Film Music Reporter has learned that Marco Beltrami has taken over scoring duties on the comic book adaptation Jonah Hex. He is replacing John Powell, who reportedly was working on the score with the heavy metal band Mastodon last fall. No word yet if any of Mastodon’s music will stay in the picture. Jonah Hex is set in the Wild West, where a scarred bounty hunter tracks a voodoo practitioner bent on liberating the South by raising an army of the undead. The movie is directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears A Who!) and stars Megan Fox, Josh Brolin, John Malkovich and Michael Shannon. Warner Bros has the movie scheduled to be released on June 18. Read the rest of this entry »
Beltrami takes over Jonah Hex
Posted: March 19, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Powell, Jonah Hex, Marco Beltrami, Repo Men
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Two new projects for Ilan Eshkeri
Posted: March 19, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ilan Eshkeri, Strike Back, The Kid
Ilan Eshkeri recently finished recording the scores for two new film projects. The Kid is a movie about central character Kevin Lewis, whose early life suffered from appalling parenting and bullying at school. The movie directed by Nick Moran stars Rupert Friend, Natascha McElhone and Ioan Gruffudd. Falcon Films will release the movie in the UK later this year. In addition to writing the original score, Eshkeri also co-produced the recordings of classical music references for the movie, including sections from Elgar’s cello concerto and Brahm’s third symphony. To find out more about the recording session with the London Metropolitan Orchestra, check out the orchestra’s blog.
Eshkeri also wrote the music for the Sky mini-series Strike Back. Strike Back follows the lives of two former soldiers, Major Hugh Collinson and discharged veteran John Porter, who meet for the first time during a Middle East hostage crisis. The six-part series will air on British TV later this year. The music was also recorded with the London Metropolitan Orchestra, who posted an entry about the recording sessions on their blog. Read the rest of this entry »
Zimmer on third Batman installment
Posted: March 18, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer InterviewsTags: Batman, Hans Zimmer
MTV Splash Page posted an article about Hans Zimmer’s plans for Christopher Nolan’s third Batman movie. He specifically mentions his hopes for The Riddler character to be featured in the movie. To read the whole article, follow this link.
In related news, the Polish film music website FilmMusic.pl recently added an in-depth interview with Zimmer on his career. Zimmer talks about his Sherlock Holmes score, the Oscar nomination, his collaboration with Christopher Nolan and gives an update on his concert tour plans. To check out the interview, click here.
Badelt’s Heartbreakers score released
Posted: March 17, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Heartbreakers, Klaus Badelt, L'arnacoeur
Label Zero recently released Klaus Badelt’s score to the French comedy L’arnacoeur (Heartbreakers). The movie about two siblings who are running a business designed to break up relationships, when they are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The movie stars Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis. The movies comes out this week in France. No domestic release date has been announced yet. Badelt’s score is available as a download-only release on Amazon (click the link for sound clips). The album contains 22 tracks of Badelt’s score for about 30 minutes of music. To watch a video from the recordings sessions with the London Metropolitan Orchestra, check out this YouTube link. Read the rest of this entry »
Ottman to score The Resident
Posted: March 16, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Ottman, The Resident
Film Music Reporter has learned that Hammer Film’s The Resident will be scored by John Ottman. The thriller directed by Antti Jokinen (Bioterror) stars Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Christopher Lee. The movie centers around a young doctor who suspects she may not be alone in her new Brooklyn loft learns that her landlord has formed a frightening obsession with her. The movie is exptected to finish post-production soon, but no release date has been announced so far. Read the rest of this entry »
Morricone’s White Dog score released
Posted: March 16, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ennio Morricone, White Dog
Film Score Monthly has announced their newest CD release: Ennio Morricone’s score the 1982 drama White Dog. In the movie, a trainer is attempting to reprogram a vicious dog who’s been trained to attack and kill people with black skin. The movie directed by Samuel Fuller (Shark!, The Big Red One) stars Kristy McNichol. The movie was only recently released on DVD and was virtually unseen before in the US. Film Score Monthly’s premiere CD release is limited to 3000 copies and features the complete score. To find out more about the album, listen to audio clips and order the CD, visit Film Score Monthly’s CD page.
Newman slated to score The Adjustment Bureau
Posted: March 15, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: The Adjustment Bureau, The Debt, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman will score the upcoming Sci-Fi romance The Adjustment Bureau. The movie stars Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Terence Stamp and marks the directing debut for screenwriter George Nolfi (The Sentinel, The Bourne Ultimatum). The film’s story centers around David Norris, a charismatic congressman who meets a beautiful ballet dancer named Elise Sellas, only to find strange circumstances keeping them from getting closer. The movie is based on the short story Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick (Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck). Read the rest of this entry »
Rolfe Kent to score Charlie St. Cloud
Posted: March 15, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Charlie St. Cloud, Killers, Rolfe Kent
Rolfe Kent has been hired to score the upcoming Universal Pictures drama Charlie St. Cloud. In the movie, Zac Efron plays a young man overcome by grief at the death of his younger brother, who takes a job as caretaker of the cemetery in which he’s buried and actually communicates with the deceased boy every night. The movie co-stars Kim Basinger and Amanda Crews and is directed by Burr Steers. Kent and Steers previously worked together on 17 Again which was released last year. Charlie St. Cloud is scheduled to be released on October 15. Read the rest of this entry »
Wurman scores The Switch
Posted: March 14, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Wurman, Overnight, The Baster, The Switch
Alex Wurman recently recorded his score for the upcoming romantic comedy The Switch with the Carondelet Film Orchestra in New Orleans. The movie previously entitled The Baster stars Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Juliette Lewis and Jeff Goldblum. The movie directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck (Blades of Glory) centers around an unmarried 40-year-old woman who turns to a turkey baster in order to become pregnant. When she reunites with her best friend, who has been living with a secret seven years later, she finds out that he replaced her preferred sperm sample with his own. The Switch is set to be released on August 20 by Miramax. To see a few pictures from the scoring sessions, click here. Read the rest of this entry »
Kick-Ass soundtrack status
Posted: March 13, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Henry Jackman, Ilan Eshkeri, John Murphy, Kick-Ass, Marius DeVries
Polydor Records has announced that they will release the soundtrack to the comic book adaptation Kick-Ass on March 29 in Europe. A release date in the US has not been announced, but is expected to follow shortly. The soundtrack will feature a number of songs featured in the movie, as well as a track from Ennio Morricone’s For a Few Dollars More. The album also includes several quotes from the film’s characters. Film Music Reporter has learned that there are plans to release a separate score CD later on. The film’s composers are Ilan Eshkeri, Marius DeVries, Henry Jackman and John Murphy and the movie will be released on April 16 by Lionsgate. Composer Marius DeVries also serves as producer of the soundtrack CD along with David Reid. The album mixes punk rock from The Dickies and New York Dolls with Sparks’ alt pop alongside The Prodigy, Primal Scream and Brit-Award newcomer Ellie Goulding, all topped off by the King himself Elvis Presley. The soundtrack will also launch Taylor Momsen’s (Gossip Girl) new post-grunge band The Pretty Reckless.
Here’s the tracklisting of the soundtrack CD: Read the rest of this entry »
