Daniel Pemberton: Last News

Slow Horses composer Daniel Pemberton admits he still hasn’t entirely wrapped his head around the fact that he got to pen the song “Strange Game” alongside Mick Jagger, which the Rolling Stones frontman sang for the Apple TV+ series.

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.

Jon Burlingame editorThere’s a classic sound to heist films, especially of the ’60s and ’70s – a little jazzy, a little stealthy, occasionally raucous and wild – and composer Daniel Pemberton cleverly channels it throughout “The Bad Guys,” the DreamWorks Animation action comedy that opens today.“The film in some ways is an homage to classic caper movies,” says the English composer, “and it’s a world I really love playing in. You get to be really bold: big breaks, big brass sections, big tunes and big grooves.”Pemberton’s high-energy music sets the mood and drives the action in Pierre Perifel’s animated adventure about a notorious criminal gang (a wolf, a snake, a piranha, a shark and a tarantula) that considers going straight after they cross paths with a guinea-pig philanthropist and their red-fox governor. “At its core, it’s a very joyous score, even though there’s sneakiness, tension, all that kind of stuff,” he notes.

Israeli drama The Lesson has won two prizes in this year’s prestigious Canneseries Longform Competition.

Mick Jagger has announced that a new solo track called ‘Strange Game’ is coming this week.The upcoming song serves as the theme tune to the new Apple Original series Slow Horses, the first two episodes of which land on Apple TV+ this Friday (April 1). The Rolling Stones frontman co-wrote the single alongside Academy Award-nominated film composer Daniel Pemberton.Teasing the collaboration yesterday (March 28), Jagger tweeted: “I’ve been working on a fun project with the composer Daniel Pemberton… look out for it coming soon!”Pemberton said in a statement: “Working with Mick Jagger has been one of the most exciting collaborations of my professional career.

Jon Burlingame editorMick Jagger has written his first TV theme, for the Apple TV Plus spy series “Slow Horses,” debuting April 1. And it might never have happened if he hadn’t already read and liked the Mick Herron book on which it’s based.“It’s a quite popular series of books, so I knew what it was about,” the iconic Rolling Stones singer tells Variety.

Call My Agent! creator Fanny Herrero has been unveiled as President of this year’s Canneseries Jury.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorFanny Herrero, “Call My Agent!” creator and showrunner, will be president of the jury at television series festival Canneseries, which runs April 1-6.

Wilson Chapman editor“The Afterparty” on Apple TV Plus is a wildly ambitious storytelling exercise; over the course of its eight episode run, the series’ first season tells the story of a high school reunion that ends in murder in wildly different genres, as the various suspects recount their recollections of the night through the lens of their own worldviews. And in order to successfully embody the different genres, be they rom-com or thriller, the show needs to adapt itself to every episode: a single moment might be romantic one episode or comical the next, through the use of music and editing to change the mood of the scene.The music of “The Afterparty” is composed by Daniel Pemberton, who came to the project after working with creator and director Christopher Miller and executive producer Phil Lord on the critically acclaimed animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” He was attracted to working on the show because of the challenge and complexity of the score, which would require him to alter his musical style nearly every episode.

Jon Burlingame editorDaniel Pemberton’s score for Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos” is unlike anything he’s written to date — a surprising choice for this think-outside-the-box composer, but one that would fit comfortably in the 1950s milieu of the film itself.“I felt it needed a kind of classic score that echoed the golden age of Hollywood,” Pemberton says from his London studio. “A lot of the story is, in some ways, this dream of a perfect world, which Lucy’s searching for… the perfect home, a husband who is there.”He continues: “There is an element of nostalgia, not just looking back at these classic characters, but also a time when the identity of the country was quite different.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first exclusive track from Daniel Pemberton’s score for Being the Ricardos, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records on December 3—ahead of the film’s release in select theaters via Amazon Studios on December 10, and its Prime Video premiere on the 21st.

