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APM Music
Associated Production Music, LLC (commonly known as APM Music) is an American production music company headquartered in Hollywood, California, initially as a joint venture between Zomba/Jive Production Music and EMI Production Music. APM Music's catalog contains more than 1,000,000 tracks and its libraries include KPM Music, Bruton, Sonoton, Cezame, Hard and Kosinus, among others. Music tracks from APM Music are used in TV shows, including ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', ''The Mighty B!'', '' GLOW'', ''This is Us'', and ''Westworld''; films, including '' Lady Bird'', ''Mudbound'', and ''The Disaster Artist''; and video games, including '' Skylanders: Imaginators'', '' Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare'', and ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands.'' They were also used in various Motorola phones as ringtones. NFL Films has a joint venture between the NFL and APM Music where music is composed for NFL-related media. The APM catalog includes recordings dating back t ...
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Private Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ...
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Mudbound (film)
''Mudbound'' is a 2017 American historical drama film directed by Dee Rees. It was written by Rees and Virgil Williams, who based their screenplay on the 2008 novel ''Mudbound'' by Hillary Jordan. It stars Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Jonathan Banks, Rob Morgan and Mary J. Blige. The film depicts two World War II veterans – one white, one black – who return to rural Mississippi each to address racism and PTSD in his own way. The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2017, and was released on Netflix and in limited release on November 17, 2017. Critics praised its screenplay and direction, and the cast's performances. At the 75th Golden Globe Awards it received nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Blige) and Best Original Song ("Mighty River"). At the 90th Academy Awards, the film earned four nominations: Best Supporting Actress for Blige; Best Original Song for Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson (Blige ...
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Alessandro Alessandroni
Alessandro Alessandroni (18 March 1925 – 26 March 2017) was an Italian musician and composer. He played multiple instruments, including the guitar, mandolin, mandolincello, sitar, accordion and piano, and composed more than 40 film scores and countless library music. Biography Alessandroni collaborated with his childhood friend Ennio Morricone on a number of soundtracks for Spaghetti Westerns. Morricone's orchestration often calls for an unusual combination of instruments, voices, and whistling. Alessandroni's twangy guitar riff is central to the main theme for ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''. Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's films, including ''A Fistful of Dollars'', '' For a Few Dollars More'', ''Once Upon a Time in the West'', and '' Pervirella''. He also collaborated with Morricone in scoring the 1974 film '' Around the World with Peynet's Lovers''. Alessandroni founded the octet vocal group ' (English: ''The Modern Choris ...
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Alan Tew
Alan Tew is a British composer and arranger. He got his start in the 1950s as the pianist and arranger for the Len Turner Band based in London. Tew is known as a composer of library music, including the theme tunes for British television programmes, ''Doctor in the House'' called "Bond Street Parade", and '' ...And Mother Makes Three''. He also composed all the music for the 1975 series, '' The Hanged Man'', some of which was used as incidental music for ''The Two Ronnies'', ''The Sweeney'', ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', and the 2009 Blaxploitation spoof ''Black Dynamite''. One of the cuts composed for ''The Hanged Man'', entitled "The Big One", would eventually become used as the theme and bumper music for the American television series, ''The People's Court''. "The Big One" would also be used in an episode of the British detective show ''Van der Valk'', as well as the erotic films '' Barbara Broadcast'' (1977), ''The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue'' (1980), and '' Malibu High'' (1979) ...
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Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker (14 February 1944 – 31 July 2020) was an English filmmaker. His early career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television advertisements. After about ten years of filming adverts, many of which won awards for creativity, he began screenwriting and directing films. Parker was known for using a wide range of filmmaking styles and working in differing genres. He directed musicals, including ''Bugsy Malone'' (1976), '' Fame'' (1980), ''Pink Floyd – The Wall'' (1982), '' The Commitments'' (1991) and ''Evita'' (1996); true-story dramas, including '' Midnight Express'' (1978), '' Mississippi Burning'' (1988), '' Come See the Paradise'' (1990) and ''Angela's Ashes'' (1999); family dramas, including ''Shoot the Moon'' (1982), and horrors and thrillers including ''Angel Heart'' (1987) and ''The Life of David Gale'' (2003). His films won nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Golden Globes and six Academy Awards. His film '' Birdy'' ...
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Alan Hawkshaw
William Alan Hawkshaw (27 March 1937 – 16 October 2021) was a British composer and performer, particularly of library music used as themes for movies and television programs. Hawkshaw worked extensively for the KPM production music company in the 1950s to the 1970s, composing and recording many stock tracks that have been used extensively in film and TV. He was the composer of a number of theme tunes including ''Grange Hill'' (originally library music recorded in Munich known as "Chicken Man") and ''Countdown''. In addition, he was an arranger and pianist, and in the United States with the studio group Love De-Luxe scored a number 1 single on the '' Billboard'' Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Here Comes That Sound Again" in 1979. His song "Charlie" is heard on '' Just for Laughs Gags''. He was the father of singer-songwriter Kirsty Hawkshaw (a member of the dance music group Opus III from 1991 to 1995) and also worked with artists such as Tiësto, Delerium, BT, Se ...
