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Scoring Killers of the Flower Moon was a daunting prospect for Robbie Robertson.

The Band co-founder, who died in August at 80, had a vision he wanted to achieve but was “terrified of delivering something ordinary,” explained orchestrator-conductor Mark Graham during a panel for Martin Scorsese’s epic at Deadline’s Sound and Screen: Film awards-season concert event.

“Marty does not want any movie music, so that’s why Robbie would always say, ‘It can’t be movie music,'” added Jared Levine, Robertson’s former manager. “Marty doesn’t want it to comment on what he’s doing. It has to somehow fit and illuminate something in his film without it being used as a tool to make you feel something or think something is going to happen. It has to play a different role than what is usual. I had to talk Robbie into it, make him believe that...

Renowned awards-contending composers and accomplished songwriters, gathered in Los Angeles on Thursday, November 9th, for Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Film event. The occasion highlighted the exceptional music featured in acclaimed titles of the awards season.

The Panelists were Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt (Barbie), Diane Warren (Flamin’ Hot & 80 For Brady), Anthony Willis (Saltburn), Joseph Shirley (Creed III), Martin Phipps (Napoleon), Lukasz ‘L.U.C’ Rostkowski (The Peasants), Damian Kulash & Nathan Burr (The Beanie Bubble), Gary Clark (Flora and Son), Mark Graham (Killers of the Flower Moon), Laura Karpman (American Fiction) & Michael Giacchino (Society of the Snow).

Click through the gallery to see their portraits, panels and performances.

Deadline’s Sound & Screen, our awards-season composer showcase of original music for some of this year’s most acclaimed films, gets underway tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall, with a 60-piece orchestra tuning up to make it all sing.

The event for industry voters begins with a pre-reception at 5:30 p.m. Pt, with performances starting at 6:45 p.m. Follow along on social media all evening on Deadline’s social channels via #DeadlineSoundAndScreen, and stay with Deadline for full panel coverage.

This year’s lineup features Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, co-composers and songwriters for Warner Bros. Pictures’ smash Barbie, who will walk the audience through how they approached that film’s music and wrote the catchy tune “I’m Just Ken.” Additionally, we’ve got Scottish musician Gary Clark here to talk us through his most recent collaboration with John Carney: the musical drama Flora and Son from Apple Original Films.

In the midst of the looming threat of war with Iran and myriad other world issues in the news cycle, you might not have heard about the fires currently blazing in the Australian bush, parks, and forests. But the bushfires have been devastating to residents of the area, with 20 people dying in the blaze. They’ve also been devastating to flora and fauna in the area.

Ecologists estimate that nearly half a billion animals have died as a result of the bushfires. In New South Wales, one of the most affected regions,...

Perhaps hearing the cries from its subscribers that Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman was a bit too slow and boring for some, Netflix dropped Michael Bay’s 6 Underground onto the platform this weekend and gave us an adrenaline-filled action flick that’s one of the wildest, most over the top and just absolutely insane movies we’ve seen in a long time, and the internet loves it.

Starring Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy and more, this is Bay at his finest, completely let loose and going as far as he wants with the ridiculous set pieces and physics-defying stunts. The plot is pretty messy and watching the film requires that you shut your brain off, but no one can deny that it’s an incredibly good time and below, you’ll find just a sampling of what folks are saying on Twitter about it.

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The growing influence of online video and its emergent class of influential talent talent has forced media and related industries to re-think the way they do business. Advising and development firm MediaLink knows exactly what all these brands and companies are going through. MediaLink specializes in helping companies at the intersection of media, entertainment, marketing, and advertising strategize on how to move their businesses forward and out of restrictive old media ways.

MediaLink Chairman and CEO Michael Kassan will discuss what the current state of the shifting media landscape looks like now and how his company navigates the ever-changing terrain for it for clients at Stream Con NYC. In anticipation of his session, we reached out to three of MediaLink’s clients to hear their thoughts on how online video has changed the way they do business and what they believe their industries at large will need to change in order to stay relevant.

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We’re used to seeing Mad Men‘s Don Draper as a classy lady killer with a devastating stare, but in this latest season he’s been looking (to borrow a phrase from our own Mark Graham) kinda fugs. Season 6 was a rough one for poor Don, putting him through arguably the most devastating period of his life. Everything that he’s worked so hard for seems to be slipping away, so it makes sense that a consummate actor like Jon Hamm would want the strain to show on his face — that’s the kind of thing that earns you six Emmy nods! Maybe we’re just immature, but it looks like he’s straining for a different reason. Yes, the expressions meant to convey intense inner conflict look much like more intense intestinal distress. We’ll come out and say it: He looks constipated.

Obviously it...

Twitter has spoken. Give us Dennis Farina back, please.

