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 »
Harry Gregson-Williams Scoring HBO’s ‘Confirmation’
Posted: January 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Confirmation, Harry Gregson-Williams, HBO, Rick Famuyiwa
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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 »
Roger Neill to Score Mike Mills’ ’20th Century Women’
Posted: January 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 20th Century Women, Don't Think Twice, Mike Mills, Roger Neill
Roger Neill is reuniting with director Mike Mills on the upcoming drama 20th Century Women. The film is written and directed by Mills and stars Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning and Billy Crudup. The movie is set in 1979 Santa Barbara and follows a mother who is trying her best to raise her teenage son while looking for answers from two other remarkable women in her life. Megan Ellison (Her, American Hustle, Foxcatcher) is producing the project for her Annapurna Pictures company, alongside Anne Carey (Mr. Holmes, Adventureland, The American) for Archer Gray and Youree Henley (The Bling Ring). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Person of Interest’ Season 3 & 4 Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: CBS, Person of Interest, Ramin Djawadi, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the third soundtrack album for the CBS drama Person of Interest. The album features selections of original music from the show’s third and fourth season composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans, Iron Man, The Strain). The soundtrack will be released The soundtrack will be released on February 12, 2016 (pushed back two weeks from its original release date) and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label has previously released soundtrack albums featuring the composer’s score from the first and second season of the series. Person of Interest created by Jonathan Nolan and starring Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Chapman, Sarah Shahi & Amy Acker will return for a fifth and likely final season later this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Ennio Morricone Wins Golden Globe for ‘The Hateful Eight’
Posted: January 10, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ennio Morricone, Golden Globes, The Hateful Eight
Ennio Morricone has received his third Golden Globe Award for his score for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. Tarantino accepted the award on Morricone’s behalf. The composer previously received the prize for his work on The Mission and The Legend of 1900. The other composers nominated in the Best Original Score category were Alexandre Desplat (The Danish Girl), Carter Burwell (Carol), Daniel Pemberton (Steve Jobs) and Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto (The Revenant). Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 10, 2016)
Posted: January 10, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Decter, Clinton Shorter, Colony, Fox, Freeform, Jeff Russo, John Paesano, Joshua Funk, NBC, Second Chance, Shades of Blue, Shadowhunters, Teachers, TV Land, USA, Wendy Melvoin
Premiering on Tuesday, January 12, is the new Freeform/ABC Family original series Shadowhunters based on the young adult fantasy book series The Mortal Instruments and starring Katherine McNamara, Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende, Emeraude Toubia, Matthew Daddario, Isaiah Mustafa, David Castro and Harry Shum Jr. The show’s original music is composed by Ben Decter (CSI: Cyber, Hostages, Extant). To learn more about the series, which will air every Tuesday night on Freeform, check out our scoring assignment announcement.
Premiering on Wednesday, January 13, is the new Fox drama Second Chance created by Rand Ravich, produced by Howard Gordon and starring Rob Kazinsky, Dilshad Vadsaria, Adhir Kalyan, Tim DeKay and Ciara Bravo. John Paesano (Daredevil, The Maze Runner, Where the Game Stands Tall, Dragons: Riders of Berk) is composing the show’s original music. For more information about the series, which follows a morally corrupt cop who is given a second chance when he’s brought back, visit the official show website. Second Chance will air Wednesday nights on Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
