Night of the Creeps (2026) - Music Department

Aaron Jacob Boys is known for The Yami's First Emperor Movie (2020).

Grammy-nominated executive Spring Aspers is President of Sony Pictures Music Group where she is responsible for all music initiatives, including development, production and promotion. In her position, Aspers works with filmmakers to select songs, artists and composers for Sony Pictures' projects. For the Academy Award-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, she hired Post Malone and Swae Lee to write "Sunflower." "Sunflower" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, was nominated for Grammy's Record of the Year and was the first recording certified 20x Platinum in RIAA history. For Greta Gerwig's Little Woman, Aspers hired composer Alexandre Desplat to create the Academy Award-nominated score. Previously, she helped assemble the Grammy-nominated soundtrack for Edgar Wright's Baby Driver. Aspers enlisted the Black Eyed Peas and J Balvin to contribute the song "RITMO" for the Bad Boys For Life soundtrack. "RITMO" was the biggest Latin song of 2020, accruing more than 5 billion streams. In 2022, Aspers hired Taylor Swift to write the Grammy-nominated song "Carolina" for Where the Crawdads Sing. Recently, Aspers worked with Metro Boomin to produce the soundtrack for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which was the #1 album on Spotify for 3 weeks and charted 6 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. Aspers is a member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. She joined Sony in 2009 as Executive Vice President shepherding Diane Warren's Golden Globe-winning song "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" from Burlesque and John Legend's Grammy-nominated song "Tonight (Best You Ever Had)" from Think Like a Man. Before that, Aspers was Senior Vice President at Island Def Jam Recordings. At Def Jam, she produced the soundtrack for the 2002 film Spider-Man, including the Grammy-nominated worldwide hit "Hero." Prior to her time at Island Def Jam, Aspers ran her own independent music supervision company. Originally from New York, Aspers is a UCLA alumni and serves on Sony Pictures' Action Council and Female Leadership Initiative.

Dan Barrio is known for The Blair Witch Project (1999), ...sol y lluvia (1999) and The Roommate (2008).

Marcus Barone is a Motion Picture Executive in Charge of Music and Music Supervisor in Los Angeles, California.

In 1992, he became Director of Music and Supervisor at Motion Picture Corp. of America(Columbia / Tristar) in Los Angeles. He was appointed Executive in Charge of Music at Orion Pictures in 1998.

Today Marcus operates Film Music Group, a Motion Picture Music Supervision, Soundtrack, and Production Company in Los Angeles, working with clients including Lionsgate, Universal, Sony Pictures, Entertainment, MGM Pictures, NBC, ABC, MTV, A&E, Comedy Central Networks, and Lucasfilm / Skywalker Sound. Marcus is based at three state of the art digital recording studios in Los Angeles, Redwood City /Silicon Valley, and in Auburn, CA.

Heads Yosemite Pictures, a script development group which develops holiday, dark comedy, action, urban, and dramatic thriller scripts for pitching.

Marcus is a BMI composer and song writer well as a studio musician. His music publishers are MGM Pictures Music, Sony / ATV and Famous Music (Paramount).

Performed on 4 Gold and Platinum Awards for the recording artists Lifehouse, Matt Nathanson , Quiet Riot, The Players Association, Gloria Gaynor, The Ring, David Hasselhoff, and Two Sisters.

He his music career in New York in the 1980's as a successful recording industry studio musician/arranger (keyboards and synthesizer programming), playing on a variety of hit records. He worked as A&R as well as a producer at Silverblue / Sony Records.

Wrote several theme songs for Paramount Television after moving to California in 1985.

Attended SUNY of New York, U.S.C. as a post graduate, and is a graduate of Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford.

Has given lectures and appeared on panels including: NARAS Conference (Grammy Awards); U.C.L.A., Los Angeles; The Turner Classic Movies Composer's Symposium and Conference, Los Angeles; Hollywood Film Festivals, McGeorge School of Law; University of San Francisco; West Coast Songwriters; Sundance / Utah Music Jam Symposium; A.E.S. Panel and Dolby Labs, San Francisco and Hartt College of Music.

Jojo Villanueva is known for Straight Outta Compton (2015), Sing (2016) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).

Steven Corn is known for Switched at Birth: Kimberly's Story (1993).

Joel C. High is known for The Six Triple Eight (2024), Monster's Ball (2001) and The Devil's Rejects (2005).

