Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the Showtime original series The Affair. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Ray Donovan, Enough Said, The Good Shepherd, The Door in the Floor, The Big C). The soundtrack will be released on October 23, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Affair is created by Hagai Lemi & Sarah Treem and stars Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney and Joshua Jackson. The drama’s first season is now available on DVD and the second season will premiere this Sunday, October 4. Read the rest of this entry »
Showtime’s ‘The Affair’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Marcelo Zarvos, score, Showtime, Soundtrack, The Affair
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Ryuichi Sakamoto Scoring Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s ‘The Revenant’
Posted: September 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Revenant
Ryuichi Sakamoto is scoring the upcoming thriller The Revenant. The film is directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman, Amores Perros, Babel, 21 Grams) and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter. The movie is based on the novel 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. Mark L. Smith (Vacancy, The Hole) has co-written the screenplay with Inarritu. Read the rest of this entry »
Walt Disney Records to Release ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Soundtrack
Posted: September 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna, Pixar, score, Soundtrack, The Good Dinosaur
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for Pixar Animation Studios’ The Good Dinosaur. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Capote, Surf’s Up) and Jeff Danna (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Boondock Saints, Fracture). The soundtrack will be released on November 13, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the full album. Read the rest of this entry »
ITV’s ‘The Frankenstein Chronicles’ to Feature Music by Harry Escott & Roger Goula
Posted: September 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Harry Escott, ITV, Roger Goula, The Frankenstein Chronicles
Harry Escott and Roger Goula are composing the music for ITV’s upcoming drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles. The show is created by Benjamin Ross (RKO 281, The Young Poisoner’s Handbook) & Barry Langford and stars Sean Bean, Anna Maxwell Martin, Charlie Creed-Miles, Ed Stoppard, Elliot Cowan, Hugh O’Conor, Joe Tucker, Kate Dickie, Lalor Roddy, Patrick Fitzsymons and Richie Campbell. The six-part series follows an inspector who investigates a series of crimes in 19th Century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead. Read the rest of this entry »
Abel Korzeniowski to Score Lee Tamahori’s ‘Emperor’
Posted: September 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Abel Korzeniowski, Emperor, Lee Tamahori
Abel Korzeniowski has signed on to score the upcoming historical action adventure Emperor. The film is directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day, The Edge, Next, Along Came a Spider) and stars Adrien Brody, Sophie Cookson, Paz Vega, Eddie Marsan, Gotz Otto, Bill Skarsgard, Thomas Kretschmann, Oliver Platt and Rutger Hauer. The movie centers on the brilliant strategist Emperor Charles V, trying to hold together a fragmented Empire, in a 16th century world of wealth, debauchery, violent retaliations, sex, manipulation and treason. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lady in the Van’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: George Fenton, Nicholas Hytner, score, Soundtrack, The Lady in the Van
Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the British drama The Lady in the Van. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee George Fenton (Dangerous Liaisons, Groundhog Day, Hitch, Anna and the King). Also included are the classical pieces featured in the movie by Frederic Chopin and Franz Schubert. The soundtrack will be released overseas on November 6, 2015 and in the U.S. on December 11. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. The Lady in the Van is directed by Nicholas Hytner and stars Maggie Smith, Dominic Cooper, James Corden and Jim Broadbent. The movie follows a man who befriends a transient woman living in her car who parks in his driveway. Read the rest of this entry »
Anne Dudley Scoring ‘Away’
Posted: September 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anne Dudley, Away, David Blair
Anne Dudley is composing the music for the upcoming British drama Away. The film is directed by David Blair (Best Laid Plans) and stars Timothy Spall and Juno Temple. The movie is set in the North English seaside town of Blackpool and follows a widower who saves an orphan on the run from a drug dealer, sparking an unlikely friendship. Roger Hadfield has written the screenplay. Terry Stone (Saving Santa) is producing the project for Gateway Films, alongside Radio Film’s Richard Turner and Mike Knowles. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 27, 2015)
Posted: September 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Blood & Oil, CBS, Clinton Shorter, Code Black, Dr. Ken, Fox, Gabriel Mann, Grandfathered, Indian Summers, Jeff Cardoni, Joel J. Richard, Mark Isham, PBS, Quantico, Siddhartha Khosla, Stephen Warbeck, The Grinder
Premiering tonight is the new ABC drama Quantico created by Joshua Safran and starring Priyanka Chopra, Jake McLaughlin, Aunjanue Ellis, Yasmine Al Massri, Johanna Braddy, Tate Ellington and Graham Rogers. The show’s original music is composed by Joel J. Richard (John Wick, The Andromeda Strain, Ravenswood). To learn more about the series, which follows a group of young FBI recruits, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia, check out our previous article. Quantico will air Sunday nights on ABC.
Also premiering tonight on ABC is the new drama Blood & Oil created by Josh Pate & Rodes Fishburne and starring Don Johnson, Chace Crawford, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Delroy Lindo, Scott Michael Foster, India de Beaufort, Amber Valletta, Adan Canto, Yani Gellman and Caitlin Carver. Mark Isham (Once Upon a Time, American Crime, Crash, A River Runs Through It) is composing the show’s original music. To learn more about Blood & Oil, check out our scoring assignment announcement. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The People vs. Fritz Bauer’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 26, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christoph M. Kaiser, Julian Maas, score, Soundtrack, The People vs. Fritz Bauer
Colosseum Records will release a soundtrack album for the historical thriller The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer). The album features the film’s original music composed by Julian Maas & Christoph M. Kaiser. The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 1, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. The People vs. Fritz Bauer is directed by Lars Kraume and stars Burghart Klaussner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg, Jörg Schüttauf, Sebastian Blomberg, Michael Schenk and Laura Tonke. The movie chronicles the herculean efforts of German district attorney Fritz Bauer to bring Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann to justice. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Beal Returning for ‘Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise’
Posted: September 26, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hallmark Channel, Jeff Beal, Jesse Stone, Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
Jeff Beal is composing the music for the upcoming TV movie Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise. The film stars Tom Selleck in the title role, alongside William Devane, Gloria Reuben, Leslie Hope and Luke Perry. The tenth installment in the Jesse Stone series based the Robert B. Parker book series follows Stone as he investigates another murder in Boston. Robert Harmon (Nowhere to Run, Highwaymen, They) is directing the detective drama and Selleck is also executive producing the project with Michael Brandman (Monte Walsh). Read the rest of this entry »
