Last night, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), held its annual Film & TV Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Alexandre Desplat was honored with the Icon Award, which is bestowed on composers who have made significant contributions to the realm of film and television music. The composer who received his first Academy Award earlier this year for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and whose other scoring credits include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Godzilla, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, Zero Dark Thirty and The Tree of Life was presented the award by the night’s hosts, BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross and BMI President & CEO Mike O’Neill. Several of Desplat’s regular collaborators congratulated him via a tribute video, including Stephen Frears (Philomena, The Queen, Tamara Drewe), Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech), Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) and Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom, The Fantastic Mr. Fox). Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL) Scoring ‘Kill Your Friends’
Posted: May 14, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Junkie XL, Kill Your Friends, Tom Holkenborg
Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL has composed the original score for the upcoming British indie thriller Kill Your Friends. The film is directed by Owen Harris and stars Nicholas Hoult, James Corden, Craig Roberts, Rosanna Arquette, Tom Riley and Ed Skrein. The movie follows a 27-year-old A&R man who is slashing and burning his way through London’s music industry and goes to extremes in search of the next megahit. John Niven (Cat Run) wrote the screenplay based on his 2008 novel of the same title. Gregor Cameron, Will Clarke and Len Blavatnik are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo and Ben Decter to Score CBS’ ‘Extant’ Season 2
Posted: May 13, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Decter, CBS, Extant, Jeff Russo
Jeff Russo and Ben Decter are the new composers of the CBS series Extant. The show is created by Mickey Fisher and stars Halle Berry, Goran Visnjic, Pierce Gagnon, Camryn Manheim and Grace Gummer. Jeffrey Dean Morgan has also joined the cast of season 2. The show follows a female astronaut who discovers she has unwittingly put the human race on a path to destruction, and that she and a mysterious stranger may be the only hope for survival. The first season of the Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios production was scored by Marcelo Zarvos. Read the rest of this entry »
Lucien Nicolet (Luciano) Scoring Barbet Schroeder’s ‘Amnesia’
Posted: May 13, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amnesia, Barbet Schroeder, Luciano, Lucien Nicolet
Lucien Nicolet has recently scored the upcoming drama Amnesia. The film is directed by Barbet Schroeder and stars Marthe Keller, Max Riemelt, Bruno Ganz, Joel Basman and Corinna Kirchhoff. The movie is set in Ibiza and follows a 25 year-old music composer who wants to be part of the nascent electronic music revolution, ideally by getting a job first as a DJ in the new nightclub on the island, Amnesia. Schroeder also co-wrote the screenplay with Emilie Bickerton, Peter Steinbach and Susan Hoffman. Margaret Menegoz (Amour, The White Ribbon) is producing the project with Ruth Waldburger (The Turin Horse). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ripper Street’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: May 13, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Dominik Scherrer, Ripper Street, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the BBC series Ripper Street. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Dominik Scherrer (Primeval, The Missing). The soundtrack will be released overseas on June 15 and is now available as an import on Amazon. Ripper Street is created by Richard Warlow (Mistress) and stars Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, Myanna Buring and David Dawson.The series is set in and around Whitechapel in London’s East End in 1889 during the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders and centers on the notorious H Division, which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic East London streets. Read the rest of this entry »
Natalie Portman’s ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’ to Feature Music by Nicholas Britell
Posted: May 13, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Tale of Love and Darkness, Natalie Portman, Nicholas Britell
Nicholas Britell has composed the music for the upcoming drama A Tale of Love and Darkness. The film is written and directed by Natalie Portman who also stars in the film alongside Gilad Kahana and Amir Tessler. The movie is based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Amos Oz and tells the story of Oz’s youth at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. Ram Bergman (Looper, Don Jon, Brick) and David Mandil (Footnote, Beaufort) are producing the project with Portman. Read the rest of this entry »
Gabriel Mann Scoring Fox’s ‘Rosewood’, ABC’s ‘Dr. Ken’ and CBS’ ‘Angel from Hell’
Posted: May 12, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Angel from Hell, CBS, Dr. Ken, Fox, Gabriel Mann, Rosewood
Gabriel Mann has composed the score for three network pilots that have recently been picked up to series, including the Fox drama Rosewood. The show is created by Todd Harthan (Psych, Skinwalkers) and stars Morris Chestnut, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Gabrielle Dennis, Anna Konkle and Maggie Elizabeth Jones. The series the most brilliant private pathologist in Miami, who uses his wildly sophisticated autopsy lab, to perform for-hire autopsies to uncover clues that the Miami PD can’t see. Richard Shephard (Dom Hemingway, The Matador) has directed the pilot episode. Harthan is also executive producing the 20th Century Fox Television production with Mary Bowen & Wyck Godfrey (The Twilight Saga, The Maze Runner, Revenge). Read the rest of this entry »
WaterTower Music to Release ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 5 Soundtrack
Posted: May 12, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Game of Thrones, HBO, Ramin Djawadi, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music will release the fifth soundtrack album for the HBO hit series Game of Thrones. The album features selections from the show’s original score of Season 5 composed by Ramin Djawadi (Pacific Rim, Iron Man, Person of Interest, Clash of the Titans, The Strain). The soundtrack will be released on July 17, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the full album details and audio clips. The label has previously released a soundtrack album for the third and fourth season, while Varese Sarabande released the official soundtrack albums for Season 1 and Season 2. Read the rest of this entry »
Nicolas Jaar Scoring Jacques Audiard’s ‘Dheepan’
Posted: May 12, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dheepan, Jacques Audiard, Nicolas Jaar
Nicolas Jaar has composed the music for the upcoming drama Dheepan. The film is directed by Jacques Audiard and stars Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers and Marc Zinga. The movie follows a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose who as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka and end up settling in a housing project outside Paris. Audiard also co-wrote the script with Thomas Bidegain (Saint Laurent) and Noe Debre. Pascal Caucheteux (Assault on Precint 13) is producing the project. Audiard’s last couple of features, including the Academy Award-nominated drama A Prophet, Rust and Bone and The Beat That My Heart Skipped were scored by Alexandre Desplat. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Vice’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 12, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hybrid, score, Soundtrack, Vice
Metropolis Movie Music will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller Vice. The album features the film’s original music composed by the British electronic music group Hyrbid (Dead in Tombstones, Catacombs). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 30, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Vice is directed by Brian A. Miller and stars Thomas Jane, Bruce Willis, Ambyr Childers, Johnathon Schaech, Bryan Greenberg, Charlotte Kirk and Tyler J. Olson. The movie is set in a city in which humans can enact their most perverse fantasies onto androids and follows an android who becomes self-aware and breaks out, only to become intent on shutting down the organization. Read the rest of this entry »
