Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the spy thriller Red Sparrow directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeremy Irons. The film’s original music is composed by James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, The Sixth Sense, The Fugitive, Signs, King Kong, Fantastic Beasts and Where […]
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 2, 2018)
Posted: 2nd March 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Amit Poznansky, Dance Academy: The Movie, Darren Morze, David Hirschfelder, Death Wish, Foxtrot, Hondros, James Newton Howard, Jeff Russo, Ludwig Göransson, Ophir Leibovitch, Red Sparrow, Submission, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Stephen Schwartz to Develop Hans Christian Anderson Movie Musical
Posted: 28th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Stephen Schwartz
Deadline is reporting that Stephen Schwartz is developing an untitled original musical fantasy about Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The project marks the first original musical from the composter/lyricist since Wicked and follows Andersen as a young man as he gets trapped in a world of his own imagination and searches for a way back to reality, […]
WaterTower Music to Release ‘Ready Player One’ Soundtrack
Posted: 26th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Ready Player One, score, Soundtrack, Steven Spielberg
WaterTower Music will release the official soundtrack album for Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Ready Player One. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, The Avengers, Captain America: The First Avengers, The Croods). A 2-CD version is set to be released on April 6, 2018 […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 25, 2018)
Posted: 25th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, B: The Beginning, Bobby Krlic, Franz Kirmann, Good Girls, Hulu, Joseph Trapanese, Les Affamés, McMafia, Michael Penn, NBC, Netflix, Seven Seconds, The Looming Tower, Tom Hodge, Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac & The Notorious B.I.G., USA, Will Bates, Yoshihiro Ike
Premiering tomorrow, February 26, in the U.S. is the BBC & AMC series McMafia created by Hossein Amini & James Watkins and starring James Norton, Aleksey Serebryakov, Maria Shukshina, Faye Marsay and Juliet Rylance. The show’s original music is composed by Tom Hodge & Franz Kirmann. Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score from the drama’s […]
NBC’s ‘Champions’ to Feature Music by Jesse Novak
Posted: 20th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Champions, Jesse Novak, NBC
Jesse Novak is scoring the new NBC comedy Champions. The show is created by Charlie Grandy & Mindy Kaling and stars Anders Holm, Fortune Feimster, Andy Favreau, J.J. Totah and Mouzam Makkar. The series follows a washed-up high school baseball star who reluctantly gave up his dreams to take over the family gym in Brooklyn. Grandy and Kaling […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 18, 2018)
Posted: 18th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Clint Mansell, Harry Escott, Mute, Netflix, Roger Goula, The Frankenstein Chronicles
Premiering in the U.S. on February 20 is the British crime drama The Frankenstein Chronicles created by Benjamin Ross & Barry Langford and starring Sean Bean, Tom Ward, Richie Campbell, Vanessa Kirby, Ed Stoppard and Ryan Sampson. Roger Goula (Next Goal Wins, Identicals) and Harry Escott (Shame, Hard Candy, Welcome to the Punch) have composed […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 16, 2018)
Posted: 16th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Black Panther, Brooke Blair, David Buckley, Double Lover, Early Man, Evgueni Galperine, Harry Gregson-Williams, Laurent Eyquem, Leon Ko, Loveless, Ludwig Göransson, Monster Hunt 2, Nostalgia, Philippe Rombi, Sacha Galperine, Samson, The Boy Downstairs, The Monkey King 3, The Party, The Scent of Rain & Lightning, Tom Howe, Will Blair, Will Musser, Yu Kobayashi
Three new movies are opening in theaters nationwide: Opening in most theaters is Marvel Studios’ Black Panther directed by Ryan Coogler and stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke and Andy Serkis. Ludwig Goransson (Creed, Community, Fruitvale Station) has composed the film’s original score. Hollywood Records […]
Sebastian Gutierrez’s ‘Elizabeth Harvest’ to Feature Music by Cat’s Eyes
Posted: 14th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cat's Eyes, Elizabeth Harvest, Faris Badwan, Rachel Zeffira, Sebastian Gutierrez
Cat’s Eyes (aka Faris Badwan and Rachel Zeffira) have composed the music for the upcoming thriller Elizabeth Harvest. The film is written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez (Judas Kiss, Girl Walks Into a Bar) and stars Abbey Lee, Ciaran Hinds, Carla Gugino, Matthew Beard and Dylan Baker. The movie is a science fiction reimagining of […]
Marvel Music & Hollywood Records to Release Ludwig Goransson’s ‘Black Panther’ Score
Posted: 13th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Black Panther, Ludwig Göransson, Marvel Studios, Ryan Coogler, score, Soundtrack
Marvel Music and Hollywood Records have announced a score album for Marvel Studios’ Black Panther. The album features the film’s original score composed by Ludwig Goransson (Creed, Community, Fruitvale Station) who recorded his music in London with a 132-piece western classical orchestra, African percussionists and a 40-person choir. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, February 16 […]