George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (2028) - Music Dept.

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

Golden Globe, BAFTA, 2x Grammy, Emmy and 5x World Soundtrack Award nominated composer Benjamin Wallfisch has worked on over 80 feature films, collaborating with directors including Ron Howard, Ted Melfi, Andy Muschietti, Christopher Nolan, David F. Sandberg, Leigh Whannell, Gore Verbinski, and Denis Villeneuve. His most current projects include Ron Howard's 'Thirteen Lives' for MGM / Amazon and Andy Muschietti's 'The Flash' for DC / Warner Bros.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and mentored by Dario Marianelli and Hans Zimmer, Benjamin's notable projects include 'IT' and 'IT Chapter Two,' 'Blade Runner 2049' (with Hans Zimmer), 'SHAZAM!,' 'The Invisible Man,' 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Hellboy,' 'A Cure for Wellness,' ' Annabelle: Creation,' 'King of Thieves,' 'Hidden Figures' (with Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer), and music based on Elgar's Enigma Variations for 'Dunkirk.'

Benjamin has performed live in over 100 concerts worldwide, conducting orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony at venues including the Hollywood Bowl, Sydney Opera House and Royal Festival Hall. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and BAFTA, and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2019 he founded The Scoring Lab, a state-of-the art scoring production company and Dolby Atmos Certified mix studio in the heart of Santa Monica, California.

Gabe Hilfer is known for The White Lotus (2021), A Minecraft Movie (2025) and The Studio (2025).

A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and Divinyls. His work won him recognition and a number of MTV award nominations. He also filmed advertisements for Nike, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Budweiser and Miller Lite. He won the Grand Prix Clio for Commercial of the Year for his "Got Milk/Aaron Burr" commercial. At Cannes, he has won the Gold Lion for The Best Beer campaign for Miller Lite, as well as the Silver for "Got Milk". In 1995, Bay was honored by the Directors Guild of America as Commercial Director of the Year. That same year, he also directed his first feature film, Bad Boys (1995), starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, which grossed more than $160 million, worldwide. His follow-up film, The Rock (1996), starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, was also hugely successful, making Bay the director du jour.

James Lassiter is known for Seven Pounds (2008), Hitch (2005) and The Harder They Fall (2021).

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).

Michael T. Rizzo is known for Carson Earl Gets Grounded and Arrested (2025) and Real Life (2021).

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.

Randy Spendlove was born in 1965. He is known for Chicago (2002), Dreamgirls (2006) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022).

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.

Lia Vollack was born on 1 October 1964. She is known for The Usual Suspects (1995), The Cable Guy (1996) and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003).

Ny Lee is known for Inception (2010), Godzilla (2014) and Morbius (2022).

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

Christine Edwards is known for Natural Heroes (2004), Sidesplitters: The Burt & Dick Story (2000) and The Eye of Satan (1992).

Has been handling music production my entire work life... Started at Casablanca Records in A&R Administration in the 1980's and joined Paramount Pictures in 1987 handling music production. During the years at Paramount I have worked on all Paramount Films and now handle TV music production as well. I have been blessed to work with the most incredible composers, musicians, contractors, directors and producers. I look forward to continuing to meet incredible talent! I

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

As President of Music & Soundtracks for The Walt Disney Studios, Mitchell Leib oversees music creative, production, and administration support for all of Disney Studios' live action films while optimizing ancillary development of Disney's soundtrack interests. Leib has been with Disney on and off for nearly 30 years, and has been President of Music & Soundtracks for 15 years. More recently, and in addition to managing the overall live action film slate, Leib oversaw music production and soundtrack releases for the live action film adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast-- the biggest box office film of 2017, as well as the most successful live actions film musical in movie history.

Prior to his position as President of Music & Soundtracks, Leib served as Senior Vice President of Soundtracks at Disney's Buena Vista Music Group and Hollywood Records for 7 years.

Preceding his career at Disney, Mitchell Leib worked as Senior Vice President of Music at Regency Enterprises/Warner Brothers, where he was the head of film music, music publishing, and their Elektra Records distributed label imprint. Before joining regency, Leib held the position of Senior Vice President of A&R and Soundtracks, working with Clive Davis at Arista Records. Prior to that, Leib was head of A&R West Coast for the EMI Records Group.

Before his involvement with EMI Records, Leib had his first experience at Disney. As Senior Director of Music, he spent 5 years in the newly formed studio's music department. In addition to the daily management of music production and administration, Leib oversaw production of the multi-platinum soundtracks to Pretty Woman, Cocktail, Beaches, and Good Morning Vietnam.

Over his 35+ years in the industry, Leib has been an artist manager, music publisher, label executive, and film music executive. Mitchell Leib has been involved in over 400 feature films, produced soundtracks achieving record sales of 75 million records, and has paired music with film visual imagery to some of the most iconic movies of all time.

A third generation native Los Angelean, Leib is married to his wife Stacy of 28 years, and has two children, Rachel and Jordan.

Robert Townson is the most prolific producer of film music in the world. Working with the legends of film music, past and present, including Jerry Goldsmith, Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Georges Delerue, John Williams, Maurice Jarre, Dave Grusin, Lalo Schifrin, James Horner, Alan Silvestri, Thomas Newman, Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Danny Elfman, Carter Burwell, Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino, David Arnold, Rachel Portman, Patrick Doyle, Brian Tyler, John Powell and almost everyone else, Robert has produced nearly 1500 film music recordings. In July of 2010, he celebrated the release of his 1000th album, with a deluxe boxed set of Alex North's Spartacus.

