EQUINOX PUBLISH JOHN ALTMAN’S RIVETING AUTOBIOGRAPHY HIDDEN MAN: MY MANY MUSICAL LIVES FEBRUARY 15 AND HE’S LINED UP FOR MAJOR PUBLICITY ACROSS ALL MEDIA.
Film composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor and acclaimed sax player. Everyone knows his music but not so many his name. In this vivid account of over fifty years in the world of popular music, Altman explains why he is the ‘Hidden Man’, whose scores include such well-known film sequences as ‘Always Look on the Bright Side […]
THE HIT SCANDI SERIES SEASIDE HOTEL, DIRECTED BY SMA’S FABIAN WULLENWEBER, SCREENS FROM DECEMBER 17 ON WALTER PRESENTS ON ALL 4.
This Danish series, produced by TV2, is now in its 9th season under director Fabian Wullenweber. It is a hit all across Scandinavia and Europe and is the most watched programme in Denmark. It takes places at a seaside hotel and follows the lives of the guests and employees at the hotel. The story starts in […]
ENLIGHTENED KINGDOM’S LADY OF HEAVEN OPENS IN THE US DECEMBER 10 WITH A SCORE BY SMA’S CRAIG PRUESS.
Enlightened Kingdom’s Lady of Heaven opens in the US December 10 with a score by SMA’s Craig Pruess. It is the story of the heart-wrenching journey of Lady Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad. Separated by 1400 years an Iraqi child, in the midst of a war-torn country, learns the importance and power of patience. […]
ROGER A PRICE HAS SIGNED A 4-BOOK DEAL WITH DARK EDGE PRESS FEATURING DETECTIVE SERGEANT MARTIN DRAKER. OUT NEXT YEAR THE FIRST IN THE SERIES WILL BE ‘INSIDE THREAT’.
Roger A Price has signed a 4-book deal with Dark Edge Press featuring Detective Sergeant Martin Draker. Out next year the first in the series will be ‘Inside Threat’.
LAURA JEAN MARSH HAS JUST WON THE ROME MUSIC VIDEO BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR AWARD FOR EVERYDAY BY MISS BABY SOL
Laura Jean Marsh has just won the Rome Music Video Best Female Director Award for Everyday by Miss Baby Sol released on the Free Seed label. Meanwhile her feature Giddy Stratophere continues to rack up great biz in the US.
EOS COUNSELL (VIOLIN) AND GAY-YEE WESTERHOFF (CELLO) ARE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE FIRST ELECTRIC ALL-FEMALE STRING QUARTET, BOND AND HAVE BEEN WRITING, ARRANGING, AND PERFORMING TOGETHER FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
Eos Counsell (Violin) and Gay-Yee Westerhoff (Cello) are founding members of the first electric all-female string quartet, Bond and have been writing, arranging, and performing together for over 20 years, combining the discipline of their classical training with the fun and flamboyance of the pop world. See their profile here.
PAUL DOOD’S DEADLY LUNCH BREAK, THE BRITISH DARK REVENGE COMEDY TOOK TOP PRIZE, THE AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD AT THE TORONTO AFTER DARK FESTIVAL 2021
PAUL DOOD’S DEADLY LUNCH BREAK, the British dark revenge comedy directed by Nick Gillespie and with music by Dan Baboulene, took Top Prize, the Audience Choice Award at the Toronto After Dark Festival 2021 See Dan Babouline’s profile
MARK CHAIT SCORED ALL 52 EPISODES OF CHINA’S CURRENT NO 1 DRAMA THE FIERY YEARS OF GAODAXIA.
Viewing figures are now above 25m for each 3 hr broadcast, one in the afternoon and another in the evening slot. This is Mark’s third hit drama series scoring success following the 55 episode Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2019 and the 54 episode Frontier of Love in 2018.
LAURA JEAN MARSH NOMINATED AS BEST FEMALE FILM MAKER FOR GIDDY STRATOSPHERES AT CHICAGO INDIE FILM AWARDS
She is currently writing and developing two major new projects; Stutter a 5-part blackly comic horror mini-series set in the heart of a magical, alternative version of the UK’s Britpop explosion of the mid-90’s and Venom Falls a mockumentary about a missing boy in a picturesque West Country village and the unnerving strange townsfolk brought […]
AWARD WINNING FIZZ AND GINGER FILMS, MATTHEW BUTLER-HART WRITER/DIRECTOR AND TORI BUTLER-HART, WRITER/PRODUCER, JOIN THE SMA CREW AS THEIR LATEST FEATURE, INFINITUM: SUBJECT UNKNOWN, HAS JUST OPENED IN US CINEMAS AND SVOD CHANNELS.
Their four features have collected 14 awards and 23 nominations at major festivals including six for Best Director and two for Best Independent Film Production Company. Infinitum: Subject Unknown stars Ian McKellen, Conleth Hill and Tori, and opened in the UK in March 2021after hitting the No. 2 spot in both Australia and New Zealand […]
CONGRATS TO JACK SAVORETTI WHOSE NEW ALBUM EUROPIANA HITS THE NO.1 SPOT IN THE UK CHARTS. NEXT UP SCORING HIS FIRST FEATURE FILM.
Jack Savoretti’s new album Europiana has the Number One spot in the UK.
