The London Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that a new concert piece composed by Academy Award-winning film composer James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, A Beautiful Mind) will premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in London on March 27, 2015. The composer’s “new work for four horns” will be performed by musicians David Pyatt, John Ryan, James Thatcher and Richard Watkins and will be conducted by Jaime Martín. The event will also feature performances of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture) and Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade. To find out more about the concert and to pre-order tickets, visit LPO’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
James Horner’s ‘New Work for Four Horns’ to Premiere in London
Posted: January 24, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: James Horner, London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Lorne Balfe to Score ‘Captive’
Posted: January 24, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Captive, Jerry Jameson, Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe has signed on to score the upcoming thriller Captive. The film is directed by Jerry Jameson and stars David Oyelowo, Kate Mara, Leonor Varela and Mimi Rogers. The movie centers on the true story of Brian Nichols who broke out of a courthouse jail in 2005 and shot dead the judge assigned to his case as well as a court reporter, sheriff’s deputy and FBI officer. Brian Bird (Not Easily Broken) and Reinhard Denke have written the screenplay based on Ashley Smith’s bestselling book An Unlikely Angel. Read the rest of this entry »
Riz Ortolani (1926 – 2014)
Posted: January 23, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Riz Ortolani
Riz Ortolani has passed away at age 87. The Italian composer scored around 200 films both in home country, as well as the United States, England and Germany. He received two Academy Awards for the original songs More from 1962’s Mondo cane and Till Love Touches Your Life from the 1970 western Madron. He was also Golden Globe-nominated for his Madron song, as well as the title song from Buena Sera, Mrs. Campbell and his score for the Ingrid Bergman- and Shirley MacLaine-starring 1964 comedy The Yellow Rolls-Royce. He won a Golden Globe for the song Forget Domani from the same film. His score for Mondo cane also earned him a Grammy nomination. His other film scoring credits include 1964’s The 7th Dawn starring William Holden, the 1966 British comedy The Spy with the Cold Nose and the 1965 western The Glory Guys. In recent years, his music was chosen by Quentin Tarantino and used in the director’s Kill Bill features, as well as Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 23, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, score, Soundtrack, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson
ABKCO Records will release the official soundtrack album for Wes Anderson’s comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech, Argo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) who previously collaborated with the director on The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom. Also included are a number of folk music tracks used in the movie. The soundtrack will be released on March 4, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Grand Budapest Hotel is written and directed by Anderson and stars Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody. The movie recounts the adventures of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Read the rest of this entry »
Max Richter to Score ‘Paradise Lost’
Posted: January 23, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrea di Stefano, Max Richter, Paradise Lost
Max Richter has been hired to score the upcoming romantic thriller Paradise Lost. The movie is written and directed by Andrea di Stefano and stars Josh Hutcherson as a young American surfer who takes a trip to Colombia and falls in love with a beautiful local girl. Their romance seems idyllic until he meets her uncle, drug lord Pablo Escobar, played by Benicio Del Toro. Claudia Traisac, Carlos Bardem, Brian Geraghty and Ana Girardot are co-starring. Dimitri Rassam (Upside Down) is producing the Pathe, Chapter 2, Roxbury Pictures and Nexus Factory production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘300: Rise of an Empire’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 23, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 300, 300: Rise of an Empire, Junkie XL, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the action adventure epic 300: Rise of an Empire. The album features the film’s original music composed by Junkie XL (Divergent, Paranoia). The soundtrack will be released on March 4, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for audio clips. 300: Rise of an Empire is directed by Noam Murro and stars Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green, Callan Mulvey, Jack O’Connell and Lena Headey. The movie based on Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel Xerxes follows Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. The movie will be released nationwide on March 7, 2014 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Ellie Goulding to Perform on ‘Divergent’ Soundtrack
Posted: January 22, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Divergent, Ellie Goulding, Junkie XL
Ellie Goulding has announced that she has recorded the original song Beating Heart for the film adaptation of the young adult novel Divergent. She also announced on ABC’s Good Morning America today that she will be the “musical voice” of Shailene Woodley’s character Tris and that her voice will be featured on the instrumental score. Junkie XL is the composer on the film and Hans Zimmer serves as the executive score producer. Check back on this page for more information about the soundtrack and score. Divergent is directed by Neil Burger and stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Zoe Kravitz, Ray Stevenson, Jai Courtney, Ansel Elgort, Ashley Judd and Maggie Q. The movie based on Veronica Roth’s first of a trilogy of novels will be released nationwide on March 21, 2014 by Lionsgate. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pompeii’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 22, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Clinton Shorter, Paul W.S. Anderson, Pompeii, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the historical action epic Pompeii. The album features the film’s original music composed by Clinton Shorter (District 9, Contraband, 2 Guns). The soundtrack will be released on February 25, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Click here to listen to audio clips. Pompeii is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, AVP: Alien vs Predator) and stars Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jared Harris, Paz Vega and Kiefer Sutherland. The Constantin Film production follows an enslaved gladiator who falls in love with a noblewoman on the eve of a massive volcanic eruption that destroys Pompeii. The movie will be released on February 21, 2014 by Sony/TriStar Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Azaria & Marc Bell Scoring ‘Brick Mansions’
Posted: January 22, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Azaria, Brick Mansions, Marc Bell
Alexandre Azaria and Marc Bell are composing the music for the upcoming action thriller Brick Mansions. The film is directed by Camille Delamarre and is an English language remake of Pierre Morel’s 2004 film District B13. The movie stars Paul Walker as 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. RZA, David Belle and Robert Maillet are co-starring. Luc Besson has written the screenplay with Robert Mark Kamen (Taken) and is also producing the EuropaCorp and Relativity Media production with Ryan Kavanaugh & Tucker Tooley (The Fighter, Limitless) and Christophe Lambert. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer Launching ‘Open Call’ Global Contest on SoundCloud
Posted: January 22, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bleeding Fingers, Hans Zimmer
SoundCloud and The Bleeding Fingers Custom Music Shop – a joint venture between Extreme Music, the production music arm of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, and Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer’s company Remote Control Productions – have partnered to launch the talent quest Hans Zimmer Wants You!. The winner/s will get an opportunity to become a Bleeding Fingers staff composer working along-side some of Hollywood’s premier film and TV composers on Zimmer’s LA-campus. The finalists will be announced on or before March 20th. Zimmer has has posted an exclusive track to SoundCloud for its community members to recompose. Read the rest of this entry »
