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Erran Baron Cohen’s rollicking score to The Dictator is bringing down houses everywhere! In this first scripted collaboration with his brother, Erran is given the opportunity to stretch out and create a great comedy score.

Directed by Larry Charles, the comedy tells the heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy never comes to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Don’t miss An Evening of Music from Dexter on Sunday, June 10 at Largo. Tickets are available online only (click here to purchase). Doors open for drinks at 7pm, showtime is at 8pm.

The night will be a celebration of the macabre when Dan Licht performs selections from his original music for Dexter using a musical palette of classical orchestrations combined with unusual sound elements and unorthodox instruments including surgical tools, metal saws and scalpels.

The concert will be introduced by award winning actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter). Also featured will be Dexter Main Title Composer Rolfe Kent with performances of his iconic main title theme and other scores. Other highlights include the premiere of Dan’s music from the upcoming video game, Silent Hill Book of Memories, performed by the Silent Hill series’ vocalist, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. The concert will also feature surprise guest performances.

Check out this amazing video of Esperanza Spalding’s performance of Endangered Species, by
Joseph Vitarelli and Wayne Shorter!

Brian Reitzell has begun work on The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola’s latest picture starring Emma Watson.

The film is based on the true story of the Hollywood Hills Burglar Bunch, a group of fashion and fame-obsessed teens who broke into the homes of celebrities.



The Bling Ring will be written and directed by Sofia Coppola, and produced by Roman Coppola and Youree Henley.

The W.E. soundtrack, by Abel Korzeniowski, ranks #2 on iTunes Top Soundtracks!

Click here to download the soundtrack from iTunes

Click Here to purchase the soundtrack from Amazon.com




Be sure to check out this amazing Golden Globe nominated score!

Dan Licht will receive Composer of the Year at the Third Annual Russian Horror Film Awards.

Dan is being honored for his body of work in the horror genre, which includes the filmsThinner and Children of the Corn, as well as the hit Showtime series Dexter and upcoming Konami video game Silent Hill: Downpour.



The ceremony will take place on January 28 in Moscow.

John King is scoring Sony’s upcoming game PlayStation All Stars: Battle Royale!

Utilizing the same formula from Nintendo’s Smash Bros., the game is a celebration of a storied history of great characters and rich worlds brought together in one game.

To read more about the game, please follow this link.

Congratulations to Alex Heffes, who has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Score for The First Grader!

The Ivor Novello Awards celebrate excellence in songwriting and are judged by the songwriting and composing community. They are presented by BASCA – the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and previous winners include Sir Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Sting, Annie Lennox and Radiohead.

In other news, Alex has just scored BOY for the London 2012 Olympics. It will be shown during the opening ceremony at the Velodrome.

Alex has also completed an art installation project with Belgian photographer Edouard Janssens – 1 to 100 Years. It will be projected onto the 100 meter high glass frontage of the headquarters of the European Commission Berlaymont Building this May.

Intruders, scored by Roque Baños, is now open in limited release!

The horror/thriller, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later, Intact), stars Clive Owen, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Ella Purnell and Kerry Fox, and tells the story of two children living in different countries, who are visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take possession of them.




To watch the trailer, please follow this link.

**3/13/12 Update – Buzzine has a great review of Ashtar Command’s album American Sunshine: click here to read it.

Ashtar Command is featured in the LA Times!

Chris Holmes marches to his own extraterrestrial drummer
The eccentric musician and DJ’s current project, Ashtar Command, has released ‘American Sunshine.’

Assessing Chris Holmes’ place in popular music often results in cinematic comparisons. “He has a Zelig-like ability to insert himself into any event that matters,” explains Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune. “He’s Forrest Gump for all these little subcultures,” notes Brian Liesegang, former member of alt-rock hitmakers Filter and Nine Inch Nails and Holmes’ current partner in the band Ashtar Command.

To read the complete article, click here.

And visit spin.com to watch their premiere video for Mark IV.

Greg Russell has interviews in The Hollywood Reporter and ABC 7! Check out the videos, where he discusses his 15th Oscar nomination for Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

THR – Scott Feinberg Interviews Sound Re-recording Mixer Greg P. Russell

ABC 7 – Sound Mixer with 15 Oscar Nods Hopes to Finally Win

Congratulations, Greg!

Sleepwalk With Me, scored by Andrew Hollander and music supervised by Anthony Roman, won Best of NEXT Audience Award at Sundance!

The film is written and directed by Mike Birbiglia, which tells the story of a burgeoning stand-up comedian who struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.

Check out the great reviews below:

Sundance Review – Jason Bailey
EW.com’s Sundance 2012’s Must-See Movies
Flavorwire.com’s 10 Most Anticipated Sundance Movies

Be sure to check out Bernie in theaters today! The film from Richard Linklater stars Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Shirley MacLaine, and features a fantastic score by Graham Reynolds.

“Murderously charming…This is writer-director Richard Linklater at his wry, whimsical best, and considering he was the filmmaker behind 1993’s ‘Dazed and Confused,’ that makes the movie something of a milestone.” – LA Times

And to read about Bernie’s great opening weekend, check out Deadline.com’s great article.


Click here to watch the trailer, and follow this link to find local showtimes.

UFC champion Anderson Silva will fight Chael Sonnen on June 23 in Rio de Janeiro. But before you see Silva throw down, catch him on the big and/or small screen with the documentary Like Water, scored by Alec Puro!


Like Water is a full-length film about Silva’s brush with president Dana White and preparation for the first fight against Sonnen. It debuts June 1 in theaters and Video on Demand. Click here to watch the trailer.

ARTISTdirect has a great review up of the score to Konami’s Silent Hill, composed by Dan Licht:

Daniel Licht’s soundtrack for Silent Hill: Downpour is haunting in the best way possible.

Like a Bernard Herrmann film score, it captures the impending dread, inherent darkness, and infectious psychosis at the heart of the game… Each track on the album, and in the game, deepens with successive listens, and Licht builds a symphony of darkness utilizing a myriad of unique and often unconventional sounds.

To read the entire article, please follow this link.

Peymon Maskan is music supervising the new web series The Ropes, produced, written and directed by Vin Diesel!

The series follows the hilarious, yet explosive world of nightclub bouncing.



Watch The Ropes on iTunes, Netflix, and Crackle.

Brian Reitzell has created music for an upcoming art installation by Elizabeth Price.

West Hinder is a film inspired by a cargo ship that took 2,862 luxury cars down with it when it sank in an unlegislated area of the English Channel in 2002. The installation will premiere at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England.

For more information on the artist, please visit this link.

The album is available for purchase at Amazon.com and iTunes.




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Check out iZLER’s Revenge composer blog, featured on ABC.com!

ABC Music Lounge – Revenge composer blog with iZLER



iZLER’s original score is also available from ABC in an exclusive 24-hour free download. Follow this link to get the download now!