Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Film Streaming Site Launches
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 Kesha, Sara Bareilles, The Lumineers’ Jeremiah Fraites, the teams behind Netflix smash KPop Demon Hunters and 20th Century Studios/Disney’s upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash, ending with a rousing blues number from the makers of Sinners.
Kicking off in superhero style with performances from Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps with Michael Giacchino and Captain America: Brave New World with Laura Karpman, the event leaped into fire and ash with Simon Franglen’s score for the latest Avatar movie. Murder mysteries and nuclear disasters were next up with Nathan Johnson’s score for Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Volker Bertelmann’s Air Studios-recorded A House of Dynamite. Alexandre Desplat’s Frankenstein score then took us into the break.
Returning with a one-of-a-kind moment from EJAE and Mark Sonnenblick, two of the writers of the songs from KPop Demon Hunters, the pair sat at a piano and teased how they came up with the hit “Golden,” with EJAE playing the voice notes that she initially recorded on her way to the dentist.
A lung-busting track by Kesha, in support of Sound & Screen regular Dianne Warren’s new MasterClass documentary Relentless, brought down the house before Fraites channeled his inner Bruce Springsteen with a score from 20th Century Studios’ Deliver Me From Nowhere, the movie about The Boss’ making of Nebraska.
Aiyana-Lee similarly impressed the room with her range singing the title song from A24 and Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest before Bareilles brought out her acoustic guitar to serenade the audience with the song “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet,” a tribute to her friend Andrea Gibson from the Apple Original Films documentary Come See Me in the Good Light.
Warner Bros Pictures’ Sinners then stomped Sound & Screen to a close with Ludwig Göransson bringing in three gospel singers, as well as Raphael Saadiq, Alice Smith and star Miles Caton, to tear down the house with a performance straight from the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta.
Deadline’s Sound & Screen is produced with the support of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the Alliance for Women Film Composers, the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, BMI, SESAC, Global Music Rights and Composers Diversity Collective.
