The details of the score album for the action adventure The Man With the Iron Fists have been announced. The album features the film’s original score composed by RZA and Howard Drossin. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 25, 2012 by Soul Temple Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are available after the jump. As previously announced, the label has also announced a separate soundtrack featuring the film’s songs. The Man with the Iron Fists is directed by RZA, presented by Quentin Tarantino, co-written by RZA and Eli Roth and stars Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu. Universal Pictures will release the movie on November 2, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Man with the Iron Fists’ Score Album Details
Posted: September 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Howard Drossin, RZA, score, Soundtrack, The Man with the Iron Fists
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‘End of Watch’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Sardy, End of Watch, score, Soundtrack
Relativity Music Group has released the official soundtrack album for the action thriller End of Watch. The album features selections from the film’s original score composed by David Sardy (Zombieland, 21), as well as the tracks Lisa’s Coming by the Latin Rascals, Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy, and Hey! Love by The Delfonics. The soundtrack has been released digitally today and is now available to download on Amazon. Check out audio clips from all tracks on the release after the jump. End of Watch is written and directed by David Ayer (Street Kings, screenwriter of Training Day) and stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as two officers from the Los Angeles Police Department who discover that they are being hunted by members of a drug cartel. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami to Score ‘The Wolverine’
Posted: September 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James Mangold, Marco Beltrami, The Wolverine, X-Men
Marco Beltrami confirmed in a recent interview with Film Music Reporter that he has signed on to score the upcoming comic book adaptation The Wolverine. The film is directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line, Identity) and stars Hugh Jackman who returns in the role he originated in the X-Men franchise and is joined by actors Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada and Brian Tee. The movie follows Logan/Wolverine on his travels to Japan, where he engages a mysterious figure from his past in a fight that has lasting consequences. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) and Mark Bomback (Unstoppable, Live Free or Die Hard) have penned the script. Lauren Shuler-Donner (X-Men series), Marvel Entertainment’s Kevin Feige, Jackman and Hutch Parker are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bound for Glory’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bound for Glory, Hal Ashby, Leonard Rosenman, Michel Legrand, The Mountain Men
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack CD release for Hal Ashby’s 1976 film Bound for Glory starring David Carradine. The album features the previously unreleased original score from the film composed by Leonard Rosenman (Barry Lyndon), as well as the content of the original 1976 album featuring the tunes of Woody Guthrie, which were adapted for the project by Rosenman who received the Academy Award in the Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score category for his work on the film. The soundtrack is now available to order on Intrada’s website, where you can also listen to audio clips from the album. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Butter’ Score Album Announced
Posted: September 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Butter, Mateo Messina, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the satirical comedy Butter. The album features the film’s original score composed by Mateo Messina (Juno). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 2, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out below. Butter is directed by Jim Field Smith (She’s Out of My League) and stars Jennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde, Hugh Jackman, Ty Burrell, Yara Shahidi, Alicia Silverstone, Ashley Greene, Rob Corddry and Kristen Schaal. The movie premiered at last year’s Telluride and Toronto film festivals and will be released in theaters on October 10 by the Weinstein Company’s Radius label. Read the rest of this entry »
Atli Orvarsson Scoring NBC’s ‘Chicago Fire’
Posted: September 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atli Orvarsson, Chicago Fire, Dick Wolf, NBC
Atli Orvarsson is currently scoring the new NBC drama Chicago Fire. The show is created by Michael Brandt & Derek Haas (3:10 to Yuma, Wanted) and stars Jesse Spencer, Taylor Kinney, Lauren German, Monica Raymund, Charlie Barnett, Teri Reeves, David Eigenberg and Eamonn Walker. The series follows the lives of the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics working at the Chicago Fire Department at the firehouse of Engine 51. Brandt and Haas are also executive producing the Universal Television and Wolf Films Production with Dick Wolf (Law & Order), Matt Olmstead (Prison Break), Joe Chappelle (Fringe), Danielle Gelber and Peter Jankowski. Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor) directed the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Good Doctor’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian Byrne, score, Soundtrack, The Good Doctor
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the indie drama The Good Doctor. The album features the film’s original music composed by Brian Byrne who recently was nominated in the Discovery of the Year category at the World Soundtrack Awards for his work on last year’s Albert Nobbs. The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 30, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips from the score can be checked out after the jump. The Good Doctor directed by Lance Daly and starring Orlando Bloom, Riley Keough, Taraji B. Henson, Rob Morrow and Michael Pena follows a doctor who meets an 18-year-old patient suffering from a kidney infection and begins tampering with her treatment when her health starts improving. The film was recently released in theaters and on VOD by Magnolia Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 16, 2012)
Posted: September 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amy Miles, Christopher Lennertz, Fox, Guys With Kids, John MacDonald, Michael Robertson, NBC, Revolution, Scott Starrett, The Mob Doctor
A number of new TV shows are premiering this week:
Premiering this Monday, September 17 on NBC is the new drama Revolution created by Eric Kripke, produced by J.J. Abrams and starring Billy Burke, Tracy Spiridako, Elizabeth Mitchell, Anna Lise Phillips, Zak Orth and Giancarlo Esposito. Christopher Lennertz (Horrible Bosses, Hop) who is also scoring the Kripke-created CW series Supernatural is writing the original music for the sci-fi show, which follows follows a group of people struggling to survive and reunite with loved ones in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist. Jon Favreau (Iron Man) has directed the pilot episode, which is now available to download for free on iTunes. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cleanskin’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cleanskin, score, Simon Lambros, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the British thriller Cleanskin. The album features the film’s original music composed by Simon Lambros (The Last Horror Movie). The soundtrack has been released digitally earlier this week and is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also check out audio clips. Cleanskin is written and directed by Hadi Hajaig and stars Sean Bean as a Secret Service Agent who is faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a suicide bomber and his terrorist cell. Abhin Galeya, Charlotte Rampling, James Fox, Tuppence Middleton, Shivani Ghai and Michelle Ryan are co-starring in the film. The movie opened in the UK this past march and was just released in the US on Blu-Ray and DVD last Tuesday by Entertainment One. Read the rest of this entry »
Javier Navarrete, Paul Englishby and John Lunn Win Emmy Awards
Posted: September 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Adam Schlesinger, David Jaberbaum, Downton Abbey, Emmy Awards, Hemingway & Gellhorn, Javier Navarrete, John Lunn
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards were handed out this afternoon at the NOKIA Theatre LA LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. Javier Navarrete won his first Emmy Award for his score for HBO’s original movie Hemingway & Gellhorn in the Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) category. John Lunn received the award for his music for Downtown Abbey in the Outstandig Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) category. Paul Englishby also received his first Emmy in the Outstanding Main Title Theme Music category for his theme for BBC’s Page Eight directed by David Hare and starring Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes. Read the rest of this entry »
