The World Soundtrack Academy has announced the next wave of nominees for the 2017 World Soundtrack Awards in the categories Discovery of the Year, Public Choice Award, Best Original Score for a Belgian Production and SABAM Award for Best Young International Composer. The winners will be announced at the World Soundtrack Awards & concert on Wednesday, October 18 at the Ghent International Film Festival. Also check out our article for the previously announced nominees. Read the rest of this entry »
World Soundtrack Awards Discovery of the Year & Public Choice Nominees Announced
Posted: September 13, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: World Soundtrack Awards
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‘Awaken the Shadowman’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 13, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Awaken the Shadowman, Douglas Pipes, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the horror thriller Awaken the Shadowman. The album features the film’s original music composed by Douglas Pipes (Monster House, Krampus, Trick ‘r Treat). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. A limited edition CD version can be ordered on the label’s official website.. Awaken the Shadowman is directed by J.S . Wilson and stars James Zimbardi, Skyler Caleb, Jean Smart, Emily Somers, Andrea Hunt and Robert R. Shafer. movie follows two brothers who reunite after their mother’s mysterious disappearance and uncover a hidden cult and supernatural force. Read the rest of this entry »
Atli Orvarsson Scoring NBC’s ‘Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders’
Posted: September 12, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atli Orvarsson, Law & Order, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, NBC
Atli Orvarsson is scoring the new NBC mini-series Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders. The show is created by Rene Balce and stars Edie Falco, Gus Halper, Heather Graham, Josh Charles and Miles Gaston Villanueva. The 8-parter centers on the trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez who were convicted in 1996 for the murder of their parents. Dick Wolf is executive producing the Universal Television and Wolf Films production with Peter Jankowski, Arthur W. Forney and Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland) who also directed two episodes. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’ Score & ‘E.T.’ 35th Anniversary Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 12, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Edward Shearmur, John Williams, score, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has released a new remastered soundtrack album for Paramount Pictures’ 2004 sci-fi/fantasy adventure Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow directed by Kenny Conrad and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Angelina Jolie. The album features the film’s expanded score composed by Edward Shearmur (Charlie’s Angels, Cruel Intentions, Johnny English, Reign of Fire), including over an hour of previously unreleased music. The 2-CD set is limited to 3000 copies and can now be ordered 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 »
John Frizzell Scoring Cinemax’s ‘Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus’
Posted: September 12, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cinemax, John Frizzell, Mike Judge, Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus
John Frizzell is reteaming with Mike Judge on the new Cinemax original series Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus. The animated series is created Judge (Silicon Valley, King of the Hill), Richard Mullins & Dub Cornett and recounts the raucous adventures of country music’s most legendary artists, including Johnny Paycheck, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Billy Joe Shaver, Waylon Jennings and Blaze Foley, as told by those who knew them best. Judge & Cornett are also executive producing the project with Glen Zipper (Undefeated) and Sean Stuart (All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records). Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo’s ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Main Theme Preview
Posted: September 12, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Composer InterviewsTags: CBS, Jeff Russo, Star Trek, Star Trek: Discovery
CBS has published a behind-the-scenes video featuring the main theme from Star Trek: Discovery. The video features footage of Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Russo (Fargo, Legion, The Night Of, Snowfall, Power) recording his theme with a 60-piece orchestra, as well as interviews with Russo himself and co-creator/executive producer Alex Kurtzman. Check out the full video after the jump. The show starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Jason Isaacs, Doug Jones, James Frain, Michelle Yeoh and Anthony Rapp is set a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series and follows the crew of the USS Discovery during the Federation-Klingon cold war. Read the rest of this entry »
Pekka Kuusisto & Samuli Kosminen to Score ‘Moominvalley’ TV Series
Posted: September 12, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Moominvalley, Pekka Kuusisto, Samuli Kosminen
Classical violinist Pekka Kuusisto and percussionist Samuli Kosminen are set to compose the music for the upcoming animated series Moominvalley. The show based on Scandinavian’s children’s books The Moomins is produced by the Finnish production company Gutsy Animations and will feature the voices of Rosamund Pike, Taron Egerton, Kate Winslet, Warwick Davis, Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade, Will Self and Akiya Henry. Steve Box (The Curse of the Were-Rabbit) is directing the series. Mark Huckerby & Nick Ostler (Howl, Don’t Knock Twice) serve as writers and John Woolley (Shaun the Sheep) is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Unrest’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 11, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bear McCreary, Jennifer Brea, score, Soundtrack, Unrest
Sparks & Shadows will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Unrest. The album features the film’s original music composed by Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Lane, The Walking Dead, Outlander, Battlestar Galactica, Colossal, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 22, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Unrest tells the story of Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea (who also directed the movie) who is struck down at 28 by a mysterious fever that leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her “it’s all in her head,” she turns her camera on herself to document her devastating symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »
Dario Marianelli to Score ‘Paddington 2’
Posted: September 11, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dario Marianelli, Paddington, Paddington 2, Paul King
Dario Marianelli has been tapped to score the upcoming family movie sequel Paddington 2. The film is directed by Paul King who previously helmed the 2014 original movie and stars Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin and Imelda Staunton, as well as Ben Whishaw as the voice of the title character. They are joined by new cast members Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson. The movie finds Paddington happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens. While searching for the perfect present for his aunt’s hundredth birthday, Paddington embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber’s antique shop. Read the rest of this entry »
‘My Son’ (‘Mon Garcon’) Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 11, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christian Carion, Laurent Perez Del Mar, Mon Garcon, score, Soundtrack
Nord-Ouest Films will release a soundtrack album for the French thriller My Son (Mon garçon). The album features the film’s original music composed by Laurent Perez Del Mar (The Red Turtle, I Kill Giants). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, September 15, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. My Son is directed by Christian Carion (Joyeux Noel) and stars Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent and Olivier De Benoist. The movie revolves around a husband and wife who are growing apart as the man receives a message from his distraught ex-wife during a stop-over in France. The thriller will be released in French theaters on September 20 and was picked up for domestic distribution by Cohen Media Group. Read the rest of this entry »
