Jon Ehrlich & Jason Derlatka and Black Violin are composing the music for the new Fox drama Pitch. The show is created by Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love, Tangled, Galavant, Danny Collins) & Rick Singer and stars Kylie Bunbury, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Ali Larter, Mark Consuelos, Dan Lauria, Mo McRae, Meagan Holder and Tim Jo. The series tells the story of Ginny Baker, who becomes the first woman to play Major League Baseball – under the glare of a white-hot media spotlight. Fogelman and Singer are also executive producing the 20th Century Fox Television production with Kevin Falls (Summer Catch), Tony Bill (The Sting, Flyboys), Helen Bartlett (Untamed Heart), Jess Rosenthal and Paris Barclay (Sons of Anarchy). Read the rest of this entry »
Fox’s ‘Pitch’ to Feature Music by Jon Ehrlich & Jason Derlatka and Black Violin
Posted: September 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Black Violin, Dan Fogelman, Fox, Jason Derlatka, Jon Ehrlich, Pitch
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‘Southside with You’ Score Album Released
Posted: September 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: score, Soundtrack, Southside With You, Stephen James Taylor
IM Global Music has released a second soundtrack for the drama Southside with You. The album features the film’s original score composed by Emmy Award nominee Stephen James Taylor (Timon & Pumbaa, Teacher’s Pet, The Glass Shield). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. As previously announced, Columbia Records has released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie. Southside with You written and directed by Richard Tanne and starring Parker Sawyers & Tika Sumpter recounts the eventful summer day in 1989 when a young law firm associate named Barack Obama tried to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson during a daylong date. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Giacchino to Take Over Scoring Duties ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’
Posted: September 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Gareth Edwards, Michael Giacchino, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars
Michael Giacchino has taken over scoring duties on the upcoming Star Wars spin-off Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The composer is replacing Alexandre Desplat who was originally scoring the film directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) and starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed and Forest Whitaker. The movie takes place before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope and tells the story of unlikely heroes who have united to steal plans to the dreaded Death Star. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Star Wars Rebels’ Season 1 Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney XD, Kevin Kiner, score, Soundtrack, Star Wars Rebels
Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album for the animated series Star Wars Rebels. The album features selections from the original music of the show’s first season composed by Kevin Kiner (Star Wars: the Clone Wars, Hell on Wheels, CSI: Miami). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 16 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. Star Wars Rebels is executive produced by Simon Kinberg, Dave Filoni & Greg Weisman and features the voices of Freddie Prinze, Jr., Taylor Gray, Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar and Vanessa Marshall. The Lucasfilm Animation production, which is set in between Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, premiered in 2014 and will return for a third season on September 24, 2016 on Disney XD. Read the rest of this entry »
Rolfe Kent Scoring Kevin Tent’s ‘Crash Pad’
Posted: September 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexander Payne, Crash Pad, Kevin Tent, Rolfe Kent
Rolfe Kent has recently composed the original score for the upcoming romantic comedy Crash Pad. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Academy Award-nominated editor Kevin Tent (The Descendants, Nebraska) and stars Domhnall Gleeson, Christina Applegate, Thomas Haden Church and Nina Dobrev. The movie follows a hopeless romantic who thinks he’s found true love with an older woman, only to learn that she’s married and that his fling is merely an instrument of revenge against her neglectful husband. Jeremy Catalino has written the Black List-honored screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lovers & the Despot’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Nathan Halpern, score, Soundtrack, The Lovers & the Despot
Copticon Music will release a soundtrack album for the documentary The Lovers & the Despot. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nathan Halpern (Rich Hill, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 23, 2016. The Lovers & the Despot is directed by Robert Cannan & Ross Adam and tells the story of young, ambitious South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok and actress Choi Eun-hee, who met and fell in love in 1950s post-war Korea. The documentary premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by Magnolia Pictures for a domestic release in theaters and on VOD on September 23. Read the rest of this entry »
Varese Sarabande to Release ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Soundtrack
Posted: September 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson, Rupert Gregson-Williams, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande will release the official soundtrack album for Mel Gibson’s war drama Hacksaw Ridge. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams (The Legend of Tarzan, Bee Movie, Hotel Rwanda, Over the Hedge). The soundtrack will be released on November 4, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the full album details. Hacksaw Ridge starring Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths and Vince Vaughn tells the true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lady Bloodfight’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lady Bloodfight, Mark Kilian, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the action movie Lady Bloodfight. The album features the film’s original music composed by Mark Kilian (Tsotsi, Eye in the Sky, Pitch Perfect, Rendition, Traitor). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 30, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Lady Bloodfight is directed by Chris Nahon and stars Amy Johnston, Jenny Wu, Kathy Wu and Jet Tranter. The movie centers around a beautiful but troubled American girl backpacking her way through Hong Kong who is recruited by a Wudang champion and trained to fight in the vicious, all-female, underground martial arts tournament known as “The Kumite. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Girl on the Train’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Danny Elfman, score, Soundtrack, Tate Taylor, The Girl on the Train
The full details of the soundtrack album for the film adaptation of The Girl on the Train have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Danny Elfman (Batman, Spider-Man, Alice in Wonderland, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fifty Shades of Grey). The soundtrack will be released on October 7, 2016 by Sony Classical and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Girl on the Train is directed by is directed by Tate Taylor (The Help, Get On Up) and stars Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Edgar Ramirez, Allison Janney, Lisa Kudrow and Laura Prepon. The movie is based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and follows a woman who spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds. Read the rest of this entry »
John Powell to Score Blue Sky Studios’ ‘Ferdinand’
Posted: September 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blue Sky Studios, Carlos Saldanha, Ferdinand, John Powell
John Powell confirmed in a recent interview with Omar Crook on the Living with a Genius podcast that he is reteaming with director Carlos Saldanha on the upcoming animated feature Ferdinand. The movie is based on the the children’s book The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson and revolves around a bull who doesn’t want to fight in the bullfighting arena like so many of his brethren but instead just wants to smell the flowers. Bruce Anderson (Horton Hears a Who!) is producing the Blue Sky Studios production with Lori Forte (Ice Age series, Epic). Read the rest of this entry »
