Veteran ASCAP Board member Doug Wood has indicated he “completely supports” adding Fred Karlin’s name to the title of the ASCAP film scoring workshop to honor Karlin, the legendary composer who created the workshop in 1988

Pursuant to a court order in the lawsuit brought by Los Angeles recording musicians against Local 47 and the American Federation of Musicians, Local 47 has withheld $10,094.71 of dues payable to the AFM national office for June union musician wages pending a resolution of the lawsuit

Steinberg North America announced the shipping of Sequel 2, a new version of Steinberg’s music creation and live performance software

TASCAM Marketing Manager Jeff Laity confirmed today on an industry news site that Tascam has ceased development of GIGASTUDIO and GIGASTUDIO related products as of July 21. Sales and support for the products will continue through December 31, 2008

Nominations for the 60th Primetime Emmy® Awards, covering the period of June 1, 2007 through May 31, 2008, were announced by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Unsurprisingly, Hans Zimmer has been hired to score Angels and Demons for director Ron Howard, following up their smash hit film version of The DaVinci Code from 2006. Zimmer’s involvement in the sequel has just been confirmed by the Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency. Tom Hanks returns as Doctor Robert Langdon in the Dan Brown story which revolves [...]

Ninja Assassin, the upcoming Warner Bros. action picture produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, gets an original score by Ilan Eshkeri, an up and coming composer best known for his Stardust score and the music for Hannibal Rising. James McTeigue, who directed the previous Silver/Wachowski production V for Vendetta, is helming Ninja Assassin, [...]

James Newton Howard reunites with veteran director Taylor Hackford, for whom he scored The Devil’s Advocate in 1997. Currently in post-production, their new film together is called Love Ranch and it’s a drama based on a true story about the married couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada. Gil Birmingham, Gina Gershon, Joe [...]

Spider-Man 3 composer Christopher Young has now included The Informers in his filmography on his official web site. This is the film version of the Bret Easton Ellis’ novel featuring seven different stories of various morally challenged characters - the tagline of the movie is “Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.” The [...]

Laura Karpman and hip-hop group The Roots collaborate on the soundtrack for Center Stage 2, Sony Pictures and Laurence Mark Productions’ follow up to the 2000 picture which took place at the American Ballet Academy in New York. The sequel stars Rachele Smith, Kenny Wormald and Sarah Jayne Jensen and is directed by Steven Jacobson, [...]