Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) music branch governors Charles Fox, Arthur Hamilton and David Newman have announced in an email to music branch members today that the Oscar-nominated songs and scores will be performed in a live concert for the first time in 2014. The special concert will take place during Oscar Week, on Thursday, February 27, 2014, at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, CA. A symphony orchestra of Los Angeles studio musicians will perform a suite from each nominated score of up to 10 minutes in length. Subject to availability, each original composer will conduct his/her own work. The Academy is also planning a brief onstage conversation with composers and their directors about the process of creating music for motion pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Academy to Present Live Concert featuring Oscar-nominated Scores & Songs
Posted: July 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Academy Awards
‘Machete Kills’ to Feature Music by Carl Thiel
Posted: July 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Carl Thiel, Machete Kills, Robert Rodriguez, When Angels Sing
Carl Thiel has composed the score for the upcoming action sequel Machete Kills. The film is written and directed by Robert Rodriguez and stars Danny Trejo in the title role of ex-Federale agent Machete who is recruited by the President of the United States to take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet. Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Charlie Sheen, Lady Gaga, Antonio Banderas, Jessica Alba, Demián Bichir and Mel Gibson are co-starring in the Troublemaker Studios production. Kyle Ward has written the screenplay based on a story by Robert & Marcel Rodriguez. Thiel previously scored Rodriguez’s Shorts and Spy Kids: All the Time in the World 4D and the Planet Terror segment from Grindhouse. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: July 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Soundtrack, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
The full details of the soundtrack album for the fantasy adventure The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones have been revealed. The album features the film’s songs by artists including Zedd, Jessie J, AFI, Demi Lovato, Youngblood Hawke, Colbie Caillat, Seven Lions with Myon & Shane 54 feat. Tove Lo, Pacific Air, He Is We feat. Owl City, Jetta, Bassnectar and Bryan Ellis. The soundtrack will be released on August 20, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on iTunes. As previously reported, a separate album featuring the film’s score by Atli Orvarsson will be released on Milan Records. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is directed by Harald Zwart and stars Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Lena Headey, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Aidan Turner, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Durand and Jared Harris. The film based on the first book of the bestselling Young Adult book series by Cassandra Clare is set to be released on August 23, 2013 by Sony’s Screen Gems. Read the rest of this entry »
Johnny Klimek Takes Over Scoring Duties on HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’
Posted: July 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, Johnny Klimek, The Newsroom, Wolf Creek 2
Johnny Klimek is the new composer of the HBO original series The Newsroom. The co-composer of such films as Run Lola Run, The Perfume, The International, One Hour Photo, Killer Elite and last year’s Cloud Atlas, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, is writing the score for the second season of the show created by Aaron Sorkin. The first season, which premiered last year on HBO was scored by Alex Wurman. The main title theme by Thomas Newman will continue to be used for the new season. The Newsroom starring Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel and Sam Waterston follows the people who make a nightly cable-news program and tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtracks for BBC’s ‘The Hour’ and ‘The Paradise’ Announced
Posted: July 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Daniel Giorgetti, Kevin Sargent, Maurizio Malagnini, score, Soundtrack, The Hour, The Paradise
Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the Golden Globe-, Emmy- and BAFTA-nominated BBC series The Hour. The album features selections from the score of the first season of the show composed by Daniel Giorgetti and from the second season composed by Kevin Sargent. The soundtrack will be released in the UK on August 5, 2013. No word yet on a domestic release. The Hour written and created by Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Shame) stars Romola Garai, Dominic West and Ben Whishaw, as well as Tim Pigott-Smith, Juliet Stevenson, Burn Gorman, Anton Lesser, Anna Chancellor, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Oona Chaplin. The show set in the world of 1950s television journalism premiered in 2011 on BBC in the UK and the two seasons of the series aired in the US on BBC America. Read the rest of this entry »
