Ilan Eshkeri is scoring the upcoming thriller Ashes. The movie stars Jim Sturgess, Ray Winstone, Lesley Manville (Another Year), Luke Evans (Robin Hood) and Jodie Whittaker (Attack the Block). The film is directed by Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo) who also co-wrote the screenplay with Paul Viragh (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll). Esther Douglas and Fiona Neilson are producing. Coldplay’s Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin are executive producers on the project. No plot details have been revealed yet, but the movie has been described as a contemporary film noir. Read the rest of this entry »
Ilan Eshkeri Scoring ‘Ashes’
Posted: August 25, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ashes, Ilan Eshkeri, Johnny English Reborn, Mat Whitecross
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‘Primeval’ Soundtrack announced
Posted: August 24, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Lonely Place to Die, Dominik Scherrer, Michael Richard Plowman, Primeval, score, Soundtrack
Movie Score Media has announced a soundtrack release for the British dinosaur adventure series Primeval. The album features 75 minutes of the original score composed by Dominik Scherrer (Miss Marple, Scenes of a Sexual Nature) from the first three seasons of the show. The soundtrack is scheduled for a release on September 20, 2011 and will be available digitally and on CD. Primeval created by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines tells the story about an evolutionary zoologist who discovers prehistoric creatures alive and well in the present day. Read the rest of this entry »
Theodore Shapiro to Score ‘Great Hope Springs’
Posted: August 24, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Frankel, Great Hope Springs, Theodore Shapiro
Theodore Shapiro has signed on to score next year’s drama Great Hope Springs. The movie starring Meryl Streep, Steve Carell, Tommy Lee Jones centers on a middle-aged couple who attend an intense counseling weekend to examine the intimacy issues threatening their marriage. The film is directed by David Frankel who has worked with Shapiro several times before. Their previous collaborations include The Devil Wears Prada, Marley & Me and the upcoming dramedy The Big Year. Great Hope Springs is produced by Todd Black (The Pursuit of Happyness, Knowing) and Guymon Casady (The Expendables). Read the rest of this entry »
Louis Febre to Score ABC’s ‘Charlie’s Angels’
Posted: August 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Charlie's Angels, Louis Febre
Louis Febre has been hired to score ABC’s Miami-set TV reboot of Charlie’s Angels. The new Angels are played by Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Rachael Taylor (Grey’s Anatomy) and Annie Ilonzeh (Melrose Place). Ramon Rodriguez is co-starring as Bosley. Alfred Gough and Miles Millar wrote the pilot and are executive producing. Marcos Siega (The Vampire Diaries) directed the pilot and Drew Barrymore, Leonard Goldberg and Nancy Jovoven, who were all involved in the two Charlie’s Angels feature adaptations directed by McG, are producing the project. Febre previously scored the last four seasons of the CW hit show Smallville, which was created by Charlie’s Angels showrunners Millar and Gough. Read the rest of this entry »
Conrad Pope to Score ‘My Week with Marilyn’
Posted: August 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Conrad Pope, My Week with Marilyn
UPDATE (August 23, 2011): We have learned that composer Alexandre Desplat has written a theme for My Week with Marilyn. The piece called Marilyn’s Theme will be adapted by Conrad Pope into his score. Pope has been an orchestrator on a number of movies scored by Desplat in the past couple of years. Most recently, he worked with the composer on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
Conrad Pope is currently scoring the upcoming drama My Week with Marilyn. The movie directed by Simon Curtis stars Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, Julia Ormond, Derek Jacobi and Dougray Scott. The film chronicles a week in the life of Monroe during the production of Laurence Olivier’s film The Prince and the Showgirl. Screenwriter Adrian Hodges adapted the memoirs of Colin Clark, the assistant who worked with Monroe on the production of the picture. David Pardiff (Shakespeare in Love) is producing the movie. While Pope is best known as an orchestrator for some of Hollywood’s top composers (John Williams, Alexandre Desplat, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri), he has also scored several movies himself, including the 2001 drama Pavilion of Women starring Willem Dafoe and 2009’s In My Sleep. Read the rest of this entry »
John Barry’s ‘The Black Hole’ Soundtrack released
