It’s that time again for Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Film, where top composers, songwriters and pop stars delight industry voters with their aural wares from some of the biggest, and most interesting, movies of the year.
This year’s edition now underway at UCLA’s Royce Hall features monster movies, vampire flicks, nuclear thrillers, music biopics, documentaries, superhero capers, Netflix’s most-streamed movie ever and the third installment of the highest-grossing motion picture of all time.
Tonight, with the help of a 60-piece orchestra, the movies on offer include the team from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters bringing along the songs of Huntr/x and the Saja Boys. The streamer is also bringing the music of Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear disaster thriller A House of Dynamite. Volker Bertelmann, known for his work on films such as All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave, composed the score and will join us, having already joined us earlier this year to showcase his work for Peacock’s series adaptation of The Day of the Jackal.
In addition, Alexandre Desplat, who won Oscars for The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water, is here with music from another Guillermo del Toro movie – Frankenstein.
Warner Bros is bringing the vampiric score for Sinners, the Michael B. Jordan-led hit from Ryan Coogler. That score came from Ludwig Göransson, who has already won Oscars for his work on Coogler’s Black Panther and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, and he’ll be taking the audience down to the blues delta with a little help from the spirit of Robert Johnson.
Disney is here with four films: Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps with Michael Giacchino, who won an Oscar for Up, performing the superhero score, and Captain America: Brave New World, with Laura Karpman, Oscar-nominated for American Fiction, braving the new world through music; 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash, with composer Simon Franglen; and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Jeremy Allen White-led Bruce Springsteen biopic. Jeremiah Fraites, co-founder of The Lumineers, will be with us, virtually, offering the score from the movie about The Boss’ making of Nebraska.
Also joining tonight to are an A-list group of singer-songwriters, with Sara Bareilles singing “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet” from Apple Original Films’ documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, and Aiyana-Lee singing the title track from A24’s Spike Lee crime pic Highest 2 Lowest.
That brings us to Diane Warren, who returns to Sound & Screen with music from a documentary about her own life, Diane Warren: Relentless. She has been here before with work from movies including Flamin’ Hot, 80 For Brady and The Six Triple Eight, but this time she’s bringing a bona fide pop star with her in Kesha to sing “Dear Me.”
Check out tonight’s lineup below (order subject to change), and follow along all evening on social platforms via #DeadlineSoundAndScreen. Stay tuned Thursday for complete panel coverage, followed Monday by the release of the streaming site featuring all the panel discussions.
Sound & Screen: Film 2025
MARVEL STUDIOS/DISNEY
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Michael Giacchino (Composer)
Captain America: Brave New World
Laura Karpman (Composer)
20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Simon Franglen (Composer)
NETFLIX
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Nathan Johnson (Composer)
A House of Dynamite
Volker Bertelmann (Composer)
Frankenstein
Alexandre Desplat (Composer)
KPop Demon Hunters
Mark Sonnenblick (Songwriter)Ejae (Singing voice of Rumi/Songwriter)
REALSONGS
Diane Warren: Relentless
Diane Warren (Songwriter)Kesha (Performer)
20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Jeremiah Fraites (Composer)
A24
Highest 2 Lowest
Aiyana-Lee (Singer/Songwriter)
APPLE ORIGINAL FILMS
Come See Me in the Good Light
Sara Bareilles (Singer)
WARNER BROS PICTURES
Sinners
Ludwig Göransson (Composer)
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