Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack for Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. The album includes the original music from the movie by composer Michael Giacchino who is scoring his second film in the series and has once again incorporated Lalo Schifrin’s classic theme into his score. The release date of the soundtrack CD has recently been pushed back January 10, 2012. To pre-order the album, visit Amazon. The album will also be released digitally around the film’s opening date. Audio clips are available below. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Tom Wilkinson, Paula Patton, Ving Rhames, Josh Halloway, Anil Kapoor and Simon Pegg. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 7, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ghost Protocol, Michael Giacchino, Mission Impossible, score, Soundtrack
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Henry Jackman to Score ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’
Posted: December 7, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Abraham Lincoln, Henry Jackman, Man on a Ledge, Timur Bekmambetov, Vampire Hunter
Henry Jackman has signed on to score next summer’s movie adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted) and stars Benjamin Walker in the title role alongside Anthony Mackie, Dominic Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jimmi Simpson, Rufus Sewell and Alan Tudyk. The supernatural movie tells the story of the man who would become the 16th president of the United States and is portrayed as having a secret identity as a vampire hunter. Seth Grahame-Smith has written the script based on his bestselling novel. Bekmambetov is also producing with Tim Burton and Jim Lemley (Wanted, 9). As reported on this page, Trent Reznor had been in talks to score the film earlier this year. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Sitter’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 6, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Wingo, Jeff McIlwain, Soundtrack, The Sitter
Sony Music has released the official soundtrack for David Gordon Green’s comedy The Sitter. The album features one track from the movie’s score by David Wingo and Jeff McIlwain, as well as several songs from the film by artists including The Sugarhill Gang, Slick Rick, Cluts, Pharcyde, The Jungle Brothers, Raphael Saadiq, Escort, Kreayshawn and Omega Watts featuring DJ DNA. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. Check out audio clips from all tracks on the album after the jump. The Sitter stars Jonah Hill as a college student who has a night to remember when he gets talked into baby-sitting the eccentric kids next door. Read the rest of this entry »
John Swihart Scoring ‘For a Good Time, Call…’
Posted: December 6, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: For a Good Time Call..., Jamie Travis, John Swihart
John Swihart has been tapped to score the upcoming indie comedy For a Good Time, Call….. The film is directed by Jamie Travis who makes his feature directing debut on the film. The movie stars Ari Graynor and Lauren Miller as two women who move in together after a loss of a relationship and a loss of a rent controlled home and start a phone sex line. Justin Long, Mark Webber and James Wolk are co-starring and it has been reported that Seth Rogen will make a cameo appearance in the film. Lauren Miller has also co-written the screenplay for the project with Katie Anne Naylon and both are also serving as producers alongside Josh Kesselman (Death at a Funeral) and Jennifer Weinbaum. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard to Score ‘The Hunger Games’
Posted: December 5, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard, The Hunger Games
James Newton Howard has taken over scoring duties on the upcoming film adaptation of The Hunger Games. He has stepped in for Danny Elfman who was originally announced to score the film and had to leave the project due to a scheduling conflict. The Hunger Games based on the bestselling novel by Suzanne Collins is directed by Gary Ross and stars Jennifer Lawrence as a young woman selected to represent her district in a televised fight to the death. Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks and Woody Harrelson are co-starring in the film. The project marks Newton Howard’s third scoring assignment for the coming year following Snow White and the Huntsman and The Bourne Ultimatum. According to a recent interview with Elfman on KCRW, he is currently finishing up scoring Men in Black III and will move straight into working on Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and Dark Shadows afterwards, which likely led to the scheduling conflict. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’ to Feature Music by Jonny Greenwood
Posted: December 5, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jonny Greenwood, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, We Need to Talk About Kevin
According to a recent posting on Twitter by Oliver Weindling, founder of the British label Babel (via The Playlist and Cigarettes & Red Vines), Jonny Greenwood has recently recorded music for Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated religious drama The Master. The Radiohead guitarist has previously scored Anderson’s last movie, the 2007 drama There Will Be Blood starring Daniel Day-Lewis. The Master stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a charismatic intellectual who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952. Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Josh Close and Fiona Dourif are co-starring. Anderson is also producing the film with JoAnne Sellar & John Lesher (Magnolia, There Will Be Blood), Bill Pohlad (Into the Wild) and Megan Ellison (Wettest County). Read the rest of this entry »
Annie Award Nominations Announced
Posted: December 5, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Annie Awards, Annie Nominations
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 39th Annual Annie Awards. Here are the music-related nominees:
Music in a Feature Production
- Henry Jackman – Puss In Boots – DreamWorks Animation
- John Williams – Tintin – Amblin Entertainment, Wingnut Films and Kennedy/Marshall
- Mikael Mutti, Siedah Garrett, Carlinhos Brown, Sergio Mendes, John Powell – Rio – Blue Sky Studios
- Zooey Deschannel, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Henry Jackman, Robert Lopez – Winnie The Pooh – Walt Disney Animation Studios Read the rest of this entry »
Fall 2011 Television Music Roundup (Part 4): NBC
Posted: December 4, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Schwartz, Ed Alton, Free Agents, Grimm, Kurt Farquhar, Martyn LeNoble, NBC, Prime Suspect, Richard Marvin, The Playboy Club, Transcenders, Up All Night, Vincent Jones, Wendy & Lisa, Whitney
In our fourth part of our fall television music series, we are taking a look at the new and returning shows on NBC:
Among the new shows on the network that premiered this fall is the fantasy crime drama Grimm created by David Greenwalt & Jim Kouf and starring Russell Hornsby, David Giuntoli, Bitsie Tulloch, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz and Reggie Lee. The show’s score is written by Richard Marvin (U-571, Surrogates, Six Feet Under). The drama centers on a homicide detective who learns that he is a descendent of a group known as “Grimms” who fight to keep humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world. Grimm currently airs every Friday night on NBC and is expected to receive a full season order in the near future. Read the rest of this entry »
Fall 2011 Television Music Roundup (Part 3): CBS
Posted: December 3, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 2 Broke Girls, A Gifted Man, CBS, Jacob Groth, Person of Interest, Ramin Djawadi, Unforgettable, W.G. Snuffy Walden
In our third part of our roundup of this fall’s television music, we are taking a look at the new and returning shows on CBS:
Among the network’s new shows is the drama Person of Interest created by Jonathan Nolan (brother of Christopher Nolan) and starring Michael Emerson, Jim Caviezel, Taraji B. Henson and Kevin Chapman. The score for the show is composed by Ramin Djawadi (Iron Man, Game of Thrones). The show produced by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Greg Plageman and David Semel centers on a presumed dead former-CIA agent who teams up with a mysterious billionaire to prevent violent crimes by using their own brand of vigilante justice. Person of Interest has already received a full season order and the show airs every Thursday night on CBS. Read the rest of this entry »
Ludovic Bource Wins European Film Award for ‘The Artist’
Posted: December 3, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: European Film Awards, Ludovic Bource, The Artist
Ludovic Bource has won the European Film Award for his score for Michel Hazanavicius‘ black-and-white romance The Artist in the European Composer cateogory at tonight’s EFA Night 2011. The composer accepted his first European Film Award in person at the EFA ceremony in Berlin. The other composers nominated in the music category were Alexandre Desplat for The King’s Speech, Alberto Iglesias for The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) and Mihály Vig for The Turin Horse (A Torinoi Lo). Bource is also considered to be one of the frontrunners for this season’s Academy Awards. Bource’s soundtrack for The Artist has been released by Sony Classical. For the full details of the album including audio clips, check out our soundtrack announcement. For the full list of EFA winners, visit the official European Film Awards website.
