La-La Land Records has announced the world premiere releases of the original score for the 1984 action comedy Beverly Hills Cop directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy & Judge Reinhold and its 1987 sequel Beverly Hills Cop II directed by Tony Scott. The albums feature the films’ original music composed by Harold Faltermeyer (Top Gun, The Running Man, Fletch, Tango & Cash). The Beverly Hills Cop album also includes the original soundtrack release’s most notable songs performed by Glenn Frey, The Pointer Sisters & more and the Beverly Hills Cop II album features songs by Bob Seger, George Michael & more. Both soundtracks are limited to 3000 copies and will be available for purchase on the label’s official website on November 29.
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The Newton Brothers to Score ‘High School’
The Newton Brothers have signed on to score the comedy High School. The composer duo is replacing Harold Faltermeyer who finished writing music for the film a while ago. The original version of the film also featured music by Freescha. The movie marks the directorial feature debut of John Stalberg and stars Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis and Colin Hanks. The comedy centers on a high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner and finds himself the subject of a drug test. Stalberg also co-wrote the script with Stephen Cusco (The Grudge). Warren Zide (American Pie, Final Destination) is producing with Ray Markovich. High School premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival and is currently awaiting a release date.
Beverly Hills Cop & Fletch score albums planned
In a recent interview with Cinematical, Harold Faltermeyer announced that albums for his scores for Beverly Hills Cop and Fletch are in the works. The label he’s working with is La-La-Land Records and the intention would be to release the complete scores.
In the interview, Faltermeyer also talks about Cop Out, his working process and his future plans. To read the entire interview, click here.
Harold Faltermeyer on Cop Out
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