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Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack edition for Brian De Palma’s classic 1980 horror thriller Dressed to Kill starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen. The album features the remastered and expanded original score from the film composed by Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Don’t Look Now) and conducted by Natale Massara. To listen to [...]

Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 28, 2013)

Posted: April 28, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Uncategorized
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Premiering on Wednesday, May 1, is the new comedy Family Tools created by Bobby Bowman (Raising Hope, My Name Is Earl) based on the British sitcom White Van Man and starring Kyle Bornheimer, J. K. Simmons, Johnny Pemberton, Edi Gathegi, Leah Remini and Danielle Nicolet. tomandandy (Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Mothman Prophecies) have composed the show’s [...]

Dominic Lewis to Score ‘Free Birds’

Posted: April 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Uncategorized
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Dominic Lewis has signed on to score the upcoming animated feature Free Birds. The film is directed by Jimmy Hayward and follows two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history. The movie’s voice cast includes Woody [...]

Only one new movie is opening wide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the sci-fi action film Oblivion directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo. The film’s score is composed by Anthony Gonzalez of M83 and Joseph Trapanese (TRON: [...]

Varese Sarabande will release the official soundtrack for the indie comedy drama Stuck in Love. The album features the film’s original score composed, arranged, performed and produced by Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott (from Bright Eyes). Also included are three new songs: At Your Door by Mogis and Walcott featuring Big Harp, Somersaults In Spring [...]

Pino Donaggio Scoring ‘Patrick’

Posted: April 18, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Uncategorized
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This week, Pino Donaggio has recorded his score for the upcoming horror thriller Patrick. The film directed by Mark Hartley is a re-imagining of the 1970’s Australian chiller of the same title about a comatose hospital patient who harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own. Jason Gallagher [...]

Five new movies are opening in wide release this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the political thriller Argo directed by Ben Affleck who also stars in the film with Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston, Victor Garber, Tate Donavan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochran, Christopher Denham, Chris Messina and Kyle Chandler. The film’s [...]

Ad Litteram will release a soundtrack album for the French-Canadian sci-fi drama Mars & Avril. The album features the film’s original music is written by Academy Award-nominated composer Benoit Charest (The Triplets of Belleville). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 2, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can [...]