Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau are composing the music for the IFC comedy mini-series The Spoils of Babylon. The six part-series is created by Matt Piedmont and Andrew Steele and stars Will Ferrell, Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Tobey Maguire, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Sheen, Tim Robbins and Kristen Wiig. The Funny or Die production is […]
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Andrew Feltenstein & John Nau Scoring IFC’s ‘The Spoils of Babylon’
Posted: December 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Feltenstein, IFC, John Nau, Matt Piedmont, The Spoils of Babylon
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 22, 2013)
Posted: December 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Marvin Hamlisch, Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love, Matthew Sklar
Premiering on Friday, December 27 as the season finale of American Masters on PBS is the documentary Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love written, directed and produced by Dori Berinstein. The episode explores the prolific life and career of the Academy Award-, Grammy-, Tony- and Pulitzer Price-winning composer whose best known songs include The Way We […]
Gabriel Mann to Score ‘Friends With Better Lives’
Posted: December 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: CBS, Friends With Better Lives, Gabriel Mann
Gabriel Mann has been hired to score the upcoming CBS comedy Friends With Better Lives. The show is created by Dana Klein (Friends, Becker) and stars Kevin Connolly, Majandra Delfino, James Van Der Beek, Zoe Lister-Jones, Brooklyn Decker and Rick Donald. The series follows six friends at different stages in their lives – married, divorced, newly engaged […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 20, 2013)
Posted: December 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, Andrew Feltenstein, Arcade Fire, Ben Sollee, Evgueni Galperine, Her, John Nau, Maidentrip, Owen Pallett, Paul Leonard Morgan, Sacha Galperine, The Past, Walking with Dinosaurs
Two new movies are opening wide this week: Expected to top the weekend box office is the comedy sequel Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues directed by Adam McKay and starring Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, James Marsden and Kristen Wiig. The film’s original score is composed by Andrew […]
Scoring ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Production Diary
Posted: December 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Composer InterviewsTags: Conrad Pope, Howard Shore, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Peter Jackson has published his final production diary of the year for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug focusing on the music for the fantasy epic. The video features interviews with composer Howard Shore who is joined at his writing studio by Doug Adams, author of the book The Music of The Lord of the […]
Clinton Shorter Scoring CBS’ ‘Intelligence’
Posted: December 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: CBS, Clinton Shorter, Intelligence
Clinton Shorter is composing the music for the upcoming CBS drama Intelligence. The show stars is created by Michael Seitzman (North Country, Here on Earth) and stars Josh Holloway, Meghan Ory, John Billingsley, PJ Byrne, Michael Rady and Marg Helgenberger. The series centers on a high-tech intelligence operative enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his […]
‘The Thirteenth Tale’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Benjamin Wallfisch, score, Soundtrack, The Thirteenth Tale
MovieScore Media and Kronos Records will release a soundtrack album for the BBC drama The Thirteenth Tale. The album features the film’s original music composed by Benjamin Wallfisch (The Escapist, The Hours, Dear Wendy). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 30, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio […]
Mychael Danna to Score Wally Pfister’s ‘Transcendence’
Posted: December 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mychael Danna, Transcendence, Wally Pfister
Mychael Danna has been tapped to score the upcoming sci-fi thriller Transcendence. The film marks the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight, Inception) and stars Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Clifton Collins, Jr. and Morgan Freeman. The movie follows a foremost researcher in the field […]
A.R. Rahman to Score ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’
Posted: December 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A.R. Rahman, Lasse Hallstrom, The Hundred-Foot Journey
A.R. Rahman has been hired to score the upcoming drama The Hundred-Foot Journey. The film is directed by Lasse Hallstrom and stars Helen Mirren and Manish Dayal. The movie follows an Indian family who moves to Southern France and opens an Indian restaurant a hundred feet across the street from a Michelin starred French restaurant. […]
BMI to Present Composer/Director Roundtable at 2014 Sundance Film Festival
Posted: December 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: BMI, Sundance Film Festival
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) has announced the 16th annual Composer/Director Roundtable and 12th annual Snowball during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, on January 22, in Park City, Utah. BMI’s roundtable entitled Music & Film: The Creative Process will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sundance House. The conversation will be moderated […]
