Joel J. Richard creates the music for “Quantico,” premiering this fall on ABC, Sundays at 10 p.m. The drama centers on the lives of FBI recruits training at the eponymous facility in Virginia. Richard got his start as a music editor, leveraging a knack for matching to picture, working with prominent composers who encouraged him to give […]
John Williams contributes an intergalactic symphony to the Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, a December 15 release from Walt Disney Motion Pictures. J.J. Abrams directs.
The Steven Spielberg-directed film, starring Tom Hanks and Alan Alda with music composed by Thomas Newman, will be released on October 16. In terms of Spielberg’s dramatic directorial efforts, it is the first collaboration with a composer other than John Williams since 1985’s The Color Purple. It marks Spielberg’s first collaboration with Newman, whose work […]
Suffragette, in which breakout director Sarah Gavron shepherds an all-star cast (Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter) in the story of foot soldiers of the early feminist movement. Alexander Desplat provides the score in this Focus Features release, due in theaters October 23.
Director Barry Levinson’s upcoming Bill Murray starrer, Rock the Kasbah, may borrow it’s title from a 1982 song by The Clash, but judging by the trailer it’s channeling the sounds of the ’70s, with David Bowie’s 1974 hit “Rebel, Rebel” backing the trailer, and mention of Murray himself performing Deep Purple’s “Smoke On the Water” in […]