Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 16, 2011)

Posted: December 16, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:

Expected to top the weekend box office is the action adventure sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams,Stephen Fry, Jared Harris and Noomi Rapace. The film’s music is written by Hans Zimmer and produced by Zimmer & Lorne Balfe. WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. For the full details, including audio clips, visit our previous article. For a behind-the-scenes video from the recording of the score, click here and also check out two junket video interviews with Zimmer on Trailer Addict. For more recent interviews with the composer talking about his music for the sequel, visit Collider, MTV, ARTISTdirect and The Playlist.

Also opening wide this week is the family movie sequel Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked directed by Mike Mitchell  and starring Jason Lee, David Cross, Jenny Slate, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Amy Poehler, Anna Faris and Christina Applegate. A soundtrack album featuring the movie’s songs performed by The Chipmunks & The Chipettes has been released on Atlantic Records. For more information and audio clips, check out our soundtrack announcement. The film’s score is composed by Mark Mothersbaugh and no score album has been released. Read the rest of this entry »

Alexandre Desplat Scoring Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’

Posted: December 16, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Alexandre Desplat has recently recorded his music for the upcoming indie drama Moonrise Kingdom. The film marks the composer’s second collaboration with director Wes Anderson after 2009’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox, for which Desplat earned an Academy Award nomination. The movie stars Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Francis McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward. The film is co-written by Anderson and Roman Coppola (The Darjeeling Limited) and is set in a small New England town that is turned upside down when a young boy and girl who fall in love run away together. Anderson is producing the project alongside Scott Rudin (The Social Network, No Country for Old Men), Steven Rales (Young Adult) and Jeremy Dawson (Fantastic Mr. Fox). Read the rest of this entry »

Ramin Djawadi’s ‘Safe House’ Soundtrack to Be Released

Posted: December 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack release for the upcoming action thriller Safe House. The album includes the original score by composer Ramin Djawadi (Iron Man, Game of Thrones). The music has just been recorded this week at Air Studios in London. The soundtrack will be released on February 7, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The full details of the release will be posted on this site early next year. Safe House is directed by Daniel Espinosa and stars Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Liam Cunningham, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Patrick and Sam Shepard. Universal Pictures is planning a release of the film on February 10. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Beneath the Darkness’ Soundtrack Details

Posted: December 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Concord Records will be releasing a soundtrack album for the psychological thriller Beneath the Darkness. The album features songs from and inspired by the film by artists including Dennis Quaid and the Sharks, Bret Michaels, Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Gabe Dixon, Ellis Hall, Edgar Winter, The Aerolites, Moreland & Arbuckle, Jamie James and the Kingbees. The soundtrack will be released on January 10, 2012 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips from all tracks on the album are available below. None of the film’s score composed by Geoff Zanelli is included on the release. Beneath the Darkness is directed by Martin Guigui and stars Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller, Aimee Teegarden, Stephen Lunsford, Devon Werkheiser and Brett Cullen. Read the rest of this entry »

Golden Globe Nominations Announced

Posted: December 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The nominations for the 69th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories and nominations:

Best Original Score:

The Artist – Ludovic Bource
W.E. – Abel Korzeniowski
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Hugo – Howard Shore
War Horse – John Williams

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Marc Streitenfeld to Reunite with Ridley Scott on ‘Prometheus’

Posted: December 14, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Ain’t It Cool News is reporting that Marc Streitenfeld will be scoring Ridley Scott’s upcoming sci-fi epic Prometheus. The composer’s involvement has been expected given his relationship with the director. Streitenfeld has scored Scott’s previous four movies American Gangster, A Good Year, Body of Lies and last year’s Robin Hood. Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Ben Foster. Very little information has been revealed about the film’s plot so far, but it has been reported that the story will involve a team of scientists whose spaceship gets marooned on a distant planet and that the storyline will be connected to Scott’s 1979 classic Alien. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Joyful Noise’ Soundtrack Details

Posted: December 14, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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WaterTower Music will be releasing the official soundtrack album for the gospel-choir comedy Joyful Noise. The album includes a score suite by composer Mervyn Warren who is also involved in arranging and producing the film’s songs performed by Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Kirk Franklin, Jeremy Jordan, Angela Grovey, Ivan Kelley, Jr. and Karen Peck. The soundtrack will be released on January 10, 2012 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. Check out audio clips from all tracks on the album after the jump. Joyful Noise is written and directed by Todd Graff and stars Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Kris Kristofferson, Courtney B. Vance and Jesse L. Martin. Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Wandmacher Scoring ‘Bachelorette’

Posted: December 14, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Michael Wandmacher is scoring the indie comedy Bachelorette. The film written and directed by Leslye Headland (Terriers) is based on her Off-Broadway play of the same name. The movie stars Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher and Lizzy Caplan as three best friends who are invited to act as bridesmaids at the wedding of a girl they called “Pigface” in high school. James Marsden, Adam Scott, Kyle Bornheimer are co-starring. Will Ferrell, Adam McKay & Jessica Elbaum (The Other Guys, Step Brothers) are producing the Gary Sanchez Productions film with Brice Dal Farra, Claude Dal Farra & Lauren Munsch (Higher Ground) of BCDF Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »

Varese Sarabande to Release James Horner’s ‘Black Gold’ Score

Posted: December 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack album for the epic drama Black Gold. The album features the original score from the movie by James Horner and marks the composer’s first new release since 2010’s The Karate Kid. The soundtrack will be released on February 7, 2012 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the full album details in a few weeks. As previously reported, the music was recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios and Horner worked with Quatari singer Fahad Al Kubaisi on the picture’s opening track. Black Gold is directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and stars Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong, Tahar Rahim, Freida Pinto and Liya Kebede. The movie premiered at the Doha Film Festival in October and has already been released in a couple of countries, including France in the last couple of weeks. The soundtrack release coincides with the release of the film in the UK and Germany among other European countries. Read the rest of this entry »

Hans Zimmer to Score Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’

Posted: December 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Hans Zimmer is set to score the upcoming racing drama Rush. The film is directed by Ron Howard and stars Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl, Olivia Wilde and Alexandra Maria Lara. The movie centers on the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda and their Formula One racing teams, McLaren and Ferrari during the 1975/76 season, as both were pushed to the breaking point of their psychological and physical endurance. Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) is writing the screenplay and is also producing alongside Howard, Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind), Brian Oliver (Black Swan), Eric Fellner (Atonement) and Andrew Eaton (A Might Heart). Zimmer and Howard have previously worked together multiple times, most recently on the movie adaptations of The DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons, the comedy The Dilemma and the Academy Award-nominated drama Frost/Nixon. Read the rest of this entry »

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