Category: Composer Interviews

Harold Faltermeyer on Cop Out

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 new Faltermeyer penned song Soul Brothers by Patti LaBelle.

To coincide with the film’s opening weekend, Slash Film has uploaded a new interview with Faltermeyer where he talks about Cop Out, his creative process, his work in the 80’s and his music for the upcoming comedy High School, which he describes as a “haunting, mystical, psychedelic–sometimes orchestral” score: http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/26/interview-harold-faltermeyer-creator-of-soundtrack-themes-to-fletch-beverly-hills-cop-top-gun-and-kevin-smiths-cop-out/

A few weeks ago, Daniel Schweiger interviewed Faltermeyer on his show On The Score. To listen to the excellent and lenghty audio interview, visit: http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=4908

Giacchino and Disney to reunite on John Carter of Mars

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 the journey of Civil-War veteran John Carter, who finds himself battling a new and mysterious war amidst a host of strange Martian inhabitants, including Tars Tarkas and Dejah Thoris.

Giacchino also will be a guest on tonight’s KUSC’s Classical Music show hosted by Jim Svejda. The interview which is already up on KUSC’s webpage can be heard right here: http://kusc.podbean.com/2010/02/25/2010-oscar-best-score-nominee-michael-giacchino-up/

James Horner Video Interview

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 say, this is one of the most fascinating composer interviews of the past couple of years in excellent high definition quality. You can watch the interview right here:

http://www.dp30.com/blog/2010/02/25/avatar-composer-james-horner/

Elfman on Alice in Wonderland

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

For an interview with Tim Burton conducted by Elfman, click here:

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/tim-burton/

More interviews and reports on the score can be expected soon.

Beltrami and Sanders on The Hurt Locker

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 interview can be found online right here:

http://kusc.podbean.com/2010/02/23/2010-oscar-best-score-joint-nominees-marco-beltrami-buck-sanders-the-hurt-locker/

Also, Beltrami and Sanders were interviewed by Steve Pond from The Wrap: 

http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/takes-two-tango-hurt-locker-composers-14578

In addition, David Poland shot a video interview for his blog which can seen by clicking on the following link: http://www.dp30.com/blog/2010/02/15/the-hurt-locker-composers-marco-beltrami-buck-sanders/

Hans Zimmer promoting Sherlock Holmes score

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 a few other links featuring video and audio interviews with the eight time Oscar nominated composer:

Collider: http://www.collider.com/2010/01/21/excl … inception/

First Showing: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/01/19/ … ns-zimmer/

David Poland’s DP/30: http://www.dp30.com/blog/2010/01/14/sherlock-holmes-composer-hans-zimmer/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2010/01/16/composer_zimmer_talks_sherlock_holmes_inception_dark_knight_its_complicated/

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2010/02/04/tsr.xtra.hans.zimmer.bk.b.cn

Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars … video.html