Jeff Cardoni has composed the music for the Amazon Studios pilot The New V.I.P.’s. The show is created by Steve Dildarian (The Life & Times of Tim) and features the voices of Matt Braunger, Ben Schwartz, Missi Pyle and Jonathan Adams. The animated comedy centers on a group of low-level employees who seize control of a major corporation after accidently murdering their boss. Peter Principato (Central Intelligence, Keanu, Married) is producing the project with Titmouse’s Ben Kalina and Dave Newberg. Read the rest of this entry »
Amazon’s ‘The New V.I.P.’s’ to Feature Music by Jeff Cardoni
Posted: March 11, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Jeff Cardoni, Steve Dildarian, The New V.I.P.'s
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Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring ‘LA 92’
Posted: March 11, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dan Lindsay, Danny Bensi, LA 92, Saunder Jurriaans, TJ Martin
Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans have recently recorded their score for the upcoming documentary LA 92. The film is directed by Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin who received an Academy Award for the 2011 documentary Undefeated and tells the definitive story of the 1992 Los Angeles riots from the inside and from the point of view of those involved, using unseen personal footage and news archives, and testimonies of those who lived through it. The movie is produced by National Geographic. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 10, 2017)
Posted: March 10, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Anne Nikitin, Brimstone, Burning Sands, Dan Jones, Geoff Zanelli, Henry Jackman, Jim Williams, Junkie XL, Kevin Lax, Kong: Skull Island, Max Richter, My Scientology Movie, Personal Shopper, Raw, The Ottoman Lieutenant, The Sense of an Ending, This Beautiful Fantastic, Tom Holkenborg
The only movie opening nationwide this weekend is the action adventure Kong: Skull Island directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and starring Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman and John C. Reilly. The film’s original music is composed by Henry Jackman (Captain America: The Winter Soldier & Civil War, X-Men: First Class, Big Hero 6). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Click here for the full album details. Also visit Lights Camera Jackson and Behind the Notes for recent interviews with Jackman about his work on the project.
Opening in limited release is the French horror thriller Raw written and directed by Julia Ducournau and starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf and Rabah Nait Oufella. Jim Williams (Sightseers, Kill List, A Field in England) has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. A vinyl version is set to come out in April. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the Focus World release. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Cornell’s ‘The Promise’ Title Song Released
Posted: March 10, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chris Cornell, Terry George, The Promise
Chris Cornell has released his title song for Terry George’s romantic drama The Promise. The singer/songwriter who has previously contributed songs for movies including Casino Royale and Great Expectations recorded the song last year ahead of the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. Visit iTunes to download the track and listen to the song after the jump. The Promise starring Oscar Isaac, Christian Bale, Charlotte Le Bon and Angela Sarafyan is set in 1922 amid the final days of the Ottoman Empire and centers on a love triangle in 1922 with a medical student, an American journalist based in Paris and a beautiful and sophisticated woman. Read the rest of this entry »
Craig Wedren to Score Netflix’s ‘GLOW’
Posted: March 10, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Wedren, GLOW, Netflix
Craig Wedren has signed on to score the upcoming Netflix original series GLOW. The show is created by Liz Flahive (Adult Beginners, Nurse Jackie) & Carly Mensch (Orange Is The New Black) and stars Alison Brie, Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Marc Maron, Britney Young, Sydelle Noel, Britt Baron, Jackie Tohn, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, Kate Nash, Sunita Mani and Kia Stevens. The comedy is set in 1980s Los Angeles and revolves around an unemployed actress who keeps her dream alive by portraying a female wrestler. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rescue Under Fire’ (‘Zona Hostil’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 10, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adolfo Martinez, Rescue Under Fire, Roque Banos, Zona Hostil
Meliam Music has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish war drama Rescue Under Fire (Zona Hostil). The album features the film’s original music composed by Roque Banos (Don’t Breathe, The Machinist, Evil Dead, In the Heart of the Sea, Risen). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Rescue Under Fire is directed by Adolfo Martinez and stars Ariadna Gil, Raul Merida, Robert Alamo and Antonio Garrido. The movie is set in Afghanistan in 2012 and tells the true story of a group of military personnel in need of rescue during a time of warfare. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Life After Happily Ever After’ from ‘Tangled Before Ever After’ Released
Posted: March 10, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alan Menken, Disney Channel, Glenn Slater, Tangled Before Ever After
Walt Disney Records has released the original song Life After Happily Ever After from the Disney Channel movie Tangled Before Ever After. The track is written by Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Enchanted, Tangled) & lyricist Glenn Slater (Galavant) and performed by Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Clancy Brown. Visit Amazon to download the song. The label has previously released the songwriters’ original track Wind in My Hair from the movie last month. Read the rest of this entry »
Geoff Zanelli Scoring Deon Taylor’s ‘Stranded’
Posted: March 9, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Deon Taylor, Geoff Zanelli, Stranded
Geoff Zanelli is currently scoring the upcoming indie thriller Stranded. The film is written and directed by Deon Taylor (Meet the Blacks, Chain Letter) and stars Paula Patton, Omar Epps, Rosalyn Sanchez and Laz Alonso. The movie follows a journalist who is kidnapped after she starts investigating the world of sex trafficking. Roxanne Avent (Meet the Blacks, Supremacy is producing the project for Hidden Empire Film Group. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 9, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Harry Gregson-Williams, Niki Caro, score, Soundtrack, The Zookeeper's Wife
Filmtrax will release a soundtrack album for the drama The Zookeeper’s Wife. The album features the film’s original music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (The Martian, The Chronicles of Narnia, Shrek, Kingdom of Heaven, Man on Fire). The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 31, 2017. The pre-order link will be added to this article within the next few days. The Zookeeper’s Wife is directed by Niki Caro (Whale Rider, North Country) and stars Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Michael McElhatton and Daniel Brühl. The movie is based on Diane Ackerman’s novel of the same name and tells the true story of Antonina Żabińska and her husband Dr. Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw Zoo, who together used the zoo to help about 300 Jewish people escape from the Warsaw Ghetto after the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939. Read the rest of this entry »
Martin Phipps Scoring Amazon’s ‘Oasis’
Posted: March 9, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Martin Phipps, Matt Charman, Oasis
Martin Phipps has composed the music for Amazon Studios pilot Oasis. The show is created by Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies) based on the novel The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber and stars Richard Madden, Anil Kapoor, Michael Shaw, Mark Addy, Haley Joel Osment, Maureen Sebastian, Michael Shaffer and Zawe Ashton. The drama centers on a chaplain who is sent into space to help establish a colony on a distant planet. Charman is also executive producing the Amazon Studios and Left Bank production with Andy Harries (The Queen, The Crown, The Damned United) and Lila Rawlings (Dark River). Read the rest of this entry »
