La-Land-Land Records has released an expanded score album for Alan Silvestri’s Eraser earlier this week. The CD includes almost 80 minutes of the score, including more than 30 minutes of unreleased material. The album is limited to 3000 copies. Eraser centers around a Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons. The movie directed by Chuck Russell stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams and James Caan. Click here to listen to soundclips and order the CD. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded Eraser score released
Posted: March 26, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Alex North, Dragonslayer, Eraser
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BREAKING NEWS! James Horner to take over The Karate Kid remake
Posted: March 24, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atli Orvarsson, James Horner, Karate Kid
According to the Gorfaine/Schwartz agency, James Horner has replaced Atli Örvarsson on the remake of The Karate Kid. In the movie, work causes a single mother and her young son to move to China, where the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master. The movie directed by Harald Zwart (Agent Cody Banks, The Pink Panther 2) stars Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith and is set to open on June 11 (check out the official movie page to watch the trailer). The movie marks Horner’s first scoring assignment after spending almost two years working on James Cameron’s Avatar.
Clash of the Titans Score Update
Posted: March 24, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Clash of the Titans, Ramin Djawadi
Sound clips from Ramin Djawadi’s score for Clash Of The Titans have been uploaded on iTunes (click here to check them out). The album will be released this coming Tuesday, March 30 by WaterTower Music. Apart from Djawadi’s score, the album features the song The Storm That Brought You to Me, credited to Djawadi, Tina Dico & Neil Davidge. Djawadi reportedly wrote about 90 minutes of music for the score in about 4 weeks when he came in as a replacement composer for Craig Armstrong.
Here’s the album tracklisting: Read the rest of this entry »
Pereira to score From Prada To Nada
Posted: March 24, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Despicable Me, From Prada to Nada, Hans Zimmer, Heitor Pereira
Heitor Pereira has been hired to score the upcoming romantic comedy drama From Prada To Nada. The movie is a Latina spin on Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” where two spoiled sisters who have been left penniless after their father’s sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles. The movie stars Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega and Adriana Baraza and is scheduled to be released by Lionsgate in 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Marcelo Zarvos to take over The Beaver
Posted: March 22, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian Reitzell, Marcelo Zarvos, The Beaver
The Gorfaine/Schwartz agency has confirmed that Marcelo Zarvos will score the Jodie Foster-directed comedy drama The Beaver. He is replacing Brian Reitzell, who was originally attached to score the movie according to his agency Evolution Music Partners (also see our news entry). In the movie, Mel Gibson plays a depressed toy company CEO with a failed marriage starts to wear a beaver puppet on his hand as a form of therapy, much to the initial bemusement of his family. The movie co-stars Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin. Summit Entertainment will release the film later this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Rupert Gregson-Williams scoring The Zookeeper
Posted: March 22, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Grown Ups, Rupert Gregson-Williams, The Zookeeper
Rupert Gregson-Williams will score the upcoming comedy The Zookeeper. The movie directed by Frank Coraci (The Waterboy, Around the World in 80 Days, Click) stars Kevin James, Rosario Dawso, Donnie Wahlberg and features the voice talent of Sylvester Stallone, Adam Sandler, Jon Favreau and Judd Apatow. In the movie, the animals at one particular zoo decide to break their code of silence in order to help their lovable zookeeper gain the attention of one particular woman. The movie marks another collaboration between Adam Sandler’s production company Happy Madison and Rupert Gregson-Williams, after such films as Click, I Now Pronouce You Chuck & Larry and You Don’t Mess With The Zohan. MGM Pictures will release the movie on October 8 in the US. Read the rest of this entry »
Giacchino to score Arthur Christmas
Posted: March 22, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Arthur Christmas, Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino has been hired to score the upcoming Aardman CGI-animation Arthur Christmas. The film envisions Santa’s workshop as a high-tech industrial plant dedicated to getting all those toys out to every child in a single night. The movie directed by Barry Cook (Mulan) is scheduled to come out in November 2011 by Sony Pictures. The previous Aardman features had scores by John Powell (Chicken Run), Harry Gregson-Williams (Chicken Run, Flushed Away) and Julian Nott (Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit). Read the rest of this entry »
Zimmer to score Jealous of the Birds
Posted: March 21, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexey Igudesman, Hans Zimmer, Jealous of the Birds
The documentary Jealous of the Birds will get an original score by Hans Zimmer and Alexey Igudesman. The movie focuses on the emotional history of a small community of Holocaust Survivors who remained in Frankfurt, Germany after liberation from Nazi death camps, and asks the question, ‘Why would a Survivor choose to remain in Germany — shoulder to shoulder with their perpetrators?’ Co-composer Alexey Igudesman was one of the many musicians who performed on Zimmer’s Oscar-nominated score for Sherlock Holmes. No release date has been announced yet for the movie.
The Back-up Plan score album announced
Posted: March 21, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Stephen Trask, The Back-up Plan
Lakeshore Records has announced a score album for the upcoming romantic comedy The Back-up Plan. The film scored by Stephen Trask centers on a woman who conceives twins through artificial insemination, only to meet the man of her dreams on the very same day. The movie stars Jennifer Lopez and Alex O’Loughlin and will be released by CBS Films on April 23. The score album will come out on April 13 and Lakeshore Records will also release a song soundtrack album on the same day. A tracklisting will be added soon.
John Frizzell scoring The Roommate
Posted: March 21, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Frizzell, The Roommate
John Frizzell has recently been finishing up work on his score for the Screen Gems thriller The Roommate. In the movie, College freshman Sara played by Minka Kelly is randomly assigned to live in a dorm with another girl named Rebecca (Leighton Meester) who outwardly seems sweet and normal. She soon finds her safety and the lives of those closest to her jeopardized as Rebecca’s strange and increasingly murderous true personality emerges. The movie directed by Christian E. Christiansen also co-stars Cam Gigandet and Billy Zane. The Roommate is scheduled to open on February 4, 2011.
In related news, Frizzell was featured as a guest on the latest SciFi Pulse podcast. In the interview, he talks about his score for Legion, working on the TV shows Enterprise and Moonlight and his general approach to scoring movies. To check out the podcast, visit Blog Talk Radio.
