According to a recent article in Variety, composer Steve Jablonsky has already started working on Michael Bay’s upcoming comedy action thriller Pain & Gain. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Ed Harris, Ken Jeong, Tony Shaloub, Anthony Mackie, Rob Corddry and Bar Paly. The movie is based on the true story of body builders in Miami Beach who headed a kidnapping and extortion ring that went terribly wrong. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Captain America: The First Avenger, The Chronicles of Narnia) have written the screenplay. Bay is producing the film with Ian Bryce (Transformers, Saving Private Ryan) and Donald De Line (The Italian Job, Green Lantern) through his Platinum Dunes production company. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Jablonsky to Reunite with Michael Bay on ‘Pain & Gain’
Posted: May 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, Steve Jablonsky
‘A Royal Affair’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Royal Affair, Cyril Aufort, Gabriel Yared, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album for the historical drama A Royal Affair has been released on iTunes last week. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award-winning composer Gabriel Yared (The English Patient) and Cyril Aufort (Splice). The soundtrack is now available digitally and a limited physical release is scheduled to come out on May 22, 2012 by Movie Score Media. Audio clips are available on iTunes. A Royal Affair is directed by Nicolaj Arcel (King’s Game, screenwriter of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and stars Mads Mikkelsen and Alicia Vikander as Caroline Mathilda. The Zentropa production is set in the early 1770’s and centers on the affair between Chr. VII’s German physician, Johan Struensee, and the English born queen of Denmark, Caroline Mathilda. The drama premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival and has already been released in several European markets. Read the rest of this entry »
David Buckley to Score Taylor Hackford’s ‘Parker’
Posted: May 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Coma, David Buckley, Parker, Taylor Hackford
David Buckley has signed on to score the upcoming thriller Parker. The film is directed by Taylor Hackford and stars Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte and Michael Chicklis. The movie is based on a book series by Donald Westlake (The Grifters) and revolves around an honorable thief (played by Statham), which is the same character that has previously been portrayed by Mel Gibson in Brian Helgeland’s Payback. John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan) has written the screenplay and Hackford is producing the Sierra/Affinity, Incentive Filmed Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Production with Steven Chasman, Les Alexander (Transporter series, The Bank Job), Sidney Kimmel (The Lincoln Lawyer, Lars and the Real Girl) and Jonathan Mitchell. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Divide’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: May 16, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jean Pierre Taieb, score, Soundtrack, The Divid, Xavier Gens
Pale Blue Records will be releasing a soundtrack album for Xavier Gens’ sci-fi thriller The Divide. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jean Pierre Taieb. The soundtrack is set to be released digitally on June 3, 2012 and will be available to download on Amazon. Audio clips from all tracks on the release can be checked out after the jump. The Divide directed by Gens (Hitman) and starring Michael Biehn, Lauren German, Rosanna Arquette and Milo Ventimiglia follows nine tenants of a New York high rise apartment who escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building’s bunker-like basement. The post-apocalyptic thriller was released in theaters earlier this year and is now available on Blu-Ray and DVD. Read the rest of this entry »
Lyle Workman to Score ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’
Posted: May 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lyle Workman, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Lyle Workman has announced on Twitter that he will be scoring the upcoming magician comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. The film is directed by Don Scardino (30 Rock) and features an all-star cast including Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, James Gandolfini and Brad Garrett. The movie is set in the world of rival Las Vegas magicians and follows a traditional magic man who is dethroned by a hipper illusionist and then must find a way to rediscover his love for magic. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses) have written the screenplay based on a story by Chad Kultgen. Carell is also producing the New Line Cinema production with Chris Bender (American Pie, A History of Violence), Tyler Mitchell (Lucky Number Slevin) and J. C. Spink (The Butterfly Effect). Read the rest of this entry »
Varese Sarabande to Release John Powell’s ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ Score
