Fans of "The Godfather" can watch Francis Ford Coppola's epic on the big screen this weekend as the Hollywood Studio Symphony performs live the score by Nino Rota. 

The event is hitting Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre on Saturday after appearances in London and San Francisco. It comes to audiences from composer/conductor Justin Freer. Freer is the founder and president of CineConcerts, which, as the name suggests, turns films into concert experiences.

This is Freer's second time scoring a movie live, with the first being "Gladiator." He says he got into bringing film scores to life out of pure passion.

"My whole life I've loved film music. I think it's one of the great art forms in music history and I'm incredibly passionate about it, and I think that there's a yearning for it now in the public for being able to experience these great masterpieces," he said.

He chose "The Godfather" for its notoriety.

"Other than it being 'The Godfather,' the film is one of the best ever made. The score for me is one of the most quality, refined, operatic scores for a film I've ever heard, or had the chance to listen to, or now perform as the conductor for the show," Freer said. "So these things married together are truly magical."

To paint a picture, the orchestra will perform live on stage in sync with the film, which will play on a 40-foot wide screen in HD, Freer says.  

"At Nokia, it's a 5,000-seat movie theater, basically," he said. "It helps that Coppola made a masterpiece. He did our job for us."