Laura Karpman has been tapped to score the upcoming indie drama Miss Virginia. The film is directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna (What Still Remains) and stars Uzo Aduba, Matthew Modine, Vanessa Williams, Aunjanue Ellis, Niles Fitch, Nadji Jeter, Adina Porter, Amirah Vann and Michael Beasl. The movie is inspired by a true story of a struggling inner-city single mother who moves her at-risk son from his dangerous neighborhood school to a safe – but expensive – one and launches a movement in the process. Read the rest of this entry »
Laura Karpman to Score R.J. Daniel Hanna’s ‘Miss Virginia’
Posted: December 11, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Laura Karpman, Miss Virginia, R.J. Daniel Hanna, Senior Moment
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CBS’ ‘Fam’ to Feature Music by Gabriel Mann
Posted: December 11, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: CBS, Fam, Gabriel Mann
Gabriel Mann (Modern Family, Rectify, Rosewood) is scoring the upcoming CBS comedy Fam. The show is created by Corinne Kingsbury and stars Nina Dobrev, Tone Bell, Odessa Adlon, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheryl Lee Ralph. The series revolves around a woman whose vision of a perfect life with her adoring fiancé and his wonderful family is radically altered when her 16-year-old, out-of-control half-sister unexpectedly comes to live with her. Read the rest of this entry »
Damon Albarn’s Electric Wave Bureau Scoring Joe Cornish’s ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’
Posted: December 11, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Damon Albarn, Electric Wave Bureau, Joe Cornish, The Kid Who Would Be King
Damon Albarn’s music collective Electric Wave Bureau has composed the music for the upcoming fantasy adventure The Kid Who Would Be King. The film is written and directed by Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) and stars Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris, Angus Imrie, Rebecca Ferguson and Patrick Stewart. The movie follows a twelve-year-old British schoolboy whose everyday problems are dwarfed by his discovery of the mythical sword Excalibur. Nira Park (Baby Driver, Hot Fuzz), Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner (Atonement, Les Miserables, Darkest Hour) are producing the Working Title and Big Talk Pictures production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 11, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Soundtrack, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Republic Records and Sony Pictures have revealed the track list of the soundtrack album for the animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Included on the album are two songs (What’s Up Danger by Blackway & Black Caviar and Sunflower by Post Malone & Swae Lee) that have already been released as digital singles, as well as tracks by Jaden Smith, Nicki Minaj & Ansel Aa, Vince Staples, DJ Khalil, Lil Wayne & Ty Dolla $ign, Aminé & more. The soundtrack will be released this Friday, December 14 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A separate soundtrack featuring Daniel Pemberton’s original score from the film will be released by Sony Classical. Read the rest of this entry »
Edmund Butt Scoring ITV’s & Sundance Now’s ‘Cheat’
Posted: December 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cheat, Edmund Butt, ITV, Sundance Now
Edmund Butt is currently scoring the upcoming ITV and Sundance Now original series Cheat. The show is created by Gaby Hull and stars Katherine Kelly, Molly Windsor, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lorraine Ashbourne,Peter Firth and Adrian Edmondson. The 4-parter follows a university professor who starts a dangerous relationship with her student and is thrust into a case of academic deception. Louise Hooper is directing all four episodes of the psychological thriller, which is executive produced by Harry & Jack Williams (The Missing, Liar) and Christoper Aird (Troy: Fall of a City, Call the Midwife). Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘8 1/2’ Soundtrack & New Recording of Bernard Herrmann’s ‘The Bride Wore Black’ Score Announced
Posted: December 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 8 1/2, Arthur B. Rubinstein, Bernard Herrmann, Cinema Paradiso, Ennio Morricone, Jermoe Moross, Nino Rota, The Bride Wore Black, WarGames
Quartet Records has announced its latest releases, including an expanded soundtrack album for the 1963 drama 8 1/2 directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo and Barbara Steele. The 2-CD features the complete score from the Academy Award-winning film composed by Academy Award winner Nino Rota (The Godfather, Romeo and Juliet, Death on the Nile), including over 20 minutes of previously unreleased music. Visit the label’s official website for the full album details, to listen to audio samples and to order the album, which is limited to 2,000 units. Read the rest of this entry »
David Wingo Scoring Scott Z. Burns’ ‘The Report’
Posted: December 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Wingo, Scott Z. Burns, The Report
David Wingo is composing the original score for the upcoming drama The Report. The film is written and directed by Scott Z. Burns (screenwriter of Contagion, The Informant! & The Bourne Ultimatum) and stars Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Ted Levine, Maura Tierney and Michael C. Hall. The movie tells the true story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. Read the rest of this entry »
24th Critics’ Choice Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: December 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Critics Choice Awards
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominations for the 24th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards this morning. The film music-related categories are listed below. For a full list of nominations, click here. The awards will be given out on January 13, 2019 at the 24th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California and will broadcast in the U.S. on The CW.
The Best Score nominees are:
Green Book – Kris Bowers
If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat
Black Panther – Ludwig Goransson
First Man – Justin Hurwitz
Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 9, 2018)
Posted: December 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dan Romer, Freeform, Jeff Garber, Matteo Zingales, Netflix, No Sleep 'Til Christmas, The Innocent Man, Tidelands
Premiering tomorrow, December 10, is the Freeform original movie No Sleep ‘Til Christmas co-written and directed by Phil Traill and starring Dave & Odette Annable, Charles Michael Davis. The film’s original music is composed by Jeff Garber (Lopez, Are You the One?). The holiday comedy centers on a bartender and a businesswoman who find they only have one thing in common: insomnia. Click here to watch the movie’s trailer.
Premiering on Friday, December 14 is the Australian Netflix original series Tidelands created by Stephen M. Irwin & Leigh McGrath and starring Charlotte Best, Elsa Pataky and Marco Pigossi. The show’s original music is composed by Matteo Zingales (99 Homes, Fahrenheit 451, The Hunter). The drama revolves around an ex-con’s return to her hometown of Orphelin Bay that blows the lid off a generations-long conspiracy of silence around murder, drugs and Sirens. The show’s full first season will be available to stream worldwide exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’, ‘Mandy’ & ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Scores Ruled Ineligible for Academy Awards
Posted: December 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Johann Johannsson, John Powell, John Williams, Mandy, Michel Legrand, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Other Side of the Wind
Variety is reporting that in addition to Green Book, three more scores have been ruled ineligible by the Academy’s music branch. Among ineligible titles are Solo: A Star Wars Story (composed by John Powell with themes by John Williams), which was reportedly submitted too late, Mandy (composed by Johann Johannsson), which violated the rule of its qualifying theatrical release (as the movie was released on VOD simultaneously), and The Other Side of the Wind (composed by Michel Legrand), which didn’t meet the same rule that Green Book was disqualified for. Read the rest of this entry »
