BT announced on Twitter that he is composing the music for the upcoming mystery thriller Solace. The film is directed by Afonso Poyart (Two Rabbits) and stars Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Marley Shelton, Xander Berkeley, Sharon Lawrence, Janine Turner and Matt Gerald. The movie follows an FBI agent who links up with a doctor with psychic abilities to hunt down a serial killer. Producer Sean Bailey (TRON: Legacy, Gone Baby Gone) has written the screenplay with Ted Griffin (Ocean’s Eleven, Matchstick Men), James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac) and Peter Morgan (The Queen, Rush). Read the rest of this entry »
BT to Score ‘Solace’
Posted: January 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Afonso Poyart, BT, Solace
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s ‘Birdman’ to Feature Music by Antonio Sanchez
Posted: January 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Antonio Sanchez, Birdman
Antonio Sanchez has composed the score for the upcoming comedy Birdman. The film is directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and stars Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough and Amy Ryan. The movie follows a former actor, who once played an iconic superhero, as he mounts a Broadway play based on a Raymond Carver short story in a bid to reclaim past glory. Inarritu also co-wrote the screenplay with Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone & Armando Bo (Biutiful) and is also producing the Worldview Entertainment and New Regency production with John Lesher (End of Watch, Blood Ties). Sanchez is best known as a jazz drummer who has performed with such acts as the Pat Metheny Group and has also released three solo albums over the past six years. Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Silvestri to Headline Chattanooga International Film Music Festival
Posted: January 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Alan Silvestri, Chattanooga International Film Music Festival, George S. Clinton
Academy Award-nominated composer Alan Silvestri (Forrest Gump, The Avengers) will be the the special guest film music composer for the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera at the 2014 Chattanooga International Film Music Festival, which will take place from February 28 through March 2, 2014. He will join the festival’s artistic director, Emmy Award-nominee George S. Clinton (Austin Powers, Tooth Fairy, Wild Things), for a weekend of seminars with composers such as Clinton and Sundance Film Music Program director Peter Golub. There will also be a panel discussion moderated by BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross, a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future followed by a discussion with Silvestri, as well as open rehearsals and two film music concerts with the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera. 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
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 »
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 »
