Varese Sarabande has revealed the details for the upcoming soundtrack release for HBO’s Game of Thrones. The album includes the original score from the series by Ramin Djawadi, including the composer’s main title theme, which can be checked out below. The soundtrack release date has been pushed back to June 28, 2011 since our initial announcement. The album is now available to pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips from all tracks on the album below. Game of Thrones premiered in April and is currently finishing up its first season run on Sunday nights on HBO. The show created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and starring Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage, Mark Addy, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley and Emilia Clarke already got picked up for a second season. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Game of Thrones’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 31, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Game of Thrones, HBO, Ramin Djawadi, score, Soundtrack
Steve Jablonsky Confirmed to Score ‘Battleship’
Posted: May 31, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Battleship, Peter Berg, Steve Jablonsky
Universal Pictures has confirmed to Film Music Reporter that Steve Jablonsky will be scoring next year’s sci-fi action tentpole Battleship. The film is directed by Peter Berg (Hancock, Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom) and stars Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker, Hamish Linklater and Rihanna. The movie based on Hasbro’s classical naval combat board game has been described as a massive Naval adventure across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Erich and Jon Hoeber (Red) have written the project’s script and Scott Stuber (Role Models, The Wolfman) and Sarah Aubrey (Bad Santa, Lars and the Real Girl) are among the film’s producers. Read the rest of this entry »
Complete ‘Masada’ Soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith and Morton Stevens announced
Posted: May 30, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: City of Fear, Jerry Goldsmith, Masada, Morton Stevens, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack release for the 1981 adventure mini-series Masada. The album includes the complete original score from all four parts of the series composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Morton Stevens. Goldsmith scored the first two parts and Stevens wrote the music for Parts 3 & 4. The album comes in a 2-CD set and is limited to 5000 copies. To listen to audio clips from the soundtrack and order the CD, visit Intrada’s online store. Masada directed by Boris Sagal (The Omega Man) and starring Peter O’Toole and Peter Strauss tells the story of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Israel by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73. The mini-series was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards and 3 Golden Globes and Jerry Goldsmith has won an Emmy Award for his score for the second part. Read the rest of this entry »
Cliff Eidelman to Score ‘Everybody Loves Whales’
Posted: May 30, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cliff Eidelman, Everybody Loves Whales, Ken Kwapis
Cliff Eidelman has signed on to score the drama Everybody Loves Whales. The movie stars Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, Kristen Bell, Dermot Mulroney, Tim Blake Nelson, Vinessa Shaw, Stephen Root and Ted Danson. The film tells the true story of a small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle. The project is directed by Ken Kwapis who has worked with Eidelman numerous times, most recently on the 2009 romantic comedy hit He’s Just Not That Into You. The movie also marks the composer’s first scoring assignments since his last collaboration with Kwapis. Everybody Loves Whales is based on Tom Rose’s nonfiction book Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World’s Greatest Non-Event and is adapted for the screen by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler (The Prince and Me, The Shaggy Dog). Universal Pictures has set a January 27, 2012 release date for the film.
