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Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 26, 2011)

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Four new movies are opening wide over Thanksgiving weekend:

Walt Disney Pictures’ Tangled features songs and score by Alan Menken. Check out our previous article announcing the soundtrack album. A short video interview on the score has been uploaded on YouTube. To listen to lenghty audio interviews with Menken talking about his work on Tangled, visit Film Music Magazine’s On the Score and WDW Radio. Entertainment Weekly also featured an in depth interview with the composer worth checking out. Also check out a short interview Menken did with The Wall Street Journal, as well as a recent article about Menken on LA Times’ Music Blog.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 19, 2010)

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Two movies open wide this weekend:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is already breaking pre-sales records and is expected to beat the opening weekend grosses from the previous films in the series. Alexandre Desplat wrote the score for the movie as the fourth composer in the series. To find out more about the soundtrack which has been released earlier this week, check out our previous news article. For several links to interviews with the composer on the Harry Potter score, click here. Also check out an in depth interview with the composer on the fansite Harry Potter’s Page, which has just been published today.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 12, 2010)

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Three new movies are opening wide this weekend:

Tony Scott’s new thriller Unstoppable starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson features a score by Harry Gregson-Williams. The movie has received the best reviews for any movie by the director in over a decade. The score has been described as a hybrid electronic/orchestral score in the vein of Gregson-Williams’ other scores for the director (Man on Fire, The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3). La-La-Land Records will be releasing a soundtrack album, featuring the score on December 7. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon.

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Tangled soundtrack album coming

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Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album to the upcoming animated movie Tangled on November 16. Both the film’s songs and score written by Alan Menken are included on the album. The album also features the release of Grace Potter’s new song ‘Something That I Want’. To listen to sound clips from the soundtrack, visit Amazon and click here to order the CD.

In related news, Alan Menken will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame tomorrow. Composer Richard Sherman will be the guest speaker, and Rapunzel and Flynn from the upcoming Tangled will also make appearances. Click here for the full press release.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 5, 2010)

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This week, Film Music Reporter is launching a new weekly column talking about the music of the weekend’s new films opening in the US.

Opening this Friday (November 5):

Megamind

Music by Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe

Dreamworks Animation’s latest movie features a score by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe, as well as numerous popular songs. A soundtrack album featuring about 30 minutes of score, as well as most of the songs used in the movie has been released by Lakeshore Records. To listen to clips, check out Amazon or iTunes. The movie contains roughly 50 minutes of score including a very nice arrangement of the main themes during the end credits which has surprisingly been left off the soundtrack album.

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Film Music Reporter coming back soon

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Thanks to everyone writing in to find out about the status of the page. We will be back very soon and we have some very interesting news to report (including a couple of scoring assignments from A-List composers that haven’t been announced anywhere else) in the very near future and our current plan is to expand the page to feature composer interviews and articles, so please stay tuned!

Death at a Funeral score album coming

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Sony Pictures Entertainment will release Christophe Beck’s score for the comedy Death at a Funeral on April 13. The album will be available as a download and CD-R release on Amazon. No tracklisting is available yet. To find out more about the movie, check out our previous news article.

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Giacchino wins Oscar for Up

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Last night, Michael Giacchino won his first Academy Award for his original score for Pixar’s animated movie Up. He was nominated before for Ratatouille in 2008. To watch Giacchino’s acceptance speech, check out Oscars.com. On there, you can also find Giacchino’s speech for the Thank You Cam.

For Best original song, Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett took home the statue for The Weary Kind from the movie Crazy Heart. 

All the score nominees were featured in a street dance performance during the Oscar show. Marc Shaiman was the musical director of the night and the orchestra was conducted by Harold Wheeler.

Mark Mothersbaugh discussing Academy Award-nominated scores

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Mark Mothersbaugh (Cloudu with a Chance of Meatballs, The Royal Tenenbaums) recently shot a video for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in which he discusses this years’ five Oscar nominated scores including Avatar (James Horner), The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Alexandre Desplat), Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer) and Up (Michael Giacchino). To watch the video, visit the Academy webpage or check it out on YouTube.

Giacchino to host Academy Event

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Film Music Reporter has learned that Michael Giacchino will host an evening of Animation & Classical Music on May 14 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, CA. The event is organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and if previous events of the Academy are any indication, the evening will feature many appearances by special guests of the film music industry. Tickets will go on sale on April 28 at www.oscars.org and more details on the event will be announced soon.