Two new movies are opening nationwide this week: Opening in most theaters is DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby directed by Tom McGrath and featuring the voices of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow and Miles Bakshi. The film’s original music is composed by Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator, Inception, The Dark Knight) and Steve Mazzaro (Bullet to the Head). Back Lot Music has […]
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 31, 2017)
Posted: March 31, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Carrie Pilby, Cezanne et moi, Clint Mansell, Danny Bensi, Despite the Falling Snow, Elvis Perkins, Eric Neveux, Ghost in the Shell, Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Lorne Balfe, Michael Penn, Rachel Portman, Saunder Jurriaans, Steve Mazzaro, The Boss Baby, The Discovery, The Zookeeper's Wife
Lorne Balfe Scoring Dean Devlin’s ‘Geostorm’
Posted: March 28, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dean Devlin, Geostorm, Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe is scoring the upcoming action adventure Geostorm. The film is directed by Dean Devlin (Independence Day, Stargate) and stars Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Daniel Wu, Ed Harris, Andy Garcia, Alexandra Maria Lara, Adepero Oduye, Amr Waked, Robert Sheehan and Eugenio Derbez. The movie takes place after an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatens the […]
‘Ghost in the Shell’ to Feature Music by Lorne Balfe
Posted: March 17, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Clint Mansell, Ghost in the Shell, Lorne Balfe, Rupert Sanders
Lorne Balfe has composed original music for the upcoming film adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. He is credited as the film’s composer alongside Clint Mansell who was previously announced as the movie’s composer. Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the film’s score later this month. The sci-fi adventure is directed by Rupert Sanders and stars Scarlett Johansson, Pilou […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 10, 2017)
Posted: February 10, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A United Kingdom, Danny Elfman, David Brent: Life on the Road, Fifty Shades Darker, Jack Fessenden, Joel J. Richard, John Wick: Chapter 2, Land of Mine, Lorne Balfe, Patrick Doyle, Stray Bullets, Sune Martin, The Lego Batman Movie, Tyler Bates
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the animated feature The LEGO Batman Movie directed by Chris McKay and featuring the voices of Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Jenny Slate and Ralph Fiennes. The film’s original music is composed by Lorne Balfe (Terminator Genisys, Home, Penguins of Madagascar, 13 Hours). WaterTower […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 3, 2017)
Posted: February 3, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aleksey Aygi, Andrew Lockington, Eloise, I Am Not Your Negro, Joel P. West, Lorne Balfe, Matthew Margeson, Rings, Ronen Landa, Stephen Dorff, Terence Blanchard, The Comedian, The Space Between Us, War on Everyone, Wheeler, Youth in Oregon
Three new movies are opening nationwide: Opening in most theaters is the directed by F. Javier Gutierrez and starring Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, Bonnie Morgan and Vincent D’Onofrio. The film’s original music is composed by Matthew Margeson (Kingsman: The Secret Service, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Eddie the Eagle). Hans Zimmer who scored the original The Ring movie serves as […]
‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 26, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lorne Balfe, score, Soundtrack, The Lego Batman Movie
WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the animated feature The LEGO Batman Movie. The album features the songs from the film by artists including DNCE, Cutting Crew, Patrick Stump, Alesso feat. Tove Lo, Harry Nilsson, as well as a new version of Everything Is Awesome by Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine. Also […]
Lorne Balfe to Score Nat Geo’s ‘Genius’
Posted: October 17, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Genius, Lorne Balfe, National Geographic Channel, Ron Howard
Lorne Balfe has been hired to score the National Geographic Channel’s first scripted series Genius. The show’s first season is based on Walter Isaacson’s book Einstein: His Life and Universe and stars Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein. Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Backdraft) is directing the first episode of the drama, which chronicles how an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk, who couldn’t […]
Lorne Balfe to Score Jonathan Teplitzky’s ‘Churchill’
Posted: August 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Churchill, Jonathan Teplitzky, Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe has signed on to compose the music for the upcoming biographical drama Churchill. The film is directed by Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man, Burning Man) and stars Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, James Purefoy and Ella Purnell. The movie is set across the five days before D-Day in 1944 and charts the tension between the […]
‘Dough’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: July 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dough, Lorne Balfe, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the comedy Dough. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lorne Balfe (Terminator Genisys, Home, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Penguins of Madagascar) and performed by the Chamber Orchestra of London. The soundtrack will be released on July 29, 2016 and is now […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 26, 2016)
Posted: June 26, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dead of Summer, Freeform, Joseph Trapanese, Lorne Balfe, Marcella, Netflix, Roadies, Showtime
Premiering tonight is the new Showtime original series Roadies created by Cameron Crowe and starring Carla Gugino, Luke Wilson, Imogen Poots, Rafe Spall, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Peter Cambor, Colson Baker, Ron White, Luis Guzman, Jacqueline Byers and Rainn Wilson. Republic Records and Stardogs Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the drama by Bob […]