Townson founded his first record label, Masters Film Music, in Canada in October of 1985. His first album release was Jerry Goldsmith's The Final Conflict, and the string of successes has continued ever since. Townson and Goldsmith would end up doing over 80 albums together. Townson's complete discography of original soundtracks, restorations of classics and new recordings is impossible to even summarize. It overflows with blockbuster and Academy Award-winning films, iconic and Emmy-winning television productions, as well as Grammy-nominated and -winning recordings.

Townson began producing a series of film music concerts during his days recording with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He collaborates with of all the world's major film music festivals, including the Fimucité festival on Tenerife in the Canary Islands; the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent, Belgium; Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland; and Hollywood In Vienna. In August of 2011, Townson produced the official Abbey Road Studios 80th anniversary concert in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, while his summer 2012 schedule included the official Universal Pictures 100th Anniversary concert, with the Tenerife Symphony. 2013 saw Townson produce and host China's very first film music concert on the stage of the Venetian Resort Hotel featuring the Macau Orchestra and choir and flute soloist Sara Andon.

California's Golden State Pops Orchestra dedicated their entire 2013 season to the celebration of Varèse Sarabande's 35th anniversary. These concerts featured composers Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri, John Powell and Michael Giacchino among so many others. Robert was presented with the prestigious Ambassador Award at the Krakow Film Music Festival's 10th anniversary gala in May 2017.

Robert celebrated the Varèse Sarabande 40th anniversary with two concerts with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in November of 2018 and continues his soundtrack and music festival activities. The May 2019 release of the recording Cinema Morricone began a new relationship between Robert and Sony Classical. Through his new company, Robert Townson Productions, he continues to build relationships with more and more orchestras to bring great live film music to audiences all over the world.

Toby Chu was born on 11 August 1977 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for Bao (2018), The Monkey King (2023) and Tron: Legacy (2010).

Steve Jablonsky is an American film composer who is known for his collaborations with film directors Michael Bay and Peter Berg. He composed five Transformers films, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Lone Survivor, Deep Horizon, The Island and The Amityville Horror.

Megan McDuffee is a multi-award-winning composer, music producer, and recording artist for video games and film. Her style is best described as dark, catchy electropop with triphop influences - think a blend of Grimes, Depeche Mode, and Massive Attack. Megan's score specialties are in gnarly trailer sound design, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, cyberpunk, and anything with a synthpop or 80's flavor. She's worked with everyone from WayForward to Paramount Pictures, and regularly provides vocals for other music producers such as Klayton, Mitch Murder, and ALEX. You can hear Megan's music in the trailers for Annihilation, The Predator, Dancing with the Stars, the F Word, River City Girls, and many more.

Michael Dean Parsons is a Primetime Emmy-nominated composer whose work spans major films, television, and contemporary classical music.

His recent projects include "Pain Hustlers," directed by David Yates (Harry Potter series), starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans, which he co-composed with nine-time Academy Award nominee James Newton Howard. He also scored the three-part Netflix docuseries "Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn's Treasure," and co-composed "Light & Magic" (Season 2) on Disney+ (dir. Joe Johnston) with Xander Rodzinski. He co-wrote the main title theme for "Bridgerton" with Kris Bowers, earning them a Primetime Emmy Nomination.

He contributed additional music to "The Wild Robot" (Academy Award-nominated for score), "The Lost Bus" (dir. Paul Greengrass), "King Richard," "Chevalier," and "Space Jam: A New Legacy." His scores as lead composer include "Only," "How to Be Alone," "Souls of Totality," the Marvel Studios documentary "Stan Lee," and the Lucasfilm documentary "Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return."

In television, he has contributed additional music to Marvel's "Secret Invasion," "Queen Charlotte," "Bridgerton," and "Raising Dion." He scored the Disney+ docuseries "Sketchbook," and composed additional music for the Emmy-nominated scores of "Light & Magic" (Season 1) and "Hostile Planet." He also scored the fiction podcast series "Dark Woods" from Wolf Entertainment.

A frequent collaborator of James Newton Howard, he served as score producer on "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore," "All the Light We Cannot See," and "Willow."

Beyond film and television, Michael's contemporary classical compositions have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Virtuoso Singers, at venues including David Geffen Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall.

Originally from New Jersey, Michael now resides in Santa Monica. He earned his degree in music composition from The Juilliard School, studying under Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse.

He is represented by Sam Schwartz and Andrew Zack at The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency.

PartyNextDoor is known for SuperFly (2018), Insecure (2016) and Saturday Night Live (1975).

Born in San Jose, CA, Jacob Shea graduated from University of California with a degree in Music Composition. He has worked alongside several of Hollywood's top composers, including Elliot Goldenthal, Steve Jablonsky, Henry Jackman and Hans Zimmer. Jacob was selected as one of six fellows to attend the prestigious Sundance Composers Lab. His work as the Lead Composer at Bleeding Fingers Music has won him two BMI awards for Mountain Men and two BMI awards for Alaskan Bush People.

Credits include music programmer for Public Enemies, arranger for Madagascar 2 and Despicable Me, and composer of additional music for Lone Survivor, Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Transformers: The Dark of the Moon and Battleship. For six seasons, Jacob's co-composed the critically acclaimed Through the Wormhole, narrated by Morgan Freeman. He has recently completed the score for the upcoming Planet Earth II, alongside Hans Zimmer and Jasha Klebe for the Bleeding Fingers Custom Music Shop.

John Sponsler was born on 22 May 1965 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He is a composer, known for National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). He has been married to Debbie Sponsler since 24 August 1991. They have three children.