Clint Mansell has been hired to score the upcoming animated feature Loving Vincent. The film is directed by Dorota Kobiela (Little Postman) & Hugh Welchman (Peter & the Wolf) and features the voices of Douglas Booth, Saoirse Ronan, Jerome Flynn, Chris O’Dowd, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aidan Turner, John Sessions and Helen McCrory. The movie tells the story of the final months and mysterious death of artist Vincent Van Gogh. Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart (My Week with Marilyn) are producing the project. Welchman has also written the screenplay with Dorota Kobiela.
Category: Film Scoring Assignments
Antonio Pinto to Score James Lapine’s ‘Custody’
Antonio Pinto has been tapped to score the upcoming court room drama Custody. The film is written and directed by James Lapine (Life with Mikey, screenwriter of Into the Woods) and stars Catalina Sandino Moreno, Hayden Panettiere, Viola Davis, Tony Shalhoub, Raul Esparza, Dan Fogler and Ellen Burstyn. The movie follows a single mom who fights the government to keep her two kids after they’re wrongfully put into protective custody. Lapine is also producing the project with Lauren Versel (City Island, The Last Five Years) and Katie Mustard (Shelter, We’ll Never Have Paris).
The Newton Brothers to Score ‘The Bye Bye Man’
The Newton Brothers have signed on to score the upcoming horror thriller The Bye Bye Man. The film is directed by Stacy Title (The Last Supper) and stars Douglas Smith, Cressida Bonas, Lucien Laviscount, Doug Jones, Cleo King, Jenna Kanell, Erica Tremblay, Carrie-Anne Moss and Faye Dunaway. The movie follows three Wisconsin college students who move into an old, off-campus house, where they find themselves hunted by a supernatural entity called The Bye Bye Man. Jonathan Penner has written the screenplay. Trevor Macy (The Raven) is producing the project for Intrepid Pictures and Jeffrey Soros & Simon Horsman are producing for LAMF.
Michael Brook to Score Katie Holmes’ ‘All We Had’
Michael Brook has been hired to score the upcoming indie drama All We Had. The film marks the feature directorial debut of actress Katie Holmes who also stars in the film alongside Stefania Owen,Luke Wilson, Richard Kind, Mark Consuelos, Judy Greer and Eve Lindley. The movie is based on a novel by Annie Weatherwax and follows a mother and her daughter, living on the edge of poverty, who find an unlikely home amid the quirky residents of small town America. Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars, Stuck in Love) and Jill Killington have written the screenplay. Holmes is also producing the project with Jane Rosenthal (Meet the Parents, Analyze This, About a Boy), Berry Welsh and Katie Mustard (Shelter, We’ll Never Have Paris).
Andrew Lockington to Score Peter Chelsom’s ‘The Space Between Us’
Andrew Lockington has been tapped to score the upcoming sci-fi drama The Space Between Us. The film is directed by Peter Chelsom (Serendipity, The Mighty, Shall We Dance) and stars Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Carla Gugino, BD Wong, Janet Montgomery and Scott Takeda. The movie tells the intergalactic love story about the first human born on Mars who begins an online romance with a girl living in Colorado and hatches a plan to travel across the universe to meet her. Richard Lewis (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, August Rush) is producing the project.
Photek Scoring ‘The Loner’
Photek is composing the music for the upcoming indie drama The Loner. The film is written and directed by Daniel Grove and stars Reza Sixo Safai, Helena Mattsson, Parviz Sayyad, Julian Sands, Laura Harring and Dominic Rains. The movie follows a reformed mobster who is haunted by memories of being a child soldier in Iran in the 1980s as he pursues the American Dream in Los Angeles. Seth Caplan (In Search of a Midnight Kiss, The Young Kieslowski) is producing the project with Safai.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 13, 2016)
Premiering tonight on Lifetime is the British mini-series And Then There Were None developed by Sarah Phelps based on Agatha Christie’s novel and starring Douglas Booth, Charles Dance, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Toby Stephens, Maeve Dermody, Burn Gorman, Noah Taylor and Aidan Turner. The 3-parter’s original music is composed by Stuart Earl (Lilting, My Brother the Devil). Visit the composer’s official website to listen to audio samples from the score. To learn more about the series, which follows ten strangers with dubious pasts who are lured to Soldier Island in 1939, visit Lifetime’s official website.
Premiering on Tuesday, March 15 is the new NBC comedy Crowded created by Suzanne Martin (Hot in Cleveland, The Client List) and stars Patrick Warburton, Carrie Preston, Miranda Cosgrove, Mia Serafino, Stacy Keach and Carlease Burke. Chris Alan Lee (Younger, The Jim Gaffigan Show) is composing the show’s original score and Jesse Novak (BoJack Horseman, The Mindy Project) has written the series’ theme. To learn more about the comedy, which will air Tuesday nights on NBC, check out our scoring assignment announcement.
Mark Isham to Score ‘Duck Duck Goose’
Mark Isham has been hired to score the upcoming animated feature Duck Duck Goose. The film is directed by Christopher Jenkins (producer of Surf’s Up and Home) and features the voices of Jim Gaffigan, Stephen Fry, Zendaya, Carl Reiner, Jennifer Grey, Molly Shannon, Lance Lim,Greg Proops, Diedrich Bader and Rick Overton. The movie follows a goose who rescues two young ducklings from an eccentric but deadly cat. Jenkins has also written the screenplay with Rob Muir (Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue). Sandra Rabins & Penny Finkelman Cox (The Prince of Egypt) are producing the Original Force Animation production with Viola Chen.
Simon Franglen Scoring Antoine Fuqua’s ‘The Magnificent Seven’
Simon Franglen is currently recording his music for the upcoming The Magnificent Seven remake. The score is based on themes that late composer James Horner wrote before he passed away last summer. The movie is directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, King Arthur) and stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia Rulfo, Martin Sansmeier, Haley Bennett and Peter Sarsgaard. The film is based on the 1960 classic western of the same title, which was itself based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and follows seven gun men in the old west who gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
Marc Shaiman Scoring Rob Reiner’s ‘LBJ’
Marc Shaiman has recently recorded his music for the upcoming drama LBJ. The film is directed by Rob Reiner and stars Woody Harrelson as President Lyndon B. Johnson, Jeffrey Donovan as John F. Kennedy, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lady Bird Johnson, Michael Stahl-David as Bobby Kennedy, Richard Jenkins as Richard Russell, Bill Pullman as Ralph Yarborough and Kim Allen as Jackie Kennedy. Doug McKeon, C. Thomas Howell, Michael Mosley, Brent Bailey, John Burke, Brian Stepanek, Rich Sommer, Tim Ransom and Judd Lormand are co-starring. The movie follows Johnson’s political career from his days as Senate majority leader to his ascendancy to the presidency in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination, and culminating in his decision not to seek re-election in 1968.