Timothy Michael Wynn is scoring the upcoming comedy The Starving Games. The comedic take on The Hunger Games is directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer and stars Maiara Walsh as the parody version of Katniss Everdeen and Brant Daugherty as the spoof version of Gale. Cody Christian, Juhahn Jones and Taylor Ashley Murphy are co-starring. The film also pokes fun at other films, including The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes and the Harry Potter finale. Peter Safran (Buried, The Conjuring) is producing the project through his production company. Friedberg’s and Seltzer’s last couple of spoof movies, including Vampires Suck, Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie featured music by Christopher Lennertz. Read the rest of this entry »
Timothy Michael Wynn Scoring ‘The Starving Games’
Posted: April 24, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg, The Starving Games, Timothy Michael Wynn
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More from ‘Pitch Perfect’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 24, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: More from Pitch Perfect, Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack
Universal Music Group has released a second soundtrack album for last year’s hit comedy Pitch Perfect. The album features more songs from the movie, including a new version of Cups performed by the film’s star Anna Kenrick, Nicki Minaj’s CleanStarships, Andy Grammer’s Keep Your Head Up and Yeasayer’s Rome. The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes. A CD version is set to be released on May 14, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. For the details of the original soundtrack album, check out our previous article. Pitch Perfect directed by Jason Moore and starring Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Alexis Knapp, Adam DeVine, Freddie Stroma, Hana Mae Lee, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Skylar Astin is now available on Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Gabriel Mann Scoring ABC Family’s ‘Twisted’
Posted: April 23, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC Family, Gabriel Mann, Twisted
Gabriel Mann has been tapped to score the upcoming ABC Family mystery drama Twisted. The show is created by Adam Milch and stars Avan Jogia, Maddie Hasson, Kylie Bunbury, Kimberly Quinn, Sam Robards, Ashton Moio and Denise Richards. The series follows a charismatic 16-year-old with a troubled past, who recently reconnected with his two female best friends from childhood and becomes the prime suspect when a fellow student is found dead in her home. Jon Amiel (Entrapment, Sommersby, The Core) has directed the pilot episode. Gavin Polone (Zombieland, Gilmore Girls) and David Babcock are executive producing the project with Milch. Mann has previously scored the Polone-produced ABC Family series Jane by Design. Read the rest of this entry »
Rolfe Kent Scoring Jason Bateman’s ‘Bad Words’
Posted: April 23, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bad Words, Jason Bateman, Rolfe Kent
Rolfe Kent is the composer of the upcoming dark indie comedy Bad Words. The film marks the feature directorial debut of actor Jason Bateman who also stars in the film, alongside Allison Janney, Phillip Baker Hall, Ben Falcone and Rohan Chandz. The movie follows a bitter 41-year-old high school drop out who uses a loophole in the system to enter a national kids’ spelling bee. Andrew Dodge wrote the black-listed screenplay and Bateman is also producing the Aggregate Films, MXN Entertainment and Darko Entertainment production with Mason Novick (Juno, 500 Days of Summer), Sean McKittrick (Donnie Darko, The Box), Ted Hamm and Jeff Culotta (God Bless America). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Kon-Tiki’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Johan Söderqvist, Kon-Tiki, score, Soundtrack
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Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the Norwegian epic drama Kon-Tiki. The album features the film’s original score composed by Johan Söderqvist (Let the Right One In) who recorded his score at Abbey Road Studios in London. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 26, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Kon-Tiki is directed by Espen Sandberg & Joachim Rønning and tells the story of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s voyage on a balsa-wood raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947. The movie stars Pål Sverre Hagen, Agnes Kittelsen, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Tobias Santelmann, Donald Baasmo Christiansen, James Oftebro, Gustaf Skarsgård and Søren Pilmark. The movie was one of the five nominated titles in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category at this year’s Academy Awards. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Almost Christmas’ to Feature Music by Graham Reynolds
