Three new movies are opening wide this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel Ender’s Game directed by Gavin Hood and starring Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Abigail Breslin and Harrison Ford. Steve Jablonsky (Transformers series, Battleship) has composed the film’s original score. Varese Sarabande has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music. Check out our previous article for the full details. Also visit Film Music Magazine for an audio interview with Jablonsky about his work on the film and visit YouTube and click here for two short video interviews with the composer at the movie’s Hollywood red carpet premiere from this past Monday.
Also opening wide is the animated feature Free Birds directed by Jimmy Haywardand featuring the voices of Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Amy Poehler, Dan Fogler, Lesley Nicol, George Takei, Colm Meaney and Keith David. The film’s original music is composed by Dominic Lewis. Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as two songs by Social Distortion and MattyBRaps. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details. Also visit Trailer Addict for a short video interview with Lewis about his work on the project.
Dave Porter has taken over scoring duties on the NBC hit drama The Blacklist. The show is created by Jon Blokenkamp and stars James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, Harry Lennix and Parminder Nagra. The series follows an ex-government agent on the FBI’s most wanted list who surrenders with an offer to catch the most wanted terrorists. Bokenkamp (Taking Lives) is also executive producing the Davis Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television production with John Eisendrath (Alias, Felicity), John Davis (Predator, I, Robot, Waterworld), John Fox (Ironside) and Joe Carnahan (The A-Team, Narc). Porter who recently finished scoring AMC’s Breaking Bad is replacing James S. Levine (Glee, Nip/Tuck) who scored the first couple episodes of the series. 
Entertainment One will release a soundtrack album for the comedy Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Erick Sermon, Snoop Dogg & Method Man, Lou Armstrong, American Antagonist, Lisette Love, Driicky Graham, Maino and The Mafia, Krayzie Bone, Sean Hines, Finatticz and Doeshun. The soundtrack will be released on November 11, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on 
Terence Blanchard has been tapped to score the upcoming drama Little Rootie Tootie. The film is written and directed by Dan Algrant (Naked in New York, Greetings From Tim Buckley) and is set to star Christopher Walken and Lenny Kravitz. The movie follows a veteran jazz pianist who is mourning the death of his wife. His son returns home with his own wife, disrupting the couple’s careers as musicians in Europe to deal with his father as his behavior becomes manic and destructive. Algrant is producing the project with Fred Zollo (Mississippi Burning, The Paper) for A to Z Productions, along with River Bend Pictures’ Stan Erdreich and Paul Condoleon for Dalifey Ltd. 
Columbia Records will release a new soundtrack album for the FX hit drama Sons of Anarchy. Sons of Anarchy: Vol. 3 included such songs as Chris Goss’ & the Forest Rangers’ take on Sitting on Top of the World, Leonard Cohen’s Come Healing and Joshua James’ Crash This Train. The show’s house band The Forest Rangers, which is featured on music tracks, includes the show’s composer Bob Thiele, Greg Leisz (guitar/banjo), John Philip Shenale (keyboards), Lyle Workman (guitar), Dave Way, Davey Faragher (bass), Brian Macleod (drums) and Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner. The soundtrack will be released on December 3, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on 
Sony Pictures announced today that Johnny Marr, Michael Einziger and Dave Stewart have joined the music team for the superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams 
Naïve Records will release a soundtrack album for the French drama You and the Night (Les rencontres d’après minuit). The album features the film’s original music composed by Anthony Gonzalez of M83 who previously co-scored this year’s Oblivion starring Tom Cruise. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 11, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on 
The Chemical Brothers are set to compose and perform the score for the upcoming gangster drama Trespass Against Us. Adam Smith is attached to direct the project, which will mark the director’s first narrative feature. Michael Fassbender is in talks to star in the movie, which is set across three generations of the rowdy Cutler family, who live as outlaws – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes and taunting the police. Alastair Siddons has written the screenplay and is also producing the film with Gail Egan (Half of a Yellow Son, the upcoming A Most Wanted Man) and Andrea Calderwood (The Last King of Scotland) of Potboiler Productions. Smith has previously directed numerous episodes of TV shows including Doctor Who and Skins. 
Naïve Records will release a soundtrack album for the 3D documentary Amazonia. The album features the film’s original music composed by Bruno Coulais (Coraline, The Chorus). The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 18, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on 
T Bone Burnett is set to score the upcoming HBO original series True Detective. The show stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as two cops whose lives intersect during a 17-year serial killer investigation in Louisiana. Michelle Monaghan, Jay O. Sanders, Lili Simmons, Alexandra Daddario, Michael Potts, Kevin Dunn, Tory Kittles, Elizabeth Reaser and Brad Carter are co-starring. Nic Pizzolatto is writing the scripts for all episodes and Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre, Jane Eyre) is directing the entire series. Pizzolatto is also executive producing the project with Steve Golin (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Babel) and Scott Stephens (Elightened, Hung).