car crash. The season is set to conclude in 2005, with the wedding between Prince Charles (Dominic West) and Camilla Parker Bowles (Olivia Williams).The season has been split into two parts, with the first four episodes being released on November 16, and the final six episodes arriving on December 14, 2023.The final season’s score is composed by Martin Phipps, who previously did the score for the show’s third, fourth and fifth seasons.

The Godfather and E.T. The Extra Terrestrial in this way over the years, both of them at London’s prestigious and historic Royal Albert Hall in the centre of town.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has been released.Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the first part follows Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his band of operatives as they chase down a key to deactivate a sentient AI device known as the “Entity”.Alongside returning cast members Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Vanessa Kirby, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One adds Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales and Pom Klementieff to the franchise.Lorne Balfe returns to compose the score for both parts of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. He previously scored the sixth installment, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, while his other credits include Marvel’s Black Widow, Amazon series The Wheel Of Time and this year’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.You can stream the full soundtrack below.The original Mission: Impossible theme was written and composed by Lalo Schifrin in 1967.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor It took over 555 musicians with sessions around Europe — including in Rome, Vienna, Venice, Switzerland and London — to put together the score for “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” composer Lorne Balfe tells Variety. The composer started writing the music almost three years ago, and “at last count, there was over 14 hours of music recorded,” Balfe says. However, only two-and-a-half hours or so made it into the final cut of the film. The storyline sees Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt take on a new villain, The Entity, a sentient Artificial Intelligence. Ethan’s mission is to defeat The Entity with a metal key. And while the film features an array of mind-blowing stunts, including Ethan driving a motorcycle off a cliff or a climatic fight atop a moving steam engine train, there was also plenty of emotion for Balfe to root his score in.

The Game Awards has set December 8th as the date for its ninth annual awards show, celebrating the best in video games. The ceremony will take place live and in-person from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles — streaming for free worldwide across more than 40 digital platforms including YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok Live. Imax will also partner with the show to create The Game Awards: The IMAX Experience, a live community event allowing gamers from around the world to experience The Game Awards, with additional details on that experience to be announced in the coming months.

Top Gun: Maverick” are both surprising and confusing: “Music by Harold Faltermeyer, Lady Gaga and Hans Zimmer. Score produced by Lorne Balfe.”That may sound like a musical mess, but aside from Gaga, all the players have connections to the original “Top Gun” or each other through previous collaborations.

Top Gun: Maverick has opened up on the power of Lady Gaga’s powerful song on the film, recalling when those behind the movie heard it for the first time. The sequel, released 36 years after the original came out in 1986, sees Tom Cruise return as the legendary Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell, as the time comes for him to share his knowledge and skills with the younger generation. The tale is nostalgic to say the least, drawing on the original’s classic soundtrack and introducing new songs to the franchise, including Lady Gaga’s ballad Hold My Hand, which has been described as ‘a love letter to the world during and after a very hard time’.

Jon Burlingame editorMultimedia Music today announced it has closed a deal to acquire master and publishing rights to a 48-title film score catalog from Atlantic Screen Music in what it calls a “mid-seven figure transaction.”Atlantic Screen Music includes rights to scores including “2 Guns,” “Lone Survivor,” “The Host,” “Dredd,” “Escape Plan” and “Broken City.” Multimedia said that, cumulatively, the films have grossed hundreds of millions of dollars at the global box office and even more through ancillary channels.Composers with works featured in the catalog include Max Richter (“Perfect Sense,” “Last Days on Mars”), Lorne Balfe (“Frozen Ground”), John Paesano (“Hirokin”), John Debney (“Alex Cross”), Atticus Ross (“Broken City”), Antonio Pinto (“The Host”), Steve Jablonsky (“Lone Survivor”), Clinton Shorter (“2 Guns”) and Paul Leonard Morgan (“Dredd”). “We are thrilled to acquire this catalog of premium film scores,” said Multimedia Music managing partner James Gibb (pictured above, left).

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorLady Gaga has released “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick.” The song features in the film opening May 27, and already looks like it could catapult the star into the Oscar conversation.Listen to the song here.“Hold My Hand,” is a soaring rock tune with violins and guitar licks that harken back to the power ballads of the ’80s. The song, which plays over the end credits, has already stirred buzz as a possible best original song contender for Gaga following the film’s CinemaCon screening in Las Vegas.

As Tom Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie, and the rest of the “Mission: Impossible” team continue work on the seventh and eighth films of the beloved franchise, Paramount showed off a brand new trailer for the seventh film and revealed the name of both sequels. Choose to accept “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 1” on July 14, 2023.Last fall at CinemaCon Paramount showed a brief sizzle from the seventh film, mostly behind-the-scenes stuff, and a mini-documentary about Cruise’s big stunt for the movie, which involved him driving a dirt bike off an impossibly tall ramp, into a ravine and then parachuting down.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorLady Gaga has announced the new song from “Top Gun: Maverick” “Hold My Hand.” The song written by Gaga, features in the film opening May 27 and will be released on May 3.In the highly-anticipated film, Tom Cruise returns as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a courageous test pilot who dodges the advancement in rank that would ground him. He finds himself training a detachment of TOPGUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt.

Chris Willman Music WriterNominees for this year’s ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards have been announced, with scores for films like “Dune” and “The Power of the Dog,” TV series like “Loki” and “The White Lotus” and video games like “Call of Duty” among the contenders.These competitive awards, voted on by members of ASCAP, will be given out during the week of May 2 as part of the 2022 ASCAP Screen Music Awards, alongside the non-voted honors that reward the composers of the most-performed scores and themes of the year.Up for film score of the year are Hans Zimmer, for “Dune”; Germaine Franco, for “Encanto”; Daniel Hart, for “The Green Knight”; Dan Romer, for “Luca”; and Radiohead member-turned-maestro Jonny Greenwood for “The Power of the Dog.” Zimmer, Franco and Greenwood have already been nominated for the Academy Awards this month for their work on those films.Nods for television score went to Michael Abels, for “Allen v.

LD Entertainment has unveiled a trailer for its gothic thriller The Cursed, starring Boyd Holbrook (The Sandman, Logan), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone, True Detective) and Alistair Petrie (Sex Education, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), also announcing that it will be released in theaters nationwide on February 18.

Jon Burlingame It’s a pretty rare occasion when the director of a superhero movie sits down with the composer to talk about music and neither of them ever uses the word “action” or even “superhero.”Instead, “Black Widow” director Cate Shortland and composer Lorne Balfe talked about the backstory of Natasha Romanoff and her sister, Yelena Belova.

Though there are awards predictions and buzz around Ron Howard’s upcoming film, “Hillbilly Elegy,” that drama may not be his best film of 2020. You see, the filmmaker has already released “Rebuilding Paradise,” a heartwarming documentary about a town that unites to rebuild after a terrible tragedy.

If you’re anything like me (and that’s a scary thought), then you probably hate opening up a YouTube video and realizing that someone shot it using vertical format on a smartphone. Is it really that difficult to turn your phone sideways? Well, for once, you might actually enjoy the fact that a video was shot in portrait orientation with the new short film, “The Stunt Double.” And that’s only because it’s directed by Damien Chazelle.

McQuarrie made the news official during his virtual appearance with Pegg and new cast member Hayley Atwell and composer Lorne Balfe on the podcast "Light The Fuse", reports hollywoodreporter.com.