Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for 1994 action thriller Blown Away directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Lloyd Bridges and Forest Whitaker. The album features the film’s original score composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri (The Avengers, Back to the Future, Forrest Gump). The composer incorporated […]
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Alan Silvestri’s ‘Blown Away’ Score Released
Posted: December 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Blown Away, score, Soundtrack
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‘Angelique’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Angelique, Nathaniel Mechaly, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album will be released for the French period drama Angelique. The album features the film’s original score composed by Nathaniel Mechaly (Taken, Colombiana, The Grandmaster) and performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The soundtrack will be released in France on December 16, 2013. Click here to check out audio clips. No […]
Nathan Johnson Scoring ‘Young Ones’
Posted: December 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jake Paltrow, Nathan Johnson, Young Ones
Nathan Johnson is currently scoring the upcoming sci-fi action thriller Young Ones. The film is written and directed by Jake Paltrow (The Good Night) and stars Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Elle Fanning and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The movie is set in a violent near-future where water has become the most precious resource on the planet and […]
Thomas Newman to Be Honored at Palm Springs Film Festival
Posted: December 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Frederick Loewe Music Award, Palm Springs Film Festival, Saving Mr. Banks, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman will be honored with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing at the 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF). The composer will be receiving his award for his music for John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks and Colin Farrell. Newman has previously won the award in 2006 following his […]
Deluxe Edition Soundtracks for ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’ and James Cameron’s ‘The Abyss’ Announced
Posted: December 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Brass Target, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Laurence Rosenthal, Michael Kamen, Runaway, score, Soundtrack, Star Trek, Star Trek: Nemesis, Suspect, The Abyss, Vibes
Varese Sarabande has announced the latest titles in the CD Club series. Among the titles is a deluxe edition for Star Trek: Nemesis, the tenth feature in the series and the final movie with the Next Generation crew, directed by Stuart Baird and starring Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Tom Hardy and Marina Sirtis. […]
LA, NY and Boston Film Critics Announce Winners of Best Music in Film 2013
Posted: December 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Boston Online FIlm Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online
A couple of major local critics associations have been announced their winners for this year’s movies. The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis was honored by three organizations for its soundtrack produced by T Bone Burnett. As a side note, the film doesn’t feature an actual score and only one original song, which is why the LA Film […]
‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Martin Scorsese, Soundtrack, The Wolf of Wall Street
Virgin Records will release the official soundtrack album for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Billy Joel, Bo Diddley, Elmore James, Eartha Kitt, Howlin’ Wolf, The Lemonheads, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Cuba, Ahmad Jamal, Romeo Void and more. The soundtrack will be released digitally […]
David Hirschfelder Scoring ‘Healing’
Posted: December 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Monahan, David Hirschfelder, Healing
David Hirschfelder has composed the music for the upcoming Australian drama Healing. The film is directed by Craig Monahan and stars Hugo Weaving, Xavier Samuel, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Jane Menelaus, Anthony Hayes, Mark Leonard Winter, Robert Taylor and Justine Clarke. The movie tells the story of a real-life prison inmate’s last 18 months before […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 6, 2013)
Posted: December 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bruce Retief, Dickon Hinchliffe, Eduardo Cruz, Expecting, Inside Llewyn Davis, Khumba, Mark Kilian, Max Richter, Out of the Furnace, T Bone Burnett, The Last Days on Mars, Twice Born
The only movie to open wide this weekend is the drama Out of the Furnace co-written and directed by Scott Cooper and starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoe Saldana and Sam Shepard. The film’s original score is composed by Dickon Hinchliffe (Winter’s Tale, Last Chance Harvey). Relativity Music Group […]
