Amy Dunning has been named head of music of Lionsgate’s motion picture group. She will oversee all creative and production aspects of music for Lionsgate’s film scores, songs and soundtracks. Among the projects she is currently working on are the studios’ upcoming features Allegiant: Part 1, Gods Of Egypt, Now You See Me: The Second Act, John Wick 2, La La Land Power Rangers, The Odyssey, Robin Hood: Origins and Monopoly. Dunning previously served as senior VP at Downtown Music Publishing and also served as VP of film music at 20th Century Fox, where she oversaw the music for such movies as Life of Pi, Juno, (500) Days of Summer, Chronicle, The Heat and The Wolverine. Read the rest of this entry »
Amy Dunning Named Head of Music at Lionsgate
Posted: August 19, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Amy Dunning, Lionsgate
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Brian Byrne Scoring Jim Sheridan’s ‘The Secret Scripture’
Posted: August 19, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian Byrne, Jim Sheridan, My Secret Scripture
Brian Byrne is currently scoring the upcoming drama The Secret Scripture. The film is directed by Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, In the Name of the Father) and stars Rooney Mara, Vanessa Redgrave, Theo James, Eric Bana, Jack Reynor and Aiden Turner. The movie is based on Sebastian Barry’s 2008 novel of the same title and follows a 100-year-old woman who recounts her life in mental institutions in a secret memoir, is gearing up for a September shoot in Ireland. Johnny Ferguson has written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I’ll Bury You’ (‘Je Te Survivrai’) Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 18, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: I'll Bury You, Je Te Survivrai, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Warbeck
MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the Belgian comedy I’ll Bury You (Je Te Survivrai). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love, Quills, Billy Elliot, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Proof). The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 21, 2015. Visit Amazon to listen to audio clips. I’ll Bury You is directed by Sylvestre Sbille and stars Jonathan Zaccai, Ben Riga, Tania Barbarski and Laurent Capelutto. The movie follows a real estate agent who wants to build a golf course in his own back yard against the wishes of his neighbor. Read the rest of this entry »
World Soundtrack Awards 2015 Nominations Announced
Posted: August 18, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: World Soundtrack Awards
The World Soundtrack Academy has announced the nominees for the 2015 World Soundtrack Awards to be presented in three categories: Film Composer of the Year, Best Original Score of the Year and Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film. The winners will be announced at the World Soundtrack Awards & concert on Saturday, October 24, the closing night of the Ghent International Film Festival. Here are the nominations:
Film Composer of the Year
Bruno Coulais
3 Hearts, Diary of a Chambermaid, Fly Away Solo, Gemma Bovery, Mune le guardien de la lune, Song of the Sea
Alexandre Desplat
Everything Will Be Fine, The Imitation Game, Tale of Tales, Unbroken Read the rest of this entry »
Ramin Djawadi to Score ‘The Great Wall’
Posted: August 18, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ramin Djawadi, The Great Wall, Zhang Yimou
Ramin Djawadi has signed on to score the upcoming fantasy epic The Great Wall. The film marks the English language debut of director Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, Hero) and stars Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Zhang Hanyu and Eddie Peng. The movie tells the story of an elite force making a last stand for humanity on the world’s most iconic structure. Thomas Tull (Godzilla, 300: Rise of an Empire, 42) is producing the Legendary Pictures and Atlas Entertainment production with Charles Roven (The Dark Knight trilogy, Man of Steel, American Hustle), Jon Jashni (Crimson Peak) and Peter Loehr. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Zipper’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 18, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: H. Scott Salinas, score, Soundtrack, Zipper
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Zipper. The album features the film’s original music composed by H. Scott Salinas (The Square, Cartel Land, Murder in the First). The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 28, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Zipper is directed by Mora Stephens and stars Patrick Wilson, Lena Headey, John Cho, Dianna Agron, Ray Winstone and Richard Dreyfuss. The movie follows a federal prosecutor on the fast track to political success who risks his promising career and family life to indulge the ever-obsessive impulses of his secret addiction to escorts. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘The Secret of NIMH’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: August 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Don Bluth, Jerry Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack, The Secret of NIMH
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1982 animated feature The Secret of NIMH directed by Don Bluth and featuring the voices of Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Derek Jacobi, Hermione Baddeley, Peter Strauss and John Carradine. The album features the film’s expanded original score composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Patton, Chinatown) who recorded his music with the National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ambrosian Singers, including previously unreleased music and three demo recordings feat. Paul Williams and Sally Stevens. To pre-order the CD and to check out audio samples, visit the label’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Orange Is the New Black’ Seasons 2 & 3 Soundtrack Announced
Posted: August 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, Orange Is the New Black, Soundtrack
Universal Music will release a new soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black. The album features a selections of songs from the show’s second and third season by artists including 50 Cent, Ike & Tina Turner, Foreigner, The Dead Milkmen, Atmosphere, Eliza Noxon, Sharon Clark, Martha Wainwright, Deep Blue Something & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 21, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring the songs from the first season and Varese Sarabande has released a soundtrack featuring the show’s original score. Orange Is the New Black is created by Jenji Kohan and stars Taylor Schilling as an engaged Brooklynite whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Brook Scoring ‘About Ray’
Posted: August 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: About Ray, Gaby Dellal, Michael Brook
Michael Brook is composing the music for the upcoming indie drama About Ray. The film is directed by Gaby Dellal (Angels Crest, On a Clear Day) and stars Naomi Watts, Elle Fanning, Susan Sarandon, Tate Donovan, Sam Trammell and Linda Emond. The movie centers on a New York teenager seeking to transition from female to male and the relationship with her single mother who is coming to terms with having to raise her only daughter as a son. Dellal has also co-written the screenplay with Nikole Beckwith (Stockholm, Pennsylvania) and is also producing the project with Marc Turtletaub & Peter Saraf (Little Miss Sunshine, Away We Go, Safety Not Guaranteed) and Dorothy Berwin. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hitman: Agent 47’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hitman: Agent 47, Marco Beltrami, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for the action thriller Hitman: Agent 47 have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Marco Beltrami (Scream, The Wolverine, World War Z, 3:10 to Yuma). The soundtrack will be released physically next week on La-La Land Records’ website and is also available for pre-order on Amazon. Hitman: Agent 47 is directed by Aleksander Bach and stars Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, Ciarán Hinds and Thomas Kretschmann. The movie based on the Hitman video game series centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. Read the rest of this entry »
