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EXCLUSIVE: Pinar Toprak, the Emmy-nominated composer, conductor and performer who has lent her talents to everything from the Brie Larson-led Captain Marvel to Epic Games’ hit video game Fortnite, has joined Artist International Group for representation in conjunction with her long-time agents, Kraft-Engel Management.

Spin Master Entertainment’s sequel PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie has added to their voiceover ensemble including Kristen Bell (Frozen, Zootopia), Christian Convery (“Sweet Tooth”), McKenna Grace (Gifted, “The Handmaid’s Tale”), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out, Free Guy), James Marsden (Disenchanted, Sonic The Hedgehog), Finn Lee-Epp (Let Him Go) as Ryder, and tennis ace Serena Williams.

Dancing with the Stars champion Charli D'Amelio couldn't wait to get back into her sweats after appearing on two consecutive morning shows in Manhattan on Tuesday to celebrate her win.The 18-year-old TikToker was spotted leaving ABC Studios after taping LIVE with Kelly and Ryan with her dance partner Mark Ballas.Charli had already washed off all her make-up, but her tidy middle-parted updo was still intact beneath the black DWTS hoodie. Time for bed! Dancing with the Stars champion Charli D'Amelio couldn't wait to get back into her sweats after appearing on two consecutive morning shows in Manhattan on Tuesday to celebrate her winHours earlier in Los Angeles, D'Amelio and the 36-year-old Texan proudly posed with their 'Mirrorball' trophies after dominating the 31st season of the Disney+ dance competition.The talented twosome received a perfect 40 score for their jive to Little Mix's 2015 song Grown.The dynamic duo also received a perfect 40 score for their freestyle dance to Pinar Toprak's 2021 song Us Again.It probably didn't hurt that Charli was able to mobilize her captive, combined 215.3M social media following (by far the most of any contestant) to amass votes from the general public.

While discrimination in the workforce is improving for women and people of color, there’s still lots of work to be done. Take for example the world of film composers, a field that’s been dominated by men for years, with a few notable exceptions like Rachel Portman, Anne Dudley, Jocelyn Pook, and Lesley Barber.

While discrimination in the workforce is improving for women and people of color, there’s still lots of work to be done. Take for example the world of film composers, a field that’s been dominated by men for years, with a few notable exceptions like Rachel Portman, Anne Dudley, Jocelyn Pook, and Lesley Barber.

Jon Burlingame editorIt’s a big weekend for composer Pinar Toprak. On Friday, her latest score, for Sandra Bullock’s lighthearted jungle romp “The Lost City,” will be heard by moviegoers; and on Sunday she will be onstage at the Dolby conducting the Oscar orchestra for Billie Eilish’s performance of “No Time to Die.”Details about Sunday are otherwise under wraps.

Jon Burlingame How do you score a show that tinkers with time, features a Norse god who is neither hero nor villain, and continually confounds the viewer with new mysteries?That was the challenge facing English composer Natalie Holt, who with her music for “Loki” becomes only the second woman to compose the dramatic score for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film or TV series (after Pinar Toprak, who scored 2019’s “Captain Marvel”).The music of “Loki” is a bold combination of a traditional orchestra with vintage analog synthesizers, Scandinavian folk instruments and the weird, unsettling electronic sounds of the theremin, once associated with ’50s sci-fi movies.“He’s a kind of grand, Machiavellian character,” Holt tells Variety from her London

Chris Willman Music WriterThis year’s Emmy nominees in the seven music categories include such familiar scoring names as Ludwig Göransson, Pinar Toprak, Nicholas Britell, Mark Isham and Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross as well as figures from the pop world like Pharrell Williams, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, Ingrid Michaelson, Sheila E and the RZA.Labrinth joined Reznor and Ross in being nominated in both song and score categories. The latter Nine Inch Nails members (and Oscar winners for “The Social Network”) are up for scoring “Watchmen” as well as contributing an original 1940s-themed song (“The Way It Used to Be”) to the limited series.

By Jon Burlingame