Marcelo Zarvos’ score for the romantic drama Remember Me will be released next Tuesday, March 9 by E 1 Music. The album features 12 cues from the score for a total of 45 minutes of music. The album will be a download-only release available iTunes or Amazon. To listen to clips from the score, check out this link on Amazon. A separate song album will also be released the same day. Remember Me stars Robert Pattinson, Emilie DeRavin, Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper and will be released on March 12 by Summit Entertainment. To find out more about the movie and watch the trailer, check out the official Facebook movie page.
Category: Film Music Albums
Chloe soundtrack album announced
Silva Screen Records will release Mychael Danna’s score for the erotic thriller drama Chloe on March 22. The music has been describes as a lush, Bernard Herrman-style score. The movie is directed by Atom Egoyan (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Where The Truth Lies, Felicia’s Junrney, Ararat, Adoration) who regularly works with Danna. Chloe stars Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore and will be released in late march by Sony Pictures Classics.
Here’s the tracklisting:
1. In My Line Of Business
2. People Like You
3. Chardonnay
4. When Did We Stop?
5. I Felt Him
6. Shower
7. You Look Just Like Her
8. Windsor Arms
9. The First Time
10. Conservatory
11. Touch You
12. Have This
13. Waiting Room
14. Do You Want To Count It?
15. Don’t Want This To Be Over
16. Told You Not To Call
17. She Was Nobody
18. This Person
19. Your Parent’s Room
Expanded Fantastic Mr. Fox score released
ABKCO Records just released an expanded version of Alexandre Desplat’s score from Fantastic Mr. Fox (The Abbey Road Mixes). The album includes 47 minutes of the Academy-Award nominated score. The release comes as a surprise, especially since 24 minutes of the score has already been released on the official soundtrack including the songs featured in the animated picture. At this time, the album is a download-only release and can be found on iTunes and Amazon.
Nanny McPhee sequel score album announced
James Newton Howard’s score for Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang will be released by Varese Sarabande Records. The movie is the sequel to Nanny McPhee, which was scored by Patrick Doyle and came out in 2006. In the sequel, Emma Thompson is reprising her role as Nanny McPhee and is joined by the recently Oscar nominated Maggie Gyllenhaal.
The orchestral score by James Newton Howard was recorded in London last month. The score album will be released on March 30. Because the movie won’t premiere in the United States until this summer, the album will only be available as an import from Europe and on iTunes until August 2010 when the CD will be released domestically as well.
Beverly Hills Cop & Fletch score albums planned
In a recent interview with Cinematical, Harold Faltermeyer announced that albums for his scores for Beverly Hills Cop and Fletch are in the works. The label he’s working with is La-La-Land Records and the intention would be to release the complete scores.
In the interview, Faltermeyer also talks about Cop Out, his working process and his future plans. To read the entire interview, click here.
The Goonies score album announced
Varese Sarabande announced their latest CD club releases this morning. The latest batch includes four new albums, which can all be ordered on the Varese webpage.
One of the most requested titles in soundtrack history finally receives a CD release. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the movie, Dave Grusin’s score for The Goonies directed by Richard Donner and produced by Steven Spielberg is limited to 5000 copies. For sound clips and to order the CD, click here.
How To Train Your Dragon score album coming
John Powell’s score to Dreamworks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon will be released by Varese Sarabande Records on March 23. The movie follows the adventures of a hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely owner of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. The film’s voice cast includes Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill and America Ferrara. How To Train Your Dragon marks John Powell’s first solo gig for Dreamworks Animation after having co-written the scores for Antz, Shrek, Chicken Run and Kung Fu Panda. The movie will open in theaters on March 26.
Sound clips will be added soon. A short excerpt from the score can be heard on the movie’s official webpage: http://www.howtotrainyourdragon.com/
Here’s the tracklisting of the album:
The Pacific soundtrack album announced
The score for the upcoming HBO mini-series The Pacific will be released on March 9 by Rhino Records. The music is by Hans Zimmer, Geoff Zanelli and Blake Neely. The epic 10-part miniseries is based on the true stories of World War II Marines. It tracks the intertwined real-life journeys of three U.S. Marines-Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello), and John Basilone (Jon Seda)-across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. The miniseries follows these men and their fellow Marines from their first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, through the rain forests of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Peleliu, across the bloody sands of Iwo Jima and through the horror of Okinawa, and finally to their triumphant but uneasy return home after V-J Day.
To listen to clips from each track of the soundtrack, check out Rhino Records’ soundtrack webpage: http://www.rhino.com/shop/product/hans-zimmer-geoff-zanelli-and-blake-neely-the-pacific-music-from-the-hbo-miniseries
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
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:
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.