Jon Burlingame Composer Hans Zimmer must be glad that ASCAP’s 2020 Screen Music Awards are virtual, because he’s so busy with upcoming films that he wouldn’t have time to pick up his Top Box Office award for last year’s “The Lion King” anyway.
He is, however, doing a Q&A with Mitchell Leib, Disney’s president of music & soundtracks, to commemorate the honor. (That live interview happens at noon PT/3 p.m.
ET on ASCAP’s Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts.)Variety caught up with the Oscar and Grammy winner to talk about why his “Lion King” experience is more relevant than ever, and how it happens that 2020 — despite the pandemic — is turning out to be his busiest year everVARIETY: You have seven movies scheduled to come out this year…ZI.
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