Disney announced today that Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights, Encanto) will serve as a producer on the studio’s upcoming live-action remake of the 2016 animated feature Moana. The movie will be directed by Thomas Kail (Fosse/Verdon, We Were the Lucky Ones) and star Catherine Laga‘aia in the title role of the adventurous teenager who […]
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Lin-Manuel Miranda to Serve as Producer on Disney’s ‘Moana’ Live-Action Film
Posted: June 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Moana, Thomas Kail
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Quincy Jones to Receive Honorary Oscar at 15th Governor Awards
Posted: June 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Quincy Jones
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that its Board of Governors voted to present Academy Honorary Awards to two artists, including composer, songwriter and record producer Quincy Jones. He will receive the Oscar at the Academy’s Governors Awards event on Sunday, November 17, 2024, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation […]
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul to Write Original Songs for Jon M. Chu’s & Jill Culton’s ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Benj Pasek, Jill Culton, Jon M. Chu, Justin Paul, Oh the Places You’ll Go!
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen, Spirited, La La Land, Lyle Lyle Crocodile) have been hired to compose the original songs for Warner Bros. Animation’s upcoming feature Oh, the Places You’ll Go!. The film directed by Jon M. Chu (Cray Rich Asians, In the Heights) & Jill Culton (Abominable) is […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (June 7, 2024)
Posted: June 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Abel Korzeniowski, Ames Bessada, Bachar Mar-Khalifé, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Banel & Adama, Christoph M. Kaiser, Cottontail, I Used to Be Funny, Joseph Bishara, Julian Maas, Kill Your Lover, Late Bloomers, Longing, Lorne Balfe, Osei Essed, Owen Pallett, Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything, Stefan Gregory, The Watchers, Thibault Chavanis, Trim Season
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the action comedy Bad Boys: Ride or Die directed by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah and starring Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Alexander Ludwig, Eric Dane, Vanessa Hudgens, Ioan Gruffudd and Joe Pantoliano. The film’s original score is composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Bad Boys for […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 31, 2024)
Posted: May 31, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alfonso de Vilallonga, Amelia Warner, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Ezra, Handling the Undead, In a Violent Nature, Jeff Russo, Peter Raeburn, Protocol 7, Robot Dreams, Summer Camp, The Dead Don't Hurt, Tom Howe, Tracie Turnbull, Viggo Mortensen, What You Wish For, Will Taylor, Young Woman and the Sea
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend (but advertised as a limited release) is the biographical sports drama Young Woman and the Sea directed by Joachim Rønning and starring Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Christopher Eccleston, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodnia and Glenn Fleshle. The film’s original music is composed by Amelia Warner (Mr. Malcolm’s List, Wild Mountain Thyme, […]
Original Song ‘Special Spice’ from ‘Tiana’s Bayou Adventure’ Released
Posted: May 31, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Anika Noni Rose, PJ Morton, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure
Walt Disney Records has released an original song from the new Walt Disney World and Disneyland attraction Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is Special Spice written by Grammy Award-winning musician, singer, songwriter and producer PJ Morton and performed by Anika Noni Rose who is reprising her role […]
Richard M. Sherman (1928-2024)
Posted: May 25, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Richard M. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman passed away today at age 95 in at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, California, due to age-related illness. Together with his brother Robert B. Sherman, the composer/lyricist wrote numerous songs for film and television and received two Academy Awards for the score and original song Chim Chim Cher-ee from Disney’s 1964 […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 24, 2024)
Posted: May 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andrew Lockington, Atlas, Charles Lavoie, David Fleming, Fabio Massimo Capogrosso, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Graham Reynolds, Hit Man, Jim Henson Idea Man, John Debney, Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, Sean Philip Johnson, Sight, Solo, The Garfield Movie, Tom Holkenborg
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the post-apocalyptic action adventure Furiosa: A Mad Max Story co-written and directed by George Miller and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke and Alyla Browne. The film’s original music is composed by Tom Holkenborg (Mad Max: Fury Road, Sonic the Hedgehog, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Godzilla x Kong: […]
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (1953-2024)
Posted: May 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek passed away today at age 71 in Krakow, Poland after a long battle with multiple system atrophy (MSA). The composer wrote numerous scores for film and television since the mid 1980s and received an Academy Award for his music for Marc Forster’s 2004 drama Finding Neverland. His other scoring credits include Adrian […]
