Sony Classical has announced a soundtrack album for Cary Fukunaga’s upcoming adaptation of Jane Eyre. The album includes the film’s original score by Dario Marianelli featuring violinist Jack Liebeck. The soundtrack will be released on March 8. To pre-order the album, visit Amazon. The movie starring Mia Wasikowska, Judi Dench, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell and Sally Hawkins will open in theaters on March 11. For more information on the movie, watch the trailer below and visit the official movie webpage. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jane Eyre’ Soundtrack details
Posted: February 8, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dario Marianelli, Jack Liebeck, Jane Eyre, score, Soundtrack
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Alan Menken to write music for ‘Captain America’
Posted: February 7, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Menken, Captain America, Joe Johnston, The First Avenger
According to Badass Digest, Alan Menken is involved in Joe Johnston’s upcoming comic book adaptation of Captain America: The First Avenger. The site doesn’t mention any specifics about Menken’s involvment, but it is expected that he would write a song or songs for the time when Captain America is in the USO. There have been many rumors going around about the composer of the score for the movie, but the last thing we’ve heard is that several composers have been approached to write the score, but there is still no official composer on board at this time. We will be posting an update as soon as we’ll find out more information. Joe Johnston previously worked with such composers as James Horner (The Rocketeer), Danny Elfman (The Wolfman), James Newton Howard (Hidalgo), Mark Isham (October Sky) and Don Davis (Jurassic Park III). Read the rest of this entry »
Dickon Hinchliffe scoring ‘The Fields’
Posted: February 7, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ami Canaan Mann, Dickon Hinchliffe, Project Nim, The Fields
Dickon Hinchliffe has recently finished the score for the upcoming thriller The Fields. The movie marks the first major feature directorial effort for Ami Canaan Mann (daughter of Michael Mann who is producing the film). The Fields stars Sam Worthington, Chloe Moretz and Jeffrey Dean Morgan and centers on a series of unsolved murders in industrial wastelands surrounding Gulf Coast refineries, where as many as 70 bodies have turned up over the past two decades. The film, which was originally called Texas Killing Fields is expected to be released later this year.
‘Vanishing on 7th Street’ Soundtrack released
Posted: February 7, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lucas Vidal, score, Soundtrack, Vanishing on 7th Street
A Soundtrack album for the apocalyptic horror thriller Vanishing on 7th Street starring Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo has recently been released on iTunes. The album features 26 tracks of Lucas Vidal’s original score from the film, as well as 2 songs by Howard Herrick. Vidal’s music was written for prepared piano, string quartet and cello octet. To listen to audio clips and download the album, visit iTunes. Vanishing on 7th Street is now available on demand on iTunes, Amazon and several other places and will receive a limited release in theaters on February 18, 2011. For more information on the movie, watch the trailer below and visit the film’s official movie and Facebook page. Read the rest of this entry »
Geoff Zanelli to score ‘Beneath the Darkness’
Posted: February 7, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beneath the Darkness, Geoff Zanelli, You May Not Kiss the Bride
According to the Gorfaine/Schwartz agency, Geoff Zanelli has been hired to score the upcoming thriller Beneath the Darkness. In the movie set in Texas, a 16-year-old boy struggles to expose the grim secrets surrounding a “haunted” house after the death of his best friend. The film is directed by Martin Guigui and stars Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller, Aimee Teegarden, Stephen Lunsford, Devon Werkheiser and Brett Cullen. The indie thriller which is currently in post-production is produced by Ronnie Klemer (A League of Their Own) and written by Bruce Wilkinson, who also serves as an executive producer on the film alongside Scott Mednick (Where the Wild Things Are). Read the rest of this entry »
John Powell wins Annie Award for ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
Posted: February 5, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Annie Awards, How To Train Your Dragon, John Powell
John Powell has won the Annie Award in the Music in a Feature Production category for his score for Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon at tonight’s Annie Award ceremony in Los Angeles. The other contenders in the category were Sylvain Chomet (The Illusionist), David Hirschfelder (Legend of the Guardians), Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek Forever After) and Pharrell Williams & Heitor Pereira for Despicable Me. The award is Powell’s first win as a solo composer, having previously won for his collaboration with Harry Gregson-Williams on the original Shrek and his collaboration with Hans Zimmer on Kung Fu Panda. Read the rest of this entry »
Mychael Danna to score ‘Moneyball’ and ‘Life of Pi’
Posted: February 5, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ang Lee, Bennett Miller, Life of Pi, Moneyball, Mychael Danna
Film Music Reporter has learned that Mychael Danna has started work on the upcoming drama Moneyball. The film tells the story of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. The movie stars Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Chris Pratt. Moneyball is based on a book by Michael Lewis (The Blind Side) and is directed by Bennett Miller who previously worked with Mychael Danna on 2005’s Oscar nominated biopic Capote. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Danna co-scoring ‘Camelot’
Posted: February 5, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Camelot, Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna
As reported last year, Mychael Danna has been scoring the upcoming Starz TV show Camelot. We have learned since that his brother Jeff Danna has co-written the score for the period drama starring Jamie Campbell Bower, Joseph Fiennes, Eva Green, Tamsin Eggerton and Claire Forlani. The Danna brothers have worked together before numerous times on such movies as Green Dragon, Fracture, Lakeview Terrace and most recently on Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Camelot will premiere on April 1, 2011 on Starz and its first season will air on ten consecutive weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Unknown’ Soundtrack details
Posted: February 5, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexander Rudd, John Ottman, score, Soundtrack, Unknown
Varese Sarabande Records will release a soundtrack album for the upcoming thriller Unknown directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Liam Neeson, January Jones, Diane Kruger, Frank Langella and Aidan Quinn. The film’s music is written by John Ottman and newcomer Alexander Rudd. The soundtrack includes 16 tracks of original score and will be released on March 8, 2011. Unknown will open in theaters on February 18. For more information on the movie, visit our previous article announcing Ottman as the composer on the film. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ironclad’ Soundtrack announced
Posted: February 5, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ironclad, Lorne Balfe, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande Records will release Lorne Balfe’s original score for the action adventure movie Ironclad directed by Jonathan English and starring Brian Cox, Paul Giamatti, Kate Mara, James Purefoy and Derek Jacobi. The album includes 18 tracks of score. The soundtrack will be released on March 1, 2011 and will exclusively be available on iTunes in the US, while a physical CD is coming out in Europe. The movie is scheduled for a March 4 release in the UK, while no domestic release date has been announced. Read the rest of this entry »
