Five artisans formerly of McHale Barone, New York–Joe Barone, Jill Cheris, Tim Leitner, Dawn Mjoen and Donna Barone–have launched Bar1, a New York-based music and radio production house….Beyond, a production music library formed by Jonathan Parks and Walter Werzowa in 2004, has officially become part of Werzowa’s Los Angeles-based music/sound design shop, Musikvergnuegen. Beyond’s latest licensing projects include the trailer for director Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code, promos for FX’s The Shield, and ABC Networks, as well as assorted commercials……Associated Production Music–a Los Angeles-headquartered joint venture of EMI and BMG Music Publishing that licenses music for use in film, TV, radio and new media–is set to unveil Endgame, a new collection of original music cues created by noted video game music composers. Endgame brings work from leading talent in the electronic gaming industry to the advertising and Hollywood entertainment sectors. Endgame debuts with six CDs, featuring contributions from Tommy Tallarico (Advent Rising, Tony Hawk Pro Skater), Chance Thomas (King Kong, Lord of the Rings, X-Men), Jack Wall (Myst III and IV, Jade Empire, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow), Inon Zur (Prince of Persia: the Two Thrones, Men of Valor), Jesper Kyd (Gears of War, Hitman Series), Richard Jacques (Headhunter Series, Starship Troopers), Chris Velasco (Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Hellgate: London), Rod Abernethy (Zathura, Blazing Angels, The Hobbit), Chris Rickwood (Law and Order: Criminal Intent, BloodRayne), Tom Salta (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Need For Speed Underground 2), Winifred Phillips (God of War), Garry Schyman (Destroy All Humans), Billy Martin (Chicken Little, Memorick the Apprentice Knight, Prince of Persia), Lennie Moore (Dragonshard), Will Loconto (X3: The Game), Tom Zehnder (Van Helsing), David Arkenstone (World of Warcraft), and Sascha Dickiciyan (Splinter Cell 4: Double Agent, Battlezone)….Music/sound design house Comma, Chicago and Santa Monica, recently wrapped a pair of Buick campaigns for McCann Erickson, Detroit. The total of nine spots entailed contributions from several Comma artisans, including composers Justin Hori, Bryan Rheude, Chuck Bein, Pete Schmidt and composer/producer Larry Pecorella……
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More