Nominations for 43rd Annie Awards Announced

Posted: December 1, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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annie-awardsThe 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 BurwellAnomalisa – 
Paramount Pictures
  • Kevin Riepl Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem 
 – Warner Bros. Animation
  • Ruben FefferGustavo KurlatGEM Grupo Experimental de MúsicaEmicidaBoy and the World – Filme de Papel
  • Michael Giacchino – Inside Out
 – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Mychael Danna Jeff DannaThe Good Dinosaur – Pixar Animation Studios

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‘American Hero’ Soundtrack Details

Posted: December 1, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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american-heroLakeshore 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 BenghaziThe 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 »

rabis-dogsMusic 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 MandelaMomentum, 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 »

kung-fu-panda-3Sony 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 KingThe Prince of EgyptInceptionThe Dark KnightPirates 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 AmazonKung 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 »

reindeer-gamesMusic 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 »

barbershop-the-next-cutStanley 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 »

suitsLakeshore 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-graveHowlin’ 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 (UnnaturalTales 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-doylePatrick 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 »

superstorePremiering 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 (JunoCasualButterTruth Be ToldGrowing 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 »