Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album for the animated feature The Pirate Fairy. The album features the film’s original score composed by Joel McNeely (A Million Ways to Die in the West, Holes, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) who previously scored the other four features in the Tinker Bell series, as well as Disney’s Return to Never Land. Also included is the original song Who I Am performed by Natasha Bedingfield. Check out the song’s music video after the jump. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 1, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Pirate Fairy is directed by Peggy Holmes and features the voices of Mae Whitman, Christina Hendricks and Tom Hiddlestone who plays a young James Hook. The animated film will also be released on Blu-ray and DVD on April 1 and will receive a theatrical release in a number of international territories. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Pirate Fairy’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: March 21, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joel McNeely, score, Soundtrack, The Pirate Fairy
Bruce Hornsby Scoring Spike Lee’s ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’
Posted: March 21, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bruce Hornsby, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, Spike Lee
Bruce Hornsby is composing the score for Spike Lee’s upcoming indie romantic horror comedy Da Sweet Blood of Jesus. The Kickstarter-funded film stars Michael K. Williams, Felicia Pearson, Elvis Nolasco, Zaraah Abrahams, Steven Hauck and Stephen Tyrone Williams. No plot details have been revealed yet, but the movie is said to be a love story and centers on human beings who are addicted to blood. Lee has also written the screenplay and is producing the project. Raphael Saadiq (Black Nativity) has been announced as the film’s executive music director last year. Hornsby previously made his narrative film scoring debut on Lee’s indie drama Red Hook Summer and also composed a score for the director’s Oldboy, but the Grammy Award-winning singer’s music ended up being replaced. Read the rest of this entry »
Georges Delerue’s ‘Partners’ Score Released
Posted: March 21, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Angelo Badalamenti, Fernando Velazquez, Georges Delerue, Ocho Apellidos Cascos, Partners, The Comfort of Strangers
Quartet Records has announced the world premiere release of the score for the 1982 comedy Partners directed by James Burrows and starring Ryan O’Neal and John Hurt. The original score for the film was composed and conducted by Georges Delerue (Platoon, Man, Woman and Child), but only 12 minutes were used in the final version of the Paramount Pictures production as the majority of the score was replaced by pop songs and cues from other films by Giorgio Moroder, Dave Frank and Charles Fox and more. The album features the film’s score in order of the film, as well as music written for some sequences that were deleted in the editing room. To listen to audio clips and for the full album details, visit the label’s official website, where you can also order the limited edition CD. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rio 2’ Score Album Preview
Posted: March 20, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Powell, Rio, Rio 2
Sony Music has published audio clips from all tracks of the score album for Blue Sky Studios’ animated sequel Rio 2. The film’s music is composed by John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Trilogy, Shrek) and also features Brazilian singer and guitarist Milton Nascimento, the instrumental group UAKTI and the body percussion group Barbatuques. Check out the soundtrack preview after the jump. Sony Classical will release the soundtrack on April 8. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album and check out our previous article for the full soundtrack details. Read the rest of this entry »
James Horner to Conduct World Premiere ‘Titanic’ Live Concert
Posted: March 20, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: James Cameron, James Horner, Titanic
James Horner will be conducting his music for the Academy Award-winning drama Titanic directed by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet at a live concert on Monday, April 27, 2015 at Royal Albert Hall in London. The composer who received his first two Oscars for both his score and the end credits song My Heart Will Go On in 1998 will conduct a 90-piece orchestra, choir and Celtic musicians whilst the film is projected on the big screen in high definition. Horner previously conducted selections of his music from the film at the world premiere of the 3D re-release in 2012 in London. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Details for David Gordon Green’s ‘Joe’
Posted: March 20, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Gordon Green, David Wingo, Jeff McIlwain, Joe, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for David Gordon Green’s indie drama Joe. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jeff McIlwain and David Wingo (Mud, Take Shelter) who previously collaborated with the director on Snow Angels and The Sitter, George Washington and All the Real Girls. Also included are two tracks by Explosions in the Sky and Ryan Bingham. The soundtrack will be released on April 22, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Joe is based on a novel by Larry Brown and stars Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter and Ronnie Gene Blevins. The movie follows a hard-living, hot-tempered, ex-con who meets a hard-luck kid who awakens in him a fierce and tender-hearted protector. The drama premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and was picked up by Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate for a release in theaters and on VOD on April 11. Read the rest of this entry »
Trevor Morris to Score ‘Brick Mansions’
Posted: March 20, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brick Mansions, Trevor Morris
Trevor Morris has taken over scoring duties on the upcoming action thriller Brick Mansions. The film is directed by Camille Delamarre and stars Paul Walker, RZA, David Belle and Robert Maillet. The movie is an English language remake of Pierre Morel’s 2004 film District B13 and follows an undercover cop who is tasked with going into a tenement named Brick Mansions in order to disarm a neutron bomb that is ticking down. Luc Besson (Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element) has written the screenplay and is also producing the project for EuropaCorp. Ryan Kavanaugh & Tucker Tooley (The Fighter, Limitless) are executive producing for Relativity Media. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Promise’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 20, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Promise, Gabriel Yared, Patrice Leconte, score, Soundtrack
Playtone will release a soundtrack album for the romantic drama A Promise. The album features the film’s original music written by Academy Award-winning composer Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr. Ripley). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 6, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. A Promise is directed by Patrice Leconte and stars Alan Rickman, Rebecca Hall and Richard Madden. The movie is based on Stefan Zweig’s novella Journey into the Past and centers on an older, wealthy man’s wife who falls hopelessly in love with her husband’s teacher just before World War I. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Tyler to Score ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
Posted: March 19, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Brian Tyler, Joss Whedon, Marvel Studios
Brian Tyler has officially signed on to score Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Age of Ultron. The film is written and directed by Joss Whedon and reunites the case of the original 2012 film, including Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders and Don Cheadle. James Spader will be portraying Ultron, the main villain in the film, while Elizabeth Olsen has been cast as the Scarlet Witch, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver, Paul Bettany as the Vision and Thomas Kretschmann as Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker. Kevin Feige is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Walk of Shame’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: March 19, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Debney, score, Soundtrack, Walk of Shame
Lakeshore Records has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the comedy Walk of Shame. The album features the film’s original score composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2, Elf). 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. Walk of Shame is directed by Steven Brill and stars Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden and Gillian Jacobs. The movie follows an aspiring reporter whose dreams of becoming a network news anchor are compromised after one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown LA. The comedy will be released on May 2 by Focus World. Read the rest of this entry »
