The US Government National Labor Relations Board has decided in favor of Los Angeles AFM Local 47 as regards their policy of denying access to Local 47 rehearsal rooms for Local 47 “non-members” who have chosen financial core status, also known as “Beck objector” status

Creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media Getty Images and independent publishing company Kobalt Music Group have announced that Getty Images has appointed Kobalt to provide exclusive, worldwide administration services for Getty Images global music catalog

Film composer Jeff Rona has composed “Songs of the Sea: The Regatta Suite” at the invitation of the International Olympics Committee and the City of Qingdao, host of the 2008 Olympics Regatta

Soundware developer and distributor EASTWEST has announced that all of its EASTWEST/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra “PLAY” Edition packages will start shipping July 15, 2008.

$15,219.45 of dues that would have been paid by Local 47 to the AFM, generated from $761,941.45 of local scale wages, were instead withheld and deposited with a federal court pending the outcome of lawsuit launched against the AFM and Local 47 by Los Angeles recording musicians.

Robert Miller, who recently wrote an acclaimed score for horror comedy Teeth, reunites with the director of that film, Mitchell Lichtenstein. The new project is entitled Happy Tears and it’s a drama about two sisters who return home to deal with their ailing father Joe. Cast members include Ellen Barkin, Demi Moore, Parker Posey and [...]

According to UK agency Cool Music, Charlie Mole is about to begin scoring Oliver Parker’s Dorian Gray, based on the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ben Barnes stars as the title character in a story about a young man who keeps his youthful beauty eternally. The film is produced by Fragile Films. [...]

Disney’s latest Pixar movie, the eagerly anticipated Wall-E, premieres this week but the big Pixar news, in terms of film scoring, has to do with the studio’s next major feature: Up. Walt Disney Studios confirmed that Michael Giacchino, who scored The Incredibles and Ratatouille, has been signed to compose the score for Up. The [...]

Producer Paul Berrow has confirmed to Upcoming Film Scores that Klaus Badelt has been hired to score the upcoming action adventure Solomon Kane, based on the character created by pulp magazine author Robert E. Howard. The film stars James Purefoy as Kane, with a supporting cast featuring Rachel Hurd-Wood, Max von Sydow, Pete Postlethwaite and [...]

Composer Clint Mansell and director Darren Aronofsky continue their fruitful working relationship: The Wrestler is their fourth feature film together, following the 2006 epic art movie The Fountain. The Wrestler seems to be more of a straightforward Hollywood picture, depicting the story of a retired professional wrestler, Randy “The Ram” Robinson, portrayed by Mickey Rourke. [...]