PRE-CANNES BUZZ FOR JEAN-PAUL MERTINEZ’S DALAI LAMA FEATURE DOC ‘NEVER FORGET TIBET’ NARRATED BY HUGH BONNEVILLE AND REPPED BY PARKLAND PICTURES
The film details the religious leader’s daring escape from the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959 and is told on film for the first time in his own words with the late Har Mander Singh, the Indian political officer who led him safely to India. It includes rare archival photographs and film as well as […]
NICK GREEN’S SCORE FOR OBJECTIVE MEDIA’S THE LARKINS PREMIERED ON ITV ON OCTOBER 10 & THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL AT 9 PM ON THE 25TH
Nick Green’s score for Objective Media’s The Larkins premieres on ITV on October 10 and here’s a link to the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2nO_kalw74. Bradley Walsh plays Pop Larkin, taking on the role previously held by David Jason in the 1990s adaptation. His wife Ma is played by The Thick of It star Joanna Scanlan, taking up […]
PESSI LEVANTO SCORES THE NORDIC SUPERNATURAL THRILLER ‘THE INNOCENTS’ SELECTED FOR CANNES 2021
Written and directed by Eskil Vogt it will be part of the Un Certain Regard screenings. During the bright Norwegian summer a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren’t looking. In this original and gripping supernatural thriller, playtime takes a dangerous turn. See Pessi’s profile here
KEITH ENGLISH IS DIRECTING MEGAFILM’S THE COST *F DECEPTION , HUNGARY’S FIRST POLITICAL CRIME FEATURE BASED ON REAL EVENTS DURING THE MAJOR POLITICAL SCANDAL IN 2006 WHICH LED TO A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT IN 2010.
The story centres around a young and ambitious female political analyst who discovers that her boss was among a secret group who had deliberately leaked a damaging tape of an outrageous speech by the Prime Minister to ruin his reputation with the people. She decides she must get the whole truth out but she loses her […]
JESPER W. NIELSEN IS LEAD DIRECTOR ON MAX ANGER – WITH ONE EYE OPEN, 8-PART THRILLER FOR NICE DRAMA. STREAMS ON VIAPLAY FROM JUNE 6.
Jesper W. Nielsen is lead director and Executive Producer on Nice Drama’s 8-part thriller about Max Anger, a former special-ops soldier who falls in love with Pashie, a colleague at Russia-focused think tank Vektor but then she goes missing. It is based on Martin Österdahl’s best selling book Ask No Mercy the first in a trilogy focusing […]
MATTHEW CHASTNEY LANDS MARVEL VENOM 2 TRAILER
Major American superhero feature film, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, directed by Andy Serkis and starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Stephen Graham, Woody Harrelson and Naomie Harris, based on the Marvel Comics character Venom, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel and Tencent Pictures Stellar cast. See Matthew’s profile here
JONATHON DEERING LANDS STEVEN SPIELBERG’S ‘OSLO’ TRAILER
Oslo is an upcoming American television drama film directed by Bartlett Sher and written by J. T. Rogers, based on Rogers’ play of the same name based on a true story. It stars Andrew Scott, Ruth Wilson and Jeff Wilbusch. Steven Spielberg is one of the Executive Producers. See Jonathon’s profile here
BREAK, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MICHAEL ELKIN, NOW OUT ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS.
Break, written and directed by Michael Elkin, now out on all streaming platforms. Starring Sam Gittins, David Yip and Jamie Foreman with Rutger Hauer in his final performance.A gifted inner-city kid, wasting his talents on crime, gets in over his head until a chance encounter with a stranger presents him with an opportunity to turn […]
HIT SONGWRITER / RECORD PRODUCER ELIOT KENNEDY STEPS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT HIMSELF WITH FIRST ALBUM A YACHT NAMED SUE.
Hit songwriter/record producer Eliot Kennedy steps into the spotlight himself with first album A Yacht Named Sue, inspired by the Yacht rock genre from the mid-1970s and early ‘80s.A Grammy and Ivor Novello award winner, Golden Globe Nominee he co-wrote with Gary Barlow the hit Broadway musical Finding Neverland. His hit list includes songs for […]
JACK SAVORETTI AND NIKOLAJ TORP LARSEN FORM NEW FILM COMPOSING TEAM
Savoretti/Torp is the recently formed film and tv scoring partnership between one of Europe’s best-selling singer songwriters and multi-million selling recording artists and performers, Jack Savoretti, and his musical director, Nikolaj Torp Larsen. Their music is contemporary, haunting and thematic working with small ensembles, voices, strings and full orchestras, to fully electronic; occasionally with a […]
COMPOSER, PRODUCER, SONGWRITER GIZMO VARILLAS JOINS THE SMA CREW
Gizmo Varillas is a young artist with millions of plays on Spotify and radio play from LA to Tokyo, his music already reaching people all over the world. He is a songwriter, record producer, composer and is currently working with Jack Savoretti. He was born in Spain, raised in Wales and now lives in South […]
ARHYN DESCY SCORED NINE NIGHTS NOW ON RELEASE IN THE US
Veronica Mackenzie’s latest feature Nine Nights with a score by Arhyn Descy now released in the US and in the UK on Amazon and Itunes. It won Best Narrative Feature at the Pan African Fil Festival.
DANISH SERIES SEASIDE HOTEL DIRECTED BY FABIAN WULLENWEBER ON ALL4
Denmark’s most popular drama series for more than 20 years, ‘Seaside Hotel’, directed by SMA’s award winning Fabian Wullenweber, airs from December 4 on Walter Presents/All4. He’s best known internationally for his work across all 3 series of ‘The Killing’ which screened in more than 161 countries, winning 2 Emmys and a BAFTA. See Fabian’s […]