MovieScore Media has announced the details of the soundtrack album for Susanne Bier’s romantic comedy Love Is All You Need. The album features the film’s original score composed by Johan Söderqvist (Kon-Tiki, Let the Right One In) who has previously collaborated with the director on such films as After the Wedding and Brothers. Also featured is a suite from one of the first collaborations between Bier and Söderqvist, the 1994 comedy Family Matters. The soundtrack has just been released overseas and will be released physically in the US on August 6, 2013. Love Is All You Need starring Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Sebastian Jessen, Molly Blixt Egelind, Paprika Steen, Kim Bodnia and Christiane Schaumburg-Muller premiered at last year’s Venice and Toronto Film Festival and was released theatrically in the US last month by Sony Pictures Classics.
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 3, 2013)
Only one new movie is opening wide this weekend:
Guaranteed to top the weekend box office is the superhero sequel Iron Man 3 directed by Shane Black and starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale, Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley. The film’s original music is composed by Brian Tyler (Eagle Eye, Fast Five, The Expendables). Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. Check out our previous article for the full album details. The label has also released the album Heroes Fall featuring songs from and inspired by the film (click here for more information). For audio interviews with Tyler about his work on the film, visit Film Music Magazine and Film Music Media and also visit Film School Rejects for another interview with the composer and Trailer Addict from a short video from the film’s red carpet premiere in Hollywood.
Opening in limited release is the romantic comedy Love Is All You Need co-written and directed by Susanne Bier and starring Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Sebastian Jessen, Molly Blixt Egelind, Paprika Steen, Kim Bodnia and Christiane Schaumburg-Muller. The film’s original score is composed by Johan Soderqvist who has previously collaborated with the director on such films as After the Wedding and Brothers. A soundtrack album will be released later this month. Check back on this page for updates. Also visit ASCAP’s We Create Music blog for a recent interview with the composer on the film, which premiered at last year’s Venice and Toronto Film Festival and is being released by Sony Pictures Classics. To learn more about the film. visit the official movie website.
Johan Söderqvist Scoring ‘Kon-Tiki’
Johan Söderqvist will be recording his orchestral score for the epic drama Kon-Tiki this weekend at Abbey Road Studios in London. The film directed by Espen Sandberg & Joachim Rønning (Bandidas, Max Manus) marks Norway’s most expensive feature film to date and tells the story of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s voyage on a balsa-wood raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947. Heyerdahl and his crew traveled across open sea to prove his scientific theory that the Polynesian people originally came from Peru in South America. The film’s cast includes Pål Sverre Hagen, Agnes Kittelsen, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Tobias Santelmann, Donald Baasmo Christiansen, James Oftebro and Gustaf Skarsgård and Søren Pilmark. Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor, A Dangerous Method, Sexy Beast) and Aage Aaberge (Strings) are producing the Nordisk Film Production project.