Premiering on Wednesday, July 9, is the new CBS drama Extant created by Mickey Fisher and starring Halle Berry, Goran Visnjic, Pierce Gagnon, Hiroyuki Sanada, Camryn Manheim, Grace Gummer and Michael O’Neill. The show’s original music is composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Enough Said, Ry Donovan, The Big C, Remember Me). To learn more about the series, which follows an astronaut who returns home from a year-long mission in space and tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life, visit the official show website. Extant will air every Wednesday night on CBS. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 6, 2014)
Posted: July 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andreas Grill, CBS, Extant, Grayson Matthews, Marcelo Zarvos, NBC, Nick Malmestrom, Welcome to Sweden, Working the Engels
0
Dave Porter to Score Starz’s ‘Flesh and Bone’
Posted: July 5, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dave Porter, Flesh and Bone, Moira Walley-Beckett, Starz
Dave Porter has signed on to score the upcoming Starz original series Flesh and Bone. The show is created by Moira Walley-Beckett and stars Sarah Hay, Irina Dvorovenko, Sascha Radetsky, Raychel Diane Weiner, Emily Tyra and Damon Herriman. The series follows a young ballet dancer with a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. Walley-Beckett is also executive producing the project with Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Good Will Hunting), Kevin Brown (Roswell) and John Melfi (House of Cards, Sex and the City). David Michod (Animal Kingdom, The Rover) is directing the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 4, 2014)
Posted: July 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: America, Bryan E. Miller, Christopher Young, Deliver Us from Evil, Earth to Echo, Geoff Zanelli, Joseph Trapanese, Joshua Abrams, Life Itself, Michael Andrews, Nick Urata, Premature, School Dance, Tammy
Three new movies opened nationwide this past Wednesday:
Opening in most theaters is the comedy Tammy directed by Ben Falcone and starring Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Allison Janney, Gary Cole, Mark Duplass, Dan Aykroyd, Kathy Bates, Toni Collette and Nat Faxon. The film’s original music is composed by Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko, Bridesmaids, The Heat). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music, as well as two songs by Possum Creek earlier this week. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to listen to audio clips.
Also opening wide is the family sci-fi adventure Earth to Echo directed by Dave Green and starring Teo Halm, Brian “Astro” Bradley, Reese Hartwig and Ella Linnea Wahlested. Joseph Trapanese (Oblivion, The Raid, Tron: Uprising) has composed the film’s original music. Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack featuring the composer’s score, as well as the song Worlds Away performed by Dia Frampton. Click here for more information and also visit Film Music Magazine for an interview with Trapanese about his work on the film. The label has also announced a separate soundtrack featuring the film’s songs by artists including Mowgli’s, This Will Destroy You, Big Data and Chiddy Bang. Check out our previous article for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Soundtrack Preview
Posted: July 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Matt Reeves, Michael Giacchino
The soundtrack album for Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has been published on Spotify. The album features the film’s original music composed by Michael Giacchino (Star Trek, Up, Lost, Ratatouille, The Incredibles). Listen to the full album after the jump. The soundtrack will be released digitally next Tuesday, July 8 by Sony Masterworks and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The release date of the CD version has been pushed back to August 12 since our last update. Click here to pre-order the CD. Check out our previous article for the full album details. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, Kodi Smith-McPhee, Enrique Murciano and Kirk Acevedo will be released nationwide on July 11 by 20th Century Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ Score Album Released
Posted: July 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Michael Bay, score, Soundtrack, Steve Jablonsky, Transformers, Transformers: Age of Extinction
Paramount Pictures has released a score album for Michael Bay’s sci-fi action sequel Transformers: Age of Extinction. The album features the film’s original music composed by Steve Jablonsky (Pain & Gain, The Island, Ender’s Game) who also scored the previous three Transformers movies. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. A soundtrack EP featuring four tracks of the composer’s music was previously released earlier this week. Transformers: Age of Extinction stars Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Sophia Myles, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver and TJ Miller. The sequel is currently the No. 1 movie at the domestic box office and is now playing in theaters nationwide. Read the rest of this entry »
Ben Salisbury & Portishead’s Geoff Barrow Scoring Alex Garland’s ‘Ex Machina’
Posted: July 3, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Garland, Ben Salisbury, Ex Machina, Geoff Barrow
Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow are composing the music for the upcoming sci-fi thriller Ex Machina. The film is written and directed by Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later…, Sunshine, Dredd) and stars Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander. Andrew Macdonald (Trainspotting, The Beach) is producing the DNA Films production with Allon Reich (Never Let Me Go, 28 Weeks Later). Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men, The Social Network, Captain Phillips) and Eli Bush serve as executive producers on the project, alongside Tessa Ross. Salisbury’s previous scoring credits include the Beyonce documentary Life is But a Dream. Read the rest of this entry »
Video Highlights from ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards 2014
Posted: July 3, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards, Bear McCreary, Dave Porter, Shirley Walker
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has published a number of video clips from the organization’s ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards gala, which was held last week at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Check out the acceptance speeches of the two honorees of the Composers’ Choice Award for Best ASCAP TV Composer of 2013, Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Dave Porter (Breaking Bad, The Blacklist), after the jump. Also embedded below are two of the nights performances, including Garry Schyman‘s music to the video game BioShock Infinite played by a string quartet and Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies performed his theme from the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory. Read the rest of this entry »
‘America’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 3, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: America, Bryan E. Miller, score, Soundtrack
Sensory Overload Music has released a soundtrack album for the documentary America. The album features the film’s original music composed by Bryan E. Miller. Also included is Madison Rising’s rendition of Star Spangled Banner. The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. America is directed by Dinesh D’Souza & John Sullivan (2016: Obama’s America) and tells the story of the heroes who built America: Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and others. Academy Award-winner Gerald R. Molen (Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, Minority Report) is producing the project. The movie has been released nationwide this past Wednesday by Lionsgate. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hans Zimmer Revealed’ Concerts Announced
Posted: July 2, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Hans Zimmer, Hans Zimmer Revealed
Details have been announced for the concert Hans Zimmer Revealed, which will take place on October 10 & 11, 2014 at the Eventim Hammersmith Apollo in London. The Academy Award-winning composer will be accompanied by a band of players mixing traditional orchestral instruments with rock and electronica, and will be joined by a few surprise special guests. The concert will be in two parts: the first featuring of Zimmer’s classic movie scores, such as The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean and Gladiator; and the second featuring re-imagined versions of such titles as Inception and The Dark Knight with special guests from the rock and pop world. Read the rest of this entry »
‘United Passions’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 2, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jean-Pascal Beintus, score, Soundtrack, United Passions
Music Box Records has released a soundtrack album for the drama United Passions. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jean-Pascal Beintus who has served as an orchestrator for composer Alexandre Desplat over the past decade. The soundtrack is now available digitally on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. United Passions stars Gérard Depardieu as Jules Rimet, the man who created the World Cup and served as FIFA president from 1921 to 1954. Tim Roth plays Sepp Blatter and Sam Neill as João Havelange, the body’s seventh president. Also starring is Thomas Kretschmann as Adidas founder Horst Dassler, as well as Fisher Stevens as Carl Hirschmann. The film directed by Frederic Auburtin premiered last month at the Cannes Film Festival and is being released in several countries this month. Read the rest of this entry »
