La-La Land Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release of the remastered and expanded original score to the 1991 adventure/fantasy epic Hook directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams and Julia Roberts. The 2-CD release features more than 65 minutes of unreleased music composed by Spielberg’s regular musical collaborator John Williams […]
Archive for March, 2012
Expanded ‘Hook’ Soundtrack by John Williams Released
Posted: March 27, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hook, John Williams, score, Soundtrack, Steven Spielberg
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Sister Bliss Scoring ‘Knife Fight’
Posted: March 27, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bill Guttentag, Knife Fight, Sister Bliss
Sister Bliss has recently scored the upcoming indie drama Knife Fight. The movie is written and directed by Bill Guttentag who has won two Academy Awards for two of his short documentaries, most recently the 9/11-centric Twin Towers in 2003. The film stars Rob Lowe as a maverick political strategist who is struggling to keep […]
Jeff Beal to Score David Fincher’s ‘House of Cards’
Posted: March 26, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Fincher, House of Cards, Jeff Beal, John Melfi
Jeff Beal has signed on to composer the score for David Fincher’s highly anticipated Netflix original series House of Cards. The show starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright follows an ambitious politician with his eye on the top job. The political thriller based on the book and BBC mini-series of the same name, which explored […]
John Williams Records ‘Fanfare for Fenway’
Posted: March 26, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Fanfare for Fenway, John Williams
John Williams has composed a fanfare for the 100th Anniversary of Boston’s legendary Fenway Park. The piece, which is slightly more than three minutes long was recorded last Saturday at Symphony Hall in Boston by musicians from the Boston Pops Orchestra and conducted by Williams. The composer himself a Red Sox fan and his music […]
‘Lola Versus’ to Feature Music by Fall On Your Sword
Posted: March 25, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daryl Wein, Fall on Your Sword, Lola Versus
Fall On Your Sword are scoring the upcoming indie comedy Lola Versus. The film is directed by Daryl Wein (Breaking Upwards) and stars Greta Gerwig as a New Yorker woman who gets dumped by her fiancé a few weeks before their wedding. With the help of her friends, she embarks on a series of unexpected […]
Alexandre Desplat Scoring ‘Big House’
Posted: March 24, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Big House, Matteo Garrone
Alexandre Desplat is the composer of the upcoming Italian film Big House. The movie is directed by Matteo Garrone who previously helmed the critically acclaimed and Golden Globe-nominated crime drama Gomorrah. Big House takes a look at the Italian obsession with appearing on TV in the Silvio Berlusconi age and revolves around a Neapolitan based […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 23, 2012)
Posted: March 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Brake, Brian Tyler, Ian Neil, James Newton Howard, Joseph Trapanese, Mike Shinoda, Reuniting the Rubins, score, Soundtrack, T Bone Burnett, The Deep Blue Sea, The Hunger Games, The Raid: Redemption, Tim Atack
Only one movie is opening in wide release this weekend: Already breaking box office records is the film adaptation of the bestseller The Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks and Woody Harrelson. James Newton Howard has written the film’s score and T Bone […]
Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring ‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting’
Posted: March 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Kirk Jones, Mark Mothersbaugh, What to Expect When You're Expecting
Mark Mothersbaugh is scoring the upcoming ensemble comedy What to Expect When You’re Expecting. The film is directed by Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine, Everybody’s Fine) and stars Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, Chace Crawford, Brooklyn Decker, Anna Kendrick, Matthew Morrison, Dennis Quaid, Chris Rock and Rodrigo Santoro. The movie based on the New […]
‘Think Like a Man’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jennifer Hudson, Soundtrack, Think Like a Man
Epic Records will be releasing a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy Think Like a Man. The album features the film’s title song performed by Jennifer Hudson & Ne-Yo feat. Rick Ross (already available to download here), as well as other songs from and inspired by the film by artists including John Legend feat. Ludacris […]
Blake Neely to Score the ‘Arrow’ Pilot
Posted: March 22, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Arrow, Blake Neely, Greg Berlanti, The CW
Blake Neely has announced at the composer panel Behind the Music: Composing for WonderCon’s Favorite Projects at last week’s WonderCon 2012 at the Anaheim Convention Center that he is scoring the pilot of the new CW show Arrow. The modern retelling of the story of the DC Comics character Green Arrow stars Stephen Amell as […]
