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 »
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
‘The Physician’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 30, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Der Medicus, Ingo Ludwig Frenzel, score, Soundtrack, The Physician
Colosseum Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama The Physician (Der Medicus). The album features the film’s original music composed by Ingo Ludwig Frenzel (Love in Thoughts, Young Goethe in Love). 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. The Physician is directed by Philipp Stolzl (North Face, Erased) and stars Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard, Emma Rigby, Tom Payne and Oliver Martinez. The movie based on the bestselling novel by Noah Gordon is set in Persia in the 11th Century and follows a surgeon’s apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians. The film will be released in Germany on December 25, 2013 by Universal Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The House of Magic’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 30, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ramin Djawadi, score, Soundtrack, The House of Magic
Studiocanal will release a soundtrack album for the animated feature The House of Magic (Le Manoir Magique). The album features the film’s original score composed by Ramin Djawadi (Pacific Rim, Game of Thrones, Iron Man). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 16, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. The House of Magic is directed by Ben Stassen and Jeremy Degruson and follows an abandoned young cat who seeking shelter from a storm and stumbles into a strange house owned by an old magician and inhabited by an array of automatons and gizmos. The movie is produced by nWave Pictures, for which Djawadi has previously scored the features Fly Me to the Moon 3D, A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventure and its sequel and African Safari 3D. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 29, 2013)
Posted: November 29, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alex Heffes, Black Nativity, Christophe Beck, Frozen, Homefront, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Laura Karpman, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Mark Isham, Oldboy, Raphael Saadiq, Robert Lopez, Roque Banos
Opening nationwide this holiday weekend after a 5-day exclusive engagement at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre is Disney’s animated feature Frozen directed by Jennifer Lee & Chris Buck and featuring the voice talent of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk and Ciarán Hinds. Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have written the film’s original songs and Christophe Beck (The Muppets, The Hangover) has composed the original score. Walt Disney Records has released the soundtrack featuring the songs and score in two different editions. For the full details, visit our previous news article. Click here to check out a video featurette featuring the composer and songwriters talking about their work on the film. Also visit YouTube for another video interview with Beck about his first animated feature score.
Also opening wide is the action thriller Homefront directed by Gary Fleder and starring Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, Frank Grillo, Kate Bosworth and Rachelle Lefevre. The film’s original score is composed by Mark Isham (Crash, Once Upon a Time) who has previously collaborated with the director several times, including on such films as Kiss the Girls, Don’t Say a Word and The Express. No soundtrack album has been announced yet. Homefront centers on a former drug enforcement agent and family man who moves off the grid with his daughter to a seemingly quiet bayou backwater to escape his troubled past. To learn more about the thriller, which is being released by Open Road Films, visit the official Facebook movie page. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Big Bad Wolves’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 29, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Big Bad Wolves, Frank Ilfman, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media and Kronos Records will release a soundtrack album for the Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves. The album features the film’s original music composed by Frank Ilfman (Nemesis Game). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 17, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Big Bad Wolves is written and directed by Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado and stars Lior Ashkenazi, Tzahi Grad, Rotem Keinan and Dov Glickman. The movie centers on a series of murders that puts the lives of three men on a collision course – the father of the latest victim, a vigilante police detective and the main suspect in the killings. The thriller premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and was picked for up for domestic distribution by Magnolia Pictures’ Magnet Releasing label. Read the rest of this entry »
Erran Baron Cohen to Score Courteney Cox’s ‘Just Before I Go’
Posted: November 29, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Courteney, Erran Baron Cohen, Just Before I Go
Erran Baron Cohen has signed on to score the upcoming comedy drama Just Before I Go. The film marks the directorial debut of actress Courteney Cox (Friends, Scream) and stars Seann William Scott, Kate Walsh, Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt and Kyle Gallner. The movie follows a depressed man who heads back to his hometown to right some wrongs before committing suicide. David Flebotte (Boardwalk Empire, Desperate Housewives, Will & Grace) has written the screenplay. Cox is also producing the project for her Coquette Productions company with David Arquette and Thea Mann (Cougar Town), alongside Gabriel Cowan & John Suits (Bad Milo, Static) of New Artists Alliance. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Police Academy’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 29, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Police Academy, Robert Folk, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1984 comedy classic Police Academy directed by Hugh Wilson and starring Steve Guttenberg, George Gaynes, Kim Cattrall and G.W. Bailey. The album features the complete score from the film composed by Robert Folk (Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls, Tremors, Nothing to Lose). Also included as a bonus track is El Bimbo performed by Jean-Marc Dompierre and His Orchestra and used in the movie for the film’s Blue Oyster Bar. The soundtrack for the Warner Bros. Pictures production is limited to 3000 copies and will be available to order on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 on La-La Land Records’ official website. Read the rest of this entry »
Varese Sarabande to Release Patrick Doyle’s ‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ Score
Posted: November 28, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Kenneth Branagh, Patrick Doyle, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande Records will release the soundtrack album for Kenneth Branagh’s action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. The album features the film’s original score composed by Patrick Doyle (Thor, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) who regularly works with the director. The soundtrack is expected to be released ahead of the film’s opening on January 17, 2014. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Check back on this page for the full album details. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit based on the character created by bestselling author Tom Clancy stars Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, as well as Branagh himself. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jewtopia’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 28, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jewtopia, Nathan Wang, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the comedy Jewtopia. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nathan Wang (The Game Plan, She’s the Man, Rumble in the Bronx). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 10, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Jewtopia is directed by Bryan Fogel and stars Ivan Sergei, Joel David Moore, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Tom Arnold, Jon Lovitz, Nicollette Sheridan, Peter Stormare, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Wendie Malick and Rita Wilson. The movie centers on two childhood friends from different families who reunite as adults when one asks the other to help him pretend to be Jewish so he can woo a beautiful woman. The film opened in select theaters this past September when it also premiered on VOD and will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on February 11, 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Mancina to Return for ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’
Posted: November 28, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Mancina, Planes, Planes: Fire & Rescue
Mark Mancina is set to return to compose the score for Disney’s Planes: Fire & Rescue. The sequel to this summer’s animated feature Planes is directed by Bobs Gannaway (Secret of the Wings, Stitch! The Movie) and features a crew of elite firefighting aircraft devoted to protecting historic Piston Peak National Park from a raging wildfire. Dane Cook will once again be voicing the film’s main character of Dusty. He is joined by Julie Bowen who will appear as the voice of the new character Lil’ Dipper. The full voice cast has yet to be announced. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter is executive producing the DisneyToon Studios production. Mancina’s music for the first Planes movie is now available on Walt Disney Records (click here for the album details). Read the rest of this entry »
