Intrada Records has announced a CD release of the soundtrack for Pixar’s Academy Award-winning hit sequel Toy Story 3. The film’s music is written by Randy Newman. The soundtrack featuring both the film’s score and the songs We Belong Together and the Spanish-language version of You’ve Got A Friend In Me has previously only been available as a digital release from Walt Disney Records. To order the CD version and listen to audio clips, visit Intrada’s online store. Toy Story 3 directed by Lee Unkrich was 2010’s highest grossing movie in the US. The film was nominated for five Oscars and received the award in the Best Animated Feature Film category, as well as for Newman’s title song. Read the rest of this entry »
Randy Newman’s ‘Toy Story 3’ Soundtrack Released on CD
Posted: January 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lee Holdridge, Randy Newman, score, Soundtrack, Toy Story 3, Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
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Sundance 2012 Film Music Roundup (Part 2)
Posted: January 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Compliance, Dan Romer, For Ellen, Francis and the Lights, Francis Farewell Starlit, Heather McIntosh, I Am Not a Hipster, Joel P. West, Johann Johannsson, Joseph Trapanese, Me at the Zoo, Mike Shinoda, Nico Muhly, One Man Joins an Uprising, Robot and Frank, The Movement, The Raid, Trevor Rabin
Check out the first part of our roundup of the music and composers of the movies premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival by clicking here.
A film that is likely to find distribution within the next few days or weeks given its high profile cast and positive critical reaction is the comedy drama Robot and Frank directed by Jake Schreier. The movie stars Frank Langella as an elderly ex-jewel thief who leads a lonely life until his grown children install a robot to care for him, sparking off an unlikely friendship. Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Peter Saarsgard (as the robot’s voice), Jeremy Sisto and Jeremy Strong are co-starring. Christopher Ford has written the screenplay and Galt Niederhoffer (The Romantics), Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee and Lance Acord (BAFTA-nominated cinematographer for Lost in Translation) are producing. The film’s music is written by Francis and the Lights (aka Francis Farewell Starlit). The project marks the singer/songwriter’s first film music project. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Young to Score ‘Sinister’
Posted: January 22, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Young, Kostas Christides, Scott Derrickson, Sinister, The Baytown Disco
Christopher Young has been hired to write the music for the upcoming horror thriller Sinister. The movie reunites the composer with director Scott Derrickson. They have previously collaborated on the 2005 hit thriller The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Sinister stars Ethan Hawke as a journalist who travels with his family around the country to investigate gruesome murders. After he moves his family into a house where another family was murdered, he discovers film footage revealing what happened before the tragedy occured. Vincent D’Onofrio, James Ransone, Fred Dalton Thompson, Nicholas King, Clare Foley and Victoria Leigh are co-starring. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Footnote’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 22, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amit Poznansky, Footnote, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will be releasing the soundtrack album for the Israeli drama Footnote. The album includes the original score from the movie written by Amit Poznansky. The soundtrack will be released in the US on February 21, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Footnote is written and directed by Joseph Cedar (Beaufort) and centers on the rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in Talmudic Studies. The film premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it received the Best Screenplay award and has also been shortlisted in the Best Foreign Language Film category as Israel’s entry for this year’s Academy Awards. Sony Pictures Classics has picked up domestic rights and is releasing the film in New York and Los Angeles on March 9, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
Sundance 2012 Film Music Roundup (Part 1)
Posted: January 21, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Celeste and Jesse Forever, Daniel Bensi, Davin Wood, Hello I Must Be Going, Jeff Beal, Laura Veirs, Nick Cave, Rosie Chase, Saunder Jurriaans, Searching for Sugar Man, Simon Killer, Sixto Rodriguez, Sundance, Sunny Levine, The Queen of Versailles, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, Tim Rogers, Warren Ellis, West of Memphis, Wish You Were Here, Zach Cowie
Over the next week, we will be looking at the music and composers of some of the most high profile titles premiering at the Sundance Film Festival that haven’t been covered yet on this page.
