Marcelo Zarvos is composing the music for the upcoming drama The Best of Enemies. The film marks the directorial debut of executive producer Robin Bissell (The Hunger Games) and stars Sam Rockwell, Taraji P. Henson, Babou Ceesay, Nick Searcy, Anne Heche, Wes Bentley and John Gallagher Jr. The movie centers on civil rights activist Ann Atwater who battled KKK leader C.P. Ellis for a decade until 1971, when the two agreed to co-chair a two-week community meeting to deal with a court-ordered school desegregation decree. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Saw Anthology’ Soundtrack Details Revealed

Posted: November 9, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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The full details of the Saw Anthology compilation soundtrack release have been revealed. The albums feature the original score from all eight movies in the Saw series composed by Charlie Clouser (Resident Evil: ExtinctionWayward PinesNumbersDeath SentenceDead Silence). The Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 soundtracks will be released digitally on November 24, 2017 by Lakeshore Records. A physical and vinyl release is also in the works. Click here to pre-order the Vol. 1 album and here for the Vol. 2 soundtrack. The Saw series created by James Wan & Leigh Whannell launched in 2004 with Wan’s original Saw movie and was followed by Saw IIIII & IV (directed by Darren Lynn Bousman) in 2005, 2006 & 2007, Saw V (directed by David Hackl) in 2008, Saw VI & Saw 3D (directed by Kevin Greutert) in 2009 & 2010 and this year’s Jigsaw (directed by Michael & Peter Spierig). Read the rest of this entry »

Verve and Decca Records will release the original song You Shouldn’t Look at Me That Way from Paul McGuigan’s romantic drama Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. The song is written, orchestrated and performed by Elvis Costello who previously co-wrote original songs for movies including Cold Mountain (for which he received an Academy Award nomination) and Grace of My Heart. The track will be released as a digital single tomorrow and will be available to download on AmazonFilm Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Vanessa Redgrave, and Julie Walters follows the passionate relationship between British actor Peter Turner and eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Bright’ Soundtrack Announced

Posted: November 9, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Atlantic Records has announced a soundtrack album for the fantasy action thriller Bright. The album features the songs from the movie by artists including Bastille, Logic & Rag’n’Bone Man, alt-J, Steve Aoki & Lil Uzi Vert, Machine Gun Kelly, X Ambassadors & Bebe Rexha, Ty Dolla $ign & Future, A$AP Rocky & Tom Morello and more. The soundtrack will be released on December 15, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on AmazonBright is directed by David Ayer (Suicide SquadFury) and stars Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace, Lucy Fry, Edgar Ramirez, Happy Anderson, Kenneth Choi and Ike Barinholtz. The Netflix original movie is set in an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us and revolves around two L.A. cops who become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle. Read the rest of this entry »

Joseph Trapanese is composing the music for the upcoming thriller Arctic. The film is directed by Joe Penna and stars Mads Mikkelsen as a man stranded in the Arctic who must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation. Penna also co-wrote the screenplay with Ryan Morrison. Chris Lemole & Tim Zajaros (Mudbound, Zombeavers) and Noah C. Haeussner are producing the Armory Films, Union Entertainment Group and Pegasus Pictures production. Read the rest of this entry »

Ramin Djawadi has signed on to score the upcoming Amazon original series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. The show is developed by Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) & Graham Roland (Fringe) based on the Tom Clancy’s character and stars John Krasinksi in the title role, alongside Abbie Cornish, Peter Fonda, Timothy Hutton,Wendell Pierce, Dina Shihabi and Ali Suliman. The show centers on CIA agent Jack Ryan as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Cardoni has been hired to score the upcoming NBC comedy A.P. Bio. The show is created by Mike O’Brien (Saturday Night Live) and stars Glenn Howerton, Patton Oswalt, Lyric Lewis, Mary Sohn, Aparna Brielle, Jacob McCarthy and Nick Peine. The series follows a philosophy scholar who loses out on his dream job and goes to work as a high school Advanced Placement Biology teacher and uses his students to get back at the people in his life who have wronged him. O.Brien is also executive producing the Universal Television production with Lorne Michaels (30 RockWayne’s World), Seth Meyers, Andrew Singer and Michael Shoemaker.  Read the rest of this entry »

Charlie Mole is reuniting with director Oliver Parker on the upcoming British comedy Swimming with Men. The film stars Rob Brydon, Jim Carter, Jane Horrocks, Adeel Akhtar, Daniel Mays, Charlotte Riley, Thomas Turgoose, Rupert Graves and Nathaniel Parker. The movie tells the story of a man suffering a mid-life crisis who finds new meaning to his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronized swimming team. Aschlin Ditta (Scenes of a Sexual Nature) wrote the screenplay inspired by the 2010 documentary Men Who Swim. Read the rest of this entry »

Nate Heller is reteaming with director Marielle Heller to score the upcoming comedy Can You Ever Forgive Me?. The film starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Jane Curtin, Dolly Wells, Anna Deavere Smith and Jennifer Westfeldt is based on Lee Israel’s memoir of the same title and revolves around the journalist who had fallen on hard times in the early 90s and began selling letters that she had forged from deceased writers and actors. Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said, Friends with Money) wrote the screenplay. Anne Carey (Mr. Holmes, Adventureland, The American) and Amy Nauiokas (10’000 Saints) are producing the project with David Yarnell. Read the rest of this entry »

Nicholas Britell is making his TV show scoring debut on the upcoming HBO original series Succession. The political drama is created by Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop, Four Lions) and stars Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun, Matthew Macfadyen, Hiam Abbas, Alan Ruck, Rob Yang, Parker Sawvers, and Peter Friedman. The show is described as the saga of the Roys, a fictional American global-media family that is not only rich and powerful but also powerfully dysfunctional. Read the rest of this entry »