Joshua Funk is scoring the upcoming TV Land original series Teachers. The show is based on the web series of the same title and stars the improv group the Katydids – Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O’Brien and Katie Thomas. The comedy follows six elementary school teachers who try to mold young minds, even though they don’t really seem to have their own lives together at all. Alison Brie (Community) is executive producing the project with showrunners Ian Roberts & Jay Martel (Get Hard, Key and Peele), as well as Matt Miller. Funk is best known for composing the music for Comedy Central’s Key and Peele, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination in 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
Joshua Funk Scoring TV Land’s ‘Teachers’
Posted: January 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Joshua Funk, Teachers, TV Land
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‘Synchronicity’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: January 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Lovett, score, Soundtrack, Synchronicity
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller Synchronicity. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ben Lovett (Black Rock, Don Peyote). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 22, 2016 and physically in February. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album. Synchronicity is written and directed by Jacob Gentry and stars Chad McKnight, AJ Bowen, Brianne Davis, Scott Poythress and Michael Ironside. The movie follows a daring physicist who has invented a machine that can fold space-time and a shadowy corporation that will stop at nothing to get the device. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo to Score HBO’s ‘Crime’ and ‘Behold My Heart’
Posted: January 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Behold My Heart, Crime, HBO, Jeff Russo
Jeff Russo is set to score the upcoming HBO original miniseries Crime. The show is written by Richard Price (Ransom, Shaft, Sea of Love) based on the British TV series Criminal Justice and stars John Turturro, Riz Ahmed, Michael Kenneth Williams, Amara Karan, Jeannie Berlin, Glenne Headly, Bill Camp, Payman Moaadi and Poorna Jagannathan. The show follows an ambulance-chasing New York City attorney who gets in over his head when he takes on the case of a Pakistani man accused of murdering a girl on the Upper West Side. Steve Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Moneyball, Searching for Bobby Fischer) is executive producing the project with Price, Criminal Justice creator Peter Moffat and Jane Tranter (Rome, DaVinci’s Demons). Read the rest of this entry »
2016 BAFTA Nominations Announced
Posted: January 7, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA
The British Academy of Film and Television has announced the nominations for the 2016 Orange British Academy Film Awards. The winners will be announced at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday, February 14. For a full list of nominations, click here.
Here are the nominations in the ‘Original Music’ category:
Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman
The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone
The Revenant – Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hail, Caesar!’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 7, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Carter Burwell, Ethan Coen, Hail Caesar!, Joel Coen, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar! have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Carter Burwell (Fargo, True Grit, Twilight, Carol, No Country for Old Men). Also included are the songs/musical performances featured in the film and performed by the movie’s cast, including the track No Dames written by Henry Krieger & Willie Reale (Dreamgirls) and performed by Channing Tatum. The soundtrack will be released on February 5, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Hail, Caesar! is written and directed by Joel & Ethan Coen and stars Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Alden Ehrenreich and Channing Tatum. The comedy follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer in 1950s Hollywood who is presented with plenty of problems to fix. Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph Bishara to Return for ‘The Conjuring 2’
Posted: January 7, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James Wan, Joseph Bishara, The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, The Other Side of the Door
Joseph Bishara has been hired to score the upcoming horror sequel The Conjuring 2. The film is directed by James Wan (Furious 7, Saw) and stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga who return as real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe, Lauren Esposito, Patrick McAuley, Benjamin Haigh, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Simon Delaney, Franka Potente and Simon McBurney are co-starring. In the second installment, the Warrens travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. Read the rest of this entry »
BBC’s ‘Close to the Enemy’ to Feature Music by Adrian Johnston
Posted: January 7, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adrian Johnston, BBC, Close to the Enemy, Starz, Stephen Poliakoff
Adrian Johnston has been tapped to score the upcoming BBC original mini-series Close to the Enemy. The 6-parter is created by Stephen Poliakoff and stars Jim Sturgess, Freddie Highmore, Charlotte Riley, Alfie Allen, Charity Wakefield, Angela Bassett and Alfred Molina. The series is set during World War II and follows a British intelligence officer whose final task for the Army is to convince a captured German scientis to hand over cutting-edge military technology crucial to national security – the jet engine. Poliakoff has written and directed all episodes. Helen Flint (Longford), Hilary Bevan Jones (Pirate Radio) and Colin Callender (Wolf Hall) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami & Dennis Smith to Score Fox’s ‘Lucifer’
Posted: January 6, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dennis Smith, Fox, Lucifer, Marco Beltrami
Marco Beltrami and Dennis Smith are composing the music for the new Fox drama Lucifer. The show is based on the DC Comics characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth & Mike Dringenberg and stars Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Rachael Harris, DB Woodside, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Kevin Alejandro and Scarlett Estevez. The series centers around the Lord of Hell as he resigns his throne and abandons his kingdom for the shimmering insanity of Los Angeles, where he opens an exclusive piano bar called Lux and helps the LAPD punish criminals. Tom Kapinos (Californication) wrote and executive produced the pilot episode of the Warner Bros. Television production. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Grace Scoring Kelly Reichardt’s ‘Certain Women’
Posted: January 6, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Certain Women, Jeff Grace, Kelly Reichardt
Jeff Grace is reteaming with director Kelly Reichardt on the upcoming indie drama Certain Women. The film is written and directed by Reichardt and stars Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, James Le Gros, Jared Harris and Lily Gladstone. The movie centers on the lives of three women in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail. Neil Kopp (Wendy and Lucy, Paranoid Park), Vincent Savino & Anish Savjani (Green Room, Blue Ruin) are producing the project. Todd Haynes (Carol, Far from Heaven) is among the film’s executive producers. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lamb’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 6, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Daniel Belardinelli, Lamb, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the indie drama Lamb. The album features the film’s original music composed by Daniel Belardinelli. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 8, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Lamb is written and directed by Ross Partridge who also stars in the film alongside Oona Laurence. The movie follows a man who meets a young girl in a parking lot and attempts to help her avoid a bleak destiny by initiating her into the beauty of the outside world. The drama premiered at last year’s SXSW Film Festival and will be released in select theaters on January 8 and on VOD on January 12 by The Orchard. Read the rest of this entry »
