Relativity Music Group will release a soundtrack album for the biographical drama Lovelace. The album includes the songs featured in the film by artists including Gladys Knight & The Pips, Brenton Wood, KC & The Sunshine Band, Elvin Bishop, John Ellison & The Souls Brothers Six and Eddie Kenricks. Also featured is a track from the film’s original score composed by Stephen Trask (In Good Company, Hedwig and the Angry Inch). The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 27, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The album will also be released physically overseas by Sony Music (click here to pre-order the CD). Lovelace is directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman and stars Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody, Chris Noth, Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Juno Temple, James Franco and Debi Mazar. The drama follows adult film star Linda Lovelace through the production of Deep Throat, her abusive relationship with Chuck Traynor and eventual spearheading of the feminist anti-pornography movement. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lovelace’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lovelace, Soundtrack, Stephen Trask
Benjamin Wallfisch to Score BBC’s ‘The Thirteenth Tale’
Posted: August 22, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Benjamin Wallfisch, Desert Dancer, The Thirteenth Tale
Benjamin Wallfisch has been tapped to score the BBC original movie The Thirteenth Tale. The film is based on Diane Setterfield’s novel of the same title and has been adapted for television by Academy Award-winning writer Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement, The Quiet American). The drama is directed by James Kent (The White Queen, Inside Men) and stars Vanessa Redgrave, Olivia Colman, Alexandra Roach, Robert Pugh, Gordon Winter, Sophie Turner and Antonia Clarke. The movie follows a famous novelist with failing health who enlists an amateur biographer to hear her story and ghostwrite her autobiography. David Heyman (Harry Potter series, I Am Legend) and his mother Norma Heyman (Dangerous Liaisons, Mrs Henderson Present) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Savannah’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gil Talmi, Savannah, score, Soundtrack
Konsonant Records has released a soundtrack album for the drama Savannah. The album features the film’s original score composed by Gil Talmi who recorded his music with a live orchestra at East West Studios in Los Angeles. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Savannah is directed by Annette Haywood-Carter and stars Jim Caviezel, Sam Shepard, Bradley Whitford, Jaimie Alexander, Hal Halbrook, Jack McBrayer and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The movie is based on John Eugene Cay Jr.’s book Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunters and follows a man in the 1900s who leaves behind a life of privilege in Savannah to live off the land with a freed slave. The film will be released theatrically in select cities this Friday, August 23 by Ketchup Entertainment, followed by a released on VOD and DVD on September 24. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Closed Circuit’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Closed Circuit, Joby Talbot, John Crowley, score, Soundtrack
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Closed Ciruit. The album features the film’s original score composed by Joby Talbot (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Penelope, Son of Rambow). The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 27, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Closed Circuit is directed by John Crowley and stars Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Riz Ahmed, Jim Broadbent, Kenneth Cranham, Anne-Marie Duff, Ciarán Hinds and Julia Stiles. The movie follows two ex-lovers who find their loyalties tested and their lives at risk when they are joined together on the defense team in a terrorism trial. The thriller will be released on August 28 by Focus Features. Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Bates to Score Marvel’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
Posted: August 21, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn, Marvel Studios, Tyler Bates
Director James Gunn has confirmed on his Facebook page that Tyler Bates will be composing the score for Marvel’s upcoming superhero film Guardians of the Galaxy. The film stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Glenn Close, John C. Reilly, Benicio del Toro, Karen Gillian, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace and Dave Bautista. Vin Diesel is also in talks to join the film’s cast. The movie based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning follows a U.S pilot who bands with a group of ex-cons from other planets after he’s thrust in the middle of a universal conflict. Gunn is writing and directing the project and Kevin Feige (The Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, The Incredible Hulk) is producing the movie for Marvel Studios. Read the rest of this entry »
Roque Banos to Score Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’
Posted: August 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Oldboy, Roque Banos, Spike Lee
Roque Banos has signed on to score the upcoming English-language remake of Oldboy. The film is directed by Spike Lee (Malcolm X, Inside Man) and stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley. The movie follows an advertising executive who is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement and sets out to find out who held him hostage and why when he is inexplicably released. Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, Thor) wrote the screenplay based on Chan-wook Park’s acclaimed Korean film from 2003 and Roy Lee & Doug Davison (The Strangers, The Lake House) and Nathan Kahane (Juno, 50/50) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The World’s End’ Score Album Released
Posted: August 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Edgar Wright, score, Soundtrack, Steven Price, The World's End
Back Lot Music has released a score album for Edgar Wright’s final movie in his Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. The album features the film’s original music composed by Steven Price (Gravity) who previously scored the Wright-produced horror comedy Attack the Block and served as music editor on the director’s last feature Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. As previously reported, ABKCO Records has also released a separate soundtrack album featuring the film’s songs today. The World’s End reunites Wright with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan are co-starring in the comedy, which opened in the UK earlier this summer and will be released in the US this Friday, August 23 by Focus Features. Read the rest of this entry »
Robin Coudert Scoring Alexandre Aja’s ‘Horns’
Posted: August 20, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Aja, Horns, Rob, Robin Coudert
Robin Coudert (aka Rob) has composed the score for the upcoming supernatural thriller Horns. The film is directed by Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha, High Tension) and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson, Kelli Garner, Heather Graham, David Morse, Kathleen Quinlan and James Remar. The movie is based on the fantasy/thriller novel by Joe Hill and follows a small town guy blamed for the murder of his girlfriend who awakens one morning to find a pair of horns growing from his head. Keith Bunin (In Treatment) has written the screenplay. Aja is also producing the Red Granite Pictures and Mandalay Pictures production with Cathy Schulman (Crash, The Illusionist), Riza Aziz & Joey McFarland (Friends with Kids, The Wolf of Wall Street). Read the rest of this entry »
David Newman’s ‘Paradise’ and Robert Folk’s ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ Scores Released
Posted: August 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Can't Buy Me Love, David Newman, Paradise, Robert Folk, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1991 drama Paradise directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue and starring Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood and Thora Birch. The film’s music is composed and conducted by Academy Award-nominated composer David Newman (Ice Age, Anastasia, Serenity). Also featured on the album is the world premiere score release for the 1987 teen comedy Can’t Buy Me Love directed by Steve Rash and starring Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson and Seth Green. The movie’s music is composed and conducted by Robert Folk (Police Academy, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Nothing to Lose). To listen to audio clips and to order the limited edition soundtrack, visit Intrada’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Revenge’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 19, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ABC, iZLER, Revenge, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records will release a soundtrack album for the ABC hit drama Revenge. The album features selections from the show’s original score from the first two seasons composed by iZLER (Shameless, Natural Selection) who records his music weekly with a live orchestra. The soundtrack will be released tomorrow, August 20. Check back on this page for audio clips. For a preview of the track Requiem for Amanda, visit ABC’s Music Lounge. Revenge created by Mike Kelley stars Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe, Gabriel Mann, Henry Czerny and Ashley Madekwe. The second season will also be released this Tuesday on DVD and third season is set to premiere on September 29 and will every Sunday on ABC. Read the rest of this entry »
