Oscars show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that U2 will perform the original song Ordinary Love from Justin Chadwick’s biographical drama Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony on March 2, 2014. The performance will be the first time the band will perform the song […]
Archive for February, 2014
U2 to Perform ‘Ordinary Love’ from ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’ on the Oscars
Posted: February 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Ordinary Love, U2
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‘Girl on a Bicycle’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Craig Richey, Girl on a Bicycle, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy Girl on a Bicycle. The album features the film’s original music composed by Craig Richey (Friends with Money, Lovely & Amazing, The September Issue). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 25, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Girl […]
Klaus Badelt to Score Werner Herzog’s ‘Queen of the Desert’
Posted: February 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Klaus Badelt, Queen of the Desert, Supercondraique, Werner Herzog, Wish
Klaus Badelt is set to reunite with director Werner Herzog on the upcoming biographical drama Queen of the Desert. The film written and directed by Herzog stars Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell, the iconic explorer, writer, archeologist and attaché for the British Empire who helped to catalyze the formation of the Middle East at the […]
Expanded ‘Escape from L.A.’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Basil Poledouris, Escape from L.A., Flesh + Blood, John Carpenter, Paul Verhoeven, score, Shirley Walker, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has released a new soundtrack album for the 1996 action thriller Escape from L.A. directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi and Cliff Robertson. The album features the film’s original music by Shirley Walker (Final Destination, Willard, Memoirs of an Invisible Man) and John Carpenter (Halloween, Assault on Precint […]
‘The Moon Song’ (Music from and Inspired by ‘Her’) Single Released
Posted: February 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Her, Karen O, Soundtrack, Spike Jonze, The Moon Song
WaterTower Music has released the single The Moon Song featuring music from and inspired by Spike Jonze’s Academy Award-nominated drama Her. The release includes three recordings of The Moon Song, which is up for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category. One version is performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix and is featured in the film […]
Michael Giacchino Scoring ‘Ratatouille’ Ride for Disneyland Paris
Posted: February 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disneyland Paris, Michael Giacchino, Ratatouille
Michael Giacchino revealed on Twitter today the he is currently recording the music for a new Ratatouille theme park attraction for Disneyland Paris based on the Oscar-winning movie from Pixar. The composer has previously scored the 2007 animated feature, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. The attractions is reportedly a trackless ride vehicles with […]
‘Banshee’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Banshee, Cinemax, Methodic Doubt, Soundtrack
Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album for the Cinemax original series Banshee. The album features the show’s main title theme and the Carrie/Lucas theme by Methodic Doubt, as well as songs from the series by artists including Nico Vega, Verse & Bishop, The Mutts, Cat Dowling, Abi Wade, Anders Osborne, Ivy Levan and […]
Laurent Eyquem to Score John McTiernan’s ‘Red Squad’
Posted: February 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John McTiernan, Laurent Eyquem, Red Squad, USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
Laurent Eyquem is set to score the upcoming thriller Red Squad. John McTiernan will be directing the film, which follows a former DEA agent with a rogue streak and his select team of mercenaries who descend upon a Mexican border town to neutralize a drug lord. The movie’s cast is expected to be announced soon. Rionda Del Castro is […]
‘Enemies Closer’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Enemies Closer, score, Soundtrack, Tony Morales
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the action thriller Enemies Closer. The album features the film’s original music composed by Tony Morales (Hatfield & McCoys, The Bag Man). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 25, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Enemies Closer is directed by Peter Hyams […]
Idina Menzel to Perform ‘Let It Go’ from ‘Frozen’ on the Oscars
Posted: February 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Frozen, Idina Menzel
Oscars show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that Idina Menzel will, for the first time, perform the Academy Award-nominated song Let it Go from Disney’s animated feature Frozen at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony on March 2, 2014. The song written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez is one of the four songs up for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category. […]
