As in previous years, the World Soundtrack Academy will give out the SABAM Award for Best Young International Composer to young international film music talent during this year’s World Soundtrack Awards (WSA) during the 42nd Film Fest Gent in Belgium. Three finalists will be invited for a three-day visit in Ghent where they will have their compositions performed by the Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Dirk Brossé during the 15th World Soundtrack Awards, which takes place on October 25, 2015 and will also honor composers Alan Silvestri and Daniel Pemberton. They will also have the opportunity to meet with film music professionals and compete for a €2,500 prize. Read the rest of this entry »
World Soundtrack Awards 2015 Young Composers Contest Announced
Posted: April 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: World Soundtrack Awards
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Henry Jackman to Score ‘The 5th Wave’
Posted: April 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Henry Jackman, J Blakeson, The 5th Wave
Henry Jackman is set to score the upcoming action adventure The 5th Wave. The film is directed by J Blakeson (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) and stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Alex Roe, Maika Monroe, Zackary Arthur and Live Schreiber. The movie based on the young adult novel by Rick Yancey is set in the present day after four waves of increasingly deadly attacks have left most of Earth decimated and follows a 16-year-old girl who is on the run and desperately trying to save her younger brother. Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich, Charlotte’s Web, 28 Days) has written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Age of Adaline’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Soundtrack, The Age of Adaline
The details of the soundtrack album for the romantic drama The Age of Adaline have been revealed. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Little Joy, The Skyliners, The Antlers, Sam & Dave, Dexter Gordon, Nancy McCallion & more. The soundtrack will be released physically on May 19, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. As previously reported, the label will also a separate soundtrack featuring composer Rob Simonsen’s original score from the film. The Age of Adaline is directed by Lee Toland Krieger and stars Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Ellen Burstyn, Kathy Baker and Amanda Crew. Read the rest of this entry »
Universal Buys Untitled Musical Comedy to Feature Music by Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
Posted: April 16, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Menken, Jeremy Garelick, Stephen Schwartz
Deadline is reporting that Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy musical to be directed by Jeremy Garelick (The Wedding Ringer), starring Josh Gad and featuring music by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. The movie is said to follow a “domestic who integrates into family with a busy single mother, and becomes an important part of the clan”. Garelick is also writing the screenplay based on a story by himself and Gad. Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Captain Phillips, Moneyball, Fifty Shades of Grey) will serve as the producer on the project alongside Garelick, Gad, Menken & Schwartz. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Poltergeist’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marc Streitenfeld, Poltergeist, score, Soundtrack
Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the Poltergeist remake. The album features the film’s original music composed by Marc Streitenfeld (Prometheus, American Gangster, The Grey, Robin Hood, Body of Lies). The soundtrack will be released on released on May 19, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Poltergeist is directed by Gil Kenan (Monster House), produced by Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, The Evil Dead) and stars Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jared Harris and Jane Adams. The movie follows the Bowen family, whose life is suddenly disrupted after a supernatural force takes over their home and begins terrorizing them. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Tyler to Score James Vanderbilt’s ‘Truth’
Posted: April 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian Tyler, James Vanderbilt, Truth
Brian Tyler has been hired to score the upcoming political drama Truth. The film marks the directorial debut of screenwriter James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac, White House Down) and stars Robert Redford, Cate Blanchett, Topher Grace, Elisabeth Moss, Bruce Greenwood and David Lyons. The movie is based on the 2005 memoir Truth and Duty by Mary Mapes about a series of memos critical of President George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service record that had been discovered in the files of the president’s former commanding officer. Vanderbilt has also written the screenplay and is producing the project through Mythology Entertainment company, alongside Brad Fischer (Shutter Island, Zodiac), Doug Mankoff, Andy Spaulding , Mikkel Bondesen and William Sherak. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Brian Tyler, Danny Elfman, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Age of Ultron have been announced. The album features the film’s original music composed by Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Furious 7, Now You See Me) and Danny Elfman (Spider-Man, Batman, Alice in Wonderland, Men in Black). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 28, 2015 by Hollywood Records. A CD version will be coming out on May 19 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Avengers: Age of Ultron is written and directed by Joss Whedon and stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johannson, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany and Cobie Smulders. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to Receive BMI’s Icon Award
Posted: April 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, BMI Film & Television Award, BMI Icon Award
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) has announced today that Alexandre Desplat will be honored with the organization’s Icon Award for outstanding career achievement at this year’s BMI Film & Television Awards. The composer has received eight Academy Award nominations over the last decade for such films as The King’s Speech, The Queen, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Philomena, The Imitation Game, Argo and received his first Oscar earlier this year for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. He also received a Golden Globe and two Grammys and was nominated multiple times for both awards. His other film credits include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Tree of Life, Godzilla and Unbroken. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Poldark’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Anne Dudley, BBC, PBS, Poldark, score, Soundtrack
Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the BBC series Poldark. The album features selections from the show’s original music written by Academy Award-winning composer Anne Dudley (The Full Monty, Black Book, American History X). The soundtrack will be released overseas on May 11, 2015 and in the U.S. on June 8. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Poldark is created by Debbie Horsefield and stars Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ruby Bentall, Beatie Edney, Jack Farthing and Heida Reed. The show based on the novels by Winston Graham centers on Ross Poldark, a redcoat who returns to Cornwall after the American Revolutionary War to discover that his father is dead, his lands are ruined, and his true love is about to marry his first cousin. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spooks: The Greater Good’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 15, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dominic Lewis, score, Soundtrack, Spooks, Spooks: The Greater Good
Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the spy thriller Spooks: The Greater Good. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dominic Lewis (Free Birds, The DUFF, The Man in the High Castle). The soundtrack will be released in the UK on May 4, 2015. Spooks: The Greater Good is directed by Bharat Nalluri and stars Peter Firth who reprises his role as Harry Pearce, as well as Kit Harrington, Jennifer Ehle and Elyes Gabel. The movie is the feature version of the British TV series Spooks (known in the US under the title MI-5), which centers around MI5’s battles to defend the UK against its covert enemies. Read the rest of this entry »
