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Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 10, 2016)

January 10, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Ben Decter, Clinton Shorter, Colony, Fox, Freeform, Jeff Russo, John Paesano, Joshua Funk, NBC, Second Chance, Shades of Blue, Shadowhunters, Teachers, TV Land, USA, Wendy Melvoin

Premiering on Tuesday, January 12, is the new Freeform/ABC Family original series Shadowhunters based on the young adult fantasy book series The Mortal Instruments and starring Katherine McNamara, Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende, Emeraude Toubia, Matthew Daddario, Isaiah Mustafa, David Castro and Harry Shum Jr. The show’s original music is composed by Ben Decter (CSI: Cyber, Hostages, Extant). To learn more about the series, which will air every Tuesday night on Freeform, check out our scoring assignment announcement.

Premiering on Wednesday, January 13, is the new Fox drama Second Chance created by Rand Ravich, produced by Howard Gordon and starring Rob Kazinsky, Dilshad Vadsaria, Adhir Kalyan, Tim DeKay and Ciara Bravo. John Paesano (Daredevil, The Maze Runner, Where the Game Stands Tall, Dragons: Riders of Berk) is composing the show’s original music. For more information about the series, which follows a morally corrupt cop who is given a second chance when he’s brought back, visit the official show website. Second Chance will air Wednesday nights on Fox.

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‘The Boy and the Beast’ Soundtrack Details

January 10, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Masakatsu Takagi, score, Soundtrack, The Boy and the Beast

Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the Japanese animated feature The Boy and the Beast. The album features the film’s original music composed by Masakatsu Takagi. The soundtrack will be released in the U.S. on March 4, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Boy and the Beast is directed by Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars) who previously collaborated with the composer on Wolf Children. The movie follows a lonely Japanese boy who slips into an alternate universe where he is raised by a bear-man, Kumatetsu, who fights for a living and trains him in the art of fighting over the years. The animated film received an Academy Awards-qualifying release in 2015 and will be released in select theaters later this year by FUNimation Entertainment.

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Milan Records to Release ‘Deadpool’ Soundtrack

January 9, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Deadpool, Junkie XL, score, Soundtrack, Tom Holkenborg

Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the comic book adaptation Deadpool. The album features the film’s original music composed by Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL (Mad Max: Fury Road, Black Mass, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Divergent). Also included are songs by DMX, Wham!, and Salt-N-Pepa. The soundtrack will be released digitally next month and the physical release is set for March 4, 2016. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Check back on this page for the full album details. Deadpool is directed by Tim Miller and stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Gina Carano, Ed Skrein and Brianna Hildebrand. The movie based on the Marvel Comics character from the X-Men will be released nationwide on February 12, 2016 by 20th Century Fox.

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‘Race’ Soundtrack Details

January 9, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 4 comments

Tags: Race, Rachel Portman, score, Soundtrack

The full soundtrack details of the soundtrack for the sports drama Race have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Rachel Portman (The Cider House Rules, Emma, Chocolat, Oliver Twist, The Manchurian Candidate). Also included is the original song Let The Games Begin by Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc. The soundtrack will be released on February 19, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Race is directed by Stephen Hopkins and stars Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, William Hurt and Carice van Houten. The movie tells the true story of Jesse Owens, the athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 8, 2016)

January 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Tags: Anesthesia, Bear McCreary, Daniel Belardinelli, Diablo, Jeff Danna, Lamb, Max Aruj, The Abandoned, The Forest, Timothy Williams

In addition to the nationwide expansion of The Revenant, the only movie opening wide is the supernatural thriller The Forest directed by Jason Zada, produced by David Goyer and starring Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Eoin Macken and Yukiyoshi Ozawa. The film’s original music is composed by Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, The Boy, Outlander). Sparks & Shadows Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our previous article for the full album details. Also visit the McCreary’s official website for his blog entry about his work on the project.

Opening in limited release is the indie drama Anesthesia written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson who also stars in the film alongside Kristen Stewart, Sam Waterston, Glenn Close, Gretchen Mol, Tim Blake Nelson, Corey Stoll and Michael K. Williams. Jeff Danna (The Good Dinosaur, Tyrant, The Boondock Saints) has composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced. Anesthesia revolves around the intersection of characters after the violent mugging of a Columbia University professor. The drama premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and is being released in select theaters and on VOD by IFC Films. Visit the official movie website for more information.

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Joshua Funk Scoring TV Land’s ‘Teachers’

January 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Joshua Funk, Teachers, TV Land

Joshua Funk is scoring the upcoming TV Land original series Teachers. The show is based on the web series of the same title and stars the improv group the Katydids – Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O’Brien and Katie Thomas. The comedy follows six elementary school teachers who try to mold young minds, even though they don’t really seem to have their own lives together at all. Alison Brie (Community) is executive producing the project with showrunners Ian Roberts & Jay Martel (Get Hard, Key and Peele), as well as Matt Miller. Funk is best known for composing the music for Comedy Central’s Key and Peele, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination in 2014.

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‘Synchronicity’ Soundtrack Announced

January 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Ben Lovett, score, Soundtrack, Synchronicity

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller Synchronicity. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ben Lovett (Black Rock, Don Peyote). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 22, 2016 and physically in February. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album. Synchronicity is written and directed by Jacob Gentry and stars Chad McKnight, AJ Bowen, Brianne Davis, Scott Poythress and Michael Ironside. The movie follows a daring physicist who has invented a machine that can fold space-time and a shadowy corporation that will stop at nothing to get the device.

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Jeff Russo to Score HBO’s ‘Crime’ and ‘Behold My Heart’

January 8, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Behold My Heart, Crime, HBO, Jeff Russo

Jeff Russo is set to score the upcoming HBO original miniseries Crime. The show is written by Richard Price (Ransom, Shaft, Sea of Love) based on the British TV series Criminal Justice and stars John Turturro, Riz Ahmed, Michael Kenneth Williams, Amara Karan, Jeannie Berlin, Glenne Headly, Bill Camp, Payman Moaadi and Poorna Jagannathan. The show follows an ambulance-chasing New York City attorney who gets in over his head when he takes on the case of a Pakistani man accused of murdering a girl on the Upper West Side. Steve Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Moneyball, Searching for Bobby Fischer) is executive producing the project with Price, Criminal Justice creator Peter Moffat and Jane Tranter (Rome, DaVinci’s Demons).

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2016 BAFTA Nominations Announced

January 7, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Tags: BAFTA

The British Academy of Film and Television has announced the nominations for the 2016 Orange British Academy Film Awards. The winners will be announced at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday, February 14. For a full list of nominations, click here.

Here are the nominations in the ‘Original Music’ category:

Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman
The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone
The Revenant – Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto

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‘Hail, Caesar!’ Soundtrack Details

January 7, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Carter Burwell, Ethan Coen, Hail Caesar!, Joel Coen, score, Soundtrack

The details of the soundtrack album for the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar! have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Carter Burwell (Fargo, True Grit, Twilight, Carol, No Country for Old Men). Also included are the songs/musical performances featured in the film and performed by the movie’s cast, including the track No Dames written by Henry Krieger & Willie Reale (Dreamgirls) and performed by Channing Tatum. The soundtrack will be released on February 5, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Hail, Caesar! is written and directed by Joel & Ethan Coen and stars Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Alden Ehrenreich and Channing Tatum. The comedy follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer in 1950s Hollywood who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.

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