The music of local composer Sarah Galvin will be featured in a short film at Regal Cinemas across the nation this weekend as part of the Spike and Mike’s Festival of ...

For Migration, composer John Powell was tasked with creating a theme for a reluctant hero that evolves throughout his journey. Written and directed by Benjamin Renner, Migration follows a family of ...

For Pixar‘s Elemental, composer Thomas Newman was given the challenge of scoring for ‘elemental’ cultures that don’t exist in the real world, while instilling a sense of familiarity for the viewer. He ...

If you can instantly hum the smooth, city-block jazz of Hey Arnold!, you already know the work of Jim Lang. For decades, Lang ...

The current sound of children’s television animation has expanded notably with composer Ego Plum’s score to the Nickelodeon series Harvey Beaks, in which electronics and guitars fuse with the sound of ...

Jack de Mello, a giant in native Hawaiian music and composer for various Hanna-Barbera Productions animated series, including “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons,” has died. He passed Saturday in Las ...

Illumination’s upcoming film Migration is a comedy about a family of ducks trying to fly from New York to Jamaica. Writer-director Benjamin Renner makes his 3D animation debut, and John Powell wrote ...

Heitor Pereira scored both installments of the "Despicable Me" and "Smurfs" series. By Austin Siegemund-Broka Heitor Pereira has his name on two films in the summer’s spate of family animations — ...

With “Rio 2” in release and “How to Train Your Dragon 2” due in June, London-born John Powell reconfirms his status as today’s leading composer for animated films. Twenty of his 54 features have been ...