Republic Records has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the comedy sequel Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. The album features the songs featured in the film performed by the movie’s characters such as Ron Burgundy, Brian Fantana, Brick Tamland and Champ Kind, including a cover version of Christopher Cross’s Ride Like The Wind by Burgundy and Robin Thicke, as well as original songs composed by the film’s composers Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau. Also featured are a number of classic songs by artists including Neil Diamond, Hot Chocolate and Kenny Loggins. The soundtrack will be released on December 17, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is directed by Adam McKay and stars Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, James Marsden and Kristen Wiig. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 27, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anchorman, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau, Soundtrack
‘Kill Your Darlings’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 27, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Kill Your Darlings, Nico Muhly, score, Soundtrack
Relativity Music Group will release a soundtrack album for the indie drama Kill Your Darlings. The album features the film’s original score composed by Nico Muhly (The Reader, Margaret, Joshua). Also included are three tracks featured in the film by vocalist Catherine Russell accompanied by Grammy winner Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 10, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Kill Your Darlings is directed by John Krokidas and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Cross and Elizabeth Olsen. The film tells the story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944. The drama premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is currently playing in select theaters. Read the rest of this entry »
‘American Hustle’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 27, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: American Hustle, Danny Elfman, David O. Russell, score, Soundtrack
Madison Gate Records will release the official soundtrack album for David O. Russell’s comedy drama American Hustle. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Duke Ellington, Elton John, The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Tom Jones, Jeff Lynne, Chris Stills, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Mayssa Karaa, Wings and Jack Jones. Also included is a track from the film’s original score composed by Danny Elfman who previously scored the director’s Silver Linings Playbook. The soundtrack will be released on December 6, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. American Hustle starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Jennifer Lawrence tells the the story of a brilliant con man who, along with his seductive British partner is forced to work for a wild FBI agent who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers. The movie will be released nationwide on December 13, 2013 by Sony Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Mothersbaugh to Score ‘Island of Lemurs: Madagascar’
Posted: November 27, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh has been tapped to score the upcoming IMAX 3D documentary Island of Lemurs: Madagascar. The film is directed by David Douglas and features trailblazing scientist Patricia Wright, an expert on lemurs and the wildlife of Madagascar where the creatures arrived as castaways millions of years ago and evolved into hundreds of diverse and now endangered species. Morgan Freeman is narrating the movie. Drew Fellman has written the screenplay and is also producing the project. Mothersbaugh has previously scored the IMAX documentary Born to be Wild 3D in 2011, which was produced by Fellman, narrated by Freeman and on which Douglas served as the director of cinematography. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar is set to be released in select IMAX theaters on April 4, 2014 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
’47 Ronin’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 26, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 47 Ronin, Carl Rinsch, Ilan Eshkeri, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the martial arts action adventure 47 Ronin. The album features the film’s original score composed by Ilan Eshkeri (Stardust, Layer Cake, The Young Victoria). The soundtrack will be released on December 24, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. 47 Ronin is directed by Carl Rinsch and stars Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano and Rinko Kikuchi. The film scripted by Chris Morgan (Fast Five) & Hossein Amini (Drive) and produced by Scott Stuber (Ted), Pamela Abdy (Identity Thief) and Eric McLeod (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) follows the 47 Ronin, a band of samurai swordsmen who avenge the death of their master in 18th century Japan. The movie will be released nationwide on December 25, 2013 by Universal Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Butterfly’s Dream’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 26, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Rahman Altin, score, Soundtrack, The Butterfly's Dream
Redwood Entertainment has released the soundtrack album for the Turkish drama The Butterfly’s Dream in the United States. The album features the film’s original music composed, arranged and produced by Rahman Altin who was honored with the Public Choice Award at this year’s World Soundtrack Awards ceremony in Ghent for his work on the movie. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon and is also available physically. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. The Butterfly’s Dream directed by Yilmaz Ertoğan is set in the 1940s during World War II in the Black Sea city of Zonguldak and tells the story of two poets who both fall sick with tuberculosis and fall in love with the same woman. The movie was released in Turkey this past February and was selected to represent the country as its entry for Best Foreign Language Film for 2014’s Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Drinking Buddies’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 26, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Drinking Buddies, Joe Swanberg, Soundtrack
Jagjaguwar will release a soundtrack album for the indie comedy Drinking Buddies. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Richard Swift, Cavucas, Foxygen, Richard Youngs, Plants and Animals, Rubblebucket, Phèdre, Night Beds and Barna Howard. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 3, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Drinking Buddies is directed by Joe Swanberg and stars Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Ron Livingston and Anna Kendrick. The movie about a pair of Chicago craft brewery co-workers whose platonic friendship veers toward flirtation premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival and was released in select theaters and on VOD this summer by Magnolia Pictures. The comedy will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on December 3. Read the rest of this entry »
Scott Glasgow to Score ‘Poker Night’
Posted: November 26, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Poker Night, Scott Glasgow, Secrets of a Psychopath
Scott Glasgow has signed on to score the crime thriller Poker Night. The film is written and directed by Greg Francis and stars Ron Perlman, Giancarlo Esposito, Titus Welliver, Ron Eldard and Beau Mirchoff. The movie follows a young cop who learns from a Greek chorus of wiser, older detectives gathered for their ritual night of poker when a killer pulls the young cop and his mentors into a web of mutual deceit. Corey Large (Loaded) and Alan Pao are producing the project for Wingman Productions. Glasgow has previously collaborated with the producers on the features Chasing Ghosts and Toxic. Read the rest of this entry »
Complete ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 25, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, Television Music AlbumsTags: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bruce Broughton, Craig Safan, Henry Mancini, Mission Of The Shark: The Saga Of The U.S.S. Indianapolis, Remo Williams, score, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere release of the complete soundtrack for the 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s directed by Blake Edwards and starring Katherine Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal and Mickey Rooney. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther). The score was previously only available as a re-arranged version on an LP version from RCA. The album also features the Academy Award-winning song Moon River performed by Hepburn, as well as a number of bonus tracks, including alternate versions of the song. For the full album details and to listen to audio clips, visit Intrada’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
John Debney to Score Ivan Reitman’s ‘Draft Day’
Posted: November 25, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brad Anderson, Draft Day, Eliza Graves, ETM-LA, Ivan Reitman, John Debney, SpongeBob SquarePants 2
John Debney is reteaming with director Ivan Reitman on the upcoming sports drama Draft Day. The film’s cast includes Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary, Chadwick Boseman, Frank Langella, Sean Combs, Terry Crews, Sam Elliott and Tom Welling. The movie centers on the manager of the Cleveland Browns who struggles to acquire the top draft pick for his team on the day of the draft. Scott Rothman and Rajiv Joseph have written the screenplay. Reitman is also producing the project with Ali Bell and Tom Pollock (Hitchcock) through his Montecito Motion Picture Company. Debney has previously worked together with Reitman on the 2011 romantic comedy No Strings Attached starring Natalie Portman & Ashton Kutcher. Read the rest of this entry »
