Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) has published a number of video clips from the organization’s 2015 BMI Film & TV Awards gala, which was held last week at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Check out the acceptance speech of this year’s recipient of the BMI Icon Award, Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The King’s Speech, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The […]
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Video Highlights From 2015 BMI Film & TV Awards
Posted: May 18, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, BMI Film & TV Awards, Chris Montan
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Composer Jed Kurzel to Direct ‘Ivan Lendl Never Learnt to Volley’
Posted: May 18, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ivan Lendl Never Learnt to Volley, Jed Kurzel, Justin Kurzel
Composer Jed Kurzel is set to make his directorial debut with the upcoming sports comedy drama Ivan Lendl Never Learnt to Volley. The film will star Denis Menochet as a man whose fanatical desire to see his son become a tennis champion comes at any cost. The composer’s brother Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, The Snowtown Murders) is producing the project with Anna McLeish […]
Robert Drasnin (1927 – 2015)
Posted: May 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Robert Drasnin
Variety is reporting that Robert Drasnin passed away this past Wednesday at age 87. The composer is best known for scoring numerous TV show episodes between the 1950s and 1980s, including Mission: Impossible, The Twilight Zone, Hawaii Five-0, Lost in Space, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, The Wild Wild West, Mannix, Cannon, The Streets […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 15, 2015)
Posted: May 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Animals, Christophe Beck, Echoes of War, Every Secret Thing, Good Kill, Hanan Townshend, I'll See You in My Dreams, Ian Hultquist, Jed Kurzel, Junkie XL, Keegan DeWitt, Kyle Newmaster, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mark Mothersbaugh, Pitch Perfect 2, Rob, Robin Coudert, Slow West, Tom Holkenborg, Where Hope Grows
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the action movie Mad Max: Fury Road directed by George Miller and starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Nathan Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Riley Keough, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Abbey Lee and Courtney Eaton. Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL) has composed the film’s original music. WaterTower Music has […]
‘Ricki and the Flash’ to Feature Original Song by Jenny Lewis & Johnathan Rice
Posted: May 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Jenny Lewis, Johnathan Rice, Jonathan Demme, Ricki and the Flash
Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice have written the original song Cold One for Jonathan Demme’s comedy drama Ricki and the Flash. The song is performed by Meryl Streep who stars in the film alongside Kevin Kline, Mammie Gummer, Audra McDonald, Sebastian Stan and Rick Springfield. The movie directed by Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia) and scripted by […]
Elliot Goldenthal’s ‘Symphony in G-Sharp Minor’ to Be Released
Posted: May 2, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Elliot Goldenthal, Symphony in G Minor
Zarathustra Music will release an EP featuring Elliot Goldenthal‘s concert work Symphony in G-Sharp Minor. The Academy Award-winning composer whose film scores include Frida, Interview with the Vampire, Heat, Batman Forever, Alien 3 and Public Enemies composed the piece, which was commissioned by the Pacific Symphony and marks his second collaboration with the orchestra following the oratorio Fire Water Paper. The symphony premiered last […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 1, 2015)
Posted: May 1, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Any Day, Atticus Ross, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Brian Tyler, Cas & Dylan, Claudia Sarne, Danny Elfman, David Robbins, Days of Grace, Elia Cmiral, Far from Men, Far from the Madding Crowd, Julian Wass, Leopold Ross, Michael Brook, Nick Cave, Ride, Shigeru Umebayashi, Warren Ellis, Welcome to Me
The only wide release this weekend is Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Age of Ultron written and directed by Joss Whedon and starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johannson, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany and Cobie Smulders. The film’s original music is composed by Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark […]
James Horner to Compose Music for Disney’s ‘Pandora: The Land of Avatar’ Theme Park Attraction
Posted: April 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Avatar, James Horner
James Horner revealed in an interview with HeyUGuys that he will be composing the music for Pandora: The Land of Avatar at Disney’a Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The theme park attraction is designed by Walt Disney Imagineering in partnership with James Cameron and Lightstorm Entertainment and will feature the wonders of Pandora, […]
