The details of the soundtrack album for Alejandro G. Inarritu’s dramatic thriller The Revenant have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music by Academy Award winner Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Last Emperor, Snake Eyes, Little Buddha) and Alva Noto. The National member Bryce Dessner has also contributed additional music. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 25, 2015 and physically (on CD and vinyl) in early 2016 by Milan Records. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson & Will Poulter takes place in the 1800s and follows an explorer who is abandoned by his hunting team after a brutal bear attack and must withstand the elements and the wilderness to survive and return to his family. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Revenant’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 2, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alva Noto, Bryce Dessner, Ryuichi Sakamoto, score, Soundtrack, The Revenant
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans to Score Joshua Marston’s ‘Complete Unknown’
Posted: December 2, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Complete Unknown, Danny Bensi, Joshua Marston, Saunder Jurriaans
Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans have been tapped to score the upcoming drama Complete Unknown. The film is directed by Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace, The Forgiveness of Blood) and stars Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates and Danny Glover. The movie marks the director’s first English-language feature and follows a woman introduced at a dinner party hosted by a man who increasingly believes he knows the guest by a different name and different biography. Marston has also written the screenplay with Julian Sheppard. Read the rest of this entry »
Nominations for 43rd Annie Awards Announced
Posted: December 1, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Annie Awards
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for the 43rd Annual Annie Awards. Here are the music-related nominees:
Music in an Animated Feature Production
- Carter Burwell – Anomalisa – Paramount Pictures
- Kevin Riepl – Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem – Warner Bros. Animation
- Ruben Feffer, Gustavo Kurlat, GEM Grupo Experimental de Música & Emicida – Boy and the World – Filme de Papel
- Michael Giacchino – Inside Out – Pixar Animation Studios
- Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna – The Good Dinosaur – Pixar Animation Studios
‘American Hero’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 1, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: American Hero, Lorne Balfe, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the superhero dramedy American Hero. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lorne Balfe (Terminator Genisys, Home, Penguins of Madagascar, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldier of Benghazi, The Bible). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 11, 2015 and physically in early 2016. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album and to check out audio samples. American Hero is written and directed by Nick Love and stars Stephen Dorff and Eddie Griffin. The movie follows a superpowered man who has spent years suppressing his gifts with booze, drugs and women vows to set his life straight after surviving a brush with death by fighting crime and cleaning up the streets of New Orleans. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rabid Dogs’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 1, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Enragés, Laurent Eyquem, Rabid Dogs, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records will release a soundtrack album for the French crime thriller Rabid Dogs (Enragés). The album features the film’s original music composed by Laurent Eyquem (Copperhead, Winnie Mandela, Momentum, Rage). The soundtrack is now available for pre-order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples. Rabid Dogs is directed by Eric Hannezo (Les Infidèles) and stars Lambert Wilson, Guillaume Gouix, Virginie Ledoyen and Laurent Lucas. The movie is a remake of the Italian cult film of the same title from 1974 directed by Mario Brava and takes place after a bank job goes badly wrong and three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage. Read the rest of this entry »
Sony Classical to Release ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ Soundtrack
Posted: December 1, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dreamworks Animation, Hans Zimmer, Kung Fu Panda 3, score, Soundtrack
Sony Classical will release the official soundtrack album for DreamWorks Animation’s feature Kung Fu Panda 3. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, The Prince of Egypt, Inception, The Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean) who previously co-scored the first two installments in the series with John Powell. The soundtrack will be released on January 22, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Kung Fu Panda 3 is directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson & Alessandro Carloni and features the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Bryan Cranston, Kate Hudson and J.K. Simmons. 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
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 »
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 »
