Archive for 2014

Alex Ebert Wins Golden Globe Award for ‘All Is Lost’

Posted: January 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Alex Ebert has received his first Golden Globe Award for his score for J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost starring Robert Redford. The other composers nominated in the Best Original Score category were John Williams (The Book Thief), Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave), Alex Heffes (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and Steven Price (Gravity). In the Best […]

Bear McCreary has announced on Twitter that he will be scoring the upcoming Starz original series Outlander. The show is created by Ronald D. Moore based on Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling books and stars Caitrona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Graham McTavish, Gary Lewis, Duncan Lacroix, Annette Badland and Stephen Walters. The series follows the story […]

Premiering tonight is the HBO original series True Detective created by Nic Pizzolatto, directed by Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre) and starring Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Jay O. Sanders, Lili Simmons, Alexandra Daddario, Michael Potts, Kevin Dunn, Tory Kittles, Elizabeth Reaser and Brad Carter. T Bone Burnett (Inside Llewyn Davis, O Brother Where Are […]

Audio clips from the soundtrack for Kenneth Branagh’s action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit have been published. The film’s music is composed by Patrick Doyle (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Thor, Much Ado About Nothing) who recorded his score with the London Symphony Orchestra. Check out audio clips from all 24 tracks on […]

In addition to four movies (Lone Survivor, Her, August: Osage County, Inside Llewyn Davis) expanding nationwide, only one movie is opening wide this weekend: Opening in roughly 2100 theaters is the 3D action adventure The Legend of Hercules directed by Renny Harlin and starring Kellan Lutz, Liam McIntyre, Gaia Weiss, Scott Adkins, Roxanne McKee and […]

IDOL – Eskwad will release a soundtrack album for Christophe Gans’ adaptation of Beauty and the Beast  (La Belle et la Bete). The album features the film’s original music composed by Pierre Adenot (Romantics Anonymous, Paris, je t’aime). Also included is Brian Keane’s Dark History Waltz from the New York documentary, as well as two […]

Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Patrick Doyle (Thor, Sense and Sensibility, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). The soundtrack will be released physically on February 4, 2014 and is […]

Ben Lovett is the composer of the upcoming indie comedy Don Peyote. The film is written and directed by Dan Fogler and Michael Canzoniero. Fogler also stars in the movie alongside Josh Duhamel, Jay Baruchel, Kelly Hutchinson and Wallace Shawn. Anne Hathaway and Topher Grace will make a special appearance. The comedy follows an unemployed […]

22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature The Magic Snowflake. The album features the film’s original music composed by Robert Marcel Lepage. Also included is the song When Snow Falls Down performed by Rachel Bonneau. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. […]

Twitter and Southwest Air present the Collective Conversations: Sound & Vision – a panel discussion on music in film, and how the recording artist transitions into film composer at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The panel will be moderated by actor William H. Macy who made his directorial debut with the drama Rudderless, which is set to premiere at […]