Archive for the ‘Composer Interviews’ Category

Kevin Smith’s action buddy comedy Cop Out starring Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan and Sean William Scott premiered in theaters yesterday. The movie marks composer Harold Faltermeyer’s return to Hollwood film scoring. The full album can be listened to at the official soundtrack webpage from Warner Bros: http://copoutmovie.warnerbros.com/soundtrack.html Apart from 14 score tracks, the album features the brand […]

Michael Giacchino will continue his collaboration with Walt Disney Pictures on the upcoming John Carter of Mars. The movie directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E) marks the director’s first live action feature and is scheduled for release in 2012. The cast features Taylor Kitsch, Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church and Mark Strong. The film chronicles […]

James Horner Video Interview

Posted: February 26, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews
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David Poland from Movie City News was able to secure James Horner for an exclusive interview that was shot earlier this week and just uploaded on his blog. In the lengthy video interview, Horner talks about his Academy Award-nominated score for Avatar, the other Oscar nominated scores and the current state of film music. Needless to […]

Danny Elfman’s highly anticipated score for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland will be released by Walt Disney Records on March 2. To listen to clips from the soundtrack album, check out Walt Disney Records’ soundtrack page:  http://disneymusic.disney.go.com/albums/aliceinwonderland.html Elfman has already started to promote the score. Check out this interview with Elfman from the LA Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/02/danny-elfman-searches-for-the-sound-of-wonderland.html […]

Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, who have been nominated for an Academy Award for their score for The Hurt Locker have recently been doing the press round to promote the score before the Oscars on March 7. This week, they have been featured as guests on Jim Svejda’s Classical Music show on KUSC. The complete […]

Hans Zimmer promoting Sherlock Holmes score

Posted: February 24, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews
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For the past few weeks, Hans Zimmer has been busy promoting his Academy-Award nominated score for Sherlock Holmes on various media platforms. He recently did an interview with Jim Svejda for the classical music station KUSC. To listen to the whole audio interview, visit http://kusc.podbean.com/2010/02/18/2010-oscar-best-score-nominee-hans-zimmer-sherlock-holmes/ For more promotional interview material on  Sherlock Holmes, here are just […]