The details of the soundtrack album for the biographical comedy drama Hitchcock have beem revealed. The album features the film’s original score composed by Danny Elfman. The soundtrack will be released on December 4, 2012 by Sony Classical and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips from the album below. Hitchcock is directed Sacha Gervasi and stars Anthony Hopkins in the title role, alongside Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, James D’Arcy, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jessica Biel and Danny Huston. The movie following the iconic director’s struggles during the filmmaking of the horror classic Psycho will be released on November 23, 2012 by Fox Searchlight. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hitchcock’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 6, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Danny Elfman, Hitchcock, score, Soundtrack
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Atli Orvarsson Scoring ‘Evidence’
Posted: November 5, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atli Orvarsson, Evidence, Olatunde Osunsanmi
Atli Orvarsson has recently reunited with director Olatunde Osunsanmi on the upcoming thriller Evidence. The film stars Stephen Moyer, Radha Mitchell, Nolan Gerard Funk, Dale Dickey, Caitlin Stasey, Torrey DeVitto, Albert Kuo and Harry Lennix. The movie follows a detective who hunts down a killer using video footage shot by the victims of a massacre at an abandoned gas station. John Swetnam has written the screenplay. Marc Platt (Drive, Wanted) is producing the project through his own production company, alongside David Lancaster & Michel Litvak (Legion, Bobby) through Bold Films and Anthony Rhulen (The Butterfly Effect, Lucky Number Slevin) through FilmEngine. Read the rest of this entry »
John Swihart Scoring the FOX Comedy ‘The Goodwin Games’
Posted: November 5, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fox, John Swihart, The Goodwin Games
John Swihart is scoring the upcoming FOX comedy The Goodwin Games. The show is created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and stars Scott Foley, Becki Newton, T. J. Miller, Kat Foster and Melissa Tang. The series follows three grown siblings who return home after their father’s death, and unexpectedly find themselves poised to inherit a vast fortune – if they adhere to their late father’s wishes. Bays and Thomas have previously created and are executive producing the CBS hit comedy How I Met Your Mother, which Swihart has been scoring for the past seven years. They are also executive producing The Goodwin Games with Chris Harris and Peyton Reed (The Break-Up, Bring It On) who also directed the pilot episode. The 20th Century Fox Television production is set to premiere in early 2013 on FOX. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 4, 2012)
Posted: November 4, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Antonio Pinto, Paul Has, Paul Haslinger, Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, Witness
Premiering tonight is the action thriller Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin-Laden directed by John Stockwell and starring Cam Gigandet, Xzibit, Freddy Rodriguez, Anson Mount, Kathleen Robertson, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Kenneth Miller, Robert Knepper and William Fichtner. The film’s music is composed by Paul Haslinger who has previously worked with the director on such films as Crazy/Beautiful, Blue Crush, Into the Blue and Turistas. The movie, which was originally entitled Code Name: Geronimo premieres tonight on the National Geography Channel and will next air on Friday, November 9. Check out the official film website to learn more about the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Gabriel Mann to Score the Sundance Channel’s ‘Rectify’
Posted: November 3, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gabriel Mann, Ray McKinnon, Rectify, Sundance Channel
Gabriel Mann has been hired to score the Sundance Channel’s first hourlong scripted series Rectify. The six-part legal drama stars Abigail Spencer, Clayne Crawford, Adelaide Clements, Jonah Lotan and J. Smith Cameron. The show is created by Ray McKinnon (screenwriter of An Evening Sun and actor in FX’s Sons of Anarchy) and follows a man who is released from Death Row after spending 19 years in prison and returns to his hometown where he must readjust to his new life, including unfamiliar family members and surroundings. Mark Johnson (The Chronicle of Narnia series, Rain Man) and Melissa Bernstein (Breaking Bad) are executive producing the project with McKinnon. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 2, 2012)
Posted: November 2, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Late Quartet, Alan Silvestri, Angelo Badalamenti, Chris Bacon, Christophe Beck, David Byrne, David Kitay, Flight, Henry Jackman, High Ground, Howard Drossin, Jack and Diane, Marcelo Zarvos, Mum, Paperman, RZA, The Bay, The Details, The Man with the Iron Fists, This Must Be the Place, tomandandy, Vamps, Will Oldham, Wreck-It-Ralph
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the animated feature Wreck-It-Ralph directed by Rich Moore and featuring the voice talent of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch. The film’s score is composed by Henry Jackman (X-Men: First Class). Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the score, as well as one track by Skrillex who wrote some of the in-game music and other songs featured in the film. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full details. Also click here for a number of video interviews with Jackman about his work on the project. Attached to the film is the animated short Paperman, which features an original score by Christophe Beck.
