Disney announced at the studios’ D23 expo event that Shakira is recording an original song for the Disney Animation Studios’ feature Zootopia. The song is entitled Try Everthing and will be featured in the movie directed by Byron Howard (Tangled) and Rich Moore (Wreck-it Ralph). Shakira will also be among the film’s voice cast, which also includes Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin. […]
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Shakira to Record Original Song for Disney’s ‘Zootopia’
Posted: August 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Shakira, Zootopia
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Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez to Write Songs for Disney’s ‘Gigantic’
Posted: August 14, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Gigantic, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
It was announced today at Disney’s D23 fan expo that Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez will be writing original music for Disney Toon Studios’ upcoming feature Gigantic. The film will be directed by Nathan Greno (Tangled) and produced by Dorothy McKim (Meet the Robinson). The movie is based on the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale is set in Spain during […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 14, 2015)
Posted: August 14, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Air, Aleks de Carvalho, Amnesiac, Britta Phillips, Daniel Hart, Daniel Pemberton, Dean Wareham, Edo Van Breemen, Final Girl, Gabriel Yared, Garth Stevenson, Hauschka, J. Ralph, Joseph Trapanese, Marc Can, Mark Orton, Meru, Mistress America, Nathan Halpern, One & Two, People Places Things, Return to Sender, Straight Outta Compton, Ten Thousand Saints, The Boy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Tom at the Farm
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the biographical drama Straight Outta Compton directed by F. Gary Gray and starring O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Aldis Hodge as MC Ren, Neil Brown, Jr. as DJ Yella […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 7, 2015)
Posted: August 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BT, Cop Car, Danny Bensi, Dark Places, Fantastic Four, Gabriel Yared, Gregory Tripi, Ilan Eshkeri, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Marco Beltrami, Nate Heller, Phil Mossman, Philip Glass, Ricki and the Flash, Saunder Jurriaans, Shaun the Sheep Movie, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Gift, The Newton Brothers, The Runner
Four new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the superhero movie Fantastic Four directed by Josh Trank and starring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell. The film’s original music is composed by Marco Beltrami (Scream, The Wolverine, World War Z, 3:10 to Yuma) and Philip Glass (The Hours, Notes on a Scandal, Candyman). Sony Classical […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 31, 2015)
Posted: July 31, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Lego Brickumentary, Brian Byrne, Danny Elfman, Denis Sanacore, Jenny's Wedding, Joe Kraemer, John Jennings Boyd, Marcus Trumpp, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Northmen - A Viking Saga, The End of the Tour, The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, Vacation
Two new movies are opening nationwide this week: Expected to top the weekend box office is the action thriller Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin and Sean Harris. The film’s original music is composed by Joe Kraemer (Jack […]
Meghan Trainor to Record Original Song for ‘The Peanuts Movie’
Posted: July 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Meghan Trainor, The Peanuts Movie
Meghan Trainor announced that she is recording an original song for the upcoming animated feature The Peanuts Movie. The track is called Better When I’m Dancin’ and will mark the singer/songwriter’s first original song for a movie. Epic Records will release the official soundtrack album for the film and has set a release date to […]
Bret McKenzie to Write Songs for Disney’s ‘Bob the Musical’
Posted: July 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bob the Musical, Bret McKenzie
Bret McKenzie has been tapped to write original songs for Disney’s upcoming musical comedy Bob the Musical. The film is set to be directed by Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Tom Cruise is in talks to star in the movie a regular guy who, after a blow to the head, suddenly can hear the inner songs of everyone’s […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 24, 2015)
Posted: July 24, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 10 Cent Pistol, Akon, American Heist, Henry Jackman, James Horner, Jim Dooley, John Swihart, Joseph Bishara, Keegan DeWitt, Ludovico Einaudi, Paper Towns, Pixels, Ryan Lott, Samba, Son Lux, Southpaw, Staten Island Summer, The Vatican Tapes, Unexpected
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the sci-fi action comedy Pixels directed by Chris Columbus and starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad and Brian Cox. The film’s original music is composed by Henry Jackman (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Big Hero 6, X-Men: First Class, Wreck-It-Ralph). Varese Sarabande has released […]
Stephen Trask to Create ‘The King of Comedy’ Musical
Posted: July 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Stephen Trask, The King of Comedy
Composer Stephen Trask is teaming up with writer Chris D’Arienzo (Rock of Ages) to create a musical based on Martin Scorsese’s 1982 feature The King of Comedy starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Tony Randall, Diahnne Abbott and Sandra Bernhard about an aspiring comedian who kidnaps a talk show host in the hopes of forcing […]
Van Alexander (1915 – 2015)
Posted: July 19, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Van Alexander
Variety is reporting that Van Alexander died this afternoon at age 100 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He composed scores for several 1960s sitcoms including Bewtiched, I Dream of Jeannie, Hazel, The Donna Reed Show and Dennis the Menace. Throughout his career, Alexander earned three Emmy Award nominations for his music direction for The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters and The Golddiggers, […]
