Antonio Sanchez is scoring the upcoming Epix original series Get Shorty. The show is created by Davey Holmes (Shameless) inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 1990 bestselling thriller comedy novel and stars Chris O’Dowd, Ray Romano, Sean Bridgers, Megan Stevenson, Goya Robles, Lucy Walters, Sarah Stiles, Antwone Tanner and Carolyn Dodd. The series follows a hitman from Nevada who tries to become a movie producer in Hollywood as a means to leave his criminal past behind. Read the rest of this entry »
Antonio Sanchez to Score Epix’s ‘Get Shorty’ TV Series
Posted: April 6, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Antonio Sanchez, Davey Holmes, Epix, Get Shorty
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‘Alien: Covenant’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 6, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alien, Alien: Covenant, Jed Kurzel, Ridley Scott, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jed Kurzel (Assassin’s Creed, The Babadook, Macbeth, The Snowtown Murders). The soundtrack will be released next month by Milan Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Alien: Covenant starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England and Benjamin Rigby follows the crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, as they discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. Read the rest of this entry »
Julian Wass Scoring HBO’s ‘Room 104’
Posted: April 5, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO, Jay Duplass, Julian Wass, Mark Duplass, Room 104
Julian Wass has been tapped to score the upcoming HBO original series Room 104. The show is created by Mark & Jay Duplass (Cyrus, Jeff Who Lives at Home). The anthology series tells a different story of a group of assorted characters who pass through the room of an average American hotel in each episode. The Duplass brothers are also executive producing the comedy with Xan Aranda (Blue Jay). Wass has previously collaborated with the filmmakers on the features The Do-Deca Pentathlon, which they directed, and The Overnight & Blue Jay, which they produced. Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary to Score ‘Half to Death’
Posted: April 5, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bear McCreary, Christopher Landon, Half to Death, Jason Blum
Bear McCreary revealed in a recent interview with Film Music Magazine that he is scoring the upcoming horror thriller Half to Death. The film is directed by Christopher Landon (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, screenwriter of Disturbia) and stars Jessica Rothe, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken and Rachel Matthews. Landon also co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Lobdell. The movie follows a woman who must solve the mystery of her own murder before her chances run out. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Long Strange Trip’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 5, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amir Bar-Lev, Grateful Dead, Long Strange Trip, Soundtrack
Rhino Records will release a soundtrack album for Amazon Studios’ documentary Long Strange Trip. The album features a collection of songs by the film’s subject, the rock band Grateful Dead as featured in the movie. The soundtrack will be released on May 26, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Long Strange Trip is directed by Amir Bar-Lev (Trouble the Water, Happy Valley, The Tillman Story) and chronicles the rise of the Grateful Dead from their Bay Area roots to stadiums around the world. The documentary executive produced by Martin Scorsese premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will be released in select theaters on May 26 before premiering on Amazon Prime on June 2. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Scoring Roman Polanski’s ‘Based on a True Story’
Posted: April 5, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Based on a True Story, Roman Polanski
Alexandre Desplat is currently scoring Roman Polanski’s upcoming French-language thriller Based on a True Story. The film starring Emmanuelle Seigner, Eva Green and Vincent Perez follows a Parisian author with writer’s block who discovers a mysterious woman at a book signing. Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Clouds of Sils Maria) and Polanski wrote the screenplay based on Delphine de Vigan’s novel of the same title. Wassim Beji (Yves Saint Laurent, A Perfect Man) is producing the project for WY Productions. Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix’s ‘Anne’ to Feature Music by Ari Posner & Amin Bhatia
Posted: April 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amin Bhatia, Anne, Ari Posner, Netflix
Ari Posner and Amin Bhatia are composing the original score for the upcoming Netflix original series Anne. The show is created by Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad, Flesh and Bone) based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel Anne of Green Gables and stars Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James, R.H. Thomson, Lucas Jade Zumann, Dalila Bela, Corinne Koslo and Aymeric Jett Montaz. The drama centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, mistakenly is sent to live with an aging sister and brother. Read the rest of this entry »
Anton Sanko Scoring Michael Mayer’s ‘The Seagull’
Posted: April 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anton Sanko, Michael Mayer, The Seagull
Anton Sanko is composing the music for the upcoming drama The Seagull. The film is directed by Michael Mayer (A Home at the End of the World, Flicka) and stars Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll, Elisabeth Moss, Brian Dennehy, Mare Winningham, Jon Tenney, Glenn Fleshler, Michael Zegen and Billy Howle. The movie is based on Anton Chekhov’s classic tragic story of eight people who fall in love with the wrong person. Stephen Karam (Speech & Debate) wrote the screenplay. Tom Hulce is producing the project with Leslie Urdang (Beginners, Adam) and Robert Salerno (21 Grams, Nocturnal Animals, A Single Man). Read the rest of this entry »
Academy to Team with LA Philharmonic for Oscar Concert 2018
Posted: April 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Oscar Concert
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is teaming with the Los Angeles Philharmonic to present next year’s nominated scores live in concert. The event is set to take place on February 28, 2018 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles. Conductor Thomas Wilkins will lead the celebration and the program will include suites and video from each nominated film. The Academy presented its first Oscar concert back in 2014 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced on January 23, 2018 and the ceremony will be held on Oscar Sunday, March 4 at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.
Soundtrack for Amazon’s ‘Bosch’ Announced
Posted: April 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Bosch, Jesse Voccia, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the first soundtrack album for the Amazon original series Bosch. The album features selections from the show’s original music from all three seasons composed by Jesse Voccia (A Haunted House 2, The Big C). Also included is the drama’s main titles song Can’t Let Go performed by Caught A Ghost. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 21, 2017 and physically on May 5. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Bosch is created by Michael Connelly and stars Titus Welliver as LAPD homicide detective Hieronymus “Harry Bosch”, alongside Jamie Hector, Amy Aquino, Lance Reddick, Annie Wersching, Sarah Clarke and Jason Gedrick. Read the rest of this entry »
