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Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 14, 2011)

October 14, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Tags: Alberto Iglesias, David Buckley, Deborah Lurie, Dickon Hinchliffe, Father of Invention, Fireflies in the Garden, Footloose, Jane Antonia Cornish, Marco Beltrami, Nick Urata, Texas Killing Fields, The Big Year, The Skin I Live In, The Thing, Theodore Shapiro, Trespass

Three new movies are opening wide this weekend:

Opening in most theaters is the remake of Footloose directed by Craig Brewer and stars Kenny Wormaid, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell. Atlantic Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the movie’s songs by artists including Blake Shelton, Zac Brown, The Smashing Pumpkins, Victoria Justice & Hunter Hayes and Big & Rich. For audio clips and more information about the album, visit our previous article. The film’s score is written by Deborah Lurie and no separate score release has been announced.

Also opening wide is the horror prequel The Thing directed by Matthijs van Heijingen Jr. and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen and Joel Edgerton. Marco Beltrami has written the music for the film. A soundtrack album featuring Beltrami’s score has been released by Varese Sarabande earlier this week. For more information about the album and to listen to audio clips from the release, visit our soundtrack announcement.

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‘The Thing’ Soundtrack Details

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

Tags: Marco Beltrami, score, Soundtrack, The Thing

Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack release for the horror thriller The Thing. The album includes the original score by Marco Beltrami. The soundtrack will be released on October 11, 2011 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips can be checked out below. The Thing directed by Matthijs van Heijingen Jr. and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen and Joel Edgerton is a prequel to the 1982 classic directed by John Carpenter. Universal Pictures will release the movie on October 14.

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Marco Beltrami’s ‘The Thing’ Soundtrack announced

August 15, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Marco Beltrami, score, Soundtrack, The Thing

Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack release for the upcoming horror thriller The Thing. The album features the movie’s original score by Marco Beltrami. The soundtrack will be released on October 11, 2011. The full details of the release are expected to be announced within the next couple of weeks. The Thing directed by Matthijs van Heijingen Jr., produced by Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead, Children of Men) and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen and Joel Edgerton is a prequel to the 1982 classic directed by John Carpenter, which featured a score by Ennio Morricone. The movie will be released on October 14 by Universal Pictures.

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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 scoring ‘Soul Surfer’

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

Tags: Marco Beltrami, Scream 4, Soul Surfer, The Thing

According to the film’s teaser trailer, Marco Beltrami is writing the music for the family sports drama Soul Surfer. The movie is directed by Sean McNamara (Raise Your Voice, Bratz) and stars AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt, Craig T. Nelson and Carrie Underwood. In the film, a young, teenage surfer girl summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack. Watch the film’s teaser trailer below and check out the movie’s official webpage for updates on Soul Surfer. Sony Pictures will release the movie on April 8, 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDZhxHp5Vcg

As previously reported, Beltrami also has the horror thriller The Thing and the horror sequel Scream 4 coming out this year. The Thing was recently pushed back from its original April release date to October 14, 2011, while Scream 4 is still set to open on April 15.

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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