La-La Land Records has released two new limited editions of Jerry Goldsmith scores from the 90’s. First up is the release of the expanded score for the 1992 romantic fantasy Forever Young. The album is limited to 3000 copies and features almost 75 minutes of Goldsmith’s score, including a significant amount of previously unreleased music. To order the CD and listen to audio clips, visit La-La Land Records’ website. Forever Young directed by Steve Miner and starring Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Elijah Wood revolves around a 1939 test pilot who asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Read the rest of this entry »
New Editions of Jerry Goldsmith’s ‘Forever Young’ and ‘Sleeping with the Enemy’ Soundtracks Released
Posted: September 14, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Forever Young, Jerry Goldsmith, score, Sleeping with the Enemy, Soundtrack
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‘Real Steel’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Danny Elfman, Real Steel, Soundtrack
The details for the soundtrack album for Real Steel have been revealed. The soundtrack will be released on October 4, 2011 by Interscope Records. The album features one track from the score by Danny Elfman, as well as several songs from the movie. Artists featured on the release are Bad Meets Evil, Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, 50 Cent, Eminem, Prodigy & Tom Morello, Limp Bizkit and Alexi Murdoch. To pre-order the soundtrack, visit Amazon and check out audio clips from all tracks on the album below. Real Steel directed by Shawn Levy is set in the near-future where 2,000-pound robots that look like humans do battles. Read the rest of this entry »
Rupert Gregson-Williams to Score ‘Here Comes the Boom’
Posted: September 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Frank Coraci, Here Comes the Boom, Rupert Gregson-Williams
Rupert Gregson-Williams is the composer of the upcoming action comedy Here Comes the Boom. The film starring Kevin James, Henry Winkler, Salma Hayek and Charice centers on a teacher who moonlights as a mixed martial arts fighter in order to save his school’s music program. The movie is directed by Frank Coraci who has previously worked with Gregson-Williams on the 2006 comedy Click and this summer’s Zookeeper. Kevin James and Allan Loeb (21, The Dilemma) wrote the project’s screenplay and James is also producing with Todd Garner (Knight and Day, Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Here Comes the Boom is scheduled to be released on July 27, 2012 by Sony Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Thing’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 12, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marco Beltrami, score, Soundtrack, The Thing
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack release for the horror thriller The Thing. The album includes the original score by Marco Beltrami. The soundtrack will be released on October 11, 2011 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out below. The Thing directed by Matthijs van Heijingen Jr. and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen and Joel Edgerton is a prequel to the 1982 classic directed by John Carpenter. Universal Pictures will release the movie on October 14. Read the rest of this entry »
Marcelo Zarvos Scoring ‘Friends with Kids’
Posted: September 12, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Friends with Kids, Jennifer Westfeldt, Marcelo Zarvos
Marcelo Zarvos has recently scored the comedy Friends with Kids. The movie marks the directorial debut of actress/writer Jennifer Westfeldt who also wrote the project’s screenplay. Zarvos previously scored the 2001 indie comedy Kissing Jessica Stein, which was written and produced by Westfeldt who also played the main character in the film. Friends with Kids stars Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd, Megan Fox and Edward Burns. The film centers on a group of friends whose lives arechanged as the couples in the group begin to have children. Read the rest of this entry »
Carter Burwell, Trevor Morris and Garth Neustadter Win Emmy Awards
Posted: September 11, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: American Masters, Carter Burwell, Emmy Awards, Garth Neustadter, John Muir in the New World, Mildred Pierce, The Borgias, Trevor Morris
The Emmy Awards in the music categories have been given out last night at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
Here are the winners:
Outstandig Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score):
Mildred Pierce – Part Five – Music by Carter Burwell
Outstandig Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score):
American Masters – John Muir in the New World – Music by Garth Neustadter
Original Main Title Theme Music:
The Borgias – Music by Trevor Morris Read the rest of this entry »
iZLER to Score ABC’s ‘Revenge’
Posted: September 10, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, iZLER, Mike Kelley, Revenge
iZLER is scoring the new ABC drama Revenge. The show starring Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe, Gabriel Mann, Henry Czerny, Connor Paolo, Ashley Madekwe and Nick Wechsler centers on a mysterious woman who arrives in the Hamptons seeking revenge on the people who destroyed her family. The series created by Mike Kelley (Swingtown) is loosely based on Alexandre Dumas’ novel The Count of Monte Cristo. Phillip Noyce (Salt, The Bone Collector) directed the pilot and is executive producing the project with Kelley, Marty Bowen (Dear John) and Wyck Godfrey (Twilight, I Robot). iZLER has recently been nominated for a World Soundtrack Award in the Discovery of the Year category for his scores for the biopic Hamill and the comedy Natural Selection. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 9, 2011)
Posted: September 9, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Born to Be a Star, Bucky Larson, Cliff Martinez, Contagion, Kevin Haskins, Main Street, Mark Isham, Patrick Doyle, Roger Neill. Creature, score, Soundtrack, Tanner Hall, Waddy Wachtel, Warrior
Four new movies are opening wide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the thriller Contagion directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Ehle, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Cranston and John Hawkes. The film’s music is composed by Cliff Martinez. A soundtrack album featuring the score by Martinez has been released by Watertower Music. Check out our previous article for more information and audio clips from the score. Also visit Film Music Magazine for a lengthy audio interview with the composer talking about his recent work.
Also opening wide is the drama Warrior directed by Gavin O’Connor and starring Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison and Noah Emmerich. The movie’s score is written by Mark Isham. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album including Isham’s score, as well as a song by The National. The digital release is already out and a CD version will be released next Tuesday. For audio clips and more details, visit our soundtrack announcement. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dream House’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 9, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dream House, John Debney, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack release for the thriller Dream House. The album includes 15 tracks of the movie’s original score composed by John Debney. The soundtrack will be released on September 27, 2011 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. To listen to the main titles and the end credits of the score, visit Debney’s Facebook fanpage. Dream House is directed by Jim Sheridan and stars Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts. Universal Pictures will release the movie on September 30. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ Score Album Announced
Posted: September 9, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aaron Zigman, I Don't Know How She Does It, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has announced a score album for the romantic comedy I Don’t Know How She Does It. The score is composed by Aaron Zigman (The Notebook, John Q, the Sex and the City movies). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 20, 2011 and a CD is coming out on October 18. Check back for audio clips to be added to this article within the next two weeks. A separate soundtrack with songs from the movie has previously been announced as reported here. I Don’t Know How She Does It is directed by Douglas McGrath and stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Christina Hendricks, Kelsey Grammer, Seth Meyers and Olivia Munn. Read the rest of this entry »
