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 »
Geoff Zanelli Scoring Deon Taylor’s ‘Stranded’
Posted: March 9, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Deon Taylor, Geoff Zanelli, Stranded
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‘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 »
‘The Devil’s Candy’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 9, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Sean Byrne, Soundtrack, The Devil's Candy
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 »
‘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 »
