Intrada Records has released a new soundtrack album for the 1986 animated feature The Transformers: The Movie directed by Nelson Shin based on the original Transformers television series and featuring the voices of Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Casey Kasem, Orson Welles, Robert Stack, Lionel Stander, John Moschitta, Jr., Peter Cullen and Frank Welker. The album features the film’s original score composed by Vince DiCola (Rocky VI, Crooked). Also included is the 6-minute demo cue Legacy. The soundtrack marks the first widely available release of the score, which was first available as two very limited “BotCon” editions. To listen to audio clips and for the full album details, visit the label’s official website, where you can also order the CD. Read the rest of this entry »
New ‘The Transformers: The Movie’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Amram, score, Soundtrack, The Transformers: The Movie, The Young Savages, Vince DiCola
Mateo Messina to Score NBC’s ‘Growing Up Fisher’
Posted: January 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: From the Rough, Growing Up Fisher, Mateo Messina, NBC
Mateo Messina has been tapped to score the upcoming NBC comedy Growing Up Fisher. The show is created by DJ Nash (Up All Night) and stars J.K. Simmons, Jenna Elfman, Eli Barker, Ava Deluca-Verley and Lance Lim. Jason Bateman serves as the show’s narrator. The series follows a 11-year old son who idolizes his blind father and is bemused by his mother’s newfound adolescence. Nash, Bateman and Jim Garavente (Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium) are executive producing the Universal Television and Aggregate Films production. David Schwimmer (Friends, Trust) has directed the pilot episode. Growing Up Fisher is set to premiere this spring on NBC. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Cardoni to Score ‘The Lottery’ Pilot and ‘Miss Meadows’
Posted: January 5, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jeff Cardoni, Lifetime, Miss Meadows, The Lottery
Jeff Cardoni has signed on to score the Lifetime pilot The Lottery. The show is created by Timothy Sexton (Children of Men) and stars Marley Shelton, Michael Graziadei, Lesley-Ann Brantset, Louise Lombard, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Martin Donovan and David Alpay. The drama is set 25 years in the future when the human race faces extinction and when women stop having children. When 100 fertilized embryos are discovered, a national lottery is setup to help decide the surrogates. Danny Cannon (Judge Dredd, The Young Americans) is directing the pilot episode and is also executive producing the Warner Horizon production with Dawn Olmstead (Prison Break, Tru Calling). Cardoni has previously scored the Cannon-produced hit series CSI: Miami. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 5, 2014)
Posted: January 5, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Andrew Feltenstein, Atli Orvarsson, Being Mary Jane, BET, CBS, Chicago PD, Clinton Shorter, Helix, IFC, Intelligence, John Nau, Killer Women, Kurt Farquhar, Mark Kilian, NBC, Reinhold Heil, Scott Salinas, Syfy, The Assets, The Spoils of Babylon
Premiering on Tuesday, January 7, is the new CBS drama Intelligence created by Michael Seitzman, executive produced by Tripp Vinson and David Semel and starring Josh Holloway, Meghan Ory, John Billingsley, PJ Byrne, Michael Rady and Marg Helgenberger. The show’s original score is composed by Clinton Shorter (District 9, Contraband, 2 Guns). To learn more about the series, which follows a high-tech intelligence operative enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his brain, check out our previous news article. Intelligence will air every Tuesday night on CBS. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Brook Scoring ‘Fed Up’
Posted: January 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aloft, Cesar Chavez: An American Hero, Fed Up, Michael Brook
Michael Brook is scoring the upcoming documentary Fed Up. The film is directed by Stephanie Soechtig and features Katie Couric who reveals a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history. Soechtig is also producing the Atlas Films production with Eve Marson (Craigslist Joe) and Sarah Olson. Couric is executive producing the project with Laurie David, Regina Kulik Scully (The Invisible War), Heather Reisman and Michael & Michelle Walrath. Brook has previously composed the score for the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth produced by Laurie David. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 3, 2014)
Posted: January 3, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Beyond Outrage, Ennio Morricone, Juan Navazo, Keiichi Suzuki, Open Grave, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, The Best Offer
The only wide release this weekend is the found-footage horror spin-off Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones directed by Christopher Landon and starring Andrew Jacobs, Jorge Diaz, Gabrielle Walsh, Renee Victor, Noemi Gonzalez, David Saucedo, Gloria Sandoval, Richard Cabral, Carlos Pratts and Juan Vasquez. As the previous films in the Paranormal Activity series, the movie doesn’t feature any original score and no soundtrack album has been announced. To learn more about the Paramount Pictures release, visit the official movie website.
