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Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 26, 2011)

August 26, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Tags: Alec Puro, Brighton Rock. Martin Phipps, Buck Sanders, Circumstance, Colombiana, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Eric D. Johnson, Gingger Shankar, Higher Ground, Marco Beltrami, Nathan Larson, Nathaniel Mechaly, Our Idiot Brother, score, Soundtrack

Three new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:

Opening in most theaters is the horror thriller Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark directed by Troy Nixey, produced by Guillermo Del Toro and starring Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison. The film’s music is composed by Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders. A soundtrack album featuring the score has been released digitally earlier this week and will be coming out on CD on September 27 on Lakeshore Records. For audio clips and more details, visit our previous article.

Also opening wide is the indie comedy Our Idiot Brother directed by Jesse Peretz and starring Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Hugh Dancy, Rashida Jones and Shirley Knight. Nathan Larson and Eric D. Johnson composed the movie’s score. Abkco Records has released a soundtrack album including selections of the score, as well as several songs from the movie. To listen to audio clips and find out more about the release, visit our soundtrack announcement.

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‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ Soundtrack Details

August 12, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Buck Sanders, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Guillermo Del Toro, Marco Beltrami, score, Soundtrack

Lakeshore Records has announced a soundtrack release for the upcoming horror thriller Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. The album features the film’s original score by Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders. The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 30, 2011 and on CD on September 27 (available for pre-order on Amazon). Audio clips from all tracks on the album can be check out below. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark directed by Troy Nixey and produced by Guillermo Del Toro stars Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison. The movie premiered earlier this summer at the Los Angeles Film Festival and will be released in theaters on August 26 by Film District.

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Marco Beltrami Scoring ‘Blackbird’

July 12, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Blackbird, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Marco Beltrami, The Thing

Marco Beltrami is currently scoring the thriller Blackbird. The film stars stars Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde as a brother and sister fleeing after a casino heist, who meet a young boxer just out of prison. Charlie Hunnam, Kris Kristofferson, Sissy Spacek, Kate Mara and Treat Williams are co-starring. The movie is directed by Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky who previously directed The Counterfeiters, which won the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2008. Zach Dean wrote the screenplay and Gary Levinsohn (Saving Private Ryan) is among the project’s prroducers.

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Marco Beltrami to score The Thing prequel and Scream 4

November 2, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Buck Sanders, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Marco Beltrami, Scream 4, The Thing

Marco Beltrami has been hired to score the upcoming horror thriller The Thing. The prequel’s story takes place before the actions of the 1982 classic directed by John Carpenter. The movie directed by Matthijs van Heijingen Jr. is set in the Antarctica where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The Thing stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen and Joel Edgerton. Universal Pictures has set a April 29, 2011 release date for the movie.

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