John Debney has announced on his official Facebook fan page that he will be scoring the upcoming period drama mini-series Hatfields & McCoys. The three-parter directed by Kevin Reynolds (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Waterworld) stars Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton as two lose friends and comrades during the Civil War who return to their neighboring homes – Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky – to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon exploded into all-out warfare between the two families. Tom Berenger, Powers Boothe and Mare Winningham are co-starring. Leslie Greif (Walker, Texas Ranger) is producing and Ted Mann (Deadwood) & Ron Parker (Broken Trail) have written the script for the Thinkfactory Media production. Read the rest of this entry »
John Debney to Score ‘Hatfields & McCoys’
Posted: February 25, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hatfields & McCoys, John Debney, Kevin Reynolds, The Three Stooges
‘Red Lights’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 24, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Red Lights, Rodrigo Cortéz, score, Soundtrack, Victor Reyes
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack release for the psychological thriller Red Lights. The album includes the original music from the movie composed by Victor Reyes (Buried). The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 13, 2012. Audio clips are available after the jump. Red Lights is directed by Rodrigo Cortéz and stars Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Joely Richardson, Toby Jones and Elizabeth Olsen. The movie about a psychologist and her assistant whose study of paranormal activity leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it has been acquired by Millennium Films for US distribution. No domestic release date has been set yet. The soundtrack release coincides with the opening of the film in Spain, where it it scheduled to come out on March 2. Read the rest of this entry »
James Seymour Brett to Score Disney’s ‘Planes’
Posted: February 24, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James Brett, James Seymour Brett, John Lasseter, L'Histoire De Nos Petites Morts, Planes, Saving Santa
James Seymour Brett has been hired to score DisneyToon Studios’ upcoming feature Planes. The animated movie directed by Klay Hall draws inspiration from Disney/Pixar’s Cars and centers on a small-town crop-duster (voiced by Jon Cryer) with a fear of heights who longs to enter an epic around-the-world air race. Stacy Keach and Brad Garrett are also lending their voices for the project. Pixar’s/Walt Disney Animation Studios’ chief creative officer and Academy Award-winner John Lasseter (Toy Story, A Bug’s Life) is producing the film. Brett’s music is expected to be recorded this summer. Planes is set for a release in spring 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 24, 2012)
Posted: February 24, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aaron Zigman, Act of Valor, Craig Wedren, David Buckley, Gone, Good Deeds, Johnny Klimek, Nathan Furst, Reinhold Heil, Tomorrow When the War Began, Wanderlust
Four new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the war movie Act of Valor directed by Scott Waugh & Mike “Mouse” McCoy about a group of active-duty Navy SEALs that is sent across the globe as they track the terrorist ring to the U.S.-Mexico border. Relativity Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the film’s country songs by artists including Keith Urban, Sugarland and Lady Antebellum. Check out our previous article for the full details and audio clips. The label has also released a separate soundtrack featuring the movie’s original score by composer Nathan Furst. Audio clips and more details about the score release can be found here.
