Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Lazarus Effect. The album features the film’s original music composed by Sarah Schachner (Assassin’s Creed: Unity). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The Lazarus Effect is directed by David Gelb, produced by Jason Blum and stars Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Evan Peters, Donald Glover and Sarah Bolger. The movie follows a group of medical students who discover a way to bring dead patients back to life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lazarus Effect’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 24, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Sarah Schachner, score, Soundtrack, The Lazarus Effect
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Danny Elfman to Compose Additional Music for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
Posted: February 24, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Danny Elfman, Joss Whedon, Marvel Studios
The latest poster for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Age of Ultron reveals that Danny Elfman is composing additional music for the film written and directed by Joss Whedon and starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johannson, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, James Spader, Hayley Atwell, Stellan Skarsgard and Samuel L. Jackson. As previously reported, Brian Tyler is the principal composer on the project. The movie follows Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye as they battle to save the planet from destruction at the hands of the villainous Ultron. Kevin Feige is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Cobbler’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 24, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Debney, Nick Urata, score, Soundtrack, The Cobbler
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the fantasy comedy drama The Cobbler. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2, Elf, Bruce Almighty) and Nick Urata (Paddington, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Focus). Also included is the song Step Into My Shoes by Arlan Feiles. The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 10, 2015 and physically on March 31. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. The Cobbler is directed by Tom McCarthy and stars Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Ellen Barkin, Dustin Hoffman, Dan Stevens and Cliff “Method Man” Smith. Read the rest of this entry »
John Cameron Mitchell’s ‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’ to Feature Music by Nico Muhly
Posted: February 23, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: How to Talk to Girls at Parties, John Cameron Mitchell, Nico Muhly
John Cameron Mitchell revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that Nico Muhly will be composing original music for the director’s upcoming sci-fi comedy How to Talk to Girls at Parties. The film is based on a short story by Neil Gaiman and is set to star Elle Fanning. The movie follows a schoolboy and punk and a female alien tourist who wants to escape her tour group and explore the most dangerous place in the galaxy, the London suburb of Croydon. Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rabbit Hole, Shortbus) is writing the screenplay with Philippa Goslett (Little Ashes) and is also producing the project with Gaiman and Howard Gertler (World’s Greatest Dad, How to Survive a Plague). Read the rest of this entry »
Video Highlights from 87th Academy Awards
Posted: February 23, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Alexandre Desplat, Common, John Legend
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and ABC have published some of the music-related highlights of the 87th Academy Awards ceremony online. Check out the acceptance speeches of Alexandre Desplat who won the Oscar for his music for The Grand Budapest Hotel and John Legend & Common who won the award for the song Glory from Selma after the jump. Also embedded is the backstage press room interview with Desplat, as well as the the live performances of the songs Glory by John Legend & Common, Lost Stars by Adam Levine & Maroon 5, Everything is Awesome by Tegan & Sara and The Loney Island (include a guest appearance by The Lego Movie‘s composer Mark Mothersbaugh), I’m Not Gonna Miss You by Tim McGraw and Grateful by Rita Ora. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Intersection’ and ‘Soapdish’ Soundtracks Announced
Posted: February 23, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Intersection, James Newton Howard, score, Soapdish, Soundtrack
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1994 drama Intersection directed by Mark Rydell and starring Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich and Martin Landau. The expanded soundtrack edition features the complete remastered original score from the Paramount Pictures production composed by James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, The Sixth Sense, King Kong, Maleficent, The Fugitive), including previously unreleased music. For the full details of the limited soundtrack edition and to listen to audio clips, visit the label’s official website, where you can also pre-order the CD. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Wins Oscar for ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Posted: February 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Alexandre Desplat, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Destplat has won his first Academy Award in the Best Original Score category for his music for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. The composer was previously nominated six time before and also received another nod this year for his score for The Imitation Game. The other contenders in the category were Johann Johannsspn (The Theory of Everything), Hans Zimmer (Interstellar) and Gary Yershon (Mr. Turner). All four nominated composers were in attendance at the awards ceremony. Read the rest of this entry »
SCL Hosts Reception for Academy Award-Nominated Composers and Songwriters
Posted: February 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Academy Awards, Alexandre Desplat, Common, Danielle Brisebois, Diane Warren, Gary Yershon, Gregg Alexander, Johann Johannsson, Julian Raymond, SCL, Shawn Patterson
Yesterday afternoon, the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) hosted its annual reception honoring the Academy Award-nominated composers and songwriters in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song category at the Cafe La Boheme in West Hollywood. Following a speech by Academy Music Branch Governor Charles Bernstein, SCL president Ashley Irwin introduced the nominees who briefly spoke to the audience. Three of the four nominated composers in the score category were in attendance, including Alexandre Desplat, nominated for the seventh and eight time for his scores for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game, who talked about his experience as one of the industry’s top composers over the last decade and finding his own musical voice, while keeping his integrity. Read the rest of this entry »
Fox’s ‘Weird Loners’ to Feature Music by Lyle Workman
Posted: February 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fox, Lyle Workman, Weird Loners
Lyle Workman is composing the score for the upcoming Fox comedy Weird Loners. The show is created by Michael J. Weithorn (The King of Queens, Ned and Stacey) and stars Becki Newton, Zachary Knighton, Nate Torrence and Meera Rohit Kumbhani. The series follows four relationship-phobic people who are unexpectedly thrust into each other’s lives and form an unlikely bond in a Queens, New York townhouse. Weithorn is also executive the 20th Century Fox Television Fox production with Melvin Mar (New Girl) and Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher, Sex Tape) who also directed the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »
Gabriel Mann to Score ‘School of Rock’ TV Series
Posted: February 20, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gabriel Mann, Nickelodeon, School of Rock
Gabriel Mann has been hired to score the upcoming Nickelodeon original series School of Rock. The show is created by Jim & Steve Armogida based on the hit 2003 feature comedy starring Jack Black and centers on the misadventures of a down-on-his-luck rocker who poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school as he teaches his eccentric, unconventional and overachieving students to play and love rock ‘n’ roll. The show stars Tony Cavalero in the lead role. The Armogida Beothers (Crash & Bernstein) are also executive producing the Paramount Television production with the film’s director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Dazed and Confused) and Scott Rudin (No Contry for Old Men, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Social Network). Read the rest of this entry »
