The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominations for the 17th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards this morning. The nominations in the Best Score category are:
The Artist – Ludovic Bource
Drive – Cliff Martinez
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Hugo – Howard Shore
War Horse – John Williams Read the rest of this entry »
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the upcoming drama Big Miracle. The album includes the original score from the film by composer Cliff Eidelman (He’s Just Not That Into You, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country). The soundtrack will be released on January 24, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Big Miracle is directed by Ken Kwapis and stars Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, Kristen Bell, Dermot Mulroney, Tim Blake Nelson, Vinessa Shaw, Stephen Root and Ted Danson. The movie is based on a true story and centers on 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 Circlewill. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Lennertz has signed on to score the upcoming romantic comedy Think Like a Man. The movie is directed by Tim Story and stars Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Taraji P. Henson, Meagan Good, Gabrielle Union, Jerry Ferrara, Regina Hall, Terrence J. and Romany Malco. The Screen Gems Production is based on Steve Harvey’s book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man and adapted for the screen by Keith Merryman & David A. Newman (Friends with Benefits). In the film, four interconnected and diverse friends have their love lives shaken up after the women they are pursuing buy Harvey’s book and start taking his advice to heart. Will Packer (Obsessed, Takers) is producing the project. Story’s previous musical collaborators include John Ottman (Fantastic Four), Christophe Beck (Taxi) and Terence Blanchard (Barbershop). Read the rest of this entry »
A couple of major local critics associations have been announced their winners for this year’s movies today. Check out the film music-related picks below. Ludovic Bource’s music for the black-and-white romance The Artist has been chosen by both the New York Film Critics Online and the Boston Society of Film Critics. For a full list of winners, click on each group’s name below.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association:
Best Film Score: Hanna – The Chemical Brothers
Runner-Up: Drive – Cliff Martinez Read the rest of this entry »
In our fifth part of our fall television music series, we are taking a look at the new and returning shows on ABC:
The most successful new show of the season on the network is the fantasy drama Once Upon a Time created by Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis (Lost) and starring Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Carlyle, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas, Jamie Dornan and Jared Gilmore. The show’s music is written by Mark Isham. For a behind-the-scenes video interview with the composer talking about his thematic and orchestral score, visit ABC’s music lounge. Once Upon a Time has already received a full season order and airs every Sunday night on ABC. For updates on the show, visit the official series website. Read the rest of this entry »
Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the drama Pariah. The album includes the movie’s songs from such artists as Tamar-kali and Sparlha Swa. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 20, 2011 and on CD on January 31, 2012. To pre-order the physical version, visit Amazon and check out the audio clips from all tracks on the album below. Pariah is written and directed by Dee Rees and centers on a 17-year-old African-American woman in Brooklyn struggling with her sexuality. The movie premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has been picked up by Focus Features for a limited release in select cities on December 28, 2011 with an expansion planned for January. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami has been hired to score the upcoming indie drama The Surrogate. The film is written and directed by Ben Lewin (Georgia, Paperback Romance) and stars John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Rhea Perlman and Moon Bloodgood. The movie centers on poet and journalist Mark O’Brien, a paraplegic polio victim who decides to explore his sexuality and hires a sex surrogate and soon develops a relationship that changes both of their lives. Stephen Nemeth (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dogtown and Z-Boys) and Judi Levine are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Two new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the ensemble romantic comedy New Year’s Eve directed by Garry Marshall and starring Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Halle Berry, Robert De Niro, Sofia Vergara, Jon Bon Jovi, Hilary Swank, Lea Michele, Zac Efron, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Josh Duhamel, Seth Meyers, Hector Elizondo, Abigail Breslin, Michelle Pfeiffer and Katherine Heigl. A soundtrack album featuring the songs from the film has been released by WaterTower Music on Tuesday. For the full track list and audio clips, visit our previous article. John Debney has written movie’s score, but no score album has been released so far. Check out two videos from the recording of the score and of a song written by Debney (performed by Alison Sudal and with lyrics by Glen Ballard) on YouTube.
Also opening wide is the comedy The Sitter directed by David Gordon Green and starring Jonah Hill, Sam Rockwell, Ari Grayner, Erin Daniels, Jessica Hecht and Method Man. The film’s score is written by David Wingo and Jeff McIlwain. A soundtrack album featuring one track from the score, as well as the songs from the movie by artists including The Sugarhill Gang, Slick Rick, Cluts, Pharcyde, The Jungle Brothers and Raphael Saadiq has been released on Sony Music earlier this week. For the full details and to listen to audio clips, check out our soundtrack announcement. Read the rest of this entry »
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack for Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey. The album includes three tracks from the score by Academy Award-winning composer Gabriel Yared, as well as Miss Sarajevo by the U2 side project Passengers featuring Luciano Pavarotti, the song When My Heart Dies composed by Yared and performed by Natasa Mirkovic-De Ro and a selection of Balkan songs from the movie. The soundtrack will be released on January 10, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. In the Land of Blood and Honey is set during the civil war in the former-Yugoslavia in the early 90s and tells the love story between a Serbian man and Bosnian woman who meet on the eve of the war and the effect the crisis has on their relationship. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Simonsen and Jonathan Sadoff are scoring the romantic comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. The movie stars Steve Carrell and Keira Knightley as two neighbors who embark on a road trip to find the former’s high school sweetheart before an incoming asteroid ends all life on Earth. William Peterson, Adam Brody, Connie Briton, Melanie Lynskey , T.J. Miller, Patton Oswalt, Rob Corddry, Derek Luke, Rob Huebel, Lindsay Sloane and Gillian Jacobs are co-starring. The film is written and directed by Lorene Scafaria (screenwriter of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) who makes her directorial debut on the project. Steve Golin (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Babel) & Joy Gorman of Anonymous Content and Steven Rales (Moonrise Kingdom) & Mark Royba (Doubt, Shaft) of Indian Paintbrush are producing. Read the rest of this entry »
