Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the first score album for the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first two seasons composed by Brandon Jay & Gwendolyn Sanford (Weeds) and Scott Doherty. The soundtrack will be released on May 12, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Universal Music has previously released a soundtrack featuring the songs from the comedy drama. Orange Is the New Black is created by Jenji Kohan and stars Taylor Schilling as an engaged Brooklynite whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Orange Is the New Black’ Score Album Details
Posted: April 9, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Television Music AlbumsTags: Brandon Jay, Gwendolyn Sanford, Netflix, Orange Is the New Black, score, Scott Doherty, Soundtrack
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Hans Zimmer Scoring Peter Sollett’s ‘Freeheld’
Posted: April 9, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Freeheld, Hans Zimmer, Peter Sollett
Hans Zimmer is currently recording his score for the upcoming indie drama Freeheld. The film is directed by Peter Sollett (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Raising Victor Vargas) and stars Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Steve Carell, Michael Shannon, Gabriel Luno and Luke Grimes. The movie follows New Jersey police officer Laurel Hester and her police detective girlfriend who both battle to secure Hester’s pension benefits after she’s diagnosed with a terminal illness. Oscar nominee Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia, The Painted Veil) has written the screenplay. Michael Shamberg & Stacey Sher (Erin Brokovich, Django Unchained, Get Shorty) are producing the project with Page, Kelly Bush, James D. Stern (Looper, I’m Not There), Richard Fischoff, Duncan Montgomery, Jack Selby and Cynthia Wade. 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
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 »
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 »
