WaterTower Music has published the official soundtrack preview for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The album features the film’s original score composed by Howard Shore. As previously announced, the label will release as a regular edition and deluxe edition on December 10, 2013. Click here to pre-order the soundtrack and visit our previous article for the full album details. Audio clips from all tracks on the regular edition are available after the jump. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug starring Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Evangeline Lilly, John Bell and Jed Brophy will be released nationwide on December 13, 2013 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Soundtrack Preview
Posted: November 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Howard Shore, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Wes Anderson Tribute Album Announced
Posted: November 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Wes Anderson
American Laundromat Records has announced a tribute album to director Wes Anderson. The double-CD set, entitled I Saved Latin! features artists such as Black Francis, Mike Watt & the Secondmen, Juliana Hatfield, Joy Zipper, Kristin Hersh, Grand Hallway, Escondido, Elk City, Matt Pond, PHOX, Santah, Tea Cozies, Solvents, William Fitzsimmons and Telekinesis covering songs featured the filmmaker’s features The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Bottle Rocket. The album is set to be released in the spring of 2014. Check out the full album details after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nashville’ Season 2 – Volume 1 Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ABC, Buddy Miller, Nashville, Soundtrack
Big Machine Records, ABC Studios and Lionsgate have announced the first soundtrack album for the second season of the ABC drama Nashville. The album is produced by Buddy Miller who took over from T Bone Burnett as the executive music producer of the series for the second season and features songs from the show’s cast including Connie Britton (Rayna Jaymes), Hayden Panettiere (Juliette Barnes), Charles Esten (Deacon Claybourne), Clare Bowen (Scarlett O’Connor), Sam Palladio (Gunnar Scott), Jonathan Jackson (Avery Barkley), Chris Carmack (Will Lexington), Aubrey Peeples (Layla Grant), Chaley Rose (Zoey Dalton), sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella (Maddie & Daphne Conrad), Will Chase (Luke Wheeler) and more. The soundtrack will be released on December 10, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Nashville created by Callie Khouri currently airs every Wednesday night on ABC. Read the rest of this entry »
WAZ to Score Fox’s ‘Surviving Jack’
Posted: November 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fox, Surviving Jack, WAZ
WAZ is scoring the upcoming Fox comedy Surviving Jack. The show is created by Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker ($#*! My Dad Says) and stars Christopher Meloni, Connor Buckley, Rachael Harris, Claudia Lee, Kevin Hernandez and Tyler Foden. The series based on Justin Halpern’s autobiographical book I Suck at Girls is set in 1990s Southern California and follows an ex-military man and no-nonsense guy who becomes a full-time parent when his wife decides to go to law school. Halpern and Schumacker are also executive producing the Warner Bros. Television and Doozer production with Bill Lawrence (Spin City, Scrubs) and Jeff Ingold WAZ is best known as a singer/songwriter and for his solo records. He has previously composed the theme and co-scored ABC’s Lawrence-produced comedy Cougar Town. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Khumba’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bruce Retief, Khumba, score, Soundtrack
Labelzero will release a soundtrack album for the animated feature Khumba. The album features the film’s original music composed by Bruce Retief who previously scored last year’s Zambezia for South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studio. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 1, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Khumba marks Triggerfish’s second 3D animated feature and is directed by Anthony Silverston. The movie’s voice talent includes Jake T. Austin, Laurence Fishburne, Annasophia Robb, Liam Neeson and Steve Buscemi. The film follows a half-striped zebra who embarks on a quest for his origins, accompanied by an overprotective wildebeest, narcissistic ostrich and plucky young zebra. Read the rest of this entry »
Johnny Klimek to Score ‘Kill Me Three Times’ and ABC’s ‘Mind Games’
Posted: November 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Johnny Klimek, Kill Me Three Times, Mind Games
