La-La Land Records will release the soundtrack album for the action thriller Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joe Kraemer (Jack Reacher, The Way of the Gun) who follows Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer and Michael Giacchino as the fourth composer of the movie series. The soundtrack is set to be released physically on August 4, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The fifth installment in the Mission: Impossible series is directed by Christopher McQuarrie and stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin and Sean Harris. Read the rest of this entry »
La-La Land Records to Release ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ Soundtrack
Posted: May 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joe Kraemer, Mission Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, score, Soundtrack
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First Two Songs from FX’s ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Announced
Posted: May 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Denis Leary, FX, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
FX Networks will release the first two songs from the upcoming FX original series Sex& Drugs& Rock&Roll. The first track is the main titles songs performed by the early 90’s New York band from the show called The Heathens (feat. Denis Leary), and will be released on July 16. Click here to pre-order the single. The second song, Animals is also performed by The Heathens (feat. Elizabeth Gillies) and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll is created by Denis Leary (Rescue Me) who also stars in the series alongside John Corbett, Elizabeth Gillies, Elaine Hendrix and Bobby Kelly. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pay the Ghost’ to Feature Music by Joseph LoDuca
Posted: May 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Joseph LoDuca, Pay the Ghost, Uli Edel
Joseph LoDuca has recently composed the music for the upcoming supernatural thriller Pay the Ghost. The film is directed by Uli Edel (The Baader Meinhof Complex, Hotel Adlon) and stars Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Veronica Ferres, Jack Fulton and Elizabeth Jeanne le Roux. The movie is based on a short story by Tim Lebbon and follows a hard-working NYU English professor bucking for tenure when his 8-year-old son mysteriously vanishes from a Halloween day parade. Daniel Kay (Timber Falls) wrote the screenplay. Ian Levy, Craig Flores (Charlie Countryman) and Nicolas Chartier (The Hurt Locker, Killer Joe, Good Kill) are producing the Voltage Pictures production. Read the rest of this entry »
Marcelo Zarvos Scoring Barry Levinson’s ‘Rock the Kasbah’
Posted: May 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Barry Levinson, Marcelo Zarvos, Rock the Kasbah
Marcelo Zarvos is reteaming with Barry Levinson on the upcoming comedy Rock the Kasbah. The film stars Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride, Scott Caan and Zooey Deschanel. The movie follows a has-been rock manager who takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan, where he discovers a young girl with an extraordinary voice and manages her through Afghanistan’s version of American Idol, the wildly popular Afghan Star. Mitch Glazer (Scrooged, The Recruit, Magic City) wrote the screenplay and is also producing the project with QED’s Bill Block (Fury, Elysium, W.), Venture Forth’s Jacob Pechenik (The Skeleton Twins and Shangri-La Entertainment’s Steve Bing. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 29, 2015)
Posted: May 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aloha, Andrew Lockington, Barely Lethal, Bruno Coulais, Gemma Bovery, Ilan Eshkeri, Jónsi & Alex, Justin Rice, Mateo Messina, Results, San Andreas, Survivor
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the disaster movie San Andreas directed by Brad Peyton and starring Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Art Parkinson and Paul Giamatti. The film’s original music is composed by Andrew Lockington (Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters) who previously scored Peyton’s Journey to the Center of the Earth and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music, as well as a cover version of California Dreamin’ performed by Sia. Check out our previous article for the full details and to listen to audio clips. Also visit Film Music Magazine and ScreenSlam for interviews with Lockington about his work on the project.
Also opening wide is the romantic comedy Aloha directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride and Alec Baldwin. Jónsi & Alex have composed the film’s original score. Sony Legacy and Madison Gate Records have released a soundtrack album featuring two tracks by the composers, as well as songs by artists such as Beck, David Crosby, Fleetwood Mac, The Blue Nile, Kurt Vile, Josh Ritter & more. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to to learn more about the Sony Pictures release. Read the rest of this entry »
Elliot Goldenthal Presented with Kilar Award at Krakow Film Music Festival
Posted: May 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Elliot Goldenthal, Krakow Film Music Festival, Wojciech Kilar Award
Last night, Elliot Goldenthal was presented with the first ever Wojciech Kilar Award during the sold out Polish Music Gala: Scoring4Wajda concert in the ICE Krakow Congress Center at the Krakow Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. The Academy Award-winning composer’s longtime companion and entertainer, director Julie Taymor (Frida, Titus, Across the Universe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) was also in attendance a the event. The Wojciech Kilar Award aims to raise the profile of the late Polish pianist/composer who is known for such scores as The Pianist and Bram Stoker’s Dracula and honors composers whose film work has a vigorous life beyond the screen. Read the rest of this entry »
Johnny Klimek & Tom Tykwer Scoring ‘A Hologram for the King’ and Netflix’s ‘Sense8’
Posted: May 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Hologram for the King, Johnny Klimek, Netflix, Sense8, Tom Tykwer
Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer are composing the score for the upcoming comedy drama A Hologram for the King. The film is directed by Tykwer (Run Lola Run, The International) and stars Tom Hanks, Sarita Choudhury, Omar Elba, Tracey Fairaway, David Menkin and Tom Skerritt. The movie is based on the novel by Dave Eggers takes place in an up-and-coming Saudi Arabian city that provides the backdrop for a foundering American businessman’s last-ditch effort to stave off bankruptcy, pay his daughters college fees, and finally accomplish something big. Tykwer also wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Mario Grigorov to Score David Yates’ ‘Tarzan’
Posted: May 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Yates, Mario Grigorov, Tarzan
Mario Grigorov has signed on to score the upcoming action adventure Tarzan. The film is directed by David Yates (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) and stars Alexander Skarsgård in the title role, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, John Hurt and Christoph Waltz. The movie based on the classic story and characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs takes place years after Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke and is invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Inside Out’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Inside Out, Michael Giacchino, Pete Docter, Pixar, score, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for Pixar Animation’s Inside Out have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Michael Giacchino (Lost, Star Trek, Tomorrowland, Jurassic World) who previously scored the studios’ features The Incredibles, Up, Ratatouille and Cars 2. The soundtrack will be released on June 16, 2015 by Walt Disney Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Inside Out is directed by Pete Docter (Up, Monsters, Inc.) and features the voice talent of Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling, Lewis Black and Phyllis Smith. Read the rest of this entry »
David Lawrence Scoring Disney Channel’s ‘Descendants’
Posted: May 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Lawrence, Descendants, Disney Channel, Kenny Ortega
David Lawrence has composed the original score for the upcoming Disney Channel original movie Descendants. The film is directed by Kenny Ortega (This Is It) and follows the benevolent teenaged son of the King and Queen (Beast and Belle from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast) who is poised to take the throne and offer a chance at redemption to the trouble-making offspring of Cruella De Vil, Maleficent, the Evil Queen and Jafar who have been imprisoned on a forbidden island with all the other villains. The movie’s cast includes Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce, Keegan Connor Tracy, Dan Payne, Mitchell Hope, Kristin Chenoweth and Booboo Stewart. Read the rest of this entry »
