Fiction Records will release a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy Man Up. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Elbow, The B-52’s, The Nationals, Duran Duran, Whitesnake, Aaron Neville & more. Also included are selections from the movie’s original score composed by Dickon Hinchliffe (Winter’s Bone, Out of the Furnace, Last Chance Harvey) The soundtrack will be released on May 26, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A CD version is also available as an import on here. Man Up is directed by Ben Palmer and stars Lake Bell, Simon Pegg, Rory Kinnear and Olivia Williams. The movie follows a single woman who is mistaken for a stranger’s blind date – leading to her finding the perfect boyfriend. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Man Up’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dickon Hinchliffe, Man Up!, score, Soundtrack
‘Animals’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Animals, Ian Hultquist, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the indie drama Animals. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ian Hultquist (Ivory Tower). Also included are songs by Pyramids, Wedding Dress, Barky and Speaker, Gay Panic, Moon Magick & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 12, 2015. Audio clips are embedded below. Animals is directed by Collin Schiffli and stars David Dastmalchian, Kim Shaw, John Heard and John Hooganakker. The movie follows two young Chicagoan lovers and addicts whose relationship is tested by a sudden, life-altering setback. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Teen Beach 2’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Channel, Soundtrack, Teen Beach 2, Teen Beach Movie
Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album for the Disney Channel original movie Teen Beach 2. The album features the songs from the film performed by cast members including Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell as Brady and McKenzie, Garrett Clayton, Grace Phipps, Chrissie Fit, Jordan Fisher, William Loftis, Kent Boyd, John DeLuca, Mollee Gray, Jessica Keller, Mason Cutler and Raymond Cham Jr. The soundtrack will be released on June 23, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Teen Beach 2 is directed by Jeffrey Hornaday and takes place a few months after the original, this time set in Brady and McKenzie’s world. Read the rest of this entry »
Abel Korzeniowski Wins BAFTA TV Craft Award for ‘Penny Dreadful’
Posted: April 26, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Abel Korzeniowski, BAFTA TV Craft Awards, Penny Dreadful
Abel Korzeniowski was honored with his first BAFTA TV Craft Award for his music for Showtime’s Penny Dreadful at the the British Academy Television Craft Awards today at The Brewery, City of London. Producer Pippa Harris accepted the award on the composer’s behalf. A soundtrack album featuring selections of Korzeniowski’s score for the first season of the series is available on Varese Sarabande. The show also won awards for Production Design and Make Up & Hair Design. The other composers nominated in the Original Music category were John Lunn for Downton Abbey, Martin Phipps for The Honorable Woman and Richard Spiller for Life and Death Row – Execution. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 26, 2015)
Posted: April 26, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Happyish, HBO, Nathan Larson, Showtime, Solomon Grey, The Casual Vacancy
Premiering tonight is the Showtime original series Happyish created by Shalom Auslander and starring Steve Coogan, Kathryn Hahn, Bradley Whitford, Sawyer Shipman, Carrie Preston, Molly Price and Andre Royo. The show’s original music is composed by Nathan Larson (Boys Don’t Cry, Dirty Pretty Things, Margin Call, The Skeleton Twins). For more information about the series about a couple who face obsolescence in a youth-obsessed culture, check out scoring assignment announcement. Happyish will air every Sunday night on Showtime. Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix’s ‘Between’ to Feature Music by Jonathan Goldsmith
Posted: April 25, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Between, Forsaken, Jonathan Goldsmith, Netflix
Jonathan Goldsmith is scoring the upcoming Netflix original series Between. The show is created by Michael McGowan (Still Mine, One Week) and stars Jenette McCurdy, Jesse Carere, Jack Murray, Justin Kelly, Krystal Nausbaum, Brooke Palsson, Jim Watson, Wesley Morgan, Michael Reventar, Kyle Mac, Ryan Allen and Michael Boisvert. The sci-fi thriller takes place in a town is under siege from a mysterious disease that has killed everybody — except for those 21 years old and younger. McGowan is also executive producing the project with Don Carmody (Resident Evil series, Pompeii, Silent Hill), David Cormican and Naveen Prasad. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pirate’s Passage’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 25, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Lockington, Pirate's Passage, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the animated movie Pirate’s Passage. The album features the film’s original music composed by Andrew Lockington (Journey to the Center of the Earth, Journey 2: Mysterious Island, San Andreas). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Pirate’s Passage is produced and co-written by Brad Peyton and Donald Sutherland who is also among the film’s voice cast alongside Gage Munroe, Carrie-Anne Moss, Megan Follows, Kim Coates, Colm Feore, Gordon Pinsent, Paul Gross, Rossif Sutherland and Terry Haig. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 24, 2015)
Posted: April 24, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Adult Beginners, David Hirschfelder, Erran Baron Cohen, Helicopter Mom, Jeff Cardoni, Jeff Danna, Just Before I Go, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Little Boy, Marcelo Zarvos, Mark Foster, Rob Cairns, Rob Simonsen, Stephan Altman, The Age of Adaline, The Forger, The Water Diviner
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the romantic drama The Age of Adaline directed by Lee Toland Krieger and starring Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, Harrison Ford and Ellen Burstyn. The film’s original music is composed by Rob Simonsen (Foxcatcher, (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as the end credits song Start Again. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to listen to audio clips. Also visit Film Music Magazine for an interview with the composer about his work on the project. Lakeshore Records has also released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie by artists including Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane & more. Click here for the full album details.
Also opening wide is the drama Little Boy directed by Alejandro Monteverde and starring Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Kevin James, Ben Chaplin, Michael Rapaport, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ted Levine, David Henrie, Eduardo Verastegui and Jakob Salvatri. Stephan Altman and Mark Foster, from Foster the People, have composed the film’s original music. Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the movie’s score earlier this week. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details, to check out audio samples and for more information about the Open Road Films release. Read the rest of this entry »
John Ottman & David Buckley to Score Shane Black’s ‘The Nice Guys’
Posted: April 24, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Buckley, John Ottman, Shane Black, The Nice Guys
John Ottman and David Buckley are set to score the upcoming detective thriller The Nice Guys. The film is directed by Shane Black (Iron Man 3, screenwriter of Lethal Weapon) and stars Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Matt Bomer, Kim Basinger, Angourie Rice, Beau Knapp, Keith David and Margaret Qualley. The movie is set in 1970s Los Angeles and follows a down-on-his-luck private eye and a hired leg-breaker who must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. Black also co-wrote the script with Anthony Bagarozzi. Joel Silver (The Matrix, Die Hard, V for Vendetta, Sherlock Holmes) is producing the project through his Silver Pictures company. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ladygrey’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 24, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ladygrey, Peter von Poehl, score, Soundtrack
Nest & Sound will release a soundtrack album for the drama Ladygrey. The album features the film’s original music composed by Peter von Poehl (Vanishing Waves). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 4, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio samples after the jump. Ladygrey is directed by Alain Choquart and stars Peter Sarsgaard, Emily Mortimer, Jeremie Renier, Liam Cunningham, Claude Rich, Jude Foley, Sibongile Mlambo and Aura Msimang. The movie takes place in a South African community at the foot of the Drakensberg mountains ten years after the end of apartheid, where an unsolved massacre from years before continues to haunt the villagers. Read the rest of this entry »
