Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1988 Vietnam war drama Distant Thunder from Paramount Pictures directed by Rick Rosenthal and starring John Lithgow and Ralph Maccio. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ghost, Dead Poets Society). To check out the full album details and to pre-order the CD, visit Intrada’s official website, where you can also check out audio clips. Read the rest of this entry »
Maurice Jarre’s ‘Distant Thunder’ Score to Be Released
Posted: February 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Distant Thunder, Elmer Bernstein, Maurice Jarre, score, Soundtrack
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Alexandre Desplat to Score Angelina Jolie’s ‘Unbroken’
Posted: February 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Angelina Jolie, Unbroken
Alexandre Desplat has been tapped to score the upcoming World War II drama Unbroken. The film marks the second directorial effort of Angelina Jolie and stars Jack O’Connell, Garrett Hedlund, Domhnall Gleeson, Jai Courtney and Finn Wittrock. The movie is based on the book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hildebrand and tells the true story of Lou Zamperini who was a Los Angeles high school track star who raced in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and whose Air Force plane crashed in the Pacific in 1943, where he survived 47 days without food and water. Joel & Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Fargo) have written the screenplay with Richard LaGravenese (The Horse Whisperer, The Fisher King) and William Nicholson (Gladiator, Les Miserables). Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Elfman to Attend ‘Alice in Wonderland’ World Premiere Live to Projection Concert
Posted: February 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Alice in Wonderland, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, Michael Giacchino, Tim Burton
The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra has announced that Danny Elfman will be attending a series of concerts this March at the KKL Luzern Concert Hall in Lucerne, Switzerland. On March 21, 2014, the concert Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton will make its premiere in Switzerland. The event, which features the composer’s music for the director’s films such as Batman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow and Big Fish world premiered last year at London’s Royal Albert Hall and will also be performed in other cities this spring and summer, including Prague, Mexico City, Seattle and San Diego. On March 22 & 23, the KKL will host the world premiere performance of Elfman‘s original score for Burton’s Alice in Wonderland performed live to projection. Read the rest of this entry »
Steven Price to Score Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’
Posted: February 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ant-Man, Edgar Wright, Marvel Studios, Steven Price
Edgar Wright has announced on Twitter that he will be scoring the director’s upcoming comic book film adaptation of Ant-Man. The film will star Paul Rudd in the title role of Scott Lang/Ant-Man, the superhero who can change size via an invented substance and can communicate with insects. Michael Douglas will be portraying scientist Hank Pym and Michael Pena has also been cast in an undisclosed role. Wright has also co-written the screenplay with Joe Cornish (Attack the Block). Kevin Feige (Iron Man, The Avengers, Thor, Captain America) is producing the Marvel Studios production. Price has previously scored Wright’s last feature The World’s End, as well as the Wright-produced horror comedy Attack the Block. Read the rest of this entry »
Steven Price Wins BAFTA Award for ‘Gravity’
Posted: February 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA
Steven Price has received his first BAFTA Award for his score for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity starring Sandra Bullock & George Clooney in the Original Music category. Price accepted the award in person at the British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. He was nominated alongside Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave), John Williams (The Book Thief), Henry Jackman (Captain Phillips) and Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks). The composer has previously received the Critics’ Choice Movie Award and is also up for an Academy Award for his Gravity score. Check out Price’s acceptance speech, as well as a backstage interview with the composer after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 16, 2014)
Posted: February 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Deetown, Farmed and Dangerous, Gabriel Mann, Hulu, Star-Crossed, The CW
Premiering tomorrow, February 17, is the new drama Star-Crossed created by Meredith Averill and starring Aimee Teegarden, Matt Lanter, Grey Damon, Natalie Hall, Malese Jow, Titus Makin, Jr., Chelsea Gilligan and Greg Finley. Gabriel Mann (Modern Family, Twisted, Rectify, Trophy Wife) is composing the show’s original score. To learn more about the series, which centers on the romance of a human girl and an alien boy when he and eight others of his kind are integrated into a suburban high school, check out our scoring assignment announcement. Star-Crossed will air every Monday night on The CW. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ernest & Celestine’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ernest & Celestine, score, Soundtrack, Vincent Courtois
Milan Records will release the soundtrack album for the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Ernest & Celestine in the U.S. The album features the film’s original score composed by Vincent Courtois, as well as the songs from the movie. The soundtrack will be released on March 11, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Ernest & Celestine is directed by Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier and features the voice talent of Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall, William H. Macy, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman and Jeffrey Wright. The movie centers on an unlikely friendship between a bohemian bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine. The film is one of the five nominees in the Best Animated Feature category at the Oscars and will be released in the U.S. on February 28 by GKids. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Cardoni to Score HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’
Posted: February 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO, Jeff Cardoni, Silicon Valley
Jeff Cardoni has been hired to score the upcoming HBO comedy Silicon Valley. The show is created by Mike Judge (King of the Hill, Office Space), John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky (Blades of Glory) and stars T.J. Miller, Thomas Middleditch, Josh Brener, Lindsey Broad, Christopher Evan Welch, Amanda Crew, Angela Trimbur, Zach Woods and Kumail Nanjiani. The series follows a group of self-proclaimed sexless, classless geeks as they make their way through the quirky and hilarious world of young tech-entrepreneurship. Judge, Altschuler and Krinsky are also executive producing the project with Scott Rudin (The Social Network, No Country for Old Men, Captain Phillips), Michael Rotenberg (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Reign Over Me) and Tom Lassally (Stay, The To Do List). Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 14, 2014)
Posted: February 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: About Last Night, Adult World, BC Smith, Christophe Beck, Craig Richey, Date and Switch, Easy Money: Hard to Kill, Endless Love, Eric D. Johnson, Girl on a Bicycle, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, Jimmy P., Jon Ekstrand, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marcus Miller, Pedro Bromfman, RoboCop, Rupert Gregson-Williams, The Returned, Winter's Tale
Four new movies are opening nationwide this week:
Already in theaters since Wednesday is the sci-fi action movie RoboCop directed by José Padilha and starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jennifer Ehle, Jay Baruchel, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams and Samuel L. Jackson. Pedro Bromfman who previously scored Padilha’s Elite Squad movies has composed the film’s original score. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to listen to audio clips. Also visit ET Online for a video featurette about the score and check out ASCAP’s We Create Music blog for an interview with Bromfman about his wok on the film.
Opening today is the fantasy romance Winter’s Tale directed by Akiva Goldsman and starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Russell Crowe, Eva Marie Saint,, Ripley Sobo and Mckayla Twiggs. The film’s music is composed by Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight, Inception) and Rupert Gregson-Williams (Bee Movie, Click). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score, as well as the song Miracle performed by KT Tunstall. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and click here to listen to audio clips. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Beal Scoring Lifetime’s ‘A Day Late and a Dollar Short’
Posted: February 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Day Late and a Dollar Short, House of Cards, Jeff Beal, Lifetime
Jeff Beal has recently composed the score for the upcoming Lifetime original movie A Day Late and a Dollar Short. The film is based on the New York Times bestseller by Terry McMillan (Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back) and stars Whoopi Goldberg as Viola Price, the irascible matriarch who tries to create some order within her family after learning her next asthma attack might kill her. Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Anika Noni Rose and Kimberly Elise are co-starring. Stephen Tolkin is directing the drama and Shernold Edwards (Haven) has written the screenplay. Goldberg and Tolkin producing the project alongside Tom Leonardis (Ruby’s Bucket of Blood), Jeffrey Hayes (The Starter Wife, Crusoe) and Bill Haber (Rizzoli & Isles). Read the rest of this entry »