Opening in limited release this week is the drama The Best Offer (La migliore offerta) directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and starring Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks and Donald Sutherland. The movie’s original music is composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone who previously collaborated with the director numerous times on films including Cinema Paradiso and The Legend of 1900. WMI Italy has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this year. Check out our previous news article for the full details. The Best Offer opened overseas last year and is being released in the U.S. by IFC Films. To learn more about the drama, which is now also available on VOD, visit the official movie website. Read the rest of this entry »
Olivier Bernet Scoring Marjane Satrapi’s ‘The Voices’
Posted: January 3, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Marjane Satrapi, Olivier Bernet, The Voices
Composer Olivier Bernet is reuniting with director Marjane Satrapi on the upcoming dark crime comedy The Voices. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick and Jacki Weaver and follows a lovable but disturbed factory worker with an evil talking cat, a benevolent talking dog and a peculiar relationship with a woman in accounting. Michael R. Perry (Paranormal Activity 2, The River) has written the screenplay. Matthew Rhodes (Southland Tales, Passengers), Adi Shankar, Roy Lee (The Lake House, Oldboy, The Strangers) and Spencer Silna (Main Street) are producing the Mandalay Vision and Vertigo Entertainment production. Bernet has previously collaborated with Satrapi on the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Persepolis and the comedy drama Chicken with Plums. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Le Week-End’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 2, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jeremy Sams, Le Week-End, Roger Michell, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for Roger Michell’s romantic drama Le Week-End. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jeremy Sams who previously collaborated with the director on movies including Hyde Park on Hudson, Enduring Love and The Mother. Also included is Nick Drake’s song Pink Moon. The soundtrack is now available overseas and will be released in the U.S. on March 11, 2014. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon. Le Week-End stars Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a young-married middle-class British couple who attempt to reinvigorate their marriage by visiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon. Jeff Goldblum is co-starring in the movie scripted by Hanif Kureishi. The drama premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and will be released in U.S. theaters this spring by Music Box Films. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring ‘The One I Love’ and ‘5 to 7’
Posted: January 2, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 5 to 7, Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans, The One I Love
Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans have taken over scoring duties on the indie drama The One I Love. The film is directed by Charlie McDowell and stars Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss and Ted Danson. The movie follows a married couple on the brink of separation who – at the urging of their therapist – decide to escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to salvage what’s left of their relationship. Justin Lader has written the screenplay and Mel Eslyn (My Sister’s Sister, Touchy Feely) is producing the project. Mark & Jay Duplass (Cyrus, Jeff Who Lives at Home) are executive producing with McDowell and Lader. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Tough Guys Don’t Dance’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: January 2, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Afrik'aïoli, Angelo Badalamenti, Michel Korb, score, Soundtrack, Tough Guys Don't Dance
Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack release for the 1987 crime comedy drama Tough Guys Don’t Dance directed by Norman Wailer and starring Ryan O’Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Sandlund, Wings Hauser and Lawrence Tierne. The album features the remastered and expanded score from the film composed by Angelo Badalamenti (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks), including a number of previously unreleased cues. Also included are two songs co-composed with lyricists Danielle Badalamenti and Norman Mailer and performed by Mel and Pam Tillis. For the full album details and to order the limited edition CD, visit the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips. Read the rest of this entry »
