Marvel Entertainment has published the first full track from the soundtrack for the studio’s Doctor Strange. The end credits track, entitled The Master of the Mystic End Credits composed by Michael Giacchino (Up, Star Trek, Lost, The Incredibles, Jurassic World) can be checked out after the jump. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, October 21 and physically next month. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and check back on this page later this week for the full album details. Doctor Strange directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mads Mikkelsen and Tilda Swinton will be released nationwide on November 4 by Walt Disney Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Giacchino’s End Credits Music from ‘Doctor Strange’ Released
Posted: October 18, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Doctor Strange, Marvel Studios, Michael Giacchino
Mark Mancina’s ‘The Haunted Mansion’ Score Released
Posted: October 18, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Mancina, Rob Minkoff, score, Soundtrack, The Haunted Mansion
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere release of the original score for Walt Disney Pictures’ 2003 feature The Haunted Mansion directed by Rob Minkoff and starring Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Wallace Shawn, Marsha Thomason and Jennifer Tilly. The album features the film’s music composed by Mark Mancina (Tarzan, Twister, Speed, Brother Bear, Con Air, Bad Boys, Moana). The 2-CD set includes the complete score, as well as unused alternates and additional cues. Only one track from the composer’s score has previously been released and was featured on the original 2003 soundtrack album. To listen to audio samples and to check out the full album details, visit the label’s official website, where you can also order the soundtrack.
‘Autumn Lights’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 18, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Angad Aulakh, Autumn Lights, Hjörtur Ingvi Jóhannsson, Hugi Gudmundsson, score, Soundtrack
Last Carnival has released a soundtrack album for the mystery drama Autumn Lights. The album features the film’s original music composed by Hugi Gudmundsson and Hjörtur Ingvi Jóhannsson. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Autumn Lights is written and directed by Angad Aulakh and stars Guy Kent, Marta Gastini, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Thora Bjorg Helga, Salome R. Gunnarsdottir, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson and Snorri Engilbertsson. The movie follows an American photographer who becomes entangled in the lives of a mysterious couple after discovering a deserted crime scene in remote Iceland. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe to Score Nat Geo’s ‘Genius’
Posted: October 17, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Genius, Lorne Balfe, National Geographic Channel, Ron Howard
Lorne Balfe has been hired to score the National Geographic Channel’s first scripted series Genius. The show’s first season is based on Walter Isaacson’s book Einstein: His Life and Universe and stars Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein. Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Backdraft) is directing the first episode of the drama, which chronicles how an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk, who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate, unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe. Johnny Flynn co-stars as Einstein in the years before he rose to international attention and acclaim. Noah Pink has adapted Isaacson’s book for the Fox 21 Television production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ouija: Origin of Evil’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 17, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mike Flanagan, Ouija, Ouija: Origin of Evil, score, Soundtrack, The Newton Brothers
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Ouija: Origin of Evil. The album features the film’s original music composed by The Newton Brothers (Oculus, Life of Crime, Hush, Detachment, The Bye Bye Man). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 21, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Ouija: Original of Evil is directed by Mike Flanagan and stars Henry Thomas, Elizabeth Reaser, Doug Jones, Parker Mack, Sam Anderson, Kate Siegel, Annalise Basso and Lulu Wilson. The Blumhouse production is a prequel to 2014’s hit film and is set in 1965 Los Angeles as a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their at-home séance scam business. Read the rest of this entry »
Corey Allen Jackson to Score ‘The Brits Are Coming’
