Nick Urata revealed in a recent interview with Flickreel that he will be reuniting with directors Glenn Ficarra & John Requa on the upcoming comedy Fun House (also known as The Taliban Shuffle). The film stars Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, Nicholas Braun, Christopher Abbott, Sheila Vand, Stephen Peacocke, Evan Jonigkeit and Billy Bob Thornton. The movie is based on Kim Barker’s memoir The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan and recounts her years as a journalist in Afghanistan and Pakistan after arriving in the region in 2002. Robert Carlock (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) has written the screenplay. Fey is also producing the project with Lorne Michaels (Saturday Night Live, Wayne’s World, Three Amigos) and Ian Bryce (Transformers, Saving Private Ryan, Spider-Man). Read the rest of this entry »
Nick Urata to Score ‘Fun House’ aka ‘The Taliban Shuffle’
Posted: March 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fun House, Glenn Ficarra, Indiscretion, John Requa, Nick Urata, The Taliban Shuffle
‘Monsters: Dark Continent’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: March 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Monsters, Monsters: Dark Continent, Neil Davidge, score, Soundtrack
7Hz Productions will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi sequel Monsters: Dark Continent. The album features the film’s original music composed by Neil Davidge (Halo 4, Push, Good People). Also included are the songs from the movie by artists including The Graveltones, The Amazing Snakeheads, When Gravity Falls & more. The soundtrack will be released on May 1, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Monsters: Dark Continent is directed by Tom Green and stars Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley and Joe Dempsie. The movie takes place a couple of years after the original film directed by Gareth Edwards who serves as an executive producer on the project as Infected Zones have spread across the world and US military try to wipe out the monsters. Read the rest of this entry »
Bill Brown to Score Season 2 of Syfy’s ‘Dominion’
Posted: March 26, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bill Brown, Dominion, Syfy
Bill Brown has been tapped to score the second season of the Syfy original series Dominion. The show is created by Vaun Vilmott and stars Christopher Egan, Tom Wisdom, Roxanne McKee, Alan Dale, Anthony Stewart Head and Luke Allen-Gale. The supernatural action drama based on characters from the 2010 feature Legion directed by Scott Stewart and starring Paul Bettany is set in the year 25 A.E. and takes place during a catastrophic war between an army of angels and mankind that has transformed the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Mac Quayle to Score Fox’s ‘Scream Queens’
Posted: March 26, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brad Falchuk, Fox, Ian Brennan, Mac Quayle, Ryan Murphy, Scream Queens
Mac Quayle has been hired to score the upcoming Fox series Scream Queens. The show is created by Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan & Brad Falchuk (Glee) and stars Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Oliver Hudson, Keke Palmer, Abigail Breslin, Billie Lourd, Skyler Samuels, Lucien Laviscount, Diego Boneta, Glen Powell and Nasim Pedrad. The horror comedy anthology series’ first season will revolve around a college campus which is rocked by a series of murders. Murphy, Falchuk and Brennan are also executive producing the 20th Century Fox Television production with Dante Di Loreto (Glee, The Normal Heart, Temple Grandin). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Belle du Seigneur’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: March 26, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Belle du Seigneur, Gabriel Yared, score, Soundtrack
Caldera Records has announced a soundtrack album for the romantic drama Belle du Seigneur. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1408, Cold Mountain). Also included is an interview with the composer about his work on the project. To learn more about the release, visit the label’s official website. Belle du Seigneur is directed by Glenio Bonder and stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Natalie Vodianova and Marianne Faithfull. The movie is based on the novel by Albert Cohen and follows a Jewish diplomat who falls for, and starts an affair with, a married Swiss woman as World War Two kicks off. Read the rest of this entry »
‘In the Flesh’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 26, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Television Music AlbumsTags: BBC, BBC America, Edmund Butt, In the Flesh, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the BBC supernatural zombie apocalypse series In the Flesh. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Edmund Butt (The Dark, Ashes to Ashes, An Adventure in Space and Time). Also included are three songs from the series performed by Keaton Henson. The soundtrack will be released in the UK on April 27 and is now available to pre-order on Amazon. In the Flesh is created by Dominic Mitchell and stars Luke Newberry, Emily Bevan, Harriet Cains, Stephen Thompson, Kenneth Cranham, Kevin Sutton, Steve Cooper, Marie Critchley, Sandra Hugget, Gerard Thompson and Gillian Waugh. Read the rest of this entry »
Varese Sarabande to Release Score Albums for ‘Orange Is the New Black’ and ‘Orphan Black’
Posted: March 25, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Television Music AlbumsTags: BBC America, Brandon Jay, Gwendolyn Sanford, Netflix, Orange Is the New Black, Orphan Black, Scott Doherty, Trevor Yuile
Varese Sarabande will release a new soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black created by Jenji Kohan and starring Taylor Schilling. The album will feature the selections from the show’s original score composed by Gwendolyn Sanford, Brandon Jay and Scott Doherty. The soundtrack is set to be released on May 12, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label will also release the first soundtrack album for the BBC America original series Orphan Black created by Graeme Manson & John Fawcett and starring Tatiana Maslan. The album features the show’s original music composed by Trevor Yuile (Being Erica, King) and will be released on May 19, 2015. Click here to pre-order the CD. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard to Receive Max Steiner Award
Posted: March 25, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Hollywood in Vienna, James Newton Howard, Max Steiner Award
Photo credit: Sally Stevens
It was announced today that James Newton Howard is the recipient of this year’s Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award, which will be presented at the annual Hollywood in Vienna Concert Gala at Vienna Concert Hall on October 16, 2015 The Max Steiner Award honors extraordinary achievements within the genre of film music by the musical capital of Austria, Vienna. Previous recipients of the honor include James Horner, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore, Randy Newman, Lalo Schifrin and John Barry. Howard has written numerous scores for films such as The Sixth Sense, Signs, King Kong, Maleficent, Pretty Woman, Waterworld, The Prince of Tides, The Village, The Fugitive, Dinosaur, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Hunger Games series. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe to Score ‘Terminator Genisys’
Posted: March 25, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, Terminator, Terminator: Genisys
Lorne Balfe has taken over scoring duties on the upcoming sci-fi action movie Terminator Genisys. Hans Zimmer will serve as the executive music producer according to the film’s new international poster. The film is directed by Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World, Game of Thrones) and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Matt Smith, Lee Byung-hun, Dayo Okeniyi, Courtney B. Vance, Sandrine Holt and J. K. Simmons. The movie follows John Connor as he sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future and finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past.. Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island) and Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine) have written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Rachel Portman Scoring HBO’s ‘Bessie’
Posted: March 24, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bessie, Dee Rees, HBO, Rachel Portman
Rachel Portman has been tapped to score the upcoming HBO original movie Bessie. The film is directed by Dee Rees (Pariah) and stars Queen Latifah, Michael Kenneth Williams, Khandi Alexander, Mike Epps, Tika Sumpter, Tory Kittles, Oliver Platt, Bryan Greenberg, Charles S. Dutton and Mo’Nique. The movie tells the story of legendary blues singer Bessie Smith and her transformation from a struggling young singer into “The Empress of the Blues,” one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and an enduring icon today. Rees has also written the screenplay with Christopher Cleveland & Bettina Gilois (McFarland, USA, Glory Road) based on a story by herself and Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men). Read the rest of this entry »
