The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has announced that composer Elliot Goldenthal will receive the organization’s Founder Award at the 30th annual Film & Television Music Awards, which will take place on Monday, March 9, 2015 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. The invitation-only dinner and awards ceremony will honor the composers and songwriters of the top box office film music, the most performed television music and the top video game music of 2014. The Founder Award is given to songwriters and composers who have made pioneering contributions to music by inspiring and influencing their fellow music creators. Previous recipients include Quincy Jones, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Elmer Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Read the rest of this entry »
Elliot Goldenthal to Receive ASCAP Founders Award
Posted: February 10, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards, ASCAP Founders Award, ASCAP Shirley Walker Award, Deborah Lurie, Elliot Goldenthal
Henry Jackman Scoring Chris Columbus’ ‘Pixels’
Posted: February 9, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Columbus, Henry Jackman, Pixels
Henry Jackman is composing the score for the upcoming sci-fi comedy Pixels. The film is directed by Chris Columbus and stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage, Brian Cox and Ashley Benson. The movie centers on aliens misinterpreting video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against them, leading to an attack on Earth. Tim Herlihy (The Wedding Ringer, Bedtime Stories) and Timothy Dowling (Role Models, Just Go With It) have written the screenplay based on a story by Herlihy. Sandler & Allen Covert are producing the project for Happy Madison, along with Columbus, Michael Barnathan (The Help, Night at the Museum) and Mark Radcliffe (Harry Potter series, Mrs. Doubtfire) for 1492 Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Evgueni & Sacha Galperine Scoring Courtney Hunt’s ‘The Whole Truth’
Posted: February 9, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Courtney Hunt, Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine, The Whole Truth
Evgueni and Sacha Galperine are currently composing the music for the upcoming thriller The Whole Truth. The film is directed by Courtney Hunt (Frozen River) and stars Keanu Reeves, Renee Zellweger, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jim Belushi and Gabriel Basso. The movie follows a defense attorney who fights to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune, Matilda, Bicentennial Man) has penned the screenplay. Anthony Bregman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Foxcatcher, Begin Again) is producing the project for Likely Story, alongside Kevin Frakes (Laggies) for PalmStar Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for BBC’s ‘The Missing’ to Be Released
Posted: February 9, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Dominik Scherrer, score, Soundtrack, Starz, The Missing
MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the British mini-series The Missing. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Dominik Scherrer (Primeval, Ripper Street, Agatha Christie’s Marple). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 10, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump.The Missing is created by Harry & Jack Williams and stars James Nesbitt, Frances O’Connor, Tcheky Karyo, Jason Flemyng, Ken Stott and Arsher Ali. The show’s The series follows a father who is desperate to locate his missing five-year-old son when he disappears during a French vacation. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Wins Grammy Award for ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Posted: February 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Frozen, Grammy Awards, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat has won the Grammy Award for his music for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category. He previously won a Grammy for his score for Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech. The other nominated composers in the category included Christophe Beck (Frozen), Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Gone Girl), Steven Price (Gravity) and Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks). In the Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez won the award for the song Frozen from Disney’s hit feature Frozen. In the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Visual Media category, the soundtrack album for Frozen, which features the film’s songs and the score composed by Christophe Beck, released by Walt Disney Records was honored with a Grammy award. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Wins BAFTA Award for ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Posted: February 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, BAFTA Awards, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat has received his second BAFTA Award for his score for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel in the Original Music category. The composer accepted the award in person at the British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. Desplat previously won the BAFTA Award in 2011 for The King’s Speech and was nominated five more times. He was nominated alongside Antonio Sanchez (Birdman), Hans Zimmer (Interstellar), Johann Johannsson (The Theory of Everything) and Mica Levi (Under the Skin). The composer is also up for an Academy Award for the score and is also nominated for his music for The Imitation Game. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 8, 2014)
Posted: February 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, AMC, Better Call Saul, Bosch, Dave Porter, Disney XD, Jesse Voccia, Jon Ehrlich, Maribeth Solomon, NBC, Penn Zero: Part Time Hero, Pop TV, Ryan Shore, Schitt's Creek, The Slap
Premiering tonight is the AMC original series Better Call Saul created by Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould and starring Bob Odenkirk. The show is a spin-off of AMC’s Breaking Bad and features original music composed by Dave Porter (The Blacklist). Better Call Saul focuses on the character of attorney Saul Goodman from the Emmy-winning hit drama, which was also scored by Porter for its full five season run. To learn more about the drama, visit our previous news article, where you can also listen to an original song performed by Junior Brown, which the composer co-wrote for a promotional video. Read the rest of this entry »
Rupert Gregson-Williams & Chris Willis to Score HBO’s ‘Virtuoso’
Posted: February 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Ball, Chris Willis, HBO, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Virtuoso
Rupert Gregson-Williams revealed on Twitter that he will be co-scoring the upcoming HBO drama pilot Virtuoso with Chris Willis. The show is created by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, American Beauty, True Blood) and stars Peter Macdissi, Alex Lawther, Francois Civil, Nico Mirallegro, Lindsay Farris and Iva Babic. The period drama is set in 18th century Vienna and follows a class of musicians from all across Europe at the prestigious Academy of Musical Excellence. Ball is also executive producing the project with singer/songwriter Elton John, David Furnish & Steve Hamilton Shaw (Gnomeo & Juliet, It’s a Boy Girl Thing). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Black November’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Black November, Joel Christian Goffin, score, Soundtrack
Bluestone Symphonics will release a soundtrack album for the drama Black November. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joel Christian Goffin. The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 25, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Black November is written and directed by Jeta Amata and stars Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Anne Heche, Akon, Wyclef Jean, Sarah Wayne Callies and Vivica A. Fox. The movie centers around a volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community that wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. Read the rest of this entry »
Tegan and Sara & The Lonely Island to Perform ‘Everything Is Awesome’ at the Oscars
Posted: February 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Tegan and Sara, The Lego Movie, The Lonely Island
Academy Awards show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that pop duo Tegan and Sara and comedy-music trio The Lonely Island will perform the Oscar-nominated song Everything Is Awesome from the animated feature The Lego Movie at the 87th Oscars ceremony, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, on Sunday, February 22. The song written by Shawn Patterson is one of the five nominees in the Best Original Song category, alongside Glory from Selma, Grateful from Beyond the Lights, I’m Not Gonna Miss You from Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me and Lost Stars from Begin Again. The track has sold more than half a million copies in the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »
