Watertower Music will be releasing the soundtrack for the animated feature Happy Feet Two. The album features the original score by composer John Powell who is also involved in the film’s songs performed by the movie’s voice cast including Pink, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria and Benjamin Flores. In addition, a new version of the hit song Tightrope by R&B artist Janelle Monáe is also included on the soundtrack. The album will be released on November 21, 2011 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips from all tracks on the album can be checked out after the jump. Happy Feet Two is directed by George Miller and features the voice talent of Elijah Wood, Elizabeth Daily, Sofía Vergara, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Hugo Weaving and Anthony LaPaglia in addition to the actors listed before. Read the rest of this entry »
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Happy Feet Two’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 26, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Happy Feet Two, Janelle Monae, John Powell, Pink, score, Soundtrack
Ed Shearmur to Score ‘Have a Little Faith’
Posted: October 26, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ed Shearmur, Edward Shearmur, Have a Little Faith, Jon Avnet
Edward Shearmur is scoring the upcoming TV drama Have a Little Faith. The movie directed by Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes, Up Close & Personal) is based on the best-selling book by Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven) and stars Laurence Fishburne as a Detroit teacher who overcame a life mired in drugs and crime. Bradley Whitford portrays Mitch Albom who met the reverend-in-recovery when he wrote newspaper columns about homeless people and homeless shelters. Anika Noni Rose and Martin Landau are co-starring in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production. Shearmur has previously worked with Avnet a number of times, including on the director’s most recent theatrical features 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Anonymous’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 25, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anonymous, Harald Kloser, Roland Emmerich, score, Soundtrack, Thomas Wander
Madison Gate Records has released the official soundtrack album for Roland Emmerich’s period thriller Anonymous. The album features the original score by composers Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander. The album is available as an on demand CD-R on Amazon, as well as digitally on iTunes. Anonymous stars Rhys Ifans, Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Jamie Campbell Bower and David Thewlis and revolves around the widespread theory that William Shakespeare was not the real author of his plays. The movie will be released in theaters this Friday, October 28. Read the rest of this entry »
Gabriel Yared and Cyrille Aufort to Score ‘A Royal Affair’
Posted: October 25, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Royal Affair, Cyrille Aufort, Gabriel Yared, Nicolaj Arcel
Gabriel Yared and Cyrille Aufort are co-scoring the historical drama A Royal Affair. The film directed by Nicolaj Arcel (King’s Game, screenwriter of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) centers on the affair between Chr. VII’s German physician, Johan Struensee, and the English born queen of Denmark, Caroline Mathilda in the early 1770’s. The movie stars Mads Mikkelsen as Johan Struensee and Alicia Vikander as Caroline Mathilda. Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik are co-starring and Graum Jørgensen (In a Better World, Meta Louise Foldager (Melancholia and Peter Aalbæk Jensen are producing the Zentropa Entertainment production. The movie is set for a release on March 15, 2012 in several European countries. Read the rest of this entry »
Max Richter’s ‘Perfect Sense’ Score Released
Posted: October 25, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Max Richter, Perfect Sense, score, Soundtrack, The Congress
Metropolis Movie Music has released a soundtrack album for the romantic thriller Perfect Sense. The album features the original score from the movoe composed by Max Richter. At the moment, the album is available ezclusively on the British iTunes. No word yet on a domestic release. Perfect Sense is directed by David Mackenzie (Yong Adam) and stars Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen and Ewen Bremner. The movie premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has been picked up by IFC Films for domestic distribution. Read the rest of this entry »
Nicholas Hooper to Score ‘Chimpanzee’
Posted: October 24, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chimpanzee, Disneynature, Nicholas Hooper, Stella Days
Nicholas Hooper is currently scoring the Disneynature documentary Chimpanzee. The movie is directed by Alastair Fothergrill (The Blue Planet, Deep Blue) and Mark Linfield (Earth) and centers on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests. Hooper who is best known for his scores for Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince previously worked with Fothergrill on Disneynature’s African Cats, which was released earlier this year. Chimpanzee is set to debut in theaters on April 20, 2012. Check out the trailer below and visit the official movie website for updates on the film. Read the rest of this entry »
‘World Soundtrack Awards’ Winners Announced
Posted: October 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A.R. Rahman, Alex Heffes, Alexandre Desplat, Giorgio Moroder, Hans Zimmer, Inception, Randy Newman, World Soundtrack Awards
The World Soundtrack Academy announced the winners of the World Soundtrack Awards 2011 at last night’s closing event of the 38th Ghent International Film Festival. Alexandre Desplat was chosen as Film Composer of the Year 2011. Hans Zimmer received the award for Best Orginal Film Score of the Year for Inception and Randy Newman was awarded for his song We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 in the Best Original Song Written for Film category. Alex Heffes received the Discovery of the Year Award for The First Grader & The Rite. The Public Choice Award went to A.R. Rahman for the film 127 hours. Among the composers in attendance at the event were Giorgio Moroder who was the recipient of the World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as Gabriel Yared, Hans Zimmer, Elliot Goldenthal, Alexandre Desplat, Alex Heffes and Abel Korzeniowski. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer to Sit Out the 2012 Oscar Race
Posted: October 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Hans Zimmer
According to an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Hans Zimmer said at the Ghent Film Festival, where he was attendance for a performance of some of his scores at last night’s World Soundtrack Awards ceremony, that he will be sitting out this year’s Academy Awards competition. The composer mentioned that his decision is partly related to the death of his longtime publicist Ronni Chasen, to whom the concert was dedicated, but he also mentioned his desire to just focus on his upcoming work (which includes the highly anticipated The Dark Knight Rises). Zimmer has written music for five movies released this year, including Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Kung Fu Panda 2 (co-composed with John Powell), The Dilemma (co-composed with Lorne Balfe), Rango and the upcoming Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, with especially the latter two having been considered serious contenders for the awards race.
‘The Awakening’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: October 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Daniel Pemberton, Nicolas Errèra, score, Shaolin, Soundtrack, The Awakening
MovieScore Media’s Screamworks Records label has announced a soundtrack release for the supernatural thriller The Awakening. The album includes the original score from the film by composer Daniel Pemberton (Peep Show). A soundtrack CD will be released on November 8, 2011 and a digital release is also planned through 1812 Recordings. The Awakening is directed by Nick Murphy and stars Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton. In the movie, a ghost-debunker comes to a boy’s school to disprove the existence of ghosts, only to find her own beliefs challenged. The thriller has been picked up for domestic distribution at the Toronto Film Festival by Cohen Media Group. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat to Score ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’
Posted: October 22, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Nico Muhly, Stephen Daldry
Alexandre Desplat has been tapped to score the upcoming drama Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. He is taking over scoring duties from composer Nico Muhly who was originally attached to the project with his name even credited on the film’s poster and in the first trailer. The movie is directed by Academy Award nominated director Stephen Daldry (The Hours, The Reader) and stars Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, newcomer Thomas Horn, John Goodman, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright and Max von Sydow. The film is based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer is adapted for the screen by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) and produced by Scott Rudin (The Social Network). The drama tells the story of a nine-year-old boy who searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks. Read the rest of this entry »
