Four new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is Disney’s fantasy drama A Wrinkle in Time directed by Ava DuVernay and starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Storm Reid, Mindy Kaling, Guru Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peňa, Levi Miller, Zach Galifianakis and Chris Pine. The film’s original music is composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Westworld, Pacific […]
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 9, 2018)
Posted: March 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Wrinkle in Time, Adrian Johnston, Bent, Carlo Virzi, Christophe Beck, Christopher Willis, Erik Friedlander, Gringo, Lorne Balfe, Ramin Djawadi, Sune Martin, The Death of Stalin, The Hurricane Heist, The Leisure Seeker, The Outsider, The Strangers: Prey at Night, Thoroughbreds, Zacarías M. De la Riva
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Alexandre Desplat Wins Academy Award for ‘The Shape of Water’
Posted: March 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Alexandre Desplat, Coco, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, The Shape of Water
Alexandre Desplat was honored with his second Academy Award for his score for Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water at tonight’s 90th Oscar ceremony. The other nominated composers in the Best Original Score category were Jonny Greenwood (Phantom Thread), Hans Zimmer (Dunkirk), John Williams (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and Carter Burwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 2, 2018)
Posted: March 2, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Amit Poznansky, Dance Academy: The Movie, Darren Morze, David Hirschfelder, Death Wish, Foxtrot, Hondros, James Newton Howard, Jeff Russo, Ludwig Göransson, Ophir Leibovitch, Red Sparrow, Submission, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the spy thriller Red Sparrow directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeremy Irons. The film’s original music is composed by James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, The Sixth Sense, The Fugitive, Signs, King Kong, Fantastic Beasts and Where […]
Diane Warren to Pen Original Song for Amy Ziering’s & Kirby Dick’s Next Documentary
Posted: March 1, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Amy Ziering, Diane Warren, Kirby Dick
Diane Warren is reteaming with Amy Ziering & Kirby Dick (The Invisible War) and write an original song for the the filmmakers’ next, currently untitled documentary about the #MeToo movement and Hollywood. The movie will examine abuse and cover-ups within the entertainment industry and explore the lack of parity and diversity within the entertainment industry. […]
Stephen Schwartz to Develop Hans Christian Anderson Movie Musical
Posted: February 28, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Stephen Schwartz
Deadline is reporting that Stephen Schwartz is developing an untitled original musical fantasy about Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The project marks the first original musical from the composter/lyricist since Wicked and follows Andersen as a young man as he gets trapped in a world of his own imagination and searches for a way back to reality, […]
‘Dunkirk’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award
Posted: February 24, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society, Coco, Dunkirk, Jane
The team behind the sound mixing of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures – Live Action category at tonight’s 54th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Bunker Hill Ballroom of the OMNI Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza. Scoring mixer Alan Meyerson, along with production mixer Mark Weingarten, […]
Performers of Academy Award-Nominated Songs Announced
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Andra Day, Common, Gael Garcia Bernal, Keala Settle, Mary J. Blige, Miguel, Natalie LaFourcade, Sufjan Stevens
The performers of this year’s nominated songs at the 90th Oscars ceremony have been announced today by show producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd. Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalie LaFourcade and Miguel will perform Remember Me from Pixar’s Coco written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez. Bernal provided the voice of the main character in […]
Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ to Feature Original Songs by Sade, Sia, DJ Khaled & Demi Lovato
Posted: February 20, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Wrinkle in Time, Chloe x Halle, Demi Lovato, DJ Khaled, Free Style Fellowship, Kehlani, Sade, Sia
It was announced today that several artists have contributed original songs to Ava DuVernay’s fantasy drama A Wrinkle in Time. Sade has recorded the track Flower of the Universe, which marks the singer/songwriter’s first original song in almost a decade. DJ Khaled & Demi Lovato are performing the song I Believe and Sia is featured […]
Alexandre Desplat Wins BAFTA Award for ‘The Shape of Water’
Posted: February 18, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, BAFTA, The Shape of Water
Alexandre Desplat has received his third BAFTA Award for his score for Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water in the Original Music category today at the ceremony at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. The composer accepted his award in person at the event. Check out his acceptance […]
