For a director like Guillermo del Toro, you can only imagine what he'll do when he gets to create his fantasy project. With Frankenstein, Del Toro and his crew of craft collaborators were finally able to achieve his years-long dream of bringing Mary Shelley's book — in which scientist Victor…

Guillermo del Toro has created his own monsters on screen and adapted comic book monsters, so it was only a matter of time before he tackled Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. His adaptation is faithful, while emphasizing empathy for the creature (Jacob Elordi) that Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac)…

It's that time again for Deadline's Sound & Screen: Film, where top composers, songwriters and pop stars delight industry voters with their aural wares from some of the biggest, and most interesting, movies of the year. This year’s edition now underway at UCLA’s Royce Hall features monster…

Deadline on Friday revealed the films, panelists and performers for Sound & Screen: Film, its annual celebration of the year’s best in big-screen music that this year is set for November 5 in Los Angeles. A total of 12 films will take part in the live, in-person showcase, which will feature…

Arte Distribution has added a new live music collection to its international sales catalog featuring performances by the likes of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Metronomy, Air and Caribou. Classical music performances include Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat conducting the Orchestre de…

More than 25 years after Kate Winslet‘s breakout role in Titanic, the band plays on. While making her new biopic Lee, the Oscar winner watched composer Alexandre Desplat lead a 120-piece orchestra for the film’s score, where Winslet reconnected with someone she worked with on the 1997 James Camer…

The Piano Lesson director Malcolm Washington came to Deadline’s Contenders London with the stars of his feature helming debut — John David Washington and Danielle Deadwyler — as well as composer Alexandre Desplat, to discuss his adaptation of the famous 1987 play by August Wilson. Set in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix debuts the first track of Nyad score ahead of the film’s theatrical release. The film is scored by two-time Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water). Nyad tells the incredible true story of world class athlete Diana Nyad, played…

It’s impossible to talk about Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio without considering the music. Del Toro’s Netflix adaptation of the Carlo Collodi story takes place in 1930s Italy, during the Fascist reign of Benito Mussolini. In this story, woodcarver Geppetto (David Bradley) loses his son Carlo in an…

Chatting away to Sally Hawkins, as you do, in the fabled Abbey Road Studios in posh North London neighborhood of St. John's Wood, she tells me "I feel fine" when I inquire after her well-being. Our feet are planted in the very spot where The Beatles recorded the track for “I Feel Fine,” a single…

“Cinema was always a passion for me,” says composer Alexandre Desplat. “I was very lucky to have a friend who had directed a short movie and he asked me if I could write the score… and it became my demo tape and opened to me many, many doors.” Having worked with director Guillermo del Toro before on…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer and director Guillermo del Toro and composer Alexandre Desplat give a behind the scenes look at the creation of “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. The song has been entered into the Best Original Song race for this Oscar season. Guillermo del Toro directs this…