Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 2004 historical epic Troy directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Brendan Gleeson and Peter O’Toole. The album features the expanded score from the Warner Bros. Pictures production composed and conducted by James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, A Beautiful Mind), including over half an hour of previously unreleased music. Also included is the original song Remember performed by Josh Groban with Tanja Tzarovska. The 2-CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full album details and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Troy’ Score by James Horner to Be Released
Posted: October 3, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Horner, Maurice Jarre, score, Shogun, Soundtrack, Troy
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Duncan Thum to Score ‘The Iron Orchard’
Posted: October 2, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Duncan Thum, The Iron Orchard, Ty Roberts
Duncan Thum has been hired to score the upcoming period drama The Iron Orchard. The film is directed by Ty Roberts and stars Lane Garrison, Austin Nichols, Ali Cobrin, Timothy Lee DePriest, Lew Temple, Allan McLeod, Temple Baker and Rooster McConaughey. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Pendleton and tells the story of an unsophisticated and unskilled young man thrust into the brutal West Texas oilfields circa 1939, who ultimately becomes a formidable wildcatter. Gerry de Leon (Opening Night) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
John Ottman & David Buckley Scoring Fox’s ‘The Gifted’
Posted: October 2, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bryan Singer, David Buckley, Fox, Matt Nix, The Gifted
John Ottman and David Buckley are scoring the new Fox drama The Gifted. The show is developed by Matt Nix (APB, Burn Notice) based on Marvel’s X-Men properties and stars Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, Sean Teale, Jamie Chung, Coby Bell, Emma Dumont, Blair Redford, Natalie Alyn Lind and Percy Hynes White. The series tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Bryan Singer (X-Men, The Usual Suspects) has directed the pilot episode and is executive producing the 20th Century Fox and Marvel Television production with Nix, Lauren Shuler Donner (Deadpool, Logan), Simon Kinberg (The Martian, Logan), Jeph Loeb & Jim Chory (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Legion). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wonderstruck’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 2, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Carter Burwell, score, Soundtrack, Todd Haynes, Wonderstruck
The full details of the soundtrack album for Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Carter Burwell (Carol, Fargo, Twilight, In Bruges, True Grit). The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on October 20, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Wonderstruck is directed by Haynes and stars Julianne Moore, Oakes Fegley, Michelle Williams and Millicent Simmonds. The movie is based on Brian Selznick’s novel of the same title and traces the gradually weaving stories, set 50 years apart, of two deaf children who both wish their lives had been different. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Haslinger Scoring CBS ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’
Posted: October 1, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: CBS, Paul Haslinger, Wisdom of the Crowd
Paul Haslinger is composing the music for the new CBS drama Wisdom of the Crowd. The show is created by Ted Humphrey (The Good Wife) and stars Jeremy Piven, Richard T. Jones, Natalia Tena, Monica Potter and Blake Lee. The series follows a visionary tech innovator who creates a cutting-edge crowdsourcing app to solve his daughter’s murder, and revolutionize crime solving in the process. Humphrey is also executive producing the CBS Television Studios & Universal Television production with Adam Davidson, Avi Nir (Tyrant), Alon Shtruzman, Peter Traugott (Samantha Who?), Rachel Kaplan, Dror Mishani and Shira Hadad. Read the rest of this entry »
Bleeding Fingers Music Taking Over Scoring Duties on ‘The Simpsons’
Posted: October 1, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bleeding Fingers Music, Fox, Hans Zimmer, Russell Emanuel, Steven Kofsky, The Simpsons
The music production house Bleeding Fingers Music has taken over scoring duties on the Fox animated series The Simpsons. Hans Zimmer and Russell Emanuel serve as score producers and Steven Kofsky is credited as the score executive producer. The composers are replacing Alf Clausen who has scored most of the episodes of the previous 28 seasons of the series. Danny Elfman’s main titles theme for the show is still being used. Zimmer has previously scored 2007’s The Simpsons Movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 1, 2017)
Posted: October 1, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 9JKL, ABC, Big Mouth, Blake Neely, CBS, Dan Romer, Fox, Gabriel Mann, Ghosted, Jeff Russo, John Debney, Jonathan Snipes, Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, Mark Rivers, Netflix, Ovation, Patrick Rose, Rillington Place, Samuel Sim, SEAL Team, Stuart Earl, Sundance Now, Ten Days in the Valley, The Good Doctor, The Halcyon, The Mayor, W.G. Snuffy Walden, Young Sheldon
Premiering tonight is the new ABC drama Ten Days in the Valley created by Tassie Cameron and starring Kyra Sedgwick, Felix Solis, Erika Christensen, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Kick Gurry, Ella Thomas and Emily Kinney. The show’s original music is composed by W.G. Snuffy Walden (The West Wing, Friday Night Lights, Nashville, Under the Dome). Check out our scoring assignment announcement and visit the official show website to learn more about the series, which will air Sunday nights on ABC. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Better Watch Out’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: October 1, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Better Watch Out, Brian Cachia, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album will be released for the horror thriller Better Watch Out. The album features the film’s original music composed by Brian Cachia (The Osiris Child, Infini, Undocumented). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 6, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Better Watch Out is directed by Chris Peckover and stars Levi Miller, Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Patrick Warburton and Virginia Madsen. The movie follows a babysitter who, one snowy night on a quiet suburban street, must defend her twelve-year-old charge from intruders but quickly learns that this is an extraordinary home invasion that demands an equally extraordinary response. Read the rest of this entry »
Blake Neely Scoring ABC’s ‘Kevin (Probably) Saves the World’ & ‘Deception’
Posted: September 30, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Blake Neely, Deception, Kevin (Probably) Saves the World
Blake Neely is scoring the new ABC comedy drama Kevin (Probably) Saves the World. The show is created by Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters (Marvel’s Agent Carter, Resurrection, Reaper) and stars Jason Ritter, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Chloe East, J. August Richards, Dustin Ybarra and India de Beaufort. The series evolves around a down-and-out guy who’s visited by a celestial being and given a mission to save the world. Fazekas & Butters are also executive producing the ABC Studios production. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 29, 2017)
Posted: September 29, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 'Til Death Do Us Part, American Made, Ben Frost, Christophe Beck, Daniel Pemberton, Elliot Goldenthal, Elvis Kuehn, Flatliners, Immanuel Rich, Lucas Vidal, Lucky, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House, Nathan Barr, Our Souls at Night, Realive, Super Dark Times
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the action thriller American Made directed by Doug Liman and starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, E. Roger Mitchell, Jesse Plemons, Lola Kirke, Alejandro Edda, Benito Martinez, Caleb Landry Jones and Jayma Mays. The film’s original music is composed by Christophe Beck (Frozen, Ant-Man, Edge of Tomorrow). Varese Sarabande has released a soundtrack album featuring three tracks from the composer’s score, as well as songs by Linda Ronstadt, The Allman Brothers, Walter Murphy & more. Click here for the full album details.
Also opening wide is the horror thriller Flatliners directed by Niels Arden Oplev and starring Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton and Kiersey Clemons. Nathan Barr (True Blood, The Americans, Hostel, Cabin Fever) has composed the film’s original music. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details. Also visit Film Music Magazine for a recent interview with Barr about his work on the project. Read the rest of this entry »
