Metropolis Movie Music will release a soundtrack album for Allen Hughes’ crime thriller Broken City. The album features the film’s original score composed by Atticus Ross (The Social Network), Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross who previously worked with the director on The Book of Eli and the TV series Touching Evil. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 15, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips will be added to this article within the next week. Broken City stars Mark Wahlberg as a Brooklyn detective who is hired by a powerful politician, played by Russell Crowe, to identify his wife’s lover, who is subsequently found and killed. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kyle Chandler, Barry Pepper, Natalie Martinez, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Chambers, James Ransone and Griffin Dunne are co-starring. The movie will be released nationwide on January 18, 2013 by 20th Century Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Broken City’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Atticus Ross, Broken City, Claudia Sarne, Leopold Ross, score, Soundtrack
Theodore Shapiro and Ludwig Göransson Scoring ‘We’re the Millers’
Posted: January 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ludwig Göransson, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Theodore Shapiro, We're the Millers
Ludwig Göransson and Theodore Shapiro are co-scoring the upcoming comedy We’re the Millers. The film is directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and stars Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudekis, Emma Roberts, Ed Helms, Will Poulter and Kathryn Hahn. The movie follows a veteran pot dealer who creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico. Tucker Tooley & Vincent Newman (A Man Apart, Felon), Happy Walters and David Heyman (Harry Potter series, I Am Legend) are producing the New Line Cinema production. Shapiro has previously scored the director’s first two features Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for ‘Smash’ Musical ‘Bombshell’ Announced
Posted: January 9, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marc Shaiman, NBC, Scott Wittman, Smash, Soundtrack
Columbia Records will release the soundtrack for Bombshell, the musical within NBC’s hit show Smash. The album features 22 original songs that make up the Broadway-caliber cast recording of the musical. The songs composed by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman on the Bombshell soundtrack span both seasons of Smash. The soundtrack will be released on February 12, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips will be added to this article soon. A previous soundtrack album featuring songs from the first season has been released last spring. Smash starring Katherine McPhee, Megan Hilty, Debra Messing, Tom Levitt, Christian Borle and Anjelica Huston has been nominated for several Emmy Awards (including two nods for the music) and is up for Best Comedy/Musical at this year’s Golden Globe Awards. The first season of the musical show has just been released on DVD earlier this week. The second season of the series will premiere on Tuesday, February 5 on NBC. Read the rest of this entry »
2013 BAFTA Nominations Announced
Posted: January 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA, Nominations
The British Academy of Film and Television has announced the nominations for the 2013 Orange British Academy Film Awards. Here are the nominations in the ‘Original Music’ category:
Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli
Argo – Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi – Mychael Danna
Lincoln – John Williams
Skyfall – Thomas Newman
‘Storage 24’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: January 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christian Henson, score, Soundtrack, Storage 24
MovieScoreMedia’s Screamworks Records has released a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller Storage 24. The album features the film’s original score composed by Christian Henson (The Devil’s Double, Severance, Hysteria). The soundtrack is now available digitally on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. Storage 24 is directed by Johannes Roberts and stars Noel Clarke, Colin O’Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Huges and Laura Haddock. The film follows a group of people who become trapped inside a storage facility with a highly unwelcome guest. Read the rest of this entry »
CAS Nominations Announced
Posted: January 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society
The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 49th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. Since last year, scoring mixers are included in the awards. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Jonathan Allen for the movie musical Les Miserables, Shawn Murphy for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (scored by John Williams) and Simon Rhodes for the James Bond film Skyfall (scored by Thomas Newman). In the Motion Pictures – Animated category, the nominated scoring mixers are Andrew Dudman for Pixar’s Brave (scored by Patrick Doyle), Dennis Sands for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (music by Danny Elfman), Shawn Murphy for Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (score by John Powell), Peter Cobbin for Dreamworks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians (music by Alexandre Desplat) and Alan Meyerson for Disney’s Wreck-It-Ralph (scored by Henry Jackman). Read the rest of this entry »
Jerry Goldsmith’s Complete ‘Congo’ Score Released
Posted: January 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Congo, Cromwell, Frank Cordell, Jerry Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a soundtrack release of the complete score for Frank Marshall’s 1995 adventure movie Congo based on the novel by Michael Crichton and starring Laura Linney and Dylan Walsh. The album features the film’s score composed by Jerry Goldsmith, including around 30 minutes of previously unreleased music. In addition to Goldsmith’s score, the soundtrack also includes the track Villagers Chant written by James Newton Howard & Lebo M. The soundtrack is now available to order on Intrada’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Parker’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Buckley, Parker, score, Soundtrack, Taylor Hackford
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the action thriller Parker. The album features the film’s original score composed by David Buckley (The Town, The Forbidden Kingdom). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 22, 2013 and physically on January 29 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. Parker is directed by Taylor Hackford and stars Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte and Michael Chicklis. The movie is based on the bestselling novels by Donald E. Westlake and follows a professional thief who is double crosses by his team on his latest heist. The thriller will be released on January 25 by FilmDistrict. Read the rest of this entry »
Jacob Groth Scoring ‘Dead Man Down’
Posted: January 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dead Man Down, Jacob Groth, Niels Arden Oplev
Jacob Groth is reteaming with director Niels Arden Oplev on the upcoming crime thriller Dead Man Down. The film stars Colin Farrell as a professional killer and the right-hand man to an underground crime lord in New York City who is seduced and blackmailed by a crime victim seeking retribution. Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard, Dominic Cooper, Armand Assante and Isabelle Huppert are co-starring. J.H. Wyman (Fringe, The Mexican) has written the screenplay and is also producing the Original Film and Frequency Films production with Neal Moritz (I Am Legend, Fast Five, 21 Jump Street). Groth and Oplev have previously worked together numerous times, most notably on the Swedish original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo film, as well as the CBS crime series Unforgettable. Read the rest of this entry »
Cutting Edge Group Acquires Varèse Sarabande Record Label
Posted: January 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Cutting Edge Group, Side Effects, Thomas Newman, Varese Sarabande
The New York Times and Variety are reporting that the Cutting Edge Group and its partner Wood Creek Capital Management have acquired the soundtrack record label Varèse Sarabande. With the purchase of the label, Cutting Edge will extend its portfolio that includes the management of music rights, the representation of composers and upfront investment in the music for films. According to the article, the plan for Varèse Sarabande is to increase its output by half to at least 60 soundtracks a year under the new ownership. It is expected that the label will release most or all of the soundtracks for the films that Cutting Edge will be working on. Among the upcoming projects that Cutting Edge is involved in are Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects, which features a score composed by Thomas Newman, as well as Taylor Hackford’s Parker scored by David Buckley. Both scores will be released on the Varèse label.
