Ramin Djawadi has been tapped to score the upcoming sci-fi action thriller Edge of Tomorrow. The film is directed by Doug Liman and stars Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Kick Gurry, Dragomir Mrsic, Charlotte Riley, Jonas Armstrong and Franz Drameh. The movie based on the novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka is set in the near future when an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault and follows an officer who finds himself reliving his last day over and over after being killed. D.W. Harper, Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth (Fair Game) and Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher, The Usual Suspects) have adapted the material for the screen. Read the rest of this entry »
Ramin Djawadi to Score Doug Liman’s ‘Edge of Tomorrow’
Posted: September 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Doug Liman, Edge of Tomorrow, Ramin Djawadi, The House of Magic
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‘The Family’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Evgueni Galperine, Luc Besson, Sacha Galperine, score, Soundtrack, The Family
EuropaCorp will release a soundtrack album for Luc Besson’s crime comedy The Family. The album features the film’s original music composed by Evgueni Galperine and Sacha Galperine. Also featured are the songs from the film, including New York, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down by LCD Soundsystem, Me and My Baby by Don Cavalli and Doce Doce by Fred Bongusto. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 13, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. The Family starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones and Dianna Agron follows a mafia boss and his family who are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. The comedy will be released nationwide on September 13, 2013 by Relativity Media. Read the rest of this entry »
World Soundtrack Awards 2013 Discovery of the Year Nominations Announced
Posted: September 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Discovery of the Year, World Soundtrack Awards
The World Soundtrack Academy has announced the five nominees for the Discovery of the Year Award 2012, via which the organization rewards up-and-coming talent from the previous year. The winner will be announced at the 13th World Soundtrack Awards & Concert on October 19, 2013 in Ghent and will get the opportunity to perform at the 14th World Soundtrack Awards next year. Check out the five nominees after the jump. To find more about the contenders in the other categories and the awards gala, which also features a celebration of the music by composer Alexandre Desplat, visit our previous article. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Conspiracy’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Darren Baker, score, Soundtrack, The Conspiracy
Screamworks Records will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Conspiracy. The album features the film’s original music composed by Darren Baker. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 17, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. The Conspiracy is written and directed by Christopher MacBride and stars Aaron Poole and Jim Gilbert as two filmmakers who select a crazed conspiracy theorist as the subject of their new movie and get sucked into the world of secret societies and worldwide conspiracies. The film premiered at last year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin and was released in select theaters last month by XLrator Media. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer Interviews at ‘Rush’ World Premiere
Posted: September 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Composer InterviewsTags: Hans Zimmer, Ron Howard, Rush
Hans Zimmer attended last night’s red carpet world premiere of Ron Howard’s racing drama Rush in London. Two interviews with the composer from the event have appeared online. Talking with Red Carpet News TV, Zimmer talked about his work on the film starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl, as well as his possible involvement in the upcoming Superman/Batman film directed by Zack Snyder, which set for a release in 2015. The composer also briefly mentions that he is currently working on Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Also check out an interview with HeyUGuys, during which Zimmer talks about his sixth collaboration with Ron Howard. Both interviews are embedded after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
The de Luca Brothers Scoring ‘Two Night Stand’
Posted: September 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Delirium, Matthew de Luca, Neil de Luca, The de Luca Brothers, The Living, Two Night Stand
The de Luca Brothers have recently scored the upcoming romantic comedy Two Night Stand. The film is directed by Max Nichols and stars Miles Teller, Analeigh Tipton, Jessica Szohr, Kid Cudi and Leven Rambin. The movie centers on a pair of twentysomething strangers who are trapped together in an apartment after a Manhattan blizzard forces them to extend a regrettable one-night stand. Mark Hammer has written the script, which made the 2011 Black List. Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad) and Beau Flynn (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Journey to the Center of the Earth) are producing the project with Sam Englebardt & William D. Johnson (Byzantium, Zombieland) for Demarest Films. Read the rest of this entry »
Jerry Goldsmith’s Complete ‘Sebastian’ Score Released
Posted: September 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jerry Goldsmith, score, Sebastian, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere release of the complete score for the 1968 spy thriller Sebastian directed by David Greene and starring Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Lilli Palmer, Janet Munro, Ronald Fraser and Sir John Gielgud. The album features the film’s original music written and conducted by Academy Award-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Omen, Patton), including the content of the original 1968 LP release on the Dot label. Also included are almost 20 minutes of unused music for the Paramount Pictures production composed by Tristram Cary. To listen to audio clips and to order the CD, visit the label’s online store. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Single Shot’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 2, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Single Shot, Atli Orvarsson, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media and Kronos Records will release a soundtrack album for the thriller A Single Shot. The album features the film’s original music composed by Atli Orvarsson (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 17, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A CD is set to be released later this year. Check out audio clips after the jump. A Single Shot is directed by David M. Rosenthal and stars Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Jeffery Wright, Jason Isaacs and Kelly Reilly. The movie follows a wild-game poacher who makes a fatal mistake that leaves him with a suitcase full of blood money and hardened killers on his trail. The thriller is now available on VOD and is set to be released in theaters on September 20 by Tribeca Film. Read the rest of this entry »
Gabriel Mann to Score The CW’s ‘Star-Crossed’ and NBC’s ‘Welcome to the Family’
Posted: September 2, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gabriel Mann, NBC, Star-Crossed, The CW, Welcome to the Family
Gabriel Mann has been hired to score the upcoming CW drama Star-Crossed. The show is created by Meredith Averill (The Good Wife, Life on Mars) and stars Aimee Teegarden, Matt Lanter, Grey Damon, Natalie Hall, Malese Jow, Titus Makin, Jr., Chelsea Gilligan and Greg Finley. The series chronicles the epic romance between a human girl and an alien boy when he and eight others of his kind are integrated into a suburban high school. Averill is also executive producing the CBS Television Studios and Warner Bros. Television production with Josh Appelbaum & Andre Nemec (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol), Scott Rosenberg (October Road) Bryan Furst & Sean Furst (Daybreakers), Daniel Gutman and Richard Shehard (The Matador, The Hunting Party, Ringer). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Filth’ Score Album Details
Posted: September 1, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Clint Mansell, Filth, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a score album for the comedic thriller Filth. The album features the film’s original music composed by Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Black Swan). The soundtrack will be released in the UK on September 27, 2013 and in the US on April 22, 2014. Visit Amazon to order the CD and click here to listen to audio clips. As previously reported, Island Records will release a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the film, as well as three tracks by Mansell. Filth based on a novel by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is written and directed by Jon S. Baird (Green Street Hooligans) and stars James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Imogen Poots and Joanne Frogatt. The movie will be released in the UK on October 4, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
