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Quartet Records will release a soundtrack album for the Spanish comedy Holy Goalie (Que baje Dios y lo vea). The album features the film’s original music composed by Fernando Velazquez (The Impossible, Mama, Hercules, A Monster Calls, The Orphanage). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, January 12 and is now available for pre-order […]

Will Bates is the composer of the upcoming NBC drama Rise. The show is created by Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood) and stars Josh Radnor, Rosie Perez, Auli”i Cravalho, Damon J. Gillespie, Marley Shelton, Rarmian Newton, Ted Sutherland, Amy Forsyth, Casey Johnson, Taylor Richardson, Joseph Tippett and Shirley Rumierk. The series follows a dedicated teacher […]

John Williams confirmed in a recent interview with Variety that he will be returning to score the final installment in the third Star Wars trilogy. The currently untitled Episode IX will reunite him with director J.J. Abrams who previously helmed 2015’s The Force Awakens. Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac are set to […]

Tuomas Kantelinen has been hired to score the upcoming historical epic Swords and Sceptres. The film marks the directorial debut of Indian choreographer Swati Bhise and stars Rupert Everett, Derek Jacobi, Nathaniel Parker, Ben Lamb, Jodhi May and Devika Bhise who also co-wrote the screenplay with the director and Olivia Emden. The movie tells the […]

The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 54th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. For the past few years, scoring mixers have been recognized alongside production, re-recording, ADR and foley mixers. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Gareth Cousins for Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver (scored by Steven […]

Laura Karpman has recently recorded her score for the upcoming Netflix original movie Set It Up. The film is directed by Claire Scanlon and stars Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Taye Diggs and Lucy Liu. The romantic comedy revolves around two overworked assistants who try to get their horrible bosses out of their hair by setting […]

Mark Isham (Crash, Once Upon a Time, A River Runs Through It) and BT (The Fast and the Furious, Monster) have recently scored two episodes of the new Amazon original series Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. The composers collaborated on the music for the episodes Autofac starring Juno Temple, Janelle Monae & David Lyons, and Isham also scored […]

Photek Scoring ‘Life in a Year’

Posted: January 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Photek is composing the score for the upcoming romantic drama Life in a Year. The film is directed by Mitja Okorn (Letters to Santa, Planeta Singli) and stars Jaden Smith, Cara Delevingne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Chris D’Elia and Nia Long. The movie follows a 17-year-old boy who is determined to give his dying girlfriend their […]

2018 BAFTA Nominations Announced

Posted: January 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The British Academy of Film and Television has announced the nominations for the 2018 Orange British Academy Film Awards. The winners will be announced at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday, February 18. For a full list of nominations, click here. Here are the nominations in […]

Intrada Records has announced a new expanded soundtrack album for the 1991 action adventure Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael McShane and Nik Brimble. The album features the original music from the Warner Bros./Morgan Creek production composed and conducted […]