Jon Batiste's "American Symphony" Win Best Music Film | 2025 GRAMMYs Acceptance Speech

Matthew Heineman delivers an acceptance speech after winning Best Music Film for Jon Batiste’s "American Symphony" at the 2025 GRAMMYs. Other nominees in the category included, "June" (June Carter Cash), "Kings From Queens" (Run DMC), "Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple" (Steven Van Zandt), and "The Greatest Night in Pop" (Various Artists).

BMI Congratulates its 2024 HMMA Award Nominees

BMI is very proud of our many composers singled out for recognition in the nominations for the 15th Annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA), which honors original music (song and score) in all visual media from around the globe, including film, TV, video games, trailers, commercial advertisements, documentaries and special programs. The nominees and winners are selected by entertainment professionals and journalists and have historically been representative of the nominees of key awards shows that are announced in later months.

The awards ceremony will be held on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at The Avalon Theater in Hollywood, CA.

Boulder-filmed “Elevation” with Anthony Mackie gets first trailer

The first trailer for Anthony Mackie’s Boulder-filmed movie, “Elevation,” dropped Thursday, and it’s a doozy.

Mackie, best known as winged Avenger Falcon and the new Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, plays a single father in the post-apocalyptic Rocky Mountains — a trope that’s getting another flogging here, following a decades-long string of movies, TVs and video games that depict Colorado as ground zero for nuclear holocausts, zombies and hostile aliens.

In the “Elevation” trailer, Mackie and a pair of women “venture from the safety of their homes to face monstrous creatures to save the life of a young boy,” according to a studio synopsis.

The trailer opens with a scene-setting elevation number against a black screen (10,458, which is about twice Boulder’s elevation of 5,430. Mackie’s unnamed character embraces his daughter as she runs toward him from a cabin, and a brief flashback shows explosions in a lush pine forest, informing us that civilization ended three years ago.

“We lost our homes, our communities, and most of the people we loved,” Mackie’s character says in a voiceover. Elevation numbers tick down like a wall clock as the group descends their high country perch in the 2:17 trailer. “We still don’t know why above 8,000 feet we’re safe.”

Of course, Mackie must descend out of the safety zone into Boulder for life-saving medical treatment for his daughter, Hunter, which sets in motion the race against “earth’s new apex predators,” as Maddie Hasson’s unnamed character calls them. “Humanity’s final fight begins at 8,000 feet” is a very Colorado tagline, too.

The movie, also co-starring Morena Baccarin (“Deadpool,” “Serenity”), is produced by some of the same folks as “a Quiet Place” and “The Purse,” both franchise-birthing titles that drew viewers to theaters en masse. “Elevation,” which is releasing exclusively in theaters on Nov. 8, seems both grittier and more action-oriented than those, but we’ll see when it’s finally here.

Netflix’s Upcoming Docuseries ‘This Is the Zodiac Speaking’ Reveals New Secrets About the Killer’s Identity

Netflix has acquired the three-part docuseries “This is the Zodiac Speaking,” which promises new insight about the unsolved murder case of the Zodiac Killer. The series, which comes from Ample Entertainment and is directed by Ari Mark and Phil Lott, offers up new interviews and clues that places even more evidence that the only person to ever be named a suspect — Arthur Leigh Allen — may likely be the true culprit.

“There’s only a handful of real murder case IP that are not only quintessentially American, but really define an era,” Mark said. The Zodiac case, he said, “also defines the true crime genre in a lot of ways.”

In the series, tentatively scheduled to drop on October 23, Mark and Lott speak to a California family who once had Allen as a teacher, as well as family friends of the suspect. As they go through archival and physical evidence owned by the family, they connect more dots between Allen and the Zodiac murders.

Mark and Lott noted that the family started to piece things together after watching David Fincher’s 2007 film about the murders, “Zodiac.”

“Fincher filmed at the real sites of the murders, and they realize, ‘maybe he really was the Zodiac killer, because he took us to all these places,'” Mark said. “And they started uncovering all these letters that he’d been writing back and forth with their mother that are the most incriminating letters in the world.”

Mark and Lott also had access to author Robert Graysmith, who wrote the book that was adapted into Fincher’s film. “We had access with him in a way that nobody has really had,” Mark said. “He really put this in perspective for us.”