Johnny Klimek is set to score the upcoming crime thriller Kill Me Three Times. The film is directed by Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) and stars Simon Pegg, Alice Braga, Luke Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Bryan Brown, Sullivan Stapleton and Callan Mulvey. The movie’s story is being told from three different points of view and follows a mercurial professional assassin in a sundrenched Australian surfing town who is hired to kill the singer wife of a wealthy man. James McFarland has written the screenplay and Laurence Malkin & Share Stallings (Death at a Funeral, A Few Best Men) are producing the project with former film industry administrator Tania Chambers. Kill Me Three Times is currently in post-production and will be released in 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I, Frankenstein’ Score Album Details
Posted: November 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: I Frankenstein, Johnny Klimek, Lisa Gerrard, Reinhold Heil, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release the official score album for the action thriller I, Frankenstein. The album features the film’s original music written by Golden Globe-nominated composers Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil (Cloud Atlas, One Hour Photo, The International). Lisa Gerrard (Gladiator) has also contributed additional music for the movie. The soundtrack will be released on January 21, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are available below. I, Frankenstein is written and directed by Stuart Beattie and stars Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Jai Courtney, Socratis Otto, Mahesh Jadu, Caitlin Stasey and Aden Young. The movie is based on the graphic novel of the same title by Kevin Grevioux and centers on Frankenstein’s monster Adam, who has survived to present day due to a genetic quirk in his creation and is being pursued by demons wanting to gain the secret of his reanimated corpse. The thriller will be released nationwide on January 24, 2013 by Lionsgate. Read the rest of this entry »
Steven Price to Score David Ayer’s ‘Fury’
Posted: November 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Ayer, Fury, Steven Price
Steven Price has been tapped to score David Ayer’s upcoming currently untitled WWII dramatic thriller, previously known as Fury. The film is written and directed by Ayer (screenwriter of Training Day) and stars Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Michael Peña, Jason Isaacs and Scott Eastwood. The movie follows the commander of a Sherman tank and its five-man crew on a mission behind enemy lines in April 1945 as Nazi Germany collapses. Ayer is also producing the QED International and Le Grisbi production with Bill Block (W., Alex Cross), John Lesher (End of Watch, Blood Ties) and Ethan Smith. Price is best known for his score for this year’s box office hit and awards contender Gravity directed by Alfonso Cuaron. His other film scoring credits include Edgar Wright’s The World’s End and Attack the Block. Read the rest of this entry »
Jose Gonzalez’s ‘Stay Alive’ from ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’
Posted: November 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Stiller, Craig Wedren, Jose Gonzalez, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Theodore Shapiro
The original song Stay Alive performed by Jose Gonzalez from Ben Stiller’s fantasy comedy drama The Secret Life of Walter Mitty will be released as a single. The song is composed by the movie’s composer Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder, Marley & Me) and Craig Wedren (Wet Hot American Summer, The School of Rock). They have also penned the original song Step Out, which is already available to download. The Stay Alive single will be released on December 3 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to an audio clips. As previously reported, Universal Republic will release a soundtrack album for the film featuring both songs, as well as more music from the movie on December 17. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty starring Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn and Sean Penn will be released nationwide on December 25, 2013 by 20th Century Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
Roque Banos to Score Ron Howard’s ‘In the Heart of the Sea’
Posted: November 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: In the Heart of the Sea, Oldboy, Ron Howard, Roque Banos
Roque Banos has been hired to score the upcoming action drama In the Heart of the Sea. The film is directed by Ron Howard and stars Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Keeley, Ben Whishaw, Charlotte Riley and Tom Holland. The movie is based on a novel by Nathaniel Philbrick and follows a whaling ship that is preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home. Charles Leavitt (Blood Diamond, K-Pax) has adapted the material for the screen. Howard’s producing partner Brian Grazer, Joe Roth (Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Huntsman), Paula Weinstein (The Perfect Storm, Blood Diamond) and William Ward are producing the Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow production. Howard has previously collaborated with such composers as James Horner (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Cocoon), John Williams (Far and Away), Thomas Newman (Cinderella Man) and Randy Newman (Parenthood). Read the rest of this entry »
