Archive for April, 2015

Lakeshore Records will release a score album for the romantic drama The Age of Adaline. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rob Simonsen (Foxcatcher, (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now, The Way Way Back), including the original song Start Again by Simonsen and Faux Fix, featuring Elena Tonra. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 21, […]

Premiering tonight is the NBC event series A.D. executive produced by Mark Burnett & Roma Downey and starring Juan Pablo di Pace, Vincent Regan, Greta Scacchi, Aniss Elkohen, Richard Coyle, Babou Ceesay, Chipo Chung, Cesare Taurasi and Adam Levy. Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight, Gladiator, The Lion King) and Lorne Balfe (Home, Penguins of Madagascar) […]

Hans Zimmer is officially set to reteam with director Ron Howard on the upcoming film adaptation of Dan Brown’s bestselling novel Inferno. Tom Hanks returns to reprise his role as Robert Langdon and is joined by Felicity Jones as Dr. Sienna Brooks, Irrfan Khan as Harry Sims, Omar Sy as Christoph Bruder and Sidse Babett Knudsen as Dr. Elizabeth […]

Last month, La Pasión Oratorio, inspired by the Oscar-nominated score for The Passion of the Christ composed by John Debney was performed at the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba in Spain as part of Holy Week. 6,000 people attended the concert, which was conducted by Kevin Kaska and performed by Córdoba Orchestra and Choir Ziryab along with […]

The only movie opening nationwide this weekend is the action sequel Furious 7 directed by James Wan and starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Kurt Russell. Interscope Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the film by Wiz Khalifa & […]

Son Lux to Score ‘Paper Towns’

Posted: April 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Son Lux aka Ryan Lott revealed in an interview with MTV that he is composing the score for the upcoming coming-of-age drama Paper Towns. The movie based on the bestselling novel by John Green (The Fault In Our Stars) is directed by Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank) and stars Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Halston Sage, […]

Nathan Larson is composing the music for the new Showtime original series Happyish. The show is created by Shalom Auslander and stars Steve Coogan, Kathryn Hahn, Bradley Whitford, Sawyer Shipman, Carrie Preston, Molly Price and Andre Royo.  The comedy drama follows a couple who face obsolescence in a youth-obsessed culture where people in their 40s are halfway to […]

The details of the soundtrack album for the CBS mini-series The Dovekeepers have been revealed. The album features the series’ original music written by Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal (House of Cards, Monk, Rome, Carnivale, Ugly Betty). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 7, 2015. A physical release is planned for later this […]

La-La Land Records has released a soundtrack album for the horror comedy Zombeavers. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jon and Al Kaplan who also co-wrote the movie’s screenplay with director Jordan Rubin. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. A limited edition CD version will be released on April 21, 2015 and will be available […]

‘Home’ Score Album Details

Posted: April 2, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Relativity Music Group will release a soundtrack album for DreamWorks Animation’s Home. The album features the film’s original score composed by Lorne Balfe (Penguins of Madagascar, Megamind, The Bible). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 14, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Sony Classical is distributing the […]