Ian Hultquist revealed in a recent interview with Musing on Music that he is the new composer of the DirecTV original series Full Circle. He is scoring the third season of the show, which is written by Jorge Zamacona (The Last Ship, Oz) and stars Dougray Scott and Kim Raver. Season 3 centers on a sex scandal that threatens to destroy a Presidential candidate and stop his almost certain election. Nick Hamm (Rogue) directing and executive producing the Momentum TV production. Jeff Cardoni has previously scored the show’s first season written by Neil LaBute and Craig Marks scored the second season written by Keith Huff. Read the rest of this entry »
Ian Hultquist to Score DirecTV’s ‘Full Circle’ Season 3
Posted: April 13, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: DirecTV, Full Circle, Ian Hultquist
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‘The Neon Demon’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cliff Martinez, Nicolas Winding Refn, score, Soundtrack, The Neon Demon
Milan Records has announced a soundtrack album for Nicolas Winding-Refn’s The Neon Demon. The album features the film’s original music composed by Cliff Martinez (Traffic, Contagion, The Knick) who previously collaborated with the director on Drive and Only God Forgives. Also included is the original track Waving Goodbye performed by Sia, and two songs by Julian Winding (Mine performed by Sweet Tempest and The Demon Dance). The soundtrack will be released digitally and on CD on June 24, 2016. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. A vinyl version is set to come out on July 8. The Neon Demon is co-written and directed by Winding-Refn and star Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks and Jena Malone. The movie follows an aspiring model who moves to Los Angeles, where her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women. Read the rest of this entry »
Patrick Doyle to Score Amma Asante’s ‘A United Kingdom’
Posted: April 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A United Kingdom, Amma Asante, Patrick Doyle
Director Amma Asante announced on Twitter that Patrick Doyle is scoring the upcoming period drama A United Kingdom and will be recording his music with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The movie directed by Asante (Belle) stars David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport, Terry Pheto, Tom Felton, Arnold Oceng, Jack Lowden and Laura Carmichael. The movie is based on the book Colour Bar by Susan Williams and tells the true love story between Seretse Khama, the King of Botswana, who fell in love with London office worker Ruth Williams in 1947. Guy Hibbert (Five Minutes of Heaven) has written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ Announced
Posted: April 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Confirmation, Harry Gregson-Williams, HBO, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the HBO original movie Confirmation. The album features the film’s original music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Martian, Shrek, Man on Fire). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 15, 2016 and physically on May 27. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Confirmation is directed by Rick Famuyiwa and stars Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce, Greg Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Eric Stonestreet, Jennifer Hudson, Dylan Baker, Erika Christensen, Kimberly Elise, Grace Gummer, Bill Irwin, Zoe Lister-Jones, Treat Williams and Alison Wright. The drama details the 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings and revisits the national debate over race relations and sexual harassment sparked during the hearings when law professor Anita Hill testified about her experiences with Thomas. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard to Receive BMI Icon Award
Posted: April 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BMI, BMI Icon Award, David Newman, James Newton Howard
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) announced today that James Newton Howard will be honored with the organization’s Icon Award for outstanding career achievement at this year’s BMI Film & Television Awards. The composer whose best known scoring credits include The Sixth Sense, The Hunger Games series, King Kong, Signs, Maleficent and The Dark Knight has received eight Academy Award nominations throughout his career for works including Defiance, The Village, The Fugitive, Michael Clayton, The Prince of Tides and My Best Friend’s Wedding. He also was honored with four Golden Globe and three Grammy nominations and won a Grammy for his music for The Dark Knight, which he co-wrote with Hans Zimmer. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for HBO’s ‘Only the Dead See the End of the World’ to Be Released
