Emergency Music Italy will release a soundtrack album for the drama Hungry Hearts. The album features the film’s original music written by Academy Award-winning composer Nicola Piovani (Life is Beautiful). Also included is the composer’s music for this year’s Italian film Banana directed by Andrea Jublin and starring Ascanio Balbo & Anna Bonaiuto, and his score for last year’s L’amore non perdona directed by Stefano Consiglio and starring Ariane Ascaride & Helmi Dridi. The soundtrack will be released overseas on April 21, 2015 and is now available for pre-order as an import on Amazon. Hungry Hearts is written and directed by Saverio Costanzo and stars Adam Driver, Alba Rohrwacher and Roberta Maxwell. The movie follows a married couple in New York City that engages in a fateful struggle over the life of their newborn child. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hungry Hearts’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 9, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Banana, Hungry Hearts, L’Amore non perdona, Nicola Piovani, score, Soundtrack
James Horner Talks ‘Avatar’ Sequels
Posted: April 9, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Avatar, Avatar 2, James Cameron, James Horner
James Horner revealed in an interview with Andrew Freund at the Los Angeles premiere of the IMAX documentary Living in the Age of Airplanes this past Monday that he has “started to get ideas from the filmmakers” about his music for James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar sequels, while it will be a while before he starts recording anything for the project. Avatar 2 is currently scheduled to be released in December of 2017 by 20th Century Fox with two more sequels planned to come out in the following years. Check out the video interview, in which the composer also talks about scoring Living in the Age of Airplanes, how he got involved in the project and his interest in flying, after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Trevor Yuile & Tim Welch Scoring Syfy’s ‘Killjoys’
Posted: April 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Killjoys, Syfy, Tim Welch, Trevor Yuile
Trevor Yuile and Tim Welch are composing the music for the Syfy original series Killjoys. The show is created by Michelle Lovretta (Lost Girl) and stars Hannah John-Kamen, Aaron Ashmore and Luke Macfarlan. The series follows a trio of interplanetary bounty hunters as they chase deadly Warrants (fugitives) throughout the Quad, a distant planetary system on the brink of a bloody class war. Lovretta is also executive producing the Temple Street production with David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg. Yuile is also scoring BBC America’s Orphan Black for Temple Street Productions and has previously composed the music for the production company’s Being Erica. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Child 44’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Child 44, Daniel Espinosa, Jon Ekstrund, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Child 44. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jon Ekstrand (Easy Money series). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 14, 2015 and physically on May 12. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Child 44 is directed by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) and stars Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Paddy Considine, Jason Clarke and Vincent Cassel. The movie is set in 1953 Soviet Russia and chronicles the crisis of conscience for a secret police agent Leo Demidov who loses status, power and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife. Read the rest of this entry »
Theodore Shapiro to Score ‘Zoolander 2’
Posted: April 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Stiller, Theodore Shapiro, Zoolander, Zoolander 2
Theodore Shapiro is set to reunite with Ben Stiller on the upcoming comedy sequel Zoolander 2. The film stars Stiller himself in the title role, Owen Wilson who returns as Hansel, Will Ferrell as Mugatu, Christine Taylor as Matilda, as well as new addition Penélope Cruz. Stiller has written the screenplay with Justin Theroux (Tropic Thunder, Iron Man 2) and is also producing the project with Stuart Cornfeld (Dodgeball, Starsky & Hutch, The Fly). Shapiro has previously composed the music for Stiller’s previous two directorial efforts, Tropic Thunder and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Read the rest of this entry »
Ray Charles (1918-2015)
Posted: April 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ray Charles
Composer/arranger Ray Charles passed away Monday at his home in Beverly Hills at age 96. He is best known as the leader of The Ray Charles Singers, who were regularly featured on Perry Como’s records and radio and television shows for 35 years. He is also known as a vocalist to the theme song for Three’s Company and has arranged for such film projects as Funny Girl and Racing with the Moon. Throughout his career, he received seven Emmy nominations and won the award two times in 1971 and 1972 in the Outstanding Achievement in Music, Lyrics and Special Material category for The First Nine Months Are the Hardest and for an episode of The Funny Side. Read the rest of this entry »
Clinton Shorter to Score Syfy’s ‘The Expanse’
Posted: April 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Clinton Shorter, Syfy, The Expanse
Clinton Shorter has been hired to score the upcoming Syfy event series The Expanse. The show is created by Academy Award-winning writers Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man) based on the New York Times bestselling series of novels of the same title and stars Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashlo, Florence Faivre, Jay Hernandez, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham and Paulo Costanzo. The series is set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system and follows a hardened detective and a rogue ship’s captain who come together for what starts as the case of a missing woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history. Read the rest of this entry »
Asif Kapadia’s ‘Amy’ to Feature Music by Antonio Pinto
Posted: April 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amy, Antonio Pinto, Asif Kapadia
Antonio Pinto has composed the original score for the upcoming documentary Amy. The film is directed by Asif Kapadia (The Warrior, Far North, The Return) and chronicles British singer Amy Winehouse’s rise to fame with such hits like Rehab and Valerie before her untimely death at age 27 of alcohol poisoning. The movie features unseen archival footage and unheard tracks by Winehouse. James Gay-Rees (Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Quiet Ones) is producing the project for On The Corner Films. Pinto has previously collaborated with Kapadia on the documentaries Senna and the short The Odyssey. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Simonsen Scoring Roland Emmerich’s ‘Stonewall’
Posted: April 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Rob Simonsen, Roland Emmerich, Stonewall
Rob Simonsen has composed the music for the upcoming drama Stonewall. The film is directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Stargate, 2012, The Patriot) and stars Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ron Perlman, Jonny Beauchamp, Joey King, Caleb Landry Jones, Karl Glusman, Vlademir Alexis, and Alexandre Nachi. The movie follows a young man in New York caught up during the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a pivotal event widely considered the starting point for the modern gay civil rights movement. Jon Robin Baitz (Brothers & Sister, The Slap) has written the screenplay. Emmerich is also producing the Centropolis Entertainment production with Michael Fossat, Marc Frydman (The Contender, Flyboys, Straw Dogs) and Carsten Lorenz. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jerusalem’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jerusalem, Michael Brook, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the IMAX documentary Jerusalem. The album features the film’s original score composed by Michael Brook (Into the Wild, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Fighter, Brooklyn). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 21, 2015 and physically on May 12. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Jerusalem is directed by Daniel Ferguson and follows a group of archeological experts as they uncover secrets of Jerusalem’s past and go in depth about Jerusalem’s history and religion. The Cosmic Picture and Arcane Pictures Film production is narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch and is now playing in select IMAX theaters worldwide trough National Geographic Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
