Benjamin Wallfisch is reteaming with director David F. Sandberg on the upcoming supernatural thriller Annabelle 2. The film stars Stephanie Sigman, Talitha Bateman, Lulu Wilson, Philippa Anne Coulthard, Grace Fulton, Lou Lou Safran, Samara Lee, Tayler Buck, Anthony LaPaglia and Miranda Otto. The movie follows a dollmaker and his wife who welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle. Gary Dauberman wrote the screenplay. Peter Safran (The Conjuring, Buried) and James Wan (Furious 7, Saw, Insidious) are producing the sequel. Read the rest of this entry »
Benjamin Wallfisch to Score ‘Annabelle 2’
Posted: November 23, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Annabelle, Annabelle 2, Benjamin Wallfisch, score, Soundtrack
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‘Distance Between Dreams’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 22, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Distance Between Dreams, Junkie XL, score, Soundtrack, Tom Holkenborg
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for Red Bull Media House’s Distance Between Dreams. The album features the original music from the company’s second feature in The Unridables franchise composed by Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL) (Mad Max: Fury Road, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Divergent, 300: Rise of an Empire, Black Mass). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 2, 2016 and on vinyl in early 2017. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album. Distance Between Dreams follows iconic surfer Ian Walsh, as he sets mind and body in motion to redefine the upper limits of what’s considered ‘rideable.’ Read the rest of this entry »
‘Passengers’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 22, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Morten Tyldum, Passengers, score, Soundtrack, Thomas Newman
The full details of the soundtrack album for the sci-fi romance Passengers have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Thomas Newman (American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo, Skyfall, The Green Mile, Wall-E). The soundtrack will be released on December 16, 2016 by Sony Classical and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Passengers is directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Aurora Perrineau and Laurence Fishburne. The movie is set on a spacecraft in the future traveling to a colony planet. When it has a malfunction in its sleep chambers, two passengers are awakened 90 years early. Read the rest of this entry »
Clint Mansell’s Music from ‘Black Mirror’ Episode ‘San Junipero’ to Be Released
Posted: November 22, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Black Mirror, Clint Mansell, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack for the Black Mirror episode San Junipero. The album features the episode’s original music composed by Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Noah). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 2, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. San Junipero is directed by Owen Harris, written by Charlie Brooker and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Davis and Denise Burse. The episode takes place in a seaside town in 1987 and follows a shy young woman and an outgoing party girl who strike up a powerful bond that seems to defy the laws of space and time. The third season of Black Mirror is now available to stream on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
Music Credits Revealed for Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’
Posted: November 22, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Katherine Kluge, Kim Allen Kluge, Martin Scorsese, Robbie Robertson, Silence
Paramount Pictures has revealed the music credits for Martin Scorsese’s historical drama Silence today. Kim Allen Kluge and Kathryne Kluge have composed the film’s original score. Robbie Robertson serves as the movie’s executive music producer. He previously had the same role on several of the director’s features, including The Wolf of Wall Street, Gangs of New York and King of Comedy. Music supervisors are Randall Poster (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Hangover) who previously worked on Scorsese’s The Aviator, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street and Boardwalk Empire and John Schaefer. Silence starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds and Liam Neeson is set in the 17th century and centers on two Jesuit priests who face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Christianity. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Gordon Scoring ‘Out of the Shadows’
Posted: November 22, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Gordon, Dee McLachlan, Out of the Shadows
Christopher Gordon is composing the music for the upcoming Australian supernatural thriller Out of the Shadows. The film is directed by Dee McLachlan (The Jammed) and stars Blake Northfield, Kendal Rae, Jim Robison, Jake Ryan, Goran D. Kleut and Helmut Bakaitis. The movie revolves around a newly-wed detective who moves into his dream home unaware of the building’s dark history and seeks help from a renegade demonologist when his pregnant wife claims she is being tormented by a supernatural force. Northfield is also producing the thrill with Tim Maddocks (Terminus) and Jim Robison. Read the rest of this entry »
Martin Phipps’ Score from ‘Black Mirror’ Episode ‘Hated in the Nation’ Released
Posted: November 21, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Black Mirror, Martin Phipps, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Dubois Records has released the original score of the Black Mirror episode Hated in the Nation. The music is written by Emmy Award nominee Martin Phipps (Woman in Gold, War & Peace, The Honorable Woman, Brighton Rock, Harry Brown) and marks the composer’s second score for the show following the 2011 episode The National Anthem. Also included is the song Fall Into Me by Alev Lenz. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon and iTunes, where you can also listen to audio samples. The Hated in the Nation episode is directed by James Hawes and stars Kelly Macdonald, Faye Marsay and Benedict Wong. The episode is written by series creator Charlie Brooker and follows a London police detective and his tech-savvy sidekick as they investigate a string of mysterious deaths with a sinister link to social media. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Gaghan’s ‘Gold’ to Feature Original Song by Iggy Pop
Posted: November 21, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Brian Burton, Daniel Pemberton, Gold, Iggy Pop, Stephen Gaghan
Iggy Pop has recorded an original song for Stephen Gaghan’s drama Gold. The track, entitled Gold, is co-written by the singer/songwriter, the film’s composer Daniel Pemberton (who also uses elements from the song in his score), Gaghan and Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse). The track plays over the movie’s end credits. Gold starring Matthew McConaughey, Bryce Dallas Howard, Edgar Ramirez, Corey Stoll, Toby Kebbell, Bruce Greenwood and Stacy Keach follows a modern-day prospector desperate for a lucky break who teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Miss Sloane’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 21, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Madden, Max Richter, Miss Sloane, score, Soundtrack
EuropaCorp will release a soundtrack album for the dramatic thriller Miss Sloane. The album features the film’s original music composed by Max Richter (The Leftovers, Waltz with Bashir, Disconnect, Testament of Youth, The Congress). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 9, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Miss Sloane is directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) and stars Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Stulbarg, Alison Pill, Jake Lacy, Sam Waterston and John Lithgow. The movie tells the story a ruthless lobbyist who is notorious for her unparalleled talent and her desire to win at all costs, even when it puts her own career at risk. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Toyne Scoring ‘Nine Eleven’
Posted: November 21, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jeff Toyne, Martin Guigui, Nine Eleven
Jeff Toyne has recently composed the music for the upcoming drama Nine Eleven. The film is directed by Martin Guigui (Beneath the Darkness, Cattle Call) and stars Charlie Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg, Luis Guzman, Wood Harris, Olga Fonda, Jacqueline Bisset and Gina Gershon. The movie follows a group of 5 people who find themselves trapped in an elevator in the World Trade Center’s North Tower on 9/11. Guigui has also co-written the screenplay with Steven Golebiowski. Martin Sprock, Dahlia Waingort and Warren Ostergard (The Bag Man) are producing the Thunder Studios and Sprockefeller Pictures production. Read the rest of this entry »
