Quartet Records has announced a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Patrick. The album features the film’s original score composed by Pino Donaggio (Dressed to Kill, Carrie, Blow Out) and performed by the City of Prague Philarmonic Orchestra. The soundtrack is set to be released in January of 2014. Patrick is directed by Mark Hartley and stars Charles Dance, Sharni Vinson, Jackson Gallagher and Rachel Griffiths. The film is a re-imagining of the 1970’s Australian feature of the same title about a comatose hospital patient who harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own. The premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival this past summer and was just released in Australia. Phase 4 and Uncork’d Entertainment have recently picked up domestic distribution rights and are planning a release on VOD and in theaters in early 2014. Read the rest of this entry »
Pino Donaggio’s ‘Patrick’ Score to Be Released
Posted: October 23, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Patrick, Pino Donaggio, score, Soundtrack
‘The Last Days on Mars’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: October 23, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Max Richter, score, Soundtrack, The Last Days on Mars
Metropolis Movie Music will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller The Last Days on Mars. The album features the film’s original music composed by Max Richter (Disconnect, Waltz With Bashir). The soundtrack will be released overseas on October 28, 2013. Check back on this page for the U.S. release date info and audio clips. The Last Days on Mars is directed by Ruairi Robinson and stars Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai, Elias Koteas, Olivia Williams, Johnny Harris, Goran Kostic and Tom Cullen. The movie follows a group of astronauts on an exploratory mission to Mars who discover colonies of bacteria living deep within the permafrost. The thriller premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and was picked up for domestic distribution by Magnolia Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Andrew Feltenstein & John Nau Scoring ‘A Many Splintered Thing’
Posted: October 23, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Many Splintered Thing, Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau
Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau have been tapped to score the upcoming indie romantic comedy A Many Splintered Thing. The film is directed by Justin Reardon and stars Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan, Anthony Mackie, Aubrey Plaza, Giovanni Ribisi, Topher Grace, Luke Wilson, Ashley Tisdale and Philip Baker Hall. The movie follows a young man disillusioned by love who meets an engaged woman and feigns a platonic relationship in order to keep seeing her as he tries to conquer her heart. Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair have written the Black List screenplay. McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation) and Mary Viola are producing the project with Voltage Pictures’ Nicolas Chartier (The Hurt Locker, The Company You Keep) & Craig Flores (Charlie Countryman). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Attila Marcel’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Attila Marcel, Franck Monbaylet, score, Soundtrack, Sylvain Chomet
The details of the soundtrack album for the French comedy Attila Marcel have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by director Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belville) and Franck Monbaylet. Chomet previously wrote the music for his Academy Award-nominated feature The Illusionist. The soundtrack will be released in France on November 4, 2013 (click here for audio clips). No word yet on a domestic release date. Attila Marcel is written and directed by Chomet and stars Guillaume Gouix, Anne Le Ny, Bernadette Lafont and Hélène Vincent. The film marks the director’s first live action feature and follows a mute, sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash marvellous musical fantasies. The movie premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and will be released in France on October 30. Read the rest of this entry »
Elliot Goldenthal’s Expanded ‘Pet Sematary’ Score Released
Posted: October 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Elliot Goldenthal, Pet Sematary, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records will release a new soundtrack album for the 1989 horror thriller Pet Sematary directed by Mary Lambert, based on Stephen King’s best-selling novel and starring Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Fred Gwynne. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the movie composed by Elliot Goldenthal (Frida, Interview with a Vampire, Alien 3). The soundtrack features over 30 minutes of previously unreleased music from the Paramount Pictures production and also includes alternate tracks and source cues. To listen to audio clips and to order the CD, which is limited to 2000 copies, visit the label’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Tyler to Score ‘Fast & Furious 7’
Posted: October 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian Tyler, Fast & Furious 7, James Wan
Brian Tyler has officially signed on to score the upcoming action sequel Fast & Furious 7. The film is directed by James Wan (The Conjuring, Insidious, Saw) and stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster and Lucas Black who all reprise their roles from the previous films in the series. They are joined by new cast members including Kurt Russell, Ronda Rousey, Djimon Hounsou and Jason Statham. No plot details have been revealed yet, but the movie is set to take place in Los Angeles for the first time since the 2000 original film. Chris Morgan (Wanted) who penned the last four installments for the franchise is writing the screenplay and Neal Moritz (21 Jump Street, I Am Legend) returns as the producer of the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christophe Beck, Disney, Frozen, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for the animated feature Frozen. The album features the film’s original songs performed by the voice cast of the movie and written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, as well as a version of the song Let It Go performed by Demi Lovota (click here to check out the song, which premiered online earlier today). Also included is the film’s original score composed by Christophe Beck (Paperman, The Muppets, The Hangover). A deluxe edition of the soundtrack also features demos of both songs and score, outtakes and instrumental karaoke versions. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on November 25, 2013. The physical version will be released as a 2 CD-set and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Frozen is directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck and features the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk and Ciarán Hinds. Read the rest of this entry »
Ennio Morricone to Conduct Concerts in L.A. and New York
Posted: October 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone will be conducting two live concerts of his film music in New York and Los Angeles. The L.A. concert will take place on March 20, 2014 at the NOKIA Center at LA Live and will mark the Academy Award-winning composer’s first concert in the city. The New York performance is scheduled for March 23, 2014 at the Barclays Center’s Cushman and Wakefield Theatre in Brooklyn. Morricone’s last performance in the U.S. dates back to 2007, when he conducted a concert of his work at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. He was also set to perform at an event at the Hollywood Bowl in 2009, but the concert was eventually canceled. According to the LA Times, the event will feature 200 musicians and singers and the composer whose credits include such classic titles as A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables, The Mission and Cinema Paradiso will be bringing the musicians from Europe. Read the rest of this entry »
Dave Grusin’s ‘Heaven Can Wait’ and ‘Racing With the Moon’ Scores to Be Released
Posted: October 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dave Grusin, Heaven Can Wait, Racing With the Moon, score, Soundtrack
Kritzerland has announced the world premiere release of the score for the 1978 hit comedy Heaven Can Wait directed by Warren Beatty & Buck Henry and starring Beatty alongside Julie Christie, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Jack Warden, Joseph Maher and James Mason. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Dave Grusin, including unused and alternate cues as bonus tracks. The composer received an Academy Award for his score for the Paramount Pictures production, which was also nominated in eight other categories, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The soundtrack also features the world premiere release of Grusin’s music for the 1984 drama Racing With the Moon directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern and Nicholas Cage. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Elfman Scoring ‘American Hustle’, ‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’ and Tim Burton’s ‘Big Eyes’
Posted: October 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: American Hustle, Big Eyes, Danny Elfman, David O. Russell, Dreamworks Animation, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Tim Burton
Danny Elfman recently confirmed his involvement in three upcoming movies in a recent interview with Big Issue. The composer has recently finished his score for David O. Russell’s crime drama American Hustle. The film stars Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Jennifer Lawrence. The movie 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. Russell (The Fighter, Three Kings) has co-written the screenplay with Eric Warren Singer (The International). Megan Ellison (Zero Dark Thirty, The Master), Charles Roven (The Dark Knight trilogy, Twelve Monkeys) and Richard Suckle (The International) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
