Nicholas Britell has composed the music for the upcoming drama A Tale of Love and Darkness. The film is written and directed by Natalie Portman who also stars in the film alongside Gilad Kahana and Amir Tessler. The movie is based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Amos Oz and tells the story of Oz’s youth at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. Ram Bergman (Looper, Don Jon, Brick) and David Mandil (Footnote, Beaufort) are producing the project with Portman. Read the rest of this entry »
Natalie Portman’s ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’ to Feature Music by Nicholas Britell
Posted: May 13, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Tale of Love and Darkness, Natalie Portman, Nicholas Britell
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Gabriel Mann Scoring Fox’s ‘Rosewood’, ABC’s ‘Dr. Ken’ and CBS’ ‘Angel from Hell’
Posted: May 12, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Angel from Hell, CBS, Dr. Ken, Fox, Gabriel Mann, Rosewood
Gabriel Mann has composed the score for three network pilots that have recently been picked up to series, including the Fox drama Rosewood. The show is created by Todd Harthan (Psych, Skinwalkers) and stars Morris Chestnut, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Gabrielle Dennis, Anna Konkle and Maggie Elizabeth Jones. The series the most brilliant private pathologist in Miami, who uses his wildly sophisticated autopsy lab, to perform for-hire autopsies to uncover clues that the Miami PD can’t see. Richard Shephard (Dom Hemingway, The Matador) has directed the pilot episode. Harthan is also executive producing the 20th Century Fox Television production with Mary Bowen & Wyck Godfrey (The Twilight Saga, The Maze Runner, Revenge). Read the rest of this entry »
WaterTower Music to Release ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 5 Soundtrack
Posted: May 12, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Game of Thrones, HBO, Ramin Djawadi, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music will release the fifth soundtrack album for the HBO hit series Game of Thrones. The album features selections from the show’s original score of Season 5 composed by Ramin Djawadi (Pacific Rim, Iron Man, Person of Interest, Clash of the Titans, The Strain). The soundtrack will be released on July 17, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the full album details and audio clips. The label has previously released a soundtrack album for the third and fourth season, while Varese Sarabande released the official soundtrack albums for Season 1 and Season 2. Read the rest of this entry »
Nicolas Jaar Scoring Jacques Audiard’s ‘Dheepan’
Posted: May 12, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dheepan, Jacques Audiard, Nicolas Jaar
Nicolas Jaar has composed the music for the upcoming drama Dheepan. The film is directed by Jacques Audiard and stars Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers and Marc Zinga. The movie follows a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose who as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka and end up settling in a housing project outside Paris. Audiard also co-wrote the script with Thomas Bidegain (Saint Laurent) and Noe Debre. Pascal Caucheteux (Assault on Precint 13) is producing the project. Audiard’s last couple of features, including the Academy Award-nominated drama A Prophet, Rust and Bone and The Beat That My Heart Skipped were scored by Alexandre Desplat. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Vice’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 12, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hybrid, score, Soundtrack, Vice
Metropolis Movie Music will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller Vice. The album features the film’s original music composed by the British electronic music group Hyrbid (Dead in Tombstones, Catacombs). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 30, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Vice is directed by Brian A. Miller and stars Thomas Jane, Bruce Willis, Ambyr Childers, Johnathon Schaech, Bryan Greenberg, Charlotte Kirk and Tyler J. Olson. The movie is set in a city in which humans can enact their most perverse fantasies onto androids and follows an android who becomes self-aware and breaks out, only to become intent on shutting down the organization. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Judge Dredd’ and ‘Return to Oz’ Soundtracks Announced
Posted: May 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, David Shire, Judge Dredd, Return to Oz, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1995 sci-fi action adventure Judge Dredd directed by Danny Cannon and starring Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Armand Assante and Rob Schneider. The 2-CD set features the film’s original score composed by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, The Avengers, Captain America: The First Avenger), including more than an hour of previously unreleased music and alternate takes. Also included is the music from the film’s first trailer composed by Jerry Goldsmith. To listen to audio clips and for the full album details, visit the label’s official website, where you can also order the soundtrack. Read the rest of this entry »
Amazon’s ‘Lost in Oz’ to Feature Theme Music by Mark Mothersbaugh and Score by Adam Berry
Posted: May 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Berry, Amazon, Lost in Oz, Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh is writing the theme music and Adam Berry is composing the original score for the Amazon Studios pilot Lost in Oz. The animated show is set in a modern, metropolitan Emerald City in which 12-year-old Dorothy Gale befriends West, a young, street-smart witch grappling with dark temptations, and Ojo, a giant munchkin. Bureau of Magic’s Darin Mark, Jared Mark, Abram Makowka and Mark Warshaw (East Los High, Smallville) are developing and producing the project, which is designed by Flaunt Productions and animated by Arc Productions (9, Gnomeo & Juliet). Read the rest of this entry »
Marcelo Zarvos to Score ‘American Ultra’
Posted: May 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: American Ultra, Marcelo Zarvos, Nima Nourizadeh
Marcelo Zarvos has signed on to score the upcoming action comedy American Ultra. The film is directed by Nima Nourizadeh (Project X) and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman and Walton Goggins. The movie follows a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend is suddenly turned upside down when he finds out that he is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. Max Landis (Chronicle) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Slow West’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: May 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jed Kurzel, score, Slow West, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the western Slow West. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jed Kurzel (The Babadook, Son of a Gun, Macbeth The Snowtown Murders). Also included are the songs from the movie by Werner, Bryan Michael Mills, Django Django & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 19, 2015 and physically on June 23. Slow West is written and directed by John Maclean and stars Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn and Caren Pistorius. The movie is set the end of the 19th century and follows a 16-year-old who journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Mothersbaugh, Pitch Perfect, Pitch Perfect 2, score, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for the musical comedy sequel Pitch Perfect 2 have been revealed. The album features the songs from the film performed by the film’s cast, including the original song Flashlight written by Jessie J. Also included is a track from the movie’s original score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street, The Royal Tenenbaums), as well as Jerry Goldsmith’s Universal Fanfare performed by Elizabeth Banks & John Michael Higgins. The soundtrack will be released this Tuesday, May 12 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Pitch Perfect 2 is directed by Elizabeth Banks and stars Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Alexis Knapp, Adam DeVine and Hailee Steinfeld. Read the rest of this entry »
