Tag: Love and Other Drugs

Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 26, 2011)

November 25, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Tags: Alan Menken, Alexandre Desplat, Burlesque, Christophe Beck, Clint Mansell, Faster, James Newton Howard, Love and Other Drugs, Tangled, The King's Speech

Four new movies are opening wide over Thanksgiving weekend:

Walt Disney Pictures’ Tangled features songs and score by Alan Menken. Check out our previous article announcing the soundtrack album. A short video interview on the score has been uploaded on YouTube. To listen to lenghty audio interviews with Menken talking about his work on Tangled, visit Film Music Magazine’s On the Score and WDW Radio. Entertainment Weekly also featured an in depth interview with the composer worth checking out. Also check out a short interview Menken did with The Wall Street Journal, as well as a recent article about Menken on LA Times’ Music Blog .

> Read the full story ...

James Newton Howard taking over The Tourist

November 1, 2010 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Gabriel Yared, Gnomeo and Juliet, James Newton Howard, Love and Other Drugs, The Green Hornet, The Tourist, Water for Elephants

James Newton Howard has taken over scoring duties on the dramatic thriller The Tourist starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. He is replacing composer Gabriel Yared who has already recorded music for the movie in London earlier this year. The movie directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Live of Others) revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart and Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. The recording sessions for the score have recently started in Los Angeles and the movie is scheduled to be released on December 10 by Sony Pictures.

> Read the full story ...