Varese Sarabande has revealed the details of the score album for the hit drama The Help. The album includes the original score by Thomas Newman. The soundtrack CD is available for pre-order on Amazon and is scheduled to be released on September 13, 2011. The release is also already available to download. Check out audio clips from all tracks on the album below. A soundtrack album featuring songs from the film, including The Living Proof performed by Mary J. Blige and co-written by Newman has already been released as reported here. The Help directed by Tate Taylor and starring Emma Stone, Allison Janney, Sissy Spacek, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Mike Vogel and Cicely Tyson opened last week and is currently playing in theaters. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Help’ Score Album Details
Posted: August 18, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: score, Soundtrack, The Help, Thomas Newman
Gast Waltzing Scoring ‘Hysteria’
Posted: August 17, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christian Henson, Gast Waltzing, Hysteria
Gast Waltzing has recently scored the British romantic comedy Hysteria. The movie directed by Tanya Wexler stars Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett and Felicity Jones. Christian Henson (the Devil’s Double, Black Death) has written additional music for the film. Sarah Curtis (Her Majesty Mrs. Brown), Judy Cairo (Crazy Heart) and Tracey Becker are producing the comedy, which centers on the invention of the vibrator in Victorian London. The story follows a young doctor treating cases of Hysteria who struggled to establish himself while confronting the gutsy daughter of his boss. The project is arguably Waltzing’s highest profile scoring assignment to date. The composer previously scored the 2008 comedy drama JCVD starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Read the rest of this entry »
World Soundtrack Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: August 17, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ghent International Film Festival, World Soundtrack Awards
The World Soundtrack Academy has announced the nominees for the 2011 World Soundtrack Awards to be presented in three categories: Film Composer of the Year, Best Original Score of the Year and Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film. The names of the winners will be announced at the World Soundtrack Awards & concert on Saturday, October 22, the closing night of the Ghent International Film Festival. Here are the nominations:
Film Composer of the Year
Alexandre Desplat
A Better Life, Tamara Drewe, The Burma Conspiracy, The King’s Speech, The Tree of Life, The Well Digger’s Daughter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Paul Cantelon Scoring ‘Violet & Daisy’
Posted: August 16, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Geoffrey Fletcher, Paul Cantelon, Violet & Daisy
Paul Cantelon is the composer of the upcoming drama Violet & Daisy. The movie is written and directed by Geoffrey Fletcher who won an Academy Award for his adapted screenplay for 2009’s Precious. Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel are playing two teenage assassins who believe they’ve landed a straightforward assignment but soon find themselves thrown off their game when their latest target isn’t who they expected. James Gandolfini and Danny Trejo are co-starring. Fletcher is producing with Bonnie Timmermann and John Penotti (Awake). The project is the second movie scored by Cantelon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Other Boleyn Girl) to premiere this year following The Music Never Stopped, which debuted at Sundance. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami’s ‘The Thing’ Soundtrack announced
Posted: August 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marco Beltrami, score, Soundtrack, The Thing
Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack release for the upcoming horror thriller The Thing. The album features the movie’s original score by Marco Beltrami. The soundtrack will be released on October 11, 2011. The full details of the release are expected to be announced within the next couple of weeks. The Thing directed by Matthijs van Heijingen Jr., produced by Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead, Children of Men) and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen and Joel Edgerton is a prequel to the 1982 classic directed by John Carpenter, which featured a score by Ennio Morricone. The movie will be released on October 14 by Universal Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Change-Up’ Soundtrack released
Posted: August 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Debney, score, Soundtrack, The Change-Up, Theodore Shapiro
Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album for the comedy The Change-Up. The album includes the film’s original score by composer John Debney, as well as a couple of tracks composed by Theodore Shapiro who was the original main composer of the movie. The soundtrack is available to download on iTunes, where you can listen to audio clips from all tracks. The Change-Up is directed by David Dobkin (The Wedding Crashers) and stars Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Alan Arkin and Olivia Wilde. The movie centers on a married guy who accidentally changes bodies with his single best friend and ends up pursuing a female coworker. The comedy was released earlier this month by Universal Pictures and is currently playing in theaters. Read the rest of this entry »
Craig Armstrong Scoring ‘In Time’
Posted: August 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Niccol, Craig Armstrong, In Time
Craig Armstrong is currently scoring the sci-fi thriller In Time. The film is written and directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War) and stars Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde, Cillian Murphy and Alex Pettyfer. The movie is set in a retro-future when the aging gene has been switched off and people must pay to stay alive. The thriller revolves on a young man who is accused of murder when he inherits a fortune of time from a dead upper class man. Niccol is producing with Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (Children of Men, Dawn of the Dead, The Last Exorcism). Roger Deakins is the Director of Photography on the film. Niccol’s previous movies were scored by Michael Nyman, Carter Burwell and Antonio Pinto. Armstrong most recently wrote the music for Peter Mullan’s indie drama Neds and last year’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps directed by Oliver Stone. In Time will be released on October 28, 2011 by 20th Century Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bellflower’ Soundtrack released
Posted: August 14, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bellflower, Jonathan Keevil, Soundtrack
Oscillope has released a soundtrack album for the action drama Bellflower. The album includes the original music from the film written by Jonathan Keevil. The soundtrack will be released on CD on September 6, 2011 and can be pre-ordered on Amazon. The album is also already available to download. Check out audio clips from all tracks on the soundtrack below. Bellflower is written and directed by Evan Glodell and stars himself, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson and Rebekah Brandes. The movie centers on two friends who spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang “Mother Medusa”. The film was released in select cities on August 5 and is currently playing in limited release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Boardwalk Empire’ Soundtrack announced
Posted: August 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Boardwalk Empire, HBO, Soundtrack
Elektra/Asylum Records has announced a soundtrack release for the Emmy-nominated HBO show Boardwalk Empire. The album features songs from the series by such artists as Stephen DeRosa, Regina Spektor, Nellie McKay, Vince Gioardano and the Nighthawks, Kathy Brier, Martha Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III and Leon Redbone. The soundtrack will be released on September 13, 2011 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. Boardwalk Empire produced by Terence Winter (The Sopranos) and Martin Scorsese chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), Atlantic City’s czar during Prohibition. The first season is expected to be released on DVD and Blu-Ray later this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Scoring Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’
Posted: August 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alberto Iglesias, Alexandre Desplat, Carnage, Roman Polanski, The Ides of March
Film Music Reporter has learned that Alexandre Desplat has recently scored Roman Polanski’s upcoming black comedy Carnage. We have previously reported that Alberto Iglesias was attached to score the film according to a press release by Sony Pictures Classics in April, but it appears that the composer (who recently finished scoring the thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) never wrote any music for the film. Carnage marks the second collaboration between Polanski and Desplat who worked together on the director’s last movie The Ghost Writer. The movie is based on the Tony-winning play God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza and stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. Read the rest of this entry »
