Warner Bros. Records has released a soundtrack album for the thriller Mall. The album features the film’s original music composed by Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, Dave Farrell, Joe Hahn, Mike Shinoda (The Raid) & composer Alec Puro (The Art of Getting By, The Fosters). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. Mall is directed by Joe Hahn and stars Vincent D’Onofrio, Gina Gershon, Cameron Monaghan, Peter Stormare and James Frecheville. The movie follows five disaffected suburbanites whose lives come together at a shopping mall following a seemingly random shooting. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mall’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alec Puro, Chester Bennington, Dave Farrell, Joe Hahn, Linkin Park, Mall, Mike Shinoda, score, Soundtrack
0
Dan Romer Scoring Joe Swanberg’s ‘Digging for Fire’
Posted: December 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dan Romer, Digging for Fire, Joe Swanberg
Dan Romer has been tapped to score the upcoming indie comedy Digging for Fire. The film is directed by Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas) and stars Jake Johnson, Rosemarie Dewitt, Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick. The movie follows a husband and wife who discover a bone and a gun, which leads them to separate adventures over the course of a weekend. Swanberg has also co-written the screenplay with Johnson. Both are also producing the comedy with Alicia Van Couvering. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Guardino, Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas, Matthew Sklar, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the stop-motion animated holiday special Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas. The album features the one-hour special’s songs written by Matthew Sklar, as well as selections from the score composed by Sklar and Christopher Guardino. The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas is directed by Mark Caballero & Seamus Walsh and featuring the voices of Jim Parsons, Mark Hamill, Ed Asner, Fred Armisen, Jay Leno, Matt Lauer, Rachael MacFarlane, Max Charles, Gilbert Gottfried, Kate Micucci and Steve Higgins. The Warner Bros. Animation production is based on Jon Favreau’s 2003 film starring Will Ferrell and the Broadway show Elf: The Musical and tells the story of Buddy’s travels to New York City to meet the father he never knew he had. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Brook Scoring John Crowley’s ‘Brooklyn’
Posted: December 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brooklyn, John Crowley, Michael Brook
Michael Brook is composing the music for the upcoming romance Brooklyn. The film is directed by John Crowley (Boy A, Intermission, Closed Circuit) and stars Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent. The movie is based on the novel by Colm Toibin and follows a young Irish immigrant who is navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn and must confront a terrible dilemma — a heartbreaking choice between two men and two countries, between duty and true love. Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity) has written the screenplay. Finola Dwyer (Quartet, Severance) and Amanda Posey (An Education, Fever Pitch) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Loft’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Frizzell, score, Soundtrack, The Loft
Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the thriller The Loft. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Frizzell (Alien: Resurrection, Dante’s Peak, The Following, Stalker). The soundtrack will be released on January 20, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Loft is directed by Erik Von Looy and stars Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Rhona Mitra, Margarita Levieva, Eric Stonestreet, Rachael Taylor, Matthias Schoenaerts and Isabel Lucas. The movie produced by Joel Silver follows five married guys who conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city – a place where they can carry out hidden affairs and indulge in their deepest fantasies. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Everly’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bear McCreary, Everly, Joe Lynch, score, Soundtrack
Spark & Shadows Records has announced a soundtrack album for the action thriller Everly. The album features the film’s original music composed by Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Battlestar Galactica). Also included are performances by Raya Yarbrough and Brendan McCreary. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 20, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. Everly is directed by Joe Lynch and stars Salma Hayek, Togo Igawa, Masashi Fujimoto and Hiroyuki Watanabe. The movie follows a down-on-her-luck woman who is forced to fend off waves of assassins sent by her ex, a dangerous mob boss, while trying to save her estranged mother and daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
Ilan Eshkeri to Score Jared Hess’ ‘Don Verdean’
Posted: December 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Don Verdean, Ilan Eshkeri, Jared Hess
Ilan Eshkeri has been hired to score the upcoming comedy Don Verdean. The film is directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) and stars Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Clement, Amy Ryan, Danny McBride, Leslie Bibb and Will Forte. The movie follows a Biblical archaeologist who is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land and is forced to get creative after a fruitless expedition. The director has also co-written the screenplay with Jerusha Hess. Brandt Andersen, Dave Hunter and Jason Hatfield are producing the project. Eshkeri has previously scored the Jerusha Hess-directed romantic comedy Austenland. Read the rest of this entry »
Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: December 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Critics Choice Awards
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominations for the 20th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards this morning. The nominations in the Best Score category are:
The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat
The Theory of Everything – Johann Johannsson
Gone Girl – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Birdman – Antonio Sanchez
Interstellar – Hans Zimmer Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Gambler’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Rupert Wyatt, Soundtrack, The Gambler
Universal Records has released a soundtrack album for the crime drama The Gambler. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Dinah Washington, M83, Pulp, Billy Bragg, Ayo, Ray LaMontagne, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Alan Price & more. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The Gambler is directed by Rupert Wyatt and stars Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Michael Kenneth Williams and Jessica Lange. The movie scored by Jon Brion & Theo Green follows a college professor who gets caught up in the dangerous world of high-stakes underground gambling. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 14, 2014)
Posted: December 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ascension, Christopher Guardino, Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas, Matthew Sklar, NBC, Syfy, Trevor Morris
Premiering tomorrow, December 15, is the Syfy original mini-series Ascension created by Philip Levens and starring Brian P. Bell, Brian Van Holt, Tricia Helfer, Andrea Roth, Tiffany Lonsdale, Ryan Robbins, Jacqueline Byers, P.J. Boudousqué and Gil Bellows. The six-parter’s original music is composed by Trevor Morris (The Tudors, Immortals, The Borgias, Vikings, Olympus Has Fallen). To learn more about the six-hour event series, which will air on three consecutive nights on Syfy and to watch a trailer, check out our scoring assignment announcement. Read the rest of this entry »
