Orange Mountain Music will release a soundtrack album for Errol Morris’ 1991 documentary A Brief History of Time. The album is the world premiere soundtrack release of the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Philip Glass (The Hours, Notes on a Scandal, The Illusionist, Cassandra’s Dream) who previously collaborated with the director on The Thin Blue Line and later scored his 2003 feature The Fog of War The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 10, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. A Brief History of Time is based on Stephen Hawking’s bestselling novel and centers on the pioneering astrophysicist whose affliction by a debilitating motor neuron disease has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs and examines the way the collapse of Hawking’s body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of his imagination. Read the rest of this entry »
Philip Glass’ ‘A Brief History of Time’ Score to Be Released
Posted: February 5, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Brief History of Time, Errol Morris, Philip Glass, score, Soundtrack
Jeff Cardoni to Score Bob Nelson’s ‘The Confirmation’
Posted: February 4, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bob Nelson, Jeff Cardoni, The Confirmation
Jeff Cardoni has been hired to score the upcoming drama The Confirmation. The movie marks the directorial debut of Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Bob Nelson (Nebraska) and stars Clive Owen, Jaeden Lieberher, Maria Bello, Patton Oswalt, Tim Blake Nelson, Robert Forster, Matthew Modine and Stephen Tobolowsky. The film follows an 8-year-old boy and his estranged father who are two days together for the first time in forever, as the boy’s mom and new husband head off to a religious retreat. Nelson has also written the screenplay and is producing the project with Todd Hoffman (Love Stinks, Labor Pains). Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Rewrite’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: February 4, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Clyde Lawrence, Cody Fitzgerald, Marc Lawrence, score, Soundtrack, The Rewrite
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy The Rewrite. The album features the film’s original music by Clyde Lawrence, as well as additional music by Cody Fitzgerald. Also included are songs by Madeline Peyroux, Vince Guaraldi and Stolen Jars. The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 10, 2015 Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. The Rewrite is written and directed by Marc Lawrence (Music & Lyrics, Forces of Nature, Two Weeks Notice) and stars Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei, Bella Heathcote, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons and Chris Elliott. Read the rest of this entry »
‘It Follows’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 4, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Robert Mitchell, Disasterpeace, It Follows, Rich Vreeland, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller It Follows. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rich Vreeland aka Disasterpeace. The soundtrack is now available digitally overseas and will be released in the U.S. on March 24, 2015. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. It Follows is written and directed by David Robert Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover) and stars Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi and Lili Sepe. The movie follows a teenager who finds herself haunted by nightmarish visions and the inescapable sense that something is after her after a strange sexual encounter. Read the rest of this entry »
Zbigniew Preisner Scoring ‘Angelica’
Posted: February 4, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Angelica, Zbigniew Preisner
Zbigniew Preisner has composed the music for the upcoming psychological thriller Angelica. The film is written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein (Teeth, Happy Tears) and stars Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard, Tovah Feldshuh and Eliza Holland Madore. The movie based on the novel of the same title by Arthur Phillips is set in 1880 London and follows a young shop girl whose dream marriage to a medical researcher turns into a nightmare after puritanical doctors order the couple to a regime of abstinence and a ghostly force enters their home. Joyce Pierpoline is producing the project for Pierpoline Films along with Richard Lormand. Read the rest of this entry »
David Hirschfelder to Score Fred Schepisi’s ‘The Olive Sisters’
Posted: February 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Hirschfelder, Fred Schepisi, The Olive Sisters
David Hirschfelder is attached to score the upcoming romantic drama The Olive Sisters. The film is directed by Fred Schepisi (Roxanne, The Russia House, Six Degrees of Separation) and stars Simon Baker, Leslie Mann, Anthony LaPaglia, Jacki Weaver, Melissa George, Gia Carides, Josh Lucas and Alexandra Schepisi. The movie is based on Amanda Hampson’s bestselling novel of the same title and follows a successful New York businesswoman whose life falls apart and is forced to move to the small rural community of Duffy’s Creek, Australia and the run-down olive grove she has inherited from her grandparents. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ Soundtrack Preview
Posted: February 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: John Madden, The Second Best Marigold Hotel, Thomas Newman
Audio clips from the soundtrack for comedy drama sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel have been published online. The album features the film’s original music composed by Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Skyfall) who previously scored John Madden’s original movie. The soundtrack will be released will be released on March 3, 2015 by Sony Classical and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Listen to the audio clips after the jump and check out our previous article for the full album details. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, Diana Hardcastle, David Strathairn and Richard Gere follows Patel’s character planning to expand the Best Exotic Hotel for the Elderly and the Beautiful while getting married. Read the rest of this entry »
Benjamin Wallfisch to Score ‘The Enfield Haunting’
Posted: February 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Benjamin Wallfisch, Desert Dancer, The Enfield Haunting
Benjamin Wallfisch has been tapped to score the upcoming British mini-series The Enfield Haunting. The supernatural drama is directed by Kristoffer Nyholm (The Killing) and stars Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson and Matthew Macfadyen. The 3-parter is based on real events that allegedly happened at a North London house in 1977 and follows a rookie paranormal researcher who is drawn to the house on Green Street after disturbing reports of a desperate family terrorized by malevolent unseen forces. Joshua St. Johnston (Walking on Sunshine) has written the scripts based on Guy Lyon Playfair’s book This House is Haunted. Adrian Sturges (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) is producing the project for Eleven Film. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Small’s ‘Jaws: The Revenge’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jaws: The Revenge, Joel McNeely, Michael Small, score, Soundtrack, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack album for the 1987 sequel Jaws: The Revenge directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young Michael Caine. The album features the film’s complete original score from the Universal Pictures production composed and conducted by Michael Small (Marathon Man, Klute, The Stepford Wives, The Parallax View), including a couple of alternate cues. For the full album details and to order the CD, visit the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Good Kill’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 2, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Niccol, Christophe Beck, Good Kill, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the indie drama Good Kill. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christophe Beck (Frozen, Edge of Tomorrow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Hangover). The soundtrack will be released on May 12, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. Good Kill is written and directed by Andrew Niccol (Lord of War, Gattaca, In Time) and stars Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Jake Abel, Zoe Kravitz and Bruce Greenwood. The drama follows a troubled Air Force officer who is charged with directing drone strikes and enters a moral minefield as the rationale for targeting purported terrorists becomes ever more murky. Read the rest of this entry »
