Lakeshore Records has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the action thriller I, Frankenstein. The album features the songs from the film by By Maker (feat. Geno Lenardo and Daniel Davies). Also includes ad bonus tracks are songs by 8mm, Justin Lassen and Geno Lenardo feat. Prashant Aswani. The soundtrack will be released on January 7, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. As previously reported, the label will also release a separate soundtrack featuring the film’s original score composed by Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil. I, Frankenstein is written and directed by Stuart Beattie and stars Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto and Jai Courtney. The thriller is based on the graphic novel of the same title by Kevin Grevioux and centers on Frankenstein’s monster Adam who is being pursued by demons wanting to gain the secret of his reanimated corpse. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I, Frankenstein’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: By Maker, I Frankenstein, Soundtrack
Dario Marianelli to Score ‘The Boxtrolls’
Posted: December 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dario Marianelli, Laika Entertainment, The Boxtrolls
Dario Marianelli has signed on to score Laika Entertainment’s upcoming 3D stop-motion and CG hybrid animated feature The Boxtrolls. The movie is directed by Anthony Stacchi (co-director of Open Season) and Graham Annable (story artist on Coraline and ParaNorman) and features the voice talent of Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade and Tracy Morgan. The film is based on the novel Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow and takes place in Cheesebridge, a posh Victorian-era where people believe the Boxtrolls crawl out of the sewers at night and steal their children and cheeses, when in reality they’re a cavern-dwelling community of quirky and lovable oddballs. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Expecting’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Expecting, Mark Kilian, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the indie comedy Expecting. The album features the film’s original score composed by Mark Kilian (Tsotsi, Rendition, Pitch Perfect). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 17, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. Expecting is written and directed by Jessie McCormack and stars Michelle Monaghan, Radha Mitchell, Jon Dore, Michael Weston and Mimi Kennedy. The film follows a married women, who after years of trying to have a baby is shocked when her best friend finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand and offers to give her the child. The comedy premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival and was picked up by Tribeca Film for domestic distribution. The movie is now available on VOD and will be released in select theaters starting this Friday, December 6. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Drake to Score Kevin Smith’s ‘Tusk’
Posted: December 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Drake, Kevin Smith, Tusk
Kevin Smith revealed on his official blog (via Slashfilm) that composer Christopher Drake is composing the score for the upcoming horror film Tusk. The movie is written and directed by Smith and stars Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez, Michael Parks and Haley Joel Osment. The film follows a podcaster who sets out to interview an eccentric, reclusive old seafarer, only to find himself a plaything in the gruesome plot of a deranged killer. Sam Englebardt (Diary of the Dead) and William D. Johnson (Paranoia, Byzantium) are producing the Demarest Pictures production, alongside Shannon McIntosh for Smith’s Smodcast Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lethal Weapon’ Series Box Set and Expanded ‘Superman Returns’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bryan Singer, David Sanborn, Eric Clapton, John Ottman, Lethal Weapon, Michael Kamen, score, Soundtrack, Superman Returns
La-La Land Records has announced a 8-CD box set for the action comedy series Lethal Weapon directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. The albums feature the original scores from all four movies composed by Michael Kamen (Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), Eric Clapton and David Sanborn. The scores for the first three installments have been expanded beyond their original soundtrack albums and the score for Lethal Weapon 4 makes its world premiere on the set. The albums also feature alternate cues, as well as cues that were unused in the final film. Also included are the songs from the films by artists including Sting, Elton John, George Harrison and The Beach Boys. To order the box set, which is limited to 3000 copies and to check out the full details, visit the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Score Album Details
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Stiller, Jose Gonzalez, score, Soundtrack, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Theodore Shapiro
Sony Classical will release a score album for Ben Stiller’s fantasy comedy drama The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The album including the film’s original music composed by Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder, The Devil Wears Prada, Marley & Me) and featuring vocals by Jose Gonzalez. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 13, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips after the jump. As previously reported, Republic Records will release a separate soundtrack featuring the film’s songs, including Step Out and Stay Alive co-written by Shapiro and performed by Gonzalez. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty starring Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn and Sean Penn will be released on December 25, 2013 by 20th Century Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami Scoring ‘November Man’
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 1864, Marco Beltrami, November Man, Roger Donaldson, Seventh Son, The Homesman
Marco Beltrami has been tapped to score the upcoming action thriller November Man. The film is directed by Roger Donaldson and stars Pierce Brosnan, Olga Kurylenko, Luke Bracey, Will Patton and Bill Smitrovich. The movie follows an ex-CIA operative who is pitted against his former pupil on a race to find a woman who is hiding from her past and who holds the key to an international conspiracy. Michael Finch (Predators) and Karl Gajdusek (Oblivion, Last Resort) have written the screenplay based on the book There Are No Spies by Bill Granger based on his 13-part November Man series. Beau St. Clair (The Thomas Crown Affair, Laws of Attraction) of Irish Dreamtime and Sriram Das (Veronika Decides to Die) of Das Films are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Labor Day’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jason Reitman, Labor Day, Rolfe Kent, score, Soundtrack
Warner Bros. Records will release a soundtrack album for Jason Reitman’s drama Labor Day. The album features the film’s original score composed by Rolfe Kent (Sideways, The Wedding Crashers, Election) who previously scored the director’s features Thank You for Smoking, Up in the Air and Young Adult. Also included are the songs from the film performed by Arlo Guthrie and Vashti Bunyan, as well as classical guitar pieces by Andrés Segovia and Shin-ichi Fukuda. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 17, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A CD version will be coming out on January 28 and is available to order here. Labor Day starring Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith, Clark Gregg and Tobey Maguire follows a mother and son who encounter a man on a shopping trip who convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The drama will receive an Academy Awards-qualifying theatrical run in Los Angeles later this year and is set to be released nationwide on January 31, 2014 by Paramount Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Reinhold Heil to Score Syfy’s ‘Helix’
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Helix, Reinhold Heil, Syfy
Reinhold Heil has been hired to score the upcoming Syfy original series Helix. The drama is created by Cameron Porsandeh and stars Billy Campbell, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyra Zagorsky, Jordan Hayes, Catherine Lemieux, Neil Napier and Mark Ghanime. The show follows a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a life-and-death struggle that may hold the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation. Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander), Steven Maeda (Lost, The X-Files), and Lynda Obst (Contact) are executive producing the Sony Pictures Television and NBC Universal production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Oldboy’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 3, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Oldboy, Roque Banos, score, Soundtrack, Spike Lee
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for Spike Lee’s mystery thriller Oldboy. The album features the film’s original score composed and conducted by Roque Banos (The Machinist, Evil Dead, Sexy Beast). The soundtrack will be released physically on January 14, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out our previous article to listen to three full tracks from the score. Oldboy is based on the acclaimed Korean film from 2003 directed by Chan-wook Park and stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley. The movie follows an alcoholic advertising executive who is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement before he is released and embarks on an mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment. The movie was released last week by FilmDistrict and is now playing in theaters. Read the rest of this entry »
