Geoff Zanelli is composing the score for the upcoming heist comedy Masterminds. The film is directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) and stars Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Kate McKinnon, Jon Daley and Ken Marino. The movie follows a disgruntled armored car driver who teams up with a pretty co-worker and a group of inexperienced criminals to steal nearly $20 million from a bank vault. Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer wrote the screenplay based on an original script by Emily Spivey. Read the rest of this entry »
Geoff Zanelli Scoring Jared Hess’ ‘Masterminds’
Posted: June 19, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Geoff Zanelli, Jared Hess, Masterminds
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‘Cartel Land’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: June 19, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cartel Land, H. Scott Salinas, Jackson Greenberg, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Cartel Land. The album features the film’s original music composed by H. Scott Salinas (The Square, Allegiance, Murder in the First) and Jackson Greenberg. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 30, 2015 and physically on September 18. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album. Cartel Land is directed by Matthew Heineman and centers on the battle between border vigilante groups and murderous Mexican drug cartels, with the vigilantes able to accomplish things law enforcement cannot. Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) serves as an executive producer on the film. Read the rest of this entry »
Federico Jusid Scoring ‘Kidnap’
Posted: June 18, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Federico Jusid, Kidnap
Federico Jusid is composing the music for the upcoming thriller Kidnap. The film is directed by Luis Prieto (Pusher) and stars Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Lew Temple and Chris McGinn. The movie follows a mother who will stop at nothing to rescue her kidnapped son. Knate Gwaltneys wrote the screenplay. Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers series, G.I. Joe, RED, Salt, Constantine) is producing the project with Erik Howsam, alongside Gold Star Films’ Joey Tufaro (Maggie) and Gregory Chou of Rumble Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
Lifetime’s ‘A Deadly Adoption’ to Feature Music by MJ Mynarski
Posted: June 18, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Deadly Adoption, Lifetime, MJ Mynarski
MJ Mynarski has composed the original music for the Lifetime original movie A Deadly Adoption. The film is directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg (Escape from Polygamy, Love at the Christmas Table) and stars Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig and Jessica Lowndes. The movie follows a successful couple who house and care for a pregnant woman during the final months of her pregnancy with the hopes of adopting her unborn child. Andrew Steele (Casa De Mi Padre, The Spoils of Babylon) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I Am Big Bird’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: June 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: I Am Big Bird, Joshua Johnson, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the documentary I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joshua Johnson. The soundtrack will be released on July 31, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. I Am Big Bird is directed and produced by Dave LaMattina & Chad Walker and chronicles the life of Caroll Spinney, the man who has been Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969. The movie features footage of Spinney’s earliest collaborations with Jim Henson as it traces his journey from bullied child to childhood icon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Gold Coast’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: June 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Angelo Badalamenti, Gold Coast, Johan Carøe, Lasse Martinussen, score, Soundtrack
Fake Diamond Records will release a soundtrack album for the Danish drama Gold Coast. The album features the film’s original music composed by Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, The Straight Story), Lasse Martinussen and Johan Carøe, as well as the title song Remember Me performed by Kwamie Liv. The soundtrack will be released overseas tomorrow, June 18 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Gold Coast is directed by Daniel Dencik and stars Jakob Oftebro and Danica Curcic. The movie centers on the illegal Danish slave trade on Africa’s Gold Coast and is set in the 1830s as Wulff Joseph Wulff arrives in Africa to set up plantations and falls in love with a slave girl despite having a fiancée at home in Denmark. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Whitehead to Score WE tv’s ‘South of Hell’
Posted: June 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eli Roth, Home, Jason Blum, Nathan Whitehead, South of Hell, The Veil, WE tv
Nathan Whitehead has taken over scoring duties on the upcoming WE tv original series South of Hell. The show is executive produced by Eli Roth (Hostel, Hemlock Grove, Cabin Fever) & Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Whiplash) and stars Mena Suvari, Zachary Booth, Bill Irwin, Drew Moerlein, Lamman Rucker and Paulina Singer. The supernatural thriller is set in Savannah, GA and follows a reluctant exorcist for hire with her very own demon living inside of her. Roth has also directed the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Music of Patrick Doyle: Solo Piano’ Album Details Announced
Posted: June 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Patrick Doyle, The Music of Patrick Doyle: Solo Piano
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of The Music of Patrick Doyle: Solo Piano album. The release features highlights from the composer’s film scoring career performed by Doyle himself on the piano. Among the scores featured on the album are Disney’s Cinderella, Mike Newell’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the Academy Award-nominated music from Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility, Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V, Alfonso Cuaron’s Great Expectations, A Little Princess, Indochine, Nanny McPhee and more. The soundtrack will be released on July 17, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for Pixar’s ‘Lava’ Released
Posted: June 17, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Ford Murphy, Lava, Pixar, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records has released the music from the Pixar animated short Lava. The single features the original song from the movie composed by the film’s director James Ford Murphy and featuring vocals by Kuana Torres Kahele and Napua Greig. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out an audio sample. Lava tells a story that takes place over millions of years and is inspired by the beauty of tropical islands and the allure of ocean volcanoes. The animated short is being released in front of Pixar’s Inside Out, which opens in theaters nationwide this Friday, July 19.
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
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 »
