Music Box Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 2000 action thriller Reindeer Games directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron and James Frain. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, The Avengers, Captain America: The First Avenger). Also included are a couple of alternate cues. The limited edition CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full soundtrack details and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Silvestri’s ‘Reindeer Games’ Score to Be Released
Posted: December 1, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Ennio Morricone, John Frankenheimer, Lolita, Reindeer Games, score, Soundtrack
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Stanley Clarke Scoring ‘Barbershop: The Next Cut’
Posted: November 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Barbershop, Barbershop: The Next Cut, Malcolm D. Lee, Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke is currently scoring the upcoming comedy sequel Barbershop: The Next Cut. The film is directed by Malcolm D. Lee (Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins) and stars Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson, Eve, Nicki Minaj, Common and JB Smoove. The third installment in the Barbershop series takes place 10 years after the last part and follows Eddie and his longtime crew whose once male-dominated sanctuary is now co-ed. Kenya Barris (Black-ish) and Tracy Oliver have written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for USA’s ‘Suits’ Announced
Posted: November 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Tyng, score, Soundtrack, Suits, USA
Lakeshore Records will release the first official soundtrack album for the USA original series Suits. The album features selections from the show’s original score composed by Christopher Tyng (Futurama, The O.C., Covert Affairs, Rescue Me), as well as the series’ title song Greenback Boogie performed by Ima Robot. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 11, 2015 and physically on February 12, 2016. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album and to listen to audio clips. Suits is created by Aaron Korsh and stars Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Gina Torres, Sarah Rafferty and Meghan Markle. The show is set at a fast-paced Manhattan corporate law firm and follows a brilliant college-dropout who finds himself a job working with one of New York City’s best lawyers. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Edwin Wendler, I Spit on Your Grave, I Spit on Your Grave: Vengeance Is Mine, score, Soundtrack
Howlin’ Wolf Records will release a soundtrack album for the horror sequel I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine. The album features the film’s original music composed by Edwin Wendler (Unnatural, Tales of Halloween). The soundtrack will be released on CD on December 11, 2015. The third installment in the I Spit on Your Grave series is directed by R.D. Braunstein and stars Sarah Butler, Jennifer Landon, Doug McKeon, Gabriel Hogan, Harley Jane Kozak, Michelle Hurd and Russell Pitts. The movie follows Jennifer Hills as she seeking out the help of a support group after her attack in the previous movies and takes the law into her own hands and dishes out her own brand of justice to the abusers of her fellow group members. Read the rest of this entry »
Patrick Doyle to Score ‘Whisky Galore’
Posted: November 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gillies MacKinnon, Patrick Doyle, Whisky Galore
Patrick Doyle is set to compose the music for the upcoming comedy Whisky Galore. The film is directed by Gillies MacKinnon (A Simple Twist of Faith, Hideous Kinky, Behind the Lines) and stars Eddie Izzard, Gregor Fisher, John Sessions, Fenella Woolgar, Tim Piggott-Smith and Sean Biggerstaff. The movie is based on the novel by Compton MacKenzie and the 1949 film of the same title and centers around thereal-life 1941 shipwreck of the S.S. Politician, which ran aground with a cargo of 264,000 bottles of malt whisky. Peter McDougall has written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 29, 2015)
Posted: November 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mateo Messina, NBC, Superstore, The Wiz LIVE!
Premiering tomorrow, November 30, is the new NBC comedy Superstore created by Justin Spitzer and starring America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Mark McKinney, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn, Nichole Bloom and Nico Santos. The show’s original music is composed by Mateo Messina (Juno, Casual, Butter, Truth Be Told, Growing Up Fisher). Superstore revolves around a unique family of employees at a super-sized mega store. The comedy’s first two episodes will air tomorrow and the official series premiere is set for January 4, 2016. Visit the official show website for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
Armand Amar to Score ‘The History of Love’
Posted: November 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Armand Amar, Radu Mihaileanu, The History of Love
Armand Amar is reteaming with director Radu Mihaileanu on the upcoming drama The History of Love. The film marks the director’s English-language debut and stars Derek Jacobi, Sophie Nelisse, Gemma Arterton and Elliott Gould. The movie is based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Nicole Krauss and centers around a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother’s loneliness. Mihaileanu is also producing the project with Marc-Antoine Robert and Xavier Rigault (Persepolis, Delicacy). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Keep Watching’ to Feature Music by Tyler Bates
Posted: November 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James Gunn, Keep Watching, The Belko Experiment, Tyler Bates
Tyler Bates has composed the music for the upcoming horror thriller Keep Watching. The film is directed by Sean Carter and stars Bella Thorne, Ioan Gruffudd, Chandler Riggs, Ioan Gruffudd, Chandler Riggs, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Willig and Leigh Whannell. The movie centers on a family attacked in their home by intruders who play a life-and-death game with mysterious rules. Joseph Dembner has written the screenplay. Nicolas Chartier (The Hurt Locker, Killer Joe) and Craig J. Flores (Charlie Countryman, Fathers & Daughters) are producing the project for Voltage Films, alongside Andrew Rona (Unknown, The Gunman) & Alex Heineman (Non-Stop) for The Picture Company. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Marguerite & Julien’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 28, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marguerite & Julien, score, Soundtrack, Yuksek
Rectangle Productions has released a soundtrack album for the French romantic drama Marguerite & Julien. The album features the film’s original music composed by French electronic music producer/DJ Yuksek aka Pierre-Alexandre Busson. Also included are the songs Oh My Love by The Artwoods and Past, Present and Future by The Shangri-Las. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Marguerite & Julien is directed by Valerie Donzelli and stars Anais Demoustier, Jeremie Elkaim, Frederic Pierrot, Aurelia Petit, Raoul Fernandez and Catherine Mouchet. The movie follows two siblings who fall in love with each other and are persecuted by society. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 27, 2015)
Posted: November 27, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Brooke Blair, Craig Armstrong, Creed, JB Dunckel, Jeff Danna, Killing Them Safely, Ludwig Göransson, Mychael Danna, The Danish Girl, The Good Dinosaur, The Summer of Sangaile, Victor Frankenstein, Will Blair
Three new movies opened nationwide this past Wednesday:
Playing in most theaters is the animated feature The Good Dinosaur directed by Peter Sohn and featuring the voices of Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, Marcus Scribner, A.J. Buckley and Steve Zahn. The film’s original music is composed by Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Capote) and Jeff Danna (The Boondock Saints, Silent Hill). Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score. Click here for the full album details. Also visit SoundWorks Collection and Trailer Addict for recent video interviews with the Danna brothers about their work on the project.
Also playing nationwide is the sports drama Creed directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad and Anthony Bellews. Ludwig Goransson (Fruitvale Station, Community, We’re the Millers, 30 Minutes or Less) has composed the film’s original music. WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our previous article for the full album details. In addition, Republic Records has released a soundtrack featuring the songs from the film. Also click here for a video featurette about Goransson’s score. Read the rest of this entry »
