Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 26, 2011)

Posted: November 25, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Four new movies are opening wide over Thanksgiving weekend:

Walt Disney Pictures’ Tangled features songs and score by Alan Menken. Check out our previous article announcing the soundtrack album. A short video interview on the score has been uploaded on YouTube. To listen to lenghty audio interviews with Menken talking about his work on Tangled, visit Film Music Magazine’s On the Score and WDW Radio. Entertainment Weekly also featured an in depth interview with the composer worth checking out. Also check out a short interview Menken did with The Wall Street Journal, as well as a recent article about Menken on LA Times’ Music Blog. Read the rest of this entry »

New ‘First Blood’ soundtrack release announced

Posted: November 23, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Intrada Records announced a new 2 disc soundtrack release of Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the 1982 action movie First Blood. In the movie directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Sylvester Stallone, a mentally unstable Vietnam war vet, when abused with a small town’s police force, begins a one man war with it. The album is the first release of the complete score and also includes the original 1982 soundtrack on a second disc. To listen to audio clips and to order the album, check out Intrada’s soundtrack page. Read the rest of this entry »

John Williams’ Family Plot soundtrack release announced

Posted: November 22, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Varese Sarabande has announced the first CD release of John Williams’ score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot. Only the film’s end credits has previously been released. Hitchcock’s last movie stars Bruce Dern and Barbara Harris centers around a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California. The album featuring about an hour of the score is limited to 5000 copies. For audio clips and order details, visit Varese Sarabande. Read the rest of this entry »

tomandandy to score ‘The Apparition’

Posted: November 21, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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The composer duo tomandandy has been hired to score the upcoming horror thriller The Apparition. In the movie, a couple is haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment. The film, which is currently in post-production is directed by Todd Lincoln and stars Tom Felton and Ashley Green. The Apparition is produced by Joel Silver through his Dark Castle Entertainment company and will be released by Warner Bros on September 9, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Mothersbaugh to score ‘Born to be Wild’

Posted: November 20, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Composer Mark Mothersbaugh has been hired to score the upcoming documentary Born to be Wild 3D. According to Variety, the movie centers on orphaned baby orangutans and elephants receiving a second chance at life in the wild, thanks to primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas in Borneo and elephant authority Dame Daphne Sheldrick. The documentary directed by David Lickley will be narrated by Morgan Freeman, who previously narrated the hit documentary March of the Penguins. To check out the trailer, visit the Apple trailer page and check out the movie’s IMAX webpage to learn more about the movie. Warner Bros will release Born to be Wild exclusively in IMAX theaters on April 8, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Cliff Martinez to score ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’

Posted: November 19, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Cliff Martinez is currently finishing up scoring the upcoming legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer. In the movie, a lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills. The drama stars Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, John Leguizamo, Ryan Phillippe and William H. Macy. Brad Furman directs the movie based on the best-selling novel by Michael Connelly (Blood Work). The Lincoln Lawyer marks Martinez’ first high profile movie project in several years. The Lakeshore/Sidney Kimmel Entertainment production will be released domestically by Lionsgate on March 18. Read the rest of this entry »

Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 19, 2010)

Posted: November 19, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, Film Music News
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Two movies open wide this weekend:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is already breaking pre-sales records and is expected to beat the opening weekend grosses from the previous films in the series. Alexandre Desplat wrote the score for the movie as the fourth composer in the series. To find out more about the soundtrack which has been released earlier this week, check out our previous news article. For several links to interviews with the composer on the Harry Potter score, click here. Also check out an in depth interview with the composer on the fansite Harry Potter’s Page, which has just been published today. Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Andrews to score ‘Bridesmaids’

Posted: November 18, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Michael Andrews will compose the score for the upcoming comedy Bridesmaids. The movie is centered around two women battling to plan their friend’s wedding party. The comedy directed by Paul Feig (Unaccompanied Minors) stars Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm and Rose Byrne. Bridesmaids is produced by Judd Apatow, who worked with Andrews on his last directorial effort Funny People. Universal Pictures is planning to release the movie on May 13, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Harry Gregson-Williams to score ‘Cowboys & Aliens’

Posted: November 17, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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According to the film’s new trailer, Harry Gregson-Williams has been hired to score the upcoming sci-fi action movie Cowboys & Aliens. The Dreamworks movie is directed by Jon Favreau, who worked with composer John Debney on most of his movies including Elf, Zathura and Iron Man 2. Cowboys & Aliens stars Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Paul Dano and Sam Rockwell.The movie is set in Silver City, Arizona, where Apache Indians and Western settlers must lay their differences aside when an alien spaceship crash lands in their city. The movie is produced by Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and co-writers Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The movie is scheduled for a July 29, 2011 release date. To watch the trailer, check out Yahoo Movies or visit the official movie webpage to find out more about the film. Read the rest of this entry »

Lorne Balfe to join Hans Zimmer on ‘The Dilemma’

Posted: November 16, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Film Music Reporter has learned that Lorne Balfe will be the co-composer of Ron Howard’s upcoming comedy The Dilemma alongside Hans Zimmer, who previously has been announced as the film’s composer. In the movie, a man discovers that his best friend’s wife is having an affair. The Dilemma stars Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, Jennifer Connelly and Queen Latifah. Ron Howard and Zimmer have worked together several times before, including Backdraft, The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons and Frost/Nixon. Balfe and Zimmer recently co-composed the score for Megamind, which is the current #1 movie in the US. Universal Pictures has scheduled a January 14, 2011 release date for the movie. To find out more about the movie and watch the trailer, visit the movie’s official webpage. Read the rest of this entry »

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