According to the LA Times, Bruce Hornsby is set to score Spike Lee’s upcoming English-language remake of Old Boy. The film is based on the critically acclaimed Korean film directed by Chan-wook Park. Josh Brolin is set to star as a man who is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years for unknown reasons and sets out to find out who held him hostage and why when he is inexplicably released. Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson and Sharlto Copley (District 9) are also attached to star in the Mandate Pictures production. Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, The Cell) has written the script and is co-producing the project, while Roy Lee and Doug Davison (The Strangers, The Lake House) are producing. Read the rest of this entry »
Bruce Hornsby to Score Spike Lee’s ‘Old Boy’
Posted: August 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bruce Hornsby, Old Boy, Spike Lee
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 17, 2012)
Posted: August 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Brian Tyler, Compliance, Cosmopolis, Daniel Pemberton, Francis and the Starlights, Geoff Zanelli, Heather McIntosh, Howard Shore, Jon Brion, Metric, ParaNorman, Robot & Frank, Salaam Remi, Sparkle, Spencer David Hutchings, The Awakening, The Expendables 2, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Why Stop Now?
Four new movies are opening wide this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the action film sequel The Expendables 2 directed by Simon West and starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Liam Hemsworth, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film’s music is composed by Brian Tyler who previously scored the 2010 original film. Lionsgate Records has released a soundtrack album featuring Tyler’s music. For the full album details, visit our previous article. Also check out Tyler’s recent appearance on the Weekly Comet and click here for a video interview with the composer from the film’s red carpet premiere in Hollywood this past Wednesday.
Also opening wide is the stop-motion animated film ParaNorman directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler and featuring the voice talent of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Casey Affleck, Tempestt Bledsoe, Jeff Garlin, John Goodman, Bernard Hill, Anna Kendrick, Leslie Mann and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Jon Brion has composed the film’s music. Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and audio clips. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Entitled’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: August 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Robert Duncan, score, Soundtrack, The Entitled
Pale Blue Records will be releasing a soundtrack album for last year’s thriller The Entitled. The album features the film’s original score composed by Robert Duncan (Castle, Terriers, The Unit). The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 19, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips from all tracks on the album can be checked out after the jump. The Entitled is directed by Aaron Woodley and stars Kevin Zegers, Ray Liotta, Victor Garber, Laura Vandervoort, Dustin Milligan and Devon Bostick. The film follows a broke young man who abducts three rich college kids to try and get money from their fathers. The Entitled is now available on Blu-Ray and DVD. Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Bates Scoring Takashi Shimizu’s ‘7500’ and Joe Johnston’s ‘Not Safe for Work’
Posted: August 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 7500, Dawn of the Dead, God of War: Ascension, Joe Johnston, Not Safe for Work, Takashi Shimizu, Tyler Bates
Tyler Bates has been tapped to score the upcoming horror thriller 7500. The film is directed by Takashi Shimizu and stars Leslie Bibb, Ryan Kwanten, Amy Smart and Jamie Chung. The movie follows a group of passengers who encounter what appears to be a supernatural force while on a transpacific flight. Craig Rosenberg (The Uninvited, After the Sunset) has written the screenplay and Taka Ichise (Ring, The Grudge) and Roy Lee (The Strangers, The Lake House) are producing the project. Shimizu has previously worked with composer Christopher Young on his previous two major American features The Grudge and The Grudge 2. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Sweeney’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: August 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lorne Balfe, score, Soundtrack, The Sweeney
Rhino Records will be releasing a soundtrack album for the British crime drama The Sweeney. The album features the film’s original score composed by Lorne Balfe (Megamind, Ironclad), as well as two songs by Magnetic Man (featuring John Legend and Katy B). The soundtrack will be released in the UK on September 10, 2012 and is now available to pre-order as an import on Amazon. No word yet on a domestic release of the album. The Sweeney directed by Nick Love is based on the 1970s cult TV cop series and stars Ray Winstone and Ben Drew (aka Plan B) as two detectives in the Flying Squad, the London police unit dedicated to fighting armed robbery. Hayley Atwell and Damian Lewis are co-starring. The crime drama will be released in the UK on September 12. Read the rest of this entry »
