Radiohead drummer Philip Selway is set to make his film scoring debut on the upcoming British drama Let Me Go. The film is written and directed by Polly Steele and stars Juliet Stevenson, Jodhi May, Lucy Boynton, Karin Bertling, Stanley Weber, Eva Magyar, Simona Hughes and Elizabeth Webster. The movie is based on the memoirs of Helga Schneider and centers on four generations of women from the same family who suffer from a trauma created over 70 years ago during the darkest period of World War II. David Broder is producing the project with Lizzie Pickering. Read the rest of this entry »
Radiohead’s Philip Selway to Score ‘Let Me Go’
Posted: January 13, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Let Me Go, Philip Selway
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‘Dad’s Army’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 13, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Charlie Mole, Dad's Army, Oliver Parker, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the British comedy Dad’s Army. The album features the film’s original music composed by Charlie Mole (Mr. Selfridge, Othello, An Ideal Husband, The Importance Of Being Earnest). Also included is Bud Flanagan’s Dad’s Army TV theme Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr. Hitler, as well as Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade. The soundtrack will be released on February 5, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Dad’s Army is directed by Oliver Parker and stars Toby Jones, Michael Gambon, Bill Nighy, Tom Courtenay, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Blake Harrison, Danny Mays, Bill Paterson and Sarah Lancashire. The movie based on the British TV series of the same title is set in 1944 as World War II is reaching its climax and follows the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon dealing with a visiting female journalist and a German spy. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Band of Robbers’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 13, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Band of Robbers, Joel P. West, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album for the caper comedy Band of Robbers has been released. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joel P West (Short Term 12, Grandma). The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio samples. Band of Robbers is written and directed by Aaron & Adam Nee and stars Kyle Gallner, Matthew Gray Gubler, Melissa Benoist, Hannibal Buress, Eric Christian Olsen, Stephen Lang, Daniel Mora, as well as Adam Nee himself. The movie is a modern-day retelling of Mark Twain’s iconic books and imagines the author’s infamous young heroes Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer as grown men in current day. Read the rest of this entry »
’13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi, Lorne Balfe, Michael Bay, score, Soundtrack
Paramount Pictures will release a soundtrack album for Michael Bay’s action drama 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lorne Balfe (Terminator Genisys, Home, Penguins of Madagascar, The Bible). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, January 15, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out a sample from the composer’s score after the jump. 13 Hours stars John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, Domicnic Fumusa, Max Martini, James Badge Dale, Toby Stephens, Matt Letscher, David Denman, David Costabile and David Giuntoli. The movie is based on the book 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi and centers on the six members of a security team who fought to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi from an attack of Islamist militants on September 11, 2012 – the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Read the rest of this entry »
Harry Gregson-Williams Scoring HBO’s ‘Confirmation’
Posted: January 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Confirmation, Harry Gregson-Williams, HBO, Rick Famuyiwa
Harry Gregson-Williams is composing the music for the upcoming HBO original movie Confirmation. The film is directed by Rick Famuyiwa (Dope, The Wood) and stars Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce, Greg Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Eric Stonestreet, Jennifer Hudson, Dylan Baker, Erika Christensen, Kimberly Elise, Malcolm Gets, Grace Gummer, Bill Irwin, Zoe Lister-Jones, Peter McRobbie, Treat Williams and Alison Wright. The drama details the 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings and revisits the national debate over race relations and sexual harassment sparked during the hearings when law professor Anita Hill testified about her experiences with Thomas. Read the rest of this entry »
52nd Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: January 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society
The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 52nd Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. For the past couple of years, scoring mixers have been recognized alongside production, re-recording, ADR and foley mixers. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Thomas Vicari for Bridge of Spies (feat. music by Thomas Newman), Fabio Venturi for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (music by Ennio Morricone), Conrad Hensel for Alejandro G. Inarritu’s The Revenant (scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto) and Shawn Murphy for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens (music by John Williams). Mad Max: Fury Road was also nominated, but no scoring mixer was included among the nominees. Read the rest of this entry »
Ballet Music from Starz’s ‘Flesh and Bone’ to Be Released
Posted: January 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Adam Crystal, Flesh and Bone, Soundtrack, Starz
Varese Sarabande will release a new soundtrack album for the Starz original series Flesh and Bone. The album features the four-movement original Dakini Ballet composed by Adam Crystal. The composer wrote the music for the 13-minute original ballet created for the show by creator Moira Walley-Beckett and choreographer Ethan Stiefel. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 15, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. As previously reported, the label has also released a separate soundtrack featuring the show’s original score composed by Dave Porter. Flesh and Bone starring Sarah Hay, Irina Dvorovenko, Sascha Radetsky, Raychel Diane Weiner, Emily Tyra and Damon Herriman centers on a dancer who joins a company in New York City and soon finds herself immersed in the tough and often cutthroat world of professional ballet. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Embrace of the Serpent’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: January 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Embrace of the Serpent, Nascuy Linares, score, Soundtrack
Plaza Major Company will release a soundtrack album for Embrace of the Serpent. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nascuy Linares. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 22, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Embrace of the Serpent is directed by Ciro Guerra and centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The drama, which was Columbia’s entry for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards, premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and will be released in select U.S. theaters on February 12 by Oscilloscope Labaratories. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Fifty Shades of Black’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Fifty Shades of Black, Jim Dooley, Soundtrack
IM Global will release a soundtrack album for the comedy Fifty Shades of Black. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Skrilla Kones feat. Icy Black, Mr. Classic, Jordyn Kane, Love Kelli, Leo Soul feat. West West, Gorgeous George and chief waKiL. Also included is a suite from the movie’s original score composed by Jim Dooley (Pushing Daisies, Obsessed, The Last Ship, When a Stranger Calls). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 22, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Fifty Shades of Black is directed by Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House) and stars Marlon Wayans, Kalli Hawk, Affion Crockett, Fred Willard, Mike Epps, Andrew Bachelor, Jane Seymour and Florence Henderson. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Burnt’ Score Album Announced
Posted: January 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Burnt, John Wells, Rob Simonsen, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a score album for the drama Burnt. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rob Simonsen (The Spectacular Now, Foxcatcher, (500) Days of Summer, The Age of Adaline, The Way, Way Back). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 22, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring the songs from the film, as well as four tracks from the composer’s score. Burnt is directed by John Wells (August: Osage County, The Company Men) and stars Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Omar Sy, Daniel Brühl, Uma Thurman, Emma Thompson, Alicia Vikander, Matthew Rhys and Lily James. Read the rest of this entry »
