Label Zero has announced a soundtrack album for the French comedy Superchondriac (Supercondriaque). The album features the film’s original music composed by Klaus Badelt (Pirates of the Caribbean, Rescue Dawn, Constantine, The Time Machine) who recorded the score with the London Metropolitan Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios and Air Studios. The soundtrack is now available for the price of your choice on the composer’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips and check out the full album details. Superchondriac is directed by Dany Boon who also stars in the film alongside Kad Merad and Alice Pol. The movie follows a hypochondriac who asks his doctor friend to treat his condition so he can find a wife. The comedy opening in French theaters today. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Superchondriac’ (‘Supercondriaque’) Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 26, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Klaus Badelt, score, Soundtrack, Superchondriac, Supercondriaque
Rihanna to Perform Original Songs for DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Home’
Posted: February 25, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Dreamworks Animation, Home, Rihanna
Jeffrey Katzenberg announced today in a call to investors that Rihanna will be performing new original songs for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming feature Home. She will also be creating a concept album based on the movie. The singer and actress also is also among the voice talent of the film directed by Tim Johnson (Antz, Over the Hedge). The animated feature’s voice cast also includes Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Jim Parsons. The movie is based on the book The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex and centers on a friendly alien race that invades Earth and begins to efficiently reorganize the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
‘HairBrained’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 25, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: HairBrained, score, Soundtrack, The Newton Brothers
Legacy Recordings has released a soundtrack album for the indie comedy HairBrained. The album features the songs from the film by artists including The Vaccines, Craig Richey, Oregon Bike Trails, The Front Bottoms, Sam Means, Jessie Woods and The Feelies. Also included are four tracks from the film’s original score composed by The Newton Brothers (Life of Crime, Detachment). The soundtrack is now available digitally on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. HairBrained is directed by Billy Kent and stars Alex Wolff and Brendan Fraser. The movie follows a 14-year old genius and outcast finds himself at Whittman College, an Ivy League wannabe, after getting rejected from Harvard, and meets a 41-year-old freshman whose world has imploded and has dropped out of life to enroll in college. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘The Matrix Revolutions’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 25, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Don Davis, Jerry Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack, The Blue Max, The Matrix, The Matrix Revolutions
La-La Land Records has released a remastered and expanded re-issue of the score for the Wachowski’s 2003 Warner Bros. Pictures sci-fi action film The Matrix Revolutions starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss. The album features over two hours of the film’s original music composed and conducted by Don Davis (Jurassic Park 3, Bound), including cues that were not used in the final film, as well as bonus alternate cues. The 2CD-set is limited to 3000 copies and is now available to order on the La-La Land’s website, where you can also listen to audio clips and check out the full album details. The label has previously released an expanded release for the first sequel in the trilogy. Read the rest of this entry »
Randy Edelman to Score Rob Cohen’s ‘The Boy Next Door’
Posted: February 25, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Randy Edelman, Rob Cohen, The Boy Next Door
Randy Edelman has been hired to score the upcoming thriller The Boy Next Door. The film is directed by Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious) and stars Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Kristin Chenoweth and John Corbett. The movie follows a newly separated mother who begins an affair with a new teenage neighbor who befriends her son. Barbara Curry has written the screenplay. Jason Blum (Insidious, Paranormal Activity) is producing the project through his Blumhouse production company alongside John Jacobs (Ted, Blades of Glory) for Smart Entertainment, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas (Mona Lisa Smile, Maid in Manhattan) for Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions and Benny Medina (The Fosters, The Fighting Temptations). Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Face of Love’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 24, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marcelo Zarvos, score, Soundtrack, The Face of Love
Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the indie drama The Face of Love. The album features the film’s original music composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Enough Said, Ray Donovan, The Words). The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 11, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips will be added to this article soon. The Face of Love is directed by Arie Posin (The Chumbscrubber) and stars Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams, Jess Weixler and Amy Brenneman. The drama, which follows a widow who meets a man looking exactly like her dead husband, premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and will be released in select theaters on March 7 by IFC Films. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to Score Roman Polanski’s Dreyfus Affair Drama ‘D’
Posted: February 24, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, D, Matteo Garrone, Roman Polanski, The Tale of Tales
Alexandre Desplat revealed during a conversation and performance of his Oscar-nominated score for Philomena on Sunday afternoon at the Beverly Hills Hotel that he will be reteaming with Roman Polanski on the director’s next movie D. The film tells the true story of Albert Dreyfus, one of the few Jewish officers on the General Staff of the French Army, who was subjected to a secret court martial for passing secrets to the Germans. Robert Harris (The Ghost Writer) has written the screenplay and Robert Benmussa (The Pianist, High Tension) and Alain Sarde (Mulholland Drive, Vera Drake) are serving as producers. The political thriller will mark the fourth collaboration between the composer and Polanski following 2010’s The Ghost Writer, 2011’s Carnage and last year’s Venus in Fur. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat’s ‘Philomena’ Score Celebrated at Q&A and Live Performance Event
Posted: February 24, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Philomena
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Yesterday afternoon, the work of Alexandre Desplat was celebrated during a conversation and performance of his Oscar-nominated score for Philomena at the Beverly Hills Hotel’s Polo Lounge. During a Q&A moderated by Society of Composers & Lyricists president Ashley Irwin, the composer talked about his fourth collaboration with director Stephen Frears, the challenges of the project and meeting the real Philomena Lee portrayed in the film by Judi Dench. Check out a video from the conversation after the jump. Randy Kerber performed selections from the Philomena score on piano. Read the rest of this entry »
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to Present TV Music Live Concert
Posted: February 24, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Variety is reporting that the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will present the first-ever live concert to take place on May 21, 2014 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. A 70-piece orchestra and 40-voice choir are expected to perform music by at least nine active TV composers, including Jeff Beal (House of Cards), Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Da Vinci’s Demons), Trevor Morris (Vikings), Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones), John Lunn (Downton Abbey), Alf Clausen (The Simpsons), Walter Murphy (Family Guy), Sean Callery (24, Homeland) and James Levine (American Horror Story). In addition, Mark Watters will be conducting a medley of recent TV themes. Emmy-nominated composer Mark Snow (The X-Files, Blue Bloods) will receive a lifetime achievement award at the event, which will also feature a performance of the composer’s music. Read the rest of this entry »
Steven Price Wins Satellite Award for ‘Gravity’
Posted: February 24, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Satellite Awards
Steven Price has won his first Satellite Award in the Original Score category for his music for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity at last night’s 18th Annual Satellite Awards ceremony at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. Shortly before Price received the award, astronaut Richard Mastracchio tweeted, “I am watching the movie Gravity up here on ISS. Let’s call it training.” Astronauts aboard the International Space Station crew Expedition 38 Soyuz were given an opportunity to watch the film, fittingly making Price’s score the only Oscar-nominated score of to be heard in space. The other composers nominated in the Original Score category were Hans Zimmer for 12 Years a Slave, Alexandre Desplat for Philomena, Arcade Fire for Her, Theodore Shapiro for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and John Williams for The Book Thief. Read the rest of this entry »
