Rhino Records will release a soundtrack album for Amazon Studios’ documentary Long Strange Trip. The album features a collection of songs by the film’s subject, the rock band Grateful Dead as featured in the movie. The soundtrack will be released on May 26, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Long Strange Trip is directed by Amir Bar-Lev (Trouble the Water, Happy Valley, The Tillman Story) and chronicles the rise of the Grateful Dead from their Bay Area roots to stadiums around the world. The documentary executive produced by Martin Scorsese premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will be released in select theaters on May 26 before premiering on Amazon Prime on June 2. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Scoring Roman Polanski’s ‘Based on a True Story’
Posted: April 5, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Based on a True Story, Roman Polanski
Alexandre Desplat is currently scoring Roman Polanski’s upcoming French-language thriller Based on a True Story. The film starring Emmanuelle Seigner, Eva Green and Vincent Perez follows a Parisian author with writer’s block who discovers a mysterious woman at a book signing. Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Clouds of Sils Maria) and Polanski wrote the screenplay based on Delphine de Vigan’s novel of the same title. Wassim Beji (Yves Saint Laurent, A Perfect Man) is producing the project for WY Productions. Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix’s ‘Anne’ to Feature Music by Ari Posner & Amin Bhatia
Posted: April 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amin Bhatia, Anne, Ari Posner, Netflix
Ari Posner and Amin Bhatia are composing the original score for the upcoming Netflix original series Anne. The show is created by Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad, Flesh and Bone) based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel Anne of Green Gables and stars Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James, R.H. Thomson, Lucas Jade Zumann, Dalila Bela, Corinne Koslo and Aymeric Jett Montaz. The drama centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, mistakenly is sent to live with an aging sister and brother. Read the rest of this entry »
Anton Sanko Scoring Michael Mayer’s ‘The Seagull’
Posted: April 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anton Sanko, Michael Mayer, The Seagull
Anton Sanko is composing the music for the upcoming drama The Seagull. The film is directed by Michael Mayer (A Home at the End of the World, Flicka) and stars Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll, Elisabeth Moss, Brian Dennehy, Mare Winningham, Jon Tenney, Glenn Fleshler, Michael Zegen and Billy Howle. The movie is based on Anton Chekhov’s classic tragic story of eight people who fall in love with the wrong person. Stephen Karam (Speech & Debate) wrote the screenplay. Tom Hulce is producing the project with Leslie Urdang (Beginners, Adam) and Robert Salerno (21 Grams, Nocturnal Animals, A Single Man). Read the rest of this entry »
Academy to Team with LA Philharmonic for Oscar Concert 2018
Posted: April 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Oscar Concert
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is teaming with the Los Angeles Philharmonic to present next year’s nominated scores live in concert. The event is set to take place on February 28, 2018 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles. Conductor Thomas Wilkins will lead the celebration and the program will include suites and video from each nominated film. The Academy presented its first Oscar concert back in 2014 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced on January 23, 2018 and the ceremony will be held on Oscar Sunday, March 4 at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.
Soundtrack for Amazon’s ‘Bosch’ Announced
Posted: April 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Bosch, Jesse Voccia, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the first soundtrack album for the Amazon original series Bosch. The album features selections from the show’s original music from all three seasons composed by Jesse Voccia (A Haunted House 2, The Big C). Also included is the drama’s main titles song Can’t Let Go performed by Caught A Ghost. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 21, 2017 and physically on May 5. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Bosch is created by Michael Connelly and stars Titus Welliver as LAPD homicide detective Hieronymus “Harry Bosch”, alongside Jamie Hector, Amy Aquino, Lance Reddick, Annie Wersching, Sarah Clarke and Jason Gedrick. Read the rest of this entry »
Philippe Rombi Scoring Francois Ozon’s ‘Amant Double’
Posted: April 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amant Double, Francois Ozon, Philippe Rombi
Philippe Rombi is reteaming with director Francois Ozon on the upcoming French thriller Amant Double. The film is written and directed by Ozon and stars Jérémie Renier, Marine Vacth and Jacqueline Bisset. The movie follows a fragile young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing part of his identity. Eric & Nicolas Altmayer (OSS 117, Saint Laurent) are producing the project. The composer is recording his score this month. Amant Double is rumored to premiere in May at the Cannes Film Festival and is set to be released later this year in France. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Case for Christ’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 3, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Soundtrack, The Case for Christ
Dream Records will release a soundtrack album for the faith-based drama The Case for Christ. The album features a collection of songs inspired by the movie by artists including JT Murrell, Soulfire Revolution, Cindy Cruse Ratcliff, Seacoast Worship and New Hope Oahu. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 7, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Case for Christ is directed by Jon Gunn and stars Mike Vogel, Erika Christensen, Robert Forster and Faye Dunaway. The movie is based on the book by Lee Strobel and follows an investigative journalist and self-proclaimed atheist who sets out to disprove the existence of God after his wife becomes a Christian. Read the rest of this entry »
Harry Gregson-Williams Scoring Simon Baker’s ‘Breath’
Posted: April 3, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Breath, Harry Gregson-Williams, Simon Baker
Harry Gregson-Williams is scoring the upcoming Australian drama Breath. The film marks the feature directorial debut of actor Simon Baker (The Mentalist) and stars Elizabeth Debicki, Richard Roxburgh and Rachael Blake. The movie is based on Tim Winton’s best-selling novel of the same title and follows two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, who form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer, who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives. Read the rest of this entry »
Walt Disney Records to Release ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Soundtrack
Posted: April 3, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Geoff Zanelli, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for the fantasy adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The album features the film’s original music composed by Geoff Zanelli (Disturbia, Into the West, The Pacific, Hitman, The Odd Life of Timothy Green). The soundtrack will be released on May 26, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the full album details. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is directed by Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg and stars Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kevin R. McNally, Kaya Scodelario, Golshifteh Farahani, Stephen Graham, David Wenham and Geoffrey Rush. Read the rest of this entry »
