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 »
‘Cold in July’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 6, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cold in July, Jeff Grace, score, Soundtrack
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 »
Joseph LoDuca to Score Joe Dante’s ‘Burying the Ex’
Posted: May 5, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Burying the Ex, Joe Dante, Joseph LoDuca
Joseph LoDuca has been hired to score the upcoming horror comedy Burying the Ex. The film is directed by Joe Dante and stars Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, Alexandra Daddario and Oliver Cooper. The movie follows a normal guy whose controlling girlfriend suddenly dies in a freak accident and rises from the grave to haunt him. Alan Trezza has written the screenplay. The comedy is produced by Image Entertainment, Scooty Woop Entertainment and Act 4 Entertainment production. Voltage Pictures’ Nicholas Chartier (The Hurt Locker, Dallas Buyers Club) is executive producing the project with Cassian Elwes (Lee Daniels’ The Butler), Zev Foreman and Dominic Rustam. 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.
‘A Thousand Times Good Night’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Thousand Times Good Night, Armand Amar, score, Soundtrack
Long Distance has released a soundtrack album for the Irish-Norwegian drama A Thousand Times Good Night. The album features the film’s original music composed by Armand Amar (The Concert, Days of Glory, Capital). The soundtrack is now available digitally on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. A Thousand Times Good Night is directed by Erik Poppe (Troubled Water) and stars Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maria Doyle Kennedy and U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. The movie follows a war photographer who documents a group of female suicide bombers in Afghanistan and accompanies one of the suicide bombers to Kabul, where she gets injured by a premature detonation of the bomb. The movie premiered at last year’s Montreal Film Festival and was just released in the UK earlier this week. Read the rest of this entry »
Reinhold Heil Scoring TNT’s ‘Legends’
Posted: May 3, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Legends, Reinhold Heil
Reinhold Heil is currently scoring the upcoming TNT original series Legends. The show is based on the award-winning book by Robert Littell and stars Sean Bean, Ali Larter, Rob Mayes, Tina Majorino, Steve Harris, Amber Valletta and Lux Haney Jardine. The spy drama follows an undercover FBI agent who is so adept at transforming himself into different identities that he begins to question his own. Howard Gordon (24) & Alexander Cary (Homeland) are executive producing the Fox 21 production with Jonathan Levin and Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris (Sleeper Cell, Bulletproof Monk). Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Hostages, The Day After Tomorrow) and Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard, Unstoppable) who developed the story with Gordon serve as consulting producers. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Sea’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 3, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Hewitt, Hilary Hahn, score, Soundtrack, The Sea
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the drama The Sea. The album inlcudes the film’s original music composed by Andrew Hewitt (Submarine, The Double) and featuring violin solos by Hilary Hahn (The Village). The soundtrack is now available to download overseas. Visit the British Amazon store to listen to audio clips. No word yet on a domestic release. The Sea is directed by Stephen Brown and stars Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, Sinead Cusack, Matthew Dillon, Missy Keating and Padhraig Parkinson. The movie centers on a man who returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife. The drama premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the UK last month. Read the rest of this entry »
