Steven Price was honored with the Critics’ Choice Movie Award in the Best Score category for his music for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity at tonight’s 18th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The other composers nominated in the Best Score category were Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett for Her, Thomas Newman for Saving Mr. Banks and Hans Zimmer for 12 Years a Slave.
In the Best Song category, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez won the award for Let It Go from Frozen.
Christopher Lennertz is set to score the upcoming comedy sequel Horrible Bosses 2. The film is directed by Sean Anders (Sex Drive) and stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey who reprise their characters from the original film. They are joined by Chris Pine and Christoph Waltz. In the sequel, Nick, Dale and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business. Anders & John Morris (We’re the Millers) have written the screnplay with John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2). Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, X-Men: The Last Stand) is producing the project with Jay Stern (After the Sunset), John Morris, John Rickard and Chris Bender (We’re the Millers, The Butterfly Effect). Read the rest of this entry »
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi drama The Zero Theorem. The album features the film’s original music composed by George Fenton (Dangerous Beauty, Groundhog Day, Hitch) who previously scored the director’s The Fisher King. Also included is the song Creep by Argentine jazz singer Karen Souza. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 28, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Zero Theorem stars Christoph Waltz, David Thewlis, Tilda Swinton, Ben Whishaw, Matt Damon, Lucas Hedges, Peter Stormare and Melanie Thierry. The drama follows an eccentric computer genius plagued with existential angst as he works on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the purpose of existence. The movie premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and is being released in select international territories over the next few months. Read the rest of this entry »
Audio clips of the soundtrack album for Akiva Goldsman’s fantasy romance Winter’s Tale have been published. The film’s music is composed by Hans Zimmer (Inception, The Dark Knight, Gladiator) and Rupert Gregson-Williams (Over the Hedge, Bee Movie). WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music, as well the song Miracle performed by KT Tunstall on February 11, 2014. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album and check out our previous news article for the full album details. Audio clips are available after the jump. Winter’s Tale starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Russell Crowe, Eva Marie Saint is set to be released on February 14, 2014 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
This morning, the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced. Here are the music-related nominations:
Best Original Score:
Academy Awards producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that William Ross will return as music director for this year’s 86th Oscar ceremony. He previously served as music director on the 79th, 83rd and 85th Academy Awards. Ross whose film scoring credits include Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ladder 49, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas and The Tale of Despereaux has also worked on the opening ceremonies of several Super Bowls, as well as the opening and/or closing ceremonies of five Olympic Games. The composer/arranger has earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music Direction for his work on the 85th Academy Awards show. Read the rest of this entry »
Abel Korzeniowski has been tapped to score the upcoming Showtime original series Penny Dreadful. The horror drama is created by John Logan (Hugo, Gladiator, The Aviator) and stars Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear, Harry Treadaway, Billie Piper and Danny Sapani. The eight-episode series follows some of literature’s most famously terrifying characters – including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the novel Dracula – as they become embroiled in Victorian London. Logan is also executive producing the series with Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, The Road to Perdition) and Neal Street’s Pippa Harris (Call the Midwife, The Hollow Crown). Read the rest of this entry »
La-La Land Records has released a new soundtrack album for the 1991 thriller Dead Again directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring himself, Andy Garcia, Emma Thompson and Robin Williams. The album features the expanded and remastered original score composed by Patrick Doyle (Thor, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Brave, Rise of the Planet of the Apes). Also included are alternates, source cues and two bonus tracks, including an early piano sketch and a synth mock-up. The soundtrack for the Paramount Picture production is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips. The CD is limited to 2000 copies. Read the rest of this entry »
Universal Music Group will release the official soundtrack album for the film adaptation of the young adult series Vampire Academy. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Katy Perry, Goldfrapp, Naughty Boy, Iggy Azalea and Sky Ferreira, as well as a cover of the Bauhaus song Bella Lugosi is Dead by CHVRCHES, which featured in the movie’s end credits The soundtrack will be released on February 11, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips will be added to this article soon. Vampire Academy is directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls, The Spiderwick Chronicles) and stars Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Gabriel Byrne, Sarah Hyland, Olga Kurylenko, Cameron Monaghan, Joely Richardson, Sami Gayle and Dominic Sherwood. The fantasy romance based on the young adult novel series by Richelle Mead and scored by Rolfe Kent will be released nationwide on February 14 by the Weinstein Company. Read the rest of this entry »
Seth MacFarlane has announced on Twitter that Alan Silvestri is scoring the upcoming docu-series Cosmos – A Spacetime Odyssey. The show is a successor to the 1980 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning original series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage and will explore how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will host the 13-part series, which invents new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination, MacFarlane is executive producing the Cosmos Studios and Fuzzy Door production with Ann Druyan, Mitchell Cannold and Brannon Braga (Star Trek, 24). Read the rest of this entry »
