Alexandre Azaria and Marc Bell are composing the music for the upcoming action thriller Brick Mansions. The film is directed by Camille Delamarre and is an English language remake of Pierre Morel’s 2004 film District B13. The movie stars Paul Walker as an undercover cop who is tasked with going into a tenement named Brick Mansions in order to disarm a neutron bomb that is ticking down. RZA, David Belle and Robert Maillet are co-starring. Luc Besson has written the screenplay with Robert Mark Kamen (Taken) and is also producing the EuropaCorp and Relativity Media production with Ryan Kavanaugh & Tucker Tooley (The Fighter, Limitless) and Christophe Lambert. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Azaria & Marc Bell Scoring ‘Brick Mansions’
Posted: January 22, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Azaria, Brick Mansions, Marc Bell
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Hans Zimmer Launching ‘Open Call’ Global Contest on SoundCloud
Posted: January 22, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bleeding Fingers, Hans Zimmer
SoundCloud and The Bleeding Fingers Custom Music Shop – a joint venture between Extreme Music, the production music arm of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, and Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer’s company Remote Control Productions – have partnered to launch the talent quest Hans Zimmer Wants You!. The winner/s will get an opportunity to become a Bleeding Fingers staff composer working along-side some of Hollywood’s premier film and TV composers on Zimmer’s LA-campus. The finalists will be announced on or before March 20th. Zimmer has has posted an exclusive track to SoundCloud for its community members to recompose. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Black Sails’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 21, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bear McCreary, Black Sails, score, Soundtrack, Starz
Sparks & Shadows will release a soundtrack album for the new Starz original series Black Sails. The album features the show’s original score composed by Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), including the composer’s main titles theme. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on January 28, 2014. Black Sails marks McCreary’s second collaboration with show creator Jonathan E. Steinberg following Human Target and follows the tales of Captain Flin and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island. The pirate adventure is co-created by Robert Levine and stars Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Zach McGowan, Toby Schmitz, Hannah New, Tom Hopper, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Clara Paget and Mark Ryan. The series will premiere this Saturday, January 25 and will air every Saturday night on Starz. Read the rest of this entry »
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross to Score David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’
Posted: January 21, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atticus Ross, David Fincher, Gone Girl, Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor has announced on Twitter that he is reuniting with composer Atticus Ross to score David Fincher’s upcoming thriller Gone Girl. The film is based on the bestselling novel by Gillian Flynn and stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit and Carrie Coon. The movie follows a woman who disappears on the day of her fifth wedding anniversary. Flynn has also written the screenplay and Fincher is producing the project with Pacific Standard’s Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea (Warm Bodies, All Good Things). Reznor and Ross have previously written the music for Fincher’s The Social Network and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and received an Academy Award for their work on the former project. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard’s ‘Falling Down’ Score Released
Posted: January 20, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Falling Down, James Newton Howard, Joel Schumacher, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack album for the 1993 thriller Falling Down directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall and Barbara Hershey. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, The Sixth Sense, King Kong, The Fugitive). Marty Paich conducted the orchestra. The soundtrack for the Warner Bros. Pictures production also features a number of alternate cues. To pre-order the CD and to check out the full album details, visit Intrada’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips. Read the rest of this entry »
Carter Burwell to Score Todd Haynes’ ‘Carol’
Posted: January 20, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Carol, Carter Burwell, Todd Haynes
Carter Burwell is attached to score the upcoming drama Carol. The film is directed by Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, I’m Not There) and is set to star Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. The movie based on the novella by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley) is set in 1950s New York and follows a 20-something clerk working in a department store and dreaming of a better life who falls for an older, married woman. Phyllis Nagy (Mrs. Harris) has adapted Highsmith’s novel for the screen. Elizabeth Karlsen (Byzantium, Made in Dagenheim) and Stephen Woolley (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game) are producing the project for Number 9 Films and Christine Vacho (Far from Heaven, Boys Don’t Cry) is producing for Killer Films. Read the rest of this entry »
Kronos Quartet to Perform on Clint Mansell’s ‘Noah’ Score
Posted: January 20, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Clint Mansell, Darren Aronofsky, Kronos Quartet, Noah
Director Darren Aronofsky announced on Twitter that the Grammy Award-winning string quartet Kronos Quartet is reuniting with composer Clint Mansell to perform on his score for the upcoming biblical epic Noah. They have previously collaborated on the 2006 feature The Fountain, as well as on the director’s second movie Requiem for a Dream. Noah stars Russell Crowe in the title role as the man chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world. Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins, Logan Lerman are co-starring in the film, which will be released nationwide on March 28, 2014 by Paramount Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Tarzan’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 19, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Newman, Tarzan
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the animated feature Tarzan. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award nominee David Newman (Anastasia, Ice Age, Serenity) who previously scored the animated movie Animals United for the filmmakers. Also included is the song Loud Like Love by the British rock band Placebo. The soundtrack will be released overseas on February 17, 2014 and is available as an import here. The album will also be released digitally in the U.S. on May 6 and is available to order on Amazon. Tarzan based on the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs tale is directed by Reinhard Klooss and features the voices of Kellan Lutz, Spencer Locke, Anton Zetterholm, Mark Deklin, Trevor St. John and Jaime Ray Newman. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 19, 2014)
Posted: January 19, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adrian Johnston, Bear McCreary, Black Sails, Discovery Channel, Klondike, Lifetime, Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, Starz, Tree Adams
Premiering on Saturday, January 25, is the Starz original series Black Sails created by Jon Steinberg & Robert Levine and starring Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Zach McGowan, Toby Schmitz, Hannah New, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Clara Paget, Tom Hopper and Mark Ryan. The show’s original music is composed by Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica) who previously scored the Steinberg-produced Human Target. Check out our previous article to learn more about the project. McCreary’s label Sparks & Shadows will release a soundtrack album for the show on January 28. The full details will be announced on this page soon. Click here to watch the series’ opening titles featuring the composer’s main titles theme. Read the rest of this entry »
Adrian Johnston Scoring ‘Klondike’ Miniseries
Posted: January 19, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adrian Johnston, Discovery Channel, Klondike
Adrian Johnston has composed the music for Discovery Channel’s miniseries Klondike. The six-parter is directed by Simon Cellan Jones and stars Richard Madden, Sam Shepard, Abbie Cornish, Ian Hart, Johnny Simmons, Conor Leslie, Tim Roth, Augustus Prew, Marton Csokas and Tim Blake Nelson. The series is based on Charlotte Gray’s novel Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike and follows six strangers and their collective fight for survival and wealth in a small frontier town in the remote Klondike. Paul Scheuring (Prison Break) is the primary writer and also serves as executive producer, along with Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker (The Good Wife) from Scott Free, as well as John Morayniss & Michael Rosenberg (Hung) for eOne. Read the rest of this entry »
