Linkin Park announced on their official website (via ComingSoon.net) that they have once again teamed up with composer Steve Jablonsky for the music of the upcoming Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The band’s new single Iridescent will be featured as the end credits song in the sequel. The track is a fresh take of the song, which originally appeared on Linkin Park’s current album A Thousand Suns. The band previously contributed the songs What I’ve Done and New Divide for the previous Transformers movies, with the latter also being included in Steve Jablonsky’s score for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Linkin Park also published a new video about the film’s music, which you can watch after the jump. In the video, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and Steve Jablonsky talk about their collaboration and the placement of Iridescent in the film. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Jablonsky and Linkin Park Collaborating on ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’
Posted: April 19, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Music NewsTags: Dark of the Moon, Iridescent, Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, Steve Jablonsky, Transformers
‘The Tree of Life’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 19, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, score, Soundtrack, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
Lakeshore Records has announced the details of the soundtrack release of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. The album includes 13 tracks of Alexandre Desplat’s original score. As reported earlier, the soundtrack is set for a release on May 24, 2011. To pre-order the album, visit Amazon. The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn centers on a son and his complicated relationship with his father. The movie is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and is opening in the US on May 24, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
Bruce Broughton’s ‘Stay Tuned’ Score released
Posted: April 18, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bruce Broughton, Fred Karlin, Ravagers, Stay Tuned
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release of the 1992 action fantasy film Stay Tuned. The music is composed by Bruce Broughton. The album is limited to 1500 copies and is divided in two sections including the original orchestral score, as well as four “imaginary TV suites” from the TV spots featured in the movie. To listen to audio clips and order the CD, visit Amazon or Intrada’s online store. Stay Tuned directed by Peter Hyams stars John Ritter, Pam Dawber and Jeffrey Jones and centers on a husband and wife who are sucked into a hellish TV and have to survive a gauntlet of twisted versions of TV shows they find themselves in. Read the rest of this entry »
Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Yves Saint Laurent’ Ad with Music by Clint Mansell
Posted: April 18, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Clint Mansell, Darren Aronofsky, La Nuit de L'Homme, Yves Saint Laurent
Darren Aronofsky recently directed an ad for the Yves Saint Laurent men’s fragrance La Nuit de L’Homme. His regular composer Clint Mansell has written the music for the commercial, which has now surfaced online. Aronofsky has worked with other previous collaborators on the project, including actor Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and writers Ari Handel (The Fountain) and Mark Heyman (Black Swan, The Wrestler). The ad campaign for the product has been launched in Europe and is set to hit the US in a couple of months. To check out the two minute- commercial, which Aronofsky shot in Paris, watch the video after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Haslinger Scoring ‘The Three Musketeers’
Posted: April 18, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Paul Haslinger, Paul W.S. Anderson, The Three Musketeers
Film Music Reporter has learned that Paul Haslinger has been tapped to score the upcoming 3D action adventure film The Three Musketeers. The movie is a modern retelling of the classic story by Alexandre Dumas and stars Logan Lerman, Milla Jovovich, Orlando Bloom, Christoph Waltz, Matthew MacFayden, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelsen, Juno Temple and Ray Stevenson. The film is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Mortal Kombat) who previously collaborated with Haslinger on 2008’s Death Race starring Jason Statham. Alex Litvak (Predators) and Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones’ Diary) adapted Dumas’ novel for the screen. The Three Musketeers was shot in 3D last summer/fall in Germany and is currently finishing up post-production. Read the rest of this entry »
Cannes 2011 Film Music Preview
Posted: April 17, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Armand Amar, Ben Frost, Danny Elfman, David Byrne, Death of a Samurai, Hara-Kiri, Kristian Eidnes Andersen, La source des femmes, Melancholia, Midnight in Paris, Polisse, Restless, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sleeping Beauty, Stephen Warbeck, The Hunter, The Source, This Must Be the Place, Will Oldham, Woody Allen
