Steve Jablonsky and Nathan Whitehead have signed on to compose the music for the upcoming TNT original series The Last Ship. Jablonsky is composing the main themes and Whitehead is providing the score for the show created by Hank Steinberg (Without a Trace) and Steven Kane (The Closer) and starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin and Tracy Middendorf. The drama opens with a global catastrophe that nearly decimates the world’s population and follows the crew of a lone naval destroyer who must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction. Michael Bay is producing the project with his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Amityville Horror), alongside Steinberg and Kane. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Jablonsky & Nathan Whitehead to Score TNT’s ‘The Last Ship’
Posted: November 13, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Michael Bay, Nathan Whitehead, Steve Jablonsky, The Last Ship, TNT, Transformers, Transformers: Age of Extinction
‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 13, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Stiller, Soundtrack, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Republic Records will release the official soundtrack album for Ben Stiller’s fantasy comedy drama The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The album features the songs from the film, including the original song Stay Out performed by Jose Gonzalez and written by the film’s composer Theodore Shapiro and Craig Wedren (click here for more information about the song). Also included are other songs from and inspired by the movie by artists including Junip, Of Monsters and Men, Rogue Wave, David Bowie, Jack Johnson, Grace Mitchell and Rogue Valley. The soundtrack will be released on December 17, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty stars Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn and Sean Penn. The film based on James Thurber’s classic story follows a magazine photo manager who daydreams of exciting adventures, only to find himself in an adventure of his own when he goes in search of a missing negative. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Lolita’ Score by Ennio Morricone to Be Released
Posted: November 13, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: American Friends, Ennio Morricone, Georges Delerue, Lolita, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album for Adrianne Lyne’s 1997 film adaptation of Vladmir Nabokov’s novel Lolita starring Jeremy Irons Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith and Frank Langella. The album features the film’s original music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, Once Upon a Time in America), including 35 minutes of previously unreleased material. To check out audio clips and find out more about the soundtrack release, which is set to be released on December 2, 2013, visit the label’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
Mac Quayle to Score ‘L.A. Slasher’
Posted: November 13, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Belfast Story, L.A. Slasher, Mac Quayle
Mac Quayle has been hired to score the upcoming horror comedy L.A. Slasher. The film is written and directed by Martin Owen and stars Mischa Barton, Eric Roberts, Dave Bautista, Danny Trejo, Drake Bell and Brooke Hogan. The movie is a satirical take on the horror genre set against the celebrity obsessed world of modern day Los Angeles. Daniel Sollinger is producing the project.
Quayle has previously scored the Netflix series Bad Samaritans and co-composed the music for the drama A Belfast Story starring Colm Meaney with Nick Glennie-Smith. He also collaborated with Cliff Martinez as an additional music composer and music programmer on a number of projects. Read the rest of this entry »
‘La Marche’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 13, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: La marche, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Warbeck
Hamburger Records will release a soundtrack album for the French comedy La Marche. The album features the film’s original score written by Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love, Quills). Also included are the songs from the film by such artists as The Mamas & The Papas, Punkin Machine, Suicide and Charles Trenet. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 25, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. La Marche directed by Nabil Ben Yadir and stars Jamel Debbouze, Olivier Gourmet, Hafsia Herzi and Lubna Azabal. The movie is inspired by the events during the “Marche des Beurs” that swept through France in December 1983 to protest against inequality and discrimination in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer to Produce Junkie XL’s ‘Divergent’ Score
Posted: November 12, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Divergent, Hans Zimmer, Junkie XL, Neil Burger
Following our news article from earlier this week, it was revealed today that Hans Zimmer will serve as the executive score producer on the sci-fi adventure film Divergent. Junkie XL (aka Tom Holkenberg) is composing the score for the film based on Veronica Roth’s bestselling novel, directed by Neil Burger and starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Aaron Eckhart, Miles Teller, Ray Stevenson, Zoe Kravitz, Ansel Elgort, Jai Courtney, Ashley Judd and Maggie Q. The composer whose other previous and upcoming scoring credits include 300: Rise of an Empire, Mad Max: Fury Road, Paranoia has previously collaborated with Zimmer numerous times, providing additional music for such film as Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Rises, Madagascar series, Shark Tale and Megamind. Read the rest of this entry »
The Crystal Method Scoring Fox’s ‘Almost Human’
Posted: November 12, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Almost Human, Fox, J.H. Wyman, The Crystal Method
The Crystal Method are composing the score for the new Fox series Almost Human. The show is created by J.H. Wyman (The Mexican, Fringe) and stars Karl Urban, Michael Ealy, Minka Kelly, Lili Taylor, Mackenzie Crook and Michael Irby. The drama is set 35 years in the future, when police officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like android and follows a respected police officer who has shut down emotionally after a tragic mission that claimed the lives of nine of his fellow elite officers. Wyman is also executive producing the Bonanza Productions, Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television production with J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk (Lost, Revolution). Read the rest of this entry »
Jose Gonzalez’s ‘Step Out’ from ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Released
Posted: November 12, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Stiller, Craig Wedren, Jose Gonzalez, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Theodore Shapiro
The original song Step Out performed by Jose Gonzalez from Ben Stiller’s upcoming dramedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has been released. The song is composed by the film’s composer Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada, Tropic Thunder) and Craig Wedren (The School of Rock, Role Models). To download the single, visit Amazon. The song is also used in the film’s trailer, which is embedded after the jump. Universal Republic will release a soundtrack album for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on December 17, 2013 (click here to pre-order the CD). The full album details will be posted on this site soon. The movie starring Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn and Sean Penn is based on James Thurber’s classic story and follows a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. Read the rest of this entry »
John Tavener (1944 – 2013)
Posted: November 12, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: John Tavener
John Tavener has passed away at age 69. The British composer was best known for his concert work, but also worked on a couple of major films, most notably Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 movie Children of Men. Tavener also composed the music for the international co-production Battle in Heaven directed by Carlos Reygadas and Werner Herzog’s documentary short Pilgrimage. The composer’s concert music was also used in a number of films, including Terence Malick’s The Tree of Life. He received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 for services to music.Tavener died at his home in Child Okeford, Southern England. Read the rest of this entry »
Maurice Jarre’s ‘Prancer’ Score Released
Posted: November 12, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bruce Broughton, Maurice Jarre, Prancer, score, Soundtrack, The Thanksgiving Promise
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1989 Christmas fantasy family drama Prancer directed by John D. Hancock and starring Sam Elliot, Cloris Leachman and Johnny Galecki. The album features the film’s original score written and conducted by Academy Award-winning composer Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ghost). To order the soundtrack for the MGM production, visit the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips and check out the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
