Daniel Licht has been hired to score the upcoming NBC drama Deception. The show is created by Liz Heldens (Mercy, Friday Night Lights) and stars Meagan Good, Victor Garber, Katherine LaNasa, Tate Donovan, Marin Hinkle, Laz Alonso, Ella Rae Peck and Wes Brown. The series, which was previously entitled Infamous, follows a female detective who returns […]
Archive for November, 2012
Daniel Licht to Score NBC’s ‘Deception’
Posted: November 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Licht, Deception, Liz Heldens, NBC
‘Django Unchained’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Soundtrack
Universal Music Group will release the soundtrack album for Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated film Django Unchained. The album will be released on December 18, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. No word yet on the tracks featured on the release, but check back on this site for the details to be revealed within […]
Unused ‘Chinatown’ Score Released
Posted: November 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chinatown, Phillip Lambro, Roman Polanski, Soundtrack
Perseverance Records has announced a release of the unused score for Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic movie Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. The music is composed by Phillip Lambro. The music was ultimately rejected by Paramount Pictures and replaced by a score by Jerry Goldsmith who ended up receiving one of the film’s eleven […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 16, 2012)
Posted: November 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Anna Karenina, Breaking Dawn, Britta Phillips, Carter Burwell, Chasing Ice, Danny Elfman, Dario Marianelli, Dean Wareham, J. Ralph, Price Check, Silver Linings Playbook, The Twilight Saga, Twilight
Guaranteed to top the weekend box office is the final part in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 directed by Bill Condon and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. The film’s music is composed by Carter Burwell. Summit Entertainment, Chop Shop Records and Atlantic Records have released a soundtrack album featuring the […]
Stephen Trask Scoring Paul Weitz’s ‘Admission’
Posted: November 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Admission, Paul Weitz, Stephen Trask
Stephen Trask is reteaming with director Paul Weitz on the upcoming comedy Admission. The film starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd follows an unmarried college admissions counselor who falls for a former classmate. Michael Sheen, Lily Tomlin, Wallace Shawn, Gloria Reuben and Nat Wolff are co-starring in the Focus Features production. Karen Croner (One True Thing) has […]
Republic Records to Release ‘Les Miserables’ Soundtrack
Posted: November 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alain Boublil, Anne Dudley, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Les Miserables, Soundtrack, Tom Hooper
Republic Records will release the official soundtrack album for Tom Hooper’s new film adaptation of Les Miserables. The album features the film’s songs composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg and with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, as well as the new original song Suddenly composed by Schonberg and featuring lyrics by Alain Boublil. As previously reported, Anne Dudley […]
Alexandre Desplat to Reunite with Wes Anderson on ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Posted: November 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, George Clooney, La trilogie marseillaise: Marius, Rise of the Guardians, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Monuments Men, Wes Anderson
Alexandre Desplat revealed in a recent interview with RedCarpetNewsTV at the London premiere of Dreamworks’s Animation’s Rise of the Guardians that he will be reuniting with director Wes Anderson on his next film The Grand Budapest Hotel. Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Saoirse Ronan are attached to star in the film […]
La-La Land Records to Release Joe Kraemer’s ‘Jack Reacher’ Score
Posted: November 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher McQuarrie, Jack Reacher, Joe Kraemer, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records will release a score album for the upcoming thriller Jack Reacher. The album features the film’s original score composed by Joe Kraemer who has previously worked with director Christopher McQuarrie on The Way of the Gun. The soundtrack will be released on December 18, 2012. The full details will be posted on […]
Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans Scoring ‘Magic Magic’
Posted: November 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bluebird, Daniel Bensi, Desert Cathedral, Magic Magic, Saunder Jurriaans, Simon Killer
Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans are scoring the upcoming psychological thriller Magic Magic. The film is written and directed by Sebastián Silva (The Maid) and stars Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning and Catalina Sandino Moreno. The movie follows a young American who is vacationing with her friends in a remote part of Chile and […]