Hans Zimmer has composed the first official hymn for the 10th anniversary of the electronic dance musicmfestival Tomorrowland, which is held every year in the Belgian town of Boom, outside of Brussels. The composer collaborated with Junkie XL (Divergent, 300: Rise of an Empire) and Lorne Balfe (Megamind) on the piece, which was recorded at […]
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Hans Zimmer Composes Hymn for EDM Festival Tomorrowland
Posted: April 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Hans Zimmer
Behind the Music of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’
Posted: April 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Hans Zimmer, Marc Webb, Pharrell Williams, The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Sony Pictures Entertainment has published a video featurette on the music for the superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The video features footage from the score’s recording sessions and interviews with the film’s composer Hans Zimmer, as well as some of his collaborators including Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr and director Marc Webb. Check out the […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 11, 2014)
Posted: April 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Carmen Rizzo, Cuban Fury, Daniel Pemberton, David Hirschfelder, David Wingo, Dickon Hinchliffe, Draft Day, Hateship Loveship, Jeff McIlwain, Joe, John Debney, John Powell, Jozef Van Wissem, Oculus, Only Lovers Left Alive, Perfect Sisters, Rio 2, Sergio Mendes, SQÜRL, The Newton Brothers, The Railway Man
Three new movies are opening wide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the animated sequel Rio 2 directed by Carlinhos Brown and featuring the voices of Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, will.i.am, Jemaine Clement, Rodrigo Santoro, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez, Leslie Mann, Jamie Foxx, Rita Moreno, Bruno Mars and Kristin Chenoweth. The film’s original’s music is […]
Elliot Goldenthal’s Othello Symphony to Be Released
Posted: April 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Elliot Goldenthal, Othello Symphony, The Stone Cutters
Zarathustra Music will release Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal‘s Othello Symphony based on the ballet he composed in 1998. Last year, the composer of such films as Frida, Interview with a Vampire, Heat, Public Enemies and Alien 3 adapted the music into a proper concert piece, which was recorded with the AUKSO Orchestra of Tychy Poland at Alvernia Studios in Krakow. The recording will be […]
Ibero-American Film Industry Launches Platino Awards
Posted: April 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emilio Kauderer, Lucas Vidal, Platino Awards
This past Saturday, the first Platino Ibero-American Film Awards were held Saturday in Panama City. In the Best Original Score category, Emilio Kauderer was honored for his music for the animated feature Foosball directed by Juan Jose Campanella, which was recently picked up by the Weinstein Company for a domestic release this summer under the title Underdogs. Composer Lucas Vidal (Fast […]
Mychael Danna to Receive BMI’s Richard Kirk Award
Posted: April 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BMI Film & Television Awards, Mychael Danna, Richard Kirk Award
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) has announced today that Mychael Danna will be honored with the Richard Kirk Award for outstanding career achievement at this year’s BMI Film & Television Awards. The composer who is recognized for his evocative blending of non-western traditions with orchestral and electronic music received his first Academy Awardin 2013 for his score for Ang Lee’s […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 4, 2014)
Posted: April 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Afflicted, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Andrew Lockington, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Danny Elfman, Dom Hemingway, Edo Van Breemen, Eric D. Johnson, Frankie & Alice, Goodbye World, Henry Jackman, Hot Guys with Guns, Ilan Eshkeri, In the Blood, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, Jinn, Kyle Newmaster, Laura Karpman, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mervyn Warren, Mica Levi, Noah Sorota, Paul Haslinger, Rolfe Kent, Something Wicked, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, The Unknown Known, Under the Skin
Only one new movie is opening this weekend: Guaranteed to top the weekend box office is Captain America: The Winter Soldier directed by Anthony & Joe Russo and starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie and Robert Redford. The film’s music is composed by Henry Jackman (X-Men: First Class, Wreck-It-Ralph. Hollywood Records has released […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 28, 2014)
Posted: March 28, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aria Prayogi, Boys of Abu Ghraib, Breathe In, Cesar Chavez, Clint Mansell, Dan Marocco, David Sardy, Dustin O'Halloran, Fajar Yuskemal, Joseph Trapanese, Just a Sigh, Michael Brook, Noah, Raf Keunen, Sabotage, The Raid 2
Two new movies opening nationwide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the biblical epic Noah directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins and Logan Lerman. Clint Mansell who previously scored all of the director’s features including Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, […]
Noah Sorota Recording the Score for ‘Jinn’
Posted: March 23, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Jinn, Noah Sorota
Noah Sorota has composed the music for the supernatural thriller Jinn. The composer’s score was recorded with a full orchestra on the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, CA. Sorota also conducted the orchestra. Check out a number of videos from the recording sessions of the score after the jump. Sorota is […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 21, 2014)
Posted: March 21, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 50 to 1, Blood Ties, Christophe Beck, Divergent, God's Not Dead, Johann Johannsson, Junkie XL, Marc Marder, McCanick, Muppets Most Wanted, Rob the Mob, Stephen Endelman, The Missing Picture, Will Musser, William Ross, Yodelice
Two new movies are opening wide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the film adaptation of the young adult novel Divergent directed by Neil Burger and starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Aaron Eckhart, Miles Teller, Zoe Kravitz, Ansel Elgort, Ray Stevenson, Jai Courtney, Ashley Judd and Maggie Q. Interscope Records has released a […]