Rob Simonsen is scoring the upcoming comedy Tully. The film is directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air, Thank You for Smoking) and stars Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Duplass and Ron Livingston. The movie follows a mother of three who comes to form a unique bond with a thoughtful, surprising and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully. Diablo Cody (Juno, Young Adult, United States of Tara) wrote the screenplay. Reitman is also producing the project with Helen Estabrook (Whiplash, Labor Day), Aaron L. Gilbert (The Birth of a Nation) for Bron Studios, Cody, Mason Novick (500 Days of Sumer), as well as Theron, A.J. Dix (The Butterfly Effect) & Beth Kono (Atomic Blonde) for Denver & Delilah. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Simonsen Scoring Jason Reitman’s ‘Tully’
Posted: May 16, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jason Reitman, Rob Simonsen, Tully
‘Wind River’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 16, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Nick Cave, score, Soundtrack, Taylor Sheridan, Warren Ellis, Wind River
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Wind River. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Proposition, Hell or High Water, Lawless). The soundtrack is set to be released on August 4, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Wind River is written and directed by Taylor Sheridan and stars Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen and Jon Bernthal. The movie revolves around an FBI agent who teams with the town’s veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Halpern Scoring Chloé Zhao’s ‘The Rider’
Posted: May 16, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chloe Zhao, Nathan Halpern, The Rider
Nathan Halpern has recently composed the music for the drama The Rider. The film is written and directed by Chloé Zhao (Songs My Brothers Taught Me) and stars Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Lane Scott and Cat Clifford. The movie centers on a young cowboy who undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine what it means to be a man in the heartland of America after a tragic riding accident. Bert Hamelinck (The Diary of a Teenage Girl Sacha Ben Harroche and Mollye Asher (Fort Tilden, She’s Lost Control) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The 100’ Season 4 Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: May 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: score, Soundtrack, The 100, The CW, Tree Adams
WaterTower Music will release a new soundtrack album for the CW drama The 100. The album features selections from the original music of the show’s fourth season composed by Tree Adams (Californication, Perception, Lethal Weapon). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday 19, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring Adams’ score from the third season. The 100 developed by Jason Rothenberg based on the book by Kass Morgan stars Eliza Taylor, Paige Turco, Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos, Christopher Larkin, Devon Bostick, Isaiah Washington, Henry Ian Cusick and Lindsey Morgan. The drama follows a group of teens who become the first humans to return to Earth after a devastating nuclear apocalypse. Read the rest of this entry »
Spike Lee’s Netflix Series ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ to Feature Music by Bruce Hornsby
Posted: May 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bruce Hornsby, Netflix, She's Gotta Have It, Spike Lee
Bruce Hornsby has been tapped to score the upcoming Netflix original series She’s Gotta Have It. The show is created by Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, Inside Man, 25th Hour) and stars DeWanda Wise, Lyriq Bent, Cleo Anthony, Anthony Ramos, Chyna Layne and Ilfenesh Hadera. The comedy based on Lee’s 1986 film revolves around a Brooklyn-based sexually liberated, free spirited painter/mixed media artist in her late 20s who struggles to define herself and divide her time among her friends, job and three lovers. Read the rest of this entry »
Henry Jackman to Score ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’
Posted: May 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Henry Jackman, Jake Kasdan, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2
Henry Jackman has taken over scoring duties on the upcoming fantasy adventure Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. The film is directed by Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher, Orange County) and stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Jack Black, Bobby Cannavale and Nick Jonas. The movie follows four high school kids who are transported into an adventure video game and must survive from its challenges. Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers (Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Lego Batman Movie) and Scott Rosenberg (High Fidelity) & Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) wrote the screenplay based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Howe Scoring ‘Professor Marston & the Wonder Women’
Posted: May 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Angela Robinson, Charming, Professor Marston & the Wonder Women, Tom Howe
Tom Howe is scoring the upcoming biographical drama Professor Marston & the Wonder Women. The film is written and directed by Angela Robinson (True Blood, The L Word) and stars Luke Evans, Bella Heathcote, Rebecca Hall, Connie Britton and Oliver Platt. The movie tells the story of Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston, the inventor of the lie detector and creator of Wonder Woman, who defends his feminist superhero against charges of “sexual perversity.” Amy Redford, Andrea Sperling (Like Crazy, Smashed, Breathe In) and Terry Leonard (Hounddog) are producing the project for Topple Productions and Boxspring Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 14, 2017)
Posted: May 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 12 Monkeys, Acorn TV, Becoming Bond, Blake Neely, Bryce Jacobs, Decline and Fall, Evgueni Galperine, HBO, Hulu, John Piscitello, Paul Englisby, Sacha Galperine, Stephen Barton, Syfy, The Keepers, The Wizard of Lies
Premiering in the U.S. tomorrow, May 15, is the British mini-series Decline and Fall written by James Woods, directed by Guillem Morales and starring Jack Whitehall, David Suchet and Eva Longoria. The 3-parter’s original music is composed by Paul Englishby (An Education, Miss Petigrew Lives for a Day, The Musketeers). The comedy is based on Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel and follows an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s,who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club. The show premiered earlier this year in the UK on BBC and makes its U.S. debut on Acorn TV. Visit the official show website for more information.
Premiering on Friday, May 19, is the third season of the Syfy original series 12 Monkeys developed by Terry Matalas & Travis Fickett based on Terry Gilliam’s movie and starring Aaron Standford, Amanda Schull, Kirk Acevedo, Todd Stashwick, Emily Hampshire, Barbara Sukowa and Noah Bean. Stephen Barton (Jennifer’s Body, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Titanfall) and Bryce Jacobs (Drive Hard) have scored the new season, taking over from Trevor Rabin & Paul Linford who composed the music for the first two seasons. Visit the official show website for updates. Read the rest of this entry »
Evgueni & Sacha Galperine Scoring Andrey Zvyagintsev’s ‘Loveless’
Posted: May 13, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Evgueni Galperine, Loveless, Sacha Galperine
Evgueni and Sacha Galperine have composed the music for the drama Loveless (Nelyubov). The film is directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, The Return) and stars Maryana Spivak, Alexey Rozin, Matvey Nokikov, Marina Vasilyeva, Andris Keishs and Alexey Fateev. The movie tells the story of a couple locked in a bitter divorce battle forced to cooperate when its young son goes missing after witnessing one of his parents’ violent arguments. Zvyagintsev also wrote the screenplay with Oleg Negin (Leviathan). Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Dinner’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 13, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Oren Moverman, Soundtrack, The Dinner
The Orchard will release a soundtrack album for the thriller The Dinner. The album features the songs from the movie by artists including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg, Nico, The Shoe, Locust Honey & more, as well as an original track by Eli Brueggeman. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 19, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Dinner is written and directed by Oren Moverman and stars Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall and Chloë Sevigny. The movie centers on a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant. Read the rest of this entry »
