The full musical team for Disney’s upcoming animated feature Moana was announced at this year’s D23 fan expo. As previously announced, Mark Mancina will be composing the score for the movie. The composer who previously scored the studio’s Tarzan, Brother Bear, as well as Planes and its sequel is collaborating with Te Vaka’s Opetaia Foa’I, a New Zealand guitarist, and Lin-Manuel Miranda who is best known for […]
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Disney’s ‘Moana’ to Feature Music by Mark Mancina, Opetaia Foa’I & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: August 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mark Mancina, Moana, Opetaia Foa’I
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Michael Rohatyn Scoring Rebecca Miller’s ‘Maggie’s Plan’
Posted: August 13, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Maggie's Plan, Michael Rohatyn, Rebecca Miller
Michael Rohatyn is reuniting with director Rebecca Miller on the upcoming comedy Maggie’s Plan. The film is written and directed by Miller and stars Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Travis Fimmel, Ida Rohatyn, Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore. The movie follows a young woman whose determination to have a child involves her in […]
‘The Girl in the Photographs’ to Feature Music by Nima Fakhrara
Posted: August 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Nick Simon, Nima Fakhrara, The Girl in the Photographs
Nima Fakhrara is reteaming with director Nick Simon on the upcoming horror thriller The Girl in the Photographs. The film stars Kal Penn, Claudia Lee, Kenny Wormald , Toby Hemingway, Luke Baines, Miranda Rae Mayo, Katherine Isabelle and Mitch Pileggi. The movie follows a celebrity photographer and his entourage who descend upon a sleepy community to investigate the […]
Jonathan Goldsmith to Score ‘Unless’
Posted: August 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jonathan Goldsmith, Unless
Jonathan Goldsmith has signed on to score the upcoming indie drama Unless. The film is directed by Alan Gilsenan and stars Catherine Keener, Hannah Gross, Brendan Coyle, Matt Craven, Chloe Rose and Hanna Schygulla. The movie is based on the last book by Canadian novelist Carol Shields and centers on a writer whose oldest daughter […]
Emilio Kauderer Scoring Billy Ray’s ‘Secret in Their Eyes’
Posted: August 10, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Billy Ray, Emilio Kauderer, The Secret in Their Eyes
Emilio Kauderer is composing the music for the upcoming thriller Secret in Their Eyes. The film is directed by Billy Ray (Breach, Shattered Glass) and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Dean Norris. The movie is based on the 2009 Argentinian film of the same title, which received the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language category, and […]
Rob Simonsen to Score John Wells’ ‘Burnt’
Posted: August 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Burnt, John Wells, Rob Simonsen
Rob Simonsen has been tapped to score the upcoming drama Burnt. The film is directed by John Wells (August: Osage County, The Company Men) and stars Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Omar Sy, Daniel Bruhl, Matthew Rhys, Lily James, Alicia Vikander, Sam Keeley, Uma Thurman and Emma Thompson. The movie, which was originally entitled Adam Jones, follows a chef in Paris […]
Howard Shore to Score Gary Ross’ ‘The Free State of Jones’
Posted: August 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gary Ross, Howard Shore, The Free State of Jones
Howard Shore has signed on to score the upcoming historical drama The Free State of Jones. The film is written and directed by Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) and stars Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keri Russell and Mahershala Ali. The movie is set during the Civil War and tells the story of a defiant Southern […]
Clement Animalsons to Score ‘French Tour’ (‘Tour de France’)
Posted: August 5, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Clement Animalsons, French Tour, Tour de France
Clement Animalsons is set to compose the original score for the upcoming comedy drama French Tour (Tour de France). The film is directed by Rachid Djaidani (Rengaine) and will star Gerard Depardieu alongside a yet-to-be announced popular French rapper. The movie follows a French-Arab rapper who has to lie low and reluctantly accepts to drive […]
Deepa Mehta’s ‘Beeba Boys’ to Feature Music by Mychael Danna, Manjeet Ral & Biggi Hilmars
Posted: August 4, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bebba Boys, Biggi Hilmars, Deepa Methta, Manjeet Ral, Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna, Manjeet Ral and Biggi Hilmars are composing the music for the upcoming drama Beeba Boys. The film is written and directed by Deepa Mehta (Earth, Fire) and stars Randeep Hooda, Ali Momen, Sarah Allen, Waris Ahluwalia, Gulshan Grover, Balinder Johal, Ali Kazmi, Steve Dhillon, Jag Bal, Gabe Grey and Paul Gross. The movie follows a ruthless Sikh mobster who leads […]
Gast Waltzing Scoring Terence Davies’ ‘Sunset Song’
Posted: August 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gast Waltzing, Sunset Song, Terence Davies
Gast Waltzing is composing the music for the upcoming drama Sunset Song. The film is written and directed by Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea, The House of Mirth) and stars Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie. The movie is based on the classic novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and follows a farming family […]
