Will Bates, the founder of the film composition and audio post collective Fall On Your Sword, and Phil Mossman are reteaming with director Mike Cahill on the upcoming indie sci-fi drama I, Origins. The film is written and directed by Cahill and stars Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Steven Yeun and Archie Panjabi. The […]
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Mike Cahill’s ‘I, Origins’ to Feature Music by Will Bates & Phil Mossman
Posted: 13th December 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fall on Your Sword, I Origins, Phil Mossman, The Notorious Mr. Bout, Will Bates
‘Psych’ – The Musical Soundtrack Details
Posted: 11th December 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Television Music AlbumsTags: Psych, Psych the Musical, score, Soundtrack, USA
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the musical episode of the USA series Psych. The album features the songs and score from the episode. The songs are performed by the show’s cast including James Roday, Dulé Hill, Anthony Rapp, Ally Sheedy, Barry Bostwick, Brooke Lyons, Jimmi Simpson and Kurt Fuller and composed […]
Thomas Newman to Be Honored at Palm Springs Film Festival
Posted: 9th December 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Frederick Loewe Music Award, Palm Springs Film Festival, Saving Mr. Banks, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman will be honored with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing at the 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF). The composer will be receiving his award for his music for John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks and Colin Farrell. Newman has previously won the award in 2006 following his […]
LA, NY and Boston Film Critics Announce Winners of Best Music in Film 2013
Posted: 8th December 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Boston Online FIlm Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online
A couple of major local critics associations have been announced their winners for this year’s movies. The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis was honored by three organizations for its soundtrack produced by T Bone Burnett. As a side note, the film doesn’t feature an actual score and only one original song, which is why the LA Film […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 6, 2013)
Posted: 6th December 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bruce Retief, Dickon Hinchliffe, Eduardo Cruz, Expecting, Inside Llewyn Davis, Khumba, Mark Kilian, Max Richter, Out of the Furnace, T Bone Burnett, The Last Days on Mars, Twice Born
The only movie to open wide this weekend is the drama Out of the Furnace co-written and directed by Scott Cooper and starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoe Saldana and Sam Shepard. The film’s original score is composed by Dickon Hinchliffe (Winter’s Tale, Last Chance Harvey). Relativity Music Group […]
‘War Story’ to Feature Music by Evanescence’s Amy Lee and Dave Eggar
Posted: 4th December 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amy Lee, Dave Eggar, Mark Jackson, War Story
Amy Lee has announced on Twitter that she has co-scored the upcoming indie drama War Story with Dave Eggar. The film is directed by Mark Jackson and stars Catherine Keener, Hafsia Herzi, Vincenzo Amato, Donatella Finocchiaro and Ben Kingsley. The movie follows a war photographer who retreats to a small town in Sicily after being held […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 1, 2013)
Posted: 1st December 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Christmas in Conway, Geoff Zanelli, Kirstie, Mark Isham, Mob City, NBC, Ron Wasserman, The Sound of Music, TNT, TV Land
Premiering on Wednesday, December 4, is the new TNT original series Mob City created by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead) and starring Jon Bernthal, Ed Burns, Neal McDonough and Jeremy Luke. The drama’s original score is composed by Mark Isham (Once Upon a Time, Crash) who has previously collaborated with Darabont on the features The Majestic […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 29, 2013)
Posted: 29th November 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alex Heffes, Black Nativity, Christophe Beck, Frozen, Homefront, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Laura Karpman, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Mark Isham, Oldboy, Raphael Saadiq, Robert Lopez, Roque Banos
Opening nationwide this holiday weekend after a 5-day exclusive engagement at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre is Disney’s animated feature Frozen directed by Jennifer Lee & Chris Buck and featuring the voice talent of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk and Ciarán Hinds. Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have written […]