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 »
‘Labor Day’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jason Reitman, Labor Day, Rolfe Kent, score, Soundtrack
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 »
‘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 »
