Oceanus: Act One Short Film — Jeffrey Morris‘ Oceanus: Act One (2015) short film has been released. The Oceanus: Act One short film stars Sharif Atkins, Bruce Davison, and Megan Dodds. Crew Jeffrey Morris and Kimberly Morris wrote the screenplay for Oceanus: Act One. Jeff Rona created the music for this short film. Ryan Wieber [...]
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- 5/1/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The view from Apm Music’s office on Sunset Boulevard is expansive, from downtown to Dodger Stadium, to Century City and all points west. The company has been in the same tower since opening its doors in Los Angeles in 1984, but it’s moved up in the world, from a few rooms to most of the ninth floor. Apm has scaled the heights in more ways than one. “We’re the largest production music library in North America, if not the world,” says company president Adam Taylor. Apm music can be heard in films and trailers for projects including “Dumbo,” “Us,” “Green Book” and “A Star Is Born.” The collection has also become popular for sampling, with artists like Jay-z, Chance the Rapper and Missy Elliott among those who have availed themselves of Apm’s easy licensing and legal indemnification.
Sitting at a desk topped with twin computer monitors the size of Ford Fiestas,...
Sitting at a desk topped with twin computer monitors the size of Ford Fiestas,...
- 4/12/2019
- by Paula Parisi
- Variety Film + TV
Just a month-and-a-half after it was announced that the first two Resident Evil games would be getting their soundtracks released on vinyl, Capcom has another game to add to the list: Devil May Cry 5. Featuring compositions by Casey Edwards, Cody Matthew Johnson, Jeff Rona, John R. Graham, Steven McNair, Kota Suzuki, Hiromitsu Maeba, and […] The post Devil May Cry 5 Getting Vinyl Release appeared first on Dread Central.
- 4/3/2019
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
Forty-four were invited to join the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, including Kendrick Lamar, whose contributions to the “Black Panther” soundtrack are riding high on the album charts; songwriter Melissa Etheridge, who won an Oscar for her song for “An Inconvenient Truth”; and recent Oscar nominees Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka (“Lion”), Sufjan Stevens (“Call Me By Your Name”), Carlinhos Brown (“Rio”) and Benoit Charest (“The Triplets of Belleville”).
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, whose work with Prince catapulted them into the limelight and who have gone on to do films (“Dangerous Minds”) and considerable television, were also invited, as were composers Jeff Beal, Fil Eisler and Sharon Farber, whose best-known feature-film credits are in the documentary arena.
Classical composers Osvaldo Golijov and Joanna Bruzdowicz are on the list, as are other composers from England and the Continent: Daniel Pemberton (“Steve Jobs”), Eric Serra (“The Fifth Element...
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, whose work with Prince catapulted them into the limelight and who have gone on to do films (“Dangerous Minds”) and considerable television, were also invited, as were composers Jeff Beal, Fil Eisler and Sharon Farber, whose best-known feature-film credits are in the documentary arena.
Classical composers Osvaldo Golijov and Joanna Bruzdowicz are on the list, as are other composers from England and the Continent: Daniel Pemberton (“Steve Jobs”), Eric Serra (“The Fifth Element...
- 6/25/2018
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
The excitement towards Veeram has just increased by a manifold! Adapted from the Shakespearean classic Macbeth, the film Veeram’s soundtrack ‘We will rise’ has been nominated for the Original Song category at the 89th Academy Awards. The song finds its place in a list of 91 songs from eligible motion length pictures. Sung by Kari Kimmel, it has been composed by Jeff Rona who has also composed the music for movies like Phantom, God of Water, and Traffic III amongst others.
This is for the first time in the history of Indian production that a tri-lingual film has achieved this feat. A prestigious moment for the director and completely elated with this news, Jayaraj said, “Nothing is impossible for an Indian. I am proud to lead an Indian Film Production Company which not only produced an English film but also achieved the unique distinction of being shortlisted for an Oscar nomination for its English Song…...
