Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the romantic drama Hidden Moon. The album features the film’s original music written by Academy Award-winning composer Luis Bacalov (Il Postino, Sea of Dreams). The soundtrack will be released on June 10, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Hidden Moon is directed by Pepe Bojórquez and stars Wes Bentley, Ana Serradilla, Johnathon Schaech and Linda Gray. The movie centers on a young man who meets a mysterious Latin American woman at his father’s funeral and follows her to Mexico, where he discovers her identity and realizes he has fallen in love with a woman who belongs to someone else. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hidden Moon’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: May 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hidden Moon, Luis Bacalov, score, Soundtrack
Mark Webber’s ‘The Ever After’ to Feature Music by Moby
Posted: May 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Webber, Moby, The Ever After
Moby is contributing music to the upcoming indie drama The Ever After. The film is directed by Mark Webber (The End of Love, Explicit Ills) who also stars in the film alongside his wife Teresa Palmer, Melissa Leo, Phoebe Tonkin, Rosario Dawson and Joshua Leonard. Moby also appears in a supporting role in the movie. The drama follows a mother and wife and her fashion photographer husband who must confront their innermost vulnerabilities to recover their disintegrating marriage. Webber and Palmer have co-written the screenplay and are also producing the project through their production companies Poor Rich Kids and Yumehome. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Gambit’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gambit, Michael Hoffman, Robby Armstrong, Rolfe Kent, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the crime comedy Gambit in the U.S. The album features the film’s original score composed by Rolfe Kent (Sideways, About Schmidt, Labor Day, Mean Girls), as well as original songs by Robby Armstrong. Also included are songs by Peggy Lee and Moe Brandy. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 13, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. The album has previously been released in select stores overseas when the movie opened in the UK. Gambit directed by Michael Hoffman and stars Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci and Cloris Leachman. Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men) have written the screenplay. The movie opened in select theaters and was also released last month by CBS Films. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cold in July’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cold in July, Jeff Grace, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Cold in July. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jeff Grace (Meek’s Cutoff, The House of the Devil) who previously collaborated with the film’s director Jim Mickle on Stake Land and last year’s We Are What We Are. Also included is White Lions’ Wait, Dynatron’s Cosmo Black and Kasey Lansdale’s Back of my Smile. The soundtrack will be released on May 19, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Cold in July stars Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson & Vinessa Shaw and follows a small-town Texas man who kills a home intruder, only to see his life violently unravel. The thriller premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by IFC Films for domestic distribution. The film will be released on May 23 in select theaters and on VOD. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘The Lion King’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: May 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Elton John, Hans Zimmer, score, Soundtrack, The Lion King, Tim Rice
Walt Disney Records has announced a new line of CDs, The Legacy Collection,which will celebrate the anniversaries of a number of Disney classics. The first release is for the 1994 animated feature The Lion King, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the movie’s release. The album features the songs from the film composed by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice, as well as the film’s original score composed by Hans Zimmer, including 30 minutes of previously unreleased music and demo cues. John and Rice received an Academy Award for their original song Can You Feel the Love Tonight? and Zimmer won his first and only Oscar for his score. The soundtrack will be released on June 24, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Lion King directed by Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff is now also available on Blu-ray and DVD. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard to Score Edward Zwick’s ‘Pawn Sacrifice’
Posted: May 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Edward Zwick, James Newton Howard, Pawn Sacrifice, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
James Newton Howard is reuniting with director Edward Zwick on the upcoming biographical drama Pawn Sacrifice. The film is set at the height of the Cold War and tells the true story of U.S. chess prodigy Bobby Fischer and his epic faceoff against Russia’s Boris Spassky. Tobey Maguire is portraying Fischer while Liev Schreiber plays his archrival. Peter Saarsgard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lily Rabe and Sophie Nelisse are co-starring. Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things, Locke) jas written the screenplay. Maguire is also producing the project with Gail Katz (The Perfect Storm, Air Force One, Outbreak). Howard has previously collaborated with Zwick on Blood Diamond, Defiance and Love and Other Drugs. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Godzilla’ Soundtrack Preview
Posted: May 5, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Gareth Edwards, Godzilla
The soundtrack album for Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla has been published on Spotify. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). Listen to the full album after the jump. WaterTower Records will release the soundtrack on May 13 (visit Amazon to pre-order the CD). Check out our previous article for the full album details. Godzilla starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche ,Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston will be released nationwide on May 16 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Maleficent’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 5, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Newton Howard, Maleficent, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for the fantasy adventure Maleficent. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, King Kong, The Sixth Sense). Also featured is Lana Del Rey’s new cover version of the song Once Upon a Dream, which was featured in the movie’s trailer and was released earlier this year as a single. The soundtrack will be released on May 27, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Maleficent is directed by Robert Stromberg, produced by Joe Roth and stars Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Imelda Staunton, Sam Riley, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville. The movie tells the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty. The fantasy adventure will be released nationwide on May 30 by Walt Disney Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 4, 2014)
Posted: May 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 24: Live Another Day, Fox, Sean Callery
Premiering tomorrow, May 6, on Fox is 24: Live Another Day starring Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Kim Raver, William Devane, Judy Davis, Tate Donovan, Stephen Fry and Yvonne Strahovski. The reboot of the hit action series is scored by Sean Callery (Homeland, Elementary, Bones) who previously scored all eight seasons and 192 episodes of the show that aired between 2011 and 2009 on Fox. The drama will air every Monday night on Fox. To learn more about 12-episodes event series, check out the official show website.
