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 »
‘Child 44’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Child 44, Daniel Espinosa, Jon Ekstrund, score, Soundtrack
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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 »
Ray Charles (1918-2015)
Posted: April 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ray Charles
Composer/arranger Ray Charles passed away Monday at his home in Beverly Hills at age 96. He is best known as the leader of The Ray Charles Singers, who were regularly featured on Perry Como’s records and radio and television shows for 35 years. He is also known as a vocalist to the theme song for Three’s Company and has arranged for such film projects as Funny Girl and Racing with the Moon. Throughout his career, he received seven Emmy nominations and won the award two times in 1971 and 1972 in the Outstanding Achievement in Music, Lyrics and Special Material category for The First Nine Months Are the Hardest and for an episode of The Funny Side. Read the rest of this entry »
Clinton Shorter to Score Syfy’s ‘The Expanse’
Posted: April 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Clinton Shorter, Syfy, The Expanse
Clinton Shorter has been hired to score the upcoming Syfy event series The Expanse. The show is created by Academy Award-winning writers Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby (Children of Men, Iron Man) based on the New York Times bestselling series of novels of the same title and stars Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashlo, Florence Faivre, Jay Hernandez, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham and Paulo Costanzo. The series is set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system and follows a hardened detective and a rogue ship’s captain who come together for what starts as the case of a missing woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history. Read the rest of this entry »
Asif Kapadia’s ‘Amy’ to Feature Music by Antonio Pinto
Posted: April 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amy, Antonio Pinto, Asif Kapadia
Antonio Pinto has composed the original score for the upcoming documentary Amy. The film is directed by Asif Kapadia (The Warrior, Far North, The Return) and chronicles British singer Amy Winehouse’s rise to fame with such hits like Rehab and Valerie before her untimely death at age 27 of alcohol poisoning. The movie features unseen archival footage and unheard tracks by Winehouse. James Gay-Rees (Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Quiet Ones) is producing the project for On The Corner Films. Pinto has previously collaborated with Kapadia on the documentaries Senna and the short The Odyssey. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Simonsen Scoring Roland Emmerich’s ‘Stonewall’
Posted: April 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Rob Simonsen, Roland Emmerich, Stonewall
Rob Simonsen has composed the music for the upcoming drama Stonewall. The film is directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Stargate, 2012, The Patriot) and stars Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ron Perlman, Jonny Beauchamp, Joey King, Caleb Landry Jones, Karl Glusman, Vlademir Alexis, and Alexandre Nachi. The movie follows a young man in New York caught up during the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a pivotal event widely considered the starting point for the modern gay civil rights movement. Jon Robin Baitz (Brothers & Sister, The Slap) has written the screenplay. Emmerich is also producing the Centropolis Entertainment production with Michael Fossat, Marc Frydman (The Contender, Flyboys, Straw Dogs) and Carsten Lorenz. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jerusalem’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jerusalem, Michael Brook, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the IMAX documentary Jerusalem. The album features the film’s original score composed by Michael Brook (Into the Wild, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Fighter, Brooklyn). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 21, 2015 and physically on May 12. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Jerusalem is directed by Daniel Ferguson and follows a group of archeological experts as they uncover secrets of Jerusalem’s past and go in depth about Jerusalem’s history and religion. The Cosmic Picture and Arcane Pictures Film production is narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch and is now playing in select IMAX theaters worldwide trough National Geographic Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Age of Adaline’ Score Album Announced
Posted: April 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Rob Simonsen, score, Soundtrack, The Age of Adaline
Lakeshore Records will release a score album for the romantic drama The Age of Adaline. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rob Simonsen (Foxcatcher, (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now, The Way Way Back), including the original song Start Again by Simonsen and Faux Fix, featuring Elena Tonra. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 21, 2015 and physically on May 12. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Audio clips are available below. The label will also release a separate album featuring the songs from the movie. The Age of Adaline is directed by Lee Toland Krieger and stars Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, Harrison Ford and Ellen Burstyn. The movie centers on a woman who ceases to age following an accident one icy night, but keeps her condition a closely guarded secret while embarking on a number of incredible adventures throughout the 20th Century. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 5, 2015)
Posted: April 5, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A.D., American Odyssey, Daredevil, Debbie Wiseman, Douglas Pipes, Hans Zimmer, If There Be Thorns, John Debney, John Nordstrom, John Paesano, Lifetime, Lorne Balfe, NBC, Netflix, PBS, TBS, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, Tree Adams, Wolf Hall, Your Family or Mine
Premiering tonight is the NBC event series A.D. executive produced by Mark Burnett & Roma Downey and starring Juan Pablo di Pace, Vincent Regan, Greta Scacchi, Aniss Elkohen, Richard Coyle, Babou Ceesay, Chipo Chung, Cesare Taurasi and Adam Levy. Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight, Gladiator, The Lion King) and Lorne Balfe (Home, Penguins of Madagascar) have composed the music for the 12-parter. To learn more about the mini-series, which is a sequel to 2013’s The Bible, which was also scored by Zimmer & Balfe, check out our previous news article. A.D. will air every Sunday night on NBC.
Also premiering tonight is the new NBC drama American Odyssey created by Peter Horton and starring Anna Friel, Peter Facinelli, Jake Robinson, Jim True-Forst, Treat Williams, Nate Mooney, Elena Kampouris, Daniella Pineda, Sadie Sink, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Omar Ghazaoui. The show’s original music is composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2, Elf, Hatfield & McCoys). For more information about the series, which revolves around a potential international conspiracy, in which Al Qaeda terrorists are receiving covert funding from a major American corporation, check out our scoring assignment announcement. American Odyssey will air every Sunday night on NBC. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer to Score Ron Howard’s ‘Inferno’
Posted: April 4, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hans Zimmer, Inferno, Ron Howard
Hans Zimmer is officially set to reteam with director Ron Howard on the upcoming film adaptation of Dan Brown’s bestselling novel Inferno. Tom Hanks returns to reprise his role as Robert Langdon and is joined by Felicity Jones as Dr. Sienna Brooks, Irrfan Khan as Harry Sims, Omar Sy as Christoph Bruder and Sidse Babett Knudsen as Dr. Elizabeth Sinskey. The movie follows the Harvard symbolist as he wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia and teams up with a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories and prevent a madman from releasing a global plague connected to Dante’s immortal tome. David Koepp (Spider-Man, Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds) has written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
