Null Records has announced the details of the soundtrack for David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The album features the original score from the movie by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, as well as Reznor’s and Karen O’s cover of Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 9, 2011 (visit iTunes to pre-order the album) and later in the month as a 3-CD set, which is now available for pre-order on Amazon. To order a limited edition deluxe package of the album, visit Null Corporation’s online store, where you can also download a six-track, 35 minute sampler with no purchase necessary. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo marks Reznor’s and Ross’ second collaboration with David Fincher after last year’s The Social Network, which led to an Academy Award win for the composers. The movie based on the bestselling novel by Stieg Larsson stars Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgard and Joely Richardson. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 1, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Atticus Ross, David Fincher, score, Soundtrack, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Trent Reznor
Robert Duncan to Score ABC’s ‘Missing’
Posted: December 1, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Castle, Missing, Robert Duncan
Robert Duncan is set to score the upcoming ABC drama Missing. The show stars Ashley Judd as a mother who travels to Europe to track down her son who disappeared while studying abroad. It soon becomes clear that she is a former CIA agent who will stop at nothing to bring her son home alive. Sean Bean, Cliff Curtis, Adriano Giannini, Nick Eversman and Tereza Voriskova are co-starring. The series is created by Gregory Poirier (Rosewood, Gossip) and executive produced by Gina Matthews (What Women Want, 13 Going on 30), Grant Scharbo (The Gates), Steve Shill (The Tudors, Obsessed) and James Parriott. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Darkest Hour’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 1, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: score, Soundtrack, The Darkest Hour, Tyler Bates
The details of the soundtrack release for the sci-fi horror film The Darkest Hour have been revealed. The album includes the original score from the movie by composer Tyler Bates, as well the songs I Like That by Richard Vission and Static Revenger feat. Luciana and Mockba (Moscow) by Marselle. The soundtrack is set for a release on December 13, 2011 by Lakeshore Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips from all 19 tracks on the album can be checked out below. The Darkest Hour directed by Chris Gorak and starring Emile Hirsch, Rachael Taylor, Olivia Thirlby and Max Minghella will be released in theaters on December 25. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 Grammy Nominations Announced
Posted: December 1, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Clint Mansell, Daft Punk, Grammy Awards, Grammy Nominations, Ryan Shore
The nominations for the 54th Grammy Awards have been announced. Here are the nominations in the film music related categories:
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Black Swan (Clint Mansell) – Sony Classical/Fox Music
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow – Part 2 (Alexandre Desplat) – WaterTower Music
- The King’s Speech (Alexandre Desplat) – Decca
- The Shrine (Ryan Shore) – Screamworks
- Tron Legacy (Daft Punk) – Walt Disney Records Read the rest of this entry »
‘Welcome to the Punch’ to Feature Music by Harry Escott
Posted: November 30, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eran Creevy, Harry Escott, Welcome to the Punch
Eaton Music has announced that composer Harry Escott is set to score the upcoming British crime thriller Welcome to the Punch. The movie is directed by Eran Creevy and stars James McAvoy as a detective who forms an unlikely union with a criminal as they uncover a conspiracy. Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough and Peter Mullan are co-starring in the film. Ridley Scott is executive producing via Scott Free Productions and Rory Aitken & Ben Pugh (Shifty), as well as Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Insidious) are the producers of the project. Escott previously collaborated with Creevy on the director’s 2008 feature debut Shifty, for which the filmmaker was nominated for a BAFTA award. Read the rest of this entry »
Ilan Eshkeri to Score ‘Austenland’
Posted: November 30, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Austenland, Ilan Eshkeri, Jerusha Hess
Ilan Eshkeri has been hired to score the indie romantic comedy Austenland. The film based on a novel by Shannon Hale marks the directorial debut of Jerusha Hess who is best known for co-writing the screenplay of the 2004 indie hit Napoleon Dynamite with her husband Jared Hess. Austenland stars Keri Russell as a single woman in her 30’s who is obsessed with Mr. Darcy of the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. When she decides to decides to spend her life savings on a trip to a Jane Austen-themed resort in England, the woman’s dream of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman becomes more real than she could have imagined. JJ Feild, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Seymour, Rupert Vansittart and James Callis are co-starring. Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight books, is among the producers on the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 29, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music will be releasing the soundtrack album for the drama Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which marks the last major movie of the year for which no soundtrack announcement had been made yet (visit our upcoming soundtracks section for a full listing of the soundtracks coming out in the next couple of weeks). The album includes the original score from the movie composed and conducted by Alexandre Desplat and will be released on January 17, 2011. The composer recently finished recording around 80 minutes of music that he wrote in less than one month after coming in as a replacement for Nico Muhly. Check back on this page for the full details and audio clips of the soundtrack within the next couple of weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Elfman’s ‘Scrooged’ Score and Ennio Morricone’s ‘Fat Man and Little Boy’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 29, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Danny Elfman, Die Hard, Ennio Morricone, Fat Man and Little Boy, Jerry Goldsmith, Michael Kamen, score, Scrooged, Soundtrack, Tora! Tora! Tora!
