Lyle Workman is the composer of the upcoming comedy 21 and Over. The film marks the directorial debut of screenwriters Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (The Hangover, The Change-Up) and centers on a group of friends who drag their straight-arrow buddy out to celebrate his 21st birthday the night before an important medical school interview. The movie’s cast includes Miles Teller (Footloose), Justin Chon (The Twilight Saga), Skylar Astin (Taking Woodstock) and Sarah Wright (The House Bunny). David Hobermann & Todd Lieberman (The Fighter, The Proposal), Andy Yan and Hugo Shong are producing the Relativity Media and Sky Land Entertainment production. 21 and Over marks the first project which partners the US company with an arm of the Chinese government. The comedy was also partially shot in China and is the first of many projects that Relativity plans to shoot and do post-production work in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
Lyle Workman Scoring ’21 and Over’
Posted: May 30, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 21 and Over, Lyle Workman
‘The Last Ride’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: May 30, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benjy Gaither, Hank Williams, Soundtrack, The Last Ride
Curb Records has announced the official soundtrack album for the drama The Last Ride inspired by the mysterious final days of country star Hank Williams’ mercurial life. The album features two tracks from the film’s score by Benjy Gaither, as well as a number of the country songs featured in the movie performed by artists including Jett Williams, Russ Taff, Rebecca Frasier, Wes Hampton, Sarah Johns, Doug Anderson, Michael English, Nathan Young and Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings. The sountrack will be released digitally on June 19, 2012. To download the album, visit Amazon and check out audio clips from the release below. The Last Ride directed by Harry Thomason and starring Henry Thomas, Jessie James, Fred Dalton Thompson, Kaley Cuoco and Stephen Tobolowsky tells the fact-based story about Hank Williams and his fateful last ride across country with an innocent young driver. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Barr to Score Eli Roth’s ‘Hemlock Grove’
Posted: May 29, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eli Roth, Hemlock Grove, Nathan Barr, Netflix
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athan Barr has revealed in a recent interview at the BMI Film and Television Music Awards that he will be scoring Eli Roth’s upcoming Netflix original series Hemlock Grove. The show created by Brian McGreevey & Lee Shipman and based on McGreevy’s upcoming goth horror novel revolves around the murder of a young girl found close to the former Godfrey steel mill. The series’ cast includes Famke Janssen, Dougray Scott, Landon Liboiron and Bill Skarsgard. Roth is directing the pilot as well as the final two episodes. The Gaumont International Television production is executive produced by McGreevy, Eric Newman (The Last Exorcism, Dawn of the Dead, Children of Men) Michael Connolly (How to Train Your Dragon) and Mark Verheiden (Battlestar Gallactica). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 29, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Duplass, Ryan Miller, Safety Not Guaranteed, score, Soundtrack
ABKCO Records will be releasing the soundtrack album for the indie comedy Safety Not Guaranteed. The album features the original score by Ryan Miller who is best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter for the alt-rock band Guster that also has a song featured on the soundtrack. Also included is the song Big Machine by actor/director Mark Duplass, as well as tracks by Summer Fiction, Hearts on Fire and The Hoppin’ Haole Brothers. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 5, 2012 and will be available to download on Amazon. Audio clips from all tracks on the album can be checked out after the jump. Safety Not Guaranteed is directed by by Colin Trevorrow and stars Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni, Lynn Shelton and Kristen Bell. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Yezerski Scoring P.J. Hogan’s ‘Mental’
Posted: May 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Drift, Mental, Michael Yezerski, P.J. Hogan, Storm Surfers 3D
Michael Yezerski has recently scored the comedy drama Mental. The film is directed by P.J. Hogan (Muriel’s Wedding) and stars Toni Collette as a crazy hotheaded hitchhiker who is brought on to nanny five misfit girls by their father, a philandering politician, after he hospitalizes his wife for a nervous breakdown. Liev Schrieber, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Gibney, Kerry Fox, Caroline Goodall and Deborah Mailman are co-starring. Jerry Zucker (Airplane!, The Naked Gun), Janet Zucker (Fair Game, Friends with Benefits), Todd Fellman (Daybreakers), Jocelyn Moorhouse (Muriel’s Wedding) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
WaterTower Music to Release Hans Zimmer’s ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Soundtrack
