Three new movies are opening wide this weekend:
Tron: Legacy features a score by Daft Punk. Click here to check out our posting on the soundtrack album announcement. Variety published an article on how the music of the French Duo grew from a supporting player to a starring role over the course of the movie’s production. Also visit Dazed Digital for a lenghty article on Daft Punk scoring the movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Varese Sarabande Records has announced the details of the soundtrack release for the upcoming drama The Way Back directed by Peter Weir. The album will include 14 tracks of Burkhard Dallwitz’ original score. Dallwitz previously scored The Truman Show for the director. The Way Back tells the fact-based story centered on soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940. The movie stars Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan and Ed Harris. The soundtrack album will be released on January 18, 2011, while Newmarket Films will release the movie on December 29 in LA and on January 21 in more cities. Read the rest of this entry »
Klaus Badelt’s score for the French/German drama Small World has been made available on Klaus Badelt’s online store. The album contains contains 23 score tracks by Badelt, which can be downloaded for the price of your choice at Badelt’s website. The film directed by Bruno Chiche stars Gerard Depardieu and Alexandra Maria Lara. The movie will be released in Germany on December 16. To visit the German movie webpage and watch the trailer, click here.
UPDATE (February 9, 2011): Paul Leonard-Morgan has taken over scoring duties on the film. Visit our article to find out more.
According to the movie’s trailer, Nico Muhly is composing the music for the upcoming thriller Limitless. The movie, which was originally entitled The Dark Fields is directed by Neil Burger and stars Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro and Anna Friel. In the film, a copywriter discovers a top-secret drug which bestows him with super human abilities. Director Burger previously worked with composers Philip Glass on The Illusionist and Rolfe Kent on The Lucky Ones. Muhly himself worked with Glass on such scores as The Hours, Notes on a Scandal and Cassandra’s Dream, possibly explaining his involvement in the movie. Limitless marks Muhly’s first big feature assignment since the Academy Award-nominated 2008 drama The Reader starring Kate Winslet. Read the rest of this entry »
According to director Duncan Jones, Chris Bacon has replaced Clint Mansell as the composer on the upcoming sci-fi movie Source Code. Mansell had been working on the score for the film as reported here back in October, but according to Jones, scheduling conflicts kept the composer from completing the soundtrack. Chris Bacon, whose previous feature credits include this year’s Love Ranch and Alpha and Omega, as well as numerous credits on James Newton Howard’s scores, has taken over scoring duties. The score is being recorded with a 70 piece orchestra this week. Source Code stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga. Read the rest of this entry »
Lionsgate Records has released a soundtrack album for the drama Rabbit Hole, which is opening in limited release this weekend. The album includes 15 tracks and about 22 minutes of Anton Sanko’s original score from the movie. To listen to audio clips from the soundtrack and download the album, visit Amazon and iTunes. Rabbit Hole has been getting a lot of Awards talk, especially for its lead performances by Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart. To find out more about the movie directed by John Cameron Mitchell, visit our announcement of Sanko’s involvement and visit the official film webpage.
As previously announced by the composer, Brian Tyler has been hired to score the upcoming action sequel Fast Five. The movie marks Brian Tyler’s and director Justin Lin’s third film in the series after The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and last year’s Fast & Furious. The film’s cast includes Vin Diesel, Paul Walker Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris Ludacris Bridges and Dwayne Johnson. In Fast Five, Dominic (Diesel) and his crew find themselves on the wrong side of the law once again as they try to switch lanes between a ruthless drug lord and a relentless federal agent. To learn more about the movie and watch the official trailer, which was released this week, check out the official movie webpage. Universal Pictures is planning an April 29, 2011 release. Read the rest of this entry »
David Julyan recently finished scoring the upcoming horror thriller The Cabin in the Woods. The movie is described as a new twist on the cabin in the woods/young-people-stranded-in-the-woods scenario. The film is written and directed by Drew Goddard and co-written by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the upcoming The Avengers). Goddard is best known as a writer on the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias, Lost and the 2008 hit film Cloverfield. The Cabin in the Woods stars Richard Jenkins, Chris Hemsworth, Bradley Whitford and Jesse Williams. The film was originally scheduled to be released early next year, but is currently without a release date because of MGM’s restructuring plans. Given the names involved in the project, it is expected that an announcement concerning the film’s relase will be made soon. Visit the official movie webpage for updates on the film.
Steve Jablonsky will be back to score Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The third part in the series is once again directed by Michael Bay who has been working with Jablonsky on his last couple of movies. The sci-fi action sequel is written by Ehren Kruger and stars Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whitley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey, Ken Jeong, Alan Tudyk, Frances McDormand and John Turturro. In the movie, autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers’ final battle. Transformers: Dark of the Moon will be released in 3D on July 1, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
The nominations for the 68th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories and nominations:
Best Original Score:
The King’s Speech – Alexandre Desplat
Alice in Wonderland – Danny Elfman
127 Hours – A.R. Rahman
The Social Network – Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor
Inception – Hans Zimmer Read the rest of this entry »
