Seth MacFarlane has announced on Twitter that Alan Silvestri is scoring the upcoming docu-series Cosmos – A Spacetime Odyssey. The show is a successor to the 1980 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning original series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage and will explore how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will host the 13-part series, which invents new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination, MacFarlane is executive producing the Cosmos Studios and Fuzzy Door production with Ann Druyan, Mitchell Cannold and Brannon Braga (Star Trek, 24). Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Silvestri to Score ‘Cosmos – A Spacetime Odyssey’
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Silvestri, Cosmos - A Spactime Odyssey, Fox, Seth MacFarlane
‘Girls’ Vol. 2 Soundtrack Announced
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Girls, HBO, Michael Penn, Soundtrack
Atlantic Records will release a new soundtrack album for the HBO hit comedy Girls. The album entitled Girls Volume 2: All Adventurous Women Do… features new songs by artists including Beck, Lily Allen, Miguel and Jenny Lewis whose track Completely Not Me was featured in this past Sunday’s season premiere. Also included is a track by the show’s composer Michael Penn. The soundtrack will be released on February 11, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on iTunes. Fueled by Ramen has released the first soundtrack album for the comedy last year. Girls created by and starring Lena Dunham and produced by Judd Apatow follows a close group of twenty-somethings as they chart their lives in New York City. The show’s second season was is now available on Blu-Ray and DVD and the third season of the series currently airs Sunday nights on HBO. Read the rest of this entry »
Cinema Audio Society Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society
The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 50th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. For the past few years, scoring mixers are being recognized alongside production, re-recording, ADR and foley mixers. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Al Clay for Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips (scored by Henry Jackman), Gareth Cousins for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity (music by Steven Price), Joel Iwataki for Marvel’s Iron Man 3 (scored by Brian Tyler) and Satoshi Mark Noguchi for Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor (music by Explosions in the Sky & Steve Jablonsky). In the Motion Pictures – Animated category, the nominated scoring mixers are Dennis Sands for DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods (scored by Alan Silvestri), Alan Meyerson for Universal’s Despicable Me 2 (music by Heitor Pereira), Casey Stone for Disney’s Frozen (scored by Christophe Beck), David Boucher for Pixar’s Monsters University (music by Randy Newman) and Rupert Coulson for Walking with Dinosaurs (scored by Paul Leonard-Morgan). Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lego Movie’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Mothersbaugh, score, Soundtrack, The Lego Movie
The soundtrack details for the animated feature The Lego Movie have been revealed. The soundtrack features the film’s original score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street, Hotel Transylvania). Also included is the song Everything Is AWESOME!!! by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island, which has also been used in the movie’s marketing campaign. The soundtrack will be released on February 4, 2014 by WaterTower Music and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips will be posted on this site within the next few weeks. The Lego Movie is directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller and features the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day, , Alison Brie and Morgan Freeman. The movie will be released on February 7, 2014 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Case Against 8’ to Feature Music by Blake Neely
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blake Neely, The Case Against 8
Blake Neely has composed the music for the upcoming documentary The Case Against 8. The film is directed by Ben Cotner & Ryan White (Good Ol’ Freda, Pelada) and centers on the Landmark Supreme Court case that overturned Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. The movie was shot over five years and offers insight into our justice system and the often mysterious process of taking a case to the Supreme Court. Sheila Nevins is executive producing the project. The Case Against 8 is set to premiere later this week at the Sundance Film Festival and will air on HBO later this year. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Winter’s Tale’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hans Zimmer, Rupert Gregson-Williams, score, Soundtrack, Winter's Tale
The details of the soundtrack album for the fantasy drama Winter’s Tale have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer (Inception, The Dark Knight, The Lion King) and Rupert Gregson-Williams (Bee Movie, Hotel Rwanda). Also included is the song Miracle performed by KT Tunstall. The soundtrack will be released on February 11, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips will be posted on this page soon. Winter’s Tale marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) and stars Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Russell Crowe, Eva Marie Saint,, Ripley Sobo and Mckayla Twiggs. The drama is based on the novel by Mark Helprin and follows thief who breaks into a dying young woman’s home and ends up falling for her. Read the rest of this entry »
Craig Wedren and Mark Orton to Perform at BMI’s Snowball at Sundance
Posted: January 13, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Craig Wedren, Mark Orton, Snowball, Sundance
Film composers Craig Wedren and Mark Orton have been announced as performers at the annual Snowball, presented by BMI, on January 22, 2014 at the Sundance House in Park City, Utah. The event will also feature performances by Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall and vocalist and folk songwriter Kris Orlowski. The Snowball will begin at 8 p.m. and is open to Festival Credential holders. Wedren who is best known as the frontman of Shudder to Think has composed the music for numerous films by David Wain, including Role Models, Wanderlust, Wet Hot American Summer and most recently the comedy They Came Together starring Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd, which is premiering at Sundance. His other scoring credits include Richard Linklater’s The School of Rock, HBO’s Hung and Showtimes’s United States of Tara. Orton who is a member of the acoustic chamber music group Tin Hat has recently scored Alexander Payne’s critically acclaimed Nebraska and has previously written the music for Miguel Arteta’s The Good Girl among other projects. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard Scoring ‘Cut Bank’
Posted: January 13, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cut Bank, Edward Zwick, James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard is composing the score for the upcoming thriller Cut Bank. The film is directed by Matt Shakman (Mad Men, Six Feet Under) and stars Liam Hemsworth, John Malkovich, Billy Bob Thornton, Teresa Palmer, Bruce Dern, Oliver Platt and Michael Stuhlbarg. The movie follows a former-athlete-turned-auto-mechanic who dreams of getting out of Cut Bank, Montana, but his efforts to do so set in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the character of the town forever. Roberto Patino (Sons of Anarchy) has written the screenplay. Laura Rister (Lovelace), Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, Glory), Dan Cohen (The Spectacular Now) and Mickey Barold (Barry Munday) are producing the Killburn Media production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘That Awkward Moment’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Torn, score, Soundtrack, That Awkward Moment
Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the comedy That Awkward Moment. The album features the film’s original score composed by David Torn (Friday Night Lights, Lars and the Real Girl, The Wackness). Also included are the songs from the movie by artists including Crozet, Night Drive, Black Apples, Strange Talk and Lavender Diamond. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 28, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. A CD version will be coming out on February 18 and is available to order here. That Awkward Moment is written and directed by Tom Gormican and stars Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Imogen Poots, Mackenzie Davis and Jessica Lucas. The movie follows three guys who decide to support a friend devastated by a recent breakup by vowing to maintain their single status for as long as possible. The comedy will be released on January 31, 2014 by Focus Features. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Ebert Wins Golden Globe Award for ‘All Is Lost’
Posted: January 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Golden Globes
Alex Ebert has received his first Golden Globe Award for his score for J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost starring Robert Redford. The other composers nominated in the Best Original Score category were John Williams (The Book Thief), Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave), Alex Heffes (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and Steven Price (Gravity).
In the Best Original Song category, U2 and Brian Burton won the award for the song Ordinary Love from Justin Chadwicks’s biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
