David Hirschfelder has composed the music for the upcoming Australian drama Healing. The film is directed by Craig Monahan and stars Hugo Weaving, Xavier Samuel, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Jane Menelaus, Anthony Hayes, Mark Leonard Winter, Robert Taylor and Justine Clarke. The movie tells the story of a real-life prison inmate’s last 18 months before release after serving a 16-year term as he is sent to a low-security, pre-release prison farm, where a senior officer has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men. Monahan has co-written the screenplay with Alison Niselle and is also co-producing the project with Tait Brady (The 25th Reich). Hirschfelder has previously scored Monahan’s two last features The Interview and Peaches, both of which also starred Weaving in the leading role. Read the rest of this entry »
David Hirschfelder Scoring ‘Healing’
Posted: December 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Monahan, David Hirschfelder, Healing
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 6, 2013)
Posted: December 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bruce Retief, Dickon Hinchliffe, Eduardo Cruz, Expecting, Inside Llewyn Davis, Khumba, Mark Kilian, Max Richter, Out of the Furnace, T Bone Burnett, The Last Days on Mars, Twice Born
The only movie to open wide this weekend is the drama Out of the Furnace co-written and directed by Scott Cooper and starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoe Saldana and Sam Shepard. The film’s original score is composed by Dickon Hinchliffe (Winter’s Tale, Last Chance Harvey). Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. Check out our previous news article for the full album details. Also visit ASCAP’s We Create Music blog for an interview with Hinchliffe about his work on the film and to listen to the score.
Opening in limited release is the drama Inside Llewyn Davis directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund and Justin Timberlake. Nonesuch Records has released a soundtrack album produced by T Bone Burnett and the Coen Brothers, which features 12 new recordings made for the film performed by the movie’s cast, an existing recording by Dave Van Ronk, as well as a previously unreleased version of the song Farewell by Bob Dylan. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
56th Grammy Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: December 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Grammy Awards
The nominations for the 56th Grammy Awards have been announced. Here are the nominations in the film music-related categories:
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Argo (Alexandre Desplat) – WaterTower Music
- The Great Gatsby (Craig Armstrong) – WaterTower Music/Interscope
- Life of Pi (Mychael Danna) – Sony Classical
- Lincoln (John Williams) – Sony Classical
- Skyfall (Thomas Newman) – Sony Classical
- Zero Dark Thirty (Alexandre Desplat) – Madison Gate Records Read the rest of this entry »
Martin Léon Scoring ‘The Good Lie’
Posted: December 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Martin Leon, Philippe Falardeau, The Good Lie
Martin Léon is reuniting with director Philippe Falardeau on the upcoming indie drama The Good Lie. The movie marks the filmmaker’s first English language project and stars Reese Witherspoon, Corey Stoll, Sarah Baker and Brit Arnold Oceng. The film follows a young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys and develops an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them. Margaret Nagle (Warm Springs, Boardwalk Empire) has written the screenplay. Molly Smith (Beautiful Creatures, P.S. I Love You), Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill are producing the project for Black Label Media, alongside Brian Grazer & Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, 24) and Karen Kehela Sherwood (Blue Crush) for Imagine Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Yves Saint Laurent’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ibrahim Maalouf, score, Soundtrack, Yves Saint Laurent
WY Productions will release a soundtrack album for the biographical drama Yves Saint Laurent. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ibrahim Maalouf. Also included are the songs featured in the film by artists such as Brisa Roché, Chromatics, The Emotions, The Chamber Brothers, We the People, The Bossmen and Patrick Watson. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 6, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. Yves Saint Laurent is directed by Jalil Lespert and stars Pierre Niney in the title role of the French fashion designer and Guillaume Gallienne as Pierre Berge, his onetime romantic partner and fashion house co-founder. Charlotte Le Bon is also starring in the film. The movie will be released in France on January 8, 2014 and has been picked up by the Weinstein Company for a domestic release later in 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Kilian to Score ABC’s ‘Killer Women’