With the line-up for this year’s Cannes Film Festival announced this past week, we’re going to take a look at a couple of films set to premiere at the festival that haven’t been covered yet on this page. We already reported about three films that are competing at the festival taking place from May 11 to May 22. Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life with music by Alexandre Desplat already has a soundtrack scheduled to come out next month a couple days before the film’s domestic opening. Also, Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin That I Inhabit (La Piel que habito) features music by Alberto Iglesias and is set for a release this fall by Sony Pictures Classics. And the indie drama We Need to Talk About Kevin starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly and scored by Jonny Greenwood is still awaiting a domestic release date. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Kilian to Score ‘Bless Me, Ultima’
Posted: April 16, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bless Me Ultima, Carl Franklin, John Carpenter, Mark Kilian, The Ward
Composer Mark Kilian has signed on to score the upcoming drama Bless Me, Ultima. The movie is based on the bestselling novel by Rudolfo Anaya and tells the coming-of-age story of a young man growing up in New Mexico during World War II and his relationship with an elderly medicine woman who helps him navigate the battle between good and evil that rages in his village. The film is directed by Carl Franklin (Devil in a Blue Dress, One True Thing, High Crimes, Out of Time) and stars Luke Ganalon and Miriam Colon. Mark Johnson (Rain Man, Donnie Brasco, The Chronicles of Narnia) is among the film’s producers. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘First Knight’ Score released
Posted: April 16, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Lennertz, First Knight, Jerry Goldsmith, Medal of Honor, Michael Giacchino, Ramin Djawadi
Earlier this week, La-La Land Records has released an expanded soundtrack album of Jerry Goldsmith’s score for First Knight. The album comes in a 2 disc-set featuring the film’s score, the original 1995 album version and 7 alternate tracks not used in the film. The music has been expanded over the original soundtrack album by more than an hour. Limited to 5000 copies, the 2 CD presentation is now available to order on La-La Land Records’ website, where the album also can be previewed with several audio clips. First Knight is directed by Jerry Zucker and stars Sean Connery, Richard Gere and Julia Ormond. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 15, 2011)
Posted: April 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Music NewsTags: Atlas Shrugged, Elia Cmiral, John Powell, Marco Beltrami, Mark Isham, Philippe Sarde, Rio, score, Scream 4, Sergio Mendes, Soundtrack, The Conspirator, The Princess of Montpensier, Wes Craven
Three new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:
Scream 4 reunites director Wes Craven with composer Marco Beltrami. Two different soundtracks have been released for the horror sequel. A score album featuring Beltrami’s music will be released next Tuesday and a song soundtrack with two score tracks is available on Lakeshore Records. To listen to a lengthy audio interview with Craven and Beltrami on their collaboration, check out the latest ‘On The Score’ episode on Film Music Magazine. Also visit Examiner for a short interview with the composer.
Also opening is the animated feature Rio, which already opened in several foreign territories last weekend generating the highest grossing international opening of the year. The film’s score is by John Powell and Sergio Mendes served as the movie’s executive music producer. Rio‘s music team also includes percussionist Carlinhos Brown, lyricist Siedah Garrett, pop singer Taio Cruz and The Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am. A score album will be released next week by Varese Sarabande and the official soundtrack featuring the film’s songs is already out on Interscope Records. Read the rest of this entry »
C.C. Adcock Scoring William Friedkin’s ‘Killer Joe’
Posted: April 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 30 Beats, C.C. Adcock, Killer Joe, William Friedkin
C.C. Adcock is scoring the upcoming black comedy Killer Joe. The movie stars Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon and Juno Temple. The film is based on a play by Tracy Letts (Bug) about a family who hires a police detective-turned-hitman to kill their mother for her life insurance policy. Killer Joe is directed by William Friedkin. The Academy Award-winning director has worked with composer Brian Tyler on his two most recent features (The Hunted, Bug). Five-time Oscar nominee Caleb Deschanel is lensing the picture. C.C. Adcock is best known as a rock’n roll musician, noted for his electric blues and swamp pop-influenced sound. He has learnt composition and arranging during his years as an apprentice to Oscar-winning composer Jack Nitzsche. Read the rest of this entry »
