Joseph Vitarelli is scoring Sean Penn’s The Last Face, which is expected to market in 2015 through Gaga Entertainment. The film stars Charlize Theron as an international aid worker who meets a relief aid doctor (Javier Bardem) amidst a political/social revolution in Africa. Upcoming work set to feature Vitarelli’s work include Taylor Hackford’s The Comedian and Mina […]
Michael Mahler creates the music and lyrics for October Sky, a musical stage production making its world premiere at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois, where it runs August 26-October 11. Set in 1957, the production is based on the 1999 Universal Pictures film of the same name, about the launch of Sputnik. Mahler, who is represented by […]
John Debney will compose the score for the Mel Gibson-directed Hacksaw Ridge, starring Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughan and Andrew Garfield in a tale of a WWII American Army medic who refused to kill people and became the first conscientious objector to win a Congressional Medal of Honor. The Lionsgate release is due out in 2016. Debney received […]
Two, actually: Marcello De Francisci and Lisa Gerrard have been hired to score Jane’s Got a Gun, a 2016 Weinstein Company release starring Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor, from director Gavin O’Connor (Warrior, Pride and Glory). De Francisci’s recent work includes the indie horror entry Stitch and the emotional teen indie film Stryia, Gerrard, who is also a singer, composed scores for Burning […]
Marco Beltrami got the gig for the upcoming historical epic Ben-Hur, directed by Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) for MGM. Beltrami is represented by Kraft-Engel Management.
Trevor Morris has signed to compose music for Babak Najafi’s political thriller London Has Fallen, a due in January 2016 from Focus Features. Morris’ previous work includes Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Immortals and Olympus Has Fallen. He is represented by Chris Gutch at the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency.