Posted: December 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Killer Women, Mark Kilian
Mark Kilian is composing the music for the upcoming ABC drama Killer Women. The show is created by Hannah Shakespeare (The Raven, Loverboy) and stars Tricia Helfer, Marc Blucas, Marta Milans, Michael Trucco and Alex Fernandez. The series centers on the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers – committed to finding the truth and seeing justice served. Shakespeare is also executive producing the ABC Studios production with Sofía Vergara (Modern Family), Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro), Ed Zuckerman (Blue Bloods, Law & Order),, Ben Silverman (The Office, The Tudors), and Luis Balaguer. Killer Woman is set to premiere on January 7, 2014 and will air every Tuesday night on ABC. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Sleepwalker’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 5, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Kato Ådland, Mona Fastvold, score, Sondre Lerche, Soundtrack, The Sleepwalker
Sondre Lerche has announced on his official website that he will be releasing the original soundtrack from the indie drama The Sleepwalker, which he co-scored with Kato Ådland. The music also features vocals by the Norwegian singer/songwriter whose best known previous film scoring credit is Dan In Real Life, as well as Sylvie Lewis, Nathalie Nordnes and Marit Larsen. The soundtrack will be released on January 14, 2014 and is now available for pre-order here. The Sleepwalker is directed by Mona Fastvold and stars Gitte Witt, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet and Stephanie Ellis. The movie follows a young couple who are renovating the woman’s secluded family estate and whose lives are violently interrupted when unexpected guests arrive. The drama will be premiering in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Orton Scoring ‘My Old Lady’
Posted: December 5, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Big Significant Things, Drunktown's Finest, Mark Orton, My Old Lady, Redemption Trail
Mark Orton is the composer of the upcoming comedy drama My Old Lady. The film marks the directorial debut of Israel Horovitz (screenwriter of Sunshine, Author! Author!) and stars Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and Dominique Pinon. The movie is based on a play by Horovitz and centers on a man from New York who travels to Paris to liquidate a valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father and meets a refined old woman, who turns out to be his father’s lover, living in the apartment with her daughter. Orton relied on violin, cello and accordion to score the drama produced by Rachael Horovitz (Moneyball), Gary Foster (Daredevil, Sleepless in Seattle, The Score), Nitsa Benchetrit and David Barrot. Read the rest of this entry »
New Soundtrack Albums for ‘A Passage to India’ and ‘The Beastmaster’ Announced
Posted: December 5, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Passage to India, Billy Wilder, David Lean, Lee Holdridge, Maurice Jarre, Miklos Rosza, score, Soundtrack, The Beastmaster, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Quartet Records has announced three new limited edition soundtrack releases. First up is a new soundtrack album for the 1984 historical drama A Passage to India directed by David Lean and starring Judy David, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox and Alec Guiness. The album features the film’s complete original score composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre who previously worked with the director on Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Ryan’s Daughter. The release includes more than 20 minutes of previously unreleased music, including many cues that were not used in the final cut of the movie. The composer was honored with his third Academy Award for his score in 1985 and the movie received ten more nominations. The music is performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. For the full album details and to check out audio clips, visit Quartet’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
‘War Story’ to Feature Music by Evanescence’s Amy Lee and Dave Eggar
Posted: December 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amy Lee, Dave Eggar, Mark Jackson, War Story
Amy Lee has announced on Twitter that she has co-scored the upcoming indie drama War Story with Dave Eggar. The film is directed by Mark Jackson and stars Catherine Keener, Hafsia Herzi, Vincenzo Amato, Donatella Finocchiaro and Ben Kingsley. The movie follows a war photographer who retreats to a small town in Sicily after being held captive during the conflict in Libya. Jackson has also co-written the screenplay with Kristin Gore (David O. Russell’s unreleased Nailed). Gore and Keener are also producing the project with Shona Tuckman (Finding Joy) and Matt Ratner. The drama marks the film scoring debut of Lee who is best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence. Read the rest of this entry »
