Dario Marianelli has been tapped to score the upcoming Transformers spinoff Bumblebee. The film is directed by Travis Knight and stars Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Jason Drucker, Kenneth Choi, Rachel Crow, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Schneider, Ricardo Hoyos, Abby Quinn and Grace Dzienny. The movie is set in 1987 and follows a teenage girl trying to find her place in the world as she discovers Bumblebee refuged in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Read the rest of this entry »
Dario Marianelli to Score ‘Transformers’ Spinoff ‘Bumblebee’
Posted: May 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bumblebee, Dario Marianelli, Transformers, Travis Knight
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Mario Grigorov Scoring Lifetime’s ‘Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story’
Posted: May 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story, Karen Moncrieff, Lifetime, Mario Grigorov
Mario Grigorov is scoring the upcoming Lifetime original movie Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story. The film is directed by Karen Moncrieff (The Dead Girl, The Trials of Cate McCall) and stars Christina Ricci, Judith Light and Josh Bowman. The movie follows 19th century pioneering journalist, Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, who published under the name of Nellie Bly, on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum. Helen Childress (Reality Bites) wrote the script. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Her Smell’ to Feature Original Songs by Bully’s Alicia Bognanno & Anika Pyle
Posted: May 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alex Ross Perry, Alicia Bognanno, Anika Pyle, Her Smell
Bully frontwoman Alicia Bognanno and former Chumped lead singer Anika Pyle are writing original songs for Alex Ross Perry’s next feature, Her Smell. The film is written and directed by Perry (Queen of Earth, Listen Up Philip) and stars Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Amber Heard, Ashley Benson, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen and Dylan Gelula. The music drama revolves around the maniacally destructive punk rock star and leader of the seminal all-female rock band Something She. Read the rest of this entry »
Polydor Records to Release ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ Soundtrack
Posted: May 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: ABBA, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, Ol Parker, Soundtrack
Polydor Records will release the official soundtrack album for the movie musical Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. The album features the songs from the sequel performed by ABBA. The first song, When I Kissed the Teacher performed by Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies & Celia Imrie, is being released within the next day. The full soundtrack will be released physically and digitally on July 13, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is directed by Ol Parker and stars Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Barankski, Lily James and Josh Dylan. Read the rest of this entry »
Henry Jackman Scoring Edward Zwick’s ‘Trial by Fire’
Posted: May 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Edward Zwick, Henry Jackman, Trial by Fire
Henry Jackman has recently recorded his score for the upcoming drama Trial by Fire. The film is directed by Edward Zwick (Legends of the Fall, Glory, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond) and stars Jack O’Connell, Laura Dern, Emily Meade, Chris Coy, Jeff Perry, David Wilson Barnes and Carlos Gomez. The movie is based on David Grann’s 2009 article in The New Yorker and tells the true story of Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated devotee of heavy metal who is convicted of arson and triple homicide when a fire rips through his home and his children are trapped inside. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Powell, John Williams, Ron Howard, score, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Soundtrack, Star Wars
Composer John Powell has revealed the track list of the soundtrack album for Lucasfilm’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. The album features the film’s original score composed by Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, Shrek, Chicken Run, X-Men: The Last Stand), as well as the Han Solo theme (The Adventures of Han) composed and conducted by John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Jurassic Park). The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on May 25, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Genius: Picasso’ Soundtrack EP to Be Released
Posted: May 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Genius, Lorne Balfe, National Geographic, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a new EP for the National Geographic original series Genius. The soundtrack features six tracks from the original music of the show’s second season composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The Lego Batman Movie, The Crown, Pacific Rim Uprising, Terminator Genysis). The EP will be released digitally this Friday, May 11 and will be available to download on Amazon. A full soundtrack album featuring Balfe’s score and Hans Zimmer’s & Balfe’s new main titles theme for Genius: Picasso is in the works. Season 2 of Genius is executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer and stars Antonio Banderas as Pablo Picasso, as well as Alex Rich, Clémence Poésy, Samantha Colley, T.R. Knight and Seth Gabel. Read the rest of this entry »
Mychael Danna Scoring Mimi Leder’s ‘On the Basis of Sex’
Posted: May 7, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mimi Leder, Mychael Danna, On the Basis of Sex
Mychael Danna is currently scoring the upcoming biographical drama On the Basis of Sex. The film is directed by Mimi Leder (Deep Impact, The Peacemaker) and stars Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, alongside Armie Hammer, Jack Reynor, Stephen Root, Justin Theroux, Kathy Bates, Sam Waterston and Cailee Spaeny. The movie follows Ruth Bader & Marty Ginsburg as they team up to bring the first landmark gender discrimination case before the Supreme Court. Ginsburg’s nephew, Daniel Stiepleman wrote the screenplay. Robert Cort (Mr. Holland’s Opus, Save the Last Dance, Cocktail) is producing the Participant Media production. Read the rest of this entry »
Tamar-kali to Score Veena Sud’s ‘Between Earth and Sky’
Posted: May 7, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Between Earth and Sky, Tamar-Kali, Veena Sud
Tamar-kali has been hired to score the upcoming family drama Between Earth and Sky. The film is written and directed by Veena Sud (The Killing, Seven Seconds) and stars Mireille Enos, Peter Sarsgaard and Joey King. No plot details have been announced yet. Jason Blum (Get Out, Paranormal Activity, The Purge), Alix Madigan (Winter’s Bone, Laggies) and Christopher Tricarico (The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams) are producing the Blumhouse production. Read the rest of this entry »
Ramin Djawadi’s ‘Seven Nation Army’ Cover from ‘Westworld’ Released
Posted: May 7, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Ramin Djawadi, Westworld
WaterTower Music has released the cover version of The White Stripes’ song Seven Nation Army by composer Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Iron Man, A Wrinkle in Time, Pacific Rim) as featured in the last episode of the HBO original series Westworld. The track is now available as a digital single on Amazon. Listen to the full track after the jump. The second season of Westworld created by Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 film and starring Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright & Thandie Newton currently airs every Sunday night on HBO. Read the rest of this entry »
