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‘Thor’ Soundtrack announced

Posted: March 25, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Patrick Doyle, score, Soundtrack, Thor

UPDATE (03/19/2011): The final version of the soundtrack’s cover art has been added.

Buena Vista Records has announced the details for the soundtrack of the upcoming comic book adaptation of Thor. The album includes Patrick Doyle’s original score from the film and will be released in some European territories at the end of April and on May 3, 2011 in the US. Amazon has a soundtrack for Thor up for pre-order. Audio clips have been added below. Thor is directed by Kenneth Branagh and stars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Idris Elba, Ray Stevenson, Kat Dennings, Rene Russo and Stellan Skarsgaard. The film is based on the Marvel comic books series and follows disabled medical student Donald Blake, who has an alter ego as the hammer-wielding Norse god Thor. The movie will be released in 3D on May 6, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 25, 2011)

Posted: March 25, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
Tags: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Edward Shearmur, Jeff Cardoni, Julian Schnabel, Marius DeVries, Mark Snow, Miral, Peep World, Philippe Rombi, Potiche, Rodrick Rules, score, Soundtrack, Sucker Punch, Tyler Bates, White Irish Drinkers

Two new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:

Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch starring Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino and Jon Hamm features music by Tyler Bates and Marius DeVries. A soundtrack with songs from the movie has been released this week by Watertower Music. To listen to audio clips and download the album, visit Amazon and iTunes. Bates and DeVries were also heavily involved in arranging the film’s songs. For an article discussing the film’s music with quotes from both composers, visit Rolling Stone. Also check out our previous article to find more about the project. No announcement has been made if any of the score from the film will be released.

Also opening wide is the family comedy Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules starring Zachary Gordon, Rachael Harris and Steve Zahn. The film’s music is composed by Edward Shearmur (visit our article on the scoring assignment). No soundtrack release has been announced. Theodore Shapiro’s score for the first part was released a couple of months after the film’s release, which makes it seem possible that a soundtrack release for the sequel will be coming out later this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Marcelo Zarvos Scoring ‘Too Big to Fail’

Posted: March 25, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
Tags: Curtis Hanson, HBO, Marcelo Zarvos, Too Big to Fail

Marcelo Zarvos is currently finishing up work on the score for the upcoming HBO drama Too Big to Fail. The film directed by Curtis Hanson offers an intimate look at the financial crisis of 2008 and the group of powerbrokers who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of a few weeks. The movie stars William Hurt as President George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Paul Giamatti as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernank, James Woods as Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld and Ed Asner as Warren Buffett. Also starring is Billy Crudup, Matthew Modine, Tony Shalhoub, Topher Grace, Kathy Baker, Bill Pullman, Michael O’Keefe and Cynthia Nixon. Too Big to Fail is based on the book by Andrew Ross Sorkin and adapted for the screen by Peter Gould (Breaking Bad). Read the rest of this entry »

‘Rio’ Score Album Details

Posted: March 24, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: John Powell, Rio, score, Soundtrack

Varese Sarabande Records has revealed the details for the score album of the upcoming animated feature Rio. The album contains 18 tracks of John Powell’s original score for the film, as well as one track by Brazilian musician/songwriter Carlinhos Brown and Mikael Mutti. The soundtrack will be released on April 19, 2011. To order the score album, visit Amazon. As previously reported, a separate song album will be released on April 5 by Interscope Records and includes songs from the film by Sergio Mendez, will.i.am and Jamie Foxx. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Soundtrack Update

Posted: March 24, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Music News
Tags: Arturo Sandoval, Eric Whitacre, Hans Zimmer, On Stranger Tides, Pirates of the Caribbean, Soundtrack

