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 […]
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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
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Harold Wheeler to Return as Music Director for Oscars
Posted: 9th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Harold Wheeler
Academy Awards producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd today announced that Harold Wheeler was selected as music director for this year’s 90th Oscars. He returns for his fifth Oscar telecast, his third as music director following the ceremonies in 2016 & 2017. Wheeler is best known as an orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger and record producer and […]
‘Pitch Perfect 3’, ‘Lady Bird’, ‘Call Me By Your Name’ & ‘Big Little Lies’ Honored at Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Posted: 9th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
The 8th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards were handed out on Thursday night at Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Julianne Jordan and Julia Michels received the top honor in the Best Music Supervision in Motion Picture – Motion Picture Over 25M for their work on Universal Pictures’ Pitch Perfect 3. Brian Ross and Michael Hill received the […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 4, 2018)
Posted: 4th February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bear McCreary, Ben Lovett, Crackle, Eric V. Hachikian, In the Cloud, Jay Auborn, John Matthias, Netflix, The Cloverfield Paradox, The Ritual, When We First Met
Premiering tonight is the third installment in the Cloverfield series, The Cloverfield Paradox directed by Julius Onah and starring David Oyelowo, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris O’Dowd, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ziyi Zhang and Daniel Brühl. Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Colossal, Happy Death Day) who previously scored 2016’s 10 Cloverfield Lane has composed the film’s original music. […]
The Music of ‘Coco’ Honored at 45th Annie Awards
Posted: 3rd February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Annie Awards, Christopher Willis, Coco, Disney Mickey Mouse, Germaine Franco, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Michael Giacchino, Robert Lopez
Composers Michael Giacchino, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Germaine Franco and co-director and lyricist Adrian Molina were honored in the Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production category for the music from Pixar’s hit movie Coco. Giacchino, Franco and Molina accepted their award in person at tonight’s 45th Annie Awards at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The other contenders in the category […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 2, 2018)
Posted: 2nd February 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Fantastic Woman, Atli Orvarsson, Bilal, Braven, Matthew Herbert, Peter Spierig, Winchester
The only movie opening nationwide this week is the horror thriller Winchester directed by Peter & Michael Spierig and starring Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, Angus Sampson and Finn Scicluna-O’Prey. Peter Spierig (Predestination) has also composed the film’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the score is in the works and will be announced soon. […]
‘The Monkey King 3’ to Feature Original Music by Yu Kobayashi
Posted: 30th January 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Soi Cheang, The Monkey King, The Monkey King 3, Yu Kobayashi
Yu Kobayashi has composed the original music for the upcoming Chinese fantasy action adventure sequel The Monkey King 3. The film is directed by Soi Cheang who also helmed the first two parts in the series and stars Aaron Kwok, William Feng, Zanilia Zhao, Xiaoshenyang and Him Law. The movie follows the Monkey King and […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 28, 2018)
Posted: 28th January 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Futile and Stupid Gesture, A.P. Bio, Absentia, Altered Carbon, Amazon, Craig Wedren, Dirty Money, Jeff Cardoni, Jeff Russo, NBC, Netflix, Ofer Meiri, Step Up: High Water, Will Bates, YouTube Red
Premiering in the U.S. on Tuesday, January 30, is the German television series Babylon Berlin co-created and -directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Matthias Brandt, Hannah Herzsprung, Karl Markovics, Lars Eidinger and Sebastian Urzen. Tykwer also co-scored the show with Johnny Klimek (Run Lola Run, The International, Cloud Atlas, Sense8). BMG […]
