DMG TV will release a soundtrack album for the BBC original series Call the Midwife. The 2-CD set features all the key songs and incidental music from series 1, 2 and the Christmas Special, including classic songs performed by Doris Day, Malcolm Vaughan, Elvis Presley, Perry Como and Andy Williams. The soundtrack will be released in the UK on February 18, 2013. No word yet on a domestic release date. Call the Midwife created by Heidi Thomas (Cranford) and starring Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Miranda Hart, Judy Parfitt, Helen George, Bryony Hannah and Laura Main follows the newly qualified midwife Jenny Lee and the work of midwives and the nuns of Nonnatus House, a nursing convent. The first series aired last year on BBC and PBS in the US and the second series is set to debut this month in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Call the Midwife’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: January 1, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Call the Midwife, PBS, Soundtrack
Andrew Hewitt to Score ‘The Sea’
Posted: December 31, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Hewitt, John Banville, The Sea
Andrew Hewitt has signed on to score the upcoming drama The Sea. The film is directed by Stephen Brown and stars Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, Sinead Cusack, Missy Keating, Matthew Dillon and Padhraig Parkinson. The movie is based on the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by John Banville (Albert Nobbs) who adapted his work for the screen and tells the story of a man who returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife. Luc Roeg (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Michael Robinson (Mr. Nice) and David Collins (Once) of Samson Films are producing the Independent and Samson Films production in association with Rooks Nest Entertainment, Quicksilver Films, Windmill Lane Pictures and RTE. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer to Score ‘The Bible’ Mini-Series
Posted: December 30, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hans Zimmer, History Channel, Mark Burnett, The Bible
Hans Zimmer is scoring the History Channel’s upcoming mini-series The Bible. The 10-hour/five-part docudrama is created and executive produced by Mark Burnett (The Voice, Survivor) and Roma Downey (Touched by an Angel) and will cover the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, including stories from Noah’s Ark and the Exodus to Daniel in the Lion’s Den to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Keith David (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Platoon) is narrating the series, which stars Roma Downey, Diogo Morgado, Sean Teale, David Rintoul, Amber Rose Revah, Peter Guinness, Greg Hicks and Simon Kunz. Burnett and Downey are executive producing the project with Richard Bedser, Dirk Hoogstra and Julian P. Hobbs. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Promised Land’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 29, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Danny Elfman, Gus van Sant, Promised Land, score, Soundtrack
Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album for Gus Van Sant’s drama Promised Land. The album features the film’s original score composed by Danny Elfman who previously collaborated with the director on such films as Good Will Hunting, Milk and To Die For. Also included is the original song, Snake Eyes, written and performed by The Milk Carton Kids (Kenneth A. Pattengale and Joseph Edward Ryan). The soundtrack is now available on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. Promised Land starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Rosemarie DeWitt, Hal Holbrook, Scoot McNairy, Titus Welliver and Frances McDormand follows a corporate salesman who has his life turned around when he arrives in a rural town with his sales partner. Read the rest of this entry »
Ólafur Arnalds Scoring ‘Broadchurch’
Posted: December 29, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Broadchurch, ITV, Ólafur Arnalds
Ólafur Arnald is composing the score for the upcoming British mini-series Broadchurch. The eight-part series stars David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Vicky McClure, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Will Mellor and Arthur Darvill. The drama is written and created by Chris Chibnall (United, Torchwood) and follows a small British community that comes under scrutiny and suspicio in the wake of a boy’s death. James Strong (United, Downton Abbey) is directing the first two and the last two episodes. Richard Stokes (Silk, Law & Order: UK) is producing the Kudos Film and Television production and Jane Featherstone (The Hour, Life on Mars) is executive producing with Chibnal.
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 28, 2012)
Posted: December 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Anne Dudley, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Danny Elfman, Herbert Kretzmer, Les Miserables, Marc Shaiman, Nick Cave, Parental Guidance, Promised Land, Warren Ellis, West of Memphis
Three new movies have opened nationwide earlier this week on Christmas Day:
Topping the box office on Christmas Day was the movie musical Les Miserables directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Samantha Barks, Eddie Redmayne, Colm Wilkinson, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen. Universal Republic has released a soundtrack album featuring the film’s songs composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and produced and arranged by Anne Dudley. Also included is the new original song Suddenly composed by Schonberg and featuring lyrics by Alain Boublil. To find out more about the soundtrack and film, check out our previous article.