Bill Green is known for Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), Side Out (1990) and Indian Summer (1993).

Dan Macarthur is an Australian Director / DOP has shot features across the globe and won ACS Gold Awards in almost every category.

Dan is the creator of Dieselpunk Sci-fi franchise Metropius.

As a DOP, Dan has worked with Oscar Award-winning actors Russell Crowe and Cuba Gooding Jnr and is known for his stunning cinematography.

Mr Macarthur's other feature credits include action thriller Blood Money starring rapper Pitbull and zombie comedy Go Goa Gone featuring Bollywood star Saf Ali Khan, shot in Mumbai and Goa, India.

Dan started started his career shooting music clips for well-known Australian bands including Powderfinger, Killing Heidi and John Butler Trio - winning the National ACS Award for the Best Cinematography for the Whitlam's 'Blow up the Pokies'.

Kathy Nelson is known for Armageddon (1998), Unbreakable (2000) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997).

Benny Medina was born on 24 January 1958 in the USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Hustlers (2019), Atlas (2024) and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990).

German-born composer Hans Zimmer is recognized as one of Hollywood's most innovative musical talents. He featured in the music video for The Buggles' single "Video Killed the Radio Star", which became a worldwide hit and helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video to be aired on MTV (August 1, 1981).

Hans Florian Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, then in West Germany, the son of Brigitte (Weil) and Hans Joachim Zimmer. He entered the world of film music in London during a long collaboration with famed composer and mentor Stanley Myers, which included the film My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). He soon began work on several successful solo projects, including the critically acclaimed A World Apart, and during these years Zimmer pioneered the use of combining old and new musical technologies. Today, this work has earned him the reputation of being the father of integrating the electronic musical world with traditional orchestral arrangements.

A turning point in Zimmer's career came in 1988 when he was asked to score Rain Man for director Barry Levinson. The film went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture of the Year and earned Zimmer his first Academy Award Nomination for Best Original Score. The next year, Zimmer composed the score for another Best Picture Oscar recipient, Driving Miss Daisy (1989), starring Jessica Tandy, and Morgan Freeman.

Having already scored two Best Picture winners, in the early 1990s, Zimmer cemented his position as a preeminent talent with the award-winning score for The Lion King (1994). The soundtrack has sold over 15 million copies to date and earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score, a Golden Globe, an American Music Award, a Tony, and two Grammy Awards. In total, Zimmer's work has been nominated for 7 Golden Globes, 7 Grammys and seven Oscars for Rain Man (1988), Gladiator (2000), The Lion King (1994), As Good as It Gets (1997), The The Preacher's Wife (1996), The Thin Red Line (1998), The Prince of Egypt (1998), and The Last Samurai (2003).

With his career in full swing, Zimmer was anxious to replicate the mentoring experience he had benefited from under Stanley Myers' guidance. With state-of-the-art technology and a supportive creative environment, Zimmer was able to offer film-scoring opportunities to young composers at his Santa Monica-based musical "think tank." This approach helped launch the careers of such notable composers as Mark Mancina, John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams, Nick Glennie-Smith, and Klaus Badelt.

In 2000, Zimmer scored the music for Gladiator (2000), for which he received an Oscar nomination, in addition to Golden Globe and Broadcast Film Critics Awards for his epic score. It sold more than three million copies worldwide and spawned a second album Gladiator: More Music From The Motion Picture, released on the Universal Classics/Decca label. Zimmer's other scores that year included Mission: Impossible II (2000), The Road to El Dorado (2000), and An Everlasting Piece (2000), directed by Barry Levinson.

Some of his other impressive scores include Pearl Harbor (2001), The Ring (2002), four films directed by Ridley Scott; Matchstick Men (2003), Hannibal (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), and Thelma & Louise (1991), Penny Marshall's Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), and A League of Their Own (1992), Tony Scott's True Romance (1993), Tears of the Sun (2003), Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991), Days of Thunder (1990), Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), and the animated Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) for which he also co-wrote four of the songs with Bryan Adams, including the Golden Globe nominated Here I Am.

At the 27th annual Flanders International Film Festival, Zimmer performed live for the first time in concert with a 100-piece orchestra and a 100-voice choir. Choosing selections from his impressive body of work, Zimmer performed newly orchestrated concert versions of Gladiator, Mission: Impossible II (2000), Rain Man (1988), The Lion King (1994), and The Thin Red Line (1998). The concert was recorded by Decca and released as a concert album entitled "The Wings Of A Film: The Music Of Hans Zimmer."

