The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Locals 7 (Orange County, CA), 47 (Los Angeles), and 581 (Ventura, CA) unions on behalf of seven nonmember musicians. The lawsuit alleges the careers of these musicians were seriously damaged by union actions.

Audio Impressions’ has announced Version 2.0 of DVZ Strings, their new high-resolution virtual-instrument strings library

ProSonus has shipped the Studio Channel, a new device that features a tube-based, Class A mic/instrument preamplifier, VCA-based compressor; and a three-band parametric equalizer

Mac software developer Audiofile Engineering is now shipping Wave Editor 1.4, the latest update to their audio editing application

VSL advances the ball with their new Vienna Effects Suite and a major problem/solution update to their Vienna Ensemble 3 that have most composers singing, “c’mon get happy.”

Edward Shearmur adds another romantic comedy to his resumee: Bride Wars, starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway as two best friends who become rivals when they decide to arrange their respective weddings on the same day. Gary Winick (13 Going on 30, Tadpole, Charlotte’s Web) directs and film is scheduled to come out on January [...]

Independent comedy specialist John Swihart is doing the music for New in Town, a romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. The film is directed by Jonas Elmer, a Danish filmmaker who makes his first US film after a couple of succesful Danish comedies, including Gone with the Fish. The script tells the [...]

Yes Man, Peyton Reed’s new comedy starring Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel and Terence Stamp, gets an original score by Lyle Workman and Mark Everett. Workman’s previous scoring credits include Superbad and The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Everett’s songs has been heard in films such as Knocked Up and What Happens in Vegas. In Yes [...]

Following the success of Space Chimps, his first feature film score as a composer in his own right, James Newton Howard scoring team member Chris P. Bacon has been hired to write the music for Alpha and Omega, an animated adventure produced by Crest Animation for release by Lions Gate in 2010. Ben Gluck, who [...]

Although the film is only in pre-production, the Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency is now including Rango, Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski’s upcoming animation project featuring Johnny Depp, on the resumee of Hans Zimmer. Paramount will release the film in 2011. Zimmer’s current films are Ron Howard’s much anticipated Frost/Nixon and Guillermo Arriaga’s The Burning Plain. [...]