Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) has announced today that Cliff Martinez will be honored with the Richard Kirk Award for outstanding career achievement at this year’s BMI Film & Television Awards. The Grammy-nominated composer will be the first recipient of the award who is also in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Martinez started out […]
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Cliff Martinez to Receive BMI’s Richard Kirk Award
Posted: April 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BMI Film & Telvision Awards, Cliff Martinez, Richard Kirk Award
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James Newton Howard’s ‘Grand Canyon’ Score Released
Posted: April 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Elmer Bernstein, Grand Canyon, James Newton Howard, score, Soundtrack, The Shootist, The Sons of Katie Elder
La-La Land Records has announced an expanded release of the original motion picture score to the 1991 feature film Grand Canyon written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Kline, Mary McDonald, Danny Glover and Steve Martin. The album features the movie’s original score composed by James Newton Howard. The special limited edition soundtrack contains […]
Jerry Goldsmith’s ‘The Salamander’ Score Released
Posted: April 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jerry Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack, The Salamander
Prometheus Records and Tadlow Music have announced the world premiere recording of the complete score for the 1981 thriller The Salamander directed by Peter Zinner and starring Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Martin Balsam, Sybil Dannng, Christopher Lee, Eli Wallach and Claudia Cardinale. The music composed by Jerry Goldsmith has been newly recorded in by the […]
Jeff Grace to Score ‘Night Moves’ and ‘Cold Comes the Night’
Posted: April 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cold Comes the Night, Jeff Grace, Kelly Reichardt, Night Moves, Tze Chun
Jeff Grace is reuniting with director Kelly Reichardt on the upcoming thriller Night Moves. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard as three radical environmentalists who come together to blow up a hydroelectric dam – the very source and symbol of the resource-devouring industrial culture they despise. Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy) co-wrote […]
‘Mud’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Wingo, Jeff Nichols, Mud, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack release for Jeff Nichols’ drama Mud. The album features the film’s original score composed by David Wingo (All the Real Girls, The Sitter) who previously collaborated with the director on 2011’s Take Shelter. Also included is music by Jeff McIlwain, the country-punk rock band Lucero and its frontman Ben […]
Reza Safinia to Score ‘Mercy’
Posted: April 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jason Blum, Mercy, Peter Cornwell, Reza Safinia, Snap
Reza Safinia has been hired to score the upcoming fantasy horror film Mercy. The movie directed by Peter Cornwell (The Haunting in Connecticut) is based on the short story Gramma by Stephen King about two young boys who go with their single mother to take care of their grandmother and discover that she’s a witch […]
‘Evil Dead’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Evil Dead, Roque Banos, score, Soundtrack
The full soundtrack details of the soundtrack release for the horror remake Evil Dead have been revealed. The album features the film’s original score composed by Roque Banos (The Machinist, Sexy Beast). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 9, 2013 by La-La Land Records. A physical version featuring 25 additional minutes of music […]
‘Mood Indigo’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Étienne Charry, L'ecume des jours, Michel Gondry, Mood Indigo, score, Soundtrack
Mercury Records will release a soundtrack album for Michel Gondry’s fantasy drama Mood Indigo (L’ecume des jours). The album features the film’s original score composed by Étienne Charry. Also included is the original song Mais, Aime La by Loane, a number of jazz standards by Duke Ellington, Shanklin Ray’s Bertha’s Thème from Fritz the Cat, […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 7, 2013)
Posted: April 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bear McCreary, Da Vinci's Demons, Lifetime, Stalkers, Starz, Theo Green
Premiering this Friday, April 12, is the historical fantasy series Da Vinci’s Demons created by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) and starring Tom Riley, Laura Haddock, Lucrezia Donati, Elliot Cowan, Lorenzo Medici and Lara Pulver. Bear McCreary has composed an orchestral score for the eight-part series, which tells the untold story of […]
Marcus Trumpp Scoring ‘Endangered’
Posted: April 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Hackl, Endangered, Marcus Trumpp, Red Machine
Marcus Trumpp has composed the score for the upcoming action thriller Endangered. The film is directed by David Hackl (Saw V) and stars James Marsden, Piper Perabo, Thomas Jane, Billy Bob Thornton, Scott Glenn, Adam Beach, Michaela McManus and Kelly Curran. The movie, which was originally entitled Red Machine, follows two estranged brothers who reconcile on a camping […]
