La-La Land Records has released a remastered and expanded soundtrack for Paramount Pictures 1993 drama Searching for Bobby Fischer directed by Steven Zaillian and starring Joe Mantegna, Laurence Fishburne and Joan Allen. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by James Horner (Titanic, Braveheart, Avatar, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13), including previously unreleased music and a number of alternate cues. The soundtrack is limited to 3000 copies and is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips and check out the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Searching for Bobby Fischer’ Score by James Horner Released
Posted: June 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A.I. - Artificial Intelligence, James Horner, John Williams, score, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Soundtrack
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Alex Heffes to Score ‘Bastille Day’
Posted: June 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Heffes, Bastille Day, James Watkins
Alex Heffes has signed on to score the upcoming action thriller Bastille Day. The film is directed by James Watkins (The Woman in Black, Eden Lake) and stars Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon, Kelly Reilly and Jose Garcia. The movie follows a rogue CIA agent who is forced to team with an unsuspecting American con-artist to thwart a terrorist attack on French soil. Andrew Baldwin and John Hodge (Trainspotting, The Beach) have written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Lera Lynn’s ‘The Only Thing Worth Fighting For’ from HBO’s ‘True Detective’ Released
Posted: June 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Soundtrack, True Detective
Harvest Records has released the original song The Only Thing Worth Fighting For performed by Lera Lynn from the second season of the HBO original series True Detective. Visit Amazon to download the track, which is featured in the Season 2 teaser trailer. A full soundtrack album for the second season of the show will be released soon and is available for pre-order here. Check back on this page for the full album details. The second season of True Detective created by Nic Pizzolatto is directed by Justin Lin and stars Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly, Christopher James Baker, Afemo Omilami, Chris Kerson, James Frain, Lolita Davidovich, W. Early Brown and David Morse. Read the rest of this entry »
‘5 Flights Up’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 5 Flights Up, David Newman, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the comedy drama 5 Flights Up. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Newman (Ice Age, Serenity, The War of the Roses, Anastasia). Also included are three tracks by Max Calo. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Audio samples are embedded after the jump. 5 Flights Up is directed by Richard Loncraine and stars Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton, Cynthia Nixon, Carrie Preston and Claire van der Boom. The movie follows a long-married couple during an eventful weekend after they are forced to contemplate selling their beloved Brooklyn apartment. Read the rest of this entry »
Eminem to Produce Music for ‘Narc’ TV Series
Posted: June 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eminem, Joe Carn, Joe Carnahan, Narc
Deadline is reporting that Eminem is in talks to serve as the music supervisor and write original songs for the Narc television series. The show is based on Joe Carnahan’s 2002 feature starring Ray Liotta and Jason Patric as two Detroit police detectives who are investigating the murder of an undercover cop. Carnahan (The Grey, The A-Team) has written the pilot script for the Detroit-set drama. Eminem is also expected to executive produce the Paramount TV production with Carnahan. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Paper Towns’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: June 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Paper Towns, Soundtrack
Atlantic Records will release a soundtrack album for the film adaptation of John Green’s bestselling novel Paper Towns. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Santigold, Vampire Weekend, Grouplove, Twin Shadow, Kindness, Vance Joy, Haim, Sam Bruno, The Mountain Goats & more. Also included is a new mix of Lost It To Trying by the film’s composer Son Lux. The soundtrack will be released on July 10, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Paper Towns is directed by Jake Schreier and stars Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Halston Sage, Austin Abrams, Jaz Sinclair and Justice Smith. Read the rest of this entry »
Blake Neely to Score CBS’ ‘Blindspot’
Posted: June 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blake Neely, Blindspot, NBC
Blake Neely has been hired to score the upcoming NBC drama Blindspot. The show is created by Martin Gero (Stargate: Atlantis, Bored to Death) and stars Jaimie Alexander, Sullivan Stapleton, Audrey Esparza, Rob Brown, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Ukweli Roach and Ashley Johnson. The series centers around a beautiful woman, with no memories of her past, who is found naked in Times Square with her body fully covered in intricate tattoos. Greg Berlanti (Everwood, Brothers and Sisters, Life As We Know It) is producing the Warner Bros. Television production with Sarah Schechter (The Flash, The Mysteries of Laura) and Gero. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mustang’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mustang, score, Soundtrack, Warren Ellis
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the Turkish drama Mustang. The album features the film’s original music composed by Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Proposition, Lawless). Also included is a song by Baba Zula. The soundtrack is now available digitally on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Mustang is directed by Deniz Gamze Erguven and stars Gunes Nezihe Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan, Ilayda Akdogan and Nihal Koldas. The movie is set in a Black Sea coastal village in modern-day Turkey and follows five orphaned sisters who live with their grandmother, an aunt and an abusive uncle. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 14, 2015)
Posted: June 14, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Complications, David Buckley, Deborah Lurie, Deutschland 83, Jeff Russo, Proof, Reinhold Heil, SundanceTV, Syfy, The Astronaut Wives Club, Tim Welch, TNT, Trevor Yuile, USA
Premiering on Tuesday, June 16 is the TNT original series Proof produced by Kyra Sedgwick and starring Jennifer Beals, Matthew Modine, Joe Morton, Callum Blue, Edi Gathegi, Annie Thurman, Sean Gleeson and Caroline Rose Kaplan. The show’s original music is composed by David Buckley (The Good Wife, The Forbidden Kingdom, The Town). Proof follows a skeptical, brilliant female surgeon who has been struggling with the loss of her teenage son and is persuaded to investigate reincarnation, out-of-body experiences, hauntings and other supernatural cases. The series will air every Tuesday night on TNT. For updates on the supernatural drama, visit the official show website.
Premiering on Wednesday, June 17 is the SundanceTV event series Deutschland 83 created by Anna Winger & Joerg Winger and starring Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth, Errol T. Harwood and Sonja Gerhardt. Reinhold Heil (Cloud Atlas, One Hour Photo, Run Lola Run, Helix) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the series, which will air Wednesday nights on SundanceTV. Read the rest of this entry »
Trevor Rabin Scoring ABC’s ‘Blood and Oil’
Posted: June 13, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Blood and Oil, Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin is scoring the upcoming ABC drama Blood and Oil. The show is created by Josh Pate (Aquarius) & Rodes Fishburne and stars Don Johnson, Chace Crawford, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Delroy Lindo, Amber Valletta, Scott Michael Foster, India de Beaufort, Yani Gellman and Caitlin Carver. The series follows a couple who dream of a new life and move to “The Bakken” in North Dakota, booming after the biggest oil discovery in American history, where they are pitted against a ruthless tycoon who forces them to put everything on the line, including their marriage. Read the rest of this entry »
