Archive for October, 2012

Claude Foisy is currently scoring the new CW drama Beauty and the Beast. The composer has started working on the series with last week’s episode Proceed with Caution and will be writing the score for the rest of the first season. Mark Isham has scored the pilot episode, which premiered two weeks ago. The show stars […]

‘Songs of Anarchy’ Volume 2 Announced

Posted: October 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Columbia Records will release a new soundtrack album for the FX hit series Sons of Anarchy. Songs of Anarchy: Vol. 2 features songs from the show by artists including Jane’s Addiction, Greg Holden, The Forest Rangers, Joshua James, actress Katey Sagal, Battleme, Noah Gundersen, Franky Perez, Alison Mosshart, Curtis Stigers, Audra Mae and Franky Perez. […]

Walt Disney Records will release Partysaurus Overflow, the score from the Pixar animated short Partysaurus Rex. The music is composed by BT (The Fast and the Furious, Monster). The one-track single will be released on October 30, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Partysaurus Rex is the third short in the Toy […]

Varese Sarabande has announced the newest titles in the label’s CD Club series. Among the latest releases is a deluxe edition for the 1991 action thriller sequel Die Hard 2 – Die Harder directed by Renny Harlin and starring Bruce Willis, Dennis Franz, John Amos and Bonnie Bedelia. The film’s music is composed and conducted […]

While no major network shows will be premiering this coming week, NBC will air the pilot for Mockingbird Lane on Friday. The reboot of the classic CBS sitcom The Munsters is written by Bryan Fuller and directed by Bryan Singer. The one-hour special stars Jerry O’Connell as family patriarch Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi as […]

Andrew Lockington is scoring the upcoming sci-fi series Primeval: New World. The show created by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Star Trek: Enterprise) is a North American spin-off of the British series Primeval, which ran for five seasons and aired in the US on Syfy and BBC America. Primeval: New World stars Niall Matter (Eureka), Sara […]

Alberto Iglesias was chosen as Film Composer of the Year 2012 at the World Soundtrack Awards 2012, tonight’s closing event of the 39th Ghent Film Festival. Iglesias also received an award for his score for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in the Best Original Film Score of the Year 2012 category. The composer’s other scores of […]

Creazioni Artistiche Musical will release a soundtrack album for Bernardo Bertolucci’s drama Me and You (Io e te). The album features the film’s original music composed by Franco Piersanti (We Have a Pope, My Brother Is an Only Child), as well as the songs Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola by David Bowie, Sing for Absolution by Muse […]

‘Lincoln’ Soundtrack Preview

Posted: October 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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JWFan.Net has posted a soundtrack preview for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. The music is composed and conducted by John Williams and performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Chorus. Click here to listen to 30-second clips from all 17 tracks on the album and check out more audio clips below. As previously reported, the […]

Two new movies are opening in wide release this week: Expected to top the weekend box office is the found footage horror film Paranormal Activity 4 directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, produced by Jason Blum & Oren Peli and starring Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Aiden Lovekamp, Brady Allen, Stephen Dunham, Alexondra Lee and […]