Posted: May 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer, score, Soundtrack, The Dark Knight Rises
WaterTower Music will be releasing the official soundtrack album for Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated comic book adaptation The Dark Knight Rises. The album features the film’s original music composed by Hans Zimmer. The soundtrack album will be released on July 17, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The full soundtrack details are expected to be revealed next month. The Dark Knight Rises stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, Tom Hardy as Bane, Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake, Michael Caine as Alfred, Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon and Morgan Freeman reprises the role of Lucius Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
Federico Jusid & Lucio Godoy to Score ‘Everyone Has a Plan’
Posted: May 27, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Everyone Has a Plan, Federico Jusid, Lucio Godoy, Todos tenemos un plan
Federico Jusid and Lucio Godoy are co-scoring the crime drama Everyone Has a Plan (Todos tenemos un plan). The film marks the feature directorial debut of Ana Piterman and stars Viggo Mortensen as a man who takes on the identity of his dead twin brother. Soledad Villamil & Javier Godino (The Secret in Their Eyes), Daniel Fanego, Carolina Román and Sofía Gala are co-starring in the Argentinian film. Vanessa Ragone, Mariela Besueivski & Gerardo Herrero (Son of the Bride) are producing Haddock Films, Tornasol Films and Castafiore Films production, which will be distributed by Fox International Prods. Jusid has previously collaborated with the producing team on the drama The Secret in Their Eyes, which received the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Circumstance’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 26, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Circumstance, Gingger Shankar, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will be releasing a soundtrack album for the Iranian drama Circumstance. The album features the original score composed by Gingger Shankar. The soundtrack will be released on June 26, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this site for audio clips to be added in a few weeks. Circumstance written and directed by Maryam Keshavarz revolves around a wealthy family in Iran struggling to contain a teen’s growing sexual rebellion and her brother’s dangerous obsession. The movie has won the Audience Award at last year’s Sundance Film Festival where the film premiered. The drama was released in theaters last summer and is now available on DVD. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 25, 2012)
Posted: May 25, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Chernobyl Diaries, Danny Elfman, Diego Stocco, Ludovico Enaudli, Men in Black 3, Moonrise Kingdom, The Intouchables
Two new movies are opening wide this Memorial Day weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the sci-fi comedy Men in Black 3 directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Alice Eve and Emma Thompson. The film’s score is composed by Danny Elfman. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. To listen to audio clips and for the full album details, visit our soundtrack announcement. The movie’s end credits song Back in Time by Pitbull was released separately and is available to downloaded here.
Also opening wide is the horror film Chernobyl Diaries based on a story by Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity), directed by Bradley Parker and starring Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Devin Kelley, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Nathan Phillips, Ingrid Bolso Berdal and Dimitri Diatchenko. The film follows six tourists who take an extreme tour of Pripyat, the abandoned city near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Diego Stocco is the composer of the film. No soundtrack album is available, but audio clips and more information about the score can be checked out here. To learn more about the film, visit the official movie website. Read the rest of this entry »
Atli Örvarsson to Score ‘A Single Shot’
Posted: May 25, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Single Shot, Atli Orvarsson
Atli Örvarsson has been tapped to score the upcoming thriller A Single Shot. The film is directed by David M. Rosenthal (Janie Jones) and stars Sam Rockwell as a wild-game poacher who makes a fatal mistake that leaves him with a suitcase full of blood money and hardened killers on his trail. William H. Macy, Melissa Leo, Jeffrey Wright, Jason Isaacs, Ophelia Lovibond and Kelly Reilly are co-starring. The project’s script is written by Matthew F. Jones based on his own novel. Chris Coen (Funny Games, Shadow Dancer), Keith Kjarval & Aaron L. Gilbert (Janie Jones) are producing the Unified Pictures, Bron Studios, Unanimous Entertainment and Media House Capital production. A Single Shot has recently been shot in Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry »
