Less than a day following the announcement of Bear McCreary‘s involvement in the sci-fi thriller The Europa Report. Starz Entertainment and BBC Worldwide Productions have revealed today that the composer has also signed on score the upcoming historical fantasy series Da Vinci’s Demons. The show is created by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) who also directed the first two episodes and stars Tom Riley, Laura Haddock, Lucrezia Donati, Elliot Cowan, Lorenzo Medici and Lara Pulver. The eight-part series follows the untold story of the world’s greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, during his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence. Goyer is producing the project with Julie Gardner (Dr. Who, Torchwood) and BBC Worldwide Productions’ Head Jane Tranter (Rome). Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary to Score ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’
Posted: November 13, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Bear McCreary, Da Vinci's Demons, David S. Goyer, Starz
‘Quartet’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 13, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dario Marianelli, Quartet, score, Soundtrack
Decca Music will release a soundtrack album for Dustin Hoffman’s comedy drama Quartet. The album features selections from the film’s original score composed by Dario Marianelli (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), as well as the classical pieces featured in the movie by composers including Giuseppe Fortunino, Francesco Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Gioacchino Rossini and Franz Joseph Haydn. The soundtrack will be released on December 18, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The cover art and audio clips will be added to this article within the next few weeks. Quartet starring Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon and Pauline Collins follows a group retired Opera singers who annually put on a concert to celebrate Verdis birthday. Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary Scoring ‘The Europa Report’
Posted: November 13, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Battlestar Galactice, Bear McCreary, Blood and Chrome, Sebastian Cordero, The Europa Report
Bear McCreary is the composer of the upcoming sci-fi thriller The Europa Report. The film is directed by Sebastián Cordero and stars Sharlto Copley (District 9), Michael Nyqvist, Daniel Wu, Anamaria Marinca, Christian Camargo and Karolina Wydra. The movie follows six astronauts who go to Jupiter’s fourth moon, Europa, to try to find extraterrestrial life. Philip Gelatt has written the screenplay and Ben Browning (It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Ondine) and Kevin Misher (Public Enemies, The Interpreter) are producing the Wayfare Entertainment and Misher films production. Cordero is best know for directing the 2004 crime thriller Chronicles. Europa Report marks his first collaboration with the Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead composer. Read the rest of this entry »
Henry Mancini’s ‘Condorman’ and Christopher Young’s ‘Hush’ Scores Released
Posted: November 12, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Battlestar Galactica, Christopher Young, Condorman, Henry Mancini, Hush, score, Soundtrack, Stu Phillips
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for Disney’s 1981 superhero film Condorman directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed and Barbara Carrera. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffanys). Included is the complete score, as well as several extras. To order the soundtrack and to listen to audio clips, visit Intrada’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
Richard Robbins (1940-2012)
Posted: November 12, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Richard Robbins
Richard Robbins has passed away at age 71 on Nov. 7 of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Rhinebeck, N.Y. The composer who is best known for scoring most Merchant-Ivory films was born on Dec. 4, 1940, in South Weymouth, Mass.. He received two Academy Award nominations in 1993 and 1994 for Howard’s End and The Remains of the Day starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. He also was honored with a BAFTA for 1985’s A Room with a View starring Maggie Smith and Helena Bonham Carter. His other film credits for director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant include 1998’s A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, 2003’s Le Divorce starring Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts and his last score in 2005 for The White Countess starring Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Great Expectations’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 12, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Great Expectations, Mike Newell, Richard Hartley, score, Soundtrack
Metropolis Movie Music will release a soundtrack album for Mike Newell’s new film adaptation of Great Expectations. The album features the film’s original score composed by Richard Hartley (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, A Thousand Acres). The album will be released overseas digitally on November 23, 2012 and physically on November 26. To order the CD as an import, visit Amazon. No word yet on a domestic release date. Great Expectations based on Charles Dickens’ famous novel stars Jeremy Irvine as Pip, Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, alongside Ralph Fiennes, Robbie Coltrane, Ewen Bremner, Jason Flemyng, Sally Hawkins, Tamzin Outhwaite, David Walliams and Holliday Grainger. The movie premiered at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and has been picked up by Outsource Media Group for domestic distribution. Read the rest of this entry »
Rupert Gregson-Williams to Score ‘Postman Pat: The Movie – You Know You’re the One’
Posted: November 12, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Postman Pat, Postman Pat: The Movie, Rupert Gregson-Williams, You Know You're the One
Rupert Gregson-Williams has been tapped to score the British animated feature Postman Pat: The Movie – You Know You’re the One. The film is directed by Mike Disa (Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil) and features the voice talent of Stephen Mangan, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Rupert Grint and David Tennant. Kim Full (Spice World) and Annika Bluhm who have been producing the Postman Pat TV show have written the screenplay. The movie follows the title character as he is facing a moral crisis and comes face-to-face with the temptations of money, status and a shiny new suit when he enters a national TV talent show competition. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 11, 2012)
Posted: November 11, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Peters, Adam Schlesinger, Blake Neely, Budd Carr, Nathaniel Blume, Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States, Showtime, TBS, The Wedding Band
This past Saturday, the new comedy drama series The Wedding Band premiered on TBS. The show executive produced by Darin Moiselle & Josh Lobis and Mike Tollin (Radio, Summer Catch) stars Brian Austin Green, Derek Miller, Harold Perrineau, Peter Cambor, Jenny Wade, Kathryn Fiore and Melora Hardin. The series follows four friends who, despite their ups and downs, spend their spare time performing in a wedding band. The show’s score is composed by Blake Neely (Arrow, The Mentalist) and Nathaniel Blume. Adam Schlesinger (Music and Lyrics) serves as the project’s music producer. The first season of ten episode will air Saturday nights on TBS. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Chasing Ice’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 11, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chasing Ice, J. Ralph, score, Soundtrack
Universal Republic and Lava Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Chasing Ice. The album features the film’s original music composed by J. Ralph (Lucky Number Slevin, The Cove), including the end credits song Before My Time performed by Scarlett Johansson and violinist Joshua Bell. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 19, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips will be added to this article within the next few weeks. Chasing Ice is directed by Jeff Orlowski and follows acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog who deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. The movie, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, opened in New York this past weekend and will expand to other markets within the next couple of weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe Scoring ‘Restless’ Mini-Series
Posted: November 10, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Lorne Balfe, Restless, Sundance Channel
Lorne Balfe is scoring the upcoming mini-series Restless. The two-part movie based on a novel by William Boyd (Chaplin) stars Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling. Edward Hall has directed the project and Hilary Bevan Jones (Private Radio, The Girl in the Cafe) and Paul Frift are producing for Endor Productions. William Boyd has also written the teleplay and is executive producing with Matthew Read for BBC and Christian Vesper for Sundance Channel. The mini-series follows a daughter who discovers that her mother was recruited as a spy during World War II. Restless was shot this summer in South Africa and the UK and is set to premiere in the US on December 7, 2012 on the Sundance Channel. Read the rest of this entry »