This is for the first time in the history of Indian production that a tri-lingual film has achieved this feat. A prestigious moment for the director and completely elated with this news, Jayaraj said, “Nothing is impossible for an Indian. I am proud to lead an Indian Film Production Company which not only produced an English film but also achieved the unique distinction of being shortlisted for an Oscar nomination for its English Song…...
- 12/20/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Kunal Kapoor's upcoming film Veeram's soundtrack 'We Will Rise' has been nominated for the Original Song category at the 89th Academy Awards. The movie is an adaptation of Shakespearan classic Macbeth which is an old-new take on Macbeth. The song has found its place in a list of 91 songs from eligible motion length pictures. Sung by Kari Kimmel, it has been composed by Jeff Rona who has also composed the music for movies like Phantom, God of Water, and Traffic III amongst others. This is for the first time in the history of Indian production that a tri-lingual film has achieved this feat. Completely elated with the prestigious moment, the film's director and National Award winning film-maker Jayaraj Nair said, “Nothing is impossible for an Indian. I am proud to lead an Indian Film Production Company which not only produced an English film but also achieved...
- 12/16/2016
- FilmiPop
Carl Davis and Christopher Gunning claim synthesised orchestras are preferred to the real thing to save money
Two of Britain's leading film composers warn that the quality of music for film and TV is suffering because synthesised sounds are increasingly replacing real instruments in an effort to cut costs.
Carl Davis, whose scores include that for the World at War documentary series, said a synthesised soundtrack lacked "the heart" of symphonic or instrumental music.
Christopher Gunning, who wrote the Bafta-winning score for La Vie en Rose, about Edith Piaf, was even more critical: "A lot of television music has got to the stage where I have to turn it off. There's an enormous amount of programmes where I find the programme content really quite interesting, but can't watch because I find the music so blooming irritating. Part of that is, I am afraid, the poor quality of the musical composition.
Two of Britain's leading film composers warn that the quality of music for film and TV is suffering because synthesised sounds are increasingly replacing real instruments in an effort to cut costs.
Carl Davis, whose scores include that for the World at War documentary series, said a synthesised soundtrack lacked "the heart" of symphonic or instrumental music.
Christopher Gunning, who wrote the Bafta-winning score for La Vie en Rose, about Edith Piaf, was even more critical: "A lot of television music has got to the stage where I have to turn it off. There's an enormous amount of programmes where I find the programme content really quite interesting, but can't watch because I find the music so blooming irritating. Part of that is, I am afraid, the poor quality of the musical composition.
- 12/16/2013
- by Dalya Alberge
- The Guardian - Film News
This week: Halle Berry goes above and beyond the call of duty as a 911 operator trying to save a kidnapped teenage girl from a serial killer in the thriller "The Call."
Also new this week is Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey in the Vegas magician comedy "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," David Duchovny and Ed Harris in "Phantom" and the Blu-ray debut of The Beatles' "Help!"
'The Call'
Box Office: $52 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 41% Rotten
Storyline: Halle Berry plays Jordan Turner, a veteran 911 operator who gets an emergency call from a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) being abducted. Jordan must confront a killer (Michael Eklund) from her past in order to save the girl's life in this thriller directed by Brad Anderson ("The Machinist").
Extras!: Both the DVD and Blu-ray contain a commentary track and an extensive making-of feature. The Blu-ray adds an alternate ending, deleted and extended scenes,...
Also new this week is Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey in the Vegas magician comedy "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," David Duchovny and Ed Harris in "Phantom" and the Blu-ray debut of The Beatles' "Help!"
'The Call'
Box Office: $52 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 41% Rotten
Storyline: Halle Berry plays Jordan Turner, a veteran 911 operator who gets an emergency call from a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) being abducted. Jordan must confront a killer (Michael Eklund) from her past in order to save the girl's life in this thriller directed by Brad Anderson ("The Machinist").
Extras!: Both the DVD and Blu-ray contain a commentary track and an extensive making-of feature. The Blu-ray adds an alternate ending, deleted and extended scenes,...
