Composer Heather McIntosh is reuniting with director Craig Zobel on the upcoming political thriller The Hunt. The film’s cast includes Emma Roberts, Justin Hartley, Glenn Howerton, Ike Barinholtz, Betty Gilpin and Amy Madigan. No plot details have been announced yet for the movie, which will explore escalating aggressiveness between the political right and left in America. Damon Lindelof (Lost, Prometheus, The Leftovers) and Nick Cuse wrote the screenplay. Lindelof is also producing the project with Jason Blum (Get Out, Paranormal Activity, Insidious) for Blumhouse. Read the rest of this entry »
Heather McIntosh Scoring Craig Zobel’s ‘The Hunt’
Posted: July 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Zobel, Heather McIntosh, The Hunt
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Film/TV Music Panels at 2019 Comic-Con Announced
Posted: July 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Comic-Con
The line-up for several film music-related panels at Comic-Con 2019 has been announced. On Thursday, July 18, a number of film/TV composers will participate in the 11th annual Behind the Music panel. Jeff Russo (Star Trek: Discovery, The Umbrella Academy), Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, The Prince of Egypt), Wendy Carlos (Tron, The Shining), Sean Callery (Homeland, Jessica Jones), Kurt Farquhar (Black Lightning, Black Soul) and Jim Dooley (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Pushing Daisies) will be participating in a discussion moderated by a to-be-announced celebrity moderator. Read the rest of this entry »
Dario Marianelli to Score Matteo Garrone’s ‘Pinocchio’
Posted: July 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dario Marianelli, Matteo Garrone, Pinocchio
Dario Marianelli (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, Darkest Hour, Bumblebee, Anna Karenina) is set to compose the music for Matteo Garrone’s upcoming new live-action film adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio. The film is written and directed by Garrone (Dogman, Gomorrah, Tale of Tales) and stars Roberto Begnini as Geppetto, alongside Gigi Proietti as The Cat, Rocco Papaleo as The Fox and Marcello Fonte as The Parrot, as well as Federico Ielapi, Massimo Ceccherini, Matilda De Angelis, Alida Baldari Calabria, Alessio Di Domenicantonio, Maria Pia Timo and Davide Marotta. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Gints Zilbalodis’ ‘Away’ Released
Posted: July 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Away, Gints Zilbalodis, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the animated feature Away. The album features the film’s original music composed by Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis who also wrote, directed and produced the movie. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Away marks Zilbalodis’ feature debut and tells the story of a boy and a little bird on a journey across a strange island as they are trying to get back home. The Bilibaba production premiered last month at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, where it received the Annecy Contrechamp Award. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Blinded by the Light’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 7, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A.R. Rahman, Blinded by the Light, Gurinder Chadha, Soundtrack
Sony Music will release the official soundtrack album for the drama Blinded by the Light. The album features the songs from the movie by Bruce Springsteen. Also included are two tracks from the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours), as well as songs by Pet Shop Boys, a-ha & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on August 9, 2019 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Blinded by the Light is directed by Gurinder Chadha and stars Viveik Kalra, Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon, Kulvinder Ghir, Nell Williams, Dean-Charles Chapman and Aaron Phagura. The movie is set to the music and lyrics of Springsteen’s timeless songs and tells the story of a British teen of Pakistani descent, growing up in the town of Luton, England, in 1987 who writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 7, 2019)
Posted: July 7, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apollo: Missions to the Moon, Blake Neely, Chasing the Moon, Cities of Last Things, Daniel Wohl, Gary Lionelli, HBO, I Love You, Ian Hultquist, James Everingham, Mitch Lee, Nathaniel Blume, National Geographic, Netflix, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter, PBS, Point Blank, Rob, Shangri-La, Showtime, The Movies
Premiering tonight is the National Geographic documentary Apollo: Missions to the Moon directed by Tom Jennings about the United States’ remarkable journey to land on the Moon before 1970. The film’s original music is composed James Everingham for Bleeding Fingers Music and produced by Hans Zimmer & Russell Emanuel. Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring Everingham’s score. Check out our previous news article for the full album details.
Also premiering tonight is the CNN docu-series The Movies executive produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman & Mark Herzog and featuring interviews with Steven Spielberg, Julia Roberts, Ron Howard, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, among others. Blake Neely (Arrow, The Flash, Riverdale, Into the West, Life As We Know It) & Nathaniel Blume (The Seventies, The Eighties, Deception) have composed the show’s original music. Visit the official show website for more information about the documentary, which explores American cinema through the decades and the cultural, societal and political shifts that framed its evolution. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 7, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christian Davis, Mitch Davis, score, Soundtrack, The Other Side of Heaven, The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith
Bad Haircut Records has released a soundtrack album for the faith-based drama The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christian Davis (Christmas Eve, Atomica, We Love You, Sally Carmichael!, The Stray). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith is written and directed by Mitch Davis and stars Christopher Gorham, Natalie Medlock, Alex Tarrant, Ben Baker, Nicole Whippy, Miriama Smith and Joe Folau. The movie continues the story of Elder John H. Groberg’s missionary adventures in Tonga as depicted in the 2001 film (scored by Kevin Kiner). Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Bates Scoring Genndy Tartakovsky’s Adult Swim Series ‘Primal’
Posted: July 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adult Swim, Genndy Tartakovsky, Joanne Higginbottom, Primal, Tyler Bates
Composer Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool 2, John Wick, 300, The Punisher, Watchmen) is reteaming with Genndy Tartakovsky on the upcoming Adult Swim animated series Primal. he is co-scoring the project with Joanne Higginbottom. The show revolves around a caveman at the dawn of evolution and a dinosaur on the brink of extinction who become the only hope of survival in a violent, primordial world. Tartakovsky has created the series and is also executive producing the Cartoon Network Studios and Studio La Cachette production. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 5, 2019)
Posted: July 5, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bobby Krlic, Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, Michael Brook, Michael Giacchino, Midsommar, My Days of Mercy, Nick Laird-Clowes, Phil, Rolfe Kent, Spider-Man: Far from Home
Two new movies are opening in theaters nationwide this week:
Already playing in theaters since this past Tuesday is Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Far from Home directed by Jon Watts and starring Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Zendaya, Cobie Smulders, Jacob Batalon, Marisa Tomei and Jake Gyllenhaal. The film’s original music composed by Michael Giacchino (Up, Star Trek, Jurassic World, Lost, The Incredibles, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Click here for the full album details.
Playing in theaters since this past Wednesday is the horror movie Midsommar written and directed by Ari Aster and starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgran, Archie Madekwe, Ellora Torchia and Will Poulter. Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) (Triple 9, Seven Seconds, Shooter) has composed the film’s original music. Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Apollo: Missions to the Moon’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 5, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apollo: Missions to the Moon, Bleeding Fingers Music, Hans Zimmer, James Everingham, Russell Emanuel, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the National Geographic documentary Apollo: Missions to the Moon. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Everingham for Bleeding Fingers Music and produced by Hans Zimmer & Russell Emanuel. The soundtrack is being released digitally and physically today. Click here to download the album and visit Amazon to order the CD version. Apollo: Missions to the Moon is directed by Tom Jennings (Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes, Diana: In Her Own Words) and recounts the United States’ remarkable journey to land on the Moon before 1970. The movie covers the Apollo Space Program with raw media, eschewing narration for footage and audio of the program, including samples of never-before-audio pulled from over 800 hours of recordings and Apollo black box recordings. Read the rest of this entry »
