Archive for March, 2010

Zimmer on third Batman installment

Posted: March 18, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews
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MTV Splash Page posted an article about Hans Zimmer’s plans for Christopher Nolan’s third Batman movie. He specifically mentions his hopes for The Riddler character to be featured in the movie. To read the whole article, follow this link. In related news, the Polish film music website FilmMusic.pl recently added an in-depth interview with Zimmer […]

Label Zero recently released Klaus Badelt’s score to the French comedy L’arnacoeur (Heartbreakers). The movie about two siblings who are running a business designed to break up relationships, when they are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The movie stars Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis. The movies comes […]

Ottman to score The Resident

Posted: March 16, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Film Music Reporter has learned that Hammer Film’s The Resident will be scored by John Ottman. The thriller directed by Antti Jokinen (Bioterror) stars Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Christopher Lee. The movie centers around a young doctor who suspects she may not be alone in her new Brooklyn loft learns that her landlord has formed […]

Morricone’s White Dog score released

Posted: March 16, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Film Score Monthly has announced their newest CD release: Ennio Morricone’s score the 1982 drama White Dog. In the movie, a trainer is attempting to reprogram a vicious dog who’s been trained to attack and kill people with black skin. The movie directed by Samuel Fuller (Shark!, The Big Red One) stars Kristy McNichol. The movie […]

Thomas Newman will score the upcoming Sci-Fi romance The Adjustment Bureau. The movie stars Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Terence Stamp and marks the directing debut for screenwriter George Nolfi (The Sentinel, The Bourne Ultimatum). The film’s story centers around David Norris, a charismatic congressman who meets a beautiful ballet dancer named Elise Sellas, only […]

Rolfe Kent has been hired to score the upcoming Universal Pictures drama Charlie St. Cloud. In the movie, Zac Efron plays a young man overcome by grief at the death of his younger brother,  who takes a job as caretaker of the cemetery in which he’s buried and actually communicates with the deceased boy every […]

Wurman scores The Switch

Posted: March 14, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Alex Wurman recently recorded his score for the upcoming romantic comedy The Switch with the Carondelet Film Orchestra in New Orleans. The movie previously entitled The Baster stars Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Juliette Lewis and Jeff Goldblum. The movie directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck (Blades of Glory) centers around  an unmarried 40-year-old woman […]

Polydor Records has announced that they will release the soundtrack to the comic book adaptation Kick-Ass on March 29 in Europe. A release date in the US has not been announced, but is expected to follow shortly. The soundtrack will feature a number of songs featured in the movie, as well as a track from Ennio […]

Bruno Coulais to score Babies

Posted: March 13, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Bruno Coulais has been hired to score the upcoming documentary Babies. The movie simultaneously chronicles the lives of four of the world’s newest human inhabitants – in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco, and Tokyo, respectively — from first breath to first steps, on a journey at once universal and amazingly original. The movie is directed by Thomas […]

Mark Isham is currently working on two new scores. The Conspirator is a drama directed by Robert Redford about Mary Surratt, the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. The movie stars James McAvoy, Alexis Bledel, Robin Wright Penn, Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Kline, Danny Huston, Justin Long and […]