Stephen Trask is reteaming with director Paul Weitz on the upcoming comedy Admission. The film starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd follows an unmarried college admissions counselor who falls for a former classmate. Michael Sheen, Lily Tomlin, Wallace Shawn, Gloria Reuben and Nat Wolff are co-starring in the Focus Features production. Karen Croner (One True Thing) has written the screenplay and Weitz is producing the project with Kerry Kohansky-Roberts (Nick and Norah’s Ultimate Playlist) and Andrew Miano (A Single Man). Trask has previously collaborated with Weitz on such films as In Good Company, American Dreamz, Cirque du Freak and Little Fockers. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Trask Scoring Paul Weitz’s ‘Admission’
Posted: November 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Admission, Paul Weitz, Stephen Trask
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Republic Records to Release ‘Les Miserables’ Soundtrack
Posted: November 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alain Boublil, Anne Dudley, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Les Miserables, Soundtrack, Tom Hooper
Republic Records will release the official soundtrack album for Tom Hooper’s new film adaptation of Les Miserables. The album features the film’s songs composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg and with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, as well as the new original song Suddenly composed by Schonberg and featuring lyrics by Alain Boublil. As previously reported, Anne Dudley serves as the movie’s music producer. The soundtrack is set to be released on December 24, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this site for the full album details. Les Miserables stars Hugh Jackman in the lead role of Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert, Anne Hathaway as Fantine, Amanda Seyfried as Cosette, Eddie Redmayne as Marius and Helena Bonham Carter & Sacha Baron Cohen as Mr. and Mrs. Thernardier. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to Reunite with Wes Anderson on ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Posted: November 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, George Clooney, La trilogie marseillaise: Marius, Rise of the Guardians, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Monuments Men, Wes Anderson
Alexandre Desplat revealed in a recent interview with RedCarpetNewsTV at the London premiere of Dreamworks’s Animation’s Rise of the Guardians that he will be reuniting with director Wes Anderson on his next film The Grand Budapest Hotel. Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Saoirse Ronan are attached to star in the film produced by Anderson, Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men, The Social Network), Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson (Moonrise Kingdom). The movie is set to start shooting in January of next year. The project will mark the composer’s third collaboration with the director following The Fantastic Mr. Fox and this year’s Moonrise Kingdom. Read the rest of this entry »
La-La Land Records to Release Joe Kraemer’s ‘Jack Reacher’ Score
Posted: November 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher McQuarrie, Jack Reacher, Joe Kraemer, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records will release a score album for the upcoming thriller Jack Reacher. The album features the film’s original score composed by Joe Kraemer who has previously worked with director Christopher McQuarrie on The Way of the Gun. The soundtrack will be released on December 18, 2012. The full details will be posted on this site within the next few weeks. Jack Reacher stars Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo and Robert Duvall. The film is based on the novel One Shot written by Lee Child follows the military policeman-turned-drifter Jack Reacher, who gets sucked into the mystery surrounding the arrest of a sniper accused of killing five random people in a shooting. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans Scoring ‘Magic Magic’
Posted: November 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bluebird, Daniel Bensi, Desert Cathedral, Magic Magic, Saunder Jurriaans, Simon Killer
Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans are scoring the upcoming psychological thriller Magic Magic. The film is written and directed by Sebastián Silva (The Maid) and stars Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning and Catalina Sandino Moreno. The movie follows a young American who is vacationing with her friends in a remote part of Chile and begins to mentally unravel and enter into a world of disturbing landscapes and crushing terror. The thriller is produced by Frida Torresblanco (Pan’s Labyrinth) for Braven Films, Christine Vachon (Boys Don’t Cry, Far from Heaven) for Killer Films and Mike White (Nacho Libre) & David Bernad (HBO’s Enlightened) for Rip Cord Productions. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Bay’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Barry Levinson, Marcelo Zarvos, score, Soundtrack, The Bay
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for Barry Levinson’s horror thriller The Bay. The album features the film’s original score composed by Marcelo Zarvos (The Words, The Good Shepherd) who previously collaborated with the director on What Just Happened? and HBO’s You Don’t Know Jack. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 20, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on iTunes. Check back on this site for audio clips. The Bay starring Will Rogers and Christopher Denham is set in a small Maryland town and takes place after an ecological disaster occurs. The film premiered at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and was released in select theaters and on VOD earlier this month. Read the rest of this entry »
Rachel Portman Scoring ‘Still Life’
Posted: November 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Rachel Portman, Still Life, Uberto Pasolini
Rachel Portman is currently recording her score for the British comedy drama Still Life. The film is written and directed by the composer’s husband Uberto Pasolini and stars Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, Andrew Buchan and Brosnon Webb. The movie follows a case worker who looks for relatives of those found dead alone. Pasolini is also producing the Red Wave/Embargo Films production with Christopher Simon & Felix Vossen (The Sweeney, Pusher). Pasolini who received an Academy Award nomination for producing The Full Monty has previously worked with Portman as a producer on such films as The Closer You Get, The Emperor’s New Clothes and Bel Ami. Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary to Score ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’
Posted: November 13, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Bear McCreary, Da Vinci's Demons, David S. Goyer, Starz
Less than a day following the announcement of Bear McCreary‘s involvement in the sci-fi thriller The Europa Report. Starz Entertainment and BBC Worldwide Productions have revealed today that the composer has also signed on score the upcoming historical fantasy series Da Vinci’s Demons. The show is created by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) who also directed the first two episodes and stars Tom Riley, Laura Haddock, Lucrezia Donati, Elliot Cowan, Lorenzo Medici and Lara Pulver. The eight-part series follows the untold story of the world’s greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, during his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence. Goyer is producing the project with Julie Gardner (Dr. Who, Torchwood) and BBC Worldwide Productions’ Head Jane Tranter (Rome). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Quartet’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 13, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dario Marianelli, Quartet, score, Soundtrack
Decca Music will release a soundtrack album for Dustin Hoffman’s comedy drama Quartet. The album features selections from the film’s original score composed by Dario Marianelli (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), as well as the classical pieces featured in the movie by composers including Giuseppe Fortunino, Francesco Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Gioacchino Rossini and Franz Joseph Haydn. The soundtrack will be released on December 18, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The cover art and audio clips will be added to this article within the next few weeks. Quartet starring Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon and Pauline Collins follows a group retired Opera singers who annually put on a concert to celebrate Verdis birthday. Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary Scoring ‘The Europa Report’
Posted: November 13, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Battlestar Galactice, Bear McCreary, Blood and Chrome, Sebastian Cordero, The Europa Report
Bear McCreary is the composer of the upcoming sci-fi thriller The Europa Report. The film is directed by Sebastián Cordero and stars Sharlto Copley (District 9), Michael Nyqvist, Daniel Wu, Anamaria Marinca, Christian Camargo and Karolina Wydra. The movie follows six astronauts who go to Jupiter’s fourth moon, Europa, to try to find extraterrestrial life. Philip Gelatt has written the screenplay and Ben Browning (It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Ondine) and Kevin Misher (Public Enemies, The Interpreter) are producing the Wayfare Entertainment and Misher films production. Cordero is best know for directing the 2004 crime thriller Chronicles. Europa Report marks his first collaboration with the Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead composer. Read the rest of this entry »
