Adam Young has released his first full score, which is inspired by the epic voyage of Apollo 11 to the moon. The singer/songwriter who is best known for his electronica project Owl City is planning to pick a historical event in history and produce a score for it each month. His first release, Apollo 11 based on the 1969 moon landing, is now available to download on Amazon & iTunes and can also be streamed on Spotify and Apple Music. Young has previously written the theme song for Zack Snyder’s animated feature Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole and also contributed original compositions for Disney Animation’s Academy Award-winning movie Wreck-It Ralph and DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods. Read the rest of this entry »
Adam Young (aka Owl City) Releases First Original Score
Posted: February 3, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Adam Young, Apollo 11, Owl City
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‘The Hallow’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 2, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Gosling, score, Soundtrack, The Hallow
Screamworks Records will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Hallow. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Gosling (Merlin, Atlantis). Also included is the song The Woods by Sea Read. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, February 5, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Hallow is directed by Corin Hardy and stars Joseph Mawie, Bojana Novakovic and Michael McElhatton. The movie follows a family that moves to a remote house in rural Ireland and finds themselves in a fight for survival with an ancient evil living in the secluded woods. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Alan Lee to Score ABC’s ‘Uncle Buck’
Posted: February 2, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Chris Alan Lee, Uncle Buck
Chris Alan Lee has signed on to score the upcoming ABC comedy Uncle Buck. The show is developed by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley and stars Mike Epps, Nia Long, James Lesure, Iman Benson, Sayeed Shahidi and Aalyrah Caldwell. The series is based on the 1989 movie of the same title starring John Candy and follows a fun loving but irresponsible guy who needs a job and a place to stay and moves in with his brother and sister-in-law as their nieces and nephew’s Nanny has just quit. Cragg and Bradley are also executive producing the Universal Television and ABC Studios production with Will Packer (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, The Wedding Ringer). Read the rest of this entry »
John Swihart to Score Jeffrey Blitz’s ‘Table 19’
Posted: February 2, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jeffrey Blitz, John Swihart, Table 19
John Swihart has been tapped to score the upcoming comedy Table 19. The film is directed by Jeffrey Blitz (Rocket Science) and stars Anna Kendrick, Craig Robinson, Lisa Kudrow, Stephen Merchant, Tony Revolori, June Squibb, Wyatt Russell and Amanda Crew. The movie follows a group of strangers who are marooned at the misfits table at a destination wedding. Mark & Jay Duplass (Cyrus, Jeff Who Lives at Home, Togetherness) have written the screenplay. Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum, Real Steel, Date Night, Cheaper by the Dozen) is producing the project for his 21 Laps Entertainment company, alongside Tom McNulty (The Spectacular Now, The Rocker) and Mark Roberts (In a World…). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bitten’ Vol. 2 Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 2, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bitten, score, Soundtrack, Syfy, Todor Kobakov
Entertainment One Music will release a new soundtrack album for the supernatural TV drama series Bitten. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Todor Kobakov (The Samaritan, Born to Be Blue, Hellions). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 12, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The label has previously released a Vol. 1 soundtrack featuring the composer’s music from the first season. Bitten is created by Daegan Fryklind based on the short story Women of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong and stars Laura Vandervoort, Greyston Holt and Greg Bryk. The Canadian series airs in the U.S. on Syfy and will return for a third and final season on February 12. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hatchet III’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: February 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hatchet, Hatchet III, score, Scott Glasgow, Soundtrack
Intrada Records will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Hatchet III. The album features the film’s original music composed by Scott Glasgow (The Gene Generation, Hack!, Chasing Ghosts). The soundtrack is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples. Hatchet III is directed by BJ McDonnell, written and produced by Adam Green and stars Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan and Caroline Williams. The third and final installment in the slasher horror film series follows a young woman who seeks revenge on the monster that killed her family while they were fishing in Louisiana swamp country. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Scoring Vincent Perez’s ‘Alone in Berlin’
Posted: February 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Alone in Berlin, Vincent Perez
Alexandre Desplat has composed the music for the upcoming drama Alone in Berlin. The film is directed by Vincent Perez and stars Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl and Mikael Persbrandt. The movie is based on Hans Fallada’s bestselling novel and follows an ordinary couple living in a shabby apartment block in Berlin during World War II. When their child is killed fighting at the front, their loss propels them into an extraordinary act of resistance. Perez has also written the screenplay with Achim von Borries (Good Bye Lenin!, Love in Thoughts) and Bettine von Borries. Read the rest of this entry »
Mychael Danna’s ‘Devil’s Knot’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: February 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Atom Egoyan, Devil's Knot, Mychael Danna, Rise of the Legend, score, Shigeru Umebayashi, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack album for Atom Egoyan’s 2013 thriller Devil’s Knot. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, The Good Dinosaur, Moneyball, Capote, The Ice Storm). To pre-order the limited edition CD and to check out audio clips, visit the label’s official website. Devil’s Knot is directed by Egoyan and stars Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Amy Ryan, Mireille Enos, Stephen Moyer, Alessandro Nivola and Dane DeHaan. The movie is based on Mara Leveritt’s bestselling book West Memphis Three and tells the true story of three teenagers who were wrongly convicted of murdering three boys in 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for Werner Herzog’s ‘Salt and Fire’ Announced
Posted: February 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ernst Reijseger, Salt and Fire, score, Soundtrack, Werner Herzog
Winter & Winter will release a soundtrack album for Werner Herzog’s upcoming thriller Salt and Fire. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ernst Reijseger who previously collaborated with the filmmaker on such titles as Cave of the Forgotten Dreams, The White Diamond, The White Blue Yonder and My Son, My Son, What Have You Done. The soundtrack will be released overseas on March 18, 2016 and in the U.S. on May 6. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Salt and Fire is written and directed by Herzog and stars Michael Shannon, Gael Garcia Bernal and Veronica Ferres. The movie follows a scientist in South America who clashes with the head of the corporation responsible for an ecological disaster. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Snowtime!’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 31, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Eloi Painchaud, Jorane, score, Snowtime, Soundtrack
Sony Masterworks will release a soundtrack album for the animated feature Snowtime!. The album features the original songs from the movie performed by Celine Dion, Simple Plan, Marie-Mai, Groenland and Walk Off The Earth. Also included is the movie’s original score composed by Eloi Painchaid and Jorane. The soundtrack will be released on February 19, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Snowtime is directed by Jean-Francois Pouliot & Francois Brisson and features the voices of Angela Gallupo, Lucinda Davis, Sonja Ball, Don Shepherd, Jenna Wheeler, Heidi Lynne Weeks, Elisabeth MacRae, Holly Gauthier, Ross Lynch and Sandra Oh. The movie is based on the 1984 live-action film La Guerre des Tuques and follows a group of kids in a small village who set out during winter break to hold a massive snowball fight. Read the rest of this entry »
