Intrada Records will release a soundtrack album for the ABC hit drama Revenge. The album features selections from the show’s original score from the first two seasons composed by iZLER (Shameless, Natural Selection) who records his music weekly with a live orchestra. The soundtrack will be released tomorrow, August 20. Check back on this page for audio clips. For a preview of the track Requiem for Amanda, visit ABC’s Music Lounge. Revenge created by Mike Kelley stars Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe, Gabriel Mann, Henry Czerny and Ashley Madekwe. The second season will also be released this Tuesday on DVD and third season is set to premiere on September 29 and will every Sunday on ABC. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Revenge’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ABC, iZLER, Revenge, score, Soundtrack
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Michael Suby to Score The CW’s ‘The Originals’
Posted: August 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Michael Suby, The CW, The Originals
Michael Suby is set to score the upcoming CW series The Originals. The show created by Julie Plec is a spin-off of the network’s hit series The Vampire Diaries and stars Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Claire Holt, Phoebe Tonkin, Charles Michael Davis, Daniella Pineda, Leah Pipes and Danielle Campbellas. The drama follows the Original family, the first existing vampires in the world that was first seen in the second season. Plec is executive producing the Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios production with Leslie Morgenstein (Gossip Girl) and Gina Girolamo (The Lying Game). Suby whose previous credits include the feature The Butterfly Effect and ABC Family’s Kyle XY and Pretty Little Liars has scored all episodes of The Vampire Diaries and will also return to score the show’s fifth season this fall. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Warbeck to Score ‘Keeping Rosy’
Posted: August 18, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Keeping Rosy, La marche, Stephen Warbeck
Stephen Warbeck is scoring the upcoming psychological thriller Keeping Rosy. The film marks the directorial feature debut of commercials director Steve Reeves and stars Maxine Peake, Blake Harrison and Christine Bottomley. The movie follows a female advertising executive whose life disintegrates after a series of unfortunate events. Reeves has co-written the screenplay with Mike Oughton. Richard Holmes (Waking Ned Devine, Eden Lake, Resistance) and Isabelle Georgeaux are producing the Air Productions and Redemption Films production. Warbeck has previously scored the British comedy Jadoo for the producers. Keeping Rosy is currently in post-production and is expected to be released in 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Luther’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: August 18, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, BBC America, Luther, Paul Englishby, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack release for the BBC series Luther. The album features selections from the show’s original score of the first three seasons composed by Paul Englishby (An Education, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day), as well as songs featured in the series by artists including Massive Attack, Nina Simone, Emiliana Torrini, Marilyn Manson, The Heavy, Kasabian and Suede. The soundtrack will be released overseas on September 9, 2013. No word yet on a domestic release. Luther created by Neil Cross and executive produced by Phillippa Giles stars Idris Elba as near-genius detective John Luther. The BBC and BBC America co-production premiered in 2010. The third season of the series aired earlier this summer in the UK and is set to premiere in the US on September 3 on BBC America. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Grabowsky Scoring ‘Words and Pictures’
Posted: August 17, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fred Schepisi, Paul Grabowsky, Words and Pictures
Paul Grabowsky has reteamed with director Fred Schepisi (The Russia House, Roxanne, Six Degrees of Separation) to score the director’s upcoming romantic comedy drama Words and Pictures. The film starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche takes place at an insular New England prep school and follows an English teacher who challenges the school’s art teacher to a “war” between words and pictures and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance. Gerald DiPego (Phenomenon, The Forgotten, Message in a Bottle) has written the screenplay and is also producing the Latitude Productions and Lascaux Films production with Schepisi and Curtis Burch. Grabowsky and Schepisi have previously collaborated on such films as Last Orders, It Runs in the Family, Empire Falls and The Eye of the Storm. Words and Pictures is set to premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 16, 2013)
Posted: August 16, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Austenland, Brian Tyler, Daniel Hart, Emmy the Great, Henry Jackman, Ilan Eshkeri, jOBS, John Debney, Junkie XL, Kick-Ass 2, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Matthew Margeson, Paranoia, Rodrigo Leão, Standing Up
Four new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the drama The Butler starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber and Robin Williams. The film’s original music is composed by Rodrigo Leão (Lisbon Story). Verve International has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this year. For the full album details and to listen to audio clips, check out our soundtrack announcement.
