Thomas Newman will be honored with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing at the 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF). The composer will be receiving his award for his music for John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks and Colin Farrell. Newman has previously won the award in 2006 following his work for Cinderella Man and Jarhead. Past recipients of the Frederick Loewe Award include Mychael Danna, Alexandre Desplat, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore and Randy Newman. The Awards Gala will be held Saturday, January 4, 2014 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Newman will be recognized at the event alongside Sandra Bullock, Bruce Dern, Matthew McConaughey, Steve McQueen, Julia Roberts and Lupita Nyong’o.
Thomas Newman to Be Honored at Palm Springs Film Festival
Posted: December 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Frederick Loewe Music Award, Palm Springs Film Festival, Saving Mr. Banks, Thomas Newman
Deluxe Edition Soundtracks for ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’ and James Cameron’s ‘The Abyss’ Announced
Posted: December 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Brass Target, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Laurence Rosenthal, Michael Kamen, Runaway, score, Soundtrack, Star Trek, Star Trek: Nemesis, Suspect, The Abyss, Vibes
Varese Sarabande has announced the latest titles in the CD Club series. Among the titles is a deluxe edition for Star Trek: Nemesis, the tenth feature in the series and the final movie with the Next Generation crew, directed by Stuart Baird and starring Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Tom Hardy and Marina Sirtis. The album includes the world premiere release of the complete score composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Planet of the Apes, Patton) who previously scored Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Final Frontier, First Contact and Insurrection. Nemesis marked his final score for the franchise. The soundtrack also features source music and alternate cues. For the full album details and to pre-order the soundtrack, which will be released on January 6, 2014 and is limited to 5000 copies, visit the label’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
LA, NY and Boston Film Critics Announce Winners of Best Music in Film 2013
Posted: December 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Boston Online FIlm Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online
A couple of major local critics associations have been announced their winners for this year’s movies. The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis was honored by three organizations for its soundtrack produced by T Bone Burnett. As a side note, the film doesn’t feature an actual score and only one original song, which is why the LA Film Critics’ choice in the Best Music Score category is somewhat misleading. For a full list of winners, click on each group’s name below.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association:
Best Music Score: Inside Llewyn Davis – T Bone Burnett
Runner-Up: Her – Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett
Best Use of Music: Inside Llewyn Davis – T Bone Burnett Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 8, 2013)
Posted: December 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A&E, Bonnie & Clyde, Hal Beckett, Hallmark Channel, Hats Off to Christmas!, History Channel, John Debney, Lifetime, Marc Baril
Premiering tonight on the History, Lifetime and A&E networks is the mini-series Bonnie & Clyde directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) and starring Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Sarah Hyland, Elizabeth Reaser, Lane Garrison, Austin Hebert and Dale Dickey. The music of the two-parter is composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Elf, Hatfield & McCoys). La-La Land Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music on December 10. Check out our previous article for the full album details and more information about the series. Also click here to listen to a tracks from the score. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Martin Scorsese, Soundtrack, The Wolf of Wall Street
Virgin Records will release the official soundtrack album for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Billy Joel, Bo Diddley, Elmore James, Eartha Kitt, Howlin’ Wolf, The Lemonheads, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Cuba, Ahmad Jamal, Romeo Void and more. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 17, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Wolf of Wall Street is written by Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire) and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Jon Favreau, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jean Dujardin, Pj Byrne and Kenneth Choi. The movie tells the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. The Paramount Pictures production will be released nationwide on December 25, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
David Hirschfelder Scoring ‘Healing’
Posted: December 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Monahan, David Hirschfelder, Healing
David Hirschfelder has composed the music for the upcoming Australian drama Healing. The film is directed by Craig Monahan and stars Hugo Weaving, Xavier Samuel, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Jane Menelaus, Anthony Hayes, Mark Leonard Winter, Robert Taylor and Justine Clarke. The movie tells the story of a real-life prison inmate’s last 18 months before release after serving a 16-year term as he is sent to a low-security, pre-release prison farm, where a senior officer has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men. Monahan has co-written the screenplay with Alison Niselle and is also co-producing the project with Tait Brady (The 25th Reich). Hirschfelder has previously scored Monahan’s two last features The Interview and Peaches, both of which also starred Weaving in the leading role. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 6, 2013)
Posted: December 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bruce Retief, Dickon Hinchliffe, Eduardo Cruz, Expecting, Inside Llewyn Davis, Khumba, Mark Kilian, Max Richter, Out of the Furnace, T Bone Burnett, The Last Days on Mars, Twice Born
The only movie to open wide this weekend is the drama Out of the Furnace co-written and directed by Scott Cooper and starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoe Saldana and Sam Shepard. The film’s original score is composed by Dickon Hinchliffe (Winter’s Tale, Last Chance Harvey). Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. Check out our previous news article for the full album details. Also visit ASCAP’s We Create Music blog for an interview with Hinchliffe about his work on the film and to listen to the score.
Opening in limited release is the drama Inside Llewyn Davis directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund and Justin Timberlake. Nonesuch Records has released a soundtrack album produced by T Bone Burnett and the Coen Brothers, which features 12 new recordings made for the film performed by the movie’s cast, an existing recording by Dave Van Ronk, as well as a previously unreleased version of the song Farewell by Bob Dylan. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
56th Grammy Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: December 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Grammy Awards
The nominations for the 56th Grammy Awards have been announced. Here are the nominations in the film music-related categories:
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Argo (Alexandre Desplat) – WaterTower Music
- The Great Gatsby (Craig Armstrong) – WaterTower Music/Interscope
- Life of Pi (Mychael Danna) – Sony Classical
- Lincoln (John Williams) – Sony Classical
- Skyfall (Thomas Newman) – Sony Classical
- Zero Dark Thirty (Alexandre Desplat) – Madison Gate Records Read the rest of this entry »
Martin Léon Scoring ‘The Good Lie’
Posted: December 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Martin Leon, Philippe Falardeau, The Good Lie
Martin Léon is reuniting with director Philippe Falardeau on the upcoming indie drama The Good Lie. The movie marks the filmmaker’s first English language project and stars Reese Witherspoon, Corey Stoll, Sarah Baker and Brit Arnold Oceng. The film follows a young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys and develops an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them. Margaret Nagle (Warm Springs, Boardwalk Empire) has written the screenplay. Molly Smith (Beautiful Creatures, P.S. I Love You), Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill are producing the project for Black Label Media, alongside Brian Grazer & Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, 24) and Karen Kehela Sherwood (Blue Crush) for Imagine Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Yves Saint Laurent’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ibrahim Maalouf, score, Soundtrack, Yves Saint Laurent
WY Productions will release a soundtrack album for the biographical drama Yves Saint Laurent. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ibrahim Maalouf. Also included are the songs featured in the film by artists such as Brisa Roché, Chromatics, The Emotions, The Chamber Brothers, We the People, The Bossmen and Patrick Watson. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 6, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. Yves Saint Laurent is directed by Jalil Lespert and stars Pierre Niney in the title role of the French fashion designer and Guillaume Gallienne as Pierre Berge, his onetime romantic partner and fashion house co-founder. Charlotte Le Bon is also starring in the film. The movie will be released in France on January 8, 2014 and has been picked up by the Weinstein Company for a domestic release later in 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
