Ryan Shore (Prime, The Shrine, Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, Harvard Man, Spy Hunter, Julie’s Greenroom) has been tapped to score the upcoming Netflix original film Love, Guaranteed. The film is directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Ghost Rider, Daredevil, When in Rome) and stars Rachael Leigh Cook, Heather Graham and Damon Wayans Jr. The romantic comedy revolves around an earnest lawyer who – in order to save her small law firm – takes a high-paying case from a charming new client who wants to sue a dating website that guarantees love. Elizabeth Hackett & Hilary Galanoy (Falling Inn Love) wrote the screenplay based on the source material by Cook who is also producing the project with Dan Spilo (Back Roads) and Margret Huddleston & Stephanie Slack (Dangerous Lies). Read the rest of this entry »
Ryan Shore to Score Mark Steven Johnson’s ‘Love, Guaranteed’
Posted: June 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Love Guaranteed, Mark Steven Johnson, Netflix, Ryan Shore
Quibi’s ‘Don’t Look Deeper’ to Feature Music by Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum
Posted: June 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Don't Look Deeper, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Quibi
Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum (Stockholm, Pennsylvania, Bird Karma, Regarding Susan Sontag) is the composer of the Quibi original series Don’t Look Deeper. The show is directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown), written by Jeffrey Lieber (Lost, NCIS: New Orleans) & Charlie McDonnell and stars Helena Howard, Don Cheadle, Emily Mortimer, Ema Horvath, Jan Luis Castellanos, Kaiwi Lyman and Harvey Zielinski. The sci-fi drama is set in near-future California and follows a high school senior as she learns a dark secret about herself and goes from dreams of graduation and college to suddenly running for her life. L Read the rest of this entry »
JB Dunckel Scoring Francois Ozon’s ‘Summer of 85’ (‘Été 85’)
Posted: June 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Été 85, Francois Ozon, JB Dunckel, Summer of 85
JB Dunckel (K.O., Capital in the Twenty-First Century, The Summer of Sangaile, Cyprien) of the music duo AIR is composing the original music for the upcoming French coming-of-age drama Summer of 85 (Été 85). The film is written and directed by Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, By the Grace of God, 8 Women, In the House) and stars Félix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Philippine Velge, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Melvil Poupaud and Isabelle Nanty. The movie follows 16-year-old Alexis who meets 18-year-old David on the coast of Normandy and feels that he has just met the friend of his dreams. Eric Altmayer and Nicolas Altmayer (On the Other Side of the Tracks, Saint Laurent, The Emperor of Paris) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Honeyland’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Foltin, Honeyland, Ljubomir Stefanov, score, Soundtrack, Tamara Kotevska
Phoenix Music has released a soundtrack for the documentary Honeyland. The digital single features the film’s original music composed by Foltin and is now available to stream and download on Amazon. Honeyland directed by Ljubomir Stefanov & Tamara Kotevska is set in an isolated mountain region deep within the Balkans, where a beekeeper lives with her ailing mother in a village without roads, electricity or running water. The documentary, which received two Academy Awards nominations this year in both the Documentary and International Film categories, was released in theaters last summer by Neon and is now available on VOD and DVD. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Toyne Scoring Fox’s ‘Filthy Rich’
Posted: June 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Filthy Rich, Fox, Jeff Toyne, Tate Taylor
Jeff Toyne (Rogue, Dirty Girl, 9/11, You Me Her) is composing the original score for the upcoming Fox drama Filthy Rich. The show is created by Tate Taylor (The Help, The Girl on the Train, Get On Up) and stars Kim Cattrall, Gerald McRaney, Melia Kreiling, David Denman, Aubrey Dollar, Corey Cott, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Mark L. Young, Olivia Macklin and Steve Harris. The series revolves around the patriarch of a rich Southern family, famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network, who dies in a plane crash, when his wife and family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will, threatening their family name and fortune. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Platform’ (‘El Hoyo’) Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: June 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aránzazu Calleja, El Hoyo, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, The Platform
Plaza Mayor Company will release a soundtrack album for the Spanish sci-fi thriller The Platform (El Hoyo). The album features the film’s original music composed by Aránzazu Calleja (Bomb Scares, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, No Controles, Taxi to Treasure Rock). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, June 12 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. The Platform is directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia and stars Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor, Emilio Buale and Alexandra Masangkay. The movie is set in a future dystopia and follows a group of prisoners housed in vertically stacked cells watch hungrily as food descends from above — feeding the upper tiers, but leaving those below ravenous and radicalized. Read the rest of this entry »
Rael Jones Scoring BBC’s ‘The Salisbury Poisonings’
Posted: June 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Rael Jones, The Salisbury Poisonings
Rael Jones (My Cousin Rachel, Harlots, Kids in Love) has recently scored the upcoming BBC series The Salisbury Poisonings. The show is written by Adam Patterson & Declan Lawn and stars Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall, MyAnna Buring, Johnny Harris, Annabel Scholey, Mark Addy, Stella Gonet and Ron Cook. The 3-part drama centers the 2018 Novichok poisonings in Salisbury and tells the story of how ordinary people reacted to a crisis on their doorstep, displaying extraordinary heroism. Saul Dibb (The Duchess, Journey’s End) has directed all episodes. Read the rest of this entry »
Piano Solos from ‘How to Train Your Dragon: A Hidden World’ Released
Posted: June 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Batu Sener, How to Train Your Dragon: A Hidden World, John Powell
5 Cat Studios has released a new album featuring piano solos from DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon: A Hidden World directed by Dean DeBlois and starring Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, Kit Harrington, Craig Ferguson and F. Murray Abraham. The album features nine tracks from John Powell‘s original score that were newly arranged and are performed by Batu Sener who provided additional music to the third installment in the How to Train Your Dragon series and collaborated with Powell on numerous other scores. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes, where you can also check out audio samples. Back Lot Music has released the original soundtrack album for How to Train Your Dragon: A Hidden World last year. Read the rest of this entry »
Carter Burwell to Score Joel Coen’s ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
Posted: June 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Carter Burwell, Joel Coen, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Carter Burwell is set to compose the original music for the upcoming film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. The film marks Joel Coen’s first solo directorial effort and stars Denzel Washington in the title role, Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth, as well as Brendan Gleeson, Corey Hawkins, Ralph Ineson, Moses Ingram and Harry Melling. The movie follows a Scottish lord who becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he is destined to become king of Scotland and goes to extreme and violent lengths to seize the crown. Coen also wrote the screenplay. Scott Rudin (The Social Network, No Country for Old Men, The Grand Budapest Hotel) is producing the A24 production. Read the rest of this entry »
Lennie Niehaus (1929 – 2020)
Posted: June 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Lennie Niehaus
Lennie Niehaus has passed away at age 90 at his daughter’s home in Redlands, California. The composer was best known for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood and has composed the score for numerous movies directed by the filmmaker, including the Academy Award-winning western Unforgiven, as well as The Bridges of Madison County, Space Cowboys, Pale Rider, A Perfect World, Heartbreak Ridge, The Rookie, Absolute Power and True Crime. His other film scoring credits include Richard Benjamin’s City Heat, Richard Tuggle’s Tightrope and Ken Kwapis’ Follow That Bird. Niehaus received a BAFTA nomination for his music for Eastwood’s Bird and was also honored with two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations and received the prize in 1994 for the Showtime movie Lush Life. Read the rest of this entry »
