BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) has announced its programming for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival today with two virtual Score to Screen panels featuring two conversations that will give an inside look at the creative process of incorporating music in film while delving into the relationship between a composer and the film’s director or producer. Grammy and Academy Award winner Common and composer Patrick Warren (The Chi) co-produced and curated the music for the drama/thriller Alice written and directed by Krystin Ver Linden and starring Keke Palmer, Common himself, Jonny Lee Miller & Gaius Charles about a brave young woman who escapes a life of slavery on a secluded Georgia plantation, only to realize that not everything is as it seems. Read the rest of this entry »BMI: Score to Screen Panels at Sundance Film Festival Announced
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Alice, Amy Poehler, BMI, Common, David Schwartz, Lucy and Desi, Patrick Warren
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BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) has announced its programming for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival today with two virtual Score to Screen panels featuring two conversations that will give an inside look at the creative process of incorporating music in film while delving into the relationship between a composer and the film’s director or producer. Grammy and Academy Award winner Common and composer Patrick Warren (The Chi) co-produced and curated the music for the drama/thriller Alice written and directed by Krystin Ver Linden and starring Keke Palmer, Common himself, Jonny Lee Miller & Gaius Charles about a brave young woman who escapes a life of slavery on a secluded Georgia plantation, only to realize that not everything is as it seems. Read the rest of this entry »David Schwartz Scoring Amy Poehler’s Amazon Documentary ‘Lucy and Desi’
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Amy Poehler, David Schwartz, Lucy and Desi
David Schwartz (Arrested Development, Northern Exposure, The Good Place, Veep, Lady Dynamite, Standing Up, Falling Down) has composed the original music for the upcoming documentary Lucy and Desi. The film is directed by Amy Poehler and centers on the remarkable personal and professional partnership between comedian Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz (also explored in Aaron Sorkin’s narrative feature Being the Ricardos). Poehler is also producing Imagine Documentarties production with Michael Rosenberg, Justin Wilkes (Mars, Julia), Nigel Sinclair (End of Watch, The Way Bakc) and Jeanne Elfant Festa & Mark Monroe (Pavarotti, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart). Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘La Vie en Rose’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Gunning, La Môme, La Vie en Rose, Olivier Dahan, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 2007 biographical drama La Vie en Rose (La Môme) directed by Olivier Dahan and starring Marion Cotillard (who received an Academy Award for her performance as Edith Piaf), Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gerard Depardieu and Clotilde Courau. The 15th Anniversary Edition features the expanded and remastered original score from the movie composed and conducted by Christopher Gunning (Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Grace of Monaco, Under Suspicion), including over 40 minutes of previously unreleased music. Visit the label’s official website to order the limited edition CD, for more details and to check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Isobel Waller-Bridge to Score Apple TV+’s ‘Roar’
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Carly Mensch, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Liz Flahive, Roar
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, Vita & Virginia, Vanity Fair, The Split, The ABC Murders) has been tapped to score the upcoming Apple TV+ anthology series Roar. The show is created by Liz Flahive & Carly Mensch (GLOW) and stars Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Meera Syal, Fivel Stewart and Kara Hayward. The comedy based on a book of short stories by Cecelia Ahern is being described as “a collection of eight half-hour genre-bending episodes, told from a uniquely female point of view.” Read the rest of this entry »
‘Farewell Mr. Haffmann’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adieu Monsieur Haffmann, Christophe Julien, Farewell Mr. Haffmann, Fred Cavaye, score, Soundtrack
Pathé Films has released a soundtrack album for the French drama Farewell Mr. Haffmann (Adieu Monsieur Haffmann). The album features the film’s original music is composed by Christophe Julien (Bye Bye Morons, Delicious, Nothing to Hide, See You Up There). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Farewell Mr. Haffmann is directed by Fred Cavayé and stars Daniel Auteuil, Gilles Lellouche and Sara Giraudeau. The movie is set in Paris during the 1940s and tells the story of an ordinary man who wants to start a family with the woman he loves and is forced to strike a deal with his employer, a talented Jewish jeweler. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Halpern Scoring John Patton Ford’s ‘Emily the Criminal’
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Emily the Criminal, John Patton Ford, Nathan Halpern
Nathan Halpern (The Rider, Swallow, One Percent More Humid, Minding the Gap, In the Same Breath, Rich Hill) ) has composed the original score for the upcoming thriller Emily the Criminal. The film is written and directed by John Patton Ford and stars Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Megalyn Echikunwoke and Gina Gershon. The movie follows a young woman saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record who gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Exposing Muybridge’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chad Cannon, Exposing Muybridge, Marc Shaffer, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media’s Reality Bytes has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Exposing Muybridge. The album features the film’s original music composed by Chad Cannon (American Factory, Paper Lanterns, Devil’s Tree: Rooted Evil, Chalk It Up). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples.Exposing Muybridge is directed by Marc Shaffer and centers on English photographer Eadweard Muybridge who lived the lives of a dozen men before capturing a galloping horse in a transformational series of photos one fateful day on Leland Stanford’s farm. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Kilian Scoring John Pogue’s ‘Eraser: Reborn’
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eraser: Reborn, John Poque, Mark Kilian
Composer Mark Kilian (Tsotsi, Pitch Perfect, Eye in the Sky, Traitor, Rendition, The Ward, Official Secrets) is reuniting with director John Pogue (The Quiet Ones) on the upcoming action thriller Eraser: Reborn. The film is a reboot of Chuck Russell’s 1996 feature Eraser (scored by Alan Silvestri) and stars Dominic Sherwood, Jacky Lai, McKinley Belcher III and Eddie Ramos. The movie follows a U.S. Marshal who specializes in engineering the fake deaths of witnesses that need to leave no trace of their existence. Michael Weiss (Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Butterfly Effect 2) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dead Asleep’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dead Asleep, Hulu, Rob Lewis, score, Skye Borgman, Soundtrack
Rob Lewis has released a soundtrack album for the Hulu original documentary Dead Asleep. The album features the composer’s original music from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon (or any other major digital music services), where you can also check out audio clips. Dead Asleep is directed by Skye Borgman (Abducted in Plain Sight) and explores the case of Randy Herman Jr., a young Florida man convicted of murdering his roommate…while sleepwalking. The Pulse Films production features footage of Herman and his family, the defense and prosecution attorneys, forensic psychiatrists, journalists who covered the case, and world experts in violent parasomnia. Read the rest of this entry »
Este Haim & Chris Stracey Scoring Cooper Raiff’s ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cha Cha Real Smooth, Chris Stracey, Cooper Raiff, Este Haim
Este Haim (of HAIM) & Chris Stracey have made their feature film scoring debut on the upcoming comedy drama Cha Cha Real Smooth. The film is written and directed by Cooper Raiff (Shithouse) and stars Dakota Johnson, Raiff himself, Vanessa Burghardt, Evan Assante, Brad Garrett and Leslie Mann. The movie revolves around a young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host and strikes up a friendship with a mother and her autistic daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
