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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Ólafur Arnalds Scoring ‘Broadchurch’
Posted: December 29, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Broadchurch, ITV, Ólafur Arnalds
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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 »
Will Bates Scoring ‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks’
Posted: December 26, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Gibney, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Will Bates
Will Bates is scoring the upcoming documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. The film is helmed by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Freakonomics) and explores the people and events behind the upstart website that rocked the U.S. government, ushered in a new era of transparency and ignited an information war. Gibney is producing the movie with Marc Shmuger (Dead of Winter) and Alexis Bloom. Bates is best known as a member of the composing duo Fall On Your Sword whose credits include such titles as Another Earth, Lola Versus and 28 Hotel Rooms. Read the rest of this entry »
WaterTower Music to Release ‘Beautiful Creatures’ Soundtrack
Posted: December 26, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Beautiful Creatures, Soundtrack, thenewno2
WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the fantasy romance Beautiful Creatures. The album features the film’s original music composed by the British rock band thenewno2. The soundtrack will be released on February 5, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The full album details, including cover art and track list will be revealed in a couple of weeks. Beautiful Creatures is directed by Richard LaGravenese and stars Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, Thomas Mann and Emma Thompson. The movie will be released on February 13, 2013 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Ryan Miller Scoring ‘Toy’s House’
Posted: December 25, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ryan Miller, Toy's House
Ryan Miller is the composer of the upcoming indie comedy Toy’s House. The film is directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and stars Nick Robinson (Melissa and Joey), Gabriel Basso (The Big C) and Moises Arias (Hannah Montana) as three unhappy teenage boys who flee to the wilderness where they build a makeshift house and live off the land as masters of their own destiny. Alison Brie, Erin Moriarty, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are co-starring. The movie is written by Chris Galletta and produced by Peter Saraf (Little Miss Sunshine), John Hodges and Tyler Davidson (Take Shelter) for Big Beach Films and Low Spark Films. Read the rest of this entry »
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)
Posted: December 25, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Richard Rodney Bennett
Richard Rodney Bennett has passed at age 76 on Christmas Eve in New York. The composer was born in 1936 and raised in Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Throughout his career, he has received three Academy Award nominations for his scores for John Schlesinger’s 1967 drama Far from the Madding Crowd starring Julie Christie & Terence Stamp, the 1971 historical drama Nicholas and Alexandra directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and Sidney Lumet’s 1974 mystery drama Murder on the Orient Express based on the novel by Agatha Christie. He also received two Grammy Award nominations for the latter two films. He was also honored with numerous BAFTA nominations and won the award for Murder on the Orient Express. His other film credits include John Schlesinger’s Yanks starring Richard Gere, Sidney Lumet’s Equus starring Richard Burton, the romantic comedy Indiscreet starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman and the 1994 hit comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral directed by Mike Newell and starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell. Read the rest of this entry »