Also opening wide is the superhero action comedy sequel Kick-Ass 2 directed by Jeff Wadlow and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jim Carrey, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Donald Faison, Clark Duke, John Leguizamo and Morris Chestnut. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the film’s songs by artists (click here for the full details and audio clips). The film’s original score is composed by Henry Jackman (X-Men: First Class) and Matthew Margeson (Skyline). La-La Land Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the score digitally earlier this week. Check out our previous article for audio clips and more information. For recent interviews with Margeson about his work on the film, visit Film Music Magazine, Comic Book Therapy and Reel Film News. Read the rest of this entry »
‘About Time’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 16, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: About Time, Nick Laird-Clowes, Richard Curtis, Soundtrack
Decca Records will release a soundtrack album for the upcoming romantic comedy About Time. The album features the songs from the film, including the original song How Long Will I Love You by Ellie Goulding, as well as tracks by Ben Folds, The Cure, Amy Winehouse, Paul Buchanan, The Killers, T.A.T.U. and Arvo Pärt. Also included is a cue from the film’s original score composed by Nick Laird-Clowes. The soundtrack will be released in the UK on September 2, 2013 and in the U.S. on October 28, 2013. Check out audio clips after the jump. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album. About Time is written and directed by Richard Curtis (Love Actually) and stars Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, and Margot Robbie. The romantic comedy will be released in the UK next month and is set to arrive in US theaters on November 1, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
Dave Porter to Score Fox’s ‘Wayward Pines’
Posted: August 16, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chad Hodge, Dave Porter, Fox, M. Night Shyamalan, Wayward Pines
Dave Porter has been hired to score the upcoming event series Wayward Pines. The show is created by Chad Hodge (The Playboy Club, Runaway) and stars Matt Dillon, Shannyn Sossamon, Terrence Howard, Carla Gugino, Juliette Lewis, Toby Jones and Melissa Leo. The series follows a Secret Service agent Ethan Burke who arrives in the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, Idaho, on a mission to find two missing federal agents. M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs) is directing the pilot episode and is also executive producing the project with Hodge, Donald De Line (The Italian Job, Green Lantern) and Ashwin Rajan. Porter is best known for his score for AMC’s Breaking Bad. Read the rest of this entry »
World Soundtrack Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: August 16, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: World Soundtrack Awards
The World Soundtrack Academy has announced the nominees for the 2013 World Soundtrack Awards to be presented in three categories: Film Composer of the Year, Best Original Score of the Year and Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film. The winners will be announced at the World Soundtrack Awards & concert on Saturday, October 19, the closing night of the Ghent International Film Festival. Here are the nominations:
Film Composer of the Year
Mychael Danna
Life of Pi
Alexandre Desplat
Argo, Reality, Renoir, Rise of the Guardians, Zero Dark Thirty Read the rest of this entry »
‘Adore’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 16, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adore, Anne Fontaine, Antony Partos, Christopher Gordon, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has revealed the details of the soundtrack album for the drama Adore. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Christopher Gordon (Master and Commander, Daybreakers). Also included is additional music by Antony Partos (Animal Kingdom). The soundtrack will be released on September 24, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Adore is directed by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel) and stars Naomi Watts and Robin Wright as two lifelong friends whose deep friendship is tested when they engage in affairs with each other’s sons. Xavier Samuel, James Frechevile and Ben Mendelsohn are co-starring. The drama premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival under the title Two Mothers and has been picked up by Exclusive Media for a domestic release in select theaters and on VOD on September 6. Read the rest of this entry »
