Trevor Morris has been hired to score the new ABC mystery series 666 Park Avenue. The show is created by David Wilcox (Fringe) is based on a novel by Gabriella Pierce and follows a couple who learns that the Manhattan building complex that they just moved into, including its upscale tenants, might be possessed by a mysterious demonic force. The series stars Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Vanessa Williams, Terry O’Quinn, Mercedes Masöhn, Robert Buckley, Helena Mattsson, Erik Palladino and Samantha Logan. Graves is also executive producing the Warner Bros. Television production with Matthew Miller (Chuck), Leslie Morgenstein (Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries), Gina Girolamo (The Secret Circle) and Alex Graves (Fringe) who also directed the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »
Trevor Morris to Score ABC’s ‘666 Park Avenue’
Posted: August 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 666 Park Avenue, ABC, Alphas, Death Race: Inferno, Syfy, Trevor Morris
Carter Burwell Scoring ‘Seven Psychopaths’
Posted: August 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Breaking Dawn, Carter Burwell, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, The Twilight Saga, Twilight
Carter Burwell is scoring the upcoming comedy thriller Seven Psychopaths. The movie is written and directed by Martin McDonagh and stars Colin Farrell as an alcoholic screenwriter who is struggling to write a serial-killer script and gets more real-life inspiration than he can handle when a dognapping scheme gone awry brings a galaxy of crazies to his doorstep. Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko and Gabourey Sidibe are co-starring in the film. Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, In Bruges) are producing the Blueprint Pictures production. Read the rest of this entry »
Decca Classics to Release Dario Marianelli’s ‘Anna Karenina’ Soundtrack
Posted: August 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli, Joe Wright, score, Soundtrack
Decca Classics will be releasing the official soundtrack album for Joe Wright’s film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dario Marianelli who has received his first Academy Award for his work on the director’s Atonement and also was also honored with another Oscar nomination for Wright’s Pride & Prejudice. The soundtrack will be released on September 1o, 2012 in the UK. A domestic release is expected closer to the film’s US in November. Anna Karenina stars Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Matthew MacFadyen, Kelly Macdonald and Olivia Williams. The film will be released in the UK in September and on November 16, 2012 in the US. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Resident Evil: Retribution’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Retribution, score, Soundtrack, tomandandy
Milan Records will be releasing a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller sequel Resident Evil: Retribution. The album features the film’s original score composed by tomandandy (Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Mothman Prophecies, The Strangers), as well the movie’s end credits song Hexes produced by Bassnectar featuring Chino Moreno (of the Deftones) on vocals. The soundtrack will be released on September 11, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips from all tracks on the album. Resident Evil: Retribution is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and stars Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Johann Urb, Li Bingbing, Shawn Roberts, Kevin Durand, Oded Fehr, Boris Kodjoe and Michelle Rodriguez. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Kilian to Score ‘Don’t Look Back’
Posted: August 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Don't Look Back, Gus, Mark Kilian, Vipaka
Mark Kilian has signed on to score the psychological thriller Don’t Look Back. The film that was previously entitled Vipaka is directed by Philippe Caland (Ripple Effect, Boxing Helena) and stars Forest Whitaker and Anthony Mackie as two adversaries who go head-to-head in a game that tests each man’s belief in what he believes is the truth. Sanaa Lathan, Nicole Ari Parker and Mike Epps are co-starring in the movie, which is set against the voodoo backdrop of New Orleans. Shintaro Shimosawa (co-producer of The Grudge) has written the screenplay Caland is producing the project with Whitaker and Nina Yang (The Children of Huang Shi) for Significant Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Master’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jonny Greenwood, Paul Thomas Anderson, score, Soundtrack, The Master
Nonesuch Records has announced the details of the soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson’s drama The Master. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jonny Greenwood performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra and AUKSO Chamber Orchestra, as well as four recordings from the post–World War II era in which the film is set by artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford and Helen Forrest. As previously reported, the album is set to be released on September 11, 2012 and is now available on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The Master starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Josh Close and Fiona Dourif is set to premiere at the Venice and Toronto Film Festival and will be released in the US on September 14 by the Weinstein Company. 
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‘Arbitrage’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arbitrage, Cliff Martinez, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will be releasing a soundtrack album for the indie drama Arbitrage. The album features the film’s original score composed by Cliff Martinez (Drive, Traffic), as well as songs by Bjork, Billie Holiday, Jobim/Getz and a cover of My Foolish Heart. The soundtrack will be released on September 11, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips from the album can be checked out below. Abitrage is directed by Nicholas Jarecki and stars Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Laetitia Casta, Brit Marling and Nate Parker. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and has been picked up by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions for a theatrical release and VOD release on September 14. Read the rest of this entry »
Hanan Townshend Scoring Terrence Malick’s ‘To the Wonder’
Posted: August 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hanan Townshend, Terrence Malick, To the Wonder
Hanan Townshend is the composer of Terrence Malick’s upcoming drama To the Wonder. The film starring Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem and Olga Kurylenko follows a man who reconnects with a woman from his hometown after his marriage to a European woman falls apart. Malick has written and directed the film and Nicolas Gonda and Sarah Green are producing the project. Townshend’s music has previously been used in Malick’s last film The Tree of Life, which was scored by Alexandre Desplat. Visit the composer’s official website to learn more about his work. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 World Soundtrack Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: August 13, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Nominations, World Soundtrack Awards
The World Soundtrack Academy has announced the nominees for the 2012 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 20, the closing night of the Ghent International Film Festival. Here are the nominations:
Film Composer of the Year
Alexandre Desplat
A Better Life, Carnage, De Rouille Et d’Os (Rust & Bone), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Moonrise Kingdom, The Ides Of March
Alberto Iglesias
Le Moine (The Monk), La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Read the rest of this entry »
London Olympics Closing Ceremony Soundtrack Features Music by David Arnold
Posted: August 13, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Arnold, Olympics, Soundtrack
Decca Music has released the soundtrack album A Symphony of British Music -Music from the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The album includes selections from the original music from the ceremony written by film/TV composer David Arnold (Casino Royale, Independence Day, Stargate) who acted as the music director of the event. Among the songs featured on the release are Blur’s Parklike, Russell Brand’s take on I Am The Walrus and Eric Idle’s performance of Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life. Also included are songs by Muse, Elbow, The Who, Spice Girls, Take That, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J and George Michael. The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. A physical version is scheduled to be released on August 20, 2012 in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