How awesome is it that Dennis Farina will be reincarnated as the royal baby.

— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) July 22, 2013

Did Dennis Farina reincarnate as the Royal Baby? No?? Then get outta my face, chump.

— Payman Benz (@PaymanBenz) July 22, 2013

Dennis Farina died so the Royal Baby could live.

— Dan St. Germain (@DSGermain) July 22, 2013

Hoping Dennis Farina transferred his soul into the Royal Baby at the last minute.

— Abraham Riesman (@abrahamjoseph) July 22, 2013

If what I know about Buddhism is correct, the Royal baby will have Dennis Farina's soul. I think we'd all be ok with that.

— Alex Mizrahi (@alexmiz) July 22, 2013

I'll just pretend that Dennis Farina was reincarnated as the #RoyalBaby and that will ease the pain.

— Jacob King (@cptblicero) July 22, 2013

The only thing we can hope is that Dennis Farina's soul has been reincarnated in the new royal baby.

— Pete DeCourcy...

What a difference 13 years makes. This weekend, Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace is being re-released in theaters, this time with an added third dimension, and not many seem to care. Contrast that to what happened in 1999, when the original release was caught up in a sixteen-year storm of hype. To help excavate our suppressed collective memories, Moviefone asked 13 writers -- including one who was there with George Lucas at the premiere at Skywalker Ranch -- to take us back to what we all thought was going to be a very glorious day. Kurt Loder, Movie Critic, Reason Online Who could forget their first exposure to The Phantom Menace? For a talented man, Lucas has a minimal flair for gripping dialogue ("Hold me like you did by the lake on Naboo"), nifty plot devices (a galactic tax dispute?), colorful character names (Nute Gunray? Shmi Skywalker?), or, Lord knows,...

The 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards is already underway, and NextMovie's own Brooke Tarnoff, Breanne Heldman and Kevin Polowy are participating in an exclusive video chat to discuss what's going on and what's in store with tonight's ceremony.

VH1's Mark Graham will be moderating the chat with some of the web's top movie experts (in a "Brady Bunch"-style visual format), with Brooke on the air from 6-7 p.m., Breanne from 7-8 and Kevin from 8-8:30.

You can experience the red carpet and all of the backstage goings-on by tuning into the live video chat, courtesy of VH1's Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

First of all, you shouldn’t actually be reading this. You should be over at CriticsChoice.VH1.com right now, watching our own Mark Graham, Best Week Ever’s Michelle Collins and a slew of bloggerati in our red-carpet live stream. But if you aren’t yet convince that you should watch the CCMAs on VH1 at 8 p.m. Et, here is why we’re watching (other than the fact that, well, they pay us to):

1. It’s how you’ll win the office Oscar pool. Seriously, the Broadcast Critics Association have the best record in predicting the nominees And the major category winners.

2. You will get to see George Clooney talking about meaningful things when presenting Sean Penn with an award for doing meaningful things (actually called the Joel Siegel Award). No man can move me to care about important things like Clooney. Also Leonardo DiCaprio, Bob Dylan...

First of all, you shouldn’t actually be reading this. You should be over at CriticsChoice.VH1.com right now, watching our own Mark Graham, Best Week Ever’s Michelle Collins and a slew of bloggerati in our red-carpet live stream. But if you aren’t yet convince that you should watch the CCMAs on VH1 at 8 p.m. Et, [...]...

According to lots and lots of sources, anyway — including original front man David Lee Roth himself (decked out in a pair of tan Carhartt overalls), who declared it, "unarguably one of the best gigs of the career." It's funny to imagine the legendary heavy metal arena rockers in such a small, classy setting as Greenwich Village's Cafe Wha?, but it sounds like Eddie Van Halen had no interest in tempering his guitar pyrotechnics, nor did Diamond Dave neglect to deliver his classic one-liners (e.g., at the end of the show, “The limos are being readied, the bathrobes are being prepared, the groupies are being undressed"). And the 250 journalists and industry people who were crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in the tiny club seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Mark Graham at VH1 Tuner writes: "'So,' you’re probably asking by this point, 'How Did They [...]...

What happens when you ask Google Maps for the location of zombies around the world?

How do you combine an obsession with Zombie movies and data analysis of Google Maps?

Simple, you produce the map, above. It was created by Oxford University's Internet Institute - and the guys behind the fantastic dataviz site, Floating sheep: Mark Graham, Taylor Shelton, Matthew Zook and Monica Stephens.

Using a keyword search for "zombies", it visualizes the absolute concentrations of references within the Google Maps database.

The map reveals two important spatial patterns. First, much of the world lacks any content mentioning "zombies" whatsoever. Second, and related, the highest concentrations of zombies in the Geoweb are located in the Anglophone world, especially in large cities.

