Alexandre Desplat has been hired to score the upcoming Dreamworks Animation feature Rise of the Guardians. The movie is based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood by William Joyce (Meet the Robinsons) who is also co-directing the film with Peter Ramsey. The movie follows a group of heroic childhood legends, including Santa Claus […]
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Alexandre Desplat to Score Dreamworks Animation’s ‘Rise of the Guardians’ and Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’
Posted: February 10, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Argo, Ben Affleck, Dreamworks Animation, Rise of the Guardians
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Jon Brion to Score Judd Apatow’s ‘This is 40’
Posted: February 10, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jon Brion, Judd Apatow, This is 40
Jon Brion has signed on to score the upcoming comedy This is 40. The movie is written and directed by Judd Apatow and stars Jason Segel, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann who are reprising their roles from the 2007 hit comedy Knocked Up. Megan Fox, Melissa McCarthy and Albert Brooks are co-starring. Apatow is also […]
Danny Elfman to Score Blue Sky Studios’ ‘Leafmen’
Posted: February 10, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blue Sky Studios, Chris Wedge, Danny Elfman, Leafmen, William Joyce
Kraft-Engel Management, one of the industry’s leading talent agencies specializing in music for film and stage has just launched its official new website, which features audio clips from its large roster of composers, as well as biographies and a credits list of each of the agency’s clients. Several major upcoming scoring assignments have been revealed […]
Orbital to Score ‘Pusher’ Remake
Posted: February 7, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Nicolas Winding Refn, Orbital, Pusher
NME.com is reporting that the British electronic dance music duo Orbital is scoring the upcoming crime thriller Pusher. The movie is an English-language remake of the Danish 1996 film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) who is involved as an executive producer in the new version directed by Luis Prieto. Pusher stars Richard Coyle (Prince […]
‘Outrun’ to Feature Music by Julian Wass and Robert Mervak
Posted: February 3, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dax Shepard, Julian Wass, Outrun, Robert Mervak, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
Julian Wass and Robert Mervak are writing the music for the upcoming romantic action comedy Outrun. The film is directed by Dax Shepard and David Palmer. Shepard has also has written the screenplay and stars in the movie as a former getaway driver living in the Witness Protection Program who breaks out of anonymity in […]
Philip Glass 75th Birthday Interviews
Posted: February 1, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chan-woon Park, Philip Glass, Stoker
Coinciding with the 75th birthday of Philip Glass on January 31, several interviews have appeared online, including a 30-minute video conversation with the Academy Award-nominated composer in CET Connect’s Focus series, in which he talks about his life and career, including his work for movies and the concert hall is and the world premiere of […]
Alexandre Desplat to Score Peter Webber’s ‘Emperor’
Posted: January 31, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Emperor, Peter Webber
Director Peter Webber has announced on Twitter (via The Film Stage) that Alexandre Desplat is attached to score the upcoming political thriller Emperor. The movie starring Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones is set in Japan amidst the uncertainties of the days following the nation’s surrender at the end of World War II, when General […]
Nicholas Hooper Scoring ‘Birdsong’
Posted: January 29, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Birdsong, Nicholas Hooper, Stella Days
Nicholas Hooper has scored the Working Title Television two part serial Birdsong. The mini-series directed by Philip Martin (Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act) based on the bestselling novel by Sebastian Faulks (Charlotte Gray) has been adapted for the screen by Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Shame). The movie set against the First World War […]
Sundance 2012 Film Music Roundup (Part 4)
Posted: January 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Hollander, Andy Cabic, Eric D. Johnson, Hrishikesh Hirway, Jonathan Snipes, Predisposed, Room 237, Save the Date, Sleepwalk with Me, Smashed, Spencer David Hutchings, William Hutson
Also check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of our roundup of the music and composers of the movies premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. One of the best received films that premiered at the festival is the drama Smashed directed by James Ponsoldt (Off the Black). The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead […]
Craig Wedren to Score ‘Thanks for Sharing’
Posted: January 27, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Wedren, Stuart Blumberg, Thanks for Sharing, Wanderlust
Craig Wedren is scoring the upcoming indie comedy drama Thanks for Sharing. The film marks the directorial debut of Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right) and stars Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins, Joely Richardson, Patrick Fugit, Josh Gad and Alecia Moore. The movie revolves around a group of unlikely friends who […]
