Mychael Danna will be honored with the Frederick Loewe Music Award at the 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. The composer will be receiving the award for his work on Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, for which he already received a Golden Globe, as well as a Broadcast Film Critics Association Movie Award nomination. Danna composed the score and has also co-written the original song Pi’s Lullaby for the film. Past recipients of the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing include Alexandre Desplat, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore and Randy Newman. Danna will be be recognized at a gala on January 5, 2012 at the Palm Springs Convention Center along with other honorees Richard Gere, Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Sally Field, Helen Hunt, Naomi Watts, Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hooper and the cast of Argo.
Palm Springs Festival to Honor Mychael Danna
Posted: December 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Frederick Loewe Music Award, Life of Pi, Mychael Danna, Palm Springs Film Festival
‘Dancing on the Edge’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Adrian Johnston, BBC, Dancing on the Edge, score, Soundtrack
Decca Records will release a soundtrack album for the BBC original mini-series Dancing on the Edge. The album features the features the series’ original score composed by Adrian Johnston (Becoming Jane, Kinky Boots). The soundtrack will be released in the UK on January 14, 2013. Dancing on the Edge is written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff who has previously collaborated with Johnston a number of times and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Wunmi Mosaku, Angel Coulby and John Goodman. The five-part series produced by Nicky Kentish Barnes (Match Point, About A Boy) follows the Louis Lester Band as they find fame amongst the parties and performances of upper class society in the capital. The BBC production will premiere in January 2013 on BBC2. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Gangster Squad’ Score Album Details
Posted: December 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gangster Squad, Ruben Fleischer, score, Soundtrack, Steve Jablonsky
The details of the score album for the action crime drama Gangster Squad have been revealed. The album features the film’s score composed by Steve Jablonsky (Transformers trilogy, Battleship). The soundtrack will be released on January 8, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Click here to listen to audio clips from the album. As previously announced, a separate soundtrack album featuring the film’s songs will be released on WaterTower Music. Gangster Squad is directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) and stars Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie and Michael Pena. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Isham and Alicia Keys to Score ‘The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete’
Posted: December 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alicia Keys, George Tillman Jr., Mark Isham, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
Mark Isham is teaming up with singer/songwriter Alicia Keys to score the upcoming drama The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete. The film is directed by George Tillman Jr. and stars Jennifer Hudson, Jordin Sparks, Anthony Mackie, Jeffrey Wright, Skylan Brooks and Ethan Dizon. The movie follows two boys in Brooklyn who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities. Keys is also executive producing the project. Michael Starrbury has written the screenplay and Jana Edelbaum (The Answer Man), Rachel Cohen (Dirty Girl) and Bob Teitel (Barbershop, Faster) are producing. Tillman Jr. has previously collaborated with Isham on the Robert De Niro-starring drama Men of Honor. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Wins Satellite Award for ‘Argo’
Posted: December 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Argo, Les Miserables, Satellite Awards
Alexandre Desplat has won his first Satellite Award in the Original Score category for his music for Ben Affleck’s Argo at tonight’s 17th Annual Satellite Awards ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel in Beverly Hills. He was previously nominated for his two scores for the final two Harry Potter movies. The other composers nominated in the category were Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina), Thomas Newman (Skyfall), Jonny Greenwood (The Master) and John Williams (Lincoln). In the Original Song category, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil received the honor for the song Suddenly from Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables.
Graham Reynolds Scoring Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Midnight’
Posted: December 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Before Midnight, Graham Reynolds, Richard Linklater
Graham Reynolds is reuniting with director Richard Linklater on the indie romance Before Midnight. The film stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy who reprise their roles as star-crossed lovers Jesse and Celine from the director’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. The film is set almost two decades since their couple’s first encounter on a train bound for Vienna and finds them in their early forties in Greece. Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Ariane Labed, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick are co-starring. Linklater has also written the script with Hawke and Delpy and is producing the film with Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch and Kostas Kefalas. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 16, 2012)
Posted: December 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 1600 Penn, Erica Weis, NBC, Orr Rebhun
Airing tomorrow, December 17 on NBC is the pilot for the new comedy series 1600 Penn created by Jason Winer (Modern Family, Arthur) and starring Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman, Josh Gad, Martha MacIsaac, Amara Miller, Benjamin Stockham and Andre Holland. The show’s score is composed by Orr Rebhun and Erica Weis who have previously written a couple of tracks for the feature comedies The Other Guys and The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard and worked on the score for the first couple of episodes of ABC’s Don’t Trust the B— in Apt. 23. The comedy follows a dysfunctional family living in the White House. Winer has also directed the pilot and is executive producing the series with Gad and Jon Lovett. 1600 Penn will premiere on January 10, 2013 and air every Thursday night on NBC. Visit the official show website for updates.
Nico Muhly Scoring ‘Kill Your Darlings’
Posted: December 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Kill Your Darlings, Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly is the composer of the upcoming drama Kill Your Darlings. The film is directed by John Krokidas and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Olsen, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Kyra Sedgwick, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Huston. The movie tells the previously untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to the Beat Generation. Krokidas has also co-written the screenplay with Austin Bunn and is producing the Killer Films and Benaroya Pictures Pictures with Michael Benaroya (Margin Call, Lawless), Christine Vachon (Far from Heaven, Boys Don’t Cry) and Rose Ganguzza. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Afternoon Delight’ to Feature Music by Craig Wedren
Posted: December 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Afternoon Delight, Craig Wedren, Jill Soloway
Craig Wedren is composing the score for the indie comedy Afternoon Delight. The film is written and directed by Jill Soloway and stars Kathryn Hahn as a bored housewife who puts her idyllic hipster life in jeopardy when she tries to rescue a stripper by taking her in as a live-in nanny. Juno Temple, Josh Radnor and Jane Lynch are co-starring. Jen Chaiken (Big Eden) and Sebastian Dungan (Transamerica) are producing the project. Afternoon Delight is set to premiere in competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Premiere. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 14, 2012)
Posted: December 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Any Day Now, Howard Shore, Hrishikesh Hirway, Joey Newman, P.T. Walkley, Save the Date, The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
One movie is opening in wide release this weekend:
Expected to beat box office opening weekend records for the month of December is the fantasy movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey directed by Peter Jackson and starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Graham McTavish, Andy Serkis, Christopher Lee, Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugo Weaving, James Nesbitt, Orlando Bloom, Ian Holm and Elijah Wood. The film’s music is composed and conducted by Howard Shore who has previously scored The Lord of the Rings trilogy. WaterTower Music has released two soundtrack albums featuring the composer’s score, including a standard and deluxe edition. Also featured on both albums is the original song Song of the Lonely Mountain written and performed by Neil Finn. To listen to audio clips and to check out the full details, visit our previous article. Also visit Classic FM for a recent interview with Shore about his music for the film and check out a video featurette on the score on EW.com. Read the rest of this entry »
