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Weekly Film Music Roundup (June 3, 2011)

June 3, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Tags: Alex Turner, Andrew Hewitt, Beautiful Boy, Beginners, Blake Neely, Brian Reitzell, David Palmer, Henry Jackman, Love Wedding Marriage, Roger Neill, score, Soundtrack, Submarine, Trevor Morris, X-Men: First Class

Only one new movie is opening wide this weekend:

Matthew Vaughn’s comic book adaptation X-Men: First Class starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Lawrence and Rosamunde Pike is expected to top the weekend box office. The film’s music is written by Henry Jackman and a soundtrack album has been released digitally earlier this week by Sony Classical. A physical release will follow on June 28. For more information on the album and to listen to audio clips from the score, visit our previous article.

Opening in limited release is the dramedy Beginners directed by Mike Mills and starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Melanie Laurent. The film’s score is composed by Roger Neill, David Palmer and Brian Reitzell. The movie also features a number of songs. A soundtrack album with both songs and score has been released earlier this week by Relativity Music Group. To preview and find out more about the album, visit our soundtrack announcement. AOL Music is also currently streaming the full album for free until the end of the week.

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‘Beginners’ Soundtrack Details

May 10, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 2 comments

Tags: Beginners, Brian Reitzell, David Palmer, Roger Neill, score, Soundtrack

Relativity Music Group has announced a soundtrack album for the dramedy Beginners. The album includes the original score by Roger Neill, David Palmer and Brian Reitzell. Also featured on the soundtrack are several songs from the movie from artists including Hoagy Carmichael, Gene Austin, Josephine Baker and Jolly Roll Morton. The album will be released on May 31, 2011 and is available to pre-order on Amazon. Also check out the audio clips below. Beginners is directed by Mike Mills (Thumbsucker) and stars Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Melanie Laurent. Focus Features will release the film on June 3.

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Brian Reitzell Scoring ‘R.E.M’

April 25, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Beginners, Brian Reitzell, David Slade, NBC, R.E.M.

Brian Reitzell has signed on to score the TV drama pilot R.E.M. According to Deadline, the project is described as an Inception-style thriller and centers on a detective, who wakes up after an accident to find he is living in two different realities, one in which he has killed his son and one in which he has killed his wife. The NBC drama stars Jason Isaacs, Laura Allen, Cherry Jones, Dylan Minette, Wilmer Valderrama and Steve Harris. The pilot of the show is directed by David Slade (Hard Candy, Eclipse) who previously collaborated with Reitzell on the 2007 vampire horror thriller 30 Days of Night. The R.E.M. pilot is written by Kyle Killen who wrote Jodie Foster’s feature film The Beaver, which is coming out next month and also created last year’s critically acclaimed TV drama Lone Star, which was canceled after a few episodes.

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Brian Reitzell co-scoring Beginners

September 26, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Beginners, Brian Reitzell, Dave Palmer, Roger Neill

Brian Reitzell has recently co-scored the dramedy Beginners with Roger Neill and Dave Palmer. The movie directed by Mike Mills (Thumbsucker) stars Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Melanie Laurent. Beginners tells the story of a man who learns that his terminally ill father is gay and has a young lover. The film premiered at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and has recently been picked up by Focus Features for a release in 2011.

As reported earlier, Reitzell also has the Catherine Hardwicke-directed Red Riding Hood starring Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman coming out in early 2011.