James Newton Howard has been tapped to score the action thriller The Bourne Legacy. The film stars Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton and Stacy Keach. Albert Finney, Scott Glenn and Joan Allen are reprising their roles from the previous parts of the series. The project marks the composer’s first score for the franchise. The previous three installments have been scored by John Powell. The fourth Bourne movie is written and directed by Tony Gilroy who was involved as a writer on the previous movies in the series and has previously worked with Newton Howard on his first two directorial efforts Michael Clayton and Duplicity. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard to Score ‘The Bourne Legacy’
Posted: November 14, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James Newton Howard, The Bourne Legacy, Tony Gilroy
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‘Fireflies in the Garden’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Fireflies in the Garden, Jane Antonia Cornish, score, Soundtrack
BSX Records has released a soundtrack album for the drama Fireflies in the Garden. The album features the original music written by Jane Antonia Cornish who has scored the recut version of the film for the US market. The soundtrack is available to download on Amazon and a physical release is set to come out on November 23, 2011 on buysoundtrax.com. Check out audio clips from all tracks on the album after the jump. A soundtrack featuring Javier Navarrete’s music from the original cut that was released overseas is available to download on Amazon and as an import on CD. Fireflies in the Garden is directed by Dennis Lee and stars Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Ann Moss, Ioan Gruffud, Hayden Panetierre and Julia Roberts. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Shame’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 12, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Harry Escott, score, Shame, Soundtrack
Sony Music will be releasing a soundtrack album for the drama Shame. The album features selections from the original score from the film by composer Harry Escott, as well as classic Bach performances from pianist Glenn Gould. Also included on the release are several songs from the movie by artists including Blondie, Howlin’ Wolf, as well as Carey Mulligan’s performance of New York, New York featured in the film. The soundtrack will be released on December 6, 2011 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out after the jump. Shame is directed by Steve McQueen and stars Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie and Hannah Ware. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Bacon Scoring ‘High Ground’
Posted: November 12, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beethoven's Christmas Adventure, Chris Bacon, High Ground
Chris Bacon is the composer of the upcoming documentary High Ground. The film directed by Michael Brown tells the true story of eleven wounded veterans whose road to recovery takes them to the top of a Himalayan giant on a journey to heal the wounds of war. Don Hahn (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast) is producing the project. The movie was shot on location in Nepal and the United States and follows an expedition that teamed disabled veterans with world recognized mountain climbers, including blind Everest summiter Erik Weihenmayer. High Ground is expected to make its festival premiere in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 11, 2011)
Posted: November 11, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Clint Eastwood, Immortals, J. Edgar, Jack and Jill, Killing Bono, London Boulevard, Melancholia, Nicola Piovani, Rupert Gregson-Williams, score, Sergio Pizzorno, Soundtrack, Stephen Warbeck, The Conquest, Trevor Morris, Waddy Wachtel
Three new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the 3D action adventure Immortals directed by Tarsem Singh and starring Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff, Isabel Lucas, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, Kellan Lutz and John Hurt. The film’s music is composed by Trevor Morris. Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. For audio clips and more information about the release, visit our soundtrack announcement. For a video from the recording of the score, click here and also check out audio interviews with Morris about his work on the film on Film Music Magazine and Scorenotes.
Also opening wide is the historical drama J. Edgar directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Judi Dench, Stephen Root, Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney and Jeffrey Donovan. Eastwood has also written the score for the film. No soundtrack album has been announced, but the score can be listened to on Warner Bros’ Awards website. To learn more about the movie, visit our previous article. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I Melt With You’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 11, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: I Melt with You, Soundtrack, tomandandy
Lakeshore Records has announced the details of the soundtrack release for the drama I Melt With You. The album includes one track from the film’s score by tomandandy, as well as songs from the movie by artists including Big Dipper, Filter, The Pixies, Galaxie 500, The Specials, Funkadelics, Love and Rockets and Modern English. The album will be released digitally on November 29, 2011 and physically on December 20. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon. Audio clips from all track on the album are available below. I Melt with You is directed by Mark Pellington (Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies) and stars Jeremy Piven, Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay and Carlo Gugino. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Trask Scoring ‘So Undercover’
Posted: November 10, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: So Undercover, Stephen Trask, Tom Vaughan
Stephen Trask has recently recorded his score for the action comedy So Undercover. The film is directed by Tom Vaughan (What Happens in Vegas, Extraordinary Measures) and stars Miley Cyrus as a private investigator who is hired by the FBI to go undercover in the one place it can’t infiltrate – a college sorority. Jeremy Piven, Mike O’Malley, Kelly Osborne, Josh Bowman and Matthew Settle are co-starring. Allen Loeb (21, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps) and Steven Pearl (The Switch) wrote the script and are also producing the comedy with Tish Cyrus. The project marks the first scoring assignment for Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, In Good Company) since last year’s Little Fockers, which was the composer’s highest grossing movie of his career to date. The Weinstein Company has picked up domestic rights for So Undercover and is planning a release in 2012.
‘Albert Nobbs’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 9, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Albert Nobbs, Brian Byrne, Glenn Close, score, Sinéad O’Connor, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack album for the upcoming drama Albert Nobbs. The album includes the score from the movie by composer Brian Byrne, as well as the original song Lay Your Head Down co-written by Byrne and lead actress Glenn Close and performed by Sinéad O’Connor. The album will be released on December 13, 2012 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. Albert Nobbs is directed by Rodrigo Garcia (Mother and Child) and stars Glenn Close as a woman who must pass as a man to survive life in 19th century Ireland. Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, Janet McTeer, Brendan Gleeson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers are co-starring. Read the rest of this entry »
Trevor Morris to Score NBC’s ‘The Firm’
Posted: November 9, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bending the Rules, Immortals, NBC, The Firm, Trevor Morris
Trevor Morris has signed on to score the TV series adaptation of the legal thriller The Firm. The show is based on the bestselling novel by John Grisham and the feature film adaptation starring Tom Cruise. Josh Lucas stars as attorney Mitchell McDeere who brought down the prestigious Memphis law firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke, which operated as a front for the Chicago mob. After a difficult decade, McDeere and his family now emerge from isolation to reclaim their lives and their future, only to find that past dangers are still lurking and new threats are everywhere. Juliette Lewis, Callum Keith Rennie, Molly Parker and Natasha Calis are co-starring in the show. David Straiton (House, Fringe) directed the pilot and Helen Shaver (Judging Amy) is producing alongside Lukas Reiter (Law & Order), John Morayniss (Hung), Michael Rosenberg (Hung) and Noreen Halpern (Rookie Blue). Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Ides of March’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 8, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, George Clooney, score, Soundtrack, The Ides of March
Varese Sarabande has revealed the details for the soundtrack of the political drama The Ides of March. The album features the original score from the film composed by Alexandre Desplat. The album will be released on CD on December 6, 2011 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. The soundtrack has also already been released digitally on iTunes, where you can check out audio clips from the album. The Ides of March is directed by George Clooney and stars Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei, Max Minghella and Jeffrey Wright. Read the rest of this entry »
