Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the scripted reality series Siberia. The album features selections from the show’s original music composed by Corey Wallace. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 27, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Siberia is created by Matthew Arnold and follows sixteen reality-show contestants who arrive in a Siberian forest and quickly discover the adventure is not what they signed up for. The series’ first season premiered last summer on NBC and is now available on DVD. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for NBC’s ‘Siberia’ Announced
Posted: May 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Corey Wallace, Corey Wallaxe, NBC, score, Siberia, Soundtrack
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Mark Mothersbaugh to Score Cameron Crowe’s Untitled Hawaii-Based Comedy Drama
Posted: May 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cameron Crowe, Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh revealed in an interview at last night’s BMI Film & Television Awards in Beverly Hills that he is currently scoring Cameron Crowe’s currently untitled romantic comedy drama starring Bradley Cooper, Emmy Stone, Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin, Jay Baruchel, Michael Chernus and Ilvana Milicevic. The movie follows a Hawaii-based defense contractor who has to work with an Air Force pilot to stop the launch of a weapons satellite. In the process, the pair begin to fall for one another. Crowe has also written the screenplay and is producing the with Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men, The Social Network, Captain Phillips). Crowe previously collaborated with Jónsi on his last feature We Bought a Zoo and his wife Nancy Wilson who composed music for films including Vanilla Sky, Elizabethtown and Almost Famous. Read the rest of this entry »
Mychael Danna Honored at BMI Film & TV Awards
Posted: May 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BMI Film & Television Awards, Mychael Danna, Richard Kirk Award
Last night, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), held its annual Film & TV Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Mychael Danna was honored with the Richard Kirk Award, which is bestowed on composers who have made significant contributions to the realm of film and television music. The composer whose film scoring credits include last year’s Life of Pi, for which he received his first Academy Award, as well as Moneyball, Girl Interrupted, Little Miss Sunshine, (500) Days of Summer and The Sweet Hereafter was presented the award by the night’s hosts, BMI President & CEO Del Bryant and BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations Doreen Ringer-Ross. Several of Danna’s regular collaborators congratulated him via a tribute video, including Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil), Atom Egoyan (Exotica, Chloe), Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair) and Bennett Miller (Capote). Check out the composer’s acceptance speech after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Signal’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Nima Fakhrara, score, Soundtrack, The Signal
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller The Signal. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nima Fakhrara (Exists, The Courier). Also included is the original song 2.3.5.41, which the composer wrote with hip hop producer Free the Robots. The soundtrack will be released on June 10, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Signal is directed by William Eubank and stars Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, Laurence Fishburne, Lin Shaye, Robert Longstreet and Jeffrey Grover. The movie follows three college students who become the targets of a rival computer hacker and are being lured to an abandoned shack in the middle of the desert. The thriller premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival will be released on June 13 by Focus Features. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’ Volume 4 Soundtrack Announced
Posted: May 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Fox, score, Soundtrack
The details of the fourth and final soundtrack release for the Fox docu-series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey have been revealed. The album features 40 more minutes from the show’s original music composed by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, The Avengers). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 28, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Cosmos Studios has previously released Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 soundtrack albums for the show. The final episodes of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey executive produced by Seth MacFarlane, Ann Druyan, Mitchell Cannold & Brannon Braga and hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson currently air every Sunday night on Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
Television Academy to Present SCORE! A Concert Celebrating Music Composed for Television
Posted: May 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Mark Snow
The Television Academy has revealed more details about their first TV music concert, which was originally announced earlier this year. SCORE! A Concert Celebrating Music Composed for Television will take place on Wednesday, May 21 at 8 p.m. at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The event will be hosted by Jon Burlingame and will feature original scores from over 50 television series performed by a 67 piece orchestra and the 40 voice LA Chorus directed by Steve Lively. 15-times Emmy Award nominee Mark Snow (The X-Files, Millennium) will be honored with a Career Achievement Award presented by the Television Academy’s Music Peer Group. Among the composers who will be conducting their own scores at the concert will be Jeff Beal (House of Cards, Rome), Sean Callery (24, Homeland, Elementary), Alf Clausen (The Simpsons), Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones), James S. Levine Glee, American Horror Story), John Lunn (Downton Abbey), Bear McCreary (Da Vinci’s Demons, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Walking Dead), Wendy Melvoin & Lisa Coleman (Heroes, Nurse Jackie), Trevor Morris (Vikings, The Borgias, The Tudors), Walter Murphy (Family Guy) and career achievement honoree Mark Snow. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The White Queen’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: John Lunn, score, Soundtrack, Starz, The White Queen
Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the British mini-series The White Queen. The album features selections from the series written by Emmy Award-winning composer John Lunn (Downton Abbey). The soundtrack will be released on June 30, 2014. The White Queen is based on Philippa Gregory’s historical novel series The Cousins’ War and stars Rebecca Ferguson, Max Irons, Janet McTeer, James Frain, Amanda Hale and David Oakes. The show about three women in their quest for power in the 15th Century premiered in the U.S. last year on Starz and was honored with three nominations at this year’s Golden Globe Awards. The drama’s first season is now available on Blu-ray and DVD and a second season is currently under consideration. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Delicious’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: May 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Delicious, Michael Price, score, Soundtrack
The Control Room will release a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy Delicious. The album features the film’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominee Michael Price (Sherlock, Horrid Henry: The Movie) who also serves as a producer on the movie. The score was recorded with the Budapest Cafe Orchestra. Also included are songs by Cicero Buck, Selah Corbin and Polly Paulusma. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 27, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Delicious is written and directed by Tammy Riley-Smith and stars Nico Rogner, Louise Brealey, Adrian Scarborough, Sheila Hancock and Nicholas Rowe. The movie tells the story of a chef who falls in love with an obsessive dieter. Read the rest of this entry »
‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 13, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bryan Singer, John Ottman, score, Soundtrack, X-Men, X-Men: Days of Future Past
The details of the soundtrack album for the superhero sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past have been revealed. The album features the film’s original score composed by John Ottman (The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns, The Fantastic Four) who previously scored X2. Also included is Roberta Flack’s song The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face and Jim Groce’s Time in a Bottle. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 19, 2014 and physically on June 3.The CD version is now available for pre-order on Amazon. X-Men: Days of Future Past is directed by Bryan Singer and stars Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. The movie features the characters from the original X-Men film trilogy who join forces with their younger selves from the past from X-Men: First Class in order to change a major historical event. The sequel will be released nationwide on May 23 by 20th Century Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 13, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Million Ways to Die in the West, Joel McNeely, score, Seth MacFarlane, Soundtrack
The details for Seth MacFarlane’s western comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joel McNeely (Holes, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Return to Never Land). Also included is the original end credits song A Million Ways to Die performed by Alan Jackson, which is already available as a single, as well as the film’s musical number If You’ve Only Got a Moustache performed by Amick Bryam. The soundtrack will be released on May 27, 2014 by Back Lot Music and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. A Million Ways to Die in the West starring MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Silverman, Neil Patrick Harris and Liam Neeson will be released on May 30, 2014 by Universal Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
