Dennis Dreith explains how one thing leads to another in his journey as a film & TV producer.
Read MoreDennis at the 2019 ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO
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Read MoreDennis is a guest on Bobby Owsinski’s Podcast Episode #182 - Composer Kickbacks and 500 Series Control
Read MoreOn 28 April 2017, an ECSA delegation consisting of ECSA President Alfons Karabuda, Vice-President Bernard Grimaldi, Secretary General Patrick Ager and SKAP’s Executive Manager Mårten Karlsson met with European and American game composers and game production representatives to review current practices in the composition, production and licensing of music for video games.
Read MoreThe little-known AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund pays royalties even to oft-neglected session musicians and backup singers.
Read MorePictures of the 2017 ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO
Read MoreThe ASCAP/Columbia University Film Scoring Workshop named participant Ariel Marxas the winner of the 2015 ASCAP Foundation Henry Mancini Music Fellowship. Selected by Workshop faculty, this prestigious award provides development support for an exceptionally talented young film composer. The Fellowship is generously funded by Ginny Mancini to honor the memory of her husband, ASCAP scoring legend Henry Mancini (Days of Wine and Roses, Breakfast at Tiffany's). It will be presented to Marx in December at the annual ASCAP Foundation Awards.
Read MoreEuropean and international creator representatives met with YouTube in Berlin for an exchange of views in rapid changing times of the music business. High on the agenda of the roundtable discussion was how to empower music writers in the digital future. Among the issues addressed were rights management, content ID and transparency. The meeting was organized by ECSA in the framework of the Creative Europe programme and within ECSA’s Creators’ Network.
Read MoreAmerican composer Dennis Dreith, whose works have been made famous by Jurassic Park ', Braveheart', The Addams 'Family or Aliens', will come to Bucharest to compose the music of the Romanian film Spovedanii, directed by Ioan Cărmăzan.
Read MoreRachel Bailit talks with Dennis Dreith at New York in Hollywood.
Read MoreThe problem of “runaway production” — California’s loss of shooting days to other states, largely due to the generous tax credits and other incentives offered elsewhere — is a staple of industry panel discussions.
Read MoreIt is work that has kept some of these studio veterans busy for years, even decades: playing the music that propels the action and heightens the emotional stakes in all sorts of movies and, on rare occasions, even sells millions of records. It is also, many observers say, work that is increasingly going elsewhere as a result of long-standing union agreements that some producers find troublesome.
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