Robert Duncan’s Submarine Scoring Session for ABC’s ‘Last Resort’
Posted: August 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Last Resort, Robert Duncan, Shawn Ryan
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Robert Duncan is scoring Shawn Ryan’s new ABC drama Last Resort, which follows the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine who become hunted fugitives after ignoring an order to fire nuclear missiles. The composer recently went down in an actual submarine at San Diego’s Maritime Museum to collect some different sounds sources for the score. Check out a video from the submarine scoring sessions after the jump. Duncan (Castle, The Unit, Terriers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has also just launched his new official website, where audio clips from the show’s score will be added soon. Last Resort stars Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Robert Patrick, Autumn Reeser, Max Adler, Daisy Betts and Dichen Lachman and Michael Campbell (Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro) has directed the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wrong’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mr. Oizo, Quentin Dupieux, score, Soundtrack, Tahiti Boy, Wrong
Ed Banger Records will be releasing a soundtrack album for the indie comedy Wrong. The album features the film’s original music by Tahiti Boy & Mr. Oizo. The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 27, 2012 and will be available to download on Amazon. Audio clips from all 13 tracks on the album can be checked out after the jump. Wrong is written and directed by Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) and stars Jack Plotnick as man who wakes up one morning to find that his beloved dog Paul has vanished and embarks on a spiritual journey guided by a guru to metaphysically reconnect with his pet. William Fichtner, Steve Little, Eric Judor and Alexis Dziena are co-starring in the film. Read the rest of this entry »
Trevor Morris to Score ABC’s ‘666 Park Avenue’
Posted: August 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 666 Park Avenue, ABC, Alphas, Death Race: Inferno, Syfy, Trevor Morris
Trevor Morris has been hired to score the new ABC mystery series 666 Park Avenue. The show is created by David Wilcox (Fringe) is based on a novel by Gabriella Pierce and follows a couple who learns that the Manhattan building complex that they just moved into, including its upscale tenants, might be possessed by a mysterious demonic force. The series stars Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Vanessa Williams, Terry O’Quinn, Mercedes Masöhn, Robert Buckley, Helena Mattsson, Erik Palladino and Samantha Logan. Graves is also executive producing the Warner Bros. Television production with Matthew Miller (Chuck), Leslie Morgenstein (Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries), Gina Girolamo (The Secret Circle) and Alex Graves (Fringe) who also directed the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »
Carter Burwell Scoring ‘Seven Psychopaths’
Posted: August 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Breaking Dawn, Carter Burwell, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, The Twilight Saga, Twilight
Carter Burwell is scoring the upcoming comedy thriller Seven Psychopaths. The movie is written and directed by Martin McDonagh and stars Colin Farrell as an alcoholic screenwriter who is struggling to write a serial-killer script and gets more real-life inspiration than he can handle when a dognapping scheme gone awry brings a galaxy of crazies to his doorstep. Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko and Gabourey Sidibe are co-starring in the film. Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, In Bruges) are producing the Blueprint Pictures production. Read the rest of this entry »
Decca Classics to Release Dario Marianelli’s ‘Anna Karenina’ Soundtrack
Posted: August 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli, Joe Wright, score, Soundtrack
Decca Classics will be releasing the official soundtrack album for Joe Wright’s film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dario Marianelli who has received his first Academy Award for his work on the director’s Atonement and also was also honored with another Oscar nomination for Wright’s Pride & Prejudice. The soundtrack will be released on September 1o, 2012 in the UK. A domestic release is expected closer to the film’s US in November. Anna Karenina stars Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Matthew MacFadyen, Kelly Macdonald and Olivia Williams. The film will be released in the UK in September and on November 16, 2012 in the US. Read the rest of this entry »
