Varese Sarabande Records will release a soundtrack album for the upcoming adventure thriller Largo Winch II. The album includes 20 tracks of Alexandre Desplat’s score for the movie. Also known as The Burma Conspiracy, the film is a sequel to the 2008 thriller Largo Winch, which also featured a score by Desplat and is available to download on iTunes. The album will only be released as a physical CD in Europe, but will receive a digital release on iTunes in the US. The album release date has been scheduled for March 22, 2011. Largo Winch II stars Tomer Sisley and Sharon Stone and will receive a release in France on February 16. There are no current plans for a domestic release of the film. To find out more about the movie, visit the French movie webpage and check out the trailer below. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Largo Winch II’ Soundtrack details
Posted: February 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Largo Winch II, score, Soundtrack, The Burma Conspiracy
‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Soundtrack announced
Posted: February 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cliff Martinez, score, Soundtrack, The Lincoln Lawyer
UPDATE (February 25, 2011): Lakeshore Records has also announced a separate soundtrack album featuring songs from the movie. The album includes songs by such artists as Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, Marcus, Ari Hest and Gang Starr. To check out the full tracklist, visit Lakeshore Records’ soundtrack page.
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Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack release for the upcoming legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer. The album will include the original score by Cliff Martinez. The soundtrack will be released on March 15, 2011. The film is based on the best-selling novel by Michael Connell and is directed by Brad Furman. The movie’s cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, John Leguizamo, Ryan Phillippe and William H. Macy. Read the rest of this entry »
Jonny Greenwood to score ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’
Posted: February 14, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jonny Greenwood, Lynne Ramsay, We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Jonny Greenwood has signed on to score the upcoming indie drama We Need to Talk About Kevin. The film is directed by Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) and stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller. The movie is based on a novel by Lionel Shriver and centers around the mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree and tries to deal with her grief and feelings of responsibility for her child’s actions by writing to her estranged husband. The film marks only third major scoring assignment for the Radiohead member after having previously scored Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood in 2007 and the recent Japanese drama Norwegian Woods. Read the rest of this entry »
Klaus Badelt’s upcoming projects
Posted: February 14, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dead of Night, Die Reise nach Mandolan, Dylan Dog, Hexe Lilli, Ian Honeyman, Klaus Badelt, Point Blank, Shanghai, Soundtrack, The Howling: Reborn, The Prodigies
Klaus Badelt has a number of movies coming out in 2011. Already recorded is the score for the horror comedy Dylan Dog: Dead of Night. The film based on the comic book series Dylan Dog centers around supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, who seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket, and blue jeans. The film is directed by Kevin Munroe, who previously worked with Badelt on the 2007 animated film TMNT (Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles). The movie stars Brandon Routh, Sam Huntington, Peter Stormare and Taye Diggs. No domestic release date has been announced, but the movie is scheduled to open in March in Italy (click here to watch the Italian movie trailer). For more information on Dylan Dog, visit the official production blog. Read the rest of this entry »
Randy Newman wins Grammy Award for ‘Toy Story 3’
Posted: February 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Awards, Crazy Heart, Grammy, Randy Newman, Stephen Bruton, T Bone Burnett, Toy Story 3
Randy Newman has won the Grammy Award for Toy Story 3 in the Best Score Soundtrack Album category at today’s award ceremony, beating out Danny Elfman for Alice in Wonderland, James Horner for Avatar and Hans Zimmer for Inception and Sherlock Holmes.
The winner in the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album category is Crazy Heart, produced by Stephen Bruton and T Bone Burnett. In the Best Song for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, the award went to The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart, co-written by Stephen Bruton and T Bone Burnett.
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Alexandre Desplat wins BAFTA for ‘The King’s Speech’
Posted: February 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Awards, BAFTA, The King's Speech
Alexandre Desplat has won the Orange British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) in the Original Music category for his score for The King’s Speech. The award was presented to him by singer/songwriter Paul McCartney. Desplat’s competitors in the category were A.R. Rahman for 127 Hours, Danny Elfman for Alice in Wonderland, John Powell for How to Train Your Dragon and Hans Zimmer for Inception. The award marks Desplat’s first BAFTA after being nominated before for Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Queen, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Fantastic Mr. Fox. For a backstage interview with Desplat at the Awards show, watch the video below after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
‘La Ligne Droite’ Soundtrack announced
Posted: February 13, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: La ligne droite, Patrick Doyle, Regis Wargnier, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande Records has announced a soundtrack release for the French drama La ligne droite. The film’s music is written by composer Patrick Doyle and 21 tracks of his score will be featured on the album. The soundtrack album will be released on March 8, 2011. It will only be released as a physical CD in Europe, but the album will be available in the US on iTunes. La ligne droite is directed by Regis Wargnier, a long time collaborator of Doyle, who has directed such movies as Indochine, Une femme francaise, Est-Ouest and Man to Man. The film will be released in France on March 9. Read the rest of this entry »
Elia Cmiral scoring ‘Atlas Shrugged’
Posted: February 12, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atlas Shrugged, Elia Cmiral, Part 1
Elia Cmiral recently recorded his score for the upcoming bestseller adaptation Atlas Shrugged: Part 1. In the movie based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand, a powerful railroad executive struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. The film directed by Paul Johansson stars Taylor Schilling, Edi Gathegi and Matthew Marsden. According to Elia Cmiral’s official webpage, the score was recorded with a large orchestra. There have been many attempts to bring the novel to the screen for the past decades, including a recent version which had director Vadim Perelman and composer James Horner attached to the project. Atlas Shrugged will be released in theaters on April 15, 2011. Watch the trailer below and visit the official movie webpage for updates on the film. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pushing Daisies’ Season 2 Sountrack album coming
Posted: February 12, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Carmel, Dorothy of Oz, Jim Dooley, Pushing Daisies, score, Season 2, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande Records has announced the details for the upcoming soundtrack release for the second season of the TV Show Pushing Daisies. The album features highlights from Jim Dooley’s score of the second season of the critically acclaimed show. The soundtrack will be released on April 5, 2011. A first volume with music from the first season was released back in 2008 and is also available on Varese Sarabande Records. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 11, 2011)
Posted: February 11, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Composer Interviews, Film Music NewsTags: Atli Orvarsson, Cedar Rapids, Chris Bacon, Christophe Beck, Deborah Lurie, Elton John, Gnomeo & Juliet, James Newton Howard, Just Go With It, Justin Bieber, Never Say Never, Rupert Gregson-Williams, score, Soundtrack, The Eagle
Four new movies are opening in wide release today:
Just Go With It directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman features a score by Rupert Gregson-Williams. No soundtrack album has been announced and judging from the release status of Gregson-Williams’ previous work for Adam Sandler/Happy Madison-produced films (with the exception of Bedtime Stories), the score will most likely remain unreleased.
Also opening wide is the animation musical Gnomeo & Juliet, which features songs by Elton John and a score by James Newton Howard and Chris Bacon. As reported last December, a soundtrack album including Elton John’s songs and four cues from the original score are has been released this Tuesday. To order the CD and listen to audio clips, visit Amazon and to download the album, visit Amazon or iTunes. To watch a short interview with composer James Newton Howard talking about his score for the project, visit Trailer Addict. Read the rest of this entry »
