Archive for March, 2010

Walt Disney Records will release the soundtrack album for Price of Persia: The Sands of Time on May 25. The album includes 18 track of Harry Gregson-William’s score, as well as the song I Remain performed by Alanis Morissette. The movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ben Kingsley will be released  on May […]

New interview with Danny Elfman

Posted: March 31, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews
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FirstShowing.net recently posted a new interview with composer Danny Elfman. In the interview, Elfman talks about his score for Alice in Wonderland, working with Tim Burton, his two upcoming projects The Green Hornet and Restless and his creative approach and process to scoring movies. To read the entire interview, click here. The website also announces interviews with […]

Varese Sarabande has announced two new CD releases to be released in May. The label will release Marc Streitenfeld’s score for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. The movie stars Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett and opens in theaters on May 14. The movie marks Streitenfeld’s fourth collaboration with director Ridley Scott after American Gangster, A Good […]

Brian Tyler to score Hawaii Five-O

Posted: March 30, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Brian Tyler has been hired to score the pilot of the TV show Hawaii Five-O. The show is based on the classic TV show from the 60’s with the same name revolving around an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police. The show’s cast include Daniel Dae Kim, Alex O’Loughlin, Grace Park, James Marsters and […]

Intrada Records announced today the world premiere release of Jerry Fielding’s score for Straw Dogs. The movie from 1971 directed by Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) stars Dustin Hoffman. In the movie, a young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. Intrada is releasing the complete score limited […]

Patrick Doyle will provide the score for the upcoming animated feature Sir Billi. In the movie, a retired veterinarian living in a remote Scottish village encounters a goat who thinks he’s a dog, an Admiral who’s afraid of the water and a beaver who was raised by rabbits. The movie’s voice talent includes Sean Connery, […]

Sony Pictures Entertainment will release Christophe Beck’s score for the comedy Death at a Funeral on April 13. The album will be available as a download and CD-R release on Amazon. No tracklisting is available yet. To find out more about the movie, check out our previous news article.

Atli Örvarsson confirmed on his website that he has been hired to score the upcoming historical drama The Eagle of the Ninth. The movie stars Channing Tatum, Mark Strong, Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland. The film takes place in 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, […]

Expanded Eraser score released

Posted: March 26, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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La-Land-Land Records has released an expanded score album for Alan Silvestri’s Eraser earlier this week. The CD includes almost 80 minutes of the score, including more than 30 minutes of unreleased material. The album is limited to 3000 copies. Eraser centers around a Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a […]

According to the Gorfaine/Schwartz agency, James Horner has replaced Atli Örvarsson on the remake of The Karate Kid. In the movie, work causes a single mother and her young son to move to China, where the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master. The movie directed by Harald Zwart (Agent Cody Banks, The […]