Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 20, 2012)

Posted: July 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Only one movie is opening in wide release this weekend:

Opening in over 4000 theaters is the final chapter in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, starring Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman. The film’s music is composed by Hans Zimmer. Watertower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. For audio clips and the full album details, visit our previous article. The composer and app developer RjDj have created the app The Dark Knight Rises Z+ for iPhone and iPod touch. The app is available in iTunes app store and includes a special “Origins” pack that features an extra 55 minutes of music and allows users to download an exclusive behind-the-scenes discussion with Zimmer and Nolan. For a number of video interviews with the composer from the European premiere of the film, click here and also check out an interview with Empire where you can also stream the entire soundtrack album.

Opening in limited release is the documentary The Queen of Versailles directed by Lauren Greenfield about a billionaire couple who live in a 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by Versailles, built on the success of the time-share industry. Jeff Beal (Appaloosa, HBO’s Rome) has composed the film’s score. A soundtrack album featuring Beal’s music has been released digitally on Lakeshore Records. Visit our soundtrack announcement to listen to audio clips and find out more about the album and the documentary. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Little Birds’ Soundtrack Announced

Posted: July 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack for the indie drama Little Birds. The album features the film’s music including tracks by the film’s director Elgin James & The Suicide Gang, Tift Merritt, Linée, Big Star and Brian Jonestown Massacre. The soundtrack is set to be released on August 11, 2012. Check out the full track list after the jump and visit Amazon to download the album. Audio clips are available after the jump. Little Birds is written and directed by Elgin James and stars Juno Temple, Kay Panabaker, Kyle Gallner, Chris Coy, Carlos Pena, Neal McDonough, JR Bourne, Kate Bosworth and Leslie Mann. The film premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival and will be released on August 31 by Millennium Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »

Dario Marianelli to Score Steven Knight’s ‘Hummingbird’

Posted: July 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Dario Marianelli has been hired to score the upcoming thriller Hummingbird. The film marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) and stars Jason Statham as an Afghanistan veteran haunted by tragic events of the past who assumes the identity of an upper class Londoner. When his pregnant girlfriend is found dead, he uses his connections in the Chinese mob to find the man responsible Knight has also written the screenplay and Paul Webster (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice) who has worked with Marianelli a number of times before is producing the IM Global production. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Red Hook Summer’ Soundtrack Details

Posted: July 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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The details for two different soundtrack albums for Spike Lee’s indie drama Red Hook Summer have been revealed. First up is a soundtrack featuring the film’s songs by Judith Hill. The album will be released on July 31, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The full track list and audio clips are available after the jump. Coming out on the same day is a soundtrack featuring the film’s music by Bruce Hornsby who makes his major film scoring debut on the project. The album can be pre-ordered here and audio clips are also available below. Red Hook Summer written and directed by Lee enters on a boy from Atlanta who lands at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met. Read the rest of this entry »

Richard Hartley Scoring Mike Newell’s ‘Great Expectations’

Posted: July 19, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Richard Hartley has composed the score for Mike Newell’s upcoming film adaptation of Great Expectations. The film based on Charles Dickens’ famous novel stars Jeremy Irvine as the young orphan Pip who is given a chance to rise from his humble beginnings thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Helena Bonham Carter co-stars as Miss Havisham, alongside Ralph Fiennes, Robbie Coltrane, Ewen Bremner, Jason Flemyng, Sally Hawkins, Tamzin Outhwaite, David Walliams and Holliday Grainger. David Nicholls (One Day, Starter for 10) has adapted Dickens’ novel for the screen. Read the rest of this entry »

2012 Emmy Nominations Announced

Posted: July 19, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The nominations for the 64th Emmy Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories:

Outstandig Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score):

Hemingway & Gellhorn – Javier Navarrete, Composer
Game Change – Music by Theodore Shapiro
Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia – Music by Michael Price & David Arnold
Missing – The Hard Drive – Music by Robert Duncan
Hatfields & McCoys – Episode 1 – Music by John Debney & Tony Morales
Disney Prep & Landing: Naughty Vs. Nice – Music by Michael Giacchino Read the rest of this entry »

Hans Zimmer at ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ European Premiere

Posted: July 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews
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Hans Zimmer attended today’s European premiere of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises at Leicester Square in London. Red Carpet News TV caught the composer on the red carpet and talked to him about his music and process of scoring the final installment in Nolan’s Batman trilogy. Zimmer also discusses the chance of a sequel to Inception and his involvement in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. Check out the full video interview after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Joss Whedon Scoring ‘Much Ado About Nothing’

Posted: July 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Joss Whedon announced at a panel at last week’s Comic-Con that he has composed his first full film score for the independent production Much Ado About Nothing. The film written and directed by Whedon is a modern version of Shakespeare’s classic comedy and stars Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof (Angel) as Beatrice and Benedick, the world’s least likely lovers headed for their inevitable tumble into love. Nathan Fillion (Castle, Serenity), Clark Gregg (The Avengers), Fran Kranz (The Cabin in the Woods, Dollhouse), Reed Diamond (Moneyball), Tom Lenk (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Sean Maher (Firefly) are co-starring in the Bellwether Pictures production. Read the rest of this entry »

Laurent Eyquem to Score Ron Maxwell’s ‘Copperhead’

Posted: July 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Laurent Eyquem has signed on to score the upcoming Civil War-era drama Copperhead. The film is directed by Ron Maxwell and stars Billy Campbell, Angus MacFadyen and Peter Fonda. The movie based on the epic novel by Harold Frederic and adapted by Bill Kauffman examines the price of dissent amid the hysteria of wartime, as a family is ripped apart by American Civil War-events. Maxwell is producing the Swordspoint Production and John Houston is co-producing. Recording sessions for the music are scheduled to take place in October at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Studios. Maxwell has earned a reputation in the film music community for his highly effective use of music in his movies. His previous Civil War-themed projects include 1993’s Gettysburg, which was scored by Randy Edelman whose bestselling soundtrack was used in dozens of trailers throughout the 90s, as well as 2003’s Gods and Generals, which featured a critically acclaimed score by John Frizzell and Edelman. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Trouble with the Curve’ to Feature Music by Marco Beltrami

Posted: July 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Marco Beltrami is currently scoring the drama Trouble with the Curve. The film is directed by Robert Lorenz and stars Clint Eastwood as an aging baseball scout who is losing his sight and takes a road trip to Atlanta with his daughter to take a look at a hot prospect. Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Matthew Lillard and Scott Eastwood are also starring. Robert Brown wrote the film’s script. The project marks the directorial debut of Lorenz who has previously produced most of Eastwood’s movies over the last decade including Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima and Gran Torino. Lorenz and Eastwood are also producing the drama for Malpaso Productions. Trouble with the Curve is set to be released on September 28, 2012 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »

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