Zarathustra Music will release Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal‘s Othello Symphony based on the ballet he composed in 1998. Last year, the composer of such films as Frida, Interview with a Vampire, Heat, Public Enemies and Alien 3 adapted the music into a proper concert piece, which was recorded with the AUKSO Orchestra of Tychy Poland at Alvernia Studios in Krakow. The recording will be […]
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Elliot Goldenthal’s Othello Symphony to Be Released
Posted: April 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Elliot Goldenthal, Othello Symphony, The Stone Cutters
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Ibero-American Film Industry Launches Platino Awards
Posted: April 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emilio Kauderer, Lucas Vidal, Platino Awards
This past Saturday, the first Platino Ibero-American Film Awards were held Saturday in Panama City. In the Best Original Score category, Emilio Kauderer was honored for his music for the animated feature Foosball directed by Juan Jose Campanella, which was recently picked up by the Weinstein Company for a domestic release this summer under the title Underdogs. Composer Lucas Vidal (Fast […]
Mychael Danna to Receive BMI’s Richard Kirk Award
Posted: April 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BMI Film & Television Awards, Mychael Danna, Richard Kirk Award
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) has announced today that Mychael Danna will be honored with the Richard Kirk Award for outstanding career achievement at this year’s BMI Film & Television Awards. The composer who is recognized for his evocative blending of non-western traditions with orchestral and electronic music received his first Academy Awardin 2013 for his score for Ang Lee’s […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 4, 2014)
Posted: April 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Afflicted, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Andrew Lockington, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Danny Elfman, Dom Hemingway, Edo Van Breemen, Eric D. Johnson, Frankie & Alice, Goodbye World, Henry Jackman, Hot Guys with Guns, Ilan Eshkeri, In the Blood, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, Jinn, Kyle Newmaster, Laura Karpman, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mervyn Warren, Mica Levi, Noah Sorota, Paul Haslinger, Rolfe Kent, Something Wicked, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, The Unknown Known, Under the Skin
Only one new movie is opening this weekend: Guaranteed to top the weekend box office is Captain America: The Winter Soldier directed by Anthony & Joe Russo and starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie and Robert Redford. The film’s music is composed by Henry Jackman (X-Men: First Class, Wreck-It-Ralph. Hollywood Records has released […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 28, 2014)
Posted: March 28, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aria Prayogi, Boys of Abu Ghraib, Breathe In, Cesar Chavez, Clint Mansell, Dan Marocco, David Sardy, Dustin O'Halloran, Fajar Yuskemal, Joseph Trapanese, Just a Sigh, Michael Brook, Noah, Raf Keunen, Sabotage, The Raid 2
Two new movies opening nationwide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the biblical epic Noah directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins and Logan Lerman. Clint Mansell who previously scored all of the director’s features including Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, […]
Noah Sorota Recording the Score for ‘Jinn’
Posted: March 23, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Jinn, Noah Sorota
Noah Sorota has composed the music for the supernatural thriller Jinn. The composer’s score was recorded with a full orchestra on the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, CA. Sorota also conducted the orchestra. Check out a number of videos from the recording sessions of the score after the jump. Sorota is […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 21, 2014)
Posted: March 21, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 50 to 1, Blood Ties, Christophe Beck, Divergent, God's Not Dead, Johann Johannsson, Junkie XL, Marc Marder, McCanick, Muppets Most Wanted, Rob the Mob, Stephen Endelman, The Missing Picture, Will Musser, William Ross, Yodelice
Two new movies are opening wide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the film adaptation of the young adult novel Divergent directed by Neil Burger and starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Aaron Eckhart, Miles Teller, Zoe Kravitz, Ansel Elgort, Ray Stevenson, Jai Courtney, Ashley Judd and Maggie Q. Interscope Records has released a […]
Randy Newman to Receive Max Steiner Award
Posted: March 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Hollywood in Vienna, Max Steiner Award, Randy Newman
Randy Newman has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award, which will be presented at the annual Hollywood in Vienna Concert at Vienna Concert Hall on September 25, 2014. The Max Steiner Award honors extraordinary achievements within the genre of film music by the musical capital of Austria, Vienna. […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 14, 2014)
Posted: March 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andrew Feltenstein, Bad Words, Better Living Through Chemistry, Bradford Cox, Christopher Young, Danny Bensi, Enemy, Grayson Matthews, Jeremy Sams, John Nau, Josh Kramon, Le Week-End, Nathan Furst, Need for Speed, Patrick, Pino Donaggio, Rachel Portman, Rolfe Kent, Saunder Jurriaans, Teenage, The Art of the Steal, The Right Kind of Wrong, The Single Moms Club, Veronica Mars
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the action movie Need for Speed directed by Scott Waugh and starring Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Scott Mescudi, Ramon Rodriguez, Michael Keaton, Rami Malek, Dakota Johnson and Harrison Gilbertson. Interscope Records has released a soundtrack featuring the original song Hero by […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 7, 2014)
Posted: March 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 300: Rise of an Empire, Alexandre Desplat, Daniel Pemberton, Danny Elfman, Grand Piano, Haunt, In Fear, Junkie XL, Marcelo Zarvos, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Reinhold Heil, Roly Porter, The Face of Love, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Victor Reyes
Two new movies are opening wide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the action adventure epic 300: Rise of an Empire directed by Noam Murro and starring Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green, Callan Mulvey, Jack O’Connell and Lena Headey. The film’s original music is compowed by Junkie XL (Divergent, Paranoia). […]
