Archive for the ‘Film Scoring Assignments’ Category

French singer/songwriter Yodelice has composed the music for the crime thriller Blood Ties. The film is directed by Guillaume Canet and stars Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Caan, Noah Emmerich, Lili Taylor, Domenick Lombardozzi, John Ventimiglia and Griffin Dunne. The movie marks the French director’s English language […]

Mark Mancina is currently scoring Disney’s upcoming animated feature Planes. The film is directed by Klay Hall and follows a plane with dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer and who must overcome a fear of heights. The movie’s voice cast includes Dane Cook, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Cedric the Entertainer, Val Kilmer, John Cleese, Stacy Keach, Brad […]

Joseph Trapanese has signed on to score Walt Disney Pictures’ live-action adventure Echo. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Dave Green who is best known for helming numerous commercials and music videos, as well as comedic short films, including Pinkberry the Movie. The movie has been described as a “wolf adventure”, but no […]

Mark Isham Scoring ‘Homefront’

Posted: May 15, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Mark Isham is scoring the upcoming action thriller Homefront. The movie is directed by Gary Fleder (Runaway Jury) and stars Jason Statham, James Franco, Frank Grillo, Winona Ryder, Izabela Vidovic and Kate Bosworth. The film follows an ex-DEA agent who moves his family to a quiet town hoping to escape his past and finds the town […]

Michael Giacchino confirmed on Twitter that he will be scoring the upcoming sci-fi sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The film is directed by Matt Reeves who previously collaborated with the composer on Let Me In and Cloverfield. The sequel stars Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Kodi-Smit McPhee, Keri Russell and Gary Oldman. While […]

Danny Elfman has been tapped to score the upcoming documentary The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld. The film is directed by Errol Morris (The Fog of War, Tabloid) and draws on hours of filmed interviews and previously unpublished material from Rumsfeld’s private archive and looks at the former United States Secretary […]

Alexandre Desplat is reteaming with director Stephen Frears on the upcoming tragic comedy Philomena. The film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan is based on the book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search by BBC journalist Martin Sixsmith and tells the true story of an Irish woman […]

Theodore Shapiro is reuniting with director David Frankel on the upcoming comedy biopic One Chance. The film stars Tony Award-winner James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Mackenzie Crook, Julie Walters and Colm Meaney. The movie tells the true story of Paul Potts, a bullied shop assistant, who performed as an amateur opera singer at night and became a […]

Sean Callery has scored the pilot for the CBS drama Backstrom. The show based on the Swedish book series by criminologist Leif G.W. Persson is created by Hart Hanson and follows on an overweight, offensive, irascible detective as he tries, and fails, to change his self-destructive behavior. The pilot stars Rainn Wilson, Dennis Haysbert, Mamie […]

According to First Showing, Summit Entertainment has confirmed that Steve Jablonsky is scoring the upcoming sci-fi movie Ender’s Game. The composer is taking over scoring duties from James Horner who was previously attached to score the film as reported earlier this year. The film is directed by Gavin Hood (X-Men: Wolverine) and stars Asa Butterfield, […]