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 »
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
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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 »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 6, 2015)
Posted: February 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Enter the Dangerous Mind, Guillaume Roussel, John Debney, Jupiter Ascending, Love Rosie, Marco Beltrami, Michael Giacchino, Olivier Bernet, Outcast, Ralf Wengenmayr, Reza Safinia, Seventh Son, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, The Voices
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the animated feature The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water directed by Paul Tibbitt and featuring the voices of Antonio Banderas, Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence and Douglas Lawrence. Columbia Records has released a soundtrack featuring five songs from the film. Visit Amazon to download the release. The movie’s original score is composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2, Elf, Bruce Almighty). No word yet on a release of the composer’s music. Visit a recent interview with Debney about his work on the film in Film Music Magazine. For more information about the Paramount Pictures release, visit the official movie website.
Also opening wide is the sci-fi adventure Jupiter Ascending written and directed by Andy & Lana Wachowski and starring Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne and Douglas Booth. Michael Giacchino (Lost, Star Trek, Up, Ratatouille, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) has composed the film’s original score. WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music earlier this week. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Frozen Fever’ to Feature Music by Christophe Beck
Posted: February 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christophe Beck, Frozen, Frozen Fever
Christophe Beck is currently recording the score for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ upcoming short Frozen Fever. The film is directed by Jennifer Lee (Wreck-It-Ralph) & Chris Buck (Tarzan) who previously collaborated with Beck on 2013’s hit feature. The movie features the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad and takes place on Anna’s birthday, for which Elsa and Kristoff are determined to give her the best celebration ever. Peter Del Vecho (Frozen, The Princess and the Frog) is producing the short. As previously reported, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez have written a new original song for the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Jon Ehrlich Scoring NBC’s ‘The Slap’
Posted: February 5, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jon Ehrlich, NBC, The Slap
Jon Ehrlich is composing the music for the upcoming NBC mini-series The Slap. The 8-parter is directed by Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right, Olive Kitteridge) and stars Peter Saarsgard, Thandie Newton, Uma Thurman, Zachary Quinto, Melissa George, Thomas Sadoski and Brian Cox. The drama is based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas and the Australian television series of the same title and centers on a once happy family that suddenly begins to fall apart following a seemingly minor incident in which a man slaps another couple’s misbehaving child. Read the rest of this entry »
‘While We’re Young’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 5, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Murphy, Noah Baumbach, Soundtrack, While We're Young
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for Noah Baumbach’s comedy drama While We’re Young. The album features three tracks from the film’s original score composed by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy. Also included are songs by Lionel Richie, Paul McCartney & Wings, David Bowie, Survivor, The Psychodelic Furs and Haim. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on March 19, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. While We’re Young is written and directed by Baumbach and stars Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver. The movie follows a frustrated middle-aged filmmaker and his wife whose career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives. Read the rest of this entry »
Mason Bates Scoring Gus Van Sant’s ‘The Sea of Trees’
Posted: February 5, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gus van Sant, Mason Bates, The Sea of Trees
Mason Bates has recently recorded his first film score for the upcoming drama The Sea of Trees. The film is directed by Gus Van Sant and stars Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, Naomi Watts and Jordan Gavaris. The movie follows two men on a journey of reflection and survival in the Aokigahara, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan’s Mount Fuji where a reportedly large amount of suicides occur. Chris Sparling (Buried, ATM) has written the screenplay and is also producing the project with Van Sant, Gil Netter (Life of Pi), Ken Kao (Rampart), Kevin Halloran, F. Gary Gray (Law Abiding Citizen, The Italian Job), Brian Dobbins and Allen Fischer. Bates is best known as a composer of symphonic music, which he often combines with harmonies of jazz and electronic music. Read the rest of this entry »
