J-2 Music will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Devil’s Candy. The album features the songs from the movie by artists including Sunn O))), Slayer, Machine Head, Spiderbait, PH Harvey, The Wanton Bishops, Ghost, Goya & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 17, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The Devil’s Candy is written and directed by Sean Byrne and stars Ethan Embry, Shiri Appleby, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Kiara Glasco. The movie follows a struggling artist who moves his wife and daughter to rural Texas where their new home is plagued by demonic forces. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Devil’s Candy’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 9, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Sean Byrne, Soundtrack, The Devil's Candy
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‘On Golden Pond’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: March 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dave Grusin, Mark Rydell, On Golden Pond, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced the world premiere CD soundtrack release for the 1981 drama On Golden Pond directed by Mark Rydell and starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman and William Lanteau. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dave Grusin (The Firm, The Goonies, The Milagro Beanfield War) who received his third Academy Award nomination for his work on the Universal Pictures release. Also included are dialogue snippets. The soundtrack will be released on April 28, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Schwartz to Receive Founders Award at ASCAP Screen Music Awards
Posted: March 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: ASCAP Founders Award, ASCAP Screen Music Awards, Stephen Schwartz
ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, announced today that composer Stephen Schwartz will be honored with the Founders Award at its 32nd annual ASCAP Screen Music Awards on Tuesday, May 16 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. The gala will also celebrate ASCAP’s top film, television and videogame composers of 2016. Over the course of his career, Schwartz has composed scores and lyrics for films including Godspell, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt, Enchanted, and the TV movie Geppetto. Read the rest of this entry »
Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ to Feature Music by Adam Taylor
Posted: March 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Taylor, Bruce Miller, Hulu, Reed Morano, The Handmaid's Tale
Adam Taylor is composing the music for the upcoming Hulu original series The Handmaid’s Tale. The show is created by Bruce Miller (Alphas, The 100) and stars Elisabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, Joseph Fiennes and Alexis Bledel. The drama is based on the classic novel by Margaret Atwood and tells the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, an authoritarian theocracy that has supplanted the United States, where women are nothing more than wives, servants, or breeders, referred to as “handmaids.” Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Willis Scoring Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Death of Stalin’
Posted: March 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Armando Iannucci, Christopher Willis, The Death of Stalin
Christopher Willis is currently recording his score for the upcoming comedy The Death of Stalin. The film is directed by Armando Iannucci (In the Loop) and stars Adrian McLoughlin, Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough, Paddy Considine and Olga Kurylenko. The movie is based on the French graphic novel by Fabien Nury & Thierry Robin and chronicles the chaotic days before Joseph Stalin’s funeral, marked by fierce infighting for the supreme power. Iannucci also co-wrote the screenplay with David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows. Read the rest of this entry »
Bruno Coulais’ ‘Marie Curie’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: March 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bruno Coulais, Marie Curie, Marie Noelle, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album will be released for the biographical drama Marie Curie. The album features the film’s original music composed by Bruno Coulais (Coraline, The Chorus, The Crimson Rivers, Winged Migration). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, March 10 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Marie Curie is directed by Marie Noelle and stars Karolina Gruszka, Charles Berling, André Wilms, Daniel Olbrychski, Samuel Finzi and Sabin Tambrea. The movie tells the life story of Curie, the first-ever woman to win a Nobel Prize for her achievements in physics in 1903 and who later won another Nobel prize in chemistry in 1911. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Diamond Cartel’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: March 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Diamond Cartel, Soundtrack
Cleopatra Records will release a soundtrack album for the action adventure Diamond Cartel. The album features the songs from the movie by artists including Space Temple, Captain Beyond, The Warlocks, Magic Wands, Psychopomps, Blackburner, Mussa, Simcard, Nektar, Hedersleben & more. The soundtrack will be released on April 7, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon (CD version) and here (digital version). Diamond Cartel is directed by Salamat Mukhammed-Ali Armand Assante and stars Armand Assante, Peter O’Toole in his final screen performance, martial arts superstars Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa & Bolo Yeung, Michael Madsen and Don “The Dragon” Wilson. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to Score George Clooney’s ‘Suburbicon’
Posted: March 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, George Clooney, Suburbicon
Alexandre Desplat is reteaming with George Clooney on the upcoming crime comedy Suburbicon. The film directed by Clooney and stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac, Noah Jupe and Glenn Fleshler. The movie centers on a father who hatches a plan to kill his wife in order to be with the woman’s sister, with whom he’s having an affair. Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Fargo) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Federico Jusid Scoring Brian Goodman’s ‘Black Butterfly’
Posted: March 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Black Butterfly, Brian Goodman, Federico Jusid
Federico Jusid has recently scored the upcoming psychological thriller Black Butterfly. The film is marks the second directorial effort of actor Brian Goodman following 2008’s What Doesn’t Kill You and stars Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Piper Perabo. The movie is based on the French film Papillon Noir and revolves around a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay.When the deranged stranger takes the screenwriter hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Baby’s Day Out’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: March 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Baby's Day Out, Bruce Broughton, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere commercial soundtrack release for the 1994 family movie Baby’s Day Out directed by Patrick Read Johnson, written and produced by John Hughes and starring Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle and Joe Pantoliano. The album features the original music from the 20th Century Fox production composed and conducted by Academy Award nominee Bruce Broughton (Silverado, Rescuers Down Under, Young Sherlock Holmes, Lost in Space). The soundtrack is now available to order on the label’s website, where you can also check out the full album details and listen to audio samples.
