Advertising tune shop Riptide Music Group has expanded its creative team with two new heavyweights: Janine Kerr and Taylor Amazan, who will help power the Culver City-based firm’s work in synchronization, rights management and original music for trailers, TV programming and promos in the motion pictures, videogame and multi-media sectors. Kerr joins as creative director from FOX Sports […]
The Italian novelist Italo Calvino described a classic as something that exercises a particular influence, both when imprinting itself on your imagination unforgettably and hiding in the layers of memory disguised as individual or collective unconscious. By that measure, and other reckonings, the 1967 film The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols, and its genre-busting soundtrack are […]
Composers Henry Jackman and Matthew Margeson ride the top of the box office charts this week with Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle, which mined $39 million on 4,000 screens for the weekend of Sept. 22. The 20th Century Fox action spy comedy saw the musical duo re-team with director Matthew Vaughn, with whom they worked […]
The first of three fall films to feature music by composer Carter Burwell is Goodbye Christopher Robin, hitting U.S. screens Oct. 13 from Fox Searchlight, which also has Burwell in the queue for the Nov. 10 quirky whodunit Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Burwell — best know for his 15 collaborations with the Coen Brothers — will also […]
A cover version of The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” is the backing track to the new trailers for Walt Disney/Pixar release Coco, coming to U.S. screens Nov. 22 with a score by Michael Giacchino. The film, which is themed around Mexican Dia de Muertos folklore, premieres at the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico on Oct. 20 […]
Benjamin Wallfisch is the composer riding the top of the box office chart for the weekend of Sept. 8 with his score for Stephen King’s IT chilling audiences to the tune of $117.15 million for North America, according to comScore. The composer also scored the No. 4 film, Annabelle: Creation, putting him in the elite category […]
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 […]
Hans Zimmer is at the top of the box office with Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, but Michael Giacchino has slots three and four. The No. 1 film of war-torn France for Warner Bros. roared off with a hefty $50.5 million haul and great response from critics and audiences alike. The project marks the sixth collaboration between Nolan and Zimmer. It was […]
The tune-driven Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 mega-hit has spawned a new generation of ’70s music lovers. “One of the first things I always hear from fans is how much they loved the music,” says franchise star Chris Pratt, who as hero Peter Quill (aka Star Lord) takes a narrative journey propelled by a Walkman. “People just loved […]
The Newman Scoring Stage at Fox has seen plenty of history in the making, and on July 31 it will see the future in the making as 12 young composers participating in the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop have the chance to record their original score to picture with a 64-piece orchestra. Now in its 29th year, the […]
