Robert Duncan has been hired to score the Lifetime original movie The Gabby Douglas Story. The film is directed by Gregg Champion (The Cowboy Way, Amish Grace) and stars Imani Hakim and Sydney Mikaylain the title role as the first African American ever to be named Individual All-round Champion in artistic gymnastics at the Olympics. Mikayla will portray Douglas during her childhood while Hakim will play the gold medalist as a teenager and young adult. Regina King has been cast as Douglas’ mother and S. Epatha Merkerson as her grandmother. The drama’s script written by Maria Nation (The Two Mr. Kissels). Zev Braun & Philip Krupp (Edges of the Lord, A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story) are executive producing the Sony Pictures Television production and David Rosemont (Lifetime’s Bonnie & Clyde) serves as a producer. Read the rest of this entry »
Robert Duncan to Score ‘The Gabby Douglas Story’
Posted: January 1, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lifetime, Robert Duncan, The Gabby Douglas Story
‘RoboCop’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 31, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Pedro Bromfman, RoboCop, score, Soundtrack
Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi action adventure RoboCop. The album features the film’s original score composed by Pedro Bromfman (Elite Squad). The soundtrack will be released on February 4, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. RoboCop is directed by José Padilha and stars Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams, Jennifer Ehle, Jay Baruchel, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Samuel L. Jackson. The remake of the 1987 classic directed by Paul Verhoeven follows a Detroit police office who’s transformed into RoboCop after he’s critically injured in the line of duty. The movie will be released nationwide on February 12, 2014 by Sony Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
WaterTower Music to Release ‘The Lego Movie’ Soundtrack
Posted: December 31, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Mothersbaugh, score, Soundtrack, The Lego Movie
WaterTower Music will release the official soundtrack album for the animated feature The Lego Movie. The album features the film’s original music composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (The Royal Tenenbaums, Hotel Transylvania) who previously collaborated with directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street. The soundtrack will be released on February 11, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the full album details. The Lego Movie follows an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. The movie features the voice talent of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman. The animated feature will be released nationwide on February 7, 2014 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Christophe Beck Scoring ‘Endless Love’
Posted: December 30, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christophe Beck, Endless Love, Shana Feste
Christophe Beck has recently composed the score for the upcoming romantic drama Endless Love. The film is directed by Shana Feste (Country Strong) and stars Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Robert Patrick, Bruce Greenwood, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby and Joely Richardson. The movie follows a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart. Feste has co-written the screenplay with Joshua Safran (Gossip Girl, Smash). Scott Stuber (Ted, Safe House) and Pamela Abdy (Identity Thief, Garden State) of Bluegrass Films are producing the project with Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage (The O.C., The Carrie Diaries) of Fake Empire. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Reaching for the Moon’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 30, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marcelo Zarvos, Reaching for the Moon, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the indie drama Reaching for the Moon. The album features the film’s original music composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Enough Said, Ray Donovan, The Good Shepherd). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 14, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Reaching for the Moon directed by Bruno Barreto and starring Miranda Otto, Gloria Pires and Tracy Middendorf chronicles the mid-life years of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop when she left America to live in Rio de Janeiro, where she where fell in love with architect Lota de Macedo Soares. The drama is now playing in select theaters and will be released on February 11, 2014 on DVD (click here to pre-order). Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 29, 2013)
Posted: December 29, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Halli Cauthery, Henry Jackman, Netflix, Turbo FAST
This past Tuesday, the animated series Turbo FAST premiered on Netflix. The show based on this summer’s animated feature from DreamWorks Animation is produced by Ben Kalina & Jennifer Ray and executive produced by Chris Prynoski and featuring the voices of Reid Scott and Ken Jeong who reprises his role from the feature film. Henry Jackman (X-Men: First Class, Wreck-It-Ralph) and Halli Cauthery (The East) have written the show’s original score. Jackman previously the feature version of Turbo and Cauthery provided additional music. Visit Netflix to stream the series and visit the official show website to learn more about the project.
Wojciech Kilar (1932 – 2013)
Posted: December 29, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Wojciech Kilar
Wojciech Kilar has passed away at age 81. The Polish composer was best known for his work for film, including the scores for Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker‘s Dracula, Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady and three collaborations with Roman Polanski on movies including The Ninth Gate, The Death and the Maiden and The Pianist, for which he was honored with a BAFTA nomination and a Cesar Award. His other film scoring credits include James Gray’s We Own the Night, as well as numerous Polish film and TV productions. Kilar was born in 1932 and went on to study piano and composition and graduated from the State Higher School of Music in his hometown Katowice in Southern Poland. Apart from his music for film and television, he has also written a number of symphonies and concertos. Read the rest of this entry »
Toby Chu to Score ‘Kelly & Cal’
Posted: December 28, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Kelly & Cal, Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return, Toby Chu
Toby Chu is composing the score for the upcoming indie drama Kelly & Cal. The film is directed by Jen McGowan and stars Juliette Lewis, Jonny Weston, Josh Hopkins, Cybill Shepherd and Margaret Colin. The movie centers on the relationship between a suburban-trapped mother and a wheelchair-bound young man who brings out her former self. Amy Lowe Starbin has written the screenplay and Adi Ezroni & Mandy Tagger (A Late Quartet, The English Teacher) are producing the project for Spring Pictures. Kelly & Cal is expected to premiere in 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Monuments Men’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 28, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, George Clooney, score, Soundtrack, The Monuments Men
Sony Music will release the official soundtrack album for George Clooney’s historical drama The Monuments Men. The soundtrack features the film’s original score composed by Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech, Argo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) who previously composed the music for Clooney’s The Ides of March. The soundtrack will be released on February 4, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Monuments Men stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville and John Goodman. Desplat also makes an appearance in the film, which follows an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. The movie opens nationwide on February 7, 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
‘August: Osage County’ Score Album Details
Posted: December 27, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: August: Osage County, Gustavo Santaolalla, score, Soundtrack
Sony Classical will release a score album for the film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County. The album features the film’s original score written by Academy Award-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, The Motorcycle Diaries, Babel). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 3, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. As previously reported, Columbia Records has released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the film by Bon Iver, Kings of Leon,Eric Clapton and more, as well as selections from Santaolalla’s and Adam Taylor’s score earlier this month. August: Osage County directed by John Wells and starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Sam Shepard, Juliette Lewis, Julianne Nichols, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin and Dermot Mulroney is now playing in select theaters and will expand nationwide next month. Read the rest of this entry »
