Archive for February, 2011

‘Drive Angry’ Soundtrack announced

Posted: February 18, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the action movie Drive Angry 3D. The album includes the original score by composer Michael Wandmacher. The soundtrack will be available digitally on February 22, 2011 and will get a CD release on March 8. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon. An iTunes link will be added […]

Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the TV show In Treatment. The album includes the original score from the first two seasons of the HBO drama composed by Richard Marvin. Marvin is most well known for his features scores for U-571 and Surrogates, as well as for his music for the HBO show […]

Cliff Martinez has been hired to score the upcoming action thriller Contagion. The film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant!) centers on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak. The movie’s […]

Film Music Reporter has learned that the composer duo of Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil is scoring the upcoming action thriller The Killer Elite. The film directed by Gary McKendry stars Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Clive Owen, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominic Purcell and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The movie is based on the Ranulph Fiennes novel The […]

Aaron Zigman is currently scoring the upcoming comedy Madea’s Big Happy Family starring and directed by Tyler Perry. Zigman has become Perry’s regular film composer, having scored the director’s last seven movies, most recently last year’s drama For Colored Girls. Madea’s Big Happy Family co-stars Loretta Devine, Bow Wow. The film is scheduled to be […]

La-La Land Records has released an expanded soundtrack for the 1996 action movie Broken Arrow. The film’s music is written by Hans Zimmer. The soundtrack album comes in a 2 disc-set and features more than 30 minutes of previously unreleased music for a total running time of almost two hours. The soundtrack is limited to […]

‘Rango’ Soundtrack Preview

Posted: February 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Paramount Pictures has revealed a new clip from the upcoming animated movie Rango directed by Gore Verbinski. The clip features Hans Zimmer’s orchestral arrangement of the Rango theme song by Los Lobos that was previewed a few weeks ago on the Los Angeles Times Music Blog. Watch the clip below after the jump and visit […]

Varese Sarabande Records will release a soundtrack album for the upcoming adventure thriller Largo Winch II. The album includes 20 tracks of Alexandre Desplat’s score for the movie. Also known as The Burma Conspiracy, the film is a sequel to the 2008 thriller Largo Winch, which also featured a score by Desplat and is available […]

UPDATE (February 25, 2011): Lakeshore Records has also announced a separate soundtrack album featuring songs from the movie. The album includes songs by such artists as Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, Marcus, Ari Hest and Gang Starr. To check out the full tracklist, visit Lakeshore Records’ soundtrack page. —————————– Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack release for […]

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Jonny Greenwood has signed on to score the upcoming indie drama We Need to Talk About Kevin. The film is directed by Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) and stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller. The movie is based on a novel by Lionel Shriver and centers […]