- 6/24/2013
- by Robert DeSalvo
- NextMovie
Phantom tells the story of a submarine that goes rogue after a distinguished Captain is set on a mission, but joined by a group of technicians from the “Special Projects Institute,” headed by David Duchovny, who may have other motives in mind. The true nature of this mission, and why Captain Demi (Ed Harris) was selected to head it, is the question Phantom attempts to unravel. When creating the score, composer Jeff Rona visited the submarine director Todd Robinson was filming on and found himself inspired by the sub itself, discovering musical elements in the metallic valves and hydraulics. This use of “found sounds” (something greatly utilized in Nathan Johnson’s score for Looper) is not only a creative way to make a distinct score, but it helps to incorporate subconscious elements into the music that relate back to the film itself. The sounds Rona collected while on the submarine ended up becoming the foundation of the...
- 1/31/2013
- by Allison Loring
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
I think that this has been one of my favorite topics we've discussed so far. The truth is that there is so much to the topic of "competition" that pertains to this gig, we could probably have taken two months to examine it all. Maybe we'll come back and revisit it again soon. Kudos to everyone on our editorial staff for bringing their A-game this month and kicking in the doors of this topic with both feet.
As we wind down February and head into another month, and with that a new focus, here are some final thoughts I have about this month's theme of "Competition"....
In his book The Reel World, film composer Jeff Rona illustrates the importance of speed and accuracy in our trade by summing, "It's not what you can do — it's what you can do in five minutes." This couldn't be closer to the truth, and...
As we wind down February and head into another month, and with that a new focus, here are some final thoughts I have about this month's theme of "Competition"....
In his book The Reel World, film composer Jeff Rona illustrates the importance of speed and accuracy in our trade by summing, "It's not what you can do — it's what you can do in five minutes." This couldn't be closer to the truth, and...
- 2/25/2010
- by noreply@blogger.com (Deane Ogden)
- SCOREcastOnline.com
The Tortured, the upcoming horror film directed by Robert Lieberman (Fire in the Sky, All I Want for Christmas), gets an original score composed by Jeff Rona. The two previously collaborated on Lieberman's TV movies Earthsea and NetForce. The film is produced by Twisted Pictures, the company behind the Saw series. The Tortured stars Jesse Metcalfe, Erika Christensen and Bill Moseley and is a story about two parents gruesome revenge on a pedophile who killed their child. Jeff Rona is also doing the music for upcoming TV series Persons Unknown for Fox, and the computer game God of War III.
- 12/28/2008
- by noreply@blogger.com (Mikael Carlsson)
- MovieScore Magazine
Looking to reclaim some of the integrity snatched away by Mr. Benchley and Mr. Spielberg, Sharkwater is both a startlingly photographed portrait of that maligned denizen of the deep and a chronicle of filmmaker Rob Stewart's efforts to curb rampant shark poaching in Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands.
While those twin intentions don't always merge swimmingly, Stewart's documentary is seldom less than compelling in its quest to raise international awareness about a situation that is threatening to put sharks on the endangered list.
The Canadian production, which had the largest opening of any indigenous docu when it opened north of the border in March, should attract some An Inconvenient Truth-style attention when it opens Nov. 2 in 20 U.S. markets on the heels of a regional Florida release last month.
Stewart, an award-winning photographer who has been swimming with the sharks since he was a child, initially sets out to show the heavily sensationalized creatures through his eyes, intermingling the vibrantly breathtaking HD footage with archival snippets of old black-and-white shark attack instructional films.
Myths are debunked in the process, with narrator Stewart noting that in 2005, human encounters with the mighty predator led to just five fatalities worldwide, a fraction of the deaths caused each year by tigers and charging elephants.
But what starts off as something of a marine version of Grizzly Man soon changes course when Stewart hooks up with renegade conservationist and Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson.
It turns out that China's appetite for shark fins -- specifically for soups and medicinal purposes -- has created a multibillion-dollar shark-finning industry, and though some countries have banned the practice, illegal long-line fishing has contributed to the slaughter of 100 million sharks a year.
A trek taken by Watson and Stewart to Cocos Island off Costa Rica uncovers the presence of dozens of clandestine shark fin-drying operations overseen by the Taiwanese mafia, contributing to the serious depletion of the world's shark populations.
