Sony Pictures Entertainment has published a video featurette on the music for the superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The video features footage from the score’s recording sessions and interviews with the film’s composer Hans Zimmer, as well as some of his collaborators including Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr and director Marc Webb. Check out the featurette after the jump. Columbia Records and Madison Gate Records will release the official soundtrack album featuring the score and the songs from the movie on April 22. Check out our previous article for the full album details and visit Amazon to pre-order the soundtrack. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx and Dane DeHaan will be released nationwide on May 2. Read the rest of this entry »
Behind the Music of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’
Posted: April 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Hans Zimmer, Marc Webb, Pharrell Williams, The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Asche & Spencer Scoring ‘Fort Bliss’
Posted: April 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Asche & Spencer, Fort Bliss
Asche & Spencer have composed the music for the upcoming indie drama Fort Bliss. The film is written and directed by Claudia Myers (Kettle of Fish) and stars Michelle Monaghan, Ron Livingston, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Freddy Rodriguez. The movie follows a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother who returns home from an extended tour in Afghanistan to face a troubled relationship with her 5-year-old son. John Sullivan, Adam Silver, Brendan McDonald and Myers are producing the Voltage Pictures production. Matt Chesse (World War Z, Quantum of Solace) serves as a co-editor and executive producer. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 11, 2014)
Posted: April 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Carmen Rizzo, Cuban Fury, Daniel Pemberton, David Hirschfelder, David Wingo, Dickon Hinchliffe, Draft Day, Hateship Loveship, Jeff McIlwain, Joe, John Debney, John Powell, Jozef Van Wissem, Oculus, Only Lovers Left Alive, Perfect Sisters, Rio 2, Sergio Mendes, SQÜRL, The Newton Brothers, The Railway Man
Three new movies are opening wide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the animated sequel Rio 2 directed by Carlinhos Brown and featuring the voices of Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, will.i.am, Jemaine Clement, Rodrigo Santoro, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez, Leslie Mann, Jamie Foxx, Rita Moreno, Bruno Mars and Kristin Chenoweth. The film’s original’s music is composed by John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon) and Sergio Mendes serves as the film’s executive music producer. Atlantic Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the film. Check out our previous article for the full album details. Sony Classical has released a separate soundtrack featuring Powell’s score. Click here for the score album details and to listen to audio clips.
Also opening wide is the sports drama Draft Day directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary, Frank Langella, Sam Elliot, Sean Combs, Terry Crews, Ellen Burstyn and Chadwick Boseman. John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2) has composed the film’s original music. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. For the full album details and to listen to audio clips, check out our soundtrack announcement. Read the rest of this entry »
Rachel Portman to Score ‘Dolphin Tale 2’
Posted: April 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dolphin Tale, Dolphin Tale 2, Rachel Portman
Rachel Portman has been tapped to score the upcoming family movie sequel Dolphin Tale 2. The film is written and directed by Charles Martin Smith and stars Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Kris Kristofferson, Nathan Gamble, Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Austin Stowell. The sequel takes place a couple of years after the first movie and follows the team at Clearwater on a search to find a companion for Winter before they lose her to another aquarium. Broderick Johnson & Andrew A. Kosove (Prisoners, The Blind Side, The Book of Eli) is producing the Alcon Entertainment production with Richard Ingber. Read the rest of this entry »
’13 Sins’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 13 Sins, Michael Wandmacher, score, Soundtrack
ScreamWorks Records will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller 13 Sins. The album features the film’s original music composed by Michael Wandmacher (My Bloody Valentine 3D, Drive Angry, The Goldbergs). The soundtrack will be released on April 15, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. 13 Sins is directed by Daniel Stamm and stars Mark Webber, Ron Perlman, Rutina Wesley, Devon Graye, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Richard Burgi and Tom Bower. The remake of the Thai thriller 13: Game of Death follows a man who is offered a chance to will a substantial cash prize if he can complete 13 challenges. The thriller premiered last month at the SXSW Film Festival will be released in select theaters on April 18 by the Weinstein Company’s Radius label and is now also available on VOD. Read the rest of this entry »
Elliot Goldenthal’s Othello Symphony to Be Released
Posted: April 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Elliot Goldenthal, Othello Symphony, The Stone Cutters
Zarathustra Music will release Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal‘s Othello Symphony based on the ballet he composed in 1998. Last year, the composer of such films as Frida, Interview with a Vampire, Heat, Public Enemies and Alien 3 adapted the music into a proper concert piece, which was recorded with the AUKSO Orchestra of Tychy Poland at Alvernia Studios in Krakow. The recording will be released on May 6 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Also visit iTunes to listen to audio clips. Earlier this month, the composer’s label also released String Quartet No. 1 “The Stone Cutters” and Early Chamber Works, which includes includes world premiere recordings of Goldenthal’s 1980 Sonata for Bass and Piano and 1974 Three Pieces for Solo Piano, as well as the Extension Ensemble performing Goldenthal’s Second Brass Quintet. Click here to order the CD. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Godzilla’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 10, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Gareth Edwards, Godzilla, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for the monster movie Godzilla have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). The soundtrack will be released on May 13, 2014 by WaterTower Music and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips will be posted on this page soon. Godzilla is directed by Gareth Edwards and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston. The Legendary Pictures production pits the world’s most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. The movie will be released nationwide on May 16 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Victor Reyes Scoring ‘The Atticus Institute’
Posted: April 10, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Sparling, The Atticus Institute, Victor Reyes
Victor Reyes has recently composed the score for the supernatural thriller The Atticus Institute. The film written and directed by Chris Sparling (ATM) is set in 1976 and revolves around a parapsychology lab which uncovered the supernatural abilities of Judith Winstead, a patient possessed with dark forces. The movie’s cast includes Rya Kihlstedt, Aaron Craven, William Mapother and Laurent Rubin. Peter Safran (The Conjuring, Meet the Spartans, Vampires Suck) is producing the project. Reyes has previously scored the Safran-produced and Sparling-scripted thriller Buried starring Ryan Reynolds. Read the rest of this entry »
Blake Neely to Score The CW’s ‘The Flash’
Posted: April 10, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Arrow, Blake Neely, Greg Berlanti, The CW, The Flash
Blake Neely has been hired to score the pilot of the upcoming CW drama The Flash. The show is based on the DC Comic and stars Grant Gustin as scientist Barry Allen who is given the power of super speed that transforms him into the Fastest Man Alive, known as The Flash. Jesse L. Martin, Candice Patton, Tom Kavanagh, Danielle Panabaker, Rick Cosnett and Carlos Valdes are co-starring. Greg Berlanti is executive producing the Warner Bros. Television production with Andrew Kreisberg and director David Nutter (The X-Files, Smallville). The Flash character was introduced in the CW’s Arrow, which Neely has been scoring for the past two years. Read the rest of this entry »
Relativity Music Group to Release ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ Soundtrack
Posted: April 10, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: How to Train Your Dragon 2, John Powell, score, Soundtrack
Relativity Music Group will release the soundtrack album for DreamWorks Animation’s sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2. The film’s music is composed by John Powell (The Bourne Trilogy, Rio, Happy Feet) who recently recorded his music at Air Studios in London. The composer who received his first Academy Award nomination for his score for the first part in the series has reportedly collaborated with Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi on the sequel. Check back on this page for the full album details and the album release date. The soundtrack album for the original 2010 film was released by Varese Sarabande. How to Train Your Dragon 2 is directed by Dean DeBlois and features the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig. Read the rest of this entry »