‘R.I.P.D.’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christophe Beck, R.I.P.D., score, Soundtrack, T Bone Burnett
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the supernatural action adventure R.I.P.D.. The album features the film’s original score composed by Christophe Beck (The Hangover, The Muppets, Red), as well as the song The Better Man performed by Jeff Bridges and co-written and produced by T Bone Burnett. The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 16, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. R.I.P.D. is directed by Robert Schwentke (Red, Flightplan) and stars Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds as two cops dispatched by the otherworldly Rest In Peace Department to protect and serve the living from an increasingly destructive array of souls who refuse to move peacefully to the other side. Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker and Stephanie Szostak are co-starring. The movie will be released on July 19, 2013 by Universal Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Dickon Hinchliffe to Score Steven Knight’s ‘Locke’
Posted: July 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dickon Hinchliffe, Locke, Steven Knight
Dickon Hinchliffe has been tapped to score the upcoming real-time thriller Locke. The film is written and directed by Steven Knight (screenwriter of Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things) and stars Tom Hardy in the title role as Ivan Locke who has the perfect family and a dream job, but a phone call forces him to make a decision that will put it all on the line. Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Tom Holland and Andrew Scott are co-starring. Paul Webster (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) is producing the IM Global production with Guy Heeley for Shoebox Films. Joe Wright is executive producing. Knight previously collaborated with composer Dario Marianelli on his feature directorial debut Redemption starring Jason Statham. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The World’s End’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Edgar Wright, Soundtrack, The World's End
The details of the soundtrack album for the upcoming comedy The World’s End have been announced.The album features the songs from the film by artists including Primal Scream, Blur, The Doors, Kylie Minogue, Soup Dragons, Suede, Pulp, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Soul II Soul, The Sisters of Mercy, The Housemartins and The Sundays. The soundtrack will be released in the UK digitally on July 15, 2013 and physically on July 29 by Polydor. ABKCO Records will release the soundtrack in the US on August 20. To pre-order the album, visit Amazon. The World’s End is directed by Edgar Wright and marks the third and final part of the director’s “cornetto” trilogy of comedies written by Wright and Simon Pegg and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan are co-starring. The movie will be released in the UK on July 19 and in the US on August 23 by Focus Feature. Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Bates to Score AMC’s ‘Low Winter Sun’
Posted: July 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, Low Winter Sun, Tyler Bates
Tyler Bates is composing the score for the upcoming AMC original series Low Winter Sun. The show is created by Chris Mundy (Criminal Minds) and stars Mark Strong as a Detroit cop who helps murder a fellow lawman and believes he has pulled off the perfect crime. Lennie James, Erika Alexander, James Ransone, David Costabile, Sprague Grayden, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Athena Karkanis are co-starring in the show, which is based on a British mini-series of the same title from 2006. Mindy is executive producing the series with Jeremy Gold (Hell on Wheels) and Greg Brenman (The Boys Are Back, Billy Elliot). Low Winter Sun is set to premiere on August 11, 2013 and the first season of ten episodes will air every Sunday on AMC. Read the rest of this entry »
Film Music Panels at Comic-Con 2013 Announced
Posted: July 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Brian Tyler, Chris Tilton, Christopher Lennertz, Comic-Con, Dave Jordan, FM Le Sieur, Geoff Zanelli, iZLER, Marco Beltrami, Matthew Margeson, Robert Duncan
(Updated from a previous article posted on July 5).
The line-up for two film music-related panels at Comic-Con 2013 has been announced. On Thursday, July 18, a number of film directors and composers will participate in the panel The Anatomy of Superhero Film Music: Bringing a Comic Book to Life. Composer Marco Beltrami and director James Mangold (The Wolverine), composer Brian Tyler and director Shane Black (Iron Man 3), composer Matthew Margeson and director Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2), composer Christopher Lennertz (Marvel: Agent Carter) and music supervisor Dave Jordan (The Avengers) will discuss the challenges faced when bringing a comic book character to life and giving that character a voice, working with directors and how they collaborate to convey the story of the character. Read the rest of this entry »
