Music Box Records has announced the world premiere release of the score for the 1989 comedy She-Devil directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Meryl Streep, Roseanne Barr, Ed Begley Jr., Sylvia Miles and Linda Hunt. The film’s music is composed and conducted by Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Departed, The […]
Archive for March, 2014
‘She-Devil’ Score Album Announced
Posted: March 18, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Howard Shore, score, She-Devil, Soundtrack
Henry Mancini’s ‘Once Is Not Enough’ Score Released
Posted: March 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Henry Mancini, Jaqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough, score, Sol Kaplan, Soundtrack, The Spy Who Came In For the Cold
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere CD release of the soundtrack for the 1975 drama Jaqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough directed by Guy Green and starring Kirk Douglas, Deborah Raffin, David Janssen, Alexis Smith, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri and Brenda Vaccaro. The album features the original music from the Paramount Pictures production composed […]
Eric Serra to Score Luc Besson’s ‘Lucy’
Posted: March 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eric Serra, Luc Besson, Lucy
Eric Serra is reuniting with director Luc Besson on the upcoming sci-fi action thriller Lucy. The movie stars Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, Analeigh Tipton and Amr Waked. The film follows a female drug mule who gains superhuman powers after the drug she is carrying enters her body. Besson has also written the screenplay […]
‘A Poet in New York’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: A Poet in New York, BBC, Debbie Wiseman, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the BBC original movie A Poet in New York. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Debbie Wiseman (Wilde, Adventures of Arsene Lupin) and performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The soundtrack will be released on April 28, 2014 in the UK. […]
Randy Newman to Receive Max Steiner Award
Posted: March 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Hollywood in Vienna, Max Steiner Award, Randy Newman
Randy Newman has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award, which will be presented at the annual Hollywood in Vienna Concert at Vienna Concert Hall on September 25, 2014. The Max Steiner Award honors extraordinary achievements within the genre of film music by the musical capital of Austria, Vienna. […]
Tuomas Kantelinen to Score ‘Lost in Austin’
Posted: March 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lost in Austin, Tuomas Kantelinen
Tuomas Kantelinen has been tapped to score the upcoming caper comedy Lost in Austin. The film is directed by Will Raee and stars Linda Cardellini, Jason Lee, Craig Robinson, Skeet Ulrich, Kristen Schaal and Ursula Parker. The movie follows a wife and mother who comes up with a plan to make her family instant celebrities by having her ex-boyfriend kidnap her 11-year-old […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 16, 2014)
Posted: March 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Crisis, Evan Frankfort, John Paesano, Jonathan Goldsmith, Lifetime, Liz Phair, Marc Dauer, NBC, The 100, The CW, The Grim Sleeper
Premiering tonight on NBC is the new drama Crisis created by Rand Ravich and starring Gillian Anderson, Dermot Mulroney, Lance Gross and Rachael Taylor. John Paesano (Dragons: Riders of Berk, the upcoming The Maze Runner) is composing the show’s original music. The series follows an unlikely puppeteer who will bring everyone from CEOs to the […]
David Julyan to Score ‘Second Origin’
Posted: March 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Julyan, Second Origin, The Rules of the Game
David Julyan is set to score the upcoming sci-fi romance Second Origin. The film is directed by Carlea Porta and stars Rachel Hurd-Wood, Andrés Batista, Ibrahim Mane and Sergi López. The movie based on the Spanish bestselling novel Mecanoscrit del Segon Origen by Manuel de Pedrolo is set in a post-apocalyptic world and follows two […]
‘Walter’ to Feature Music by Dan Romer
Posted: March 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dan Romer, Walter
Dan Romer has composed the music for the upcoming indie comedy Walter. The film is directed by Anna Mastro and stars Andrew J. West, Virginia Madsen, William H. Macy, Justin Kirk, Neve Campbell, Leven Rambin, Peter Facinelli and Milo Ventimiglia. The movie centers on an usher at a movie theater who believes he is the son of God, with the responsibility of deciding […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 14, 2014)
Posted: March 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andrew Feltenstein, Bad Words, Better Living Through Chemistry, Bradford Cox, Christopher Young, Danny Bensi, Enemy, Grayson Matthews, Jeremy Sams, John Nau, Josh Kramon, Le Week-End, Nathan Furst, Need for Speed, Patrick, Pino Donaggio, Rachel Portman, Rolfe Kent, Saunder Jurriaans, Teenage, The Art of the Steal, The Right Kind of Wrong, The Single Moms Club, Veronica Mars
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the action movie Need for Speed directed by Scott Waugh and starring Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Scott Mescudi, Ramon Rodriguez, Michael Keaton, Rami Malek, Dakota Johnson and Harrison Gilbertson. Interscope Records has released a soundtrack featuring the original song Hero by […]