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EXCLUSIVE: Amid a streaming-spurred frenzy for music catalog rights, Multimedia Music has acquired film and TV scores from nine-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard. Pricing for the catalog deal was not specified by the parties, but the transactions follows a $100 million funding round by Multimedia. The company…

James Newton Howard is no stranger to the Western. He composed the scores for Wyatt Earp and Hidalgo, but the music for News of the World required a different touch. "This may be a big Western, with big characters and landscapes," Newton Howard says, "but it's a much more introspective movie." The story follows…

With News of the World, composer James Newton Howard returned to the Western genre for the first time in many years. In concert with director Paul Greengrass, he'd craft a more somber, inward-looking score than is often heard in the genre—"broken" music for a broken nation. The Universal Pictures title centers on…