J. Ralph has been hired to score the upcoming indie drama Arbitrage. The film stars Richard Gere, Tim Roth, Susan Sarandon, Laetitia Casta, Brit Marling and Josh Pais. The movie written and directed by Nicholas Jarecki centers on a troubled hedge fund magnate who is forced to turn to an unlikely ally when he makes […]
Archive for the ‘Film Scoring Assignments’ Category
J. Ralph to Score ‘Arbitrage’
Posted: May 25, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Arbitrage, J. Ralph, Maladies, Nicholas Jarecki
0
David Wingo & Jeff McIlwain to Score David Gordon Green’s ‘The Sitter’
Posted: May 24, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Gordon Green, David Wingo, Jeff McIlwain, Take Shelter, The Sitter
David Wingo and Jeff McIlwain have signed on to score David Gordon Green’s comedy The Sitter. The film stars Jonah Hill, Sam Rockwell, Ari Grayner, Erin Daniels, Jessica Hecht and Method Man. The movie follows a college student, suspended for the semester and living at home with his single mom, who has a night to […]
Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Atticus Ross & Shigeru Umebayashi Scoring ‘Days of Grace’
Posted: May 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atticus Ross, Days of Grace, Dias de gracia, Massive Attack, Nick Cave, Shigeru Umebayashi, Warren Ellis
The Mexican thriller Days of Grace (Dias de gracia) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last week and features music by some prominent composers. The movie directed by Everardo Gout is set in Mexico City and weaves together three kidnappings that take place during the soccer World Cup tournaments in 2002, ’06 and ’10. The […]
Nima Fakhrara to Score ‘The Courier’
Posted: May 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hani-Abu Assad, Nima Fakhrara, Pizza Man, The Courier
Nima Fakhrara has been hired to score the crime action thriller The Courier. The movie starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mickey Rourke and Til Schweiger centers on a daredevil courier who’s pursued by corrupt cops and rival crime bosses when he has to deliver a briefcase to a notorious underworld figure who can’t be found. The […]
‘Elena’ Features Music by Philip Glass
Posted: May 22, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrei Zvyagintsev, Elena, James Whitaker, Philip Glass, Rebirth
The Russian drama Elena recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Composer Philip Glass wrote an original score for the movie. The film is directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev who is best known for helming the 2003 drama The Return, which received a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign language film. Elena centers on an elderly […]
Composers on USA’s ‘Suits’, ‘Necessary Roughness’ and ‘Covert Affairs’
Posted: May 21, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Gorgoni, Burn Notice, Christopher Tyng, Covert Affairs, Doug Liman, James S. Levine, John Dickson, Jon Ehrlich, Nexessary Roughness, Royal Pains, Suits, Toby Chu, USA, White Collar
Christopher Tyng (Futurama , Rescue Me) is scoring the new legal drama Suits. The show created by Aaron Korsh and starring Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle, Rick Hoffman and Gina Torres centers on a top Manhattan corporate lawyer who recruits a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout as a new associate. Doug Liman (The […]
Alan Menken to Write Music for Dreamworks Animation’s ‘Lidsville’
Posted: May 20, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Menken, Dreamworks Animation, Lidsville, Marty Krofft, Sid Krofft
Alan Menken has revealed in a recent posting on Twitter that he is in talks to work on the Dreamworks Animation musical Lidsville. The project would be the first non-Disney animation project for the multiple Academy Award-winning composer. The film is based on characters developed by Sid and Marty Krofft (Land of the Lost) from […]
Mark Bradshaw to Score ‘Resistance’
Posted: May 20, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Bradshaw, Rachel Portman, Resistance
Mark Bradshaw has signed on to score the upcoming World War II drama Resistance. The film based on a novel by Owen Sheer takes place in an alternative 1944, where Russia has fallen to Nazi Germany and the D-Day landings have failed. The story centers on a group of women in an isolated Welsh village […]
Mervyn Warren to Score ‘Joyful Noise’
Posted: May 19, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Joyful Noise, Mervyn Warren, Todd Graff
Mervyn Warren is set to score the gospel-choir comedy Joyful Noise. The film centers on an unlikely partnership between two strong-minded women who are forced to work together to save a small town gospel choir after budget cuts threaten to shut them down. The movie stars Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Kris Kristofferson, Courtney […]
Mateo Messina to Score ‘Butter’
Posted: May 18, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Butter, Frankie Goes Boom, Jason Reitman, L!fe Happens, Life Happens, Mateo Messina, Matt Messina, Young Adult
Mateo Messina has been hired to score the satirical comedy Butter. The film is set in the Midwest U.S., where an adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their town’s annual contest. The movie stars Jennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde, Hugh Jackman, Ty Burrell, Yara […]
