The details of the soundtrack album for Bryan Singer’s fantasy adventure Jack the Giant Slayer have been revealed. The album features the film’s music composed by John Ottman (X2, Superman Returns, The Usual Suspects, The Fantastic Four) who is also the film’s editor and associate producer. The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 26, 2013 by WaterTower Music and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. Jack the Giant Slayer starring Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor is set to be released on March 1 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bryan Singer, Jack the Giant Slayer, John Ottman, score, Soundtrack
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iZLER to Score ‘Growing Up and Other Lies’
Posted: February 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Growing Up and Other Lies, iZLER, Philip Klein
iZLER has been tapped to score the upcoming indie drama Growing Up and Other Lies. The film is directed by Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky and stars Adam Brody, Wyatt Cenac, Amber Tamblyn, Josh Lawson, Lauren Miller and Jacobs himself. The movie follows a 30-year-old man who recruits his three oldest friends to help him retrace their greatest adventure: walking the entire, 260-block length of the island of Manhattan in one day. Nicole Lederman, Katie Mustard and Jason Weiss are producing the project. iZLER has previously scored Jacobs’ and 2008 feature Humboldt County. Growing Up and Other Lies was shot on location in New York City this past fall and is expected to premiere later this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 8, 2013)
Posted: February 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bruce Richardson, Christopher Lennertz, Identity Thief, Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Joseph Conlan, Liam Hayes, Lore, Max Richter, Side Effects, Spiders, The Playroom, Thomas Newman
Two new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the crime comedy Identity Thief directed by Seth Gordon and starring Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Genesis Rodriguez, Morris Chestnut, John Cho, Robert Patrick and Eric Stonestreet. The film’s music is composed by Christopher Lennertz (Horrible Bosses, NBC’s Revolution). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as a cover of James Brown’s The Payback performed by Amanda Brown and a song by Ty Taylor has been released digitally earlier this week on Back Lot Music. A CD version will be released next month by La-La Land Records. To learn more about the soundtrack and to listen to audio clips, check out our previous article.
Also opening wide is the psychological thriller Side Effects directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Thomas Newman has composed his third score for the director following Erin Brockovich and The Good German. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music is now available digitally and will be released in March on CD by Varese Sarabande. For the full album details, check out our soundtrack announcement. Read the rest of this entry »
WaterTower Music to Release John Ottman’s ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ Score
Posted: February 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bryan Singer, Jack the Giant Slayer, John Ottman, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music will release the official soundtrack album for Bryan Singer’s upcoming fantasy adventure Jack the Giant Slayer. The album features the film’s original score composed by John Ottman who has previously worked with the director on such films as The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie and the second X-Men movie. In addition to writing the orchestral score, Ottman also is also the film’s editor and associate producer. The soundtrack is expected to be released on February 26, 2013. The full album details will be posted on this site within the next couple of weeks. Jack the Giant Slayer starring Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Simonsen Scoring ‘Chu and Blossom’
Posted: February 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chu and Blossom, Rob Simonsen
Rob Simonsen revealed in a recent interview with Sound on Sight that he is currently scoring the indie coming of age comedy Chu and Blossom. The film is directed by Gavin Kelly and Charles Chu and stars Chu himself, as well as Ryan O’Nan, Melanie Lynskey, Alan Cumming, Mercedes Ruehl, Caitlin Stasey, Annie Potts, Chris Marquette, Dan Bakkedahl and Richard Kind. The movie centers on a pensive Korean exchange student and a performance artist who are trapped together in a small town. Chu has also written the screenplay with O’Nan who is also producing the project with Jason Michael Berman, Caroline Connor, Thomas B. Fore. Simonsen has previously scored the drama Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best directed by O’Nan and produced by Berman, Connor and Fore. Read the rest of this entry »
William Ross to Conduct Orchestra at 85th Academy Awards
Posted: February 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, William Ross
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced today that William Ross will conduct the Oscar orchestra for the 85th Academy Awards later this month. The composer and arranger has previously conducted for the 79th and 83rd Academy Awards in 2007 and 2011. Ross has composed the music for such films as The Tale of Despereaux, Ladder 49, Tuck Everlasting and My Dog Skip. He also arranged music for artists including Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli and Michael Buble. Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2012 hosted by Seth MacFarlane will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. Check our our previous article for the nominees in the music categories.
‘Side Effects’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: score, Side Effects, Soundtrack, Steven Soderbergh, Thomas Newman
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for Steven Soderbergh’s psychological thriller Side Effects. The album features the film’s score composed by Thomas Newman who previously collaborated with the director on Erin Brockovich and The Good German. Newman’s music for the movie has been singled out by numerous major film critics including Roger Ebert over the past few weeks. The soundtrack is now available digitally and the CD version is scheduled to be released on March 5, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. Side Effects starring Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones follows a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug intended to treat anxiety has unexpected side effects. Read the rest of this entry »
David Hirschfelder Scoring ‘The Railway Man’
Posted: February 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Hirschfelder, Jonathan Teplitzy, The Railway Man
David Hirschfelder is composing the score for the upcoming drama The Railway Man. The movie is directed by Jonathan Teplitzy (Burning Man) and stars Colin Firth as Eric Lomax, a British officer who was captured and tortured by the Japanese in World War II and is persuaded by his wife to seek out and confront one of his captors a few decades later. Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgard and Hiroyuki Sanada are co-starring. Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions, Hilary & Jackie) and Andy Paterson (producer of Girl with a Pearl Earring) have written the screenplay based on Lomax’s autobiography. Paterson is also producing the Australian and British co-production with Chris Brown (The Proposition, Daybreakers) and Bill Curbishley. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Song for Marion’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Laura Rossi, score, Song for Marion, Soundtrack, Unfinished Song
Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the comedy drama Song for Marion. The album features the songs featured in the film performed by the movie’s cast. Also included are selections from the original score composed by Laura Rossi. The soundtrack will be released in the UK on February 25, 2013. No word yet on a domestic release. Song for Marion written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams and starring Terence Stamp, Gemma Arterton, Vanessa Redgrave and Christopher Eccleston follows a grumpy pensioner who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion to join a highly unconventional local choir. The movie premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and will be released in the UK later this month and is set to come out in the US under the title Unfinished Song on June 21, 2013 by the Weinstein Company. Read the rest of this entry »
Mariah Carey Performs ‘Almost Home’ for ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’
Posted: February 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Mariah Carey, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Sam Raimi
Disney announced today that Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Mariah Carey has recorded the original song Almost Home for Sam Raimi’s upcoming fantasy adventure Oz the Great and Powerful. The track will be released as a single by Carey’s label, Island Def Jam, on February 19, 2013. David LaChapelle will direct Carey in the music video for Almost Home. Carey has written the song with Simone Porter, Justin Gray, Lindsey Ray, Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel Eriksen. She has previously performed original songs for such films as The Prince of Egypt and Glitter. As previously reported, Danny Elfman has composed the score for Oz the Great and Powerful, which will be released by Intrada and Walt Disney Records next month. Read the rest of this entry »
