Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) announced today that James Newton Howard will be honored with the organization’s Icon Award for outstanding career achievement at this year’s BMI Film & Television Awards. The composer whose best known scoring credits include The Sixth Sense, The Hunger Games series, King Kong, Signs, Maleficent and The Dark Knight has received eight Academy Award nominations throughout his career for works […]
Archive for 2016
Soundtrack for HBO’s ‘Only the Dead See the End of the World’ to Be Released
Posted: April 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Michael Yezerski, Only the Dead See the End of the War, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the HBO documentary Only the Dead See the End of the War. The album features the film’s original music composed by Michael Yezerski (Mental, Drift, The Devil’s Candy, A Little Death). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 15, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Only the Dead See […]
Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard to Return for ‘John Wick: Chapter Two’
Posted: April 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chad Stahelski, Joel J. Richard, John Wick, John Wick: Chapter Two, Tyler Bates
Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard are set to return to score the upcoming action thriller John Wick: Chapter Two. The film is helmed by Chad Stahelski who previously co-directed the original movie and stars Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Aurelio, John Leguizamo, Laurence Fishburne, Lance Reddick, Tom Sadowski, Bridget Moynahan, Ruby Rose, Riccardo Scamarcio, Peter Stormare and Common. […]
‘The Girl in the Photographs’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Nima Fakhrara, score, Soundtrack, The Girl in the Photographs
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Girl in the Photographs. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nima Fakhrara (The Signal, The Pyramid, Exists). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 29, 2016 and physically later this year. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album and to check out audio samples. The […]
Ilan Eshkeri Scoring ‘Swallows and Amazons’
Posted: April 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ilan Eshkeri, Measure of a Man, Swallows and Amazons
Ilan Eshkeri is composing the music for the upcoming family adventure Swallows and Amazons. The film is directed by Philippa Lowthorpe (Call the Midwife) and stars Rafe Spall, Kelly Macdonald, Gwendoline Christie, Jessica Hynes, Andrew Scott, Harry Enfield, Dane Hughes, Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Bobby McCulloch, Seren Hawkes and Hannah Jayne Thorp. The movie is based on the best-selling novel of the […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 10, 2016)
Posted: April 10, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andy Gray, Clark, Confirmation, Dice, Doctor Foster, Elegant Too, Frans Bak, Harry Gregson-Williams, HBO, Hunters, Lifetime, Rob Kolar, Shane Carruth, Showtime, Starz, SundanceTV, Syfy, TBS, The Detour, The Girlfriend Experience, The Last Panthers
Premiering tonight is the Starz original series The Girlfriend Experience created by Amy Seimetz & Lodge Kerrigan, executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and starring Riley Keough, Paul Sparks, Mary Lynn Rajskub, James Gilbert and Kate Lyn Sheil. The film’s original music is composed by writer/director/composer Shane Carruth (Primer, Upstream Color). To learn more about the drama, which is inspired by Soderbergh’s 2009 feature of […]
Will Bates to Score ‘Imperium’
Posted: April 10, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Ragussis, Imperium, Will Bates
Will Bates is scoring the upcoming thriller Imperium. The film is written and directed by Daniel Ragussis and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette and Tracy Letts. The movie follows an FBI special agent specializing in domestic terrorism and covert operations who goes undercover and joins a white supremacist group in order to expose a sizable terrorist plot to […]
More Music from ‘Deadpool’ to Be Released
Posted: April 9, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Deadpool, Junkie XL, score, Soundtrack, Tom Holkenborg
Milan Records will release a new soundtrack album for the hit comic book movie Deadpool. The album features more music from the film, including previously unreleased tracks from the score composed by Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Mad Max: Fury Road, Black Mass, Divergent), as well as Teamheadkick’s Merc With A Mouth, an EDM dance remix of Deadpool […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 8, 2016)
Posted: April 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aaron Zigman, Christopher Lennertz, Dasha Charusha, Demolition, Hardcore Henry, High Strung, Joe McGinty, Louder Than Bombs, Mr. Right, Nathan Lanier, Ola Flottum, One More Time, The Boss, The Invitation, Theodore Shapiro
Two new movies are opening nationwide: Opening in most theaters is the comedy The Boss directed by Ben Falcone and starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage and Kathy Bates. The film’s original music is composed by Christopher Lennertz (Ride Along, Horrible Bosses, Agent Carter, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2). No soundtrack album has […]
Lyle Workman to Score HBO’s ‘Crashing’
Posted: April 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Crashing, HBO, Judd Apatow, Lyle Workman
Lyle Workman is set to compose the music for the upcoming HBO original series Crashing. The show is executive produced by Peter Holmes & Judd Apatow and also stars Holmes as a comedian who, when his wife leaves him, has nowhere to stay but on the couches of New York’s finest comics. Holmes has written […]
