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 […]
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Nicholas Hooper Scoring ‘Birdsong’
Posted: January 29, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Birdsong, Nicholas Hooper, Stella Days
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 […]
Sundance 2012 Film Music Roundup (Part 3)
Posted: January 26, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Toth, Britta Phillips, California Solo, Dean Wareham, Finding North, Goats, Jason Schwartzman, Liberal Arts, LUV, Nuno Malo, Price Check, Ryan Miller, Safety Not Guaranteed, T Bone Burnett, T. Griffin, The Civil Wars, Woody Jackson
Also check out Part 1 and Part 2 of our roundup of the music and composers of the movies premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Among the documentaries that premiered at this year’s festival is Finding North directed by Kristi Jacobson (Toots) and Lori Silverbush. The film examines the issue of hunger in America […]
Aaron Zigman to Score Tyler Perry’s ‘The Marriage Counselor’
Posted: January 25, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aaron Zigman, Good Deeds, The Marriage Counselor, Tyler Perry
Aaron Zigman has signed on to score the upcoming comedy drama The Marriage Counselor. The film is written and directed by Tyler Perry and stars Jurnee Smollett as an Ivy League educated relationship expert who gives marital advice for a living, yet can’t seem to follow that advice in her own marriage. The cast also […]
Paul Leonard-Morgan Scoring ‘Dredd’
Posted: January 24, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Garland, Dredd, Paul Leonard Morgan, Pete Travis
Paul Leonard-Morgan is scoring the upcoming comic book adaptation Dredd. The film is based on the Judge Dredd comic book series about a powerful cop in Mega City One, a city that runs down the entire east coast of America. The movie stars Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Jason Cope and Domhnall Gleeson. Pete […]
Sundance 2012 Film Music Roundup (Part 2)
Posted: January 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Compliance, Dan Romer, For Ellen, Francis and the Lights, Francis Farewell Starlit, Heather McIntosh, I Am Not a Hipster, Joel P. West, Johann Johannsson, Joseph Trapanese, Me at the Zoo, Mike Shinoda, Nico Muhly, One Man Joins an Uprising, Robot and Frank, The Movement, The Raid, Trevor Rabin
Check out the first part of our roundup of the music and composers of the movies premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival by clicking here. A film that is likely to find distribution within the next few days or weeks given its high profile cast and positive critical reaction is the comedy drama Robot […]
Christopher Young to Score ‘Sinister’
Posted: January 22, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Young, Kostas Christides, Scott Derrickson, Sinister, The Baytown Disco
Christopher Young has been hired to write the music for the upcoming horror thriller Sinister. The movie reunites the composer with director Scott Derrickson. They have previously collaborated on the 2005 hit thriller The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Sinister stars Ethan Hawke as a journalist who travels with his family around the country to investigate […]
Sundance 2012 Film Music Roundup (Part 1)
Posted: January 21, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Celeste and Jesse Forever, Daniel Bensi, Davin Wood, Hello I Must Be Going, Jeff Beal, Laura Veirs, Nick Cave, Rosie Chase, Saunder Jurriaans, Searching for Sugar Man, Simon Killer, Sixto Rodriguez, Sundance, Sunny Levine, The Queen of Versailles, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, Tim Rogers, Warren Ellis, West of Memphis, Wish You Were Here, Zach Cowie
Over the next week, we will be looking at the music and composers of some of the most high profile titles premiering at the Sundance Film Festival that haven’t been covered yet on this page. One of the best reviewed film so far at the festival is the documentary West of Memphis directed by Amy […]
Peter Golub Scoring ‘Black Rock’
Posted: January 19, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Black Rock, Katie Aselton, Peter Golub
Peter Golub has recently scored the indie horror thriller Black Rock. The film is directed by Katie Aselton (The Freebie) and written by Mark Duplass (Cyrus, Jeff Who Lives at Home) who is also executive producing with his brother Jay Duplass. Aselton, Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth are starring as three friends who are going […]