Summit Entertainment, Chop Shop Records and Atlantic Records have announced the track list of the soundtrack album for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. The album features the songs from and inspired by the film by artists including Passion Pit, Ellie Goulding, Green Day, Feist, The Boom Circuits, St. Vincent, Iko, A Boy and His Kite and Christina Perri. Also included is one track from the film’s original score by Carter Burwell. The soundtrack will be released on November 13, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this site for the full details of a separate score album, which will also be released in November. Read the rest of this entry »

Deadline is reporting that multiple Academy Award-nominated songwriter Diane Warren is teaming up with executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (SmashHairspray, The Bucket List) to develop an hour-long musical dramedy show for NBC. Krista Vernoff (Grey’s Anatomy) is writing and producing the project. The series will feature the music catalog of Warren, who serves as a consulting producer. The dramedy centers on a 30-something songwriter who has written the most epic love songs of our time, despite, or perhaps due to the fact that she is painfully unlucky in love. Zadan and Meron have been friends with Warren for over a decade and previously worked together with her on the 1999 ABC musical Double Platinum, for which the songwriter composed an original song. Read the rest of this entry »

Terence Blanchard has composed the score for the Lifetime original movie Abducted: The Carlina White Story. The film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall is based on the true story of the kidnapping of Carlina White, who was abducted as an infant by Ann Pettway from a New York hospital and solved her own kidnapping and reunited with her biological parents 23 years later. The movie’s cast includes Aunjanue Ellis (The Help), Keke Palmer, Sherri Shepherd and Roger Cross. Craig Piligian, Mary Martin and Alan Gasmer are executive producing the Pilgrim Studios production. Elizabeth Hunter (Jumping the Broom) has written the script. Read the rest of this entry »

’11-11-11′ Soundtrack Details

Posted: October 4, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Void Recordings will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller 11-11-11. The album features the film’s original score composed by Joseph Bishara (Insidious, Repo: The Genetic Opera). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 16, 2012 and on CD on Vinyl on November 13. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon. Audio clips from all tracks on the album can be checked out after the jump. 11-11-11 is written and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III & IV) and stars Timothy Gibbs, Michael Landes and Wendy Glenn. The film follows a famed American author who travels from the United States to Barcelona, Spain to reunite with his estranged brother and dying father and starts to become plagued with strange happenings, and the constant sightings of the number 11. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Liberal Arts’ Soundtrack Released

Posted: October 3, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Artists’ Addictions Records has released a soundtrack album for the indie comedy drama Liberal Arts. The album features three tracks from the film’s score composed by Ben Toth, as well as Moby’s The Poison Tree, Kaiser Cartel’s Favorite Song and the classical pieces used in the film by composers including Beethoven, Wagner and Vivaldi. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. Liberal Arts is written and directed by Josh Radnor who also stars in the film alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, Allison Janney and Elizabeth Reaser. The movie about an admissions worker at a New York college who visits his liberal arts alma mater where a 19-year old student tries to romance him premiered at Sundance earlier this year and is now playing in limited release and is also available on VOD. Read the rest of this entry »

Composer Johan Söderqvist is reuniting with director Susanne Bier on the upcoming drama Serena. The film is set in 1920s North Carolina and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper as two newlyweds who battle the state government to stop it requisitioning their land as part of a national park. Toby Jones, Rhys Ifans and Sean Harris are co-starring. Christopher Kyle (K-19: The Widowmaker, Alexander) has written the screenplay based on a novel by Ron Rash. Nick Wechsler (Magic Mike, The Road), Todd Wagner & Mark Cuban (Deadfall), Ben Cosgrove (The Good German), Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz (Killing Them Softly, The Road) are producing the 2929 Entertainment production. Read the rest of this entry »

MovieScore Media has released two new soundtrack albums for the BBC series Merlin. The albums include music from the third and fourth season of the hit show composed by Rob Lane (The Damned United), Rohan Stevenson, James Gosling and Michael Pawlicek. The soundtrack albums have been released digitally on October 2. Visit iTunes to download both albums for season 3 and season 4. A physical release for both albums is scheduled to come out on October 16. Merlin created by Julian Jones, Jake Michie, Julian Murphy and Johnny Capps is an update of the story of the infamous sorcerer of Arthurian legend. The fifth season of the series of 13 episodes is set to premiere on October 6 in the UK and in the US in January 2013 on Syfy. Read the rest of this entry »

Hans Zimmer has composed a new theme for ABC World News. It was the first time the music has been updated since the year 2000. The program anchored by Diane Sawyer on weekdays and by David Muir on weekends also debuted a new logo, graphics package in addition to the updated music this week. Check out the most recent episode to to listen to Zimmer’s music in the video clip after the jump and on ABC’s website. Read the rest of this entry »

EMI Music will release the official soundtrack album for the drama Chasing Mavericks. The album includes the original song I Need An Energy by Scottish born artist, Greg Holden. Also features are several alternative rock tracks from the 90s by artists including Mazzy Star, The Butthole Surfers, Sponge, Dinosaur Jr., The Lemonheads and Matthew Sweet. Chad Fischer (Garden State, Private Practice) composed the film’s score. The soundtrack album will be released physically on November 20, 2012. To pre-order the album, visit Amazon. Check back on this site for the full album details and the release date of the digital version. Chasing Mavericks is directed by Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted and stars Jonny Weston, Gerard Butler, Taylor Handley, Elisabeth Shue and Abigail Spencer. Read the rest of this entry »

The alternative rock band thenewno2 is writing the music for the upcoming fantasy romance Beautiful Creatures. The film is directed by Richard LaGravenese and stars Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert as two star-crossed lovers who uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town. Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, Thomas Mann and Emma Thompson are co-starring in the film. LaGravenese has also written the screenplay based on the first novel in the best-selling series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Erwin Stoff (Water for Elephants) is producing the Alcon Entertainment production with Andrew A. Kosove & Broderick Johnson (The Blind Side), Molly Mickler Smith (Something Borrowed) and David Valdes (The Green Mile). The movie marks the first feature scoring assignment of thenewno2. The band’s current members include Jonathan Sadoff who has scored several films over the last couple of years, including this year’s comedy drama Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (co-scored with Rob Simonsen). Read the rest of this entry »