Ben Decter has signed on to compose the music for the upcoming Hulu original series Shut Eye. The show is created by Les Bohem and stars Jeffrey Donovan, KaDee Strickland, Isabella Rosselini, David Zayas, Susan Misner and Emmanuelle Chriqui. The drama is set in the world of storefront psychics in Los Angeles and centers on a disgruntled former player in the world who begins to experience visions. Bohem is also executive producing the TriStar Television production with Mark Johnson (Rain Man, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Notebook) and Melissa Bernstein (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul). Read the rest of this entry »
Hulu’s ‘Shut Eye’ to Feature Music by Ben Decter
Posted: April 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Decter, Hulu, Shut Eye
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Andrew Feltenstein & John Nau to Score ‘The House’
Posted: April 13, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Feltenstein, Andrew J. Cohen, John Nau, The House
Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau have been tapped to score the upcoming comedy The House. The film is directed by Andrew J. Cohen and stars Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Ryan Simpkins, Jason Mantzoukas, Nick Kroll, Cedric Yarbrough and Allison Tolman. The movie follows a husband who joins with his neighbors to start an illegal casino in his basement after he and his wife blow their daughter’s college fund. Cohen has also co-written the screenplay for the New Line Cinema production with Brendan O’Brien. Ferrell is also producing the project through his Gary Sanchez production company with Adam McKay (The Big Short, The Other Guys, Talladega Nights). Read the rest of this entry »
Sean Callery to Score ABC’s ‘Designated Survivor’
Posted: April 13, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Designated Survivor, Sean Callery
Sean Callery has signed on to score the upcoming ABC drama Designated Survivor. The show is created by David Guggenheim (Safe House) and stars Kiefer Sutherland, Kal Penn, Maggie Q, Natascha McElhone, Adan Canto and Italia Ricci. The series follows a low-level U.S. Cabinet member who finds himself unexpectedly appointed President after a terrorist attack kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession. Guggenheim and Sutherland are also executive producing the Mark Gordon Company and ABC Studios production with Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool, The Martian), Aditya Sood, Susan Bymel (Touch) and showrunner Amy B. Harris. 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
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 »
‘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 »
