Alan Silvestri has signed on to score the upcoming fantasy adventure The Witches. The film is directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock, Jahzir Kadeem Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick. The movie is based on Roald Dahl classic book and tells the story of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandmain the rural Alabama town of Demopolis, where they come across some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches. Zemeckis also wrote the screenplay with Kenya Barris (Black-ish, Shaft) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth). Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Silvestri to Reteam with Robert Zemeckis on ‘The Witches’
Posted: July 17, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Silvestri, Robert Zemeckis, The Witches
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Randy Newman Scoring Noah Baumbach’s Next Feature
Posted: July 17, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Noah Baumbach, Randy Newman
Randy Newman has recently composed the original music for Noah Baumbach’s, currently untitled, upcoming Netflix original movie. The film is written and directed by Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, Frances Ha) and stars Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Merritt Wever, Azhy Robertson, Alan Alda and Kyle Bornheimer. No plot details have been announced yet. Baumbach is also producing the project with David Heyman (Gravity, Harry Potter series). Read the rest of this entry »
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul to Compose Music for & Produce Showtime Musical Drama
Posted: July 17, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Showtime
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen) will contribute music for and serve as executive producers on an upcoming, currently untitled, musical drama for Showtime. The show will tell a family story that interweaves modern-day and 1959 Detroit, centering on a mystery uncovered by a young musician who moves back to her childhood home. Kyle Jarrow (SpongeBob SquarePants musical) is writing the series and is also executive producing the Fox 21 Television Studios production with Alice Keys, Marc Platt (La La Land, Bridge of Spies), R.J. Cutler (Nashville, The September Issue) and Adam Siegel (Grease: Live!). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: July 17, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Big Little Lies, HBO, Soundtrack
ABKCO Records will release a new soundtrack album for the HBO original series Big Little Lies. The album features a selection of songs from the show’s second season, including The Spinners’ Top 5 hit I’ll Be Around, Until You Came Into My Life by Ann Peebles, Great Big Bundle of Love by Brenton Wood, Cassandra Wilson’s rendition of Neil Young’s Harvest Moon, POP ETC’s take on Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams, Willie Nelson’s duet with daughter Paula Nelson of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Have You Ever Seen the Rain, as well as tracks by Elle King, Leon Bridges, Jim James & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, July 19 (click here to download) and physically on September 6 (CD version) and September 27 (vinyl version). Visit Amazon to pre-order the physical version. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for BBC’s ‘Dark Money’ Announced
Posted: July 17, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Dark Money, Sarah Warne, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the BBC drama Dark Money. The album features the show’s original music composed by Sarah Warne (Humans, Prey, Catching a Killer). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, July 26, 2019 and will be available to download here. Dark Money is written by Levi David Addai, directed by Lewis Arnold and stars Rebecca Front, Babou Ceesay and Max Fincham. The 4-parter centers on an ordinary working-class family from North London whose youngest son has recently finished filming a major Hollywood movie role, when he reveals he was abused whilst out in America by a renowned filmmaker. Read the rest of this entry »
Gabriel Mann & Rebecca Kneubuhl to Score ABC’s ‘Stumptown’
Posted: July 16, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Gabriel Mann, Rebecca Kneubuhl, Stumptown
Gabriel Mann and Rebecca Kneubuhl are set to score the upcoming ABC drama Stumptown. They already composed the music for the pilot episode of the series based on the graphic novel series of the same title by Greg Rucka & Matthew Southworth, developed by Jason Richman (Bangkok Dangerous, Swing Kids) and starring Cobie Smulders, Tantoo Cardinal, Cole Sibusas, Adrian Martinez, Camryn Manheim and Michael Ealy. The show centers around a strong, assertive and sharp-witted army veteran with a complicated love life, gambling debt and a brother to take care of in Portland, Oregon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Planet of the Apes’ Original Film Series Soundtrack Collection Announced
Posted: July 16, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenman, Planet of the Apes, score, Soundtrack, Tom Scott
La-La Land Records, 20th Century Fox, Fox Music and Varèse Sarabande have announced a new 5-CD Box Set collection featuring the remastered original scores from the original Planet of the Apes film franchise, including the scores from the original 1968 film and 1971’s Escape from the Planet of the Apes composed by Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Chinatown), 1970’s Beneath the Planet of the Apes and 1973’s Battle for the Planet of the Apes composed by Leonard Rosenman (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, A Man Called Horse) and 1972’s Conquest of the Planet of the Apes composed by Tom Scott (Soul Man). Read the rest of this entry »
2019 Emmy Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: July 16, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards
The nominations for the 71st Emmy Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories:
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score):
Barry – What?! – Music by David Wingo
Game of Thrones – The Long Night – Music by Ramin Djawadi
House of Cards – Chapter 73 – Music by Jeff Beal
The Handmaid’s Tale – The Word – Music by Adam Taylor
This Is Us – Songbird Road: Part One – Music by Siddhartha Khosla Read the rest of this entry »
‘Love, Antosha’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 16, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anton Yelchin, Garret Price, Love Antosha, Soundtrack
Lurker Productions has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Love, Antosha. The album features the original songs from the movie performed by Anton Yelchin. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Love, Antosha is directed by Garret Price and examines Yelchin’s lifelong passion for the arts, as told through journals and other writings, photography, original music, as well as interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues, including Jennifer Lawrence, Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Frank Langella, Willem Dafoe, J.J. Abrams & others. Read the rest of this entry »
Simon Franglen Scoring Xiaolong Zheng’s ‘Turandot’
Posted: July 15, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Simon Franglen, Turandot, Xiaolong Zheng
Simon Franglen (The Magnificent Seven, Peppermint, Pandora: The World of Avatar) has recently composed the original score for the upcoming Chinese fantasy romance Turandot. The film is directed by Xiaolong Zheng (Empresses in the Palace) and stars Guan Xiaotong and Dylan Sprouse. The movie is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera of the same title and follows a princess who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that were given to her as birthday gifts and an ordinary citizen who risks his life to save her. Xiaoping Wang wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
