February 08, 2008

Andrew Lockington: One Week

Andrew Lockington reunites with fellow Canadian director Michael McGowan, scoring his new drama One Week. The two previously worked together on the acclaimed Saint Ralph in 2004. One Week stars Joshua Jackson and Liane Balaban, with Campbell Scott doing the narration, and is a road movie about a motorcycle trip from Toronto to Tofino in British Columbia. Téléfilm Canada produces for release later this year.

Todd Haberman: Killer Movie

Horror comedy Killer Movie, starring Paul Wesley, Kaley Cuoco, Al Santos, Jason London, Torrey DeVitto and Nestor Carbonell, gets an original score by new kid on the block, Todd Haberman. He has provided additional music for a number of big films, including the recent Rambo (scored by Brian Tyler) and Shoot 'Em Up (Paul Haslinger). He has also worked doing additional music for TV series such as Treshold, Six Degrees and Close to Home, and video games including Transformers, Spider-Man 3 and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Killer Movie is Haberman's first major feature film score "flying solo". The film is directed by Jeff Fisher and centers around a reality television production that goes wrong when its crew becomes stranded in a remote town where a killer is on the loose. Tom Trafalski is the music editor on the film while Allison Wright Clark is supervising the music.

Jeff Cardoni: You and I (Finding tATu)

Veteran director Roland Joffé's new film, tentatively titled You and I (Finding tATu), gets an original score composed by up and coming composer Jeff Cardoni. His other recent credits include Just Friends, American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and Firehouse Dog, and his score for drama comedy Bonneville will be released shortly by Lakeshore Records. You and I (Finding tATu) tells the story about two teenage girls (Mischa Barton and Shantel VanSanten) who fall in love after meeting at a concert with Russian pop duo tATu. The film is based on a novel by Aleksey Mitrofanov and produced by Ramco, who also produced Joffé's latest film, Captivity.

February 07, 2008

Conrad Pope: In My Sleep

In My Sleep, a horror thriller written and directed by Allen Wolf, gets an original score composed by Conrad Pope. Otherwise occupied as John Williams' principal orchestrator currently working on Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Pope's other scores include the acclaimed Pavilion of Women. He is one of the busiest orchestrators/conductors in Hollywood and works extensively with Mark Isham and also worked on last year's The Golden Compass for Alexandre Desplat. In My Sleep stars Lacey Chabert, Beth Grant, Philip Winchester and Tim Draxl, and begins with the main character waking up in the middle of a cemetery, barely dressed. He has no idea how he got there, but this is not the first time this has happened - the guy suffers from parasomnia, a rare form of sleep disorder. Conrad Pope recorded his orchestral score for the film in Bulgaria.

February 05, 2008

Anne Dudley: Black Water Transit

Anne Dudley and director Tony Kaye continue their decade-long working relationship in Black Water Transit, and action thriller based on a Carsten Stroud novel. Starring Aisha Tyler, Karl Urbam, Brittany Snow, Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Dorff and Beverly D'Angelo, the film is a modern mafia story containing such dark elements as smuggling of illegal firearms and homicides. UK's Capitol Films produce for release later this year. Anne Dudley worked for Tony Kaye on his 1998 breakthrough, American History X, and also scored his 2006 documentary Lake of Fire.

February 04, 2008

Andreas Alfredsson / Christian Sandquist: Possession

In a rare case of a non-US film team being kept together through the transition from independent European filmmaking to major Hollywood studio work, Swedish composer team Andreas Alfredsson and Christian Sandquist is responsible for the original score in Possession, Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist's first American feature. The swedes made the stylish thriller The Invisible in 2002, which was remade by Hollywood Pictures last year and opened the door to Hollywood. Paradoxically, Possession is in its turn also a remake, of South Korean 2002 thriller Addicted. Composers Alfredsson/Sandquist, who wrote the score for the original Swedish The Invisible, were brought to the US to score Possession - a case similar to the better known scenario where helmer David Yates insisted on, and convinced Warner Bros, to continue his working relationship with Nicholas Hooper on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Alfredsson and Sandquist teamed up with music editor Alice Wood and fellow Swedish scoring mixer Fredrik Sarhagen working on the score. Possession will be released by Yari Film Group on February 29 and is a production of Vertigo Entertainment and Spitfire Pictures. It stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lee Pace.