Samuel Sim is composing the music for the upcoming ITV drama Maigret. The series based on Georges Simenon’s best-selling novels is set in 1950s Paris and stars Rowan Atkinson as the legendary French fictional detective Jules Maigret. Fiona Shaw, Aiden McCardle, Shaun Dingwall, Lucy Cohu, Leo Starr, Rufus Wright, Hugh Simon, David Dawson, Colin Mace and Rebecca Night are co-starring. The drama is written by Stewart Harcourt (Treasure Island, Marple), produced by Jeremy Gwilt (Home Fires) and executive produced by Barnaby Thompson (An Ideal Husband, Dorian Gray, St. Trinians) and Ben Latham-Jones (The D Train) for Ealing Studios, John Simenon & Paul Aggett and Stewart Harcourt. Read the rest of this entry »
ITV’s ‘Maigret’ to Feature Music by Samuel Sim
Posted: February 23, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ITV, Maigret, Maigret Sets a Trap, Maigret's Dead Man, Samuel Sim
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Fil Eisler to Score ‘The Titan’
Posted: February 22, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fil Eisler, Lennart Ruff, The Titan
Fil Eisler has been hired to score the upcoming sci-fi drama The Titan. The film is directed by Lennart Ruff and stars Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling, Tom Wilkinson, Diego Boneta, Aleksander Jovanovic and Agyness Deyn. The movie follows a military family who are relocated in order to take part in a ground-breaking experiment of man’s genetic evolution into space. Max Hurwitz (Hell on Wheels) has written the screenplay based on an original story by Arash Amel (Grace of Monaco, Erased). Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Midnight Special) is producing the project with Ben Pugh & Rory Aitken (Welcome to the Punch, Monsters: Dark Continent) and Amel. Read the rest of this entry »
Inside the ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Soundtrack
Posted: February 22, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: J.J. Abrams, John Williams, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm have published a behind-the-scenes video featurette about the music for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The video features an interview with composer John Williams about his work on the film and footage from the recording sessions of the score. Williams is up for an Academy Award for his music for the seventh installment in the Star Wars series this coming Sunday. The soundtrack album is available on Walt Disney Records (click here to order/download the album). Star Wars: The Force Awakens starring John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong’o, Gwendoline Christie, Domhnall Gleeson, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill is currently still in theaters nationwide. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Other Side of the Door’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 22, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joseph Bishara, score, Soundtrack, The Other Side of the Door
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the supernatural horror thriller The Other Side of the Door. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joseph Bishara (The Conjuring, Insidious, Annabelle). The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 4, 2016 and physically on April 8. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. The Other Side of the Door is directed by Johannes Roberts and stars Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, Javier Botet and Sofia Rosinsky. The movie produced by Alexandre Aja follows a mother who – after her son’s death – inadvertently opens the door between the worlds of the living and the dead, unleashing a horrific figure in the form of her son. Read the rest of this entry »
Eric Serra to Score Steven Quale’s ‘The Lake’
Posted: February 22, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eric Serra, Luc Besson, Steven Quale, The Lake
Eric Serra has been hired to score the upcoming action thriller The Lake. The film is directed by Steven Quale (Final Destination 5, Into the Storm) and stars Sullivan Stapleton, J. K. Simmons, Charlie Bewley, Diarmaid Murtagh, Alain Blazevic, Sylvia Hoeks, Joshua Henry, Dimitri Leonidas, Denis Lyons and Andrej Dojkic. The movie centers on a group of Navy SEALs who attempt to solve a long-forgotten mystery while they uncover an immense treasure hidden in a lake in war-torn Serbia. Luc Besson has written the screenplay with Richard Wenk (The Equalizer, The Mechanic, 16 Blocks) and is also producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘My Golden Days’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: February 22, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arnaud Desplechin, Gregoire Hetzel, My Golden Days, score, Soundtrack, Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse
A soundtrack album will be released for the French drama My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse). The album features the film’s original music composed by Grégoire Hetzel (Incendies, The Tree, Agnus Dei). Also included is Roxanne Shante’s song 1989. The soundtrack will be released overseas this Friday, February 26. My Golden Days is co-written and directed by Arnaud Desplechin and stars Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet and Mathieu Amalric. The movie follows an anthropologist who is preparing to leave Tajikistan and has a series of flashbacks, including of his childhood, his parents, a trip to the Soviet Union and the love of his life. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Scoring ‘Down by Love’ (‘Eperdument’)
Posted: February 21, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Down by Love, Eperdument, Rob, Robin Coudert
Rob (aka Robin Coudert) has recently composed the music for the upcoming French drama Down by Love (Eperdument). The film is written and directed by Pierre Godeau and stars Guillaume Gallienne and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The movie is based on the novel Défense d’aimer by Florent Gonçalves and tells the story of an illicit passion between a model prison director and a beautiful inmate. Godeau is also producing the project with Jean-Baptiste Dupont & Cyril Colbeau-Justin (Point Blank, 36th Precint, Me, Myself and Mum). Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 21, 2016)
Posted: February 21, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC America, Becoming Mike Nichols, Bennett Salvay, Daniel Pemberton, David Lawrence, Fuller House, HBO, Jesse Frederick, Netflix, Sarah Warne
Premiering tomorrow, February 22, is the HBO documentary Becoming Mike Nichols directed and produced by Douglas McGrath and documents the early life of the influential director and producer. The film’s original music is composed by David Lawrence (American Pie, High School Musical, Jericho, Van Wilder: Party Liaison) who previously scored McGrath’s 2000 feature Company Men. To learn more about the documentary, which was also shown at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, visit our scoring assignment announcement and HBO’s official website.
Premiering on Thursday, February 25, is the British mini-series Prey created by Chris Lunt and starring Rosie Cavaliero, John Simm, Philip Glenister and MyAnna Buring. Daniel Pemberton (Steve Jobs, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Counselor) has scored the first three episodes directed by Nick Murphy and Sarah Warne composed the music for the other three episodes directed by Lewis Arnold. The two three-part stories, which premiered in the UK in 2014 and 2015 on ITV will air in the U.S. on BBC America. Visit the official show website for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Revenant’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award
Posted: February 20, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society
The team behind the sound mixing of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s The Revenant has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures – Live Action category at tonight’s 52nd annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Scoring mixer Conrad Hensel, along with production mixer Chris Duesterdiek, re-recording mixers Jon Taylor, Randy Thom & Frank A. Montaño, ADR mixer Michael Miller and foley mixer Geordy Sincavage received the award for the drama starring Leonardo Di Caprio and scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto. The other contenders in the category were Bridge of Spies, The Hateful Eight, Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Warbeck Scoring ‘Arctic Heart’
Posted: February 20, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Arctic Heart, Le secret des banquises, Stephen Warbeck
Stephen Warbeck has recently composed the music for the upcoming French romantic comedy Arctic Heart (Le secret des banquises). The film is written and directed by Marie Madinier and stars Guillaume Canet, Charlotte Le Bon, Anne Le Ny, Patrick D’Assumçao and Damien Chapelle. The movie follows a timid young grad student who is madly in love with her scientist boss and offers her body to his research. Kristina Larsen (Farewell, My Queen, Diary of a Chambermaid) is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