Also opening wide is the drama director Robert Zemeckis and starring Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle, Bruce Greenwood, John Goodman, Melissa Leo and James Badge Dale. The director’s regular musical collaborator Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, The Avengers) has composed the film’s original score. No soundtrack album has been released yet, but the score is available to listen to on Paramount Pictures’ Awards website. For more information about the film, visit our previous article. Also check out a short interview with the composer in Beatweek about his latest project. Read the rest of this entry »
Edgar Wright’s ‘The World’s End’ to Feature Music by Steven Price
Posted: November 2, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Edgar Wright, Steven Price, The World's End
Steven Price has been tapped to score the upcoming comedy The World’s End. The film is directed by Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan. The movie is the third part of the director’s “cornetto” trilogy of comedies written by Wright and Pegg and starring Pegg and Frost, following Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz (scored by David Arnold). The comedy follows five childhood friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier and unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival. Nira Park (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Paul) is producing for Big Talk Pictures and Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner (Love Actually, Atonement) are producing for Working Title Films. Price has previously scored last year’s Attack the Block, which was executive produced by Wright. Read the rest of this entry »
Henry Jackman on ‘Wreck-It-Ralph’
Posted: November 2, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Composer InterviewsTags: Henry Jackman, Wreck-It-Ralph
SoundWorks Collection has published a video profile on the sound and music of Disney’s animated feature Wreck-It-Ralph. The video features interviews with composer Henry Jackman (X-Men: First Class, Puss in Boots), as well as sound re-recording mixers David Fluhr & Gary Rizzo and supervising sound editor Frank Eulner. Check out the full video after the jump. Also check out two video interviews with composer from the red carpet world premiere this past Monday at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, as well as a short interview courtesy of TrailerAddict below. A soundtrack album for the film featuring Jackman’s score, as well as the film’s songs and additional music by Skrillex is now available on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Silvestri’s ‘Flight’ Score Available Online
Posted: November 1, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alan Silvestri, Flight, Robert Zemeckis
The full score for Robert Zemeckis’ drama Flight has been made available online by Paramount Pictures. The music is written by Academy Award-nominated composer Alan Silvestri who has worked with the director for almost three decades on movies including Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Cast Away and The Polar Express. To listen to the full score, visit Paramount’s awards site. The track titles contain some minor spoilers. As the movie features just a little over 20 minutes of score, no soundtrack album has been announced yet. Flight starring Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle, Bruce Greenwood, John Goodman, Melissa Leo and James Badge Dale tells the story of an airline pilot with substance abuse issues who saves 98 lives when a damaged engine threatens an airplane flight. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Isham to Score TNT’s ‘L.A. Noir’
Posted: November 1, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Frank Darabont, L.A. Noir, Mark Isham, TNT
Mark Isham is scoring the upcoming TNT original series L.A. Noir. The show created by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) and based on on the book L.A. Noir: The Struggle For The Soul Of America’s Most Seductive City by John Buntin chronicles the battle between Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker and mobster Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of LA.s criminal world during the 1940’s & 1950’s. The series stars Jon Berthnal, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jeremy Strong, Neal McDonough, Milo Ventimiglia, Ron Rifkin, Pihla Viitala and Alexa Davalos. Darabont who has previously collaborated with Isham on the feature films The Mist and The Majestic directed the pilot episode and is executive producing the project with Michael De Luca (The Social Network) and Elliott Webb (Tall Time Tales). Read the rest of this entry »
