WaterTower Music will release the official soundtrack album for the caper comedy Focus. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Bruno Hovart, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Sofa Surfers, Iggy & The Stooges, Junior Kimbrough, Doris & Kelley, Barbara Lewis & more. Also included is a track from the film’s original score composed by Nick Urata (Crazy, Stupid, Love, Paddington, I Love You Phillip Morris, Ruby Sparks). The soundtrack will be released on February 24, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips below. Focus is written and directed by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa and stars Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro and Gerald McRaney. The movie follows a con man who becomes romantically involved with a novice and is thrown off his game when the former flame shows up just as he’s staging an elaborate con in Buenos Aires. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Focus’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: January 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Focus, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, Nick Urata, Soundtrack
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, ‘The Fault in Our Stars’, ‘Begin Again’ and ‘Whiplash’ Honored at Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Posted: January 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Last night, the 5th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards were handed out at the Mack Sennett Studios in Hollywood. Dave Jordan received the honor in the Best Music Supervision in Motion Picture – Motion Picture Over 25M for his work on Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy. The film’s soundtrack release on Hollywood Records was also the year’s best-selling title. Season Kent received the award in the Motion Picture Under 25M category for her music supervision on the hit feature The Fault in Our Stars starring Shailene Woodley. In the Independent Motion Pictures Under 10M category, Matt Sullivan and Andrea von Foerster were honored for their work on Begin Again, which just received an Academy Award nomination in the Best Original Song category last week. Andy Ross was the winner in the Independent Motion Pictures Under 5M category for his music supervision on Whiplash starring Miles Teller & J.K. Simmons. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 22, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gary Lionelli, Last Days in Vietnam, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the Academy Award-nominated documentary Last Days in Vietnam. The album features the film’s original music composed by Gary Lionelli (HBO’s Luck, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Last Days in Vietnam is directed and produced by Rory Kennedy and details the days leading up to the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam in 1975 as North Vietnamese Communist forces encircled what was then called Saigon, and efforts by some U.S. personnel to save as many of their colleagues as possible. Read the rest of this entry »
Christophe Beck to Score ‘Sisters’
Posted: January 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christophe Beck, Jason Moore, Sisters
Christophe Beck is reteaming with director Jason Moore to score the upcoming comedy Sisters. The film stars Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, John Leguizamo, Dianne Wiest, John Cena and James Brolin. The movie follows two disconnected sisters who are summoned home to clean out their childhood bedroom before their parents sell the house and throw one final party in order to recapture their glory days. Paula Pell (30 Rock, Saturday Night Live) has written the screenplay. Fey is also producing the project with Roach (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents, The Campaign) and John S. Lyons (Boogie Nights, Pieces of April). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ex Machina’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Garland, Ben Salisbury, Ex Machina, Geoff Barrow, score, Soundtrack
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ben Salisbury and Portishead’s Geoff Barrow. Also included is the song Bunsen Burner by The Cuts. The soundtrack is now available digitally overseas and will be released in the U.S. on April 7. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album and check out audio clips below. Invada Records will release a physical version. Ex Machina is written and directed by Alex Garland and stars Oscaar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson and Alicia Vikander. The movie follows a young programmer who is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I. Read the rest of this entry »
FM Le Sieur to Score ‘The Fixer’ Mini-Series
Posted: January 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: FM Le Sieur, The Fixer
FM Le Sieur has signed on to score the upcoming mini-series The Fixer. The four-hour action thriller is directed by Peter Howitt (Sliding Doors, Johnny English, Laws of Attraction) and stars Eric Dane (Grey’s Anatomy, The Last Ship) and Kathleen Robertson (Beverly Hills 90210, Murder in the First). The mini-series follows an investigator probing an oil rig disaster, and facing a rival private investigation by a secret tipster. The investigating pair eventually get caught up in a wider scheme by a band of “fixers” to target Washington, D.C., with a catastrophic event whose success hinges on the duo ending up as casualties. Gilles Perreault (Being Human) is producing the project for Muse Entertainment. Irene Litinsky, Michael Prupas, Gene Stein and Christina O’Shea-Daly are executive producing the project. Le Sieur previously scored four seasons of Syfy’s and Muse Entertainment’s Being Human. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 21, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Henry Jackman, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Matthew Margeson, score, Soundtrack
The details of the official soundtrack album for Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Henry Jackman (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, X-Men: First Class, Wreck-It-Ralph, Big Hero 6) and Matthew Margeson (Kick-Ass 2, Skyline). The soundtrack will be released on February 17, 2015 by La-La Land Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Kingsman: The Secret Service is based on the comic book by Mark Millar & Dave Gibbons and stars Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong and Jack Davenport. The movie centers on a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Black or White’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 20, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Black or White, Mike Binder, score, Soundtrack, Terence Blanchard
Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album for Mike Binder’s drama Black or White. The album features the film’s original music composed by Golden Globe-nominated Terence Blanchard (The 25th Hour, Inside Man, Malcolm X). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. Black or White written and directed by Binder (The Upside of Anger, Reign Over Me) stars Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Jillian Estell, Bill Burr, Jennifer Ehle, André Holland, Gillian Jacobs and Anthony Mackie. The movie centers on an attorney trying to raise his biracial granddaughter after the deaths of his wife and daughter and his battle with the child’s paternal grandmother. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Red Army’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 20, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christophe Beck, Leo Birenberg, Red Army, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Red Army. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christophe Beck (Frozen, Edge of Tomorrow, The Hangover, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Leo Birenberg. The soundtrack is now available digitally on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. Red Army is directed by Gabe Polsky and centers on the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. The movie executive produced by Jerry Weintraub & Werner Herzog premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and will be released in select theaters this Friday, January 23. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Scoring Wim Wenders’ ‘Every Thing Will Be Fine’
Posted: January 20, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Every Thing Will Be Fine, Wim Wenders
Alexandre Desplat is composing the score for the upcoming drama Every Thing Will Be Fine. The film is directed by Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Buena Vista Social Club, Wings of Desire) and stars James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Robert Naylor. The movie, which was shot in 3D, centers on a writer who accidentally causes the death of a child and follows him through the next twelve years, searching for the footprints of the accident on his life, as well as on the life of the child’s mother. Bjørn-Olaf Johannessen has written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
