Quartet Records will release a soundtrack album for Pedro Almodovar’s comedy drama Julieta. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Alberto Iglesias (The Constant Gardener, The Kite Runner, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) who previously collaborated with the director on such films as Volver, The Skin I Live In, Talk to Her and Bad Education. The soundtrack will be released on April 8, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Julieta is written and directed by Almodovar and stars Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Daniel Grao, Dario Grandinetti, Rossy de Palma, Inma Cuesta, Nathalie Poza and Pilar Castro. The movie spans 30 years in a woman’s life from a nostalgic 1985 when everything seems much better to 2015, when everything seems beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness. Read the rest of this entry »
Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Julieta’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alberto Iglesias, Julieta, Pedro Almodovar, score, Soundtrack
Michael Brook to Score Katie Holmes’ ‘All We Had’
Posted: March 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: All We Had, Katie Holmes, Michael Brook
Michael Brook has been hired to score the upcoming indie drama All We Had. The film marks the feature directorial debut of actress Katie Holmes who also stars in the film alongside Stefania Owen,Luke Wilson, Richard Kind, Mark Consuelos, Judy Greer and Eve Lindley. The movie is based on a novel by Annie Weatherwax and follows a mother and her daughter, living on the edge of poverty, who find an unlikely home amid the quirky residents of small town America. Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars, Stuck in Love) and Jill Killington have written the screenplay. Holmes is also producing the project with Jane Rosenthal (Meet the Parents, Analyze This, About a Boy), Berry Welsh and Katie Mustard (Shelter, We’ll Never Have Paris). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Forsaken’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Forsaken, Jon Cassar, Jonathan Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack
Metropolis Movie Music will release a soundtrack album for the western Forsaken. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jonathan Goldsmith (Away from Her, Take This Waltz, Casino Jack). The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 25, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. The Forsaken is directed by Jon Cassar and stars Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Brian Cox, Michael Wincott, Aaron Poole, Demi Moore and Greg Ellis. The movie follows an embittered gunslinger who attempts to make amends with his estranged father while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Bounce TV’s ‘Saints & Sinners’ to Be Released
Posted: March 15, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bounce TV, Saints & Sinners, Soundtrack
Entertainment One will release a soundtrack album for the Bounce TV original series Saints & Sinners. The album features the show’s theme song Sinners (Saved By Grace) by Deitrick Haddon & Big Boi, as well as tracks by Erica Campbell & Keith Robinson, Jeezy, Kelly Price, KlarKent, Koryn Hawthorne and Lecrae & Johnta Austin. The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 25, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio samples. Saints & Sinners starring Vanessa Bell Calloway, Keith Robinson, Gloria Reuben, Clifton Powell and Richard Lawson centers around the conflicts among the members of baptist church in small-town Georgia. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Invitation’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: March 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Craig Wedren, Karyn Kusama, score, Soundtrack, The Invitation, Theodore Shapiro
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the psychological thriller The Invitation. The album features the film’s original music composed by Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Tropic Thunder, St. Vincent). Also included are two original songs by Craig Wedren & Benjamin Newgard. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on April 8, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Invitation is directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body) and stars Logan Marshall-Green, Tammy Blanchard, Michiel Huisman, Emayatzy Corinealdi and John Carroll Lynch. The movie follows a haunted man attending a dinner party who becomes gripped with paranoia that his ex-wife and her new husband are harboring an insidious agenda. Read the rest of this entry »
Andrew Lockington to Score Peter Chelsom’s ‘The Space Between Us’
Posted: March 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Lockington, Peter Chelsom, The Space Between Us
Andrew Lockington has been tapped to score the upcoming sci-fi drama The Space Between Us. The film is directed by Peter Chelsom (Serendipity, The Mighty, Shall We Dance) and stars Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Carla Gugino, BD Wong, Janet Montgomery and Scott Takeda. The movie tells the intergalactic love story about the first human born on Mars who begins an online romance with a girl living in Colorado and hatches a plan to travel across the universe to meet her. Richard Lewis (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, August Rush) is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hardcore Henry’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Devendra Barnhart, Hardcore Henry, Illya Naishuller, Soundtrack
Sony Masterworks will release a soundtrack album for the action thriller Hardcore Henry. The album features the songs from the film by artists including The Sonics, The Temptations, The Drums, The Stranglers and Devendra Barnhart. Also included are the original songs written for the movie from director Illya Naishuller’s band, Biting Elbows, and Dasha Charusha. The soundtrack will be released physically on April 15, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A digital release is expected on April 8. Hardcore Henry is written and directed by Naishuller and stars Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Haley Bennett, Andrey Dementyev, Dasha Charusha, Sveta Ustinova and Tim Roth. The movie is told in a first person perspective and follows a man who has been brought back from a near-death experience and finds himself embroiled in a race to rescue his kidnapped wife. Read the rest of this entry »
Photek Scoring ‘The Loner’
Posted: March 14, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Grove, Photek, The Loner
Photek is composing the music for the upcoming indie drama The Loner. The film is written and directed by Daniel Grove and stars Reza Sixo Safai, Helena Mattsson, Parviz Sayyad, Julian Sands, Laura Harring and Dominic Rains. The movie follows a reformed mobster who is haunted by memories of being a child soldier in Iran in the 1980s as he pursues the American Dream in Los Angeles. Seth Caplan (In Search of a Midnight Kiss, The Young Kieslowski) is producing the project with Safai. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 13, 2016)
Posted: March 13, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: And Then There Were None, CBS, Chris Alan Lee, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Crowded, Jesse Novak, Lifetime, Marc Fantini, Mark Mothersbaugh, NBC, Netflix, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, Steffan Fantini, Stuart Earl
Premiering tonight on Lifetime is the British mini-series And Then There Were None developed by Sarah Phelps based on Agatha Christie’s novel and starring Douglas Booth, Charles Dance, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Toby Stephens, Maeve Dermody, Burn Gorman, Noah Taylor and Aidan Turner. The 3-parter’s original music is composed by Stuart Earl (Lilting, My Brother the Devil). Visit the composer’s official website to listen to audio samples from the score. To learn more about the series, which follows ten strangers with dubious pasts who are lured to Soldier Island in 1939, visit Lifetime’s official website.
Premiering on Tuesday, March 15 is the new NBC comedy Crowded created by Suzanne Martin (Hot in Cleveland, The Client List) and stars Patrick Warburton, Carrie Preston, Miranda Cosgrove, Mia Serafino, Stacy Keach and Carlease Burke. Chris Alan Lee (Younger, The Jim Gaffigan Show) is composing the show’s original score and Jesse Novak (BoJack Horseman, The Mindy Project) has written the series’ theme. To learn more about the comedy, which will air Tuesday nights on NBC, check out our scoring assignment announcement. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Isham to Score ‘Duck Duck Goose’
Posted: March 13, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Jenkins, Duck Duck Goose, Mark Isham
Mark Isham has been hired to score the upcoming animated feature Duck Duck Goose. The film is directed by Christopher Jenkins (producer of Surf’s Up and Home) and features the voices of Jim Gaffigan, Stephen Fry, Zendaya, Carl Reiner, Jennifer Grey, Molly Shannon, Lance Lim,Greg Proops, Diedrich Bader and Rick Overton. The movie follows a goose who rescues two young ducklings from an eccentric but deadly cat. Jenkins has also written the screenplay with Rob Muir (Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue). Sandra Rabins & Penny Finkelman Cox (The Prince of Egypt) are producing the Original Force Animation production with Viola Chen. Read the rest of this entry »
