Michael Giacchino has been hired to score the upcoming Aardman CGI-animation Arthur Christmas. The film envisions Santa’s workshop as a high-tech industrial plant dedicated to getting all those toys out to every child in a single night. The movie directed by Barry Cook (Mulan) is scheduled to come out in November 2011 by Sony Pictures. The […]
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Giacchino to score Arthur Christmas
Posted: March 22, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Arthur Christmas, Michael Giacchino
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Zimmer to score Jealous of the Birds
Posted: March 21, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexey Igudesman, Hans Zimmer, Jealous of the Birds
The documentary Jealous of the Birds will get an original score by Hans Zimmer and Alexey Igudesman. The movie focuses on the emotional history of a small community of Holocaust Survivors who remained in Frankfurt, Germany after liberation from Nazi death camps, and asks the question, ‘Why would a Survivor choose to remain in Germany — […]
John Frizzell scoring The Roommate
Posted: March 21, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Frizzell, The Roommate
John Frizzell has recently been finishing up work on his score for the Screen Gems thriller The Roommate. In the movie, College freshman Sara played by Minka Kelly is randomly assigned to live in a dorm with another girl named Rebecca (Leighton Meester) who outwardly seems sweet and normal. She soon finds her safety and […]
Beltrami takes over Jonah Hex
Posted: March 19, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Powell, Jonah Hex, Marco Beltrami, Repo Men
Film Music Reporter has learned that Marco Beltrami has taken over scoring duties on the comic book adaptation Jonah Hex. He is replacing John Powell, who reportedly was working on the score with the heavy metal band Mastodon last fall. No word yet if any of Mastodon’s music will stay in the picture. Jonah Hex is set […]
Two new projects for Ilan Eshkeri
Posted: March 19, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ilan Eshkeri, Strike Back, The Kid
Ilan Eshkeri recently finished recording the scores for two new film projects. The Kid is a movie about central character Kevin Lewis, whose early life suffered from appalling parenting and bullying at school. The movie directed by Nick Moran stars Rupert Friend, Natascha McElhone and Ioan Gruffudd. Falcon Films will release the movie in the UK […]
Ottman to score The Resident
Posted: March 16, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Ottman, The Resident
Film Music Reporter has learned that Hammer Film’s The Resident will be scored by John Ottman. The thriller directed by Antti Jokinen (Bioterror) stars Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Christopher Lee. The movie centers around a young doctor who suspects she may not be alone in her new Brooklyn loft learns that her landlord has formed […]
Newman slated to score The Adjustment Bureau
Posted: March 15, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: The Adjustment Bureau, The Debt, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman will score the upcoming Sci-Fi romance The Adjustment Bureau. The movie stars Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Terence Stamp and marks the directing debut for screenwriter George Nolfi (The Sentinel, The Bourne Ultimatum). The film’s story centers around David Norris, a charismatic congressman who meets a beautiful ballet dancer named Elise Sellas, only […]
Rolfe Kent to score Charlie St. Cloud
Posted: March 15, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Charlie St. Cloud, Killers, Rolfe Kent
Rolfe Kent has been hired to score the upcoming Universal Pictures drama Charlie St. Cloud. In the movie, Zac Efron plays a young man overcome by grief at the death of his younger brother, who takes a job as caretaker of the cemetery in which he’s buried and actually communicates with the deceased boy every […]
Wurman scores The Switch
Posted: March 14, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Wurman, Overnight, The Baster, The Switch
Alex Wurman recently recorded his score for the upcoming romantic comedy The Switch with the Carondelet Film Orchestra in New Orleans. The movie previously entitled The Baster stars Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Juliette Lewis and Jeff Goldblum. The movie directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck (Blades of Glory) centers around an unmarried 40-year-old woman […]
Bruno Coulais to score Babies
Posted: March 13, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Babies, Bruno Coulais, Oceans
Bruno Coulais has been hired to score the upcoming documentary Babies. The movie simultaneously chronicles the lives of four of the world’s newest human inhabitants – in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco, and Tokyo, respectively — from first breath to first steps, on a journey at once universal and amazingly original. The movie is directed by Thomas […]
