Mark Kilian and Paul Hepker are reteaming with director Gavin Hood on the upcoming political thriller Official Secrets. The film is co-written and directed by Hood and stars Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode, Indira Varma, Conleth Hill, Tamsin Greig, Adam Bakri, Myanna Buring and John Hefferman. The movie tells the true story of British Intelligence whistle-blower Katharine Gun who, during the immediate run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint U.S.-U.K. illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Kilian & Paul Hepker to Reteam with Gavin Hood on ‘Official Secrets’
Posted: July 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Kilian, Official Secrets, Paul Hepker
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La-La Land Records to Release Soundtrack Album for Amazon’s ‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan’
Posted: July 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Ramin Djawadi, score, Soundtrack, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
La-La Land Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Amazon original series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. The album features selections of the original score from the show composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Westworld, Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans, Warcraft, A Wrinkle in Time). The soundtrack is set to be released in late August and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A digital version is also expected to be released around the same time by Paramount Music. Check back on this page for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo to Score Netflix’s ‘The Umbrella Academy’
Posted: July 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jeff Russo, Netflix, The Umbrella Academy
Jeff Russo has been hired to score the upcoming Netflix original series The Umbrella Academy. The show is developed by Steve Blackman (Legion, Altered Carbon) based on the comics and graphic novels of the same name created by Gerard Way and stars Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, David Castañeda, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Colm Feore, Mary J. Blige, Cameron Britton, Adam Godley, Ashley Madekwe and Kate Walsh. The drama revolves around a dysfunctional family of superheroes who come together to solve the mystery of their father’s death, the threat of the apocalypse and more. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘The Bear’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: July 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: L'ours, Philippe Sarde, score, Soundtrack, The Bear
Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album for Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 1988 classic drama The Bear (L’ours). The album features the remastered and expanded original score from the movie composed by Academy Award nominee Philippe Sarde (Tess, The Tenant, Lord of the Flies, Ghost Story), including around 20 minutes of previously unreleased music. The composer recorded his score with the London Symphony Orchestra. Visit the label’s official website to listen to audio samples, check out the full track list and to order the limited edition CD. Read the rest of this entry »
Jordan Gagne to Score ABC’s ‘The Rookie’
Posted: July 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Jordan Gagne, The Rookie
Jordan Gagne has been tapped to score the upcoming ABC drama The Rookie. The show is created by Alexi Hawley (Castle, The Following) and stars Nathan Fillion, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones, Titus Makin, Mercedes Mason, Melissa O’Neil, Afton Williamson and Eric Winter. The series follows a middle-aged small-town guy who moves to L.A. to pursue his dream of being a cop. Hawley is also executive producing the Entertainment One (eOne) and ABC Studios production with Fillion, Mark Gordon (Saving Private Ryan, Speed, Grey’s Anatomy), Michelle Chapman and Jon Steinberg, as well as Liz Friedlander (Conviction) who also directed the first episode. Read the rest of this entry »
Jiang Wen’s ‘Hidden Man’ to Feature Music by Nicolas Errera & Aaron Zigman
Posted: July 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aaron Zigman, Hidden Man, Jiang Wen, Nicolas Errèra
Nicolas Errèra (Shaolin, The Butterfly) has recently scored the Chinese action drama Hidden Man. The film is directed by Jiang Wen (Gone with the Bullets, Let the Bullets Fly) who also stars in the movie alongside actress Eddie Peng, Zhou Yun, Liao Fan and Xu Qing. The movie is set in 1930s China and follows a young swordsman who returns home to try and solve a five-year-old murder case. Aaron Zigman (The Notebook, Bridge to Terabithia, John Q, The Proposal) has reportedly also contributed music to the film. Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary Scoring Farhad Safinia’s ‘The Professor and the Madman’
Posted: July 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bear McCreary, Farhad Safinia, The Professor and the Madman
Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Lane, The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) has recently recorded his score for the upcoming drama The Professor and the Madman. The film is directed by Farhad Safinia (Boss, screenwriter of Apocalypto) and stars Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Jeremy Irvine, Ioan Gruffudd, Steve Coogan, Laurence Fox and Jennifer Ehle. The movie is based on the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester and tells the story of professor James Murray, who began compiling the Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 and Dr. William Chester Minor, who submitted more than 10,000 entries while he was an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane. Read the rest of this entry »
‘For All We Know’ & ‘Home’ Covers from FX’s ‘Pose’ Released
Posted: July 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Billy Porter, FX, MJ Rodriguez, Pose
20th Century Fox TV Records has released two songs featured in tonight’s episode (Love is the Message) of the FX original series Pose, including actors Billy Porter‘ and MJ Rodriguez‘ performance of the Charlie Smalls-composed song Home from the musical The Wiz. Click here to download the track. Also available now is Porter’s performance of the classic J. Fred Coots & Sam M. Lewis-written song For All We Know as featured in the sixth episode of the show. Visit Amazon to download the track. Both songs can also be checked out after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: July 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Casey Wilder Mott, Mia Todd Doi, score, Soundtrack
City Zen Records will release a soundtrack album for the new film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter Mia Todd Doi who collaborated with artists such as Saul Williams, Tunde Adebimpe, Dntel (of The Postal Service), the Swedish psych band Dungen, Mexican folk/experimental musician Luis Pérez Ixoneztli, and composer, arranger & viola player Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on her score. The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 13, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is co-written and directed by Casey Wilder Mott and stars Rachael Leigh Cook, Finn Wittrock, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Avan Jogia, Ted Levine, Fran Kranz, Paz de la Huerta and Saul Williams. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 8, 2018)
Posted: July 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atli Orvarsson, Fred Kron, HBO, How It Ends, Jared Faber, Netflix, Sharp Objects, The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
Premiering tonight is the HBO limited series Sharp Objects developed by Marti Noxon based on the novel of the same title by Gillian Flynn, directed by Jean-Marc Valle and starring Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina, Eliza Scanlen, Elizabeth Perkins, and Matt Craven. The show doesn’t feature an original score. Susan Jacobs who previously collaborated with Vallee on HBO’s Big Little Lies serves as the project’s music supervisor. The series follows a reporter who confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder. To learn more about the drama, which will air Sunday nights on HBO, visit the official show website.
Premiering on Friday, July 13, is the Netflix original movie How It Ends directed by David M. Rosenthal and starring Theo James, Forest Whitaker and Kat Graham. The film’s original music is composed by Atli Orvarsson (The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Vantage Point, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Chicago Fire, Babylon A.D.). The movie centers on a young lawyer as he heads west to find his pregnant fiancée when a mysterious disaster turns the country into a war zone. Check out our previous article for more information. The thriller will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