Posted: April 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Almost Christmas, Before Midnight, Graham Reynolds, Phil Morrison
Graham Reynolds has composed the score for the indie comedy drama Almost Christmas. The film is directed by Phil Morrison and stars Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, Sally Hawkins, Amy Landecker, Peter Hermann and Emory Cohen. The movie follows two French Canadian Christmas tree salesmen who travel to New York to sell trees. Melissa James Gibson (The Americans) has written the screenplay and Daniel Carey & Elizabeth Giamatti (Cold Souls), John Penotti (Awake, Uptown Girls) and Jim Tauber (Stand Up Guys) are producing the Touchy Feely Films and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment production. Read the rest of this entry »
a-ha’s Magne Furuholmen to Score ‘Beatles’ Movie
Posted: April 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beatles, Jørgen Storm Rosenberg, Magne Furuholmen
Magne Furuholmen, best known as a member of the international pop group a-ha, has signed on to compose the original score, as well as supervise the recordings of other music for the upcoming film Beatles. The movie is based on the bestselling novel by Lars Saabye Christensen and tells the story about four Norwegian youngsters growing up in the 60s and 70s, modeling themselves on their musical heroes: The Beatles. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg whose last feature Kon-Tiki was nominated in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category at this year’s Academy Awards are directing the film from a script by Axel Hellstenius (Elling). Jørgen Storm Rosenberg (The Bothersome Man) is producing the project through his production company and has signed a deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing and EMI that several of The Beatles’ original recordings can be used in their entirety in the film. Read the rest of this entry »
Philippe Rombi Scoring Francois Ozon’s ‘Young & Beautiful’
Posted: April 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Francois Ozon, In the House, Jeune et jolie, Philippe Rombi, Young & Beautiful
Philippe Rombi is reuniting with director Francois Ozon on the upcoming French drama Young & Beautiful (Jeune et jolie). The movie is written and directed by Ozon and stars Marine Vacth, Charlotte Rampling, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Fantin Ravat and Johan Leisen. No specific plot details have been revealed yet, but the film has been described as a “contemporary portrait of a teenage girl of 17, in 4 seasons and 4 songs”. Eric & Nicolas Altmayer are producing the project. Rombi and Ozon have previously collaborated numerous times, including on such films as Swimming Pool, Angel and Potiche, as well as on the recent thriller In the House, which just opened in select U.S. cities this weekend. Young & Beautiful is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month and is scheduled to be released on August 21, 2013 in France. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 21, 2013)
Posted: April 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, All the President's Men Revisited, Christopher Lennertz, Discovery, Gabriel Mann, Nathan Halpern, Nick Green, PBS, Rectify, Remember Sunday, Sundance Channel, The Bletchley Circle
Premiering tomorrow, April 22, is the drama Rectify created by Ray McKinnon and starring Clayne Crawford, Abigail Spencer, Adelaide Clements, Jonah Lotan and J. Smith Cameron. The show follows a man who is released from Death Row after spending 19 years in prison and returns to his hometown where he must readjust to his new life, including unfamiliar family members and surroundings. Gabriel Mann (Modern Family, Jane by Design) has composed the show’s score, as well as the main titles theme. Check out a recent article about the composer’s work on the project in the Salt Lake Tribune. The six-part series will air every Monday night on the Sundance Channel. To learn more about the show, visit the official series website. Read the rest of this entry »
Dominic Lewis to Score ‘Free Birds’
Posted: April 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dominic Lewis, Free Birds, Jimmy Hayward
Dominic Lewis has signed on to score the upcoming animated feature Free Birds. The film is directed by Jimmy Hayward and follows two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history. The movie’s voice cast includes Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Amy Poehler, Dan Fogler, Lesley Nicol, George Takei, Colm Meaney and Keith David. David I. Stern (Open Season 2 & 3) and John Strauss (There’s Something About Mary, The Wild) wrote the screenplay with a rewrite by Craig Mazin (Identity Thief, The Hangover Part II & III). The writers are also producing the Relativity Media and Reel FX production with Scott Mosier (Clerks, Dogma). Hayword previously collaborated with composer John Powell on his last animated feature Horton Hears a Who!. Read the rest of this entry »
