Nettwerk has released a soundtrack album for the coming-of-age drama Ten Thousand Saints. The album features the film’s original music composed by Garth Stevenson (Tracks). Also included are two original songs written by Anna Waronker and Steven McDonald, as well as a cover of the Minor Threat’s Straight Edge. The soundtrack is now available to order on Amazon. Ten Thousand Saints is written and directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini and stars Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Emily Mortimer, Julianne Nicholson and Emile Hirsch. The movie is set in the 1980 and follows a Vermont teenager who moves in with his hippie dad in NYC, where he falls in with the no drugs, no sex, no meat, straight-edge hardcore punk scene of the East Village.
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 14, 2015)
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the biographical drama Straight Outta Compton directed by F. Gary Gray and starring O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Aldis Hodge as MC Ren, Neil Brown, Jr. as DJ Yella and Paul Giamatti as N.W.A.’s manager Jerry Heller. The film’s original score is composed by Joseph Trapanese (Insurgent, Oblivion, Earth to Echo). Dr. Dre has released his first record in 16 years inspired by the movie last Friday. Visit Amazon to order the album. To learn more about the film, which chronicles the rise of the hip hop group N.W.A., check out our previous news article.
Also opening wide is the film adaptation of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Jared Harris and Hugh Grant. Daniel Pemberton (Steve Jobs, The Counselor) has composed the film’s original music. WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as the songs from the movie by artists including Roberta Flack, Nina Simone, Peppino Gagliardi, Louis Prima & more. Click here for the full album details and check out our soundtrack preview here. Also visit Film Music Magazine, Film.Music.Media, We Are Movie Geeks and Film Music Society for interviews with Pemberton and click here for a video featurette about the composer’s music.
Garth Stevenson Scoring ‘Ten Thousand Saints’
Garth Stevenson is composing the score for the upcoming indie coming of age dramedy Ten Thousand Saints. The film is directed by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman (American Splendor, The Nanny Diaries, Girl Most Likely) and stars Asa Butterfield, Ethan Hawke, Hailee Steinfeld, Emile Hirsch, Emily Mortimer and Julianne Nicholson. The movie based on a novel by Eleanor Henderson is set in the New York City East Village Punk scene during the 1980s and follows a young man who is sent to live with his estranged father in Manhattan. Anne Carey (Adventureland, The American) and Amy Nauiokas are producing the project for Archer Gray Productions, alongside Trudie Styler (Moon, Filth) and Celine Rattray (Bernie, Black Nativity) for Maven Pictures, and Luca Borghese.