Ryan Miller is composing the original music for the upcoming indie comedy Mr. Roosevelt. The film is written and directed by comedian Noël Wells who also stars in the movie, alongside Nick Thune, Britt Lower, Daniella Pineda, Andre Hyland, Doug Benson, Armen Weitzman and Sergio Cilli. The movie revolves around a struggling comedian who returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend. Chris Ohlson (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter) and Beachside Films’ Michael B. Clark & Alex Turtletaub (Miss Stevens, People Places Things) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Noël Wells’ ‘Mr. Roosevelt’ to Feature Music by Ryan Miller
Posted: February 21, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mr. Roosevelt, Noël Wells, Ryan Miller
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Lakeshore Records to Release ‘Logan’ & ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Soundtracks
Posted: February 21, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Clint Mansell, Ghost in the Shell, Logan, Marco Beltrami, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for the comic book movie Logan directed by James Mangold and starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant and Dafne Keen. The album features the film’s original music composed by Marco Beltrami (Scream, World War Z) who previously scored Mangold’s The Wolverine and 3:10 to Yuma. The soundtrack will be released in early March. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version. The label will also release the soundtrack for the sci-fi adventure Ghost in the Shell directed by Rupert Sanders and starring Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbaek, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche and Michael Pitt. The album features the film’s score composed by Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Fountain) and will be released on March 31. Read the rest of this entry »
Fil Eisler to Score Ben Falcone’s ‘Life of the Party’
Posted: February 21, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Falcone, Fil Eisler, Life of the Party
Fil Eisler has signed on to score the upcoming comedy Life of the Party. The film is directed by Ben Falcone (Tammy, The Boss) and stars Melissa McCarthy, Julie Bowen, Maya Rudolph, Gillian Jacobs, Jacki Weaver, Debby Ryan, Luke Benward and Matt Walsh. No plot details have been announced yet. McCarthy and Falcone also co-wrote the screenplay and are producing the New Line Cinema production with Chris Henchy (Daddy’s Home, Get Hard). Mike Disco (Horrible Bosses) and David Siegel (The Hangover) serve as executive producers. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian McOmber Scoring ‘The Strange Ones’
Posted: February 20, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian McOmber, The Strange Ones
Brian McOmber is composing the music for the upcoming indie thriller The Strange Ones. The film is directed by Lauren Wolkstein & Christopher Radcliff and stars Alex Pettyfer, James Freedson-Jackson, Emily Althaus and Gene Jones. The movie follows two brothers who are making their way across a remote American landscape. Radcliff also wrote the screenplay. Sebastien Aubert, Michael Prall, Eric Schultz (James White), Shani Geva and Daniela Taplin Lundberg (The Kids Are All Right, Hello, My Name Is Doris, Beasts of No Nation) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Hajian to Score Brad Furman’s ‘LAbyrinth’
Posted: February 20, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brad Furman, Chris Hajian, Labyrinth
Chris Hajian is reteaming with director Brad Furman on the upcoming crime thriller LAbyrinth. The film starring Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Rockmond Dunbar, Neil Brown Jr., Xander Berkeley, Shea Whigham, Wynn Everett, Toby Huss, Louis Herthum and Shamier Anderson centers on a disgraced LAPD detective, a beaten man who was unable to solve his biggest case – the murders of music icons Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G, and teams up with a reporter after nearly two decades to find out the truth. Christian Contreras wrote the screenplay based on Randall Sullivan’s book of the same title. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bitter Harvest’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 20, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benjamin Wallfisch, Bitter Harvest, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the historical drama Bitter Harvest. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Benjamin Wallfisch (Hidden Figures, Lights Out, A Cure for Wellness, The Escapist, Desert Dancer). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 24 and will be available to download on Amazon. A limited edition CD can now be pre-orderered on the label’s website, where you can also listen to audio samples. Bitter Harvest is directed by George Mendeluk and stars Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, Tamer Hassan and Terence Stamp. The movie is set in 1930s Ukraine and centers on a man’s fight to save his family and everything he holds dear from complete annihilation as Stalin uses mass starvation and executions to crush resistance to his totalitarian regimen. Read the rest of this entry »
‘USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: February 20, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Laurent Eyquem, score, Soundtrack, USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack album for the war drama USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Laurent Eyquem (Copperhead, Winnie Mandela, Rage, Momentum). The soundtrack, which is limited to 1000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples. USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage is directed by Mario Van Peebles and stars Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane, James Remar, Matt Lanter, Brian Presley, Cody Walker, Yutaka Takeuchi, Adam Scott Miller, Craig Tate and Johnny Wactor. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 19, 2017)
Posted: February 19, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Big Little Lies, CBS, CMT, Crashing, Dave Porter, David Buckley, Doubt, HBO, Lyle Workman, NBC, Patriot, Sean Callery, Sun Records, The Blacklist: Redemption, The Good Fight
Premiering tonight is the HBO original mini-series Big Little Lies directed by Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club, Wild), executive produced by David E. Kelley and starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, Alexander Skårsgard, Adam Scott, James Tupper and Jeffrey Nordling. The show doesn’t feature any original score. Susan Jacobs serves as the project’s music supervisor. To learn more about the drama, which is based on the book of the same name by Liane Moriarty, visit the official show website.
Also premiering tonight is the HBO original series Crashing executive produced by Judd Apatow and Pete Holmes who also stars in the show alongside Lauren Lapkus, George Basil, T.J. Miller, Artie Lange, Dave Attell, Hannibal Burress, Sarah Silverman, Gina Gershon. The comedy’s original music is composed by Lyle Workman (The 40-Year Old Virgin, Superbad, Love, Forgetting Sarah Marshall). To learn more about the series, which follows a comedian who, when his wife leaves him, has nowhere to stay but on the couches of New York’s finest comics, visit the official show website. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooke & Will Blair Scoring Evan Katz’s ‘Small Crimes’
Posted: February 19, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brooke Blair, Evan Katz, Small Crimes, Will Blair
Brooke Blair and Will Blair are composing the music for the upcoming indie comedy Small Crimes. The film is directed by Evan Katz (Cheap Thrills) and stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jacki Weaver, Robert Forster, Gary Cole, Molly Parker and Pat Healy. The movie follows a disgraced former cop who is released from prison and returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind. Katz also co-wrote the screenplay with the composers’ brother Macon Blair who also appears in the film. David Lancaster (Whiplash, Nightcrawler, Eye in the Sky) and Stephanie Wilcox are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘La La Land’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award
Posted: February 18, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society, Finding Dory, La La Land, Nicholai Baxter, Thomas Vicari
The team behind the sound mixing of Damien Chazelle’s La La Land has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures– Live Action category at tonight’s 53rd annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Bunker Hill Ballroom of the OMNI Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza. Scoring mixer Nicholai Baxter, along with production mixer Steven Morrow, re-recording mixers Andy Nelson & Ai-Ling Lee and ADR mixer David Betancourt received the award for the drama starring Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling and scored by Justin Hurwitz. The other contenders in the category were Doctor Strange, Hacksaw Ridge, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Sully. Read the rest of this entry »
