The music production team of Transcenders has recently composed the score for the new ABC comedy The Real O’Neals. The show is created by David Windsor & Casey Johnson and stars Martha Plimpton, Jay R. Ferguson, Noah Galvin, Matthew Shively, Bebe Wood and Mary Hollis Inboden. The series centers on a seemingly perfect Catholic family whose lives take an unexpected turn when their son comes out. Windsor and Johnson are also executive producing the ABC Studios production with Brian Pines, Dan McDermott, Todd Holland (Firehouse Dog, Wonderfalls), Stacy Traub (Notes from the Underbelly) and Dan Savage. Read the rest of this entry »
Transcenders Scoring ABC’s ‘The Real O’Neals’
Posted: February 23, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, The Real O'Neals, Transcenders
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans to Score ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’
Posted: February 23, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andre Ovredal, Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans, The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans have been tapped to score the upcoming supernatural horror thriller The Autopsy of Jane Doe. The film marks the English language debut of director Andre Ovredal (Trollhunters) and stars Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, Ophelia Lovibond, Parker Sawyers and Yves O’Hara. The movie follows two coroners who receive a mysterious homicide victim with no apparent cause of death and later discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets. Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing have written the Black List-honored screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Marc Streitenfeld Scoring Marc Forster’s ‘All I See Is You’
Posted: February 23, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: All I See Is You, Marc Forster, Marc Streitenfeld
Marc Streitenfeld has recently recorded his score for the upcoming psychological drama All I See Is You. The film is directed by Marc Forster (World War Z, Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) and stars Blake Lively, Jason Clarke, Yvonne Strahovski, Danny Huston and Wes Chatham. The movie follows a blind woman who upon restoration of her sight begins to discover previously unseen and disturbing details about herself and her husband, their marriage and their lives. Forster has also co-written the screenplay with Sean Conway and is producing the project with Craig Baumgarten (Universal Soldier, Never Back Down), Michael Selby (Skin Trade) and Jillian Kugler. 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
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 »
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 »