If you tuned in at 8:00 PM EST for the Academy Awards, then odds are you missed some of the best moments of the evening. As expected, the Academy broadcast the Best Original Song performances during the pre-show, with standout performances by Celeste, H.E.R., Leslie Odom, Jr., Laura Pausini, Daniel Pemberton, Molly Sandén and Diane Warren mixed in with red carpet moments galore.

H.E.R., Leslie Odom, Jr., Laura Pausini, Daniel Pemberton, Molly Sandén and Diane Warren performed five nominated original songs in their entirety at the 2021 Academy Awards pre-show special, .While four of the performances took place at the Dolby Family Terrace of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, one performance was recorded in Húsavík, Iceland — Swedish pop singer Molly Sandén singing «Husavik» from, which she sang alongside a children's choir.

While the 93rd Oscars will look different from past years, there will still be a star-studded ensemble cast ready to entertain us throughout the evening.The 90-minute Oscars: Into the Spotlight, hosted by Ariana DeBose (of Hamilton fame) and Lil Rel Howery (known for Bad Trip), will highlight the Academy Award nominees’ “journey to Hollywood’s biggest night,” giving us an insiders’ sneak peek into what it’s like to be a part of the Oscars party.

2021 Academy Awards are switching things up again.It was announced on Friday by producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh that the best original songs will be performed during a pre-show special, Celeste, H.E.R., Leslie Odom, Jr., Laura Pausini, Daniel Pemberton, Molly Sandén and Diane Warren will perform the five nominated original songs in their entirety ahead of the 93rd Oscars. One performance will be recorded in Húsavík, Iceland, and four at the Dolby Family Terrace of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.«We’ve come up with some serious pre-game and post-game action to enhance our main event,” said Collins, Sher and Soderbergh.

As Deadline exclusively broke on March 31 (and as I also detailed earlier in today’s Notes on the Season column), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that for the first time ever all five nominated songs will not be a part of the actual Oscar ceremony but rather performed in their entirety on the 90-minute pre-show “Oscars: Into the Spotlight.” Four of them will be pre-recorded at the Dolby Family Terrace of the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, and one will be recorded from Iceland.

Jon Burlingame Sometimes the backstories of Oscar-nominated songs are as compelling as the songs themselves.Last week, the Songwriters Hall of Fame corralled nine of this year’s 12 nominated songwriters for a round-table discussion of how their songs came to be written, and how they feel about contributing to the art of cinema.Paul Williams, Oscar winner (“Evergreen”) and president and chairman of the board of ASCAP, and Nile Rodgers, Grammy-winning producer-writer and Songwriters Hall of Fame chairman, were co-moderators of the hour-long panel.Writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s script had the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” as an optimistic end-title song which, composer Daniel Pemberton said, “was probably not going to work.” Seeking an

Soul, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Promising Young Woman and The Cuban were among the film winners at the 2021 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards. The Trial of the Chicago 7's "Hear My Voice" won best song written and/or recorded for a film at the virtual event on Sunday night celebrating achievement in music supervision in film, TV, games, advertising and trailers.

Jon Burlingame Celeste’s contribution to the Golden Globe-nominated song “Hear My Voice” started with WhatsApp messages recorded in her bathroom.That’s just one of the revelations in a half-hour conversation with the U.K.’s latest singing sensation, her co-writer Daniel Pemberton and the legendary Sir Elton John, released today by “The Trial of the Chicago 7” distributor Netflix.“Hear My Voice” concludes the Aaron Sorkin film about the controversial 1969 court case involving Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen) and other protestors caught up in the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.The song is up for a Golden Globe on Sunday night and been short-listed for the Oscar song category.

Celeste has delivered a stripped-back performance of her song ‘Hear My Voice’ – watch the video below.The track features in Aaron Sorkin’s latest film The Trial Of The Chicago 7, which landed on Netflix back in October.Now, an intimate rendition of ‘Hear My Voice’ has been shared by Netflix Playlist.