Nathaniel Blume has calendared the score for the CNN original series 1968, a four-parter that debuts Sunday, May 27. “1968 sets out to capture the mood and environment of our country during that particularly dark year,” Blume said, talking about his role in the historical project. “Since the series tells its story through interviews and archival […]
Emmy award-winning composer and music producer Benjamin Wynn, known professionally as Deru, has been signed to Doug Liman’s new series Impulse for Youtube Red. Deru’s signature dark electronic sound will no doubt lend scope and depth to the story of a teen girl who discovers her ability to teleport and the chain of events that follow as […]
Award-winning composer James Edward Barker has signed on to score Endor Productions and BFI’s upcoming Gothic mystery-thriller Gwen, by first time feature director William McGregor. Gwen is produced by Tom Nash and Hilary Bevan Jones for Endor, Lizzie Francke (’71) for the BFI, and stars BAFTA-nominated actress Maxine Peake (Funny Cow, The Theory of Everything) alongside Eleanor Worthington-Cox (Britannia) […]
Hans Zimmer is the king of the musical jungle, according to director Jon Favreau, who has tapped Hollywood’s busiest composer to do the honors for Walt Disney Pictures’ live-action/CGI re-imagining of The Lion King. Zimmer picked up the Oscar for best original score for his work on the 1994 animated version — one of a […]
Tom Holkenborg, the Dutch composer and DJ better known as Junkie XL, is scoring the December release Alita: Battle Angel, based on the Japanese manga series Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro The Twentieth Century Fox release is directed by Robert Rodriguez and produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau. It stars Rosa Salazar in the mostly animated role […]
Tom Holkenborg, the Dutch composer and DJ better known as Junkie XL, has got the score for Paramount’s feature reboot on the Laura Croft Tomb Raider franchise. The film, which stars Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Jason Bourne) is set for a March 2018 release. It is directed by U.S. newcomer Roar Uthaug of Norway, whose only stateside release of […]
With not a moment to spare, Michael Giacchino has been hired to composer music for Coco, the Nov. 22 release from Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Motion Pictures. Coco follows the story of a guitar-playing 12-year-old boy named Miguel who sets off a chain of events relating to a century-old mystery, leading to an […]
Jeff Russo, the music composer behind hit TV shows Fargo and The Night Of is composing the soundtrack for an upcoming indie video game “What Remains of Edith Finch,”the debut title from Annapurna Interactive, the new video game division under Annapurna Pictures (the production company behind Zero Dark Thirty and Her). “What Remains of Edith Finch” is […]
Will Ferrell and Kristin Wiig are teaming on a musical send-up of corporate motivational presentations. Inspired by the book Everything Is Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals, the score will be written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the team behind the tunes of Broadway’s smash hit Hairspray, as well as the 2013 […]
Composer Chance Thomas will conjure the score for “Faeria,” Abrakam Entertainment’s elaborate digital strategy card game. Thomas, an award-winning multi-media composer, envisions the musical accompaniment for the online game as “epic, all-original fantasy.” The game has been in beta for the past two years and is targeting a January release in the U.S. and Europe, and has already attracted an […]
