Watertower Music has revealed the details of the upcoming soundtrack release for Green Lantern. As previously announced, the album includes James Newton Howard‘s original score from the comic book adaptation. The soundtrack features 18 tracks for a running time of over 52 minutes. The album will be released on June 14, 2011 and will be available to download on Amazon. Check out audio clips from each track below. Green Lantern is directed by Martin Campbell and stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Saarsgard and Mark Strong. Warner Bros is set to release the movie on June 17. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Green Lantern’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 22, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Green Lantern, James Newton Howard, score, Soundtrack
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‘Elena’ Features Music by Philip Glass
Posted: May 22, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrei Zvyagintsev, Elena, James Whitaker, Philip Glass, Rebirth
The Russian drama Elena recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Composer Philip Glass wrote an original score for the movie. The film is directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev who is best known for helming the 2003 drama The Return, which received a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign language film. Elena centers on an elderly woman who has lived with her rich husband in a large, comfortable home and tries to rescue her alcoholic son from poverty and give his family the opportunity for a better life that she alone could not provide. The film has won the Un Certain Regard special jury prize in Cannes and has received mostly positive reviews, which makes an international and domestic release likely. Read the rest of this entry »
Composers on USA’s ‘Suits’, ‘Necessary Roughness’ and ‘Covert Affairs’
Posted: May 21, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Gorgoni, Burn Notice, Christopher Tyng, Covert Affairs, Doug Liman, James S. Levine, John Dickson, Jon Ehrlich, Nexessary Roughness, Royal Pains, Suits, Toby Chu, USA, White Collar
Christopher Tyng (Futurama , Rescue Me) is scoring the new legal drama Suits. The show created by Aaron Korsh and starring Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle, Rick Hoffman and Gina Torres centers on a top Manhattan corporate lawyer who recruits a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout as a new associate. Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) who has worked with Tyng on multiple TV shows, including The OC, Knight Rider and Covert Affairs is executive producing the show. Kevin Bray directed the pilot. Suits (formerly known as A Legal Mind) is set to premiere on June 23, 2011 on USA and the first season of 12 episodes will be airing every Thursday night. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 20, 2011)
Posted: May 20, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Music NewsTags: Bloodworth, Cost of a Soul, Hans Zimmer, Midnight in Paris, On Stranger Tides, Patrick Warren, Pirates of the Caribbean, Randy Scruggs, Rodney Whittenberg, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Soundtrack, T Bone Burnett
Only one movie is opening wide this weekend:
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides directed by Rob Marshall and starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush and Penelope Cruzis is the fourth entry in the adventure series. The film’s music is composed by Hans Zimmer featuring Rodrigo y Gabriela. A soundtrack album including selections from the score, as well as number of remixes has been released on Tuesday by Walt Disney Records. Visit our previous article for the full track list and audio clips. Film Music Magazine has published a lengthy audio interview with Zimmer talking about his work on the film. Also check out a short video interview with Zimmer that we posted earlier this month.
Opening in limited release today is Woody Allen’s comedy Midnight in Paris starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cottilard and Michael Sheen. As most movies by the director, the film doesn’t have an original score, but features several songs. No soundtrack album has been announced yet for the movie, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last week. Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Menken to Write Music for Dreamworks Animation’s ‘Lidsville’
Posted: May 20, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Menken, Dreamworks Animation, Lidsville, Marty Krofft, Sid Krofft
Alan Menken has revealed in a recent posting on Twitter that he is in talks to work on the Dreamworks Animation musical Lidsville. The project would be the first non-Disney animation project for the multiple Academy Award-winning composer. The film is based on characters developed by Sid and Marty Krofft (Land of the Lost) from the 1970’s TV series of the same name. In the movie, a rebellious kid falls into an alternate reality world of living hats and talking caps. Conrad Vernon, who directed the animated hits Shrek 2 and Monsters vs Aliens brought the project to Dreamworks. The Krofft brothers will serve as exectuive producers on the production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘X-Men: Fist Class’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 20, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Henry Jackman, score, Soundtrack, X-Men: First Class
UPDATE (May 29, 2011): The release date for physical CD version of the X-Men: First Class soundtrack has been pushed back a week to June 28, 2011, but a digital release will be available to download on May 31 on Amazon. Check out the audio clips from all tracks on the album below.
Sony Masterworks has revealed the details for the upcoming soundtrack release for X-Men: First Class. The album features 20 tracks of Henry Jackman‘s original score for the comic book adaptation. The album will be released on June 21, 2011 and is currently available to pre-order on Amazon. As reported earlier this month, the album is listed to be released overseas on June 6, 2011 at the moment (check out the alternate cover art below). X-Men: First Class directed by Matthew Vaughn tells the origin story of the characters of the X-Men series including Magneto and Professor X. The film’s cast includes James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Lawrence and Rosamunde Pike. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Bradshaw to Score ‘Resistance’
Posted: May 20, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Bradshaw, Rachel Portman, Resistance
Mark Bradshaw has signed on to score the upcoming World War II drama Resistance. The film based on a novel by Owen Sheer takes place in an alternative 1944, where Russia has fallen to Nazi Germany and the D-Day landings have failed. The story centers on a group of women in an isolated Welsh village who wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished. The movie is directed by Amit Gupta and stars Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wlaschiha and Michael Sheen. Richard Holmes (Waking Ned Devine, Eden Lake) and Amanda Faber are producing. Rachel Portman was originally attached to score the project as reported by the Hollywood Reporter last fall, but had to leave the production due to a scheduling conflict. Read the rest of this entry »
Rachel Portman’s ‘Snow Flower and the Secret Fan’ Soundtrack Coming in July
Posted: May 19, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Rachel Portman, score, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Soundtrack
UPDATE (June 11, 2011): Check out our new article for the album track list.
Sony Masterworks will release a soundtrack album for the upcoming drama Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. The album includes the original score from the film by Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman. The music was recorded at Angel Studios in London. Details on the album’s contents will be published in the next couple of weeks. The soundtrack will be released on July 12, 2011. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan directed by Wayne Wang is set in 19th century China and centers on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women. The cast includes Hugh Jackman and a number of Chinese actors. Fox Searchlight will be releasing the film on July 15. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The First Grader’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 19, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Heffes, score, Soundtrack, The First Grader
Varese Sarabande Records has announced the details for the soundtrack release of the drama The First Grader. The album includes Alex Heffes‘ original score from the movie. Heffes’ music features evocative vocals recorded in Kenya. The album will be released on June 14, 2011. To pre-order the soundtrack, visit Amazon. The First Grader directed by Justin Chadwick and starring Naomie Harris and Oliver Litondo is based on the true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan man’s battle to get an education. The film is currently playing in select theaters. Read the rest of this entry »
Mervyn Warren to Score ‘Joyful Noise’
Posted: May 19, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Joyful Noise, Mervyn Warren, Todd Graff
Mervyn Warren is set to score the gospel-choir comedy Joyful Noise. The film centers on an unlikely partnership between two strong-minded women who are forced to work together to save a small town gospel choir after budget cuts threaten to shut them down. The movie stars Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Kris Kristofferson, Courtney B. Vance and Jesse L. Martin. Todd Graff (Bandslam, Camp) is writing and directing the film. Warren has already been working on the Alcon Entertainment production for several months, as he is also arranging and producing about a dozen songs for the film and he will next be starting to write the orchestral score. The project will be the first major feature scoring assignment in a while for the composer who has scored such films as The Wedding Planner, A Walk to Remember and Honey. Warner Bros has set a January 12, 2012 release date for Joyful Noise.
