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 »
‘Winter’s Tale’ Soundtrack Preview
Posted: January 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hans Zimmer, Rupert Gregson-Williams, score, Soundtrack, Winter's Tale
Academy Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: January 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
This morning, the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced. Here are the music-related nominations:
Best Original Score:
- The Book Thief – John Williams
- Gravity – Steven Price
- Her – William Butler and Owen Pallett
- Philomena – Alexandre Desplat
- Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman Read the rest of this entry »
William Ross Returns as Oscar Music Director
Posted: January 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, William Ross
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 to Score Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’
Posted: January 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Abel Korzeniowski, John Logan, Penny Dreadful, Showtime
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 »
Expanded ‘Dead Again’ Score by Patrick Doyle Released
Posted: January 15, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dead Again, Fantastic Voyage, Kenneth Branagh, Leonard Rosenman, Patrick Doyle, score, Soundtrack
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 »
‘Vampire Academy’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Waters, Soundtrack, Vampire Academy
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 »
Alan Silvestri to Score ‘Cosmos – A Spacetime Odyssey’
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Silvestri, Cosmos - A Spactime Odyssey, Fox, Seth MacFarlane
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 »
‘Girls’ Vol. 2 Soundtrack Announced
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Girls, HBO, Michael Penn, Soundtrack
Atlantic Records will release a new soundtrack album for the HBO hit comedy Girls. The album entitled Girls Volume 2: All Adventurous Women Do… features new songs by artists including Beck, Lily Allen, Miguel and Jenny Lewis whose track Completely Not Me was featured in this past Sunday’s season premiere. Also included is a track by the show’s composer Michael Penn. The soundtrack will be released on February 11, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on iTunes. Fueled by Ramen has released the first soundtrack album for the comedy last year. Girls created by and starring Lena Dunham and produced by Judd Apatow follows a close group of twenty-somethings as they chart their lives in New York City. The show’s second season was is now available on Blu-Ray and DVD and the third season of the series currently airs Sunday nights on HBO. Read the rest of this entry »
Cinema Audio Society Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society
The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 50th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. For the past few years, scoring mixers are being recognized alongside production, re-recording, ADR and foley mixers. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Al Clay for Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips (scored by Henry Jackman), Gareth Cousins for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity (music by Steven Price), Joel Iwataki for Marvel’s Iron Man 3 (scored by Brian Tyler) and Satoshi Mark Noguchi for Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor (music by Explosions in the Sky & Steve Jablonsky). In the Motion Pictures – Animated category, the nominated scoring mixers are Dennis Sands for DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods (scored by Alan Silvestri), Alan Meyerson for Universal’s Despicable Me 2 (music by Heitor Pereira), Casey Stone for Disney’s Frozen (scored by Christophe Beck), David Boucher for Pixar’s Monsters University (music by Randy Newman) and Rupert Coulson for Walking with Dinosaurs (scored by Paul Leonard-Morgan). Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lego Movie’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Mothersbaugh, score, Soundtrack, The Lego Movie
The soundtrack details for the animated feature The Lego Movie have been revealed. The soundtrack features the film’s original score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street, Hotel Transylvania). Also included is the song Everything Is AWESOME!!! by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island, which has also been used in the movie’s marketing campaign. The soundtrack will be released on February 4, 2014 by WaterTower Music and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips will be posted on this site within the next few weeks. The Lego Movie is directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller and features the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day, , Alison Brie and Morgan Freeman. The movie will be released on February 7, 2014 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
