Gerald Fried has passed away yesterday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, CT of pneumonia at age 95. The composer was best known for his work on classic TV shows including the original Star Trek series, Gilligan’s Island, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Lost in Space, Mission: Impossible and Dynasty. He won an Emmy Award (shared […]
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Gerald Fried (1928-2023)
Posted: February 18, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Gerald Fried
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 17, 2023)
Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 88, Abel Korzeniowski, Andrew Kawczynski, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Bear McCreary, Christophe Beck, Christophe Musset, David Holmes, Emily, Jérémie Arcache, Joe Kraemer, Lorne Balfe, Marlowe, Of an Age, Ping Pong: The Triumph, Return to Seoul, We Have a Ghost
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania directed by Peyton Reed and starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, Michelle Pfeiffer and Bill Murray. The film’s original music is composed by Christophe Beck (Frozen, Free Guy, WandaVision, The Hangover, Edge of Tomorrow, Buffy the Vampire […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 10, 2023)
Posted: February 10, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Clint Mansell, Consecration, Magic Mike's Last Dance, Nathan Halpern, Sharper, She Came from the Woods, Siddhartha Khosla, Timothy Williams, Your Place or Mine
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the comedy drama Magic Mike’s Last Dance directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek, Ayub Khan Din, Jemelia George, Juliette Motamed and Vicki Pepperdine. The movie doesn’t feature an original score. Season Kent is the film’s music supervisor. Keep Cool & RCA Records have released […]
Burt Bacharach (1928-2023)
Posted: February 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach has passed away yesterday at age 94. The Grammy Award-winning songwriter/composer and pianist has written hundreds of songs throughout his career, including numerous tracks written specifically for films and also composed several film scores. He won his first two Academy Awards for the song Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head (with Hal David) […]
Conor McPherson to Write and Direct ‘Girl from the North Country’ Film Adaptation
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bob Dylan, Conor McPherson, Girl from the North Country
Playwright Conor McPherson is set to write and direct a film adaptation of the stage musical Girl from the North Country. Chlöe Bailey, Tosin Cole, Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson are attached to star in the movie based on McPherson’s Great Depression-set musical inspired by the songs of Bob Dylan about a group of travelers […]
Germaine Franco Wins Grammy Award for ‘Encanto’ Score
Posted: February 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Encanto, Germaine Franco, Grammy Awards, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Germaine Franco has won her first Grammy Award for her score for Disney’s animated feature Encanto in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category at today’s 65th Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony in Los Angeles. She previously received an Academy Award nomination for her work on the film. Lin-Manuel Miranda received the Grammy for the […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 3, 2023)
Posted: February 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 80 for Brady, A Lot of Nothing, Baby Ruby, David Sardy, Erik Friedlander, Herdís Stefánsdóttir, John Debney, Knock at the Cabin, Little Dixie, Marlana Sheetz, The Amazing Maurice, The Locksmith, Tom Howe
Opening in theaters nationwide today is the horror thriller Knock at the Cabin co-written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Abby Quinn, Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Kristen Cui. The film’s original music is composed by Herdís Stefánsdóttir (Y: The Last Man, The Essex Serpent, The Sun Is Also […]
95th Academy Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: January 24, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
This morning, the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were announced. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of the last year will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 12, 2023 at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center and will be televised live in the U.S. on the ABC Television Network at 8 […]
