John Debney is composing the music for the upcoming NBC drama Game of Silence. The show is created by David Hudgins (Parenthood, Friday Night Lights) and stars David Lyons, Michael Raymond-James, Larenz Tate, Bre Blair, Conor O’Farrell Deidrie Henry, Demetrius Grosse and Claire van der Boom. The series follows a successful Atlanta attorney whose long-lost childhood friends unexpectedly reappear after 25 years and threaten to expose a dark, violent secret from their past. Hudgins is also producing the Universal Television and Sony Pictures Television production with Carol Mendelsohn (CSI, CSI: Miami), Julie Weitz, Timur Savci, Tariq Jalil and Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Dead Man Down) who also directed the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »
John Debney to Score NBC’s ‘Game of Silence’
Posted: October 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Game of Silence, John Debney, NBC
‘Spotlight’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Howard Shore, score, Soundtrack, Spotlight, Tom McCarthy
A soundtrack album will be released for Tom McCarthy’s drama Spotlight. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silence of the Lambs, The Aviator, Hugo). The soundtrack will be released on November 6, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Spotlight is co-written and directed by McCarthy and stars Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Brian d’Arcy James and Billy Crudup. The movie tells the true story of four members of the Boston Globe’s investigative Spotlight team who sacrificed everything to expose the Boston Archdiocese’s systemic cover up of sexual abuse of children by ordained priests. Read the rest of this entry »
Jed Kurzel to Score ‘Blackbird’
Posted: October 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Benedict Andrews, Blackbird, Jed Kurzel
Jed Kurzel has signed on to score the upcoming drama Blackbird. The film is helmed by theater director Benedict Andrews and stars Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed and Tara Fitzgerald. The movie centers on the confrontation between a middle aged man and a young woman who had an illicit affair 15 years earlier, for which the man was arrested and imprisoned. David Harrower has written the screenplay. Patrick Daly and Jean Doumanian (August: Osage County, Celebrity, All the Real Girls) are producing the WestEnd Films production. Read the rest of this entry »
Meg Ryan’s ‘Ithaca’ to Feature Original Score and Song by John Mellencamp
Posted: October 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ithaca, John Mellencamp, Meg Ryan
Singer/songwriter John Mellencamp has composed the score for Meg Ryan’s directorial debut Ithaca. He also wrote an original song for the coming-of-age drama, which stars Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater and Alex Neustaedter, as well as Tom Hanks who appears in a small role. The World War II-set film is based on Pulitzer Prize winner William Saroyan’s 1943 novel The Human Comedy and follows a 14-year old bicycle messenger who is delivering telegrams from the Secretary of War and informing the families in their small town of the death of their loved one on the front lines. Erik Jendresen (Killing Lincoln, Band of Brothers) has written the screenplay and is also producing the project with Janet Brenner (The Last Five Years) and Laura Ivey. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Matthew Margeson, score, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, Soundtrack
Paramount Pictures will release a soundtrack album for the horror comedy Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. The album features the film’s original music composed by Matthew Margeson (Kingsman: The Secret Service, Kick-Ass 2, Skyline, Transformers Prime). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 30, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is directed by Christopher Landon and stars Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joseph Morgan, Sarah Dumont, Robert Koechner, Halston Sage, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Cloris Leachman, Niki Koss and Blake Anderson. The movie follows three scouts who discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak. Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Silvestri to Score Robert Zemeckis’ Untitled World War II Spy Drama
Posted: October 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Silvestri, Robert Zemeckis
Alan Silvestri mentioned in an interview with Nerdist that he is set to reteam with Robert Zemeckis on the director’s upcoming currently untitled World War II spy drama. Brad Pitt and Mario Cotillard are attached to star in the film, which follows an Allied counter-intelligence agent who falls in love with during a dangerous North African mission and is quietly notified that the woman he has married and had a baby with is likely a Nazi spy. Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Locke, Dirty Pretty Things) has written the screenplay. Zemeckis is also producing the Paramount, New Regency and GK Films production with Graham King (The Departed, Hugo, Rango) and Steve Starkey (Cast Away, Matchstick Men). Read the rest of this entry »
Ryuichi Sakamoto to Collaborate with Alva Noto & The National’s Bryce Dessner on ‘The Revenant’
Posted: October 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alva Noto, Bryce Dessner, Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Revenant
Ryuichi Sakamoto has announced on Twitter that he is collaborating with Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto and Bryce Dessner on Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s upcoming dramatic thriller The Revenant. The movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter is based on the novel of the same title by Michael Punke and follows legendary explorer Hugh Glass who is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. Nicolai is a German electronic music artist who previously worked together on several records with Sakamoto. Dessner is best known as a member of the Grammy Award-winning band The Nationals. Read the rest of this entry »
Todd Haynes’ ‘Carol’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Carol, Carter Burwell, score, Soundtrack, Todd Haynes
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the drama Carol. The album features the film’s original music composed by Carter Burwell (Fargo, Twilight, True Grit, Being John Malkovich, Mr. Holmes). Also included are the songs from the movie by artists including Billie Holliday, Les Paul, The Clovers, Jo Stafford, Mary Ford & more. The soundtrack will be released on November 20, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Visit Burwell’s official website to listen to audio samples. Carol is directed by Todd Haynes and stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. The movie is based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt and follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. Read the rest of this entry »
Terrence Malick’s ‘Voyage of Time’ to Feature Music by Ennio Morricone
Posted: October 20, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ennio Morricone, Terrence Malick, Voyage of Time
According to Wild Bunch (via The Playlist), Ennio Morricone is composing original music for Terrence Malick’s upcoming documentary Voyage of Time. The film is described as a “celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse”. Brad Pitt will be narrating a 40-minute version, which is set to be released in IMAX theaters and Cate Blanchett is providing narration for a feature version of the movie. Pitt is also producing the project with Dede Gardner (12 Years a Slave,World War Z), Nicolas Gonda (To the Wonder, Knight of Cups), Sarah Green (Mud, Sarah Green), Grant Hill (The Thin Red Line, V for Vendetta), Bill Pohlad (Into the Wild, Love & Mercy) and Sophokles Tasioulis (Earth, Deep Blue). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Kill Your Friends’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 20, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Kill Your Friends, Soundtrack
Parlaphone Records will release a soundtrack album for the British comedy thriller Kill Your Friends. The album features the songs from and inspired by the film by artists including Blur, Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers, Oasis, The Prodigy, Bastille, Royal Blood, Echo and the Bunnymen, Maxine Ashley & more. The soundtrack will be released overseas on November 6, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. No domestic release date has been announced. Kill Your Friends is directed by Owen Harris and stars Nicholas Hoult, James Corden, Georgia King, Craig Roberts, Tom Riley, Joseph Mawle, Edward Hogg, Ed Skrein, Moritz Bleibtreu and Rosanna Arquette. The movie follows a young record label A&R rep who does anything and everything to get ahead in the shark tank of the Britpop-era music industry. Read the rest of this entry »