Posted: April 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Michael Yezerski, Only the Dead See the End of the War, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the HBO documentary Only the Dead See the End of the War. The album features the film’s original music composed by Michael Yezerski (Mental, Drift, The Devil’s Candy, A Little Death). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 15, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Only the Dead See the War is directed by Bill Guttentag in collaboration with Michael Ware and examines the Iraq War and its moral consequences through the story of the rise and fall of jihadi terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the progenitor of ISIS. The movie is told through hand-held video footage culled from hundreds of hours that journalist Michael Ware shot while reporting over the course of the war. Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard to Return for ‘John Wick: Chapter Two’
Posted: April 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chad Stahelski, Joel J. Richard, John Wick, John Wick: Chapter Two, Tyler Bates
Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard are set to return to score the upcoming action thriller John Wick: Chapter Two. The film is helmed by Chad Stahelski who previously co-directed the original movie and stars Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Aurelio, John Leguizamo, Laurence Fishburne, Lance Reddick, Tom Sadowski, Bridget Moynahan, Ruby Rose, Riccardo Scamarcio, Peter Stormare and Common. The sequel follows the title character as he is forced back out of retirement by a former associate and travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers. Derek Kolstad has written the screenplay and Basil Iwanyk (The Town, Sicario, Clash of the Titans) returns as the producer. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Girl in the Photographs’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Nima Fakhrara, score, Soundtrack, The Girl in the Photographs
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Girl in the Photographs. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nima Fakhrara (The Signal, The Pyramid, Exists). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 29, 2016 and physically later this year. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album and to check out audio samples. The Girl in the Photographs is directed by Nick Simon and stars Kal Penn, Claudia Lee, Kenny Wormald, Toby Hemingway, Katharine Isabelle, Luke Baines, Miranda Rae Mayo and Mitch Pileggi. The movie executive produced by Wes Craven follows a celebrity photographer and his entourage who descend upon a sleepy community to investigate the bloody doings of a serial killer. Read the rest of this entry »
Ilan Eshkeri Scoring ‘Swallows and Amazons’
Posted: April 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ilan Eshkeri, Measure of a Man, Swallows and Amazons
Ilan Eshkeri is composing the music for the upcoming family adventure Swallows and Amazons. The film is directed by Philippa Lowthorpe (Call the Midwife) and stars Rafe Spall, Kelly Macdonald, Gwendoline Christie, Jessica Hynes, Andrew Scott, Harry Enfield, Dane Hughes, Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Bobby McCulloch, Seren Hawkes and Hannah Jayne Thorp. The movie is based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Arthur Ransome and follows four children dreaming of an escape from the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother as they travel to a a remote island in the middle of a vast lake. Andrea Gibb (Dear Frankie) has written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 10, 2016)
Posted: April 10, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andy Gray, Clark, Confirmation, Dice, Doctor Foster, Elegant Too, Frans Bak, Harry Gregson-Williams, HBO, Hunters, Lifetime, Rob Kolar, Shane Carruth, Showtime, Starz, SundanceTV, Syfy, TBS, The Detour, The Girlfriend Experience, The Last Panthers
Premiering tonight is the Starz original series The Girlfriend Experience created by Amy Seimetz & Lodge Kerrigan, executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and starring Riley Keough, Paul Sparks, Mary Lynn Rajskub, James Gilbert and Kate Lyn Sheil. The film’s original music is composed by writer/director/composer Shane Carruth (Primer, Upstream Color). To learn more about the drama, which is inspired by Soderbergh’s 2009 feature of the same title and will air Sunday nights on Starz, visit our previous news article.
Also premiering tonight is the Showtime original series Dice created by Scot Armstrong and starring Andrew Dice Clay, Kevin Corrigan, Natasha Leggero, Lorraine Bracco, Adrien Brody and Michael Rapaport. Elegant Too aka Chris Maxwell & Phil Hernandez (Bob’s Burgers) are composing the show’s original music. Steve Marion aka Delicate Steve has written the show’s main titles theme. To learn more about the comedy, which will air every Sunday night on Showtime, check out our scoring assignment announcement. Read the rest of this entry »
