Mark Isham is scoring the upcoming action thriller Homefront. The movie is directed by Gary Fleder (Runaway Jury) and stars Jason Statham, James Franco, Frank Grillo, Winona Ryder, Izabela Vidovic and Kate Bosworth. The film follows an ex-DEA agent who moves his family to a quiet town hoping to escape his past and finds the town to be overrun with violence, drug traffickers and an evil meth magnate. Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay and is also producing the Millennium Films production with Kevin King Templeton (The Expendables, Rocky Balboa, Rambo) and Rene Besson (Drive Angry, The Mechanic). Avi Lerner and Trevor Short are executive producing the project. The composer has also previously collaborated with Fleder on such films as Kiss the Girls, Don’t Say a Word and The Express. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Isham Scoring ‘Homefront’
Posted: May 15, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gary Fleder, Homefront, Mark Isham
‘Monsters University’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 15, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Monsters University, Pixar, Randy Newman, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for Pixar’s animated feature Monsters University have been revealed. The album features the film’s original score by Academy Award-winning composer Randy Newman who has previously scored Pixar’s Monsters, Inc., as well as all three Toy Story films, A Bug’s Life and Cars. Also included is a track from Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso of the electronic music trio Swedish House Mafia. The soundtrack will be released on June 18, 2013 by Walt Disney Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Click here to listen to audio clips. Monsters University is directed by Dan Scanion and features the voice talent of Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi Jennifer Tilly, Frank Oz, John Ratzenberger and Kelsey Grammer. The animated movie will be released nationwide on June 21, 2013 by Walt Disney Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Giacchino to Score ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’
Posted: May 14, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Matt Reeves, Michael Giacchino, Planet of the Apes
Michael Giacchino confirmed on Twitter that he will be scoring the upcoming sci-fi sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The film is directed by Matt Reeves who previously collaborated with the composer on Let Me In and Cloverfield. The sequel stars Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Kodi-Smit McPhee, Keri Russell and Gary Oldman. While no specific plot details have been revealed yet, the film is said to be set 15 years after the events of the 2011 film and follows Caesar who is trying to maintain dominance over his kingdom, and the scientists struggling to survive in San Francisco. Peter Chernin & Dylan Clarke (Oblivion, The Heat) and screenwrites Amanda Silver & Rick Jaffa are producing the project. The original 2011 film featured a score by Patrick Doyle. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Elfman to Score Errol Morris’ ‘The Unknown Known’
Posted: May 14, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Elfman, Errol Morris, The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld, The Unknown Known
Danny Elfman has been tapped to score the upcoming documentary The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld. The film is directed by Errol Morris (The Fog of War, Tabloid) and draws on hours of filmed interviews and previously unpublished material from Rumsfeld’s private archive and looks at the former United States Secretary of Defense’s role in American history from Watergate to 9/11. Robert Fernandez and Amanda Branson Gill are producing the project for Moxie Pictures. The History Films, Radius-TWC and Participant Media production marks Elfman’s second collaboration with Morris following 2008’s Standard Operating Procedure. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Dress to Kill’ Score Released
Posted: May 13, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian De Palma, Dressed to Kill, Pino Donaggio, Randy Miller, score, Soundtrack, Yellow Rock
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack edition for Brian De Palma’s classic 1980 horror thriller Dressed to Kill starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen. The album features the remastered and expanded original score from the film composed by Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Don’t Look Now) and conducted by Natale Massara. To listen to audio clips and to order the album, visit Intrada’s online store, where you can also check out the full soundtrack details. Read the rest of this entry »
Varèse Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary Celebration
Posted: May 13, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Austin Wintory, Brian Tyler, Christopher Lennertz, Cliff Eidelman, Danny Elfman, Diego Navarro, Hans Zimmer, Joel McNelly, John Debney, John Powell, Mark Isham, Michael Giacchino, Varese Sarabande
Michael Giacchino conducting a suite from ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’
On Saturday night, film music label Varèse Sarabande hosted their 35th Anniversary Concert Gala at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro, California. The sold out concert was hosted and produced by Varese Sarabande’s Robert Townson and performed by the Golden State Pops Orchestra (GSPO) and Chorale. The event featured a special guest performance by Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer who performed a suite from Driving Miss Daisy on piano featuring Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger and violinist Ann Marie Calhoun. The suite also included a preview from the composer’s score for the upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel. Additionally, Academy Award-winner Michael Giacchino (Up) conducted the world premiere of a special suite from his score for Star Trek Into Darkness and John Powell (The Bourne Trilogy) conducted a suite from his Oscar-nominated score for Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to Score Stephen Frears’ ‘Philomena’
Posted: May 13, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Jerome Salle, Philomena, Roman Polanski, Stephen Frears, Venus in Fur, Zulu
Alexandre Desplat is reteaming with director Stephen Frears on the upcoming tragic comedy Philomena. The film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan is based on the book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search by BBC journalist Martin Sixsmith and tells the true story of an Irish woman seeking the illegitimate son she was forced to put up for adoption in the U.S. Coogan co-wrote the script with Jeff Pope and is also producing the BBC Films, Pathe and British Film Institute production with Gabrielle Tana (The Duchess, Coriolanus) and Tracey Seaward (The Queen, Dirty Pretty Things). Desplat has previously collaborated with Frears on the Academy Award-nominated drama The Queen, as well as Cheri and Tamara Drewe. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 12, 2013)
Posted: May 12, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: C.J. Vanston, Christopher Guest, Family Tree, HBO
Premiering tonight on HBO is the mockumentary comedy series Family Tree written and created by Christopher Guest and Jim Piddock and starring Chris O’Dowd, Tom Bennett and Nina Conti. The show’s music is composed by CJ Vanston who has previously written the music for Guest’s features Best in Show, For Your Consideration and Almost Heroes. Family Tree centers on a man who inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great aunt he never met and starts investigating his lineage and uncovers a world of unusual stories and characters. The show will air every Sunday night on HBO. For updates on the comedy, visit the official show website.
‘Now Is Good’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 12, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dustin O'Halloran, Now Is Good, score, Soundtrack, The Beauty Inside
Splinter Records has released a soundtrack album for the indie drama Now Is Good. The album features the film’s original score composed by Dustin O’Halloran (Like Crazy). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Now Is Good based on a novel by Jenny Downham is written and directed by Ol Parker (Imagine Me & You) and stars Dakota Fanning as a seventeen year old girl diagnosed with a terminal illness who resolves to live her life on fast forward and falls in love with her new neighbor. Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine, Kaya Scoledario and Olivia Williams are co-starring in the film, which is now available on DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
Theodore Shapiro to Score David Frankel’s ‘One Chance’
Posted: May 11, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Frankel, One Chance, Theodore Shapiro
Theodore Shapiro is reuniting with director David Frankel on the upcoming comedy biopic One Chance. The film stars Tony Award-winner James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Mackenzie Crook, Julie Walters and Colm Meaney. The movie tells the true story of Paul Potts, a bullied shop assistant, who performed as an amateur opera singer at night and became a YouTube phenomenon following his appearance on the reality show Britain’s Got Talent in 2007. Justin Zackham (The Bucket List, The Big Wedding) wrote the screenplay and Harvey and Bob Weinstein are producing the project with Mike Menchel, Brad Weston (Footloose), Kris Thykier (Kick-Ass, Stardust) and Simon Cowell (American Idol). Read the rest of this entry »
