Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the British TV series Home Fires. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Samuel Sim (Awake, Dunkirk, The Reckoning, including the drama’s theme, which the composer arranged into a new four minute version, Siren (Theme from “Home Fires”). The soundtrack will be released on May 6, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Home Fires stars Samantha Bond, Francesca Annis, Ed Stoppard, Ruth Gemmell, Claire Rushbrook, Frances Grey, Clare Calbraith and Rachel Hurd-Wood. The show based on the book Jambusters by Julie Summers is set during World War II and follows a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Home Fires’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 5, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Home Fires, PBS, Samuel Sim, score, Soundtrack
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Showtime’s ‘Dice’ to Feature Theme by Steve Marion & Score by Elegant Too
Posted: April 4, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Delicate Steve, Dice, Elegant Too, Scot Armstrong, Showtime, Steve Marion
The composer duo of Elegant Too (aka Chris Maxwell and Phil Hernandez) is scoring the new Showtime original series Dice. Steve Marion aka Delicate Steve has written the main titles theme for the comedy created by Scot Armstrong (Old School, Road Trip, Starksy & Hutch) and starring Andrew Dice Clay in the title role, as well as Kevin Corrigan and Natasha Leggero. Lorraine Bracco, Adrien Brody and Michael Rapaport appear as guest stars. The show is based on the comedian’s real life as he moves his family to Las Vegas in hopes of making a comeback. Armstrong and Clay are also executive producing the Fox 21 Television Studios production with Sean & Bryan Furst (Daybreakers, The Cooler), Bruce Rubenstein, Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka (The Sitter). Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to Score Ewan McGregor’s ‘American Pastoral’
Posted: April 4, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, American Pastoral, Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor revealed in a recent interview with Collider that Alexandre Desplat will score the actor’s feature directorial debut American Pastoral. The film also stars McGregor, alongside Uzo Aduba, David Strathairn, Jennifer Connelly, Rupert Evans and Dakota Fanning. The movie is based on Philip Roth’s novel of the same title and follows a legendary high school athlete whose seemingly perfect life shatters when his daughter rebels by committing a deadly act of terrorism during the Vietnam War. John Romano (The Lincoln Lawyer) has written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Krisha’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 4, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian McOmber, Krisha, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the indie drama Krisha. The album features the film’s original music composed by Brian McOmber (A Teacher, Stockholm, Pennsylvania). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 8, 2016 and physically later this year. Krisha is written and directed by Trey Edward Shults and stars Krisha Fairchild, Robyn Fairchild, Bill Wise, Trey Edward Shults, Chris Doubek, Olivia Grace Applegate, Alex Dobrenko and Chase Joliet. The movie is set in Texas and follows a family over a turbulent Thanksgiving weekend. The drama premiered at last year’s SXSW Film Festival and was released last month in select theaters by A24 Films. Read the rest of this entry »
Dominik Scherrer Scoring BBC’s ‘One of Us’
Posted: April 4, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Dominik Scherrer, One of Us
Dominik Scherrer has recently recored his score for the upcoming BBC mini-series One of Us. The show is created by Jack & Harry Williams (The Missing) and stars Laura Fraser, Juliet Stevenson, Joanna Vanderham, John Lynch, Adrian Edmondson, Georgina Campbell, Kate Dickie, Joe Dempsie, Julie Graham, Gary Lewis and Steve Evets. The drama is set in rural Scotland and explores the fallout for the grieving relatives of a horrific double murder that rocks the lives of two families living side-by-side. Jack & Harry Williams are also executive producing the project with Christopher Aird (Call the Midwife, Hunted). Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 3, 2016)
Posted: April 3, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Ett, David Benjamin Steinberg, HBO, Lopez, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, TV Land
Premiering tomorrow, April 4, is the HBO original movie Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures directed by Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato. The film’s original music is composed by David Benjamin Steinberg. The documentary centers on Robert Mapplethorpe and profiles the controversial artist from early childhood, to his beginnings in NYC and his meteoric rise in the art world, to his untimely death in 1989. The movie premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was also shown at the Berlin Film Festival. To learn more about the film, visit HBO’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
Night Club Scoring ‘Nerdland’
Posted: April 2, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Emily Kavanaugh, Mark Brooks, Nerdland, Night Club
Mark Brooks and Emily Kavanaugh of the Los Angeles synth pop band Night Club are scoring the animated comedy Nerdland. The film is directed by Chris Prynoski and features the voices of Paul Rudd, Patton Oswalt, Hannibal Buress, Riki Lindhome, Kate Micucci, Mike Judge and Reid Scott. The movie follows an aspiring actor and a would-be screenwriter Elliot who set out on an all-day journey in Los Angeles to make it big by the end of the night. Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven, Sleepy Hollow, 8MM) has written the screenplay. Gavin Polone (Panic Room, Gilmore Girls, Zombieland) is producing the project, which marks the first feature from animation house Titmouse (Metalocalypse, Superjail!). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Elvis & Nixon’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 2, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amazon Studios, Edward Shearmur, Elvis & Nixon, Liza Johnson, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the comedy drama Elvis & Nixon. The album features the film’s original music composed by Edward Shearmur (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Miss Congeniality, Charlie’s Angels, Cruel Intentions). Also included are the songs from the film by artists including Sam & Dave, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Reeding, Sister Rosetta Tharpe & more. The soundtrack will be released on April 22, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Elvis & Nixon is directed by Liza Johnson and stars Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters, Sky Ferreira, Tracy Letts, Tate Donovan and Ashley Benson. The movie tells the story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 1, 2016)
Posted: April 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alec Puro, Dana Lund, Darling, Everybody Wants Some!!, Giona Ostinelli, God's Not Dead 2, Junkie XL, Kill Your Friends, Meet the Blacks, Miles Ahead, Nima Fakhrara, Pandemic, Robert Glasper, RZA, The Dark Horse, The Girl in the Photographs, Tom Holkenborg, Will Musser
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the faith-based drama God’s Not Dead 2 directed by Harold Cronk and starring Melissa Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, David A.R. White, Ernie Hudson, Hayley Orrantia, Robin Givens, Fred Dalton Thompson, Maria Canals-Barrera and Sadie Robertson. The film’s original music is composed by Will Musser who previously scored the 2014 original film. Fair Trade Services has released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from and inspired by the film by such artists as Newsboys, Citizen Way, John Tibbs, Audio Adrenaline, The Afters, Micah Taylor & more. Check out our previous news article for the full album details.
Also opening wide is the comedy Meet the Blacks directed by Deon Taylor and starring Mike Epps, George Lopez, Mike Tyson, Bresha Webb, Zulay Henao, Gary Owen, Charlie Murphy, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, Paul Mooney, Andrew Bachelor, Lil Duvall, Perez Hilton, DeRay Davis and Lavell Crawford. RZA has composed the film’s original score. Penalty Entertainment and Hidden Empire Group have released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the film by Shaggy, Trina feat. Steph Lecor, Lecreae, Lil George, Derek Minor, Statik KXNG & more. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Freestyle release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Wannabe’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Nathan Larson, score, Soundtrack, The Wannabe
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the crime drama The Wannabe. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nathan Larson (Boys Don’t Cry, Dirty Pretty Things, A Walk in the Woods, The Skeleton Twins). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. The Wannabe is written and directed by Nick Sandow and stars Patricia Arquette, Vincent Piazza, Domenick Lombardozzi, David Zayas and Michael Imperioli. The movie executive produced by Martin Scorsese is set in the early 1990s and follows a man obsessed with mob culture who attempts to fix the jury in the trial of John Gotti. Read the rest of this entry »
