Nonesuch Records has announced a soundtrack album for the upcoming western True Grit. The album features selections of the score by composer Carter Burwell, who regularly works with the film’s directors Joel and Ethan Coen. The album will be released on December 21. In the movie starring Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin and Matt Damon, a tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father’s murderer. To find out more about the movie, which will be released on Christmas Day, check out the official movie webpage. To pre-order the soundtrack CD, visit Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘True Grit’ soundtrack release announced
Posted: November 26, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Carter Burwell, Soundtrack, True Grit
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‘The Tourist’ soundtrack album details
Posted: November 25, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gabriel Yared, James Newton Howard, The Tourist
Varese Sarabande Records has announced a soundtrack album for the upcoming movie The Tourist starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. The album features 21 tracks from James Newton Howard’s score, as well as one track from the original composer on the movie, Gabriel Yared. Check out our previous news article on the movie, as well as the official movie webpage for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
Gulliver’s Travels soundtrack album announced
Posted: November 25, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gulliver's Travels, Henry Jackman
Varese Sarabande Records will release the soundtrack album for the upcoming family adventure film Gulliver’s Travels starring Jack Black, Emily Blunt and Jason Segel. The album features 18 score tracks by composer Henry Jackman. The soundtrack will be released on December 21, one day before the movie opens in theaters. Check out the movie’s official webpage to find out more about Gulliver’s Travels. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 26, 2011)
Posted: November 25, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alan Menken, Alexandre Desplat, Burlesque, Christophe Beck, Clint Mansell, Faster, James Newton Howard, Love and Other Drugs, Tangled, The King's Speech
Four new movies are opening wide over Thanksgiving weekend:
Walt Disney Pictures’ Tangled features songs and score by Alan Menken. Check out our previous article announcing the soundtrack album. A short video interview on the score has been uploaded on YouTube. To listen to lenghty audio interviews with Menken talking about his work on Tangled, visit Film Music Magazine’s On the Score and WDW Radio. Entertainment Weekly also featured an in depth interview with the composer worth checking out. Also check out a short interview Menken did with The Wall Street Journal, as well as a recent article about Menken on LA Times’ Music Blog. Read the rest of this entry »
New ‘First Blood’ soundtrack release announced
Posted: November 23, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Black Sea Raid, First Blood, Jerry Goldsmith, Terry Plumeri
Intrada Records announced a new 2 disc soundtrack release of Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the 1982 action movie First Blood. In the movie directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Sylvester Stallone, a mentally unstable Vietnam war vet, when abused with a small town’s police force, begins a one man war with it. The album is the first release of the complete score and also includes the original 1982 soundtrack on a second disc. To listen to audio clips and to order the album, check out Intrada’s soundtrack page. Read the rest of this entry »
John Williams’ Family Plot soundtrack release announced
Posted: November 22, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bill Conti, Family Plot, Home Movies, John Williams, Karate Kid, Maurice Jarre, Pino Donaggio, Soundtrack, Taps
Varese Sarabande has announced the first CD release of John Williams’ score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot. Only the film’s end credits has previously been released. Hitchcock’s last movie stars Bruce Dern and Barbara Harris centers around a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California. The album featuring about an hour of the score is limited to 5000 copies. For audio clips and order details, visit Varese Sarabande. Read the rest of this entry »
tomandandy to score ‘The Apparition’
Posted: November 21, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: And Soon the Darkness, The Apparition, The Details, tomandandy
The composer duo tomandandy has been hired to score the upcoming horror thriller The Apparition. In the movie, a couple is haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment. The film, which is currently in post-production is directed by Todd Lincoln and stars Tom Felton and Ashley Green. The Apparition is produced by Joel Silver through his Dark Castle Entertainment company and will be released by Warner Bros on September 9, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Mothersbaugh to score ‘Born to be Wild’
Posted: November 20, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Born to be Wild, Glory Daze, Mark Mothersbaugh
Composer Mark Mothersbaugh has been hired to score the upcoming documentary Born to be Wild 3D. According to Variety, the movie centers on orphaned baby orangutans and elephants receiving a second chance at life in the wild, thanks to primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas in Borneo and elephant authority Dame Daphne Sheldrick. The documentary directed by David Lickley will be narrated by Morgan Freeman, who previously narrated the hit documentary March of the Penguins. To check out the trailer, visit the Apple trailer page and check out the movie’s IMAX webpage to learn more about the movie. Warner Bros will release Born to be Wild exclusively in IMAX theaters on April 8, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Cliff Martinez to score ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’
Posted: November 19, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cliff Martinez, The Lincoln Lawyer
Cliff Martinez is currently finishing up scoring the upcoming legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer. In the movie, a lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills. The drama stars Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, John Leguizamo, Ryan Phillippe and William H. Macy. Brad Furman directs the movie based on the best-selling novel by Michael Connelly (Blood Work). The Lincoln Lawyer marks Martinez’ first high profile movie project in several years. The Lakeshore/Sidney Kimmel Entertainment production will be released domestically by Lionsgate on March 18. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 19, 2010)
Posted: November 19, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Danny Elfman, David Arnold, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Made in Dagenham, Soundtrack, The Next Three Days
Two movies open wide this weekend:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is already breaking pre-sales records and is expected to beat the opening weekend grosses from the previous films in the series. Alexandre Desplat wrote the score for the movie as the fourth composer in the series. To find out more about the soundtrack which has been released earlier this week, check out our previous news article. For several links to interviews with the composer on the Harry Potter score, click here. Also check out an in depth interview with the composer on the fansite Harry Potter’s Page, which has just been published today. Read the rest of this entry »
