Composer Stephen Trask is teaming up with writer Chris D’Arienzo (Rock of Ages) to create a musical based on Martin Scorsese’s 1982 feature The King of Comedy starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Tony Randall, Diahnne Abbott and Sandra Bernhard about an aspiring comedian who kidnaps a talk show host in the hopes of forcing his way onto television. New Regency is backing the project, which is being eyed to premiere on Broadway. Trask is best known for composing the music for the stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch and its film version. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Trask to Create ‘The King of Comedy’ Musical
Posted: July 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Stephen Trask, The King of Comedy
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‘Mistress America’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Britta Phillips, Dean Wareham, Mistress America, Noah Baumbach, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for Noah Baumbach’s indie comedy Mistress America. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips who previously scored the director’s The Squid and the Whale. Also included are songs by Paul McCartney, Suicide, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Hot Chocolate. The soundtrack will be released on August 14, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Mistress America is co-written by Baumbach & Greta Gerwig who also stars in the film as Lola Kirke, a lonely college freshman in New York who is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Low Down’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Low Down, Ohad Talmor, score, Soundtrack
Cinewax will release a soundtrack album for the indie drama Low Down. The album features compositions by the film’s subject, jazz pianist Joe Albany, as well as tracks by Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach and Thelonious Monk. Also included are selections from the film’s original score composed by Ohad Talmor. The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 28, 2015 and physically on August 7. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD or Vinyl and check out audio samples after the jump. Low Down is directed by Jeff Preiss and stars John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Lena Headey, Flea, Caleb Landry Jones, Peter Dinklage and Glenn Close. The movie centers on the relationship between a teenage girl and her father, a man torn between his musical ambition, his devotion to his daughter, and his suffocating heroin addiction. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pocahontas’ Legacy Collection Soundtrack Announced
Posted: July 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Menken, Pocahontas, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Schwartz
The full details of the Walt Disney Records Legacy Collection release for Disney Animation’s 1995 feature Pocahontas have been revealed. The album features the film’s original songs and score, including previously unreleased tracks and demos. Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Enchanted, The Little Mermaid) has composed the score and songs and Stephen Schwartz (The Prince of Egypt) provided the songs’ lyrics. Menken’s score and the song Listen to the Wind were honored with Academy Award nominations in 1996. The soundtrack release, which coincides with the movie’s 20th anniversary will be released on August 7, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
Johnny Klimek to Score ‘Patient Zero’
Posted: July 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Johnny Klimek, Patient Zero, Stefan Ruzowitzky
Johnny Klimek has been tapped to score the upcoming action thriller Patient Zero. The film is directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters, Anatomy, Deadfall) and stars Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, John Bradley Agyness Deyn and Stanley Tucci. The movie takes place after an unprecedented global pandemic of a super strain of rabies has turned the majority of humankind into highly intelligent, streamlined killers and follows one victim who is asymptomatic and can communicate with the infected and leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Advantageous’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Advantageous, score, Soundtrack, Timo Chen
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Good Neighbors Media will release a soundtrack album for the indie sci-fi drama Advantageous. The album features the film’s original music composed by Timo Chen. The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 24, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A CD release is planned for later this year. Check out audio samples after the jump. Advantageous is directed by Jennifer Phang and stars Jacqueline Kim, James Urbaniak, Freya Adams and Ken Jeong. The movie follows a single mother whose aspirations for her daughter drive her to the precipice of a fraught decision. The drama premiered in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Collaborative Vision and is now available on Netflix and iTunes. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Cat’s Eye’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: July 20, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Capricorn One, Cat's Eye, Jerry Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced an expanded release for the 1985 horror movie Cat’s Eye directed by Lewis Teague, scripted by Stephen King and starring James Woods, Drew Barrymore, Alan King and Robert Hays. The album features the complete original score from the movie composed by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, The Avengers, Captain America: The First Avenger), including previously unreleased music. To check out the full album details and to listen to audio clips, visit the label’s official website, where you can also order the CD. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Bacon Scoring Rob Reiner’s ‘Being Charlie’
Posted: July 20, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Being Charlie, Chris Bacon, Rob Reiner
Chris Bacon is currently recording his score for Rob Reiner’s upcoming drama Being Charlie. The movie follows an 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he’s given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab. The film stars Nick Robinson, Morgan Saylor, Common, Devon Bostick, Susan Misner, Ricardo Chavira and Cary Elwes. Reiner is also producing the project with Simon Goldberg through their Castle Rock Entertainment company, alongside Johnson Chan and Stephanie Rennie. The director’s son Nick Reiner wrote the screenplay with Matt Elisofon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Irrational Man’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 20, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Irrational Man, Soundtrack, Woody Allen
Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album for Woody Allen’s comedy drama Irrational Man. The album features the music from the movie by artists including Mikey B, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Paul Eakins, Daniel May Jazz Combo, The Jimmy Bruno Trio and David O’Neal, as well as three pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach. The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. Irrational Man is written and directed by Allen and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Jamie Blackley, Parker Posey and Emma Stone. The movie follows a tormented philosophy professor who finds a will to live when he commits an existential act. Read the rest of this entry »
Van Alexander (1915 – 2015)
Posted: July 19, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Van Alexander
Variety is reporting that Van Alexander died this afternoon at age 100 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He composed scores for several 1960s sitcoms including Bewtiched, I Dream of Jeannie, Hazel, The Donna Reed Show and Dennis the Menace. Throughout his career, Alexander earned three Emmy Award nominations for his music direction for The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters and The Golddiggers, as well as for his music for 1970s Gene Kelly’s Wonderful World of Girls. His film scoring credits include The Atomic Kid, Baby Face Nelson, Andy Hardy Comes Home, 13 Frightened Girls, Strait-Jacket and Girls Town. Read the rest of this entry »