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Sci-Fi and True Crime Collide in Gripping Docuseries Trailer for ‘Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal’

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True crime and the paranormal are colliding in Collider’s exclusive first look at the upcoming Hulu docuseries, Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal. Arriving at the streamer on September 24, the eight-episode production will ring in the spooky season in a one-two-punch kind of way. While there are plenty of similar projects out there that spend their time diving into the two separate universes of true crime and the paranormal, Out There blends them together and will force viewers to question what’s really out there.

Step into another realm in Collider’s exclusive unveiling of the trailer for Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal, as people from around North America sit down to tell their stranger-than-fiction stories. From first-hand accounts to interviews with police, the first look reveals how much we as humans will fight to understand things beyond our grasp. For new investigators, some of the trails run dry almost immediately as pieces of the original report have been redacted by police, while another man recalls being threatened by a menacing modulated voice. A different tale focuses on what appears to be an occult killing reminiscent of the first season of True Detective, and those who have survived traumatizing incidents gather the courage to speak out on something others haven’t believed.

Read more exclusively at https://collider.com/out-there-crimes-of-the-paranormal-trailer/

Hulu Sets Release Date For ‘Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal’ Docu-Series

Hulu has announced that all eight episodes of the docu-series “Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal” will begin streaming on Hulu in the United States on September 24, 2024.  The show will also be coming to Disney+ in select markets.

“Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal” takes you inside eight true crime cases with shocking encounters with the paranormal world – through eyewitness accounts, expert interviews, and all-new investigations. In each case, amidst an agonizing search for answers, one rumor emerges from the pack: something inhuman is afoot. These in-depth investigations transport us to towns and cities across North America where we speak to individuals with eyewitness accounts and first-person details about the extraordinary, supernatural events that changed their lives forever. A six-year-old boy in the Smoky Mountains disappears forever after being snatched by a mysterious ape-like beast. A UFO crash in Long Island sparks an assassination attempt and illuminates a massive political conspiracy. An occult coven of Satanic witches is implicated in a decades-old New Jersey murder. Lonely ghosts in San Francisco’s Chinatown threaten to steal the lives of the unmarried. In these stories and more, “Out There” tracks down fresh leads and uncovers new evidence amid a labyrinth of twists and turns. At the end of the road, the investigations unearth new truths – about the power of mythology, the allure of the paranormal, and the monsters among us.

Apple TV, in association with the SCL, is hosting a "Composer on Composer" Night - Featuring H. Scott Salinas

Composers
AISLING BROUWER (AVAWAVES)

(THE BUCCANEERS)

JAMES S. LEVINE

(THE NEW LOOK)

DANIELLE PONDER & MONICA BELETSKY

(MANHUNT)

H. SCOTT SALINAS

(THE DYNASTY: NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS)

JEFF TOYNE

(PALM ROYALE)

JAY WADLEY

(FRANKLIN)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MANDI COLLIER

(Apple TV+ Music Executive)

The Dynasty: New England Patriots (H. Scott Salinas) Go inside the franchise’s 20-year journey, from the unique chemistry that fueled six Super Bowl wins to the internal strife that sparked a turf war. Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft, and key players reveal the road to — and cost of — greatness.

H. Scott Salinas is a BAFTA and Emmy-nominated composer. He has scored multiple Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning projects such as The Fourth Estate, Cartel Land, Sea of Shadows, and The Square. Scott has also collaborated with acclaimed artists such as Jon Batiste, Annie Lennox, Sia, J Balvin, and Andy Grammer, further raising the profile of his scores by creating bespoke songs that encapsulate the essence of the film beyond what is possible with a needle drop.

In 2002, Salinas' career was launched when he became the youngest Grand Prize recipient of the Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition along with accolades such as the prestigious Cannes Lion, Clio, and BMI awards, Salinas' accomplishments have earned him esteem and recognition as a highly versatile yet specialized talent.

Recent releases include the Emmy-nominated score to the harrowing The First Wave (NAT GEO); Season 3 of Kung Fu thriller Warrior (MAX); the smash hit golf show Full Swing (NETFLIX); and the much anticipated The Dynasty: New England Patriots (APPLE).

“Pale”, produced with H. Scott Salinas and Annie Lennox for Lola Lennox made the list! →

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H. Scott Salinas wins Golden Panda Award for Best Music - Sea of Shadows →

Recorded in Vienna at the VSL Synchron Stage.

H. Scott Salinas wins RTS Craft and Design Award - Baghdad Central Best Music Titles →