In between all the environmental derring-do, ducking both pirates and police, Stewart finds himself sidelined with a life-threatening flesh-eating virus, but it isn't long before he again takes up the cause.
With all that stirring underwater photographer and a buoyant, propulsive score by Jeff Rona -- complemented by song selections from Nina Simone, Portishead and, appropriately, Moby -- it's hard to resist climbing aboard.
SHARKWATER
Freestyle Releasing
SW Prods./Tribute Entertainment Group
Credits:
Director-writer-director of photography: Rob Stewart
Producers: Rob Stewart, Brian Stewart
Executive producer: Sandra Campbell
Music: Jeff Rona
Editors: Rob Stewart, Michael Clarke, Jeremy Stuart, Rick Morden
Running time -- 89 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
While those twin intentions don't always merge swimmingly, Stewart's documentary is seldom less than compelling in its quest to raise international awareness about a situation that is threatening to put sharks on the endangered list.
The Canadian production, which had the largest opening of any indigenous docu when it opened north of the border in March, should attract some An Inconvenient Truth-style attention when it opens Nov. 2 in 20 U.S. markets on the heels of a regional Florida release last month.
Stewart, an award-winning photographer who has been swimming with the sharks since he was a child, initially sets out to show the heavily sensationalized creatures through his eyes, intermingling the vibrantly breathtaking HD footage with archival snippets of old black-and-white shark attack instructional films.
Myths are debunked in the process, with narrator Stewart noting that in 2005, human encounters with the mighty predator led to just five fatalities worldwide, a fraction of the deaths caused each year by tigers and charging elephants.
But what starts off as something of a marine version of Grizzly Man soon changes course when Stewart hooks up with renegade conservationist and Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson.
It turns out that China's appetite for shark fins -- specifically for soups and medicinal purposes -- has created a multibillion-dollar shark-finning industry, and though some countries have banned the practice, illegal long-line fishing has contributed to the slaughter of 100 million sharks a year.
A trek taken by Watson and Stewart to Cocos Island off Costa Rica uncovers the presence of dozens of clandestine shark fin-drying operations overseen by the Taiwanese mafia, contributing to the serious depletion of the world's shark populations.
In between all the environmental derring-do, ducking both pirates and police, Stewart finds himself sidelined with a life-threatening flesh-eating virus, but it isn't long before he again takes up the cause.
With all that stirring underwater photographer and a buoyant, propulsive score by Jeff Rona -- complemented by song selections from Nina Simone, Portishead and, appropriately, Moby -- it's hard to resist climbing aboard.
SHARKWATER
Freestyle Releasing
SW Prods./Tribute Entertainment Group
Credits:
Director-writer-director of photography: Rob Stewart
Producers: Rob Stewart, Brian Stewart
Executive producer: Sandra Campbell
Music: Jeff Rona
Editors: Rob Stewart, Michael Clarke, Jeremy Stuart, Rick Morden
Running time -- 89 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 10/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARK CITY, Utah -- A crowd-pleasing dark comedy in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, "House of Yes" is a perversely funny sendup of one really screwed-up family.
Starring Parker Posey as a tormented woman who has fixated on Jackie Kennedy and flounces around in a facsimile of the pink Chanel dress and pillbox hat that Jackie wore on the day of the assassination, this Miramax pickup is dark and dastardly amusement. Art house crowds, as well as more mainstream crowds, should gravitate toward the film.
In this "House", "Yes" is the reaction to incest. While the lurid subject matter, as well as the artful execution of the film, may strike more innocent filmgoers as vanguard filmmaking, the "House" itself is built on a veritable pile of previously played cards: Namely, an innocent outsider is lured inside the lair of a family of nut cases.
In this cockeyed scenario, handsome Marty (Josh Hamilton) brings his fiancee, wide-eyed/doughnut waitress Lesly (Tori Spelling), home to share Thanksgiving dinner with his family. While he's given her some warning that the clan is a bit eccentric, nothing prepares Lesly for the meeting with her family, especially Marty's twin sister "Jackie-O" (Posey) who, to say the least, is a bit brittle even when on heavy medication.
