Madison Gate Records will release the official soundtrack album for the for the family adventure Harold and the Purple Crayon. The album features the film’s original music composed by Batu Sener (The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Better Man, Ice Age: Scrat Tales, Atatürk). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 2 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also check out the composer’s The Crayon Suite after the jump and click here to check out the project’s music team credits. Harold and the Purple Crayon is directed by Carlos Saldanha and stars Zachary Levi, Zooey Deschanel, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Tanya Reynolds, Jemaine Clement and Alfred Molina. The movie is based on Crockett Johnson’s children’s book classic of the same title and follows the title character who can make anything come to life simply by drawing it who has to team up with his friends to save both the real world and his own when the power of unlimited imagination falls into the wrong hands.
Category: Film Music Albums
‘Cities of the Future’ Soundtrack Released
H. Scott Salinas (The Banker, A Private War, Warrior, Cartel Land, Full Swing, Birth of the Dragon, The Ballad of Lefty Brown) has released a soundtrack album for the giant screen documentary Cities of the Future. The album features the composer’s original music from the film and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to Salinas’ main title track after the jump. Cities of the Future is directed by narrated by actor John Krasinski and produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films in partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers. The movie highlights the visionary solutions engineers are developing to meet the pressing challenges of a changing world and forge a more sustainable future.
‘Borderlands’ Movie Soundtrack Album Details
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the movie adaptation of the video game series Borderlands. The album features the film’s original music composed by Steve Jablonsky (Transformers, The Island, Deepwater Horizon, DC League of Super-Pets, Desperate Housewives, Ender’s Game, Skyscraper, Battleship). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, August 9 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track below. Borderlands is co-written and directed by Eli Roth and stars Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Ariana Greenblatt, Edgar Ramírez, Gina Gershon, Florian Munteanu and Jamie Lee Curtis. The sci-fi action comedy follows an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past who reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy, and forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits to find the missing daughter of Atlas the universe’s most powerful S.O.B.
‘The Duel’ Soundtrack Album Details
Lionsgate Records will release a soundtrack album for the comedy The Duel. The album features the film’s original music composed by Carl Thiel (Machete Kills, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Accidental Texan, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Seis Manos, The Teller and the Truth). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 31 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s main titles track below. The Duel is written and directed by Justin Matthews & Luke Spencer Roberts and stars Dylan Sprouse, Callan McAuliffe, Hart Denton, Denny Love, María Gabriela De Faría, Christian McGaffney, Rachel Matthews, Ronald Guttman and Patrick Warburton. The movie follows a young man who – upon discovering that his best friend has been having an affair with his girlfriend – challenges his closest companion to a classic contest of honor, a gentleman’s duel to the death.
‘Pentathlon’ Soundtrack Album Released
Dragon’s Domain Records has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 1994 action thriller Pentathlon co-written and directed by Bruce Malmuth and starring Dolph Lundgren, David Soul, Roger E. Mosley and Renée Coleman. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Spear (Fear No Evil, Exterminator 2, No Retreat, No Surrender 2, The Creature Wasn’t Nice, Mortuary Academy, Kiss Daddy Goodbye) and performed by the Brookline Symphony Orchestra. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s main title track below.
‘The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure’ Soundtrack Album Details
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the French action thriller The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure (Largo Winch: Le prix de l’argent). The album features the film’s original music composed by Frédéric Vercheval (The Pact, Green Border This Is Our Land, The Sower, Secret Name). Also included is the song Broken Mirror by Shaka Shams & Shy Forever. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 31 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s end title track below. The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure is directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse and stars Tomer Sisley, James Franco, Clotilde Hesme and Elise Tilloloy. The third installment in the Largo Winch movie franchise (following the Alexandre Desplat-scored The Heir Apparent & The Burma Conspiracy) follows the title character as he becomes the target of a ruthless plot to destroy him and the W Group after the brutal kidnapping of his son.
Premiere Vinyl Edition of Clint Mansell’s ‘Doom’ Score Announced
Varèse Sarabande and Craft Recordings have announced the first-ever vinyl release of the score to the 2005 movie adaptation of the video game Doom directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and starring Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Dwayne Johnson and Razaaq Adoti. The 2-LP deluxe edition features the film’s original score composed by Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, Noah, The Fountain, Rebecca, Peacemaker, The Wrestler, Stoker, Love Lies Bleeding, Moon) and will be available on on Green and Orange Smoke vinyl (in homage to the Doomguy’s suit colors) in North America and as a Black Ice vinyl internationally. The soundtrack will be released on October 11 and is now available for pre-order on Varese’s official website (where you can also find out more details) now and will also be available on Amazon within the next couple of days. The 2-LP gatefold package includes brand-new illustrations by artist Micha Huigen on the cover and the inside of the package.
World Premiere Release of Gerald Fried’s ‘The Bell Jar’ & ‘Vigilante Force’ Scores Announced
Dragon’s Domain Records has announced a new soundtrack album featuring the world premiere release of two scores composed by Gerald Fried (Star Trek: The Original Series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible, Roots, Gilligan’s Island). The album includes the composer’s music from the 1979 drama The Bell Jar directed by Larry Peerce and starring Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, Robert Klein & Barbara Barrie, as well as his score from the 1976 action movie Vigilante Force written and directed by George Armitage and starring Kris Kristofferson and Jan-Michael Vincent. The Gerald Fried – Volume 2 is now available to order as a limited edition CD on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. A digital release is expected in the coming weeks.
‘My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock’ Soundtrack Album Released
Instant Karma Classics has released a soundtrack album for the documentary My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock. The album features the film’s original score composed by Donna McKevitt (The Swimming Diaries, The Fold). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s first track (Introducing Alfred) below. My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock is directed by Mark Cousins and examines the Vertigo & Psycho director’s vast body of work, exploring his themes, techniques, and obsessions – using actor and impressionist Alistair McGowan to portray Hitchcock in voiceover.
‘The Arctic Convoy’ Soundtrack Released
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the Norwegian historical drama The Arctic Convoy (Konvoi). The album features the film’s original music composed by Johannes Ringen (Troll, The Quake, Captain Fall, The Burning Sea, The Girl from Oslo). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. The Arctic Convoy is written and directed by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken and stars Tobias Santelmann, Adam Lundgren, Anders Baasmo, Jakob Fort and Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen. The movie is set in 1942 during World War II and follows the leader of a convoy carrying vital military supplies to a Norwegian outpost who decides to proceed through enemy-infested waters despite the recall of their military escort.