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Adam Wakeman
Adam Wakeman (born 11 March 1974) is an English musician and the current keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne's band; he also played keyboards and guitar off-stage for Black Sabbath. Wakeman has also worked with Annie Lennox, Travis, the Company of Snakes, Strawbs, Will Young, Victoria Beckham, Atomic Kitten and Martin Barre. Wakeman has often collaborated with his father, Rick Wakeman, and has released albums with him. He has also released solo albums ''Soliloquy'', ''100 Years Overtime'', ''Real World Trilogy'' and ''Neurasthenia''. In 2006, he created his own band, Headspace, with Damian Wilson. Biography Wakeman was born into a musical family as the younger brother of Oliver Wakeman and the son of long-term Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman. He started playing classical piano at the age of eight. He cites Dr. John, Monty Alexander, Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater and Mark Kelly of Marillion as influences, with the solo from Marillion's " Incommunicado" ...
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Band Geeks
"Band Geeks" is an episode of the American animated television series ''SpongeBob SquarePants''. It is the second part of the 15th episode of the second season and the second half of the 35th episode overall. It originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on September7, 2001. It was written by C.H. Greenblatt, Aaron Springer, and Merriwether Williams, and the animation was directed by Frank Weiss. Springer served as director, and Greenblatt served as storyboard artist. "Band Geeks" follows Squidward, who recruits the citizens of Bikini Bottom to play in a marching band for the Bubble Bowl. The episode received widespread acclaim, with many fans and critics considering it the best episode of the entire series. The episode won Best Sound Editing in Television – Animation at the 2002 Golden Reel Awards. Plot Squidward Tentacles gets a call from his wealthy former high school classmate and rival, Squilliam Fancyson, who has succeeded in everything in which Squidward ha ...
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Heavy Action
"Heavy Action" is a piece of music composed by Johnny Pearson. Composed in 1970, and featuring a strong brass fanfare opening, "Heavy Action" soon became a well established sporting theme tune, most associated in the United Kingdom as the theme for '' Superstars'' and in the United States as the theme music for ABC and ESPN's ''Monday Night Football''. ''Superstars'' The BBC commissioned Pearson to write the piece for its music library, while he was working as a member of the ''Top of the Pops'' orchestra accompanying pop stars on the weekly music TV show. During production of the first series of '' Superstars'' in 1973, "Heavy Action" was chosen as the theme music, owing to its high energy brass fanfare opening and Olympian themes. The show (which aired in its first run from 1973 to 1985 and has been revived regularly since then) has always used the theme tune for all episodes of the show in its various incarnations, including the latest 2012 Olympic ''Superstars'' edition. The t ...
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NFL Films
NFL Productions, LLC, doing business as NFL Films, is the film and television production company of the National Football League. It produces commercials, television programs, feature films, and documentaries for and about the NFL, as well as other unrelated major events and awards shows. Founded as Blair Motion Pictures by Ed Sabol in 1962 and run by his son Steve Sabol until his death, it produces most of the NFL's filmed and videotaped content except its live game coverage, which is handled separately by the individual networks. NFL Films is based in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Founding Founder Ed Sabol was a World War II veteran who worked selling topcoats after returning to the United States. In his spare time, he often used a motion picture camera, received as a wedding gift, to record his son Steve's high school football games. Inspired by his own work, Sabol founded a small film company called Blair Motion Pictures, named after his daughter Blair.''Ed Sabol: A Football L ...
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Motorola
Motorola, Inc. () was an American Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company split into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011. Motorola Solutions is the legal successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off. Motorola Mobility was acquired by Lenovo in 2014. Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers. Motorola's home and broadcast network products included set-top boxes, digital video recorders, and network equipment used to enable video broadcasting, computer telephony, and high-definition television. Its business and government customers consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems (used to build private networks), and, public safety communicat ...
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands'' is a third-person tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Paris in collaboration with Ubisoft Bucharest, Ubisoft Reflections, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Milan and Ubisoft Belgrade, and published by Ubisoft. It was released worldwide on March 7, 2017, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as the tenth installment in the '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' franchise and is the first game in the ''Ghost Recon'' series to feature an open world environment. The game moves away from the futuristic setting introduced in '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter'' and instead features a setting similar to the original '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon''. Ubisoft described it as one of the biggest open world games that they have published, with the game world including a wide variety of environments such as mountains, forests, deserts, and salt flats. ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands'' received generally mixe ...
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