Dustin O’Halloran has been tapped to score the upcoming Sky Atlantic series Save Me. The show is created by actor Lennie James (The Walking Dead, Critical) who also stars in the drama alongside Suranne Jones and Stephen Graham. The 6-parter centers on a man who is falsely accused of a terrible crime and sets off to clear his name and find the real perpetrator. Nick Murphy (The Awakening, Blood, The Last Kingdom) is directing the show. Simon Heath (Line of Duty, United) and Jessica Sykes are executive producing the project. Save Me is expected to premiere later this year on Sky Atlantic in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
Dustin O’Halloran to Score Sky Atlantic’s ‘Save Me’
Posted: May 26, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dustin O'Halloran, Lennie James, Save Me, Sky Atlantic
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‘Resident Evil: Vendetta’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: May 25, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Kenji Kawai, Resident Evil: Vendetta, score, Soundtrack
Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the animated movie Resident Evil: Vendetta. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell, Ip Man). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 26 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Resident Evil: Vendetta is directed by Takanori Tsujimoto, executive produced by Takashi Shimizu and features the voices of Matt Mercer, Kevin Dorman and Erin Cahill. The third installment in the CG animated film franchise follows a group of soldiers who battle hordes of zombies while trying to prevent a madman from unleashing a deadly virus in New York. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Baywatch’ Score Album Details
Posted: May 25, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Baywatch, Christopher Lennertz, score, Seth Gordon, Soundtrack
The full details of the score album for the action comedy Baywatch have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christopher Lennertz (Horrible Bosses, Sausage Party, Ride Along, Identity Thief, Supernatural). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 26 by Paramount Music and is now available for pre-order here. A limited edition physical release is set to be released next month by La-La Land Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. As previously reported, Island Records has released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the film. Baywatch directed by Seth Gordon and starring Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario, Priyanka Chopra, Kelly Rohrbach, Ilfenesh Hadera, Jon Bass and David Hasselhoff is being released in theaters nationwide today by Paramount Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 25, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joseph Cedar, Jun Miyake, Norman, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the drama Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jun Miyake. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 26 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Norman is written and directed by Joseph Cedar and stars Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi, Michael Sheen, Steve Buscemi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dan Stevens, Hank Azaria, Harris Yulin and Josh Charles. The movie follows an opportunist who’s unsuccessful until he buys a pair of expensive shoes for a lowly Israeli politician who becomes prime minister, and finds himself in the center of a geopolitical drama beyond anything he could have imagined. Read the rest of this entry »
Patrick Doyle Scoring ‘The Emoji Movie’
Posted: May 25, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Patrick Doyle, The Emoji Movie, Tony Leondis
Patrick Doyle has recently recorded his score for the upcoming animated feature The Emoji Movie. The film is directed by Tony Leondis and features the voices of T.J. Miller, Anna Faris, James Corden, Patrick Stewart, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Rob Riggle, Jennifer Coolidge, Jake T. Austin, Sofia Vergara and Christina Aguilera. The movie revolves around a multi-expressional emoji who sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji. Leondis also co-wrote the screenplay with Eric Siegel and Mike White. Michelle Raimo Kouyate is producing the Sony Pictures Animation production. Read the rest of this entry »
EuropaCorp to Release ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Soundtrack
Posted: May 25, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Luc Besson, score, Soundtrack, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
EuropaCorp will release the official soundtrack album for Luc Besson’s sci-fi action adventure Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Godzilla, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The King’s Speech) who recorded his music at Radio France Studio 104 with the National French Orchestra. Also included are original pop songs and existing famous songs as featured in the movie. The soundtrack will be released on July 21, 2017 and will be available for pre-order on Amazon within the next few days. Check back on this page for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Barr Scoring Stephen Moyer’s ‘The Parting Glass’
Posted: May 24, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Nathan Barr, Stephen Moyer, The Domestics, The Parting Glass
Nathan Barr is currently scoring the upcoming indie drama The Parting Glass. The film marks the feature directorial debut of actor Stephen Moyer and stars Anna Paquin, Denis O’Hare, Ed Asner, Cynthia Nixon, Melissa Leo, Rhys Ifans and Paul Gross. The movie follows a family reeling with their sister’s death as they embark on a journey to collect the remnants of her life. O’Hare also wrote the screenplay. Paquin and Moyer are also producing the project for CASM Films, alongside O’Hare, as well as Cerise Hallam (I Could Never Be Your Woman, Free Ride) and Mark Larkin. Barr has previously scored all episodes of HBO’s True Blood, which starred both Moyer and Paquin. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe to Score ‘Horse Soldiers’
Posted: May 24, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Horse Soldiers, Lorne Balfe, Nicolai Fuglsig
Lorne Balfe has been hired to score the upcoming war drama Horse Soldiers. The film is directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and stars Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Ben O’Toole, Trevante Rhodes, Austin Stowell, Elsa Pataky, Rob Riggle and Navid Negahban. The movie is based on Doug Stanton’s book of the same title and centers on a U.S. Special Forces team and their captain after they are dispatched to a mountainous region of Afghanistan in the weeks immediately following 9/11. Peter Craig (The Town, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon0 wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘American Gods’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 24, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: American Gods, Brian Reitzell, score, Soundtrack, Starz
The details of the first full soundtrack album for the Starz original series American Gods have been revealed. The album features selections from the show’s original score composed by Brian Reitzell (Hannibal, Friday Night Lights, Stranger Than Fiction, 30 Days of Night). Also included are original songs written for the series by Reitzell and Mark Lanegan, Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Garbage’s Shirley Manson. Several songs, as well as Reitzell’s main title theme have already been released as digital singles. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 9, 2017 and physically the following month. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. American Gods is created by Bryan Fuller & Michael Green based on Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel and stars Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, Pablo Schreiber, Yetide Badaki, Bruce Langley, Crispin Glover and Orlando Jones. Read the rest of this entry »
Ilan Eshkeri Scoring Sky Atlantic’s ‘Riviera’
Posted: May 24, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ilan Eshkeri, Neil Jordan, Riviera, Sky Atlantic
Ilan Eshkeri has recently composed the music for the Sky Atlantic crime drama Riviera. The mini-series is created by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, The End of the Affair) and stars Julia Stiles, Lena Olin, Iwan Rheon, Adrian Lester, Anthony LaPaglia, Phil Davis, Dimitri Leonidas, Roxane Duran, Amr Waked and Igal Naor. The show is set on France’s Cote d’Azur and centers on a young, recently married woman whose blissful life is torn apart when her billionaire husband is murdered in a yacht explosion. Jordan is also executive producing the project with Liza Marshall (Life in a Day, Before I Go to Sleep), Kris Thykier (Kick-Ass, Woman in Gold) and Paul McGuinness. Read the rest of this entry »
