J-2 Music will release a new soundtrack album for the NBC drama Parenthood. The album includes songs featured in the show by artists including Delta Rae, Lyle Lovett, CeeLo Green, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Glen Hansard, A Fine Frenzy, Emile Millar and more. Check out the full track list and audio clips after the jump. The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 8, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Scion Music Group has previously released a soundtrack for the show in 2010 (click here to download the album). Parenthood starring Lauren Graham, Mae Whitman, Miles Heizer, Craig T. Nelson and Bonnie Bedelia returned for its fifth season last week and will air every Thursday night on NBC. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Parenthood’ Volume 2 Soundtrack Announced
Posted: October 1, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: NBC, Parenthood, Soundtrack
Alan Silvestri to Score ‘Run All Night’
Posted: October 1, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Silvestri, Jaume Collet-Serra, Run All Night
Alan Silvestri has been tapped to score the upcoming action thriller Run All Night. The film is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and stars Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Ed Harris, Common and Natalie Martinez. The movie follows an aging hitman who is forced to take on his brutal former boss to protect his estranged son and his family. Brad Inglesby (Out of the Furnace) has written the screenplay and Roy Lee (The Strangers, The Lake House, Oldboy) is producing the Vertigo Entertainment and with Brooklyn Weaver. Three of Collet-Serra’s previous features, including Unknown, Orphan and House of Wax, as well as the upcoming Non-Stop were scored by John Ottman. Read the rest of this entry »
John Debney’s ‘Hocus Pocus’ Score Released
Posted: October 1, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hocus Pocus, John Debney, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for Walt Disney Pictures’ 1993 Halloween comedy Hocus Pocus directed by Kenny Ortega and starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. The album features the film’s complete score composed and conducted by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2, Elf). The score also features the Garden Of Magic theme composed by James Horner, which Debney adapted in portions of his own original score. Also included on the soundtrack are a number of alternates, including a never-before-heard alternate end credits piece. To listen to audio clips and to order the CD, visit the label’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
Rolfe Kent to Score ‘Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters’
Posted: September 30, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Waters, Rolfe Kent, Vampire Academy
Rolfe Kent has signed on to score the upcoming fantasy adventure Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters. The film based on the best-selling young adult novel series by Richelle Mead is directed by Mark Waters (The Spiderwick Chronicles) and stars Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry as the lead characters Rose and Lissa. Danila Kozlovski, Olga Kurylenko, Sarah Hyland, Gabriel Byrne and Joely Richardson are co-starring. The movie follows a teen who has a mental and spiritual bond with her vampire best friend and attends a special school for vampires who are attempting to keep some of their humanity while other of their species are becoming more wild. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Carrie’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 30, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Carrie, Soundtrack
Columbia Records will release a soundtrack album for the supernatural horror thriller Carrie. The album features the film’s songs by such artists as Rogue Wave, Vampire Weekend, Passion Pit, The Naked and Famous, The Civil Wars, Matrimony, Lord Huron and Krewella. The soundtrack will be released on October 15, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Carrie is directed by Kimberly Peirce and stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Judy Greer, Portia Doubleday, Alex Russell, Gabriella Wilde and Ansel Elgort. The movie is a reimagining of Stephen King’s classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. Marco Beltrami has composed the film’s original music. No word on a release of the score. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Grace Unplugged’ Score Album Announced
Posted: September 30, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Grace Unplugged, Jeff Lippencott, score, Soundtrack
Ah 2 Music will release a score album for the family drama Grace Unplugged. The soundtrack features the film’s original orchestral score composed and conducted by Jeff Lippencott. The album will be released digitally on October 1, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. As previously reported, Sparrow Records has released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the film. Grace Unplugged is directed by Brad J. Silverman and stars AJ Michalka, James Denton, Kevin Pollak, Jamie Grace, Chris Ellis, Michael Welch, Shawnee Smith, Mary Shaw, Chris Tomlin and Pia Toscano. The drama is set to be released this Friday, October 4, 2013 by Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 29, 2013)
Posted: September 29, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Betrayal, BT, CBS, Danny Lux, David E. Kelley, Erica Weis, Gabriel Mann, George Fenton, HBO, Ironside, James S. Levine, John Swihart, Masters of Sex, Michael Penn, Michael Suby, Mike DiMattia, Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, NBC, Orr Rebhun, Robert Lydecker, Scott Clausen, Sean Saves the World, Showtime, Sleepy Hollow, The Crazy Ones, The CW, The Millers, The Originals, We Are Men, Welcome to the Family
Premiering tonight is the new Showtime original series Masters of Sex created by Michelle Ashford and starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality, William Masters and Virginia Johnson, as well as Caitlin Fitzgerald, Nicholas D’Agosto and Teddy Sears. The show’s original score is composed by Michael Penn (Girls, Boogie Nights, Sunshine Cleaning). John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) has directed the pilot episode. To learn more about the drama, which will air every Sunday night on Showtime, visit our previous news article. Read the rest of this entry »
iZLER to Score Showtime’s ‘Years of Living Dangerously’
Posted: September 29, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: iZLER, Showtime, Years of Living Dangerously
iZLER revealed in a recent interview with Billboard that he will be scoring Showtime’s upcoming environmental documentary series Years of Living Dangerously. The show will explore the effects of climate change in different parts of the world. Film and TV stars including Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Olivia Munn and Ian Somerhalder are participating as first-person narrators on the ground. The series is executive produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with Emmy-winning producers Joel Bach & David Gelber (60 Minutes), and climate expert Daniel Abbasi. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Don Jon’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 28, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Don Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nathan Johnson, score, Soundtrack
Relativity Music Group will release the official soundtrack album for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s indie comedy Don Jon. The album features the film’s original score composed by Nathan Johnson (Looper, Brick, The Brothers Bloom). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 8, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Don Jon is written and directed by Gordon-Levitt who also stars in the film alongside Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza and Brie Larson. The movie follows a porn-addicted, modern day Don Juan who sets out to become a less selfish person after meeting a recently widowed older woman. The comedy premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and was picked up by Relativity Media for U.S. distribution. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Lux Scoring CBS’ ‘The Millers’
Posted: September 28, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: CBS, Danny Lux, Greg Garcia, The Millers
Danny Lux is scoring the new CBS comedy The Millers. The show is created by Greg Garcia and stars Will Arnett, Margo Martindale, Jayma Mays, JB Smoove, Nelson Franklin, Eve Moon and Beau Bridges. The series follows a recently divorced local roving news reporter looking forward to living the singles life until his parents’ marital problems unexpectedly derail his plan. Garcia is also executive producing the CBS Television Studios production. Lux has previously scored the Garcia-created comedy My Name is Earl and is also scoring the writer/producer’s Fox comedy Raising Hope with Matt Mariano. Read the rest of this entry »
