The details of the soundtrack album for Richard Linklater’s romantic drama Before Midnight have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Graham Reynolds (Bernie, A Scanner Darkly), as well as the end credits song Gia Ena Tango by Charis Alexiou. The soundtrack will be released on May 21, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Before Midnight stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy who reprise their roles as star-crossed lovers Jesse and Celine from the director’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. The movie is set almost two decades since their couple’s first encounter on a train bound for Vienna and finds them in their early forties in Greece. The romance premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for a theatrical release on May 24, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Before Midnight’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 25, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Before Midnight, Graham Reynolds, Richard Linklater, score, Soundtrack
‘Sun Don’t Shine’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 24, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Lovett, score, Soundtrack, Sun Don't Shine
Lovers Label will release a soundtrack album for Sun Don’t Shine. The album features the film’s original score composed by Ben Lovett (Black Rock). The soundtrack will be released this Friday, April 26, 2013 on iTunes and other digital music stores (check back on this page for the direct links). Check out a video about the composer’s work on the project are embedded after the jump and click here to listen to the album. Sun Don’t Shine marks the directing and writing debut of Amy Seimetz and stars Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, A.J. Bowen and Kit Gwin. The movie follows a young woman with a disturbing past and her boyfriend on a suspenseful road trip along the Gulf Coast of central Florida. The film premiered at last year’s SXSW Film Festival and has been picked up by Factory 25 for domestic distribution. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pain & Gain’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 24, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, score, Soundtrack, Steve Jablonsky
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack release for Michael Bay’s action comedy Pain & Gain. The album features the film’s original score composed by Steve Jablonsky who has previously collaborated with the director on numerous projects, including the Transformers trilogy and The Island. The soundtrack is now available digitally on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. A CD version is set to be released on May 21, 2013 and is now available for pre-order here. Pain & Gain starring Dwayne Johnson, Mark Wahlberg, Ed Harris, Rob Corddry, Anthony Mackie, Bar Paly, Tony Shalhoub, Rebel Wilson and Ken Jeong tells the true story of three personal trainers in 1990s Miami who, in pursuit of the American Dream, get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong. The movie will be released this Friday, April 26 by Paramount Pictures. To Read the rest of this entry »
Timothy Michael Wynn Scoring ‘The Starving Games’
Posted: April 24, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg, The Starving Games, Timothy Michael Wynn
Timothy Michael Wynn is scoring the upcoming comedy The Starving Games. The comedic take on The Hunger Games is directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer and stars Maiara Walsh as the parody version of Katniss Everdeen and Brant Daugherty as the spoof version of Gale. Cody Christian, Juhahn Jones and Taylor Ashley Murphy are co-starring. The film also pokes fun at other films, including The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes and the Harry Potter finale. Peter Safran (Buried, The Conjuring) is producing the project through his production company. Friedberg’s and Seltzer’s last couple of spoof movies, including Vampires Suck, Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie featured music by Christopher Lennertz. Read the rest of this entry »
More from ‘Pitch Perfect’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 24, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: More from Pitch Perfect, Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack
Universal Music Group has released a second soundtrack album for last year’s hit comedy Pitch Perfect. The album features more songs from the movie, including a new version of Cups performed by the film’s star Anna Kenrick, Nicki Minaj’s CleanStarships, Andy Grammer’s Keep Your Head Up and Yeasayer’s Rome. The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes. A CD version is set to be released on May 14, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. For the details of the original soundtrack album, check out our previous article. Pitch Perfect directed by Jason Moore and starring Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Alexis Knapp, Adam DeVine, Freddie Stroma, Hana Mae Lee, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Skylar Astin is now available on Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Gabriel Mann Scoring ABC Family’s ‘Twisted’
Posted: April 23, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC Family, Gabriel Mann, Twisted
Gabriel Mann has been tapped to score the upcoming ABC Family mystery drama Twisted. The show is created by Adam Milch and stars Avan Jogia, Maddie Hasson, Kylie Bunbury, Kimberly Quinn, Sam Robards, Ashton Moio and Denise Richards. The series follows a charismatic 16-year-old with a troubled past, who recently reconnected with his two female best friends from childhood and becomes the prime suspect when a fellow student is found dead in her home. Jon Amiel (Entrapment, Sommersby, The Core) has directed the pilot episode. Gavin Polone (Zombieland, Gilmore Girls) and David Babcock are executive producing the project with Milch. Mann has previously scored the Polone-produced ABC Family series Jane by Design. Read the rest of this entry »
Rolfe Kent Scoring Jason Bateman’s ‘Bad Words’
Posted: April 23, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bad Words, Jason Bateman, Rolfe Kent
Rolfe Kent is the composer of the upcoming dark indie comedy Bad Words. The film marks the feature directorial debut of actor Jason Bateman who also stars in the film, alongside Allison Janney, Phillip Baker Hall, Ben Falcone and Rohan Chandz. The movie follows a bitter 41-year-old high school drop out who uses a loophole in the system to enter a national kids’ spelling bee. Andrew Dodge wrote the black-listed screenplay and Bateman is also producing the Aggregate Films, MXN Entertainment and Darko Entertainment production with Mason Novick (Juno, 500 Days of Summer), Sean McKittrick (Donnie Darko, The Box), Ted Hamm and Jeff Culotta (God Bless America). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Kon-Tiki’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Johan Söderqvist, Kon-Tiki, score, Soundtrack
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Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the Norwegian epic drama Kon-Tiki. The album features the film’s original score composed by Johan Söderqvist (Let the Right One In) who recorded his score at Abbey Road Studios in London. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 26, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Kon-Tiki is directed by Espen Sandberg & Joachim Rønning and tells the story of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s voyage on a balsa-wood raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947. The movie stars Pål Sverre Hagen, Agnes Kittelsen, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Tobias Santelmann, Donald Baasmo Christiansen, James Oftebro, Gustaf Skarsgård and Søren Pilmark. The movie was one of the five nominated titles in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category at this year’s Academy Awards. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Almost Christmas’ to Feature Music by Graham Reynolds
Posted: April 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Almost Christmas, Before Midnight, Graham Reynolds, Phil Morrison
Graham Reynolds has composed the score for the indie comedy drama Almost Christmas. The film is directed by Phil Morrison and stars Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, Sally Hawkins, Amy Landecker, Peter Hermann and Emory Cohen. The movie follows two French Canadian Christmas tree salesmen who travel to New York to sell trees. Melissa James Gibson (The Americans) has written the screenplay and Daniel Carey & Elizabeth Giamatti (Cold Souls), John Penotti (Awake, Uptown Girls) and Jim Tauber (Stand Up Guys) are producing the Touchy Feely Films and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment production. Read the rest of this entry »
a-ha’s Magne Furuholmen to Score ‘Beatles’ Movie
Posted: April 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beatles, Jørgen Storm Rosenberg, Magne Furuholmen
Magne Furuholmen, best known as a member of the international pop group a-ha, has signed on to compose the original score, as well as supervise the recordings of other music for the upcoming film Beatles. The movie is based on the bestselling novel by Lars Saabye Christensen and tells the story about four Norwegian youngsters growing up in the 60s and 70s, modeling themselves on their musical heroes: The Beatles. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg whose last feature Kon-Tiki was nominated in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category at this year’s Academy Awards are directing the film from a script by Axel Hellstenius (Elling). Jørgen Storm Rosenberg (The Bothersome Man) is producing the project through his production company and has signed a deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing and EMI that several of The Beatles’ original recordings can be used in their entirety in the film. Read the rest of this entry »
