Marcelo Zarvos is set to reunite with director Barry Levinson on the upcoming sci-fi horror film The Bay (aka Isopod). Zarvos and Levinson previously collaborated on the 2008 satire What Just Happened and this year’s HBO movie You Don’t Know Jack. According to Screen Daily, The Bay centers around the aftermath of a viral outbreak on the Eastern Seaboard. The story is told via a series of recordings on camera phones, 911 calls and other scraps of video as the town of Claridge, Maryland, is engulfed by chaos. The cast mostly consists of relatively unknown actors. The film is produced by Jason Blum and Steven Schneider, the team behind the Paranormal Activity movies. No release date or distribution deal has been announced yet for the independent film production. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami to score The Thing prequel and Scream 4
Posted: November 2, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Buck Sanders, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Marco Beltrami, Scream 4, The Thing
Marco Beltrami has been hired to score the upcoming horror thriller The Thing. The prequel’s story takes place before the actions of the 1982 classic directed by John Carpenter. The movie directed by Matthijs van Heijingen Jr. is set in the Antarctica where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The Thing stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen and Joel Edgerton. Universal Pictures has set a April 29, 2011 release date for the movie. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard taking over The Tourist
Posted: November 1, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gabriel Yared, Gnomeo and Juliet, James Newton Howard, Love and Other Drugs, The Green Hornet, The Tourist, Water for Elephants
James Newton Howard has taken over scoring duties on the dramatic thriller The Tourist starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. He is replacing composer Gabriel Yared who has already recorded music for the movie in London earlier this year. The movie directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Live of Others) revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart and Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. The recording sessions for the score have recently started in Los Angeles and the movie is scheduled to be released on December 10 by Sony Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to score The Gardener
Posted: October 31, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, La fille du puisatier, The Burma Conspiracy, The Gardener, The King's Speech, The Tree of Life
UPDATE (February 24, 2011): The Gardener has recently received a new title: 
A Better Life.
Alexandre Desplat has been hired to score the upcoming drama The Gardener. In the movie, a gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city’s wealthy landowners. The Gardener is directed by Chris Weitz who previously worked with Desplat on The Golden Compass and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. The indie drama stars Demian Bichir. No release date has been set yet for the Summit Entertainment movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander to reunite with Roland Emmerich
Posted: October 31, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anonymous, Harald Kloser, Roland Emmerich, Thomas Wander
Film Music Reporter has learned that Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander have been hired to score Roland Emmerich’s latest movie Anonymous. The political thriller centers around who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her. The movie currently in post-production stars Rhys Ifans, Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Jamie Campbell Bower and David Thewlis. Read the rest of this entry »
Giacchino to score Cars 2
Posted: October 12, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 50/50, Cars 2, I'm With Cancer, Live With It, Michael Giacchino, Mission Impossible 4, Monte Carlo, Super 8
According to a recent article in Variety, Michael Giacchino has started working on Pixar’s animation sequel Cars 2. Giacchino follows the footsteps of Randy Newman, who scored the first part back in 2006. In the sequel directed by Brad Lewis and John Lassetter, racing star Lightning McQueen teams up with his best friend Mater for an international adventure as they go up against the world’s fastest car. Most of the voice talent of the first movie is expected to return. Cars 2, which marks Giacchino’s third Pixar project after The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Up is slated to come out on June 24, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Tyler slated to score Terra Nova
Posted: October 7, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian Tyler, Hawaii Five-0, Terra Nova
Brian Tyler has been chosen to compose the music for the prehistoric drama TV pilot Terra Nova for Amblin Entertainment. The show will be produced by Steven Spielberg and Brannon Braga. The TV show centers on the Shannons, an ordinary family from 2149 when the planet is dying who are transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth where they join Terra Nova, a colony of humans with a second chance to build a civilization. The show’s cast includes Jason O’Mara, Shelley Conn and Stephen Lang. No word yet on how much Tyler will be involved in the series after scoring the pilot. The current plan for the show is to preview the pilot in May 2011 with the series debuting in the fall on FOX. Read the rest of this entry »
John Debney to score No Strings
Posted: October 7, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ivan Reitman, John Debney, No Strings
Film Music Reporter has learned that John Debney has been hired to score the upcoming romantic comedy No Strings. The movie stars Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Cary Elwes, Olivia Thirlby and Kevin Kline and is directed by Ivan Reitman. No Strings is Debney’s and Reitman’s first collaboration. Reitman previously worked with such composers as Elmer Bernstein (Ghostbusters), Randy Edelman (Kindergarten Cop), John Powell (Evolution) and James Newton Howard (Dave). In the movie, a guy and girl try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it’s not long before they learn that they want something more. The movie will be released on January 21, 2011 by Paramount Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Full slate of projects for Christophe Beck
Posted: October 5, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Burlesque, Cedar Rapids, Christophe Beck, Due Date, Red, Waiting for Superman
Christophe Beck recently completed scoring the action comedy Red starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren. He replaced composer David Holmes, who was originally attached to the project as reported earlier this year. The movie comes out on October 15 from Summit Entertainment.
Beck also has a number of other projects coming out in the near future. Earlier this year, he completed the score for Todd Philipp’s road trip comedy Due Date starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. This marks his third collaboration with the director after scoring School for Scoundrels and last year’s comedy hit The Hangover. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Elfman to score Real Steel
Posted: October 4, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Elfman, Men In Black III, Real Steel
Danny Elfman has been hired
to score Shawn Levy’s upcoming action drama Real Steel. The movie set in the near-future where 2,000-pound robots that look like humans do battle stars Hugh Jackman, Kevin Durand, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie and Hope Davis. Director Shawn Levy previously worked with composer Christophe Beck on most of his movies and also collaborated with Alan Silvestri on both A Night at the Museum movies. The Dreamworks movie is produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg and is scheduled to come out on November 18, 2011.
