Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for Sound & Screen: Film, the annual film music showcase that features composers from Oscar-contending movies. The event, which took place November 5 at UCLA's Royce Hall with a 60-piece orchestra, featured breakout performances from the likes of…

As Ryan Coogler's frequent collaborator over the past 15 years, it's no surprise that composer Ludwig Göransson was chosen to score his latest film Sinners. "When he told me that he was writing a movie about a guitar player, I was kind of very surprised and excited," Göransson said at Deadline's…

After hearing songwriter Sara Bareilles perform the song "Salt Then Sour Then Sweet" from Come See Me in the Good Light, it's difficult to believe she is relatively new to the poetry of Andrea Gibson, the subject of the Apple Original Films documentary that follows the poet after their cancer…

Before writing the titular song for Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest, songwriter Aiyana-Lee was skeptical the job offer was actually real. "He discovered me on Instagram," Aiyana-Lee said of the filmmaker at Deadline's Sound & Screen: Film event. "I had written this one song in my room, and it went viral…

Jeremiah Fraites, co-founder of The Lumineers, had several connections to Bruce Springsteen before boarding the Scott Cooper-directed biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere starring Jeremy Allen White. In addition to hailing from New Jersey (living there 24 years) like The Boss himself…

When it came time to recruit a singer for "Dear Me," which Diane Warren wrote to her "younger f*cked up self," the record-breaking Oscar nominee called on Kesha not just for her vocals but also because she felt the singer could relate to the song. At Deadline's Sound & Screen: Film event, Warren…

Many layers went into the process of creating "Golden," the breakout anthem from Netflix's most-watched film ever, KPop Demon Hunters. At Deadline's Sound & Screen: Film event, singer-songwriter EJAE, who sings the vocals for the film's main character Rumi (voiced by Arden Cho), unpacked the…

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)…

A House of Dynamite dramatizes the government response to a missile from unknown origin heading towards a U.S. city within 20 minutes. Director Kathryn Bigelow personally asked Volker Bertelmann to compose the score, and he worked with the musicians at George Martin's AIR Studios to come up with an…

Composer Nathan Johnson gives each of the Knives Out films a unique sound. As Johnson explained on stage at Deadline's Sound & Screen: Film event, the 2019 original used a string quartet to capture the claustrophobia of a New England mansion. Glass Onion opened up with an orchestra to reflect…

James Cameron continues to invent new technology to make films, and that does not end with the third installment of the Avatar saga. Even the composer of Avatar: Fire and Ash got into the act, with Simon Franglen revealing he invented some instruments that were used in his score for the film. Fir…

Laura Karpman is the third composer to score Captain America for Marvel. Before her, Henry Jackman took over for Alan Silvestri in The Winter Soldier, Civil War and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. This year's Captain America: Brave New World also marks the first solo outing with the shield for Sam…