In 2003, Zimmer completed his 100th film score for the film The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise, for which he received both a Golden Globe and a Broadcast Film Critics nomination. Zimmer then scored Nancy Meyers' comedy Something's Gotta Give (2003), the animated Dreamworks film, Shark Tale (2004) (featuring voices of Will Smith, Renée Zellweger, Robert De Niro, Jack Black, and Martin Scorsese), and Jim Brooks' Spanglish (2004) starring Adam Sandler and Téa Leoni (for which he also received a Golden Globe nomination). His 2005 projects include Paramount's The Weather Man (2005) starring Nicolas Cage, Dreamworks' Madagascar (2005), and the Warner Bros. summer release, Batman Begins (2005).

Zimmer's additional honors and awards include the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in Film Composition from the National Board of Review, and the Frederick Loewe Award in 2003 at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. He has also received ASCAP's Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement. Hans and his wife live in Los Angeles and he is the father of four children.

M.V. Gerhard is known for Evil High, Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and Mirage, AZ.

Dan Goldwasser was born on 6 January 1975 in New York City, New York, USA. Dan is a producer, known for The Godfather (1972), Braveheart (1995) and Scarface (1983).

Jen Tindal is known for Brand New Old Love (2018) and DC FanDome 2021 (2021).

Jeff Carson was born on 16 December 1963 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor and executive, known for The Greatest Showman (2017), No Way Out (1987) and Jumper (2008).

Jay Duerr is known for Alita: Battle Angel (2019), Godzilla (2014) and Love and Monsters (2020).

Nicholas Fitzgerald is known for Tenet (2020), Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) and Creed III (2023).

Amanda Goodpaster is known for Dreamgirls (2006), The Darkest Minds (2018) and Eight Legged Freaks (2002).

Darrell Hall is known for Ad Astra (2019), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017).

Jeremy Raub is known for I, Robot (2004), Enchanted (2007) and Deja Vu (2006).

Mary Webster is known for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) and Destination Wedding (2018).

Kenneth Karman is known for Lilo & Stitch (2002), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005).

Bob Bayless is a third generation musician whose Native American grandfather was invited to play with John Phillips Sousa, unheard of at the time. Bob became a professional musician at thirteen, playing various instruments in numerous original and copy bands and was a Music Major in College. His music is an eclectic mix of influences from rock-n-roll sensibilities through classic film scoring techniques gleaned from ten years working with renowned composer Jerry Goldsmith.

Bob has composed a number of film scores, including music for the award-winning shorts "Misconnect" and "The Rib," the latter which screened at the Cannes Film Festival and which he also produced. His music has appeared in diverse projects such as "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" and "Howard Hughes: the Real Aviator." For the award-winning, native-American-themed Sundance premiere, "Christmas in the Clouds," he arranged, performed and recorded a number of Christmas carols to reflect his own native American roots and included previously recorded vocals of his late grandfather singing and vintage dancing bells that he had inherited.

Bob has numerous credits in music editorial on block-buster films such as the Harrison Ford starer, "Airforce One," Joe Dante's "Small Soldiers," Stephen Sommers "The Mummy," and two Star Trek movies. He received a MPSE Golden Reel nomination for Disney's animated feature film, "Mulan."

In additional to his music credits, Bob's feature film experience includes sound design, dialog editing, and mixing, as well as picture editorial. Bob is a certified RED camera digital ingest technician (or DIT) and he has edited several Internet series. He is partner in Hollywood Dell Digital Studios, a creative post boutique editing company formed to provide organic post work-flows for indie filmmakers on a budget.

His music background includes too many bands and performances to mention. Notably, he first worked with partner Mary Ann Skweres in the multi-media band, Hollywood Winged Rats. Together they produced and hosted the Underground Music Series, "Couch Concert," that featured unsigned local Hollywood bands. A techie at heart, he produced and starred in the Technician Musician, a series of short technical how-to videos for musicians and more recently, wrote tech stories and interviews for the industry magazine "Below The Line". For five years in the '80's he manufactured his own line of electric guitars from his 24 hour repair shop, where he lived and hosted weekly (and often nightly) jam sessions that included locals that went on to play in the bands Great White, Wall of Vodoo, Quiet Riot, The Coasters, Oingo Boingo and Motley Crue among others.