Trevor Morris is composing the music for the upcoming Netflix original series Castlevania. The animated show based on the Konami video games is developed by comic book writer Warren Ellis (Red) and features the voices of Richard Armitage, James Callis and Graham McTavish. The series follows a vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly beasts controlled by Dracula himself. Ellis is also executive producing the project with Kevin Kolde, Fred Seibert and Adi Shankar. Read the rest of this entry »
Trevor Morris Scoring Netflix’s ‘Castlevania’
Posted: June 22, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Castlevania, Netflix, Trevor Morris
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Television Academy to Host ‘Words + Music – A Concert Celebrating Music Written for Television’
Posted: June 22, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Jeff Russo, Mac Quayle, Nathan Barr, Pedro Bromfman, Sean Callery, Siddhartha Khosla, Television Academy
This coming Thursday, June 29, the Television Academy will be hosting a concert celebrating music written for television. Words + Music will feature the live performance of original songs and scores from the composers of top shows from the past TV season. Participating composers include Mac Quayle (Mr. Robot), Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us), Jeff Russo (Fargo, The Night Of), Sean Callery (Homeland), Nathan Barr (The Americans) and Pedro Bromfman (Narcos). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: June 22, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Michael Bay, score, Soundtrack, Steve Jablonsky, Transformers, Transformers: The Last Knight
The full details of the soundtrack album for Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Steve Jablonsky (The Island, Deepwater Horizon, Ender’s Game, Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles: Out of the Shadows) who previously scored the first four movies in the series. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 23 by Paramount Music (visit Amazon to download the album) and as a limited edition 2-CD version next month by La-La Land Records. Transformers: The Last Knight starring Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock, Jerrod Carmichael, Isabela Moner, Peter Cullen and Sir Anthony Hopkins is now playing in theaters nationwide. Read the rest of this entry »
Heitor Pereira to Score Animated ‘Playmobil’ Movie
Posted: June 21, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Heitor Pereira, Lino DiSalvo, Playmobil
Heitor Pereira has been tapped to score the upcoming currently untitled animated Playmobil Movie. The film marks the directorial debut of Lino DiSalvo who served as head of animation on Disney’ Frozen and as animation supervisor on Tangled and Bolt. The movie is inspired by the Playmobil brand toys, which are produced by the Brandstätter Group in Germany. No plot details have been announced yet. Aton Soumache, Dimitri Rassam & Alexis Vonarb (The Little Prince, Upside Down) are producing the project with Axel Von Maydell and Moritz Borman (Terminator Salvation, World Trade Center, Snowden). Read the rest of this entry »
Fox’s ‘The Resident’ to Feature Music by Jon Ehrlich
Posted: June 21, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fox, Jon Ehrlich, The Resident
Jon Ehrlich is set to score the upcoming Fox drama The Resident. The show is created by Amy Holden Jones (Black Box),Hayley Schore & Roshan Sethi and stars Matt Czuchry, Bruce Greenwood, Emily VanCamp, Manish Dayal, and Shaunette Wilson. The series revolves around a young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day medicine. Philip Noyce (Salt, Clear and Present Danger, Rabbit-Proof Fence) directed the pilot episode. Oly Obst (The Mick) and Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer) are executive producing the 20th Century Fox Television, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Fuqua Films production with Holden Jones. Read the rest of this entry »
Graham Reynolds to Score Richard Linklater’s ‘Last Flag Flying’
Posted: June 21, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Graham Reynolds, Last Flag Flying, Richard Linklater
Graham Reynolds is reteaming with director Richard Linklater on the upcoming comedy drama Last Flag Flying. The film stars Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne and J. Quinton Johnson. The movie is based on Darryl Ponicsan’s 2005 novel of the same name and is sequel (of sorts) to the 1973 Hal Ashby film The Last Detail. Linklater (Boyhood, Dazed and Confused) also co-wrote the screenplay with Ponicsan (School Ties, Random Hearts). John Sloss (I’m Not There, Wonderstruck) and Ginger Sledge (Everybody Wants Some!!, Appaloosa) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Monster’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: June 20, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bryan Bertino, score, Soundtrack, The Monster, tomandandy
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for Bryan Bertino’s horror thriller The Monster. The album features the film’s original music composed by tomandandy (The Mothman Prophecies, 47 Meters Down, The Rules of Attraction, The Hills Have Eyes) who previously scored the director’s The Strangers. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 23, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Monster is written and directed by Bertino and stars Zoe Kazan, Ella Ballentine, Aaron Douglas, Christine Ebadi, Marc Hickox and Scott Speedman. The movie follows a divorced mother and her headstrong daughter who must fight for survival when a terrifying monster attacks them after their car breaks down on a deserted country road. Read the rest of this entry »
Jerry Goldsmith’s Expanded ‘Papillon’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: June 20, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Franklin J. Schaffner, Jerry Goldsmith, Papillon, score, Soundtrack
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1973 classic drama Papillon directed by Franklin J. Schaffer and starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. The album features the expanded original score from the movie composed by Jerry Goldsmith (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Omen, Planet of the Apes, L.A. Confidential, Poltergeist, Basic Instinct) who received his sixth Academy Award nomination for his music for the movie, including previously unreleased music. The release includes all music recorded for the movie, including unused cues and alternates, as well as source cues arranged by Alexander Courage and conducted by Goldsmith. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Newman Scoring Jason Hall’s ‘Thank You for Your Service’
Posted: June 20, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jason Hall, Thank You for Your Service, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman is composing the music for the upcoming drama Thank You for Your Service. The film marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Jason Hall (American Sniper) and stars Miles Teller, Haley Bennett, Amy Schumer, Joe Cole, Beulah Koale, Scott Haze, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Brad Beyer, Omar Dorsey, and Jayson Warner Smith. The movie follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they’ve left the battlefield. Hall also wrote the screenplay based on David Finkel’s 2013 book of the same title. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Void’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: June 20, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Blitz/Berlin, Brian Wiacek, Jeremy Gillespie, Menalon, score, Soundtrack, The Void
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the horror movie The Void. The album features the film’s original music composed by Blitz//Berlin, director Jeremy Gillespie, Brian Wiacek and Menalon. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 30, 2017. The download link will be added to this article within the next few weeks. The Void is directed by Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski and stars Aaron Poole, Kathleen Munroe, Ellen Wong, Kenneth Walsh, Evan Stern, Daniel Fathers and Grace Munro. The movie follows a police officer who – after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital – begins to experience strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures. Read the rest of this entry »
