Varese Sarabande has announced the latest title in its CD Club series. The label will release a soundtrack album for the 1963 drama The List of Adrian Messenger directed by John Huston and starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, George C. Scott and Frank Sinatra. The CD marks the world premiere release […]
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Jerry Goldsmith’s ‘The List of Adrian Messenger’ Score Release Announced
Posted: February 10, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jerry Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack, The List of Adrian Messenger
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 9, 2014)
Posted: February 9, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Bosch, Edward Shearmur, Jesse Voccia, John Debney, Mozart in the Jungle, Roger Neill, The After, The Rebels, Transparent, Vincent Jones
While no new TV shows are premiering this week, Amazon has made a number of new pilots available this past Thursday. Viewers will get to decide whether they want a full season by voting for the shows on the website. One of Amazon’s drama pilots is the mystery drama The After created by Chris Carter (The X-Files, Millennium) […]
‘Maestro’ to Feature Music by Craig Leon
Posted: February 8, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Leon, Lang Lang, Maestro
Bow Street Films has announced that Craig Leon will be writing the music for the upcoming drama Maestro. The film based on a novel by Peter Goldsworthy is directed by Catherine Jarvis and is set to star Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, In the Heart of the Sea). He will be playing a pianist who […]
Rolfe Kent to Score ‘108 Demons’
Posted: February 8, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 108 Demons, La légende des 108, Pascal Morelli, Rolfe Kent
Rolfe Kent is set to score the upcoming French 3D animated feature 108 Demons (La légende des 108). The film is directed by Pascal Morelli who previously helmed the animated adventure Corto Maltese. The movie inspired by the Chinese novel Outlaws of the Water Margin is set in 12th Century China and follows a 10-year-old […]
‘Veronica Mars’ Movie Soundtrack Announced
Posted: February 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Soundtrack, Veronica Mars
WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the upcoming Veronica Mars feature. The album includes the songs from the film by artists including Emperor X, Max, Mr. Twin Sister, ZZ Wars, Typhoon, Lou Rawls, Sufjan Stevens and more. Also features is the show’s title song We Used to Be Friends by The Dandy Warhol, as well […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 7, 2014)
Posted: February 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Fantastic Fear of Everything, After the Dark, Alexandre Desplat, Anton Sanko, Cavemen, Jonathan Davis, Julian Wass, Karl Preusser, Mark Mothersbaugh, Nicholas O'Toole, Nurse 3D, Rolfe Kent, Ronen Landa, The Lego Movie, The Monuments Men, The Pretty One, Vampire Academy, Welcome to the Jungle
Three new movies are opening in wide release this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the animated feature The Lego Movie directed by Phil Lord & Chris Miller and featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day and Morgan Freeman. Mark Mothersbaugh who previously scored Cloudy […]
Daniel Licht to Score Sundance Channel’s ‘The Red Road’
Posted: February 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Licht, Sundance Channel, The Red Road
Daniel Licht has been hired to score the Sundance Channel’s upcoming original series The Red Road. The show is created by Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners, Contraband) and stars Martin Henderson, Tom Sizemore, Jason Mamoa and Julianne Nicholson. The drama centers around a local sheriff struggling to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities: […]
Hollywood Bowl Season Schedule Announced
Posted: February 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl has announced this summer’s season schedule, which includes a number of film music concerts. On July 18/19, Jack Black will be hosting DreamWorks Animation in Concert – Celebrating 20 Years, which will feature film clips from such films as How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar and more […]
Jonny Greenwood Scoring Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’
Posted: February 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Inherent Vice, Jonny Greenwood, Paul Thomas Anderson
Film Music Reporter has confirmed that Jonny Greenwood is composing the music for Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming crime drama Inherent Vice. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson, Jena Malone, Martin Short and Maya Rudolph. The film based on the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon is set in 1960s Los Angeles and […]
Nonesuch Records to Release Clint Mansell’s ‘Noah’ Soundtrack
Posted: February 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet, Noah, score, Soundtrack
Nonesuch Records will release the official soundtrack album for Darren Aronofsky’s biblical epic Noah starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins and Logan Lerman. The album features the film’s original music composed by Clint Mansell (Black Swan, The Wrestler) who collaborated with the Kronos Quartet on his score. The label has previously released the soundtrack albums […]