Christopher Young has revealed in a recent interview with 123 Film Easy that he is attached to score the upcoming action thriller Killing Season. The movie reunites the composer with director Mark Steven Johnson. They have previously collaborated on the comic book adaptation Ghost Rider and the Kristen Bell-starring romantic comedy When in Rome. Killing Season stars Robert De Niro as an American military veteran who has retreated to a remote cabin in the Appalachian Mountains, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a European tourist, played by John Travolta, who turns out to be a former Serbian soldier looking for revenge. Even Daughtery (Snow White and the Huntsman) has written the screenplay for the Millennium Films and Corsan Picture production. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Young to Score ‘Killing Season’
Posted: February 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Young, Killing Season, Mark Steven Johnson
‘Keyhole’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 23, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jason Koczarek, Keyhole, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records has announced a soundtrack album for the Canadian indie drama Keyhole. The album includes the film’s original music composed by Jason Staczek and performed by Elizabeth Ripley, Ela Lamblin and Martin Kuuskmann. The soundtrack will be released on March 13, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check audio clips from all tracks on the album below. Keyhole is written and directed by Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World) and stars Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini and Udo Kier. The movie centers on a gangster and deadbeat father who returns home after a long absence and is toting two teenagers: a drowned girl who has mysteriously returned to life and a bound-and-gagged hostage who is actually his own teenage son. Read the rest of this entry »
Henry Jackman to Score ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’
Posted: February 22, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Henry Jackman, Jon Chu
Henry Jackman has been tapped to score the upcoming action sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation. The film is directed by Jon Cho (Step Up 2 & 3, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never) and stars Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Byung Hun Lee, Adrienne Palicki, Ray Park, D.J. Cotrona, Jonathan Pryce and Ray Stevenson. In the sequel to the 2009 film, the G.I. Joes are fighting their mortal enemy Cobra and are also forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Zombieland) have written the screenplay and Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, Salt) and Brian Goldner (Battleship) are producing the film based on the Hasbro’s G.I. Joe characters. Read the rest of this entry »
John Swihart to Score ‘Odd Thomas’
Posted: February 21, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Swihart, Odd Thomas, Stephen Sommers
John Swihart is scoring the supernatural thriller Odd Thomas. The movie directed by Stephen Sommers is based on the bestselling novel written by Dean Koontz. The film stars Anton Yelchin as a clairvoyant short-order cook who encounters a mysterious man with links to dark and threatening forces. Willem Dafoe, Patton Oswalt, Addison Timlin and Nico Tortorella are co-starring in the Fusion Films and Sommers Company production. Sommers has also written the screenplay and is producing the project with John Baldecchi (The Mexican, Conan the Barbarian) and Howard Kaplan. The director has previously worked with composers Alan Silvestri on his last three features The Mummy Returns, Van Helsing and G.I. Joe. He has also collaborated with Jerry Goldsmith (The Mummy, Deep Rising), Basil Poledouris (The Jungle Book) and Bill Conti (The Adventures of Huck Finn) earlier in his career. Read the rest of this entry »
Behind the Music of ‘There Be Dragons’
Posted: February 21, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Music AlbumsTags: A Troll in Central Park, Robert Folk, score, Soundtrack, There Be Dragons
A video feature on the music for the international release of the epic adventure There Be Dragons has recently surfaced. The 10-minute video shows footage from the recording sessions of the score, as well as a conversation between composer Robert Folk and producer James Ordonez. Also featured is an interview with conductor David Sabee. Check out the full video after the jump. The soundtrack for There Be Dragons is available on Varese Sarabande Records. Check out our previous article for the full details and check out audio clips from all tracks on the album below. The movie is directed by Roland Joffe and stars Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Rodrigo Santoro, Derek Jacobi and Olga Kurylenko. Read the rest of this entry »
Christophe Beck on ‘Good Morning America’
Posted: February 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Composer InterviewsTags: Christophe Beck, The Muppets
This morning, ABC’s Good Morning America featured a 5-minute segment on composer Christophe Beck. ABC correspondent Cameron Mathison visited Beck at his studio in Santa Monica, where he talked to the composer about his recent score for Walt Disney Pictures’ The Muppets, his favorite scene from the movie and also asked him to score his own home video. Check out the full video after the jump. Beck’s music can currently be heard in the action romantic comedy This Means War starring Reese Witherspoon and next up for the composer is the sci-fi comedy Neighborhood Watch starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Penn Scoring HBO’s ‘Girls’
Posted: February 20, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Girls, HBO, Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, Michael Penn
Michael Penn has recently scored the new HBO comedy series Girls. The show is created by Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) who also stars in the comedy alongside Jemima Kirke, Allison Williams, Adam Driver and Zosia Mamet. The comedy follows the lives of a small group of friends in their early 20’s trying to chart their lives in New York City. Dunham wrote and directed the pilot of the series, which she executive produces along with Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner. The project marks Penn’s first major TV scoring assignment. His previous feature credits include Boogie Nights, Sunshine Cleaning and The Last Kiss. Girls‘ first season of ten episodes is set to debut on April 15, 2012 and will be airing every Sunday night on HBO. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hugo’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Awards
Posted: February 19, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Chris Fogel, Cinema Audio Society Awards, Hugo, Scott Millan, Simon Rhodes, Too Big to Fail
The team behind the sound mixing of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing at 48th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards at Saturday night’s awards ceremony at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. For the first time, scoring mixers have been included in the awards. Scoring mixer Simon Rhodes, along with production mixer John Midgley and re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman have received the award for Hugo. The other contenders in the category were Hanna (including scoring mixer Andrew Dudman), Moneyball (including scoring mixer Brad Haehnel), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (including scoring mixer Alan Meyerson) and Super 8 (including scoring mixer Dan Wallin). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ben-Hur’ Complete Soundtrack Collection Released
Posted: February 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Hur, Miklos Rosza, score, Soundtrack
Film Score Monthly has announced a new 5 CD-set of the soundtrack for the 1959 classic Ben-Hur. The album includes the complete film score composed by Miklos Rosza, as well as outtakes, alternates and every additional take preserved by the studio mastered from the original six-track recordings. The soundtrack set is limited to 2000 copies. Visit Film Score Monthly’s website for audio clips, to check out the full track list and to order the album. Ben Hur directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith and Stephen Boyd has won 11 Academy Awards in 1960, including for Best Picture, Heston’s lead performance, Wyler’s direction and Rosza’s original music.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 17, 2012)
Posted: February 17, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Cecile Corbel, Christophe Beck, David Sardy, Ghost RIder: Spirit of Vengeance, Jeff Danna, Michael Brook, score, Soundtrack, The Secret World of Arrietty, Thin Ice, This Means War, Undefeated
Three new movies are opening in theaters this President’s Day weekend:
Expected to have the best weekend at the box office among the new releases is the superhero action sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance directed by Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor and starring Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, Violante Placido, Ciaran Hinds and Christopher Lambert. The film’s score is composed by David Sardy (Zombieland, 21). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score has been released by Madison Gate Records earlier this week. For the full album details, check out our soundtrack announcement.
Also opening wide is the romantic action comedy This Means War directed by McG and starring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Angela Bassett and Til Schweiger. the film marks the second collaboration between McG and Christophe Beck who has written the music for the movie. No soundtrack album has been announced, but one clip from Beck’s score can be checked out here. To learn more about the film, visit our previous news article. Read the rest of this entry »
