Tag Archives: Tiomkin Musical Enterprises

October 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor

by Warren M. Sherk During the summer of 1965 Dimitri Tiomkin plops down a $2,000 advance, based on a $10,000 option, for the right to film Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor. At the time, Jorge Amado (1921–2001), a … Read More…

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September 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold, part two

READ Part one: August 2021 Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold A new approach to scoring A composer “who scores a film should be involved in everything about it from the very beginning,” maintains Dimitri Tiomkin to a … Read More…

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