7Hz Productions will release a soundtrack album for the crime drama series Spotless. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Neil Davidge (Halo 4, Push, Monsters: Dark Continent, Good People). Also included is the series’ opening titles song The Only One by Timber Timbre. The soundtrack will be released digitally overseas on April 17, 2015. Spotless is created by Ed McCardie & Corinne Marrinan and stars Miranda Raison, Brendan Coyle, Marc-André Grondin and Denis Ménochet. The drama follows a troubled man whose tidy life is turned upside down when his outlaw brother crash lands into his world, and gets both of them fatally involved in organized crime. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spotless’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 10, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Neil Davidge, score, Soundtrack, Spotless
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‘Seymour: An Introduction’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 10, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ethan Hawke, Seymour Hoffman, Seymour: An Introduction, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for Ethan Hawke’s documentary Seymour: An Introduction. The album features original performances and compositions by the film’s subject Seymour Bernstein. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 14, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can als listen to audio clips. Seymour: An Introduction centers on Bernstein, a virtuoso pianist, veteran New Yorker, and true original who gave up a successful concert career to teach music, as he tells the story from his life and eye-opening words of wisdom, as well as insightful reflections on art, creativity, and the search for fulfillment. Read the rest of this entry »
David Arnold to Score ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ TV Series
Posted: April 10, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Arnold, ITV, Jekyll & Hyde
David Arnold has been tapped to score the upcoming ITV series Jekyll & Hyde. The action adventure is created by Charlie Higson and stars Tom Bateman, Richard E. Grant, Natalie Gumed, Stephanie Hyam, Donald Sumpter, Amit Shah, Phil McKee, Christian McKay and Ruby Bentall. The 10-part series inspired by The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is set in 1930s London and centers on Robert Jekyll, the grandson of the original doctor, and will follow his quest to discover his real identity and the true nature of his family’s cursed history. Colin Teague (Being Human, Sinbad) is directing the show. 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
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 »
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 »
