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 »
Will Bates to Score ‘Imperium’
Posted: April 10, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Ragussis, Imperium, Will Bates
Will Bates is scoring the upcoming thriller Imperium. The film is written and directed by Daniel Ragussis and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette and Tracy Letts. The movie follows an FBI special agent specializing in domestic terrorism and covert operations who goes undercover and joins a white supremacist group in order to expose a sizable terrorist plot to create a bomb. Ty Walker, Dennis Lee (Fireflies in the Garden) and Simon Taufique (composer of Jesus Henry Christ) are producing the Atomic Features and Tycor International Film Company production. Read the rest of this entry »
More Music from ‘Deadpool’ to Be Released
Posted: April 9, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Deadpool, Junkie XL, score, Soundtrack, Tom Holkenborg
Milan Records will release a new soundtrack album for the hit comic book movie Deadpool. The album features more music from the film, including previously unreleased tracks from the score composed by Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Mad Max: Fury Road, Black Mass, Divergent), as well as Teamheadkick’s Merc With A Mouth, an EDM dance remix of Deadpool Rap, remixes by Night Club, El Huervo & Kreng, an acoustic cover of Deadpool Rap by Brentwood Duo. Also featured on the soundtrack are the songs You’re The Inspiration by Chicago and Mr. Sandman by The Chordettes. Deadpool Reloaded will be released physically on May 27, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label has previously released the original soundtrack album for the movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 8, 2016)
Posted: April 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aaron Zigman, Christopher Lennertz, Dasha Charusha, Demolition, Hardcore Henry, High Strung, Joe McGinty, Louder Than Bombs, Mr. Right, Nathan Lanier, Ola Flottum, One More Time, The Boss, The Invitation, Theodore Shapiro
Two new movies are opening nationwide:
Opening in most theaters is the comedy The Boss directed by Ben Falcone and starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage and Kathy Bates. The film’s original music is composed by Christopher Lennertz (Ride Along, Horrible Bosses, Agent Carter, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2). No soundtrack album has been announced. The Boss follows a titan of industry, who is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading and later emerges ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart. The comedy is being released by Universal Pictures. Visit the official movie website for more information.
Also opening wide is action movie Hardcore Henry written and directed by Ilya Naishuller and starring Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Haley Bennett, Andrey Dementyev, Dasha Charusha, Sveta Ustinova and Tim Roth. Dasha Charusha has composed the film’s original score. Sony Masterworks has released two soundtracks, including an album featuring the songs from the film artists including The Sonics, The Temptations, The Drums, The Stranglers and Devendra Barnhart. Click here for the full album details. Also available is a soundtrack featuring Charusha’s score. Click here for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
Lyle Workman to Score HBO’s ‘Crashing’
Posted: April 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Crashing, HBO, Judd Apatow, Lyle Workman
Lyle Workman is set to compose the music for the upcoming HBO original series Crashing. The show is executive produced by Peter Holmes & Judd Apatow and also stars Holmes as a comedian who, when his wife leaves him, has nowhere to stay but on the couches of New York’s finest comics. Holmes has written the pilot’s script and Apatow is directing the first episode. Dave Rath, Josh Church and Igor Srubshchik serve as producers and Oren Brimer is co-producing the comedy. Workman has previously scored numerous projects directed and produced by Apatow, including The 40-Year Old Virgin, Superbad and most recently the Netflix original series Love, which premiered in February and will return for a second season next year. Read the rest of this entry »
