The details of the Walt Disney Records Legacy Collection release for Pixar Studios’ 1995 feature Toy Story have been revealed. The album features the film’s complete original score and the movie’s original songs composed by Randy Newman (Monsters, Inc., A Bug’s Life, Cars, Seabiscuit, Avalon). Also featured on a second disc are various piano/vocal demos and instrumental versions of the songs. The 2-CD set will be released on July 10, 2015 to coincide with the film’s 20th anniversary and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Toy Story is directed by John Lasseter and features the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger and Annie Potts. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Toy Story’ Legacy Collection Soundtrack Details
Posted: June 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Pixar, Randy Newman, score, Soundtrack, Toy Story
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‘Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways’ Score Album Announced
Posted: June 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bryan Lee Brown, Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, HBO, score, Soundtrack
Memory Bulldozer Records will release a sore album for the HBO original docu-series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. The album features selections from the show’s original score composed by Bryan Lee Brown. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 16, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on iTunes, where you can also check out audio clips. Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways is directed by Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl and documents the eight-city recording odyssey that produced their latest, and eighth, studio album. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to Score Stephen Frears’ ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’
Posted: June 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Florence Foster Jenkins, Stephen Frears
Alexandre Desplat is set to reteam with director Stephen Frears on the upcoming comedy drama Florence Foster Jenkins. The film stars Meryl Streep in the title role, alongside Hugh Grant as her partner St Clair Bayfield, as well as Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson and Nina Arianda. The movie tells the true story of the legendary New York heiress and socialite who obsessively pursued her dream of becoming a great opera singer despite having a terrible voice. Nicholas Martin wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Marriage of Reason & Squalor’ to Feature Music by Ilan Eshkeri & Dinos Chapman
Posted: June 10, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dinos Chapman, Ilan Eshkeri, The Marriage of Reason & Squalor
Ilan Eshkeriand Dinos Chapman have composed the music for the British mini-series The Marriage of Reason & Squalor. The 4-parter is based on the 2008 novel by Jake Chapman who is also directing the project and stars Rhys Ifans, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Michael Fitzgerald and Noma Dumezweni. The series follows a woman whose dashing surgeon fiancé has given her a desert island as a wedding present and travels to the island to wait for him, but meets a reclusive and misshapen author instead. Colin Vaines is producing the project for Morass Productions. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Tyler & Keith Power to Score ‘Criminal’
Posted: June 10, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian Tyler, Criminal, Keith Power
Brian Tyler and Keith Power have taken over scoring duties on the upcoming thriller Criminal. The movie is directed by Ariel Vromen (The Iceman) and stars Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Alice Eve and Gal Gadot. The film centers on a dangerous criminal who has the memories and skills of a dead CIA agent implanted into his brain in order to track down and stop an international terrorist. Douglas Cook & David Weisberg (The Rock, Double Jeopardy) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo, Sean Callery, Fil Eisler & More to Discuss TV Music at SCL Events
Posted: June 10, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Fil Eisler, James Levine, Jeff Russo, Jim Dooley, Mac Quayle, SCL, Sean Callery, Zoe Keating
Tonight, the SCL (Society of Composers & Lyricists) will be hosting the composer panel Composing Combos. The event will feature a conversation with Jeff Russo (Fargo, Power, CSI: Cyber) & cellist Zoë Keating who have co-scored the first season of A&E’s The Returned, as well as James Levine (Nip/Tuck, Glee, American Horror Story) & Jim Dooley (Pushing Daisies, Obsessed) who are co-scoring the TNT hit series The Last Ship. Both combos will discuss the unique process of combining creative visions while working together to score television shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Haslinger to Score AMC’s ‘Fear the Walking Dead’
Posted: June 9, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, Fear the Walking Dead, Paul Haslinger
Paul Haslinger is set to score the upcoming AMC original series Fear the Walking Dead. The show is a spin-off of AMC’s hit drama The Walking Dead and stars Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Mercedes Mason. The series is set in Los Angeles and focuses on new characters and story lines. Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator, Armageddon, Aliens), Robert Kirkman, Greg Nicotero, David Alpert and showrunner David Erickson (Marco Polo, Sons of Anarchy) are executive producing the AMC Studios production. Read the rest of this entry »
Dustin O’Halloran to Co-Score Drake Doremus’ ‘Equals’
Posted: June 9, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Drake Doremus, Dustin O'Halloran, Equals
Dustin O’Halloran has joined German electronic musician Apparat to co-score the upcoming sci-fi romance Equals. The movie is directed by Drake Doremus and stars Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult and Guy Pearce. The film is set in the future and centers on a couple young couple rebelling against their society where emotions have been eradicated. Nathan Parker (Moon) wrote the screenplay. Ridley Scott and Michael Schaefer (Exodus: Gods and Kings) are producing the project for Scott Free Productions, alongside Ann Ruark (The Beaver, The Motel Life), Jay Stern (Horrible Bosses, Rush Hour 2) and Chip Diggins (A Walk in the Woods, Love and Honor). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Manglehorn’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: June 9, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Gordon Green, David Wingo, Explosions in the Sky, Manglehorn, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album will be released for David Gordon Green’s drama Manglehorn. The album features the film’s original music composed by Explosions in the Sky (Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor, Prince Avalanche) and David Wingo (Take Shelter, Mud, All the Real Girls). The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 22, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Manglehorn starring Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Harmony Korine and Chris Messina tells the story of a reclusive small town locksmith who has never quite recovered from losing the love of his life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Barely Lethal’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Barely Lethal, Mateo Messina, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the action comedy Barely Lethal. The album features the film’s original music composed by Mateo Messina (Juno, Butter, Dig, Growing Up Fisher). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Barely Lethal is directed by Kyle Newman and stars Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Samuel L. Jackson, Sophie Turner, Dove Cameron, Thomas Mann, Steve O, Gabriel Basso, Jamie King and Rachael Harris. The movie follows a young international assassin who yearns for a “normal” adolescence, prompting her to fake her own death and enroll in a suburban high school. Read the rest of this entry »
