Composer Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The LEGO Batman Movie, Pacific Rim Uprising, Genius) is reteaming with director Matt Tyrnauer on the upcoming documentary Where’s My Roy Cohn?. The movie focuses on Rob Cohn, the American lawyer best known for being Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954 and whose polarizing, brass-knuckle strategies set the stage for the rise of Donald Trump. Tyrnauer (Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Valentino: The Last Emperor) is also producing the project with Corey Reeser, Marie Brenner and Andrea Lewis. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe to Reteam with Matt Tyrnauer on ‘Where’s My Roy Cohn?’
Posted: December 18, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lorne Balfe, Matt Tyrnauer, Where's My Roy Cohn?
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‘The Tree of Blood’ (‘El arbol de la sangre’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 18, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: El arbol de la sangre, Julio Medem, Lucas Vidal, score, Soundtrack, The Tree of Blood
Music and Motion Productions has released a soundtrack album has been released for the Spanish romantic thriller The Tree of Blood (El arbol de la sangre). The album features the film’s original music composed by Lucas Vidal (Fast & Furious 6, The Raven, The Cold Light of Day, The Quiet Ones). Also included is the original song Punk by Najwa Nimri. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. The Tree of Blood is directed by Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia, Ma ma) and stars Ursula Corberó, Álvaro Cervantes, Najwa Nimri, Ángela Molina, Daniel Grao, Joaquín Furriel, Patricia López Arnaiz and Josep María Pou. Read the rest of this entry »
Ramin Djawadi to Score ‘The Queen’s Corgi’
Posted: December 18, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Stassen, Ramin Djawadi, The Queen's Corgi
Ramin Djawadi has been tapped to score the upcoming animated feature The Queen’s Corgi. The film is directed by Ben Stassen & Vincent Kesteloot and features the voice talent of Jack Whitehall, Julie Walters, Ray Winstone, Sheridan Smith, Matt Lucas and Tom Courtenay. The movie follows the adventure of Rex, the British monarch’s most beloved dog, who loses track of his mistress and stumbles across a fight club with dogs of all kinds confronting each other. Rob Sprackling & Johnny Smith (Gnomeo & Juliet) have written the screenplay. Stassen is also producing the project for his nWave Pictures production company. Read the rest of this entry »
Academy Announces Shortlists for Best Original Score & Songs
Posted: December 17, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the shortlists for several categories for the 91st Academy Awards, including Best Original Score and Best Original Song. The nominations will be announced on January 22, 2019 and the awards show will be held on February 24. Read the rest of this entry »
Mica Levi Scoring Alejandro Landes’ ‘Monos’
Posted: December 17, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alejandro Landes, Mica Levi, Monos
Mica Levi (Jackie, Under the Skin, Marjorie Prime) has recently composed the original music for the upcoming drama Monos. The film is directed by Alejandro Landes (Porfirio) and stars Julianne Nicholson, Moisés Arias, Sofia Buenaventura, Deiby Rueda, Karen Quintero and Laura Castrillón. The movie revolves around a group of eight kids with guns who watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow at a faraway mountaintop. Read the rest of this entry »
Robert Rodriguez’s & James Cameron’s ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ to Feature New Song by Dua Lipa
Posted: December 17, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alita: Battle Angel, Dua Lipa, Robert Rodriguez
Grammy nominee Dua Lipa has recorded an original song for the sci-fi action movie Alita: Battle Angel. She also co-wrote the track, entitled Swan Song, which will be featured in the movie directed by Robert Rodriguez, produced by James Cameron & Jon Landau and starring Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley and Keean Johnson. The movie based on the graphic novel series Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro follows a woman who awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize and is taken in by compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Pemberton Scoring HBO’s ‘Brexit’
Posted: December 17, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brexit, Channel 4, Daniel Pemberton, HBO, Toby Haynes
Daniel Pemberton has announced that he has composed the original score for the upcoming HBO original movie Brexit. The film is directed by Toby Haynes and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings, who spearheaded the Vote Leave campaign and Rory Kinnear as Craig Oliver, Prime Minister David Cameron’s director of communications and head of the Remain campaign. The drama goes behind the scenes, revealing the personalities, strategies and feuds of the Leave and Remain campaigns. James Graham (A Brilliant Young Mind) wrote the script and is also executive producing the HBO Films, BBC Studios and Channel 4 production with Juliette Howell (London Spy) and Tessa Ross. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Fortunate Man’ (‘Lykke-Per’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 17, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Fortunate Man, Lorenz Dangel, Lykke-Per, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the Danish drama A Fortunate Man (Lykke-Per). The album features the films original music composed by Lorenz Dangel (Hell, What Will People Say). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. A Fortunate Man is directed by Bille August (The House of the Spirits, Smilla’s Sense of Snow) and stars Esben Smed, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal and Tommy Kenter. The movie is based on nobel prize winning author Henrik Pontoppidan’s 1898 novel and follows a young man, Per, who decides to break free from his strict religious home and leave his patriarch father in Jutland, an island on the top of Denmark, in a quest for happiness. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 16, 2018)
Posted: December 16, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, Aaron Zigman, Amazon, American Dream/American Knightmare, Fabian Römer, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Jeff Danna, Michael Kadelbach, Netflix, Perfume, Showtime, Vanity Fair
Premiering on Friday, December 21 in the U.S. is the British mini-series Vanity Fair developed by Gwyneth Hughes and starring Olivia Cooke, Tom Bateman, Suranne Jones, Michael Palin, Johnny Flynn and Martin Clunes. The show’s original music is composed by show’s original music composed by Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, The Split, Vita and Virginia). Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as songs by Afterhere, Jade Bird, Paloma Faith & others earlier this fall when the series premiered in the UK on ITV. Click here for the full album details. The drama is making its U.S. debut on Amazon Prime.
Also premiering on Friday is DreamWorks Animation’s new Netflix original series 3Below: Tales of Arcadia created by Guillermo del Toro and starring Diego Luna, Tatiana Maslany, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Cole Sand, Steven Yeun, Emile Hirsch and Kelsey Grammer. Jeff Danna (The Good Dinosaur, The Boondock Saints, Storks, Tyrant) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the series, which marks the second show in del Toro’s Tales of Arcadia trilogy following Trollhunters, and which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
Heather McIntosh Scoring Martha Stephens’ ‘To the Stars’
Posted: December 15, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Heather McIntosh, Martha Stephens, To the Stars
Heather McIntosh (Compliance, Z for Zachariah, One Dollar, 6 Balloons) is scoring the upcoming drama To the Stars. The film is directed by Martha Stephens (Land Ho!) and stars Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Jordana Spiro, Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman and Tony Hale. The movie centers on a withdrawn farmer’s daughter who forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma. Shannon Bradley-Colleary wrote the screenplay. Kristin Mann (Poor Boy), Laura D. Smith (I’ll See You in My Dreams) and Erik Rommesmo (It Follows, The Hero) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