Posted: August 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Barry, score, Soundtrack, The Black Hole
Intrada Records has announced the premiere CD release of the score for Disney’s 1979 sci-fi adventure The Black Hole. The music is composed by John Barry. The album includes the complete score from the film, including over 20 minutes of never-before released material. Highlight selections of the score have previously only been released on LP. To order the album and listen to lengthy audio clips from the release, visit Intrada’s online store. The Black Hole is directed by Gary Nelson and stars Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins and Robert Forster. The movie about a research vessel that finds a missing on the edge of a black hole received two Academy Award nominations for Cinematography and Visual Effects. Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Bates Scoring William Friedkin’s ‘Killer Joe’
Posted: August 21, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Californication, CC Adcock, Killer Joe, The Darkest Hour, Tyler Bates, William Friedkin
Tyler Bates has revealed in recent interviews with Scorenotes and Billboard that he has written music for the black comedy Killer Joe. The film is directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and stars Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon and Juno Temple. Tracy Letts (Big) wrote the screenplay based on his own play. The movie centers on a family who hires a police detective-turned-hitman to kill their mother for her life insurance policy. Nicolas Chartier (The Hurt Locker) and Scott Einbinder (The Forsaken) are producing. Read the rest of this entry »
Bruno Coulais Scoring ‘My Worst Nightmare’
Posted: August 20, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bruno Coulais, Mon pire cauchemar, My Worst Nightmare, Sur la piste du Marsupilami
Bruno Coulais is the composer of the French comedy My Worst Nightmare (Mon pire cauchemar). The movie starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier follows a married couple that suddenly find their lives turned upside down when a breezy worker is hired to do some renovations in their apartment. The film is directed by Anne Fontaine who last worked with composer Alexandre Desplat on the 2009 drama Coco Before Chanel. Bruno Pesery and Philippe Carcassonne (Coco Before Chanel) are producing. My Worst Nightmare will have its world premiere next month at the Toronto Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 19, 2011)
Posted: August 19, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 5 Days of War, All the Time in the World, Amigo, Carl Thiel, Conan the Barbarian, Flypaper, Fright Night, Gabriel Yared, John Sayles, John Swihart, Mason Daring, One Day, Rachel Portman, Ramin Djawadi, Robert Rodriguez, Roque Banos, score, Soundtrack, Spy Kids 4, The Hedgehog, The Last Circus, Trevor Rabin, Tyler Bates
Four new movies are opening wide this weekend:
Opening in almost 3000 theaters is the horror comedy Fright Night directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Please, David Tennant and Toni Collette. The film’s music is composed by Ramin Djawadi. A soundtrack CD will be released on August 30, 2011 by Varese Sarabande. The album is already available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. Check out our soundtrack announcement for more details.
Also opening wide is the action remake of Conan the Barbarian directed by Marcus Nispel and starring Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan and Stephen Lang. Warner Bros Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the film’s music by Tyler Bates. For more details and audio clips, visit our previous article. Also check out a lengthy audio interview with the composer on Film Music Magazine, as well as interviews with Bates about the project on Billboard, Huffington Post and Examiner. Finally, a short video feature, which includes Bates talking about his approach for the project can be found on ARTISTdirect. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Danna to Score ‘The Expatriate’
Posted: August 19, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jeff Danna, The Expatriate
Jeff Danna has signed on to score the upcoming action thriller The Expatriate. The movie stars Aaron Eckhart as a former CIA agent who hopes to make a fresh start with his estranged 15-year old daughter. He takes a job in Belgium as a security expert for a multinational corporation and arrives one day to find the corporation no longer exists and his assistant is really a trained operative out to kill him and his daughter. Olga Kuryelenko and Liane Liberato are co-starring. The film is directed by German filmmaker Philipp Stolzl (North Face) and written by Arash Amel. The Expatriate was shot this spring in Montreal and Belgium and is currently in post-production. Read the rest of this entry »
