Dan Romer: Last News

Deadline has launched the streaming site for its second annual Sound & Screen, an award-season composer showcase of original music for television.

Crafting the music for HBO’s postapocalyptic miniseries Station Eleven offered composer Dan Romer the unique opportunity to create a score that informs itself as new episodes unfold.

Deadline’s Sound & Screen, a showcase of television’s most moving and lauded original music from some of the industry’s top-most talent, has lifted the baton for its second edition tonight live and in person at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Sound & Screen, Deadline’s inaugural live concert showcasing the composers, music supervisors and songwriters behind the music of television’s buzziest shows, has set the lineup for its in-person event May 5 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Chris Willman Music WriterNominees for this year’s ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards have been announced, with scores for films like “Dune” and “The Power of the Dog,” TV series like “Loki” and “The White Lotus” and video games like “Call of Duty” among the contenders.These competitive awards, voted on by members of ASCAP, will be given out during the week of May 2 as part of the 2022 ASCAP Screen Music Awards, alongside the non-voted honors that reward the composers of the most-performed scores and themes of the year.Up for film score of the year are Hans Zimmer, for “Dune”; Germaine Franco, for “Encanto”; Daniel Hart, for “The Green Knight”; Dan Romer, for “Luca”; and Radiohead member-turned-maestro Jonny Greenwood for “The Power of the Dog.” Zimmer, Franco and Greenwood have already been nominated for the Academy Awards this month for their work on those films.Nods for television score went to Michael Abels, for “Allen v.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

Jon Burlingame It took composer Dan Romer a while to find the right Italian touch for the music of “Luca,” Disney-Pixar’s animated fantasy (opening June 18) about young sea monsters masquerading as humans on the Italian Riviera.“Not quite Italian enough” was director Enrico Casarosa’s response to his first try. “Too Italian!” was the response to his second.

One of the things Pixar does better than anyone, or all animated houses anyhow, is tapping into that feeling of youthful nostalgia and making it universal. What Pixar excel at, seemingly, is mix wistful coming of age stories about childhood or growing up and mix it with a fantasy element.