Posted: May 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ice Age 4, Ice Age: Continental Drift, John Powell, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack album for Blue Sky Animation’s Ice Age : Continental Drift. The album features the original music from the film composed by John Powell. The movie marks Powell’s third score for the Ice Age series following 2006’s The Meltdown and 2009’s Dawn of the Dinosaur. The soundtrack will be released on July 10, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The album details are expected to be announced within the next month. The label has previously released the other scores for the franchise, including David Newman’s music from the original film. Ice Age: Continental Drift is directed by Steve Martino & Mike Thurmeier and features the voice talent of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah, as well as Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Jennifer Lopez, Peter Dinklage, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Keke Palmer, Drake, Josh Gad, Alan Tudyk, Nick Frost, and Joy Behar. 20th Century Fox will release the film on July 13. Read the rest of this entry »
‘People Like Us’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 15, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A.R. Rahman, People Like Us, score, Soundtrack
The soundtrack details for the comedy drama People Like Us have been revealed. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award-winning composer A.R. Rahman, as well as two songs by Liz Phair and Michael ‘Nomad’ Ripoll. The soundtrack will be released on June 19, 2012 by Lakeshore Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips from all tracks on the album below. People Like Us is directed by Alex Kurtzman and stars Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Pfeiffer and Mark Duplass. The film centers on a man who is directed by his father’s will to deliver $150.000 to his sister he didn’t know he had. The Dreamworks Production will be released on June 29, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Warbeck to Score ‘Henry IV’
Posted: May 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Cork, Adrian Johnston, Henry IV, Henry V, Papadopoulos & Sons, Richard Eyre, Richard II, Stephen Warbeck, Walking the Dogs
Stephen Warbeck is currently recording his score for the upcoming BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Henry IV. The television production is directed by Richard Eyre (Notes on a Scandal, Iris) and stars Jeremy Irons in the title role, as well as Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal and Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff. Sam Mendes (American Beauty), Neal Street Production’s Pippa Harris (Starter for Ten) and NBC Universal’s Gareth Neame (Downtown Abbey) are executive producing and Rupert Ryle-Hodges (Cranford) is co-producing the project. Warbeck has previously scored the Eyre’s drama The Other Man starring Laura Linney and Antonio Banderas. Henry IV is one of BBC’s three new adaptations of Shakespeare’s second historical tetralogy and will be premiering in two parts this summer in the UK to coincide with the 2012 Cultural Olympiad – the largest celebration of culture in the history of the modern Olympics and Paralympics. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Europe's Most Wanted, Hans Zimmer, Madagascar 3, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for Dreamworks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted have been revealed. The album features several tracks of the film’s original score composed by Hans Zimmer. Also included is an original song perfomed by Peter Asher, Yolanda Be Cool’s Americano, Katy Perry’s Firework, as well as several cover versions performed by the film’s voice cast including Chris Rock and Frances McDormand. The soundtrack will be released on June 5, 2012 by Interscope Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips from all tracks on the album can be checked out after the jump. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted is directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath & Conrad Vernon and also features the voice talent of Ben Stiller, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Jessica Chastain, Bryan Cranston and Martin Short. Read the rest of this entry »
Remastered ‘Chinatown’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: May 14, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Alien, Amazing Grace and Chuck, Bill Conti, Chinatown, Elmer Bernstein, Eye of the Needle, Jerry Goldsmith, Miklos Rosza, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Karate Kid: Part III
Varese Sarabande Records has announced the latest batch of titles in the Varese CD Club series. Most notably, the label will be relasing a remastered soundtrack edition for Roman Polanski’s classic 1974 thriller Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. The album features the Academy Award-nominated score composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The release is limited to 3000 copies and is available for pre-order on Varese’s website, where you can also check out a number of audio clips. The previous soundtrack CD has been out-of-print for more than a decade. The release coincides with the Blu-Ray debut of the film. Apart from the score nomination, Chinatown has also received 10 other Oscar nods, including in the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor/Actress categories. Read the rest of this entry »
