Roque Banos has signed on to score the upcoming English-language remake of Oldboy. The film is directed by Spike Lee (Malcolm X, Inside Man) and stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley. The movie follows an advertising executive who is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement and sets out to find out who held him hostage and why when he is inexplicably released. Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, Thor) wrote the screenplay based on Chan-wook Park’s acclaimed Korean film from 2003 and Roy Lee & Doug Davison (The Strangers, The Lake House) and Nathan Kahane (Juno, 50/50) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Roque Banos to Score Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’
Posted: August 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Oldboy, Roque Banos, Spike Lee
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‘The World’s End’ Score Album Released
Posted: August 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Edgar Wright, score, Soundtrack, Steven Price, The World's End
Back Lot Music has released a score album for Edgar Wright’s final movie in his Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. The album features the film’s original music composed by Steven Price (Gravity) who previously scored the Wright-produced horror comedy Attack the Block and served as music editor on the director’s last feature Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. As previously reported, ABKCO Records has also released a separate soundtrack album featuring the film’s songs today. The World’s End reunites Wright with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan are co-starring in the comedy, which opened in the UK earlier this summer and will be released in the US this Friday, August 23 by Focus Features. Read the rest of this entry »
Robin Coudert Scoring Alexandre Aja’s ‘Horns’
Posted: August 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Aja, Horns, Rob, Robin Coudert
Robin Coudert (aka Rob) has composed the score for the upcoming supernatural thriller Horns. The film is directed by Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha, High Tension) and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson, Kelli Garner, Heather Graham, David Morse, Kathleen Quinlan and James Remar. The movie is based on the fantasy/thriller novel by Joe Hill and follows a small town guy blamed for the murder of his girlfriend who awakens one morning to find a pair of horns growing from his head. Keith Bunin (In Treatment) has written the screenplay. Aja is also producing the Red Granite Pictures and Mandalay Pictures production with Cathy Schulman (Crash, The Illusionist), Riza Aziz & Joey McFarland (Friends with Kids, The Wolf of Wall Street). Read the rest of this entry »
David Newman’s ‘Paradise’ and Robert Folk’s ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ Scores Released
Posted: August 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Can't Buy Me Love, David Newman, Paradise, Robert Folk, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1991 drama Paradise directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue and starring Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood and Thora Birch. The film’s music is composed and conducted by Academy Award-nominated composer David Newman (Ice Age, Anastasia, Serenity). Also featured on the album is the world premiere score release for the 1987 teen comedy Can’t Buy Me Love directed by Steve Rash and starring Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson and Seth Green. The movie’s music is composed and conducted by Robert Folk (Police Academy, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Nothing to Lose). To listen to audio clips and to order the limited edition soundtrack, visit Intrada’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Revenge’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ABC, iZLER, Revenge, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records will release a soundtrack album for the ABC hit drama Revenge. The album features selections from the show’s original score from the first two seasons composed by iZLER (Shameless, Natural Selection) who records his music weekly with a live orchestra. The soundtrack will be released tomorrow, August 20. Check back on this page for audio clips. For a preview of the track Requiem for Amanda, visit ABC’s Music Lounge. Revenge created by Mike Kelley stars Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe, Gabriel Mann, Henry Czerny and Ashley Madekwe. The second season will also be released this Tuesday on DVD and third season is set to premiere on September 29 and will every Sunday on ABC. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Suby to Score The CW’s ‘The Originals’
Posted: August 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Michael Suby, The CW, The Originals
Michael Suby is set to score the upcoming CW series The Originals. The show created by Julie Plec is a spin-off of the network’s hit series The Vampire Diaries and stars Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Claire Holt, Phoebe Tonkin, Charles Michael Davis, Daniella Pineda, Leah Pipes and Danielle Campbellas. The drama follows the Original family, the first existing vampires in the world that was first seen in the second season. Plec is executive producing the Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios production with Leslie Morgenstein (Gossip Girl) and Gina Girolamo (The Lying Game). Suby whose previous credits include the feature The Butterfly Effect and ABC Family’s Kyle XY and Pretty Little Liars has scored all episodes of The Vampire Diaries and will also return to score the show’s fifth season this fall. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Warbeck to Score ‘Keeping Rosy’
Posted: August 18, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Keeping Rosy, La marche, Stephen Warbeck
Stephen Warbeck is scoring the upcoming psychological thriller Keeping Rosy. The film marks the directorial feature debut of commercials director Steve Reeves and stars Maxine Peake, Blake Harrison and Christine Bottomley. The movie follows a female advertising executive whose life disintegrates after a series of unfortunate events. Reeves has co-written the screenplay with Mike Oughton. Richard Holmes (Waking Ned Devine, Eden Lake, Resistance) and Isabelle Georgeaux are producing the Air Productions and Redemption Films production. Warbeck has previously scored the British comedy Jadoo for the producers. Keeping Rosy is currently in post-production and is expected to be released in 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Luther’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: August 18, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, BBC America, Luther, Paul Englishby, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack release for the BBC series Luther. The album features selections from the show’s original score of the first three seasons composed by Paul Englishby (An Education, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day), as well as songs featured in the series by artists including Massive Attack, Nina Simone, Emiliana Torrini, Marilyn Manson, The Heavy, Kasabian and Suede. The soundtrack will be released overseas on September 9, 2013. No word yet on a domestic release. Luther created by Neil Cross and executive produced by Phillippa Giles stars Idris Elba as near-genius detective John Luther. The BBC and BBC America co-production premiered in 2010. The third season of the series aired earlier this summer in the UK and is set to premiere in the US on September 3 on BBC America. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Grabowsky Scoring ‘Words and Pictures’
Posted: August 17, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fred Schepisi, Paul Grabowsky, Words and Pictures
Paul Grabowsky has reteamed with director Fred Schepisi (The Russia House, Roxanne, Six Degrees of Separation) to score the director’s upcoming romantic comedy drama Words and Pictures. The film starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche takes place at an insular New England prep school and follows an English teacher who challenges the school’s art teacher to a “war” between words and pictures and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance. Gerald DiPego (Phenomenon, The Forgotten, Message in a Bottle) has written the screenplay and is also producing the Latitude Productions and Lascaux Films production with Schepisi and Curtis Burch. Grabowsky and Schepisi have previously collaborated on such films as Last Orders, It Runs in the Family, Empire Falls and The Eye of the Storm. Words and Pictures is set to premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 16, 2013)
Posted: August 16, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Austenland, Brian Tyler, Daniel Hart, Emmy the Great, Henry Jackman, Ilan Eshkeri, jOBS, John Debney, Junkie XL, Kick-Ass 2, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Matthew Margeson, Paranoia, Rodrigo Leão, Standing Up
Four new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the drama The Butler starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber and Robin Williams. The film’s original music is composed by Rodrigo Leão (Lisbon Story). Verve International has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this year. For the full album details and to listen to audio clips, check out our soundtrack announcement.
Also opening wide is the superhero action comedy sequel Kick-Ass 2 directed by Jeff Wadlow and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jim Carrey, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Donald Faison, Clark Duke, John Leguizamo and Morris Chestnut. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the film’s songs by artists (click here for the full details and audio clips). The film’s original score is composed by Henry Jackman (X-Men: First Class) and Matthew Margeson (Skyline). La-La Land Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the score digitally earlier this week. Check out our previous article for audio clips and more information. For recent interviews with Margeson about his work on the film, visit Film Music Magazine, Comic Book Therapy and Reel Film News. Read the rest of this entry »
