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Event	SCL Screening 3:10 TO YUMA with Marco Beltrami Q&A
Date	November 18, 2007
Time	5:30 pm
THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS (SCL) & ASCAP Invite you and a guest to a special screening of Lionsgate's 3:10 TO YUMA Followed by an interview and Q&A with Composer MARCO BELTRAMI SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2007 5:30pm (check-in begins at 5:00pm) Following up his critically acclaimed hit WALK THE LINE, James Mangold breathes fresh life into the quintessential American genre, the western, with 3:10 TO YUMA. An update of the 1957 western based on a story by Elmore Leonard, 3:10 TO YUMA pairs two of today's finest actors, Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, as an infamous outlaw and the struggling rancher who volunteers to deliver him to justice. A stark parable of good and evil, the film offers a bracingly gritty depiction of life in the mythic Old West, plunging us into a landscape of hastily constructed towns and mean self-interest at the dawning of the transcontinental railroad. 3:10 TO YUMA begins at a gallop and barely lets up, as Mangold combines intense physical action with sharply honed character drama to deliver a supremely satisfying, thoroughly modern entertainment. MARCO BELTRAMI (Composer), upon completing undergraduate studies at Brown University, entered the Yale School of Music on a scholarship. His pursuit of music composition lead him to Venice for a period of study with the Italian master Luigi Nono and to Los Angeles for a fellowship with Academy Award-winning composer, Jerry Goldsmith. As a protégé of Goldsmith, Beltrami received his big break scoring Wes Craven’s SCREAM. Wes Craven remarked that without Marco’s genius, SCREAM would have been little more than a whisper. Beltrami scored the other two films in the franchise. After SCREAM, Beltrami went on to write his critically acclaimed score for Guillermo Del Toro’s MIMIC, and subsequently scored films ranging from epic drama to dark comedy, indie films to blockbusters, including LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, I ROBOT, TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, XXX: STATE OF THE UNION, BLADE 2, and HELLBOY. Tommy Lee Jones personally chose Beltrami to score his directorial debut THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA, which then caught the ear of WALK THE LINE director Jim Mangold, who hired Beltrami to write the music for the Russell Crowe/Christian Bale Western 3:10 TO YUMA. Lionsgate presents 3:10 TO YUMA. Directed by James Mangold. Screenplay by Halsted Welles and Michael Brandt & Derek Haas. Based on the short story 3:10 TO YUMA by Elmore Leonard. Produced by Cathy Konrad. Executive producers Stuart Besser, Ryan Kavanaugh and Lynwood Spinks. Director of photography Phedon Papamichael, ASC. Production designer Andrew Menzies. Film Editor Michael McCusker, A.C.E. Costume designer Arianne Phillips. Original music by Marco Beltrami. Casting by Lisa Beach, C.S.A. and Sarah Katzman, C.S.A. Starring Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben Foster, Dallas Roberts, Alan Tudyk, Vinessa Shaw, Logan Lerman, Kevin Durand and Luce Rains. 3:10 TO YUMA is rated R for violence and some language. No one under 18 years will be admitted to this screening, no exceptions. Running time is 117 minutes. *************************************************************** THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS (SCL) is the non-profit and primary organization for professional film, TV and video game composers and lyricists, with a distinguished 60-year history in the fine art of creating music for motion pictures and television. The predecessor organization, the Screen Composers Association, began in 1945 with such legendary icons as Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Dimitri Tiomkin and David Raksin among others. Current SCL Members include the top creative professionals whose experience and expertise is focused on many of the creative, technological, legal, newsworthy and pressing issues of the film/television/game music industry today. http://www.TheSCL.com ***************************************************************

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