The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 176 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures to join the organization. Among the invited artists this year are five film composers, including former Oscar nominee Albert Iglesias who has received three Academy Award nominations for The Constant Gardener, The Kite Runner and last year’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, previous Oscar recipient Ryuichi Sakamoto who won the award for co-scoring 1988’s The Last Emperor with David Byrne and Cong Su, as well as the most recent Academy Award winner in the Best Original Score category Ludovic Bource who received the award for his music for The Artist at this year’s ceremony. Read the rest of this entry »
Five Film Composers Invited to Join the Academy
Posted: June 29, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Alberto Iglesias, Conrad Pope, Ludovic Bource, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Theodore Shapiro
New Oscar Rule in Music Category
Posted: June 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has approved rules for the 85th Academy Awards, including a change in one of the music categories. The organization announced that in the Original Song category, the “Executive Committee may recommend that a fourth songwriter for an individual song be considered in rare and extraordinary circumstances. This amends the rule that has been in effect since 2005, whereby up to two songwriters could be eligible per song, although a third songwriter could be added if he or she were found to be an essentially equal contributor.” Check out the full announcement on the Academy’s official website.
M83 to Score Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Oblivion’
Posted: June 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Joseph Krasinski, M83, Oblivion
The Playlist is reporting that the electronic music band M83 is attached to score the sci-fi action adventure Oblivion. The film is directed by Joseph Kosinski and stars Tom Cruise as one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth whose soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo are co-starring in the picture. William Monahan (The Departed), Karl Gajdusek and Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) have written the film’s screenplay based on an original story by Kosinksi. The director is also producing the project with Peter Chernin & Dylan Clark (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Duncan Henderson (Battleship) and former music supervisor Barry Levine. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Character of Music’ Panel at Comic-Con 2012
Posted: June 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Blake Neely, Christopher Lennertz, Comic-Con, Joseph Trapanese, Nathan Johnson, The Character of Music
A number of film composers will be taking part at this year’s The Character of Music panel at Comic-Con. Among the participants are Blake Neely and Mark Guggenheim, executive producer and show-runner of the upcoming CW show Arrow. Neely has already recorded music for the pilot a few months ago with a 80-piece orchestra at Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage. Also taking part in the panel is Christopher Lennertz who has already written music for the pilot of the NBC drama Revolution created by Eric Kripke and produced by J.J. Abrams and is also using a live orchestra for the score to the series. The panelists also include composer Joseph Trapanese and executive producer Charlie Bean who will be talking about their work on the animated series Tron: Uprising. Read the rest of this entry »
’41’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: June 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 41, HBO, Mark Kilian, score, Sondtrack
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack release for the HBO documentary 41. The album features the film’s music composed by Mark Kilian (Tsotsi, Rendition). The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 3, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips from all tracks on the album can be checked out after the jump. 41 is directed by Jeffrey Roth and takes a look on the life and career of former president George H.W. Bush. The documentary premiered earlier this month on HBO. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo to Score ‘Free Ride’
Posted: June 27, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: About Cherry, Free Ride, Jeff Russo
Jeff Russo has signed on to score the indie drama Free Ride. The film is written and direxted by Shana Sosin (Girls! Girls! Girls!) and stars Anna Paquin as an abused single mother in the 1970s who moves to Florida to make a new life for her two daughters. Cam Gigandet, Drea De Matteo, Liana Liberato, Ava Acres, Jeff Hephner and Brit Morgan are co-starring. Paquin is also producing the movie with Susan Dynner and Cerise Hallam Larkin. The film marks the first project of Paquin’s production company SCAMP. Stephen Moyer, Paquin’s husband and co-star on True Blood, is among the drama’s executive producers. Free Ride is currently in post-production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 27, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Dan Romer, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album for the indie drama Beasts of the Southern Wild has been released. The album features the film’s original score composed by Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin who also directed the film. The soundtrack is now available digitally on iTunes. Beasts of the Southern Wild starring Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry revolves around an intrepid six-year-old girl who lives with her father in “the Bathtub,” a southern Delta community at the edge of the world and goes in search of her lost mother. The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it has been picked up by Fox Searchlighy for US distribution. The drama opens today in select cities. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rubicon’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: June 26, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: AMC, Peter Nashel, Rubicon, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack release for the AMC drama Rubicon. The album features the show’s original score composed by Peter Nashel (Bee Season). The soundtrack will be released on July 31, 2012. Check back on this site for audio clips. Rubicon created by Jason Horwitch stars James Badge Dale, Jessica Collins, Lauren Hodges, Miranda Richardson, Dallas Roberts, Christopher Evan Welch, Arliss Howard, Michael Cristofer and Peter Gerety. The series about an intelligence analyst at a national think tank in New York City who discovers that he may be working with members of a secret society that manipulates world events on a grand scale premiered in 2010 on AMC. The show received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Main Title Design. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Whitehead to Score ‘Vigilandia’
Posted: June 25, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James DeMonaco, Michael Bay, Nathan Whitehead, Vigilandia
Nathan Whitehead is scoring the upcoming sci-fi thriller Vigilandia. The film written and directed by James DeMonaco (screenwriter of The Negotiator and Assault on Precint 13) stars Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Edwin Hodge and Rhys Wakefield. The movie takes place in a future where a new regime, called “New Founding Fathers of America”, seek to control an epidemic of violence and crime with an experiment called “The Cure”. The thriller is produced by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street) for Platinum Dunes Productions and Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) for Blumhouse Productions. Whitehead has previously worked with composer Steve Jablonsky who has scored most of the films produced by Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company on various projects, inluding Universal’s Your Highness and Battleship, as well as ABC’s Desperate Housewives. The project marks the composer’s first major studio scoring assignment. Vigilandia is currently in post-production and is expected to be released in 2013 by Universal Pictures.
‘Love at First Bite’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: June 25, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bill Conti, Charles Bernstein, Love at First Bite, Masters of the Universe, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1979 horror comedy Love at First Bite. The album features the film’s original score composed and conducted by Charles Bernstein, as well as the disco hits Fly By Night penned by the composer plus Dancin’ Through The Night from the original 1979 LP. To listen to audio clips and to order the album, visit Intrada’s online store. Love at First Bite directed by Stan Dragoti and starring George Hamilton, Susan Saint James and Richard Benjamin received one Golden Globe nomination for Hamilton’s lead performance. Read the rest of this entry »