‘Catch Me If You Can’ Broadway Cast Recording Album released
Posted: May 30, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Broadway, Catch Me if You Can, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
Ghostlight Records has released the official Broadway cast recording album of the musical Catch Me If You Can. While we usually don’t cover stage musical productions on this page, it’s worth mentioning because of the involvement of film composer Marc Shaiman who wrote the music for the project alongside lyricist Scott Wittman (Hairspray). The album includes 17 songs from the musical. Check out the audio clips below for a preview of all tracks. The digital version is now available to download on Amazon and a physical CD will be released on June 28 and can be pre-ordered here. Catch Me If You Can is adapted from the 2002 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio. The musical is currently playing on Broadway and was recently nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Outstanding Orchestrations. Read the rest of this entry »
Henry Jackman’s ‘X-Men: First Class’ Score Out on Tuesday
Posted: May 29, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Henry Jackman, score, Soundtrack, X-Men: First Class
While the release date for physical CD version of the X-Men: First Class soundtrack has been pushed back a week to June 28, 2011 since our last update, Sony Masterworks will be releasing the album digitally on Tuesday. As reported, the soundtrack includes 20 tracks from the original score by Henry Jackman. Check out audio clips from each track below and download the album here starting on May 31. To pre-order the CD, visit Amazon. X-Men: First Class is directed by Matthew Vaughn and tells the origin story of the characters of the X-Men series including Magneto and Professor X. Read the rest of this entry »
Jerome Dillon Scoring ‘For the Love of Money’
Posted: May 29, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: For the Love of Money, Jerome Dillon
Jerome Dillon is the composer of the upcoming crime drama For the Love of Money. The film is directed by Ellie Kanner (Wake) and stars Edward Furlong, Jeffrey Tambor, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Steven Bauer, Oded Fehr and Jonathan Lipnicki. The movie follows the true account of a Jewish immigrant who searches for his piece of the American dream. Jenna Mattison co-wrote the screenplay and is producing the drama and Andrzej Sekula (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs) is the cinematographer on the project. Dillon is best known as a drummer with industrial rock group Nine Inch Nails. A number of musicians associated with the group, including Trent Reznor, the only constant member of the live-band, as well as former member Charlie Clouser have active careers as film composers now. Read the rest of this entry »
Alec Puro’s Upcoming Projects
Posted: May 28, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Warrior's Heart, Alec Puro, Gavin Wiesen, Higher Ground, Homework, Joint Body, Like Water, The Art of Getting By, The Chateau Meroux, Vera Farmiga, We Are the Hartmans
A composer who appears to be having his breakout year on the big screen in 2011 is Alec Puro. Two of his recent projects that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival have been picked up by major indie studios and will be released in theaters this summer. First up in a couple of weeks is the romantic comedy The Art of Getting By (formerly entitled Homework), which tells the coming-of-age story about a high school senior who makes his way through school without doing any homework. The film is written and directed by Gavin Wiesen who makes his feature directing/writing debut on the project. The movie’s cast includes Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Elizabeth Reaser, Alicia Silverstone, Blair Underwood and Rita Wilson. A soundtrack album for the film will be released on June 14, 2011 by Rhino Records and is now available to pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for more details about the album. Fox Searchlight picked up domestic rights for The Art of Getting By and will be releasing the indie film on June 17. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 27, 2011)
Posted: May 27, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Christophe Beck, Daniel Licht, Dumbstruck, Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Kung Fu Panda 2, Lucas Vidal, Make Believe, score, Soundtrack, The Hangover Part II, The Tree of Life
Two new movies are opening wide this Memorial Day weekend:
Dreamworks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2 directed by Jennifer Yuh and featuring the voice talent of Jack Black Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Gary Oldman, David Cross, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lucy Liu, Michelle Yeoh, Dennis Haysbert, Victor Garber and Dustin Hoffman is opening in almost 4000 theaters. The film’s music is by Hans Zimmer and John Powell. A score album has been released by Varese Sarabande. For details and audio clips, visit our previous article. Also check out Film Music Magazine’s audio interview with Zimmer, in which he talks about his collaboration with Powell on the score among his other recent projects.
Also opening wide is the comedy sequel The Hangover Part II directed by Todd Phillips and starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong and Mike Tyson. The film’s score is by Christophe Beck. No score album has been announced, but a soundtrack including the songs featured in the movie has been released by Watertower Music. Check out our previous article for the track list and audio clips. Read the rest of this entry »
Terence Blanchard Scoring ‘Red Tails’
Posted: May 27, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bunraku, George Lucas, Red Tails, Terence Blanchard
While Terence Blanchard has announced his involvement in the WWII drama Red Tails almost two years ago, some details on the film’s music have finally been revealed. Jazz Corner (via The Playlist) reports that the score will be recorded this June in Prague. The movie produced by George Lucas is based on the true story of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and tells the story of a group of African-American combat pilots at battle. The film stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard and Bryan Cranston. The project will be the first non-Star Wars or Indiana Jones picture from Lucasfilm in almost 20 years. The drama is directed by Anthony Hemingway (Treme, True Blood) and John Ridley (U-Turn, Three Kings) has written the screenplay based on an story by Lucas. Read the rest of this entry »
