La-La Land Records has announced a 8-CD box set for the action comedy series Lethal Weapon directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. The albums feature the original scores from all four movies composed by Michael Kamen (Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), Eric Clapton and David Sanborn. The scores for the first three installments have been expanded beyond their original soundtrack albums and the score for Lethal Weapon 4 makes its world premiere on the set. The albums also feature alternate cues, as well as cues that were unused in the final film. Also included are the songs from the films by artists including Sting, Elton John, George Harrison and The Beach Boys. To order the box set, which is limited to 3000 copies and to check out the full details, visit the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lethal Weapon’ Series Box Set and Expanded ‘Superman Returns’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bryan Singer, David Sanborn, Eric Clapton, John Ottman, Lethal Weapon, Michael Kamen, score, Soundtrack, Superman Returns
‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Score Album Details
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Stiller, Jose Gonzalez, score, Soundtrack, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Theodore Shapiro
Sony Classical will release a score album for Ben Stiller’s fantasy comedy drama The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The album including the film’s original music composed by Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder, The Devil Wears Prada, Marley & Me) and featuring vocals by Jose Gonzalez. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 13, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. As previously reported, Republic Records will release a separate soundtrack featuring the film’s songs, including Step Out and Stay Alive co-written by Shapiro and performed by Gonzalez. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty starring Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn and Sean Penn will be released on December 25, 2013 by 20th Century Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami Scoring ‘November Man’
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 1864, Marco Beltrami, November Man, Roger Donaldson, Seventh Son, The Homesman
Marco Beltrami has been tapped to score the upcoming action thriller November Man. The film is directed by Roger Donaldson and stars Pierce Brosnan, Olga Kurylenko, Luke Bracey, Will Patton and Bill Smitrovich. The movie follows an ex-CIA operative who is pitted against his former pupil on a race to find a woman who is hiding from her past and who holds the key to an international conspiracy. Michael Finch (Predators) and Karl Gajdusek (Oblivion, Last Resort) have written the screenplay based on the book There Are No Spies by Bill Granger based on his 13-part November Man series. Beau St. Clair (The Thomas Crown Affair, Laws of Attraction) of Irish Dreamtime and Sriram Das (Veronika Decides to Die) of Das Films are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Labor Day’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jason Reitman, Labor Day, Rolfe Kent, score, Soundtrack
Warner Bros. Records will release a soundtrack album for Jason Reitman’s drama Labor Day. The album features the film’s original score composed by Rolfe Kent (Sideways, The Wedding Crashers, Election) who previously scored the director’s features Thank You for Smoking, Up in the Air and Young Adult. Also included are the songs from the film performed by Arlo Guthrie and Vashti Bunyan, as well as classical guitar pieces by Andrés Segovia and Shin-ichi Fukuda. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 17, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A CD version will be coming out on January 28 and is available to order here. Labor Day starring Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith, Clark Gregg and Tobey Maguire follows a mother and son who encounter a man on a shopping trip who convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The drama will receive an Academy Awards-qualifying theatrical run in Los Angeles later this year and is set to be released nationwide on January 31, 2014 by Paramount Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Reinhold Heil to Score Syfy’s ‘Helix’
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Helix, Reinhold Heil, Syfy
Reinhold Heil has been hired to score the upcoming Syfy original series Helix. The drama is created by Cameron Porsandeh and stars Billy Campbell, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyra Zagorsky, Jordan Hayes, Catherine Lemieux, Neil Napier and Mark Ghanime. The show follows a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a life-and-death struggle that may hold the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation. Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander), Steven Maeda (Lost, The X-Files), and Lynda Obst (Contact) are executive producing the Sony Pictures Television and NBC Universal production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Oldboy’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Oldboy, Roque Banos, score, Soundtrack, Spike Lee
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for Spike Lee’s mystery thriller Oldboy. The album features the film’s original score composed and conducted by Roque Banos (The Machinist, Evil Dead, Sexy Beast). The soundtrack will be released physically on January 14, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out our previous article to listen to three full tracks from the score. Oldboy is based on the acclaimed Korean film from 2003 directed by Chan-wook Park and stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley. The movie follows an alcoholic advertising executive who is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement before he is released and embarks on an mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment. The movie was released last week by FilmDistrict and is now playing in theaters. Read the rest of this entry »
Satellite Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: December 2, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Satellite Awards
The International Press Academy has announced the nominees for its 18th annual Satellite Awards today. The nominees in the music-related categories are:
Original Score
- 12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer
- Philomena – Alexandre Desplat
- Gravity – Steven Price
- Her – Arcade Fire
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – Theodore Shapiro
- The Book Thief – John Williams Read the rest of this entry »
Hanan Townshend Scoring Terrence Malick’s ‘Knight of Cups’
Posted: December 2, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Believe Me, Hanan Townshend, Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick, The Better Angels
Hanan Townshend is reuniting with director Terrence Malick on the upcoming drama Knight of Cups. The film is also written by Malick and stars Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Joel Kinnaman, Teresa Palmer, Wes Bentley, Imogen Poots, Nick Offerman, Isabel Lucas, Antonio Banderas, Jason Clarke and Freida Pinto. Recent reports indicate that not all listed actors will make the final cut of the movie. No specific plot details have been revealed yet. Sarah Green (The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, Mud) is producing the project with Nicolas Gonda (The Tree of Life, The New World). Townshend has previously scored Malick’s last feature To the Wonder. He is the first composer to collaborate with Malick more than once. Read the rest of this entry »
Annie Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: December 2, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Annie Awards
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 41st Annual Annie Awards. Here are the music-related nominees:
Music in an Animated Feature Production
- Alan Silvestri – The Croods – DreamWorks Animation
- Henry Jackman – Turbo – DreamWorks Animation
- Mark Mothersbaugh – Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 – Sony Pictures Animation
- Heitor Pereira, Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2 – Universal Pictures
- Danny Elfman – Epic – Blue Sky Studios
- Randy Newman – Monsters University – Pixar Animation Studios
- Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Christophe Beck – Frozen – Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Dominic Lewis – Free Birds – Reel FX Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 1, 2013)
Posted: December 1, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Christmas in Conway, Geoff Zanelli, Kirstie, Mark Isham, Mob City, NBC, Ron Wasserman, The Sound of Music, TNT, TV Land
Premiering on Wednesday, December 4, is the new TNT original series Mob City created by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead) and starring Jon Bernthal, Ed Burns, Neal McDonough and Jeremy Luke. The drama’s original score is composed by Mark Isham (Once Upon a Time, Crash) who has previously collaborated with Darabont on the features The Majestic and The Mist. The show is based on the real-life accounts of the cops and gangsters of Los Angeles in the 1940s and tells the story of the violent crime underbelly of America’s most glamorous city and those who wanted to control it. The first season of six episodes Mob City will air over three weeks on TNT. To learn more about the series, visit the official show website. Read the rest of this entry »
