Republic Records will release a soundtrack album for the holiday comedy Love the Coopers. The album features the songs from the film, including Robert Plant’s and Alison Krauss’ The Light of Christmas Day, Otis Redding’s Merry Christmas Baby, Sixpence None the Richer’s Carol of the Bells, as well as seasonal classics from Bob Dylan, Nina Simone & more. Also included is a track from the movie’s original score composed by Nick Urata (Paddington, Crazy, Stupid, Love). The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 13, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Lakeshore Records will release a separate soundtrack featuring Urata’s full original score (click here to pre-order the CD). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Love the Coopers’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 4, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Love the Coopers, Nick Urata, Soundtrack
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Edward Shearmur to Score BBC’s ‘Reg’
Posted: November 4, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Edward Shearmur, Reg
Edward Shearmur has been hired to compose the music for the upcoming BBC original movie Reg. The film is directed by David Blair (Common, Best Laid Plans, The Street), written by Jimmy McGovern (Banished, Accused) and stars Tim Roth and Anna Maxwell Martin. The drama tells the true story of Reg Keys who lost his son in the Iraq War and then went on to contest British prime minister Tony Blair’s seat at Sedgefield in the 2005 General Election. Polly Hill (The Honorable Woman, Wolf Hall, The White Queen) is executive producing the project for BBC, alongside McGovern for LA Productions. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Final Girls’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gregory James Jenkins, score, Soundtrack, The Final Girls
Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the horror comedy The Final Girls. The album features the film’s original music composed by Gregory James Jenkins. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 6, 2015 and physically on December 4. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. The Final Girls is directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson and stars Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Alia Shawkat, Thomas Middleditch, Adam Devine, Angela Trimbur, Chloe Bridges and Tory N. Thompson. The movie follows a girl who is grieving the loss of her horror movie star mother and gets mysteriously sucked into the world of her mother’s most famous horror movie. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Killing Them Safely’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brooke Blair, Killing Them Safely, score, Soundtrack, Will Blair
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Killing Them Safely. The album features the film’s original music composed by Brooke and Will Blair (Green Room, Blue Ruins). Also included is the song Tear Me Away by Northern Arms. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 27, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Killing Them Safely is directed by Nick Berardini and takes a close look at Taser International, the company which manufactures the eponymous electrical weapons marketed as a non-lethal alternative to guns. The documentary produced by Berardini, Brock Williams, Jamie Goncalves, Glen Zipper and Ralph Zipper premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and will released in select theaters and on VOD on November 27 by Sundance Selects. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nashville’ Season 4 – Volume 1 Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ABC, Nashville, Soundtrack
Big Machine Records will release a new soundtrack album for the ABC drama Nashville. The album features songs from the first part of the show’s fourth season performed by actors Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson, Aubrey Peeples, Clare Bowen, Sam Palladio, Will Chase, Chris Carmack, Riley Smith, Lennon & Maisy Stella, Chaley Rose, as well as guest star Steven Tyler and a track by Mark Collie.The Season 4 – Volume 1 soundtrack will be released on December 4, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label has previously released two soundtrack albums for every of the previous three seasons. Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary to Score William Brent Bell’s ‘The Boy’
Posted: November 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bear McCreary, The Boy, William Brent Bell
Bear McCreary has signed on to score the upcoming horror thriller The Boy. The film is directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside, Stay Alive) and stars Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans. The movie follows a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family’s 8-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son 20 years prior. Stacey Menear has written the screenplay. Tom Rosenberg & Gary Lucchesi (Underworld, The Lincoln Lawyer, Crank, The Age of Adaline) are producing the Lakeshore Entertainment production with Richard Wright. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Daldry’s ‘Trash’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Antonio Pinto, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Daldry, Trash
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for Stephen Daldry’s drama Trash. The album features the film’s original music composed by Antonio Pinto (City of God, Lord of War, McFarland, USA, Amy, Senna). The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 13, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. Trash is directed by Daldry (The Hours, The Reader, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close) and stars Martin Sheen, Rooney Mara, Wagner Moura and Selton Mello. The movie follows three trash-picking boys from Rio’s slums who find a wallet and team up with two American missionaries to uncover political corruption while evading the police. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Jaws 2’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 2, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jaws, Jaws 2, John Williams, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1978 thriller sequel Jaws 2 directed by Jeannot Szwarc and starring Roy Scheider. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, E.T.) who previously scored Steven Spielberg’s original 1975 film in the series. The 2-CD set features the composer’s complete score, as well as alternate cues on one disc and the content of the original 1978 soundtrack album on the second disc. To listen to audio samples and for the full album details, visit the label’s official website, where you can also pre-order the album.
Craig Armstrong to Score ‘Me Before You’
Posted: November 2, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Armstrong, Me Before You
Craig Armstrong has been tapped to score the upcoming drama Me Before You. The film is directed by Thea Sharrock (The Hollow Crown: Henry V) and stars Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Brendan Coyle, Matthew Lewis, Samantha Spiro, Vanessa Kirby, Jenna Coleman, Charles Dance, Stephen Peacock and Ben Lloyd-Hughes. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Jojo Moyes and follows a woman in a small town who forms an unlikely bond with a recently paralyzed man she’s taking care of. Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (The Fault in Our Stars, The Spectacular Now, (500) Days of Summer) have written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer European Live Tour Announced
Posted: November 2, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Hans Zimmer
Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer has announced his first live tour. The concerts will feature a 20-piece studio band, alongside singer Lebo M (The Lion King, The Power of One), as well as an orchestra and choir. The tour will kick off in London on April 6, 2016 and will be taking in 18 cities, including Birmingham, Brussels, Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Munich, Krakow, Bratislava, Prague, Zurich, Budapest, Vienna and Sofia in total for the following six weeks. Zimmer previously performed his music at two Hans Zimmer Revealed shows at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
