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 Amazon. Film 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 »
Elvis Costello’s ‘You Shouldn’t Look at Me That Way’ from ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ to Be Released
Posted: November 9, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Elvis Costello, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
‘Bright’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 9, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bright, David Ayer, Soundtrack
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 Amazon. Bright is directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, Fury) 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 Scoring ‘Arctic’
Posted: November 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Arctic, Joe Penna, Joseph Trapanese, Sprinter
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 to Score Amazon’s ‘Jack Ryan’ Series
Posted: November 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Carlton Cuse, Jack Ryan, Ramin Djawadi, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
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 »
NBC’s ‘A.P. Bio’ to Feature Music by Jeff Cardoni
Posted: November 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A.P. Bio, CBS, Jeff Cardoni, NBC, Young Sheldon
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 Rock, Wayne’s World), Seth Meyers, Andrew Singer and Michael Shoemaker. Read the rest of this entry »
Charlie Mole to Score Oliver Parker’s ‘Swimming with Men’
Posted: November 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Charlie Mole, Oliver Parker, Swimming with Men
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 Scoring Marielle Heller’s ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’
Posted: November 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Marielle Heller, Nate Heller
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 to Score HBO’s ‘Succession’
Posted: November 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam McKay, HBO, Jesse Armstrong, Nicholas Britell, Succession
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 »
‘Thelma’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joachim Trier, Ola Flottum, score, Soundtrack, Thelma
The Orchard will release a soundtrack album for Joachim Trier’s supernatural thriller Thelma. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ola Flottum (Force Majeure) who previously scored the director’s previous features, Louder Than Bombs, Reprise and Oslo, August 31st . The soundtrack will be released on November 10, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Thelma is co-written and directed by Trier and stars Eili Harboe, Okay Kaya, Henrik Rafaelsen and Ellen Dorrit Petersen. The movie centers on Norwegian student who falls in love and discovers she has terrifying and inexplicable powers. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Bookshop’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alfonso de Vilallonga, Isabel Coixet, score, Soundtrack, The Bookshop
A soundtrack album will be released for Isabel Coixet’s drama The Bookshop. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alfonso de Vilallonga (Snow White, Transsiberian) who previously scored the director’s My Life Without Me. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, November 10, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Bookshop is written and directed by Coixet (The Secret Life of Words, Elegy) and stars Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson. The movie based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel is set in England in 1959 in a small East Anglian town and follows a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Read the rest of this entry »