For the closing song of The Last Showgirl, Andrew Wyatt and Lykke Li wrote "Beautiful This Way" with Miley Cyrus. In the Roadside Attractions film, Pamela Anderson plays a veteran showgirl confronted with her future when her show closes. Though Cyrus is more than 25 years younger than Anderson, Wyatt…

In The Idea of You, Anne Hathaway plays Solene, a single mother who has a romance with singer Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine). Hayes is a member of the fictional boy band August Moon and performs their songs in the film. Songwriter Savan Kotecha, who also wrote "What Makes You Beautiful" for One…

Nickel Boys brings the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two friends surviving a Florida reform school together to the screen. Director RaMell Ross hired Scott Alario and Alex Somers to create the music, and the composers found inspiration on location in New Orleans that Ross encouraged them to…

H.E.R. sings the song "The Journey" for The Six Triple Eight, Netflix’s Tyler Perry film about the real women who delivered mail in Europe during World War II. Diane Warren wrote the song and says she is still blown away by H.E.R.'s vocals. "It's Whitney level," Warren said during a panel discussion…

As if George Lucas‘ 1999 Star Wars prequel wasn’t divisive enough, The Phantom Menace nearly ended on a complicated twist. Marking the 25th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, concept and storyboard artist Iain McCaig recently revealed an exchange between Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McG…

The musical Emilia Pérez features Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña in her first full musical. For each artist, the songwriters had to tailor the film's songs to them. Composer-songwriter Clément Ducoi and songwriter Camille explained the process at Deadline's Sound & Screen Film showcase. With Gomez, the…

Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs unveiled four filmmakers selected for the first cohort of its Film Frontier Global Networking Program. Announced on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), the program will help filmmakers sharpen their presentation skills, provide…

After 35 years, When Harry Met Sally still holds up as one of Meg Ryan‘s most memorable performances. Marking the film’s milestone anniversary, Ryan’s co-star Billy Crystal recently recalled the “guttural” reaction Princess Diana had to her infamous fake orgasm scene when the film had its “memorable&#8221…

While legendary film composer Hans Zimmer has previously ventured musically into the realm of World War II with films like Dunkirk and Pearl Harbor, working on filmmaker Steve McQueen's Blitz – set during the relentless, eight-month-long bombing of London by Nazi Germany – allowed him to look at the era…

Songwriter Sean Douglas, who's written hits for a wide assortment of pop artists including Demi Lovato, Madonna, Nick Jonas, The Chainsmokers and Selena Gomez, found crafting the signature song "Harper and Will Go West" for the documentary Will & Harper alongside comedienne Kristen Wiig was more than a…

Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 composer John Debney found a kindred spirit in actor-filmmaker Kevin Costner when the two met making Hatfields & McCoys over a decade ago, both for their shared love of the Western genre and their proud status as native Angelenos. "We both grew up out here, and…

As Sean Baker continues to swear by tried-and-true film, he worries it’s a dying medium in Hollywood. The Anora writer-director, who shot the Palme d’Or winner on Kodak 35mm, recently mourned the death of analog as he explained how “very frustrating” it is to watch the industry become almost entirely…