Adapting from Wendy MacLeod's play, writer-director Mark Waters has served up high-tonic gothic entertainment. Wickedly juxtaposing batty dialogue with sinister visuals, the film is a morbid mix of humor and horror. And it's Posey, with her aloof Jackie-O musings and her coarsely crazy gazes, that is the highlight of this "House". Similarly, Spelling will surprise a lot of people with her sinewy performance as the curlicue, doeish fiancee that has to process all the household's peculiarities and perversities. As the utterly proper patrician mother, Genevieve Bujold is well-cast, wonderfully portraying a woman whose sense of household probity is, alas, way out of whack.
"House" is topped off by some superb technical flourishes, including cinematographer Mike Spiller's aptly eerie yet lush lighting and composer Jeff Rona's morosely merry sounds.
HOUSE OF YES
Bandeira Entertainment
Producers Beau Flynn, Stefan Simchowitz
Screenwriter-director Mark Waters
Adapted from the stage by Wendy MacLeod
Executive producer Robert Berger
Co-producers Ron Wechsler,
Jeffrey L. Davidson
Director of photography Mike Spiller
Editor Pamela Martin
Production designer Patrick Sherman
Costume designer Edi Giguere
Music :Jeff Rona
Casting director Mary Vernieu
Sound mixer: Dan Monahan
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jackie-O Parker Posey
Marty Josh Hamilton
Lesly Tori Spelling
Anthony: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Mrs. Pascal Genevieve Bujold
Young Jackie-O Rachael Leigh Cook
Running time -- 90 minutes...
Starring Parker Posey as a tormented woman who has fixated on Jackie Kennedy and flounces around in a facsimile of the pink Chanel dress and pillbox hat that Jackie wore on the day of the assassination, this Miramax pickup is dark and dastardly amusement. Art house crowds, as well as more mainstream crowds, should gravitate toward the film.
In this "House", "Yes" is the reaction to incest. While the lurid subject matter, as well as the artful execution of the film, may strike more innocent filmgoers as vanguard filmmaking, the "House" itself is built on a veritable pile of previously played cards: Namely, an innocent outsider is lured inside the lair of a family of nut cases.
In this cockeyed scenario, handsome Marty (Josh Hamilton) brings his fiancee, wide-eyed/doughnut waitress Lesly (Tori Spelling), home to share Thanksgiving dinner with his family. While he's given her some warning that the clan is a bit eccentric, nothing prepares Lesly for the meeting with her family, especially Marty's twin sister "Jackie-O" (Posey) who, to say the least, is a bit brittle even when on heavy medication.
Adapting from Wendy MacLeod's play, writer-director Mark Waters has served up high-tonic gothic entertainment. Wickedly juxtaposing batty dialogue with sinister visuals, the film is a morbid mix of humor and horror. And it's Posey, with her aloof Jackie-O musings and her coarsely crazy gazes, that is the highlight of this "House". Similarly, Spelling will surprise a lot of people with her sinewy performance as the curlicue, doeish fiancee that has to process all the household's peculiarities and perversities. As the utterly proper patrician mother, Genevieve Bujold is well-cast, wonderfully portraying a woman whose sense of household probity is, alas, way out of whack.
"House" is topped off by some superb technical flourishes, including cinematographer Mike Spiller's aptly eerie yet lush lighting and composer Jeff Rona's morosely merry sounds.
HOUSE OF YES
Bandeira Entertainment
Producers Beau Flynn, Stefan Simchowitz
Screenwriter-director Mark Waters
Adapted from the stage by Wendy MacLeod
Executive producer Robert Berger
Co-producers Ron Wechsler,
Jeffrey L. Davidson
Director of photography Mike Spiller
Editor Pamela Martin
Production designer Patrick Sherman
Costume designer Edi Giguere
Music :Jeff Rona
Casting director Mary Vernieu
Sound mixer: Dan Monahan
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jackie-O Parker Posey
Marty Josh Hamilton
Lesly Tori Spelling
Anthony: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Mrs. Pascal Genevieve Bujold
Young Jackie-O Rachael Leigh Cook
Running time -- 90 minutes...
- 1/24/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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