Archive for 2011

Varese Sarabande Records has announced the details for the upcoming soundtrack release for the second season of the TV Show Pushing Daisies. The album features highlights from Jim Dooley’s score of the second season of the critically acclaimed show. The soundtrack will be released on April 5, 2011. A first volume with music from the […]

Four new movies are opening in wide release today: Just Go With It directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman features a score by Rupert Gregson-Williams. No soundtrack album has been announced and judging from the release status of Gregson-Williams’ previous work for Adam Sandler/Happy Madison-produced films (with the […]

Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the adventure movie The Eagle. The album includes Atli Orvarsson’s original score for the film starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland. The soundtrack will be released on February 22, 2011. The movie directed by Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland, […]

Mark Isham revealed in a recent interview on Scorenotes that he just signed on to score the upcoming family drama Dolphin Tale. The movie centers on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap. The film stars Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Harry Connick, Jr., Kris Kristofferson and […]

John Debney has been hired to score the upcoming Garry Marshall-directed romantic comedy New Year’s Eve. The film tells intertwining stories of a group of New Yorkers as they navigate their way through bittersweet drama and romance over the course of New Year’s Eve. The movie follows the concept of 2009’s hit romantic comedy Valentine’s Day with […]

Hans Zimmer revealed in a recent interview on KCRW that he is currently collaborating with the Mexican music duo Rodrigo y Gabriela on his score for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Rodrigo y Gabriela are known for their fast, rhythmic acoustic guitar performances. Visit the duo’s official webpage to find out more about […]

Varese Sarabande Records has announced the details of the soundtrack release for the upcoming sci-fi action film Battle: Los Angeles. The album includes 22 tracks of Brian Tyler’s score for the movie directed by Jonathan Liebesman. Visit the official movie webpage, where several audio clips from the score can be heard. The album will be […]

While we don’t usually report video game scoring assignments, we will make exceptions for assignments by high profile film composer. According to a recent interview with Clint Mansell at The Quietus, the composer will score the upcoming game Mass Effect 3, which marks his first video game scoring assignment. The game developed by Bioware is […]

Film Music Reporter has learned that composer Paul Leonard-Morgan has taken over scoring duties on the upcoming thriller Limitless. Nico Muhly was the original composer on the movie as reported last year with his name even being listed in the film’s trailer. The final recording sessions for Paul Leonard-Morgan’s score are scheduled to take place […]

Film Music Reporter has learned that composer Alex Heffes has stepped in to co-score Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood. He will be scoring the film alongside Brian Reitzell, who was announced as the composer and music supervisor on the film last year as reported here. Reitzell is also producing the songs in the movie. Heffes […]