La-La Land Records has announced four new limited soundtrack albums, including two world premiere releases and two new editions of film music classics. First up is the previously unreleased score for Richard Donner’s 1988 holiday comedy Scrooged. The album includes the music from the movie by Danny Elfman. The project was Elfman’s first major Hollywood studio assignment before he scored his breakout score for Tim Burton’s Batman. To order the album and listen to audio previews, visit La-La Land Records’ website. Scrooged starring Bill Murray, Karen Allen, David Johansen and Bobcat Goldthwait received one Academy Award nomination for Best Make Up.
The label has also announced the world premiere release of the 1989 docudrama Fat Man and Little Boy. The album includes the original score from the film by Ennio Morricone. The 2CD-set includes a number of cues that were not used in the final cut of the movie. Audio clips and more details about the release can be checked out in La-La Land Records’ online store. Fat Man and Little Boy was directed by Roland Joffe (The Mission) and stars Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz and John Cusack. Read the rest of this entry »
Composers on TNT’s Mystery Movie Night
Posted: November 29, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Bacon, Claude Foisy, David Mansfield, Deck the Halls, Good Morning Killer, Hide, Laura Karpman, Michael A. Levine, Mystery Movie Night, Ricochet, Scott Turow's Innocent, Silent Witness, TNT, Velton Ray Bunch
TNT is launching the Mystery Movie Night, a series of contemporary crime dramas, based on popular novels. The first six movies that are premiering in the next few weeks have some notable composers working on the music for the films. Airing tommorow, November 30 is the mystery drama Ricochet based on a novel by Sandra Brown and starring John Corbett, Gary Cole, Julie Benz and Kelly Overton. The movie centers on two homicide detectives find their careers and lives on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah. Nick Gomez (Dexter, Drowning Mona) is directing and Howard Braunstein (The Informant!) and Jim Head are executive producing. The film’s music is composed by Chris Bacon who caught the attention of the film music community with his orchestral score for this year’s Source Code directed by Duncan Jones and starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Read the rest of this entry »
New Soundtrack Editions of Jerry Goldsmith’s ‘The Great Train Robbery’ and James Horner’s ‘Wolfen’ Announced
Posted: November 28, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack, The Great Train Robbery, Wolfen
Intrada Records has announced two new soundtrack editions of classic film scores. The first release is a 2-disc edition of Jerry Goldsmith‘s score for the 1979 action adventure movie The Great Train Robbery. The album includes the world premiere release of the complete score on one disc, as well as the original 1979 soundtrack assembly as produced by Goldsmith. To listen to audio clips and to order the album, visit Intrada’s website. The Great Train Robbery starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down was written and directed by Michael Crichton.
The label’s other new release is the world premiere release of James Horner‘s score for the 1981 horror thriller Wolfen. The album includes the complete score by Horner written for the film, including two alternate tracks not used in the movie. For more details on the release and to check out audio clips, visit Intrada’s online store. Wolfen directed by Michael Wadleigh stars Albert Finney as a New York cop who investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks.
