Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi horror movie Color Out of Space. The album features the film’s original music composed by Colin Stetson (Hereditary, The First, Outlaws and Angels). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 24 and physically on February 7. The CD version will be available for pre-order on Amazon within the next couple of days. Color Out of Space is co-written and directed by Richard Stanley and stars Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meyer, Q’orianka Kilcher, Elliot Knight, Julian Hilliard and Tommy Chong. The movie is based on H.P. Lovecraft’s classic horror short story and follows a man and his family who find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies after a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Color Out of Space’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Colin Stetson, Color Out of Space, Richard Stanley, score, Soundtrack
Michael Brook Scoring Apple TV+ Series ‘Little America’
Posted: January 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Little America, Michael Brook
Michael Brook (Brooklyn, Into the Wild, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Fighter) is the composer of the new Apple TV+ original series Little America. The show is created by Lee Eisenberg (The Office, Good Boys) inspired by the true stories featured in Epic Magazin of immigrants in America. The first season features eight stories from different parts of the world. Eisenberg is also executive producing the project with Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick), Alan Yang (Master of None), Sian Heder, Joshuah Bearman, Joshua Davis and Arthur Spector. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to Reteam with Guillermo del Toro on Netflix Animated Movie ‘Pinocchio’
Posted: January 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo Del Toro, Pinocchio, The French Dispatch
Alexandre Desplat is reteaming with director Guillermo del Toro on the upcoming Netflix animated film Pinocchio. The composer is set to score and is also composing original songs for the stop motion musical, which marks the del Toro’s animated feature film directorial debut. Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall, Adventure Time) co-wrote the script with the director and Mark Gustafson is co-directing the movie, which is set in Italy during the 1930s and tells the classic tale of the wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. Read the rest of this entry »
Anne Dudley Scoring Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Benedetta’
Posted: January 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anne Dudley, Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven
Earlier this week, Anne Dudley (The Crying Game, The Full Monty, American History X, Poldark) has recorded her score for the upcoming historical drama Benedetta. The film is directed by Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Total Recall, Starship Troopers) and stars Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin and Louise Chevillotte. The movie is based on Judith C. Brown’s academic work Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun In Renaissance Italy about controversial 17th Century Italian nun Benedetta Carlini. Read the rest of this entry »
NBC’s ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ to Original Score by Gabriel Mann & Themes by Mateo Messina
Posted: January 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gabriel Mann, Mateo Messina, NBC, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
Gabriel Mann is composing the original score for the new NBC drama Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Mateo Messina (Juno, Superstore, Women Who Kill) has provided the themes for the show created by Austin Winsberg and starring Jane Levy, Skylar Astin, Alex Newell, John Clarence Stewart, Peter Gallagher and Mary Steenburgen. The series revolves around a whip-smart computer coder in San Francisco who suddenly starts to hear the innermost wants, thoughts and desires of the people around her – her family, co-workers and complete strangers – through popular songs. Harvey Mason Jr. serves as the project’s executive music producer and Jen Ross is the music supervisor. Read the rest of this entry »
Robert Glasper Scoring Stella Meghie’s ‘The Photograph’
Posted: January 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Robert Glasper, Stella Meghie, The Photograph
Jazz pianist/record producer and composer Robert Glasper has recently scored the upcoming romantic drama The Photograph. The film is written and directed by Stella Meghie (Everything, Everything, Jean of the Joneses) and stars Issa Rae, LaKeith Stanfield, Chanté Adams, Y’lan Noel, Rob Morgan, Lil Rel Howery and Courtney B. Vance. The movie follow the estranged daughter of a famed photographer who finds a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box that is found after her mother’s death and finds herself on a journey delving into her mother’s early life. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Cardoni Tapped as New Composer of Spectrum’s ‘L.A.’s Finest’
Posted: January 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jeff Cardoni, L.A.'s Finest, Spectrum
Jeff Cardoni (Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Silicon Valley, The Kominsky Method) is the new composer of the Spectrum Originals series L.A.’s Finest. He is scoring the second season of the drama created by Brandon Margolis & Brandon Sonnier (The Blacklist) based on Michael Bay’s Bad Boys franchise and starring Gabrielle Union, Jessica Alba, Zach Gilford, Duane Martin, Ryan McPartlin, Sophie Reynolds and Ernie Hudson. Laura Karpman & Raphal Saadiq have previously scored last year’s first season of the show. Read the rest of this entry »
John Paesano to Score Yuval Adler’s ‘The Secrets We Keep’
Posted: January 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Paesano, The Secrets We Keep, Yuval Adler
John Paesano (Daredevil, The Maze Runner, When the Game Stands Tall, Truth Be Told) has signed on to score the upcoming thriller The Secrets We Keep. The film is directed by Yuval Adler (The Operative, Bethlehem) and stars Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Chris Messina and Amy Seimetz. The movie follows a woman who is rebuilding her life in New York after World War II, when she and her husband encounter a man they think could be one of her chief tormentors as she fled from the Nazi occupation in World War II. Ryan Covington wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
2020 BAFTA Nominations Announced
Posted: January 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA
The British Academy of Film and Television has announced the nominations for the 2020 Orange British Academy Film Awards. The winners will be announced at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday, February 2. For a full list of nominations, click here.
Here are the nominations in the ‘Original Score’ category:
1917 – Thomas Newman
Jojo Rabbit – Michael Giacchino
Joker – Hildur Gudnadottir Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer to Score 25th James Bond Film ‘No Time to Die’
Posted: January 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cary Fukunaga, Hans Zimmer, James Bond, No Time to Die
Hans Zimmer has been brought in to score the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die. It has not been confirmed yet whether he will be taking sole composer credit or if he will be sharing scoring credit with one of his regular collaborators. Dan Romer was originally announced as the movie’s composer. No Time to Die is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and stars Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas and Ralph Fiennes. Read the rest of this entry »
