Clinton Shorter is composing the music for the upcoming CBS medical drama Code Black. The show is created by Michael Seitzman (North Country, Here On Earth) and stars Marcia Gay Harden, Bonnie Somerville, Raza Jaffrey, Luis Guzmán, Melanie Chandra, Harry M. Ford, Benjamin Hollingsworth and William Allen Young. The series is based on Ryan McGarry’s feature […]
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CBS’ ‘Code Black’ to Feature Music by Clinton Shorter
Posted: 27th August 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: CBS, Clinton Shorter, Code Black, Michael Seitzman
BBC America’s ‘London Spy’ to Feature Music by David Holmes & Keefus Ciancia
Posted: 23rd August 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC America, David Holmes, Keefus Ciancia, London Spy, Tom Rob Smith
David Holmes and Keefus Ciancia have composed the music for the upcoming BBC America mini-series London Spy. The show is created by author Tom Rob Smith (Child 44) and stars Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling and Edward Holcroft. The five-parter centers around a chance romance between two people from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 21, 2015)
Posted: 21st August 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: American Ultra, Dan Romer, David Newman, Dhani Harrison, Digging for Fire, Edward Shearmur, Grandma, Hitman: Agent 47, Joel P. West, Learning to Drive, Marcelo Zarvos, Marco Beltrami, Paul Hicks, Pinar Toprak, She's Funny That Way, Sinister 2, Some Kind of Beautiful, Stephen Endelman, The Curse of Downers Grove, tomandandy
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the action thriller Hitman: Agent 47 directed by Aleksander Bach and starring Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, Ciarán Hinds and Thomas Kretschmann. The film’s original music is composed by Marco Beltrami (World War Z, The Wolverine, Scream, The Hurt Locker). La-La […]
Amy Dunning Named Head of Music at Lionsgate
Posted: 19th August 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Amy Dunning, Lionsgate
Amy Dunning has been named head of music of Lionsgate’s motion picture group. She will oversee all creative and production aspects of music for Lionsgate’s film scores, songs and soundtracks. Among the projects she is currently working on are the studios’ upcoming features Allegiant: Part 1, Gods Of Egypt, Now You See Me: The Second Act, John Wick 2, La La Land Power Rangers, The […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 16, 2015)
Posted: 16th August 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blunt Talk, Craig Wedren, HBO, Nathan Larson, Show Me a Hero, Starz
Premiering tonight on HBO is the mini-series Show Me a Hero created by David Simon, directed by Paul Haggis and starring Oscar Isaac, Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, Winona Ryder, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Bob Balaban, Jim Belushi and Jon Bernthal. Nathan Larson (Boys Don’t Cry, Dirty Pretty Things, (Our) Idiot Brother, A Walk in the Woods) has composed the music for the 6-parter. […]
Disney’s ‘Moana’ to Feature Music by Mark Mancina, Opetaia Foa’I & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 15th August 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mark Mancina, Moana, Opetaia Foa’I
The full musical team for Disney’s upcoming animated feature Moana was announced at this year’s D23 fan expo. As previously announced, Mark Mancina will be composing the score for the movie. The composer who previously scored the studio’s Tarzan, Brother Bear, as well as Planes and its sequel is collaborating with Te Vaka’s Opetaia Foa’I, a New Zealand guitarist, and Lin-Manuel Miranda who is best known for […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 14, 2015)
Posted: 14th August 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Air, Aleks de Carvalho, Amnesiac, Britta Phillips, Daniel Hart, Daniel Pemberton, Dean Wareham, Edo Van Breemen, Final Girl, Gabriel Yared, Garth Stevenson, Hauschka, J. Ralph, Joseph Trapanese, Marc Can, Mark Orton, Meru, Mistress America, Nathan Halpern, One & Two, People Places Things, Return to Sender, Straight Outta Compton, Ten Thousand Saints, The Boy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Tom at the Farm
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the biographical drama Straight Outta Compton directed by F. Gary Gray and starring O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Aldis Hodge as MC Ren, Neil Brown, Jr. as DJ Yella […]
‘The Girl in the Photographs’ to Feature Music by Nima Fakhrara
Posted: 11th August 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Nick Simon, Nima Fakhrara, The Girl in the Photographs
Nima Fakhrara is reteaming with director Nick Simon on the upcoming horror thriller The Girl in the Photographs. The film stars Kal Penn, Claudia Lee, Kenny Wormald , Toby Hemingway, Luke Baines, Miranda Rae Mayo, Katherine Isabelle and Mitch Pileggi. The movie follows a celebrity photographer and his entourage who descend upon a sleepy community to investigate the […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 9, 2015)
Posted: 9th August 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC Family, Dominic Lewis, Kevin from Work
Premiering on Wednesday, August 12, is the ABC Family original series Kevin from Work created by Barbie Adler (How I Met Your Mother) and starring Noah Reid, Paige Spara, Matt Murray, Jordan Hinson and Punam Patel. The show’s original music is composed by Dominic Lewis (Free Birds, The DUFF, Spooks: The Greater Good). Kevin from […]