The Goonies score album announced

Posted: March 1, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Varese Sarabande announced their latest CD club releases this morning. The latest batch includes four new albums, which can all be ordered on the Varese webpage.

One of the most requested titles in soundtrack history finally receives a CD release. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the movie, Dave Grusin’s score for The Goonies directed by Richard Donner and produced by Steven Spielberg is limited to 5000 copies. For sound clips and to order the CD, click here. Read the rest of this entry »

Desplat to score The Special Relationship

Posted: February 28, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Scoring Assignments
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Alexandre Desplat has been announced to score the drama The Special Relationship. The project traces former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair’s relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The movie is directed by Richard Loncraine who previously directed the action thriller Firewall which also had a score by Desplat. The film also marks another collaboration between writer/producer Peter Morgan, who Desplat worked with on The Queen. Michael Sheen reprises his role of Tony Blair from that movie is joined by Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton and Hope David as Hillary Clinton. The BBC produced movie is scheduled to come out in May in the UK. A domestic distribution deal and release date has yet to be announced.

Desplat will also continue his relationship with director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Cheri) on Tamara Drewe. The movie about a young newspaper writer who returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale stars Dominic Cooper and is scheduled to come out later this year by Sony Pictures Classics in the United States.

The extremely prolific composer also has the highly anticipated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 on his slate of upcoming projects and is still working on Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, which should come out later this year. Read the rest of this entry »

How To Train Your Dragon score album coming

Posted: February 27, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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John Powell’s score to Dreamworks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon will be released by Varese Sarabande Records on March 23. The movie follows the adventures of a hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely owner of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. The film’s voice cast includes Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill and America Ferrara. How To Train Your Dragon marks John Powell’s first solo gig for Dreamworks Animation after having co-written the scores for Antz, Shrek, Chicken Run and Kung Fu Panda. The movie will open in theaters on March 26.

Sound clips will be added soon. A short excerpt from the score can be heard on the movie’s official webpage: http://www.howtotrainyourdragon.com/

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The Pacific soundtrack album announced

Posted: February 27, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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The score for the upcoming HBO mini-series The Pacific will be released on March 9 by Rhino Records. The music is by Hans Zimmer, Geoff Zanelli and Blake Neely. The epic 10-part miniseries is based on the true stories of World War II Marines. It tracks the intertwined real-life journeys of three U.S. Marines-Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello), and John Basilone (Jon Seda)-across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II.  The miniseries follows these men and their fellow Marines from their first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, through the rain forests of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Peleliu, across the bloody sands of Iwo Jima and through the horror of Okinawa, and finally to their triumphant but uneasy return home after V-J Day.

To listen to clips from each track of the soundtrack, check out Rhino Records’ soundtrack webpage: http://www.rhino.com/shop/product/hans-zimmer-geoff-zanelli-and-blake-neely-the-pacific-music-from-the-hbo-miniseries
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Harold Faltermeyer on Cop Out

Posted: February 27, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Music Albums
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Kevin Smith’s action buddy comedy Cop Out starring Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan and Sean William Scott premiered in theaters yesterday. The movie marks composer Harold Faltermeyer’s return to Hollwood film scoring. The full album can be listened to at the official soundtrack webpage from Warner Bros: http://copoutmovie.warnerbros.com/soundtrack.html Apart from 14 score tracks, the album features the brand new Faltermeyer penned song Soul Brothers by Patti LaBelle.

To coincide with the film’s opening weekend, Slash Film has uploaded a new interview with Faltermeyer where he talks about Cop Out, his creative process, his work in the 80’s and his music for the upcoming comedy High School, which he describes as a “haunting, mystical, psychedelic–sometimes orchestral” score: http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/26/interview-harold-faltermeyer-creator-of-soundtrack-themes-to-fletch-beverly-hills-cop-top-gun-and-kevin-smiths-cop-out/

A few weeks ago, Daniel Schweiger interviewed Faltermeyer on his show On The Score. To listen to the excellent and lenghty audio interview, visit: http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=4908

Giacchino and Disney to reunite on John Carter of Mars

Posted: February 26, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Scoring Assignments
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Michael Giacchino will continue his collaboration with Walt Disney Pictures on the upcoming John Carter of Mars. The movie directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E) marks the director’s first live action feature and is scheduled for release in 2012. The cast features Taylor Kitsch, Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church and Mark Strong. The film chronicles the journey of Civil-War veteran John Carter, who finds himself battling a new and mysterious war amidst a host of strange Martian inhabitants, including Tars Tarkas and Dejah Thoris.

Giacchino also will be a guest on tonight’s KUSC’s Classical Music show hosted by Jim Svejda. The interview which is already up on KUSC’s webpage can be heard right here: http://kusc.podbean.com/2010/02/25/2010-oscar-best-score-nominee-michael-giacchino-up/

David Arnold to score Morning Glory

Posted: February 26, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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David Arnold has been hired to score the upcoming romantic comedy Morning Glory. The movie starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson and Jeff Goldsmith is scheduled to come out this fall. The project marks the second collaboration between Arnold and director Roger Michell who previously worked together on Changing Lanes.

Arnold also recently recorded his score for Made in Dagenham aka Dagenham Girls for director Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls, A Lot Like Love). The movie about the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination stars Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson and Bob Hoskins and is expected to come out later this year.

Arnold also has the third chapter in The Chronicles of Narnia series entitled The Voyage of the Dawn Treader coming out this December.

James Horner Video Interview

Posted: February 26, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews
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David Poland from Movie City News was able to secure James Horner for an exclusive interview that was shot earlier this week and just uploaded on his blog. In the lengthy video interview, Horner talks about his Academy Award-nominated score for Avatar, the other Oscar nominated scores and the current state of film music. Needless to say, this is one of the most fascinating composer interviews of the past couple of years in excellent high definition quality. You can watch the interview right here:

http://www.dp30.com/blog/2010/02/25/avatar-composer-james-horner/

John Debney joining Predators

Posted: February 26, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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John Debney has been chosen to score the upcoming action horror movie Predators. The movie is directed by Nimrod Antal (Vacancy, Armored) and stars Topher Grace, Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishburne. Debney previously worked with writer and producer Robert Rodriguez on Sin City, the first two Spy Kids movies and The Adventures of Shark-Boy and Lava-Girl. The movie is set to open this July and follows Iron Man 2 as another high profile summer movie for the busy composer. The announcement ends speculation that Alan Silvestri might return to the franchise, as the movie is a direct sequel to the orginal Predator movie that Silvestri has scored in 1987.

Rachel Portman scoring Never Let Me Go

Posted: February 25, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Rachel Portman has been hired to score the upcoming Mark Romanek directed movie Never Let Me Go. The movie based on the novel by Kazua Ishiguro is starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knighley. The film will be released later this year by Fox Searchlight.

Portman’s involvement in the movie has been revealed by a picture posted on the director’s Posterous account where he posted a picture of Portman working on the movie last week in London. You can check out a bigger version of the picture at http://markromanek.posterous.com/

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