Also performing well in wide release is the western Django Unchained written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. Loma Vista Recording has released a soundtrack album featuring a couple of new original tracks, including 100 Black Coffins by Rick Ross and produced by and featuring Jamie Foxx, Who Did That To You? by John Legend, Ancora Qui by Ennio Morricone and Elisa, and the duet Freedom performed by Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Boynton. Also included are other tracks from classic soundtracks by such composers as Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, Luis Bacalov and Riz Ortolani. For the full track list, check out our soundtrack announcement. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Reitzell to Score NBC’s ‘Hannibal’
Posted: December 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian Reitzell, Bryan Fuller, David Slade, Hannibal, NBC, The Bling Ring
Brian Reitzell is scoring the upcoming NBC drama Hannibal. The show is based on the characters from Thomas Harris’ classic novels (The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon) and stars Hugh Dancy as Will Graham and Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter. Laurence Fishburne, Caroline Dhavernas, Eddie Izzard, Gina Torres, Molly Shannon, Gillian Anderson, Ellen Greene and Chelan Simmons are co-starring. The show, which centers on the serial killer’s budding relationship with the FBI agent, is developed by Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) who is also executive producing the project with Martha De Laurentiis (film versions of Hannibal, Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising), Sara Colleton (Dexter), Jesse Alexander (Lost) and Katie O’Connell. Read the rest of this entry »
Live to Projection Concerts of Michael Giacchino’s ‘Star Trek’ Score Announced
Posted: December 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: 21st Century Symphony Orchestra, J.J. Abrams, Michael Giacchino, Patrick Doyle, Star Trek
The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra has announced a concert featuring the world premiere performance of Academy Award-winning composer Michael Giacchino‘s original score for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek performed live to projection. The orchestra has collaborated with Giacchino and Paramount Pictures to arrange the score from the 2009 hit sci-fi film for a concert version performed live to picture. The music will be performed by the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra and the 21st Century Choir under the baton of Ludwig Wicki. Giacchino is expected to attend the concerts in person. The concerts will be held on three consecutive nights on April 12, 13 and 14, 2013 at the KKL Luzern Concert Hall in Lucerne, Switzerland. The orchestra and Wicki have previously worked together with composer Howard Shore for live to projection concerts of the scores for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which world premiered in Lucerne back in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Neil Davidge to Score ‘Citizen Koch’
Posted: December 27, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Carl Deal, Citizen Koch, Neil Davidge, Tia Lessin
Neil Davidge has been hired to score the upcoming documentary Citizen Koch. The film is directed by Carl Deal & Tia Lessin and examines the mushrooming struggle between money and democracy through the dramatic lens of the 2011 standoff in Wisconsin when Governor Scott Walker, bankrolled by out-of-state billionaires, stripped state employees of their union rights. Deal and Lessin are also producing the Elsewhere Films production with Gillian Caldwell. Davidge who is best known as a member of Massive Attack has previously co-scored the directors’ Academy Award-nominated 2008 doc Trouble in the Water. Read the rest of this entry »
’10 Cent Pistol’ to Feature Music by Jim Dooley
Posted: December 27, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 10 Cent Pistol, Jim Dooley, Michael C. Martin
Jim Dooley has signed on to score the noir thriller 10 Cent Pistol. The film is written and directed by Michael C. Martin and stars Jena Malone, JT Alexander, Damon Alexander, Joe Mantegna, Adam Arkin, Jessica Szohr, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Emilio Rivera and Haylie Duff. The movie tells the story of two brothers and lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles and a struggling actress who gets caught up in the brothers’ crimes. JT and Damon Alexander are also producing the Route 17 Entertainment production with Matt Tauber and Andy Hyde. The project marks the directorial debut of Martin who has written the screenplay for the 2009 thriller Brooklyn’s Finest starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke. Read the rest of this entry »
