UPDATE (August 23, 2011): We have learned that composer Alexandre Desplat has written a theme for My Week with Marilyn. The piece called Marilyn’s Theme will be adapted by Conrad Pope into his score. Pope has been an orchestrator on a number of movies scored by Desplat in the past couple of years. Most recently, […]
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Conrad Pope to Score ‘My Week with Marilyn’
Posted: August 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Conrad Pope, My Week with Marilyn
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Tyler Bates Scoring William Friedkin’s ‘Killer Joe’
Posted: August 21, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Californication, CC Adcock, Killer Joe, The Darkest Hour, Tyler Bates, William Friedkin
Tyler Bates has revealed in recent interviews with Scorenotes and Billboard that he has written music for the black comedy Killer Joe. The film is directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and stars Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon and Juno Temple. Tracy Letts (Big) wrote the screenplay based […]
Bruno Coulais Scoring ‘My Worst Nightmare’
Posted: August 20, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bruno Coulais, Mon pire cauchemar, My Worst Nightmare, Sur la piste du Marsupilami
Bruno Coulais is the composer of the French comedy My Worst Nightmare (Mon pire cauchemar). The movie starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier follows a married couple that suddenly find their lives turned upside down when a breezy worker is hired to do some renovations in their apartment. The film is directed by Anne […]
Jeff Danna to Score ‘The Expatriate’
Posted: August 19, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jeff Danna, The Expatriate
Jeff Danna has signed on to score the upcoming action thriller The Expatriate. The movie stars Aaron Eckhart as a former CIA agent who hopes to make a fresh start with his estranged 15-year old daughter. He takes a job in Belgium as a security expert for a multinational corporation and arrives one day to […]
Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring HBO’s ‘Enlightened’
Posted: August 18, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Enlightened, HBO, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mike White
Mark Mothersbaugh has written the score for the upcoming HBO comedy Enlightened. The show stars Laura Dern as as a health and beauty executive who has a terrible public breakdown and, after some rehab and meditation, must come back from the hardship to try to live a more illuminated existence. Diane Ladd, Luke Wilson and […]
Gast Waltzing Scoring ‘Hysteria’
Posted: August 17, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christian Henson, Gast Waltzing, Hysteria
Gast Waltzing has recently scored the British romantic comedy Hysteria. The movie directed by Tanya Wexler stars Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett and Felicity Jones. Christian Henson (the Devil’s Double, Black Death) has written additional music for the film. Sarah Curtis (Her Majesty Mrs. Brown), Judy Cairo (Crazy Heart) and Tracey Becker […]
Paul Cantelon Scoring ‘Violet & Daisy’
Posted: August 16, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Geoffrey Fletcher, Paul Cantelon, Violet & Daisy
Paul Cantelon is the composer of the upcoming drama Violet & Daisy. The movie is written and directed by Geoffrey Fletcher who won an Academy Award for his adapted screenplay for 2009’s Precious. Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel are playing two teenage assassins who believe they’ve landed a straightforward assignment but soon find themselves thrown […]
Craig Armstrong Scoring ‘In Time’
Posted: August 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Niccol, Craig Armstrong, In Time
Craig Armstrong is currently scoring the sci-fi thriller In Time. The film is written and directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War) and stars Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde, Cillian Murphy and Alex Pettyfer. The movie is set in a retro-future when the aging gene has been switched off and people must pay […]
Alexandre Desplat Scoring Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’
Posted: August 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alberto Iglesias, Alexandre Desplat, Carnage, Roman Polanski, The Ides of March
Film Music Reporter has learned that Alexandre Desplat has recently scored Roman Polanski’s upcoming black comedy Carnage. We have previously reported that Alberto Iglesias was attached to score the film according to a press release by Sony Pictures Classics in April, but it appears that the composer (who recently finished scoring the thriller Tinker, Tailor, […]
Atli Orvarsson to Score ‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters’
Posted: August 12, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atli Orvarsson, Hansel and Gretel, Witch Hunters
Atli Orvarsson has signed on to score next year’s action comedy Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. The movie directed by Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow) is a continuation of the Brothers Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel fairy tale and stars Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen and Peter Stormare. The film is set 15 years after Hansel […]