Also opening wide is the thriller Gone directed by Heitor Dhalia and starring Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Dunjata, Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Stan and Wes Bentley. The film’s score is written by David Buckley (The Town, Forbidden Kingdom). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score digitally earlier this week and the CD version is set to come out next month. Visit our soundtrack announcement for the full details including audio clips. Also visit Film Music Media for an audio interview with Buckley about his work on the thriller. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Young to Score ‘Killing Season’
Posted: February 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Young, Killing Season, Mark Steven Johnson
Christopher Young has revealed in a recent interview with 123 Film Easy that he is attached to score the upcoming action thriller Killing Season. The movie reunites the composer with director Mark Steven Johnson. They have previously collaborated on the comic book adaptation Ghost Rider and the Kristen Bell-starring romantic comedy When in Rome. Killing Season stars Robert De Niro as an American military veteran who has retreated to a remote cabin in the Appalachian Mountains, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a European tourist, played by John Travolta, who turns out to be a former Serbian soldier looking for revenge. Even Daughtery (Snow White and the Huntsman) has written the screenplay for the Millennium Films and Corsan Picture production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Keyhole’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jason Koczarek, Keyhole, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records has announced a soundtrack album for the Canadian indie drama Keyhole. The album includes the film’s original music composed by Jason Staczek and performed by Elizabeth Ripley, Ela Lamblin and Martin Kuuskmann. The soundtrack will be released on March 13, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check audio clips from all tracks on the album below. Keyhole is written and directed by Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World) and stars Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini and Udo Kier. The movie centers on a gangster and deadbeat father who returns home after a long absence and is toting two teenagers: a drowned girl who has mysteriously returned to life and a bound-and-gagged hostage who is actually his own teenage son. Read the rest of this entry »
Henry Jackman to Score ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’
Posted: February 22, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Henry Jackman, Jon Chu
Henry Jackman has been tapped to score the upcoming action sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation. The film is directed by Jon Cho (Step Up 2 & 3, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never) and stars Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Byung Hun Lee, Adrienne Palicki, Ray Park, D.J. Cotrona, Jonathan Pryce and Ray Stevenson. In the sequel to the 2009 film, the G.I. Joes are fighting their mortal enemy Cobra and are also forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Zombieland) have written the screenplay and Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, Salt) and Brian Goldner (Battleship) are producing the film based on the Hasbro’s G.I. Joe characters. Read the rest of this entry »
John Swihart to Score ‘Odd Thomas’
Posted: February 21, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Swihart, Odd Thomas, Stephen Sommers
John Swihart is scoring the supernatural thriller Odd Thomas. The movie directed by Stephen Sommers is based on the bestselling novel written by Dean Koontz. The film stars Anton Yelchin as a clairvoyant short-order cook who encounters a mysterious man with links to dark and threatening forces. Willem Dafoe, Patton Oswalt, Addison Timlin and Nico Tortorella are co-starring in the Fusion Films and Sommers Company production. Sommers has also written the screenplay and is producing the project with John Baldecchi (The Mexican, Conan the Barbarian) and Howard Kaplan. The director has previously worked with composers Alan Silvestri on his last three features The Mummy Returns, Van Helsing and G.I. Joe. He has also collaborated with Jerry Goldsmith (The Mummy, Deep Rising), Basil Poledouris (The Jungle Book) and Bill Conti (The Adventures of Huck Finn) earlier in his career. Read the rest of this entry »
Behind the Music of ‘There Be Dragons’
Posted: February 21, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Music AlbumsTags: A Troll in Central Park, Robert Folk, score, Soundtrack, There Be Dragons
A video feature on the music for the international release of the epic adventure There Be Dragons has recently surfaced. The 10-minute video shows footage from the recording sessions of the score, as well as a conversation between composer Robert Folk and producer James Ordonez. Also featured is an interview with conductor David Sabee. Check out the full video after the jump. The soundtrack for There Be Dragons is available on Varese Sarabande Records. Check out our previous article for the full details and check out audio clips from all tracks on the album below. The movie is directed by Roland Joffe and stars Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Rodrigo Santoro, Derek Jacobi and Olga Kurylenko. Read the rest of this entry »
Christophe Beck on ‘Good Morning America’
Posted: February 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Composer InterviewsTags: Christophe Beck, The Muppets
This morning, ABC’s Good Morning America featured a 5-minute segment on composer Christophe Beck. ABC correspondent Cameron Mathison visited Beck at his studio in Santa Monica, where he talked to the composer about his recent score for Walt Disney Pictures’ The Muppets, his favorite scene from the movie and also asked him to score his own home video. Check out the full video after the jump. Beck’s music can currently be heard in the action romantic comedy This Means War starring Reese Witherspoon and next up for the composer is the sci-fi comedy Neighborhood Watch starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill. Read the rest of this entry »