It also shows how Africa, where the word 'zombie' originally came from, misses out on those criteria.

Graham, whose favourite Zombie movie is the original Romero Dawn of the Dead...

As an a-hole who is professionally obligated to sit on the internet and look at internet things for a third of my life, I sometimes realize that my lack of patience for beaten-to-death memes doesn’t speak for the general living, breathing, and speaking to humans population. However, some internet trends are so annoyingly persistent and so exhaustively past their point of usefulness, that as an internet, we simply have to band together, rise up, and stop producing and deriving enjoyment from them. This is basically the Libya situation, people, only way more urgent and involving Photoshop templates. Here’s a list of 5 Internet Trends That Need To Die Immediately: 5. Porn Parody Trailers My colleague Mark Graham wrote about this phenomenon earlier this week in the wake of the new Justice League and Reservoir Dogs porn parodies being released, pointing out that pop cultural porn parodies are basically the only...

Mark Zuckerberg may be Time’s Person Of The Year, but you have to do a lot more than siphon our intellectual property rights and be played by Jesse Eisenberg in a guaranteed award-show sweeper to make our short-list. No, we prefer to acknowledge those who made us laugh, made us hot and made us think about how hot and funny they were. The celebrities—and celebrity body parts—praised below may not have revolutionized the internet, but they certainly made it a more entertaining place to surf. Click on the jump to find out who each TheFABLife contributor thinks defined fabulosity in 2010. Robert Pattinson by Lauren Deiman Robert Pattinson (Photos) was undoubtedly the Person/Obsession of many, many TwiHards’ Year in 2010. With every dazed stare, modest giggle, and lusty glance towards Kristen Stewart, this man flutters the heart like no other working actor today. The gorgeous Brit has perfected...

HollywoodNews.com: 2010 has been quite the year for Nicki Minaj. After stealing the spotlight on nearly every song she spit a verse for, Google reveals that she is also among the world’s top Google searches for 2010.

The reigning femcee from Trinidad came in fourth place, nearly beating Justin Bieber, on Google’s coveted, Zeitgeist list of 2010, which covered the curious search habits of UK audiences. Socialite, Kim Kardashian also made the list, but it seems that some of the most popular searches involved celebrity divorces, of which Minaj had some big competition in 2010 with the divorces of Eva Longoria and Tiger Woods.

While it may seem as though Minaj is a star rising at a meteoric rate, Dr. Mark Graham, research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute warns, “Zeitgeist is reflecting popular culture, but that’s not to say Google doesn’t have a hand in deciding what we consume online…...

After Sunday’s The Walking Dead finale on AMC, all the water cooler talk the next morning (meaning me with a cup of water shouting at random people when they walked in) was about what Dr. Jenner, the lone Cdc scientist, whispered to Rick Grimes right before Grimes left the building. Numerous (spoilery!) theories emerged online, speculating that Jenner told Rick that his wife was pregnant, or that the wife was specifically pregnant with Shane’s baby, or that the wife was a couple months pregnant and thus couldn’t be his baby, or any number of unrelated things (my colleague Mark Graham suggested he just whispered the same thing Bill Murray whispered at the end of Lost In Translation). Today, in an interview with EW, executive producer Robert Kirkman dropped this bombshell: Anything can happen! I don’t want to give anything away! Look, it could have been just like,...

I have always cherished Lucas more than any John Hughes film dealing with the high school caste system. For me it falls just below Heathers in that regard, which is fitting since both featured Winona Ryder. But like in the choir scene from Lucas, nobody's looking at Ryder today. We're all looking at the film's star, Corey Haim.

Anyone who had interests outside the norm of high school students, anyone who ever wanted to fit in at least at some point as a teenager, anyone who ever had a crush on an older, inaccessible schoolmate had to have appreciated Lucas. As has been pointed out a few places today, it was a more genuine precursor to Rushmore, which comparatively lacks charm.

If Lucas wasn't your bag, though, you at least had to have thoughts of Haim in License to Drive when it was your time to be introduced to the frightening world of the Dmv.

Typically I write the intros to these Blog Trend roundups before I've read the majority of the blogs I quote. So, before listing the buzz below I had written all about how unfunny the red-band trailer for MacGruber is and how surprised I am that such a terrible-looking movie is getting so much attention. I've since erased my first intro and replaced it with this stunned-reaction paragraph, because the movie bloggers are actually, shockingly eating this up like a double-decker taco (and I mean a watery, shit-comprised taco in honor of the overrated joke in the trailer). Even the usually very snarky and super cynical guys like Vince Mancini are into this thing. Wtf?

I don't agree with the majority, I guess. I especially thought it wrong for Universal/Rogue to unleash this piece of crap on the heels of this weekend's hilarious SNL short "James Cameron's Laser Cats...