Lorne Balfe has signed on to compose the music for the upcoming biographical drama Churchill. The film is directed by Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man, Burning Man) and stars Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, James Purefoy and Ella Purnell. The movie is set across the five days before D-Day in 1944 and charts the tension between the British PM and the Allied leaders, including Eisenhower and Montgomery, who are poised to launch the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. British historian and author Alex von Tunzelmann has written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe to Score Jonathan Teplitzky’s ‘Churchill’
Posted: August 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Churchill, Jonathan Teplitzky, Lorne Balfe
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Expanded ‘Primal Fear’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: August 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Newton Howard, Primal Fear, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack release for the 1996 thriller Primal Fear directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Richard Gere, Edward Norton and Laura Linney. The album features the expanded and remastered original music from the film composed and produced by James Newton Howard (King Kong, The Hunger Games, The Sixth Sense, Signs, Maleficent, The Fugitive), including more than 30 minutes of previously unreleased cues, alternates and demos. For the full album details and to listen to audio samples, visit the label’s official website, where you can also pre-order the limited edition CD.
Alan Menken & Lin-Manuel Miranda Team Up for ‘The Little Mermaid’ Live Action Film Adaptation
Posted: August 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Menken, Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Little Mermaid
Deadline is reporting that Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda will be teaming up to write the music for a live action feature adaptation of The Little Mermaid. The movie version is also said to feature songs from Disney’s classic animated movie, for which Menken won two Academy Awards for Best Original Song (with Howard Ashman) and Best Original Score. Marc Platt (Into the Woods, Wanted, Legally Blonde, Bridge of Spies) who is also on board of Disney’s upcoming Mary Poppins Returns will be producing the project. No director and cast members have been announced yet. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Isham to Score ‘The Headhunter’s Calling’
Posted: August 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Isham, Mark Williams, The Headhunter's Calling
Mark Isham is scoring the upcoming drama The Headhunter’s Calling. The film marks the directorial debut of producer Mark Williams (Flawless) and stars Gerard Butler, Alison Brie, Willem Dafoe, Gretchen Mol and Alfred Molina. The movie follows a ruthless corporate headhunter who battles his rival for control of their job placement company, until a family tragedy brings his personal and professional lives into conflict. Bill Dubuque (The Judge) has written the screenplay. Williams is also producing the Voltage Films, Zero Gravity Management and G-Base production with Butler & Alan Siegel (Olympus Has Fallen), Craig Flores (Charlie Countryman), Nicolas Chartier (The Hurt Locker, Killer Joe) and Patrick Newall (The Keeping Room). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Two Is a Family’ to Feature Music by Rob Simonsen
Posted: August 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: emain tout commence, Hugo Gelin, Rob Simonsen, Two Is a Family
Rob Simonsen is scoring the French comedy drama Two Is a Family (Demain tout commence). The film is directed by Hugo Gelin (Just Like Brothers) and stars Omar Sy, Clemence Poesy and Antoine Bertrand. The movie follows a man whose carefree life on the French Riviera is turned upside down when a former fling suddenly reappears and introduces him to his baby girl before taking off. Gelin has also written the screenplay with Mathieu Oullion (French Cuisine) and Jean-Andre Yerles (The Gilded Cage). Philippe Rousselet (Source Code, Lord of War, Bastille Day) and Stephane Celerier are producing the Vendome and Mars Films production. Read the rest of this entry »
Julian Wass Scoring ‘Blue Jay’
Posted: August 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blue Jay, Jay Duplass, Julian Wass, Mark Duplass
Julian Wass is composing the score for the upcoming indie drama Blue Jay. The film is directed by Alex Lehmann and stars Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson. The movie follows two former high-school sweethearts who reflect on their shared past through the lens of their differently dissatisfied presents when they return to their tiny California hometown. Duplass has also written the screenplay and also serves as an executive producer on the project with his brother Jay. Mel Eslyn (The One I Love, Lamb) and Xan Aranda are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Details for Fox’s ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’
Posted: August 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Fox, Soundtrack, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Ode Records will release a soundtrack album for the Fox television event The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The album features the songs from the two-hour re-imagining of the original movie performed by the film’s cast and written by Richard O’Brien. The soundtrack will be released on October 21, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is directed by Kenny Ortega (This Is It, High School Musical) and stars Laverne Cox, Victoria Justice, Adam Lambert, Ben Vereen, Christina Milian and Tim Curry. The movie executive produced by Ortega, Lou Adler and Gail Berman is a remake of the 1975 cult classic and follows sweethearts Janet and Brd who stumble upon Dr. Frank-n-Furter’s bizarre abode. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer & Pharrell Williams to Score Theodore Melfi’s ‘Hidden Figures’
Posted: August 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hans Zimmer, Hidden Figures, Pharrell Williams, Ted Melfi
Hans Zimmer has joined Pharrell Williams to score the upcoming drama Hidden Figures. The film is directed by Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent) and stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell and Kevin Costner. The movie tells the true story of a group of brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Melfi has written the screenplay with Allison Schroeder based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly. Read the rest of this entry »
John Debney, Marcelo Zarvos, Matthew Margeson & More to Appear at 7th Annual ‘Fans of Film Music’ Event
Posted: August 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Fans of Film Music
A number of major film composers will be participating at the 7th Annual Fans of Film Music event, which will take place on Saturday, September 3, 2016 at The Bridge Recording Studio in Glendale, CA. This year’s panelists include Matthew Margeson (Eddie the Eagle, Kingsman: The Secret Service) who recently co-scored Tim Burton’s latest film Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, Marcelo Zarvos (The Good Shepherd, The Choice) whose latest projects include Amazon’s One Mississippi, as well as new seasons of Showtime’s hit shows The Affair and Ray Donovan and Vince DiCola (Rocky IV, The Transformers: The Movie). Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph Trapanese Scoring Amazon’s ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’
Posted: August 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, Joseph Trapanese
Joseph Trapanese has composed the score for the pilot episode of the upcoming Amazon original series Jean-Claude Van Johnson. The show stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as a global martial arts and film sensation who is operating under the simple alias of “Johnson,” the most dangerous undercover private contractor in the world. Kat Foster, Moises Arias and Phylicia Rashad are co-starring. Van Damme is also executive producing the Scott Free production with Peter Atencio (Keanu, Key and Peele), Ridley Scott (Gladiator, The Martian, Alien) and David W. Zucker (The Good Wife, The Man in the High Castle, Mercy Street). Read the rest of this entry »
