Universal Music Enterprises will release a score album for F. Gary Gray’s drama Straight Outta Compton. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Joseph Trapanese (Insurgent, Oblivion, TRON: Uprising, Earth to Echo) and produced by the composer and Bryan Lawson. The soundtrack will be released on January 8, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the film will also be released on the same day. Straight Outta Compton starring O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Neil Brown, Jr. as DJ Yella, Aldis Hodge as MC Ren and Paul Giamatti as N.W.A.’s manager Jerry Heller chronicles the rise of the hip hop group N.W.A. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Straight Outta Compton’ Score Album Details
Posted: November 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: F. Gary Gray, Joseph Trapanese, score, Soundtrack, Straight Outta Compton
Richard Gibbs to Score RZA’s ‘Coco’
Posted: November 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Coco, Richard Gibbs, RZA
Richard Gibbs has signed on to score the upcoming music drama Coco. The film is directed by RZA (The Man with the Iron Fists) and stars Azealia Banks, Common, Jill Scott, Lucien Laviscount, Lorraine Toussaint and Hana Mae. The movie follows an aspiring hip-hop artist who struggles to pursue her music and returns to school, where she discovers the vivid world of slam poetry and finds her true voice and an unlikely love. Nicole Asher has written the screenplay. Paul Hall (Higher Learning, For Colored Girls, Addicted, Pride) is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Straight Outta Compton’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: November 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: F. Gary Gray, N.W.A., Soundtrack, Straight Outta Compton
Universal Music Enterprises will release a soundtrack album for the hit biographical drama Straight Outta Compton. The album features classic tracks from gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, as well as tracks by funk and soul legends Parliament, Funkadelic, Steve Arrington’s Hall of Fame and Roy Ayers Ubiquity. The soundtrack will be released digitally, on CD, and as a 2-LP vinyl set. To pre-order the CD, which is set for release on January 8, 2016, visit Amazon and click here to order the vinyl release. Straight Outta Compton is directed by F. Gary Gray and stars O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Aldis Hodge as MC Ren, Neil Brown, Jr. as DJ Yella and Paul Giamatti as N.W.A.’s manager Jerry Heller. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jaws’ 2-CD Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jaws, John Williams, score, Soundtrack, Steven Spielberg
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack release for Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic Jaws and starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw. The album features the film’s Academy Award-winning original music composed and conducted by John Williams (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark). The 2-CD set features the complete score, including previously unreleased music and alternate cues on the first disc, as well as the content of the original 1975 soundtrack album and a number of source cues on the second disc. To pre-order the CD and to check out the full album details, visit Intrada’s online store, where you can also listen to audio samples.
Jeff Grace to Score SundanceTV’s ‘Hap and Leonard’
Posted: November 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hap and Leonard, Jeff Grace, Jim Mickle, Nick Damici, SundanceTV
Jeff Grace has been tapped to score the upcoming SundanceTV original series Hap and Leonard. The show is created by Jim Mickle & Nick Damici and stars James Purefoy, Michael Kenneth Williams and Christina Hendricks. The drama is set in 1980s East Texas and centers on Hap Collins, a white working-class ex-con, and Leonard Pine, an openly gay, black Vietnam vet with anger issues. Mickle and Damici are also executive producing the Sundance Studios production with Nick Shumaker (Another Earth) and Jeremy Platt (The Violent Kind). Grace has previously collaborated with Mickle on his last three features, Stake Land, We Are What We Are and Cold in July. Read the rest of this entry »
Bryan Senti to Score ‘London Town’
Posted: November 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bryan Senti, Derrick Borte, London Town
Bryan Senti has signed on to score the upcoming drama London Town. The film is directed by Derrick Borte (The Joneses, H8RZ) and stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as The Clash frontman Joe Strummer, alongside Daniel Huttlestone, Dougray Scott and Natascha McElhone. The movie is set in 1978 and centers on a teenager who ventures into central London from its bleak outskirts and is introduced to the Clash by his estranged mother. Kirsten Sheridan (August Rush, In America), Sonya Gildea and Matthew Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity) have written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Full of Grace’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Full of Grace, score, Sean Johnson, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album will be released for the biblical epic Full of Grace. The album features the film’s original music composed by Sean Johnson. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 1, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. Full of Grace is directed by Andrew Hyatt (The Last Light, The Frozen) and stars Noam Jenkins, Bahia Haifi and Kelsey Chow. The movie tells the story of the New Testament from the perspective of Mary of Nazareth, mother of Jesus Christ. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 15, 2015)
Posted: November 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, AMC, Atli Orvarsson, Chicago Med, Crackle, David Shephard, Dominic Lewis, Harry Escott, Henry Jackman, Into the Badlands, Jessica Jones, Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow, Lifetime, Mario Sevigny, Mick Giacchino, NBC, Netflix, River, Sean Callery, The Art of More, The Man in the High Castle
Premiering tonight is the AMC original series Into the Badlands created by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar and starring Daniel Wu, Marton Csokas, Aramis Knight, Emily Beecham, Sarah Bolger and Orla Brady. The show’s original music is composed by David Shephard (Longmire). Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda has written the drama’s title theme. To learn more about the series, which will air every Sunday night on AMC, check out our scoring assignment announcement.
Premiering on Tuesday, November 17, is the new NBC drama Chicago Med created by Michael Brandt & Derek Haas and starring Oliver Platt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Nick Gehlfuss, Yaya DaCosta, Colin Donnell, Torrey DeVitto and Rachel DiPillo. Atli Orvarsson (Vantage Point, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones) who is also scoring NBC’s Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the series, which will air Tuesday nights on NBC. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cowboys’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cowboys, Les Cowboys, Raphaël, Raphaël Haroche, score, Soundtrack
L’R Du Tresor will release a soundtrack album for the French drama Cowboys (Les Cowboys). The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter Raphaël (aka Raphaël Haroche). Also included are songs by Connie Francis and Patsy Cline. The soundtrack will be released digitally overseas on November 20, 2015. Visit Amazon for the full album details and audio samples. Cowboys is co-written and directed by Thomas Bidegain (screenwriter of A Prophet & Rust and Bone) and stars Francois Damiens, Finnegan Oldfield, Agathe Dronne, Ellora Torchia, John C. Reilly, Antonia Campbell-Hughes. The movie follows a French Wild West enthusiast who sets off on a journey to find his estranged daughter, who has run away and converted to Islam. Read the rest of this entry »
Mick Giacchino Scoring Lifetime’s ‘Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow’
Posted: November 14, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow, Lifetime, Mick Giacchino
Mick Giacchino, son of Academy Award-winning composer Michael Giacchino (Up, Lost, Star Trek, Inside Out), has composed the music for the Lifetime original movie Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow. The film is directed by Kirk Thatcher (It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie) and stars Mary Steenburgen, Jay Harrington, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Graham Verchere and Genevieve Buechner. The movie follows a family who goes on a hunt for a Bigfoot-like creature called the Howling Hoodoo during a visit to the house of their kooky aunt. Christopher Baldi and Tim Burns (An American Werewolf in Paris) wrote the script based on a story by Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl and Thatcher. Read the rest of this entry »