Since our last update on the music for the upcoming adventure sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, we have learned more information about Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack for the film. The music is being recorded this week in Los Angeles and one of the featured musicians that joined the production’s team is jazz trumpet player Arturo Sandoval. Sandoval is no stranger to film music, having previously worked on the soundtrack for Mambo Kings and having scored a few projects himself, including the Award-winning TV drama For Love and Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story starring Andy Garcia. Sandoval has won an Emmy Award for his original score for the film. He also previously worked with Hans Zimmer on this year’s animated feature Rango, which has lead to their second collaboration on the fourth Pirates movie. Sandoval joins Rodrigo y Garcia in the film’s team of musicians as reported earlier this year. Also involved in Rob Marshall’s movie is composer and conductor Eric Whitacre who has co-written one of the film’s new themes according to his blog. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Hop’ Soundtrack Details

Posted: March 24, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Christopher Lennertz, Hop, score, Soundtrack

Varese Sarabande Records has announced the details for the soundtrack release of the family comedy Hop. The album includes Christopher Lennertz’ original score from the movie, as well as the song The Pink Berets, co-written by Lennertz and performed by The DeeKompressors. The soundtrack will be released on April 5, 2011. To pre-order the album, visit Amazon. To find more about Hop, which opens in theaters on April 1, visit our previous article. Read the rest of this entry »

Hal Lindes Scoring ‘The Lucky One’

Posted: March 24, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
Tags: Hal Lindes, Scott Hicks, The Lucky One

Film Music Reporter has learned that composer Hal Lindes is currently writing the score for the upcoming drama The Lucky One. The film based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook, Dear John) centers on a Marine who survives three tours in Iraq and attributes his good fortune to a photograph he carried of a woman he has never met. He sets out to meet his good-luck charm when he returns to North Carolina. The movie stars Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling and Blythe Danner. The film is directed by Scott Hicks who collaborated with Lindes on his last movie, The Boys Are Back starring Clive Owen. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Tron: Legacy Reconfigured’ Soundtrack announced

Posted: March 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Daft Punk, Reconfigured, Soundtrack, Tron: Legacy

Walt Disney Records recently announced a new collection of remixes of Daft Punk’s orginal music from the movie Tron: Legacy. The album features 15 tracks of reworks of Daft Punk’s score from electronic music artists including Paul Oakenfold, The Crystal Method and Moby. The compilation will be released on April 5, 2011 and can be pre-ordered at Amazon. The original Tron: Legacy soundtrack album was one of the most successful soundtrack releases of recent times and the first score album to enter the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 charts since 2005’s Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Wandmacher Scoring ‘Breaking In’

Posted: March 23, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
Tags: Breaking In, Fox, Michael Wandmacher, Seth Gordon

Michael Wandmacher is writing the music for the upcoming TV workplace comedy Breaking In. The show starring Christian Slater, Odette Yustman, Jareb Dauplaise, Jennifer Irwin, Trevor Moore, Michael Rosenbaum, Bret Harrison and Alphonso McAuley centers around an eclectic team of twentysomething geniuses who work at a high tech security firm and who are assigned to break into computer security systems. Breaking In is produced by Adam F. Goldberg and Seth Gordon. Gordon who is best known for his feature projects The King of Kong, Four Christmases and the upcoming comedy Horrible Bosses also directed the pilot. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Scream 4’ Soundtrack Status

Posted: March 22, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Marco Beltrami, score, Scream 4, Soundtrack

Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack album for the upcoming horror sequel Scream 4. The soundtrack includes 10 songs from the movies from such artists as The Sounds, Ida Maria, The Novocains, The Chain Gang of 1974, 6 Day Riot and Locksey. In addition, the album contains 2 score cues by composer Marco Beltrami. The soundtrack will be released on April 12, 2011 and can be pre-ordered at Amazon. A separate score album featuring Beltrami’s score has been announced to be released on April 19 by Varese Sarabande Records. Details on the score album will be posted when they become available. Wes Craven’s Scream 4 stars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette, Hayden Panettiere, Emma Roberts and Rory Culkin. Read the rest of this entry »