Hans Zimmer is reteaming with Christopher Nolan on the director’s upcoming World War II action thriller Dunkirk. According to Hans-Zimmer.com, the composer has already started working on the film. The project marks Zimmer’s sixth collaboration with Nolan following The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Interstellar. Dunkirk is set during the legendary evacuation of the northern French city during WWII. Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance and Kenneth Branagh are reportedly in talks to star in the movie. Nolan is also producing the project with his producing partner Emma Thomas (Man of Steel, The Prestige). Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer to Score Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’
Posted: January 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer
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David Lawrence to Score Douglas McGrath’s HBO Documentary ‘Becoming Mike Nichols’
Posted: December 31, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Becoming Mike Nichols, David Lawrence, Douglas McGrath, HBO
David Lawrence has signed on to score the upcoming documentary Becoming Mike Nichols. The film is directed by Douglas McGrath (Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, I Don’t Know How She Does It, Infamous) and shows director, producer and improvisational comedy Mike Nichols’ final and historic interviews filmed just months before his death. The movie documents the early life of Nichols (The Graduate, Closer, The Birdcage, Charlie Wilson’s War), as he opens up to his friend and director Jack O’Brien about the storied beginnings of his career. McGrath is also producing the project with Frank Rich and Jack O’Brien. Lawrence has previously collaborated with the director on the 2000 comedy Company Men. Read the rest of this entry »
Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull & Robert McDowell Scoring ‘Swiss Army Man’
Posted: December 31, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andy Hull, Manchester Orchestra, Robert McDowell, Swiss Army Man
Andy Hull and Robert McDowell of the indie rock band Manchester Orchestra have composed the music for the upcoming indie comedy drama Swiss Army Man. The film is directed by Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan and stars Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The movie follows a hopeless man stranded in the wild who discovers a mysterious dead body. As he realizes the body is the key to his survival, he is forced to convince a dead body that life is worth living. Miranda Bailey (Super, The Diary of a Teenage Girl) is producing the project with Jonathan Wang, Lawrence Inglee (The Messenger, Rampart), Amanda Marshall, Eyal Rimmon (Waxwork) and Lauren Mann. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Batman’ Live to Projection Concerts Announced
Posted: December 31, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Batman, Danny Elfman
The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra has announced a concert featuring the world premiere performance of composer Danny Elfman‘s original score for Tim Burton’s 1989 movie Batman starring Michael Keaton & Jack Nicholson performed live to projection. The Academy Award-nominated composer is scheduled to attend the event in person. Batman – Live in Concert will be held on May 20 & 21, 2016 at the KKL Luzern Concert Hall in Lucerne, Switzerland. The music will be performed by the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Choir under the baton of Ludwig Wicki. Read the rest of this entry »
Bernadette Peters’ ‘Come On a My House’ from ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Released
Posted: December 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Mozart in the Jungle
Amazon Content Services has released the cover version of Come On a My House performed by actress Bernadette Peters from the Amazon original series Mozart in the Jungle. The song, which was written by Ross Bagdasarian & William Saroyan and originally performed by Rosemary Clooney, is featured in the second season of the show, which premiered today on Amazon Prime. The track is now available to download on Amazon. Click here to get more music from the show created by Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman & Alex Timbers and starring Gael García Bernal, Lola Kirke Saffron Burrows, Hannah Dunne, Malcolm McDowell and Peters. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring Fox’s ‘Bordertown’
Posted: December 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bordertown, Fox, Mark Mothersbaugh, Seth MacFarlane
Mark Mothersbaugh is scoring the new Fox animated series Bordertown. The show is created by Mark Hentemann (Family Guy) and features the voices of Hank Azaria, Alex Borstein, Missi Pyle, Judah Friedlander and Nicholas Gonzalez. The series centers on two families living in a Southwest desert town on the United States-Mexico border, one headed by a border patrol agent, the other by an industrious Mexican immigrant. Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, American Dad, Ted, A Million Ways to Die in the West) is executive producing the 20th Century Fox Television production with Hentemann. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Other People’ to Feature Music by Julian Wass
Posted: December 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Kelly, Julian Wass, Other People
Julian Wass is composing the music for the upcoming indie drama Other People. The film is written and directed by Chris Kelly (Saturday Night Live) and stars Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, Bradley Whitford, Maude Apatow, Zach Woods and June Squibb. The movie centers on a struggling comedy writer, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worst year of his life, who returns to Sacramento to care for his dying mother. Actor Adam Scott is producing the project with his wife Naomi Scott, as well as Sam Bisbee (Infinitely Polar Bear, Cop Car). Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Suozzo Scoring Whit Stillman’s ‘Love & Friendship’
Posted: December 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Love & Friendship, Mark Suozzo, Whit Stillman
Mark Suozzo is reuniting with director Whit Stillman on the upcoming period comedy Love & Friendship. The film is written and directed by Stillman and stars Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell, Tom Bennett and Stephen Fry. The movie is based on an unpublished early novella by Jane Austen and follows Lady Susan Vernon as she visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Stillman is also producing the project with Katie Holly (Citadel) and Lauranne Bourrachot (A Prophet, Sleepless Night). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ride Along 2’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Lennertz, Ride Along, Ride Along 2, score, Soundtrack
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the action comedy sequel Ride Along 2. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christopher Lennertz (Agent Carter, Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief, Galavant, Think Like a Man, Hop) who collaborated with drummer Sheila E. and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval on the project. The composer previously scored the 2014 original film. The soundtrack will be released on January 15, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Ride Along 2 is directed by Tim Story and stars Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Ken Jeong, Benjamin Bratt, Olivia Munn, Bruce McGill, Tika Sumpter and Sherri Shepherd. Read the rest of this entry »
Trevor Morris to Score ABC’s ‘Of Kings and Prophets’
Posted: December 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Of Kings and Prophets, Trevor Morris
Trevor Morris has been tapped to score the upcoming ABC drama Of Kings and Prophets. The show is created by Adam Cooper & Bill Collage (Exodus: Gods and Kings, Tower Heist) and stars Ray Winstone, Olly Rix, Mohammad Bakri, Simone Kessell, Nathaniel Parker, Haaz Sleiman, James Floyd, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Jeanine Mason and David Walmsley. The biblical drama centers around a battle-weary king, a powerful and resentful prophet, and a resourceful young shepherd who are on a collision course with destiny. Cooper and Collage are also executive producing the ABC Studios production with Chris Brancato (Narcos), Jason Reed, Reza Aslan and Mahyad Tousi. Read the rest of this entry »
