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Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 18, 2014)

Posted: April 18, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
Tags: 13 Sins, A Haunted House 2, Authors Anonymous, Bears, Bill Maxwell, Fading Gigolo, George Fenton, Heaven Is for Real, Jeff Cardoni, Jesse Voccia, Make Your Move, Michael Wandmacher, Mychael Danna, Nick Glennie-Smith, Proxy, Rob Simonsen, Sean Callery, Small Time, The Final Member, The Newton Brothers, Transcendence

Four new movies are opening nationwide this week:

Opening in most theaters is the sci-fi thriller Transcendence directed by Wally Pfister and starring Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Clifton Collins, Jr. and Morgan Freeman. Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Little Miss Sunshine, Moneyball) has composed the film’s original music. WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to listen to audio clips. Also visit Trailer Addict for a video interview with Danna talking about his work on the project.

Already in theaters since this past Wednesday is the drama Heaven is for Real directed by Randall Wallace and starring Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Connor Corum, Margo Martindale and Thomas Haden Church. The film’s original music is composed by Nick Glennie-Smith (We Were Soldiers, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Rock). Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack featuring the composer’s score. Click here for the full details. A separate soundtrack album featuring songs inspired by the film is available on Reprise Records (click here for more information). Read the rest of this entry »

‘The Machine’ Soundtrack Announced

Posted: April 18, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: score, Soundtrack, The Machine, Tom Raybould

MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller The Machine. The album features the film’s original music composed by Tom Raybould. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 22, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Machine is written and directed by Caradog W James and stars Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson, Sam Hazeldine, Pooneh Hajimohammadi and John Paul Macleod. The movie follows two computer programmers who fall in love as they create the first-ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence, designed to help humanity. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Belle’ Soundtrack Announced

Posted: April 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Belle, Rachel Portman, score, Soundtrack

Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the period drama Belle. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Rachel Portman (The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Emma). The soundtrack will be released on May 13, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Belle is directed by Amma Asante and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Sarah Gadon, Penelope Wilton, Miranda Richardson, Tom Felton, Sam Reid and Matthew Goode. The movie inspired by the true story of Dido Elizebeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral, premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and will be released in the U.S. on May 2, 2014 by Fox Searchlight. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Walk of Shame’ Soundtrack Details

Posted: April 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Soundtrack, Walk of Shame

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the comedy Walk of Shame. The album features the songs from the film by such artists as Dave Audé (featuring AKON & Luciana), Marcus Latief Scott (featuring John Costello), Brenna Bishop, Lux Lovelle, Eli “Paperboy” Reed and Scott Spock & Corky James. The soundtrack will be released on April 29, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. As previously reported, the label will also release a separate soundtrack featuring the film’s original score composed by John Debney. Walk of Shame is directed by Steven Brill and stars Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden and Gillian Jacobs. The movie follows a resourceful reporter whose one-night stand with a stranger leaves her stranded the next morning in downtown Los Angeles without a phone, car, ID, or money. Read the rest of this entry »

Antonio Pinto Scoring Stephen Daldry’s ‘Trash’

Posted: April 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
Tags: Antonio Pinto, Stephen Daldry, Trash

Antonio Pinto is scoring the upcoming dramatic thriller Trash. The film is directed by Stephen Daldry and stars Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen, Wagner Moura, Selton Mello, Rickson Tevez, Eduardo Luis and Gabriel Weinstein. The movie is set in the Third World and tells the story of three poverty-stricken boys who discover a wallet with a treasure map inside in a city dump. Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill) has written the screenplay based on Andy Mulligan’s 2010 novel. Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner (Atonement, Rush, Les Miserables) are producing the project for Working Title, alongside Kris Thykier (Kick-Ass, The Debt) for PeaPie Films. Read the rest of this entry »

‘The Final Member’ Soundtrack Details

Posted: April 17, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Rob Simonsen, score, Soundtrack, The Final Member

MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the documentary The Final Member. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rob Simonsen (The Spectacular Now, The Way Way Back). The soundtrack will be released on April 22, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. The Final Member is directed by Jonah Bekhor & Zach Math and follows Sigurour “Siggi” Hjartarson, who founded the Icelandic Phallological Museum, the world’s only museum dedicated to preserved male genitalia. The documentary will open in select theaters on April 18 by Drafthouse Films and will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 17. Read the rest of this entry »

Hans Zimmer Composes Hymn for EDM Festival Tomorrowland

Posted: April 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
Tags: Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer has composed the first official hymn for the 10th anniversary of the electronic dance musicmfestival Tomorrowland, which is held every year in the Belgian town of Boom, outside of Brussels. The composer collaborated with Junkie XL (Divergent, 300: Rise of an Empire) and Lorne Balfe (Megamind) on the piece, which was recorded at Air Studios in London. Check out a video featuring an interview with Zimmer about the hymn and footage from the recording sessions after the jump. The 2014 edition of Tomorrowland will take place July 18-20 and July 25-27 and the second version of the stateside edition, TomorrowWorld, will be held on September 26-28 in the Chattahoochee Hills outside of Atlanta. Read the rest of this entry »

Back Lot Music to Release ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ Soundtrack

Posted: April 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: A Million Ways to Die in the West, Joel McNeely, score, Seth MacFarlane, Soundtrack

Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for Seth MacFarlane’s western comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West. The album features the film’s original score composed by Joel McNeely (Holes, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Soldier). The composer recently recorded his orchestral music in Los Angeles and collaborated with the bluegrass band Punch Brothers on a number of cues. The soundtrack will be released on May 27, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the full album details. A Million Ways to Die in the West is co-written, produced and directed by MacFarlane who also stars in the film alongside Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Silverman and Liam Neeson. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Danna to Score Tim Blake Nelson’s ‘Anesthesia’

Posted: April 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
Tags: Anesthesia, Jeff Danna, Tim Blake Nelson

Jeff Danna is reteaming with Tim Blake Nelson on the upcoming indie drama Anesthesia. The film is written and directed by Nelson and stars Glenn Close, Sam Waterston, Gretchen Mol, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Katie Chang, Michael K. Williams, Gloria Reuben, Jessica Hecht, Mickey Sumner and K. Todd Freeman. The movie follows a group of New Yorkers whose lives intersect after the violent mugging of a popular Columbia University philosophy professor. Nelson is also producing the project with Julie Buck, Josh Hetzler and Christopher Scott. Danna has previously collaborated with the actor-turned-director on the 2009 comedy drama Leaves of Grass starring Edward Norton and on the 2001 drama O starring Julia Stiles & Josh Hartnett. Read the rest of this entry »

Soundtrack Details for Disneynature’s ‘Bears’

Posted: April 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Bears, Disneynature, George Fenton, score, Soundtrack

Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Bears. The album features the film’s original music written by Academy Award-nominated composer George Fenton (Anna and the King, Gandhi, Groundhog Day). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 29, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Bears is directed by Keith Scholey & Alastair Fothergill and showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two impressionable young cubs are taught life’s most important lessons. The Disneynature production is narrated by John C. Reilly. The documentary is will be released nationwide on April 18 by Walt Disney Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »