David Lawrence has signed on to score the upcoming documentary Becoming Mike Nichols. The film is directed by Douglas McGrath (Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, I Don’t Know How She Does It, Infamous) and shows director, producer and improvisational comedy Mike Nichols’ final and historic interviews filmed just months before his death. The movie documents the early life of Nichols (The Graduate, Closer, The Birdcage, Charlie Wilson’s […]
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David Lawrence to Score Douglas McGrath’s HBO Documentary ‘Becoming Mike Nichols’
Posted: December 31, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Becoming Mike Nichols, David Lawrence, Douglas McGrath, HBO
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Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull & Robert McDowell Scoring ‘Swiss Army Man’
Posted: December 31, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andy Hull, Manchester Orchestra, Robert McDowell, Swiss Army Man
Andy Hull and Robert McDowell of the indie rock band Manchester Orchestra have composed the music for the upcoming indie comedy drama Swiss Army Man. The film is directed by Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan and stars Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The movie follows a hopeless man stranded in the wild who discovers a mysterious dead body. As he realizes the body […]
‘Batman’ Live to Projection Concerts Announced
Posted: December 31, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Batman, Danny Elfman
The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra has announced a concert featuring the world premiere performance of composer Danny Elfman‘s original score for Tim Burton’s 1989 movie Batman starring Michael Keaton & Jack Nicholson performed live to projection. The Academy Award-nominated composer is scheduled to attend the event in person. Batman – Live in Concert will be held on May 20 & 21, 2016 at […]
Bernadette Peters’ ‘Come On a My House’ from ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Released
Posted: December 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Mozart in the Jungle
Amazon Content Services has released the cover version of Come On a My House performed by actress Bernadette Peters from the Amazon original series Mozart in the Jungle. The song, which was written by Ross Bagdasarian & William Saroyan and originally performed by Rosemary Clooney, is featured in the second season of the show, which […]
Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring Fox’s ‘Bordertown’
Posted: December 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bordertown, Fox, Mark Mothersbaugh, Seth MacFarlane
Mark Mothersbaugh is scoring the new Fox animated series Bordertown. The show is created by Mark Hentemann (Family Guy) and features the voices of Hank Azaria, Alex Borstein, Missi Pyle, Judah Friedlander and Nicholas Gonzalez. The series centers on two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States-Mexico border, one headed by a border patrol agent, the other by […]
‘Other People’ to Feature Music by Julian Wass
Posted: December 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Kelly, Julian Wass, Other People
Julian Wass is composing the music for the upcoming indie drama Other People. The film is written and directed by Chris Kelly (Saturday Night Live) and stars Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, Bradley Whitford, Maude Apatow, Zach Woods and June Squibb. The movie centers on a struggling comedy writer, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worst year of his […]
Mark Suozzo Scoring Whit Stillman’s ‘Love & Friendship’
Posted: December 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Love & Friendship, Mark Suozzo, Whit Stillman
Mark Suozzo is reuniting with director Whit Stillman on the upcoming period comedy Love & Friendship. The film is written and directed by Stillman and stars Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell, Tom Bennett and Stephen Fry. The movie is based on an unpublished early novella by Jane Austen and follows Lady Susan […]
‘Ride Along 2’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Lennertz, Ride Along, Ride Along 2, score, Soundtrack
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the action comedy sequel Ride Along 2. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christopher Lennertz (Agent Carter, Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief, Galavant, Think Like a Man, Hop) who collaborated with drummer Sheila E. and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval on the project. The composer previously scored the 2014 original film. The soundtrack […]
Trevor Morris to Score ABC’s ‘Of Kings and Prophets’
Posted: December 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Of Kings and Prophets, Trevor Morris
Trevor Morris has been tapped to score the upcoming ABC drama Of Kings and Prophets. The show is created by Adam Cooper & Bill Collage (Exodus: Gods and Kings, Tower Heist) and stars Ray Winstone, Olly Rix, Mohammad Bakri, Simone Kessell, Nathaniel Parker, Haaz Sleiman, James Floyd, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Jeanine Mason and David Walmsley. The biblical drama […]
Aaron Zigman to Score Robin Swicord’s ‘Wakefield’
Posted: December 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aaron Zigman, Robin Swicord, Wakefield
Aaron Zigman is set to reteam with director Robin Swicord on the upcoming drama Wakefield. The film is written and directed by Swicord (screenwriter of Memoirs of a Geisha & Little Women) and stars Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner. The movie is based a short story of the same name by E.L. Doctorow and follows […]
