Archive for February, 2010

Sorority Row Score Album Released

Posted: February 25, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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This week, Lucian Piane’s score for the horror movie Sorority Row was released on iTunes from E1 Music. The album features 30 tracks from the score, as well as 2 songs from the movie’s main titles and finale which were co-written by Piane. The album release coincides with the DVD release of the movie this […]

Tyler to score Skyline

Posted: February 25, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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According to the Gorfaine/Schwartz agency, Brian Tyler has joined the horror thriller Skyline. The project reunites Tyler with directors Colin and Greg Strause who previously worked together on AVPR: Aliens vs Predator – Requiem. The movie is starring Donald Faison and Eric Balfour and is being shot right now. Apart from composing duties, Tyler will also […]

Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, who have been nominated for an Academy Award for their score for The Hurt Locker have recently been doing the press round to promote the score before the Oscars on March 7. This week, they have been featured as guests on Jim Svejda’s Classical Music show on KUSC. The complete […]

Henri IV soundtrack release

Posted: February 24, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Hans Zimmer’s and Henry Jackman’s score to the German historical movie Henri IV will be released on Sony Classical on March 5. At this time, the CD will only be available as an import from Germany.                                           […]

Valentine’s Day scoring sessions footage

Posted: February 24, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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While the score to the hit romantic comedy Valentine’s Day hasn’t been released commercially, John Debney recently put up a video from the recording sessions of the Garry Marshall directed movie on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ETZAqxqz9M Debney is currently finishing up work on the score for the highly anticipated Iron Man 2, which was recently recorded in […]

John Ottman to score The Losers

Posted: February 24, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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John Ottman has been hired to score the upcoming graphic novel adaptation The Losers directed by Sylvain White (Stomp The Yard). Leading the diverse cast are Zoe Saldana, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Columbus Short, Idris Elba and Oscar Jaenada. After several release date changes, the movie is scheduled to be released on April 23 in […]

Beltrami to score The Sunset Limited

Posted: February 24, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Marco Beltrami recently finished working on the score for the HBO movie The Sunset Limited. The movie is based on the Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men, The Road) novel and stars Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. The project reunites director Tommy Lee Jones with Beltrami who previously collaborated on The Three Burials […]

Michael Giacchino wins BAFTA Award

Posted: February 24, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Last Sunday, Michael Giacchino won his first British Academy of Film and Television Award for his original music for Pixar’s animated feature Up. Earlier this year, he already won a Grammy, as well as a Golden Globe Award for the score and he is the frontrunner to go home with an Academy Award as well […]

Hans Zimmer promoting Sherlock Holmes score

Posted: February 24, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews
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For the past few weeks, Hans Zimmer has been busy promoting his Academy-Award nominated score for Sherlock Holmes on various media platforms. He recently did an interview with Jim Svejda for the classical music station KUSC. To listen to the whole audio interview, visit http://kusc.podbean.com/2010/02/18/2010-oscar-best-score-nominee-hans-zimmer-sherlock-holmes/ For more promotional interview material on  Sherlock Holmes, here are just […]