Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the family comedy Aliens Ate My Homework. The album features the film’s original music composed by Brandon Moore. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, March 2, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Aliens Ate My Homework is directed by Sean McNamara (Soul Surfer) and stars Jayden Greig, Lauren McNamara, Kirsten Robek, Dan Payne, Alex Zahara, Ty Consiglio, Sean Quan, Tristan Risk, as well as William Shatner. The movie based on the novel by Bruce Coville follows the whimsical members of the Galactic Patrol on the trail of an evil alien criminal hiding out on Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Aliens Ate My Homework’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 26, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aliens Ate My Homework, Brandon Moore, score, Soundtrack
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Benjamin Wallfisch to Score Jennifer Yuh Nelson’s ‘The Darkest Minds’
Posted: February 26, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Benjamin Wallfisch, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, The Darkest Minds
Benjamin Wallfisch has been hired to score the upcoming dystopian thriller The Darkest Minds. The film is directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Kung Fu Panda 2 & 3) and stars Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson, Mandy Moore, Golden Brooks, Skylan Brooks, Gwendoline Christie and Patrick Gibson. The movie based on Alexandra Bracken’s YA trilogy is set after a pandemic kills most of America’s children and teenagers and follows a teenage girl with telekinetic powers who escapes her camp and joins a group of teens on the run from the government. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Andrews Scoring HBO’s ‘The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling’
Posted: February 26, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO, Judd Apatow, Michael Andrews, The Elephant and the Butterfly, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
Michael Andrews has recently scored the upcoming HBO documentary The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling. The 2-parter is directed and executive produced by Judd Apatow (The 40-Year Old Virgin, Trainwreck, Knocked Up) and centers on the top stand-up comic and TV star who passed away in 2016. The documentary features conversations with more than 40 of Shandling’s family and friends, including James L. Brooks, Jim Carrey, Sacha Baron Cohen, David Coulier, Jon Favreau, Jay Leno, Kevin Nealon, Conan O’Brien, Bob Saget, Jerry Seinfeld and Sarah Silverman. Joe Beshenkovsky and Mike Bonfiglio are co-executive producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 25, 2018)
Posted: February 25, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, B: The Beginning, Bobby Krlic, Franz Kirmann, Good Girls, Hulu, Joseph Trapanese, Les Affamés, McMafia, Michael Penn, NBC, Netflix, Seven Seconds, The Looming Tower, Tom Hodge, Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac & The Notorious B.I.G., USA, Will Bates, Yoshihiro Ike
Premiering tomorrow, February 26, in the U.S. is the BBC & AMC series McMafia created by Hossein Amini & James Watkins and starring James Norton, Aleksey Serebryakov, Maria Shukshina, Faye Marsay and Juliet Rylance. The show’s original music is composed by Tom Hodge & Franz Kirmann. Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score from the drama’s first season. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which will air Monday nights on AMC.
Also premiering tomorrow is the new NBC comedy drama Good Girls created by Jenna Bans and starring Christina Hendricks, Retta, Mae Whitman, Matthew Lillard, Reno Wilson, Manny Montana, Lidya Jewett and Izzy Stannard. Michael Penn (Girls, Masters of Sex, Boogie Nights, Solitary Man, Sunshine Cleaning) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous article to learn more about the series, which will air Monday nights on NBC. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dunkirk’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award
Posted: February 24, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society, Coco, Dunkirk, Jane
The team behind the sound mixing of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures – Live Action category at tonight’s 54th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Bunker Hill Ballroom of the OMNI Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza. Scoring mixer Alan Meyerson, along with production mixer Mark Weingarten, re-recording mixers Gregg Landaker & Gary Rizzo, ADR mixer Thomas J. O’Connell and foley mixer Scott Curtis received the award for the war drama scored by Hans Zimmer. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I Kill Giants’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 24, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: I Kill Giants, Laurent Perez Del Mar, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for the fantasy thriller I Kill Giants have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Laurent Perez Del Mar (The Red Turtle, My Son, To the Top). Also included is the previously unreleased song Under the Stars by the indie pop band London Grammar and a track by Danish singer Rasmus Walter. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on March 30, 2018 by Varese Sarabande and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. I Kill Giants is directed by Anders Walter and stars Zoe Saldana. Madison Wolfe and Imogen Poots. The movie is based on the graphic novel by Joe Kelly & Ken Niimura and tells the story of a teenager who struggles through school and family life by escaping into a fantasy world of magic and monsters. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 23, 2018)
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 7 Guardians of the Tomb, Adam Taylor, Alexei Aigui, Annihilation, Beast of Burden, Ben Salisbury, Cliff Martinez, Curvature, Elliot Leung, Elliott Wheeler, Every Day, Game Night, Geoff Barrow, Half Magic, Moby, Niall Kennedy, Operation Red Sea, Roc Chen, Rory Friers, The Cured, The Young Karl Marx, Tim Jones
Three new movies are opening nationwide this week:
Opening in most theaters is the comedy Game Night directed by John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein and starring Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons and Kyle Chandler. The film’s original music is composed by Cliff Martinez (Drive, Traffic, Contagion, Solaris, The Knick, The Neon Demon). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our previous news article for the full album details.
Also opening wide is the sci-fi thriller Annihilation written and directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodgriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny and Oscar Isaac. Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina, Free Fire) have composed the film’s original music. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures release. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Penn Scoring NBC’s ‘Good Girls’
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Good Girls, Jenna Bans, Michael Penn, NBC
Composer Michael Penn (Girls, Masters of Sex, Boogie Nights, Sunshine Cleaning) is scoring the new NBC comedy drama Good Girls. The show is created by Jenna Bans and stars Christina Hendricks, Retta, Mae Whitman, Matthew Lillard, Reno Wilson, Manny Montana, Lidya Jewett and Izzy Stannard. The series follows three suburban moms who get tired of trying to make ends meet and decide it’s time to stick up for themselves by robbing the local grocery store. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Red Sparrow’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Francis Lawrence, James Newton Howard, Red Sparrow, score, Soundtrack
Sony Classical will release the official soundtrack album for the spy thriller Red Sparrow. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, The Sixth Sense, The Fugitive, Signs, King Kong, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them). The soundtrack is expected to be released on March 2 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon (CD version) and here (digital version). Red Sparrow is directed by Francis Lawrence and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeremy Irons. The movie revolves around a young woman who is drafted against her will to become a “sparrow,” a trained seductress assigned to operate against a first-tour CIA officer who handles the agency’s most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »
Performers of Academy Award-Nominated Songs Announced
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Andra Day, Common, Gael Garcia Bernal, Keala Settle, Mary J. Blige, Miguel, Natalie LaFourcade, Sufjan Stevens
The performers of this year’s nominated songs at the 90th Oscars ceremony have been announced today by show producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd. Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalie LaFourcade and Miguel will perform Remember Me from Pixar’s Coco written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez. Bernal provided the voice of the main character in the film and Miguel & LaFourcade recorded the end credits version of the song. Mary J. Blige will perform Might River from Dee Rees’ Mudbound, which she co-wrote with Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson. Read the rest of this entry »
