Milan Records will release the first official soundtrack album for Nicolas Winding-Refn’s 2009 Viking action adventure drama Valhalla Rising. The album features the film’s original music composed by Peter Peter and Peter Kyed. Also included are a number of cues by sound designers Giles Lamb and Douglas MacDougall. The soundtrack will be released overseas on October 7, 2013. Check back on this page for the details on the domestic release. Valhalla Rising starring Mads Mikkelsen, Alexander Morton, Stewart Porter, Maarten Stevenson, Matthew Zajac, Gary Lewis and Jamie Sives takes place in 1000 AD and follows a Norse warrior and chained prisoner who is forced to fight to the death for the entertainment of his captors. The British film was released in US theaters in 2010 by IFC Films and is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for Nicolas Winding-Refn’s ‘Valhalla Rising’ Announced
Posted: September 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Nicolas Winding Refn, Peter Kyed, Peter Peter, score, Soundtrack, Valhalla Rising
Bob Thiele and Paul Koch Scoring ABC’s ‘Lucky 7’
Posted: September 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Bob Thiele, Lucky 7, Paul Koch
Bob Thiele and Paul Koch are scoring the new ABC drama Lucky 7. The show based on the British hit series The Syndicate is adapted by David Zabel (ER) and Jason Richman (Detroit 1-8-7) and follows a group of seven gas station employees in Queens, New York whose lives will be transformed by an unexpected lottery win. The series stars Summer Bishil, Lorraine Bruce, Alex Castillo, Christine Evangelista, Stephen Louis Grush, Matt Long, Anastasia Phillips, Luis Antonio Ramos and Isiah Whitlock Jr. Zabel and Richman are also executive producing the Amblin Television and ABC Studios production with Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank & Justin Falvey (The Americans, Under the Dome, Falling Skies), Kay Mellor. Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin, Wicker Park) has directed the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Generation Iron’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Generation Iron, Jeff Rona, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records has announced a soundtrack album for the documentary Generation Iron. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jeff Rona (White Squall, Chicago Hope, Phantom). Also featured is the opening and closing title song Never Gonna Stop by Mind the Gap and Solardrive & TC’s Some Say. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 24, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Generation Iron is directed by Vlad Yudin and examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today through portraying lives of the top 7 bodybuilders (including Phil Heath, Kai Greene, Branch Warren and Dennis Wolf) in the sport as they train to compete in the world’s most premiere bodybuilding stage—Mr. Olympia. Mickey Rourke is narrating the film and Arnold Schwarzenegger also appears in the documentary, which is set to be released in select cities this Friday, September 20 by The Vladar Company. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Brook to Score ‘Cry/Fly’
Posted: September 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Claudia Llosa, Cry/Fly, Michael Brook
Michael Brook has been tapped to score the upcoming indie drama Cry/Fly. The film marks the English language debut of director Claudia Llosa (The Milk of Sorrow) and stars Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy and Melanie Laurent. The movie is set in Minnesota and northern Canada over two time periods and follows a mother who gets separated from her sick daughter and falcon-keeper son. Two decades later, the son is persuaded by a journalist to embark on a search for his now-famous mother. Llosa has also written the screenplay and Mark Johnson (Rain Man, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Notebook) is producing the America/Spanish co-production with Jose Maria Morales (XXY) and Ibon Cormenzana (Blancanieves, Blackthorn). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Parkland’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Newton Howard, Parkland, score, Soundtrack
Rhino Records will release the official soundtrack album for the historical drama Parkland. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, King Kong, The Sixth Sense). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 30, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. Parkland is written and directed by Peter Landesman and stars James Badge Dale, Zac Efron, Jackie Earle Haley, Colin Hanks, Marcia Gay Harden, Ron Livingston, Jeremy Strong, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver and Paul Giamatti. The movie chronicles the events leading up to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and is named for the Parkland Memorial Hospital where JFK was rushed on Nov. 22, 1963. The film recently premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festival and is set to be released in select cities on October 4, 2013 by Exclusive Media. Read the rest of this entry »
Milan Records to Release Soundtrack for Alexander Payne’s ‘Nebraska’
Posted: September 18, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexander Payne, Mark Orton, Nebraska, score, Soundtrack, Tin Hat
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for Alexander Payne’s upcoming comedy drama Nebraska. The album features the film’s original music composed by Mark Orton (The Good Girl) of the Californian acoustic chamber music group Tin Hat. The soundtrack is currently set to be released on November 19, 2013. Check back on this page for the full album details. Also check out the film’s first trailer, which features the track New West from Tin Hat’s Foreign Legion record, after the jump. Nebraska is directed by Alexander Payne (The Descendants) and stars Bruce Dern, Will Forte, Stacy Keach, June Squibb and Bob Odenkirk. The movie tells the story of an old man with increasing dementia who goes on a road trip from Montana to Nebraska with one of his sons to collect a sweepstakes prize he thinks he has won. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Plush’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: September 18, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Catherine Hardwicke, Emily Browning, Plush, Soundtrack, Thomas Dekker, Xavier Samuel
Varese Sarabande has released a soundtrack EP for the indie drama Plush. The soundtrack features the original songs from the film performed by actors Emily Browning, Xavier Samuel and Thomas Dekker and is now available to download on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Plush is directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Lords of Dogtown, Thirteen), produced by Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) and stars Emily Browning, Cam Gigandet, Frances Fisher, Xavier Samuel, Brandon Jay McLaren and Dawn Ollvieri. The movie follows a rising rock star who finds herself in a spiral after losing her band mate and brother to a drug overdose. Read the rest of this entry »
BT Scoring John Herzfeld’s ‘Reach Me’
Posted: September 18, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Betrayal, BT, John Herzfeld, Patty Jenkins, Reach Me
BT has signed on to score the upcoming comedy drama Reach Me. The film is directed by John Herzfeld (2 Days in the Valley, 15 Minutes) and stars Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Berenger, Kevin Connolly, Thomas Jane, Kelsey Grammer, Nelly, Danny Aiello, Terry Crews, David O’Hara, Omari Hardwick, Lauren Cohan, Elizabeth Henstridge, Cary Elwes and Ryan Kwanten. The movie follows a group of characters whose lives intertwine and eventually collide as a result of a self-published motivational book and its anonymous author. Rebekah Chaney is producing the Seraphim Films and Paradox Entertainment production with Cassian Elwes (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, The Paperboy). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Runner Runner’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 17, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brad Furman, Christophe Beck, Runner Runner, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Runner Runner. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christophe Beck (The Hangover, The Muppets, The Sentinel). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 1, 2013 and physically on October 29. Check out audio clips from the score after the jump. Runner Runner is directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) and stars Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton, Ben Affleck, Anthony Mackie, Michael Esper, Oliver Cooper and Ben Schwartz. The movie follows a young man who is cheated out of his tuition money playing online poker and flies to Costa Rica in the hope of reclaiming his losses from the site’s billionaire owner and ends up becoming the corrupt CEO’s right-hand man. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Blue Jasmine’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 17, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Blue Jasmine, Soundtrack, Woody Allen
Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album for Woody Allen’s comedy drama Blue Jasmine. The album features the songs and jazz pieces from the film by artists including Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Jimmie Noone, Conal Fowkes, Julias Block, Stephen Dudas, Trixie Smith and David Chesky. The soundtrack is now available digitally on iTunes, where you can also check out audio clips. Blue Jasmine written and directed by Allen stars Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Louis C.K., Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg. The film about a New York socialite who moves into her sister’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again after her marriage to a wealthy businessman falls apart was released this summer by Sony Pictures Classics and is currently playing in theaters. Read the rest of this entry »
