Universal Music Group will release the soundtrack album for Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated film Django Unchained. The album will be released on December 18, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. No word yet on the tracks featured on the release, but check back on this site for the details to be revealed within the next few weeks. Mary Ramos who has worked on all of Tarantino’s features serves as the movie’s music supervisor. Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter, played by Christoph Waltz. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Django Unchained’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Soundtrack
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Unused ‘Chinatown’ Score Released
Posted: November 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chinatown, Phillip Lambro, Roman Polanski, Soundtrack
Perseverance Records has announced a release of the unused score for Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic movie Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. The music is composed by Phillip Lambro. The music was ultimately rejected by Paramount Pictures and replaced by a score by Jerry Goldsmith who ended up receiving one of the film’s eleven Academy Award nominations. In addition to the unused score, the album also features the two concert pieces Structures for String Orchestra and Music for Wind, Brass and Percussion. The limited edition soundtrack album is now available to order in the label’s online store, where you can also listen to the main titles of the score. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 16, 2012)
Posted: November 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Anna Karenina, Breaking Dawn, Britta Phillips, Carter Burwell, Chasing Ice, Danny Elfman, Dario Marianelli, Dean Wareham, J. Ralph, Price Check, Silver Linings Playbook, The Twilight Saga, Twilight
Guaranteed to top the weekend box office is the final part in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 directed by Bill Condon and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. The film’s music is composed by Carter Burwell. Summit Entertainment, Chop Shop Records and Atlantic Records have released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from and inspired by the film by artists including Passion Pit, Ellie Goulding, Green Day and Feist. Check out our previous article for the full album details. The label will also release a separate soundtrack featuring Burwell’s score on November 27. Click here for the full details. Also visit Examiner for an interview with the composer on his work on the film, as well as his official website for his notes and comments on the score.
Opening in limited release is the comedy drama Silver Linings Playbook directed by David O. Russell and starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Julia Stiles, Jacki Weaver and Chris Tucker. Danny Elfman has composed the film’s score. Sony Masterworks has released a soundtrack featuring the songs featured in the film by Stevie Wonder, Alabama Shakes, alt-K, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Rare Earth and Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash, as well as two tracks by Elfman. Check out our soundtrack announcement for audio clips. Also available is a separate album featuring Elfman’s full score. Audio clips and more information can be checked out here. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Trask Scoring Paul Weitz’s ‘Admission’
Posted: November 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Admission, Paul Weitz, Stephen Trask
Stephen Trask is reteaming with director Paul Weitz on the upcoming comedy Admission. The film starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd follows an unmarried college admissions counselor who falls for a former classmate. Michael Sheen, Lily Tomlin, Wallace Shawn, Gloria Reuben and Nat Wolff are co-starring in the Focus Features production. Karen Croner (One True Thing) has written the screenplay and Weitz is producing the project with Kerry Kohansky-Roberts (Nick and Norah’s Ultimate Playlist) and Andrew Miano (A Single Man). Trask has previously collaborated with Weitz on such films as In Good Company, American Dreamz, Cirque du Freak and Little Fockers. Read the rest of this entry »
Republic Records to Release ‘Les Miserables’ Soundtrack
Posted: November 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alain Boublil, Anne Dudley, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Les Miserables, Soundtrack, Tom Hooper
Republic Records will release the official soundtrack album for Tom Hooper’s new film adaptation of Les Miserables. The album features the film’s songs composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg and with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, as well as the new original song Suddenly composed by Schonberg and featuring lyrics by Alain Boublil. As previously reported, Anne Dudley serves as the movie’s music producer. The soundtrack is set to be released on December 24, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this site for the full album details. Les Miserables stars Hugh Jackman in the lead role of Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert, Anne Hathaway as Fantine, Amanda Seyfried as Cosette, Eddie Redmayne as Marius and Helena Bonham Carter & Sacha Baron Cohen as Mr. and Mrs. Thernardier. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to Reunite with Wes Anderson on ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Posted: November 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, George Clooney, La trilogie marseillaise: Marius, Rise of the Guardians, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Monuments Men, Wes Anderson
Alexandre Desplat revealed in a recent interview with RedCarpetNewsTV at the London premiere of Dreamworks’s Animation’s Rise of the Guardians that he will be reuniting with director Wes Anderson on his next film The Grand Budapest Hotel. Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Saoirse Ronan are attached to star in the film produced by Anderson, Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men, The Social Network), Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson (Moonrise Kingdom). The movie is set to start shooting in January of next year. The project will mark the composer’s third collaboration with the director following The Fantastic Mr. Fox and this year’s Moonrise Kingdom. Read the rest of this entry »
La-La Land Records to Release Joe Kraemer’s ‘Jack Reacher’ Score
Posted: November 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher McQuarrie, Jack Reacher, Joe Kraemer, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records will release a score album for the upcoming thriller Jack Reacher. The album features the film’s original score composed by Joe Kraemer who has previously worked with director Christopher McQuarrie on The Way of the Gun. The soundtrack will be released on December 18, 2012. The full details will be posted on this site within the next few weeks. Jack Reacher stars Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo and Robert Duvall. The film is based on the novel One Shot written by Lee Child follows the military policeman-turned-drifter Jack Reacher, who gets sucked into the mystery surrounding the arrest of a sniper accused of killing five random people in a shooting. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans Scoring ‘Magic Magic’
Posted: November 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bluebird, Daniel Bensi, Desert Cathedral, Magic Magic, Saunder Jurriaans, Simon Killer
Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans are scoring the upcoming psychological thriller Magic Magic. The film is written and directed by Sebastián Silva (The Maid) and stars Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning and Catalina Sandino Moreno. The movie follows a young American who is vacationing with her friends in a remote part of Chile and begins to mentally unravel and enter into a world of disturbing landscapes and crushing terror. The thriller is produced by Frida Torresblanco (Pan’s Labyrinth) for Braven Films, Christine Vachon (Boys Don’t Cry, Far from Heaven) for Killer Films and Mike White (Nacho Libre) & David Bernad (HBO’s Enlightened) for Rip Cord Productions. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Bay’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Barry Levinson, Marcelo Zarvos, score, Soundtrack, The Bay
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for Barry Levinson’s horror thriller The Bay. The album features the film’s original score composed by Marcelo Zarvos (The Words, The Good Shepherd) who previously collaborated with the director on What Just Happened? and HBO’s You Don’t Know Jack. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 20, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on iTunes. Check back on this site for audio clips. The Bay starring Will Rogers and Christopher Denham is set in a small Maryland town and takes place after an ecological disaster occurs. The film premiered at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and was released in select theaters and on VOD earlier this month. Read the rest of this entry »
Rachel Portman Scoring ‘Still Life’
Posted: November 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Rachel Portman, Still Life, Uberto Pasolini
Rachel Portman is currently recording her score for the British comedy drama Still Life. The film is written and directed by the composer’s husband Uberto Pasolini and stars Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, Andrew Buchan and Brosnon Webb. The movie follows a case worker who looks for relatives of those found dead alone. Pasolini is also producing the Red Wave/Embargo Films production with Christopher Simon & Felix Vossen (The Sweeney, Pusher). Pasolini who received an Academy Award nomination for producing The Full Monty has previously worked with Portman as a producer on such films as The Closer You Get, The Emperor’s New Clothes and Bel Ami. Read the rest of this entry »
