‘Healing’ Soundtrack Details

Posted: June 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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healingA soundtrack album for the Australian drama Healing has been announced. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner David Hirschfelder (Elizabeth, Shine, The Railway Man, Legend of the Guardians). The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 7, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips below. Healing is directed by Craig Monahan and stars Hugo Weaving, Xavier Samuel, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Anthony Hayes, Jane Menelaus, Mark Leonard Winter, Robert Taylor and Justine Clarke. The movie chronicles a prison inmate’s last 18 months before release after serving a 16-year term as he is sent to a prison farm, where a senior officer has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men. The drama was released in Australia earlier this month. Read the rest of this entry »

Christophe Beck to Return for ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’

Posted: June 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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hot-tub-time-machineChristophe Beck confirmed in a recent interview with We Are Movie Geeks that he is returning to score the upcoming comedy sequel Hot Tub Time Machine 2. The film reunites director Steve Pink (About Last Night, Accepted), screenwriter Josh Heald and actors Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke and Chevy Chase. They are joined by new cast members Adam Scott and Gillian Jacobs. In the sequel, Nick, Lou and Jacob attempt to go back to the past, but inadvertently end up ten years in the future, which they must alter if they want to save their present-day environment. Andrew Panay (Wedding Crashers) is producing the MGM production. Beck previously scored the 2010 original film. Read the rest of this entry »

‘John Doe: Vigilante’ Soundtrack Released

Posted: June 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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john-doe-vigilanteA soundtrack album has been released for the Australian thriller John Doe: Vigilante. The album features the film’s original music written by Academy Award-nominated composer David Hirschfelder (Elizabeth, Shine, Australia). The soundtrack is now available digitally on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. John Doe: Vigilante is directed by Kelly Dolen and stars Jamie Bamber, Lachy Hulme, Gary Abrahams, Sam Parsonson, Brendan Clearkin and Brooke Ryan. The movie follows an ordinary man who decides to take the law into his own hands and begins exacting justice the only way he knows how – by killing one criminal at a time. The thriller opened in select theaters this past March. Read the rest of this entry »

Deborah Lurie to Score ABC’s ‘Astronaut Wives Club’

Posted: June 5, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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deborah-lurieDeborah Lurie has been hired to score the upcoming ABC drama Astronaut Wives Club. The show is created by Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl, Hart of Dixie, Endless Love) and stars JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Odette Annable, Zoe Boyle, Azure Parsons and Desmond Harrington. The 10-episode limited series is based on the book by Lily Koppel and tells the true story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race. Savage is executive producing the Fake Empire, Groundswell Productions and ABC Studios production with Josh Schwartz (The O.C., Len Goldstein (The Carrie Daries), Michael London (Sideways, The Illusionist, The Visitor) and Janice Williams. Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook, The Other Woman) is directing the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »

Inside ‘The Matrix Live’ Documentary

Posted: June 5, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews
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matrix-liveLaser Hotline has published a new documentary on the music of The Matrix. The 50-minute film focuses on composer Don Davis and his involvement with The Matrix Live, a live to picture concert, which the composer last conducted on May 17, 2014 in Stuttgart, Germany. The composer talks about his musical background, his influences, how he first met the Wachowski siblings on the thriller Bound and his experience working on the original The Matrix in 1998 and 1999. The documentary also shows footage from the concert in Stuttgart and the concert rehearsals. Check out the full video after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Bradshaw to Score ‘Testament of Youth’

Posted: June 5, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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mark-bradshawMark Bradshaw has been hired to score the upcoming historical drama Testament of Youth. The film is directed by James Kent (The Thirteenth Tale, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister) and stars Alicia Vikander, Kit Harrington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Joanna Scanlan, Hayley Atwell, Jonathan Bailey, Alexandra Roach and Anna Chancellor. The BBC Films production is based on the autobiography of Vera Brittain and tells the story of the British writer and pacifist who postponed her studies at Oxford University during World War I to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in London, Malta and France. Juliette Towhidi (Calendar Girls) has adapted the material for the screen. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Bird People’ Soundtrack Details

Posted: June 5, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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bird-peopleCristal Records has released a soundtrack album for the French drama Bird People. The album features the film’s original music composed by Béatrice Thiriet (Lady Chatterley). Also included is David Bowie’s Space Oddity and Feist’s Anti Pioneer. The soundtrack was released earlier this week in France. No word yet on a release in the U.S. Click here to listen to audio clips. Bird People is directed by Pascale Ferran and stars Josh Charles, Anais Demoustier, Roschdy Zem, Camelia Jordana, Geoffrey Cantor, Clark Johnson, Taklyt Vongdara, Radha Mitchell and Mathieu Amalric. The movie follows an American businessman who arrives at Paris’ Charles De Gaulle airport and checks into a local hotel, turns off his cell and laptop and starts a new life. The drama just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released in France this past Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Syfy’s ‘Dominion’ to Feature Music by Christopher Young and Jeff Rona

Posted: June 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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dominionChristopher Young has composed the music for the pilot of the new Syfy original series Dominion. Jeff Rona is currently scoring the other episodes of the first season of the show created by Scott Stewart and starring Christopher Egan, Tom Wisdom, Roxanne McKee, Alan Dale, Anthony Stewart Head and Luke Allen-Gale. The supernatural action drama is based on characters from Stewart’s 2010 film Legion and is set 25 years after the events of the movie and picking up in the aftermath of a catastrophic war between an army of angels and mankind that has transformed the world. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Coming Home’ Soundtrack Details

Posted: June 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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coming-homeSony Classical will release a soundtrack album for  Zhang Yimou’s romantic drama Coming Home. The album features the film’s original music composed by Qigang Chen who previously scored the director’s features The Flowers of War and Under the Hawthorne Tree. The music was recorded with the China Philharmonic Orchestra and features piano solos by Lang Lang. The soundtrack will be released overseas on June 13, 2014. No word yet on a domestic release date. Check out audio clips after the jump. Coming Home directed by Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) stars Chen Daoming, Gong Li, Zhang Huiwen, Guo Tao, Liu Peiqi, Zu Feng and Yan Ni. The movie inspired by Yan Geling’s The Criminal Yu Yanshi chronicles the journey of a Chinese dissident from the 1920′s to the 1990′s. The drama recently world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »

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