Posted: October 17, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Corey Allen Jackson, James Oakley, The Brits Are Coming
Corey Allen Jackson has signed on to score the upcoming comedy The Brits Are Coming. The film is directed by James Oakley (The Devil You Know) and stars Uma Thurman, Stephen Fry, Tim Roth, Parker Posey, Maggie Q, Alice Eve, Crispin Glover and Sofia Vergara. The movie follows a British con-artist couple who flee to Los Angeles to avoid paying a large debt to a gangster and try to win back the money via a jewel theft operation. Oakley also co-wrote the screenplay with Alex Michaelides. Cassian Elwes (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Elvis & Nixon), JC Chandor (A Most Violent Year, All Is Lost), Robert Ogden Barnum (Margin Call, Miles Ahead) and Dave Hansen (Lovesong) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Johnny Jewel’s ‘Home’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 17, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Fien Troch, Home, Johnny Jewel, score, Soundtrack
Italians Do It Better has released a soundtrack album for the Belgian drama Home. The album features the film’s original music composed by Johnny Jewel (Bronson, Lost River, Those Who Kill), as well as tracks by his bands Chromatics and Symmetry. The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio samples. Home is directed by Fien Troch (Kid) and stars Sebastian Van Dun, Mistral Guidotti, Loïc Batog, Lena Suijkerbuijk, Karlijn Sileghem, Els Deceukelier, Robby Cleiren, Yavuz Saçikara and Els Dottermans. The movie explores three troubled teenagers’ relationships both with each other and the adult world around them. Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph Trapanese Tapped as New Composer for ABC’s ‘Quantico’
Posted: October 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Joseph Trapanese, Quantico
Joseph Trapanese has taken over scoring duties on the ABC drama Quantico. He is scoring the show starting with the third episode of the second season, which premieres tonight. Joel J. Richard (John Wick) has previously scored the first season and first two episodes of the current season. Quantico is created by Joshua Safran and stars Priyanka Chopra, Jake McLaughlin, Aunjanue Ellis, Yasmine Al Massri, Johanna Braddy, Russell Tovey, Pearl Thusi and Blair Underwood. The series executive produced by Safran, Mark Gordon, Robert Sertner, Jorge Zamacona and Nicholas Pepper follows a group of young FBI recruits, all with specific reasons for joining, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 16, 2016)
Posted: October 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, BBC America, Berlin Station, Chance, Cristobal Tapia de Veer, David Buckley, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Epix, Eyewitness, Fox, Goliath, Graves, Hulu, Jason Derlatka, Jon Ehrlich, Keefus Ciancia, Killing Reagan, Mateo Messina, National Geographic Channel, PBS, Reinhold Heil, Ruth Barrett, The Durrells, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, USA, Will Bates
Premiering tonight is the Epix original series Berlin Station created by Olen Steinhauer and starring Richard Armitage, Michelle Forbes, Richard Jenkins, Rhys Ifans, Tamlyn Tomita, Leland Orser, Richard Dillane and Bernhard Schütz. The show’s original music is composed by Reinhold Heil (Run Lola Run, The International, Cloud Atlas, Helix, Deutschland 83). To learn more about the drama, which follows a CIA officer who arrives at the CIA foreign station in Berlin, Germany to determine the identity of a now-famous whistleblower, check out our previous news article.
Also premiering tonight is the new Epix original series Graves created by Joshua Michael Stern and starring Nick Nolte, Sela Ward, Skylar Astin, Heléne Yorke, Chris Lowell, Callie Hernandez, Nia Vardalos, Ernie Hudson, Roger Bart and Angélica Maria. Mateo Messina (Juno, Superstore, Casual, Butter, Barely Lethal, Harvey and the Davidsons) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the comedy, which will air every Sunday night on Epix. Read the rest of this entry »
Hulu’s ‘Chance’ to Feature Music by Will Bates
Posted: October 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chance, Hulu, Will Bates
Will Bates is composing the score for the new Hulu original series Chance. The show is created by Alexandra Cunningham (Desperate Housewives, Prime Suspect) and Kem Nunn and stars Hugh Laurie, Gretchen Mol, Clark Peters, Paul Adelstein, Diane Farr, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Stefania LaVie Owen, Greta Lee and Ethan Suplee. The drama is based on Nunn’s novel and revolves around a forensic neuropsychiatrist who reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness. Read the rest of this entry »
