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 »
‘Rabid Dogs’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 1, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Enragés, Laurent Eyquem, Rabid Dogs, score, Soundtrack
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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 »
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 »