One of the best reviewed film so far at the festival is the documentary West of Memphis directed by Amy Berg who had been Academy Award-nominated for the 2006 movie Deliver Us from Evil. West of Memphis produced by Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh (The Lord of the Rings), Lorri Davis and Damien Echols centers on the wrongful conviction case of three Arkansas teenagers (known as the West Memphis Three) who were found guilty in 1994 of the ritual murder of three eight-year-old boy. The film’s music is written by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Road). Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Woman in Black’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: January 21, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marco Beltrami, score, Soundtrack, The Woman in Black
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack release for the gothic horror thriller The Woman in Black. The album includes the original score by composer Marco Beltrami. The soundtrack is currently scheduled to be released on March 27, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. (UPDATE: February 2012): The album is also coming out digitally on February 7. Audio clips can be checked out below. The Woman in Black is directed by James Watkins (Eden Lake) and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, Sophie Stuckey and Liz White. The thriller centers on a young lawyer who travels to a remote village in England to tend to a deceased client’s papers and soon begins to discover town’s terrible secrets. The movie will be released nationwide on February 3, 2012 by CBS Films. Read the rest of this entry »
‘W.E.’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 21, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Abel Korzeniowski, Madonna, score, Soundtrack, W.E
Interscope Records will be releasing the official soundtrack album for Madonna’s drama W.E. The album features the original score from the movie composed by Abel Korzeniowski (A Single Man) who received a Golden Globe nomination for his music. Also included on the soundtrack is the Golden Globe-winning song Masterpiece, performed and co-written by Madonna. The album will be released digitally on January 31, 2012 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips from all tracks on the soundtrack. W.E. starring Andrea Riseborough, Abbie Cornish, Natalie Dormer, Richard Coyle, Oscar Isaac and James D’Arcy received an Oscar-qualifying run last month and is set for a release in select cities on February 3. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 20, 2012)
Posted: January 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: David Holmes, Haywire, Paul Haslinger, Qigang Chen, Red Tails, score, Soundtrack, Terence Blanchard, The Flowers of War, Underworld Awakening
Three new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is action horror sequel Underworld Awakening directed by Mans Marlin & Bjorn Stein and starring Kate Beckinsale, Sandrine Holt, Michael Ealy and India Eisley. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack featuring the movie’s songs by artists including Evanescence, Linkin Park, The Cure, Ministry and Lacuna Coil this past Tuesday (click here for our announcement). A separate soundtrack album featuring the film’s original score by Paul Haslinger and three more songs will be released next Tuesday (click here for the full details and audio clips).
Also opening nationwide is the George Lucas-produced WWII drama Red Tails directed by Anthony Hemingway stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard and Bryan Cranston. Terence Blanchard has written the score for the film. Sony Classical has released the official soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music digitally earlier this week and the CD version is scheduled to come out next month. Audio clips and more information can be checked out in our previous news article. For an audio interview with Blanchard talking about his first collaboration with Lucas, visit Scorenotes. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard Video Interview
Posted: January 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Composer InterviewsTags: James Newton Howard, The Bourne Legacy, The Hunger Games
Go See Talk has published a 30-minutes video conversation with James Newton Howard that was shot last week in Dallas, where he conducted the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on his first full concert of his film work for The Masters of Film Music series. During the interview, the composer talks about his background and his first film score, his work methods and why he did not come back to score The Dark Knight Rises after his collaboration with Hans Zimmer on the first two scores for Christopher Nolan’s Batman series. He also hints about what to expect from the upcoming The Bourne Legacy score and whether or not he will be incorporating any of John Powell’s material from the previous Bourne films. Newton Howard has just recently finished writing and recording the score for the highly anticipated movie adaptation of The Hunger Games, for which he wrote roughly 80 minutes of music in about four weeks. Check out the full interview after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Peter Golub Scoring ‘Black Rock’
Posted: January 19, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Black Rock, Katie Aselton, Peter Golub
Peter Golub has recently scored the indie horror thriller Black Rock. The film is directed by Katie Aselton (The Freebie) and written by Mark Duplass (Cyrus, Jeff Who Lives at Home) who is also executive producing with his brother Jay Duplass. Aselton, Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth are starring as three friends who are going on a weekend getaway to a remote island in Maine and discover that they are not alone. Adele Romanski (The Myth of the American Sleepover) is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
