Rick Marvin’s big orchestral score for the Bruce Willis sci-fi thriller Surrogates will be released on CD and as a download by Lakeshore Records next month. This is an unusual case where Walt Disney Pictures (or rather Touchstone Pictures) has licenced the soundtrack rights to an external company. Rick Marvin’s score for the film is an energetic and exciting action score influenced by Hollywood legends such as Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams. Marvin has been a film and music composer since the early 1990s, and previously worked with Mostow on his WW2 action picture U-571 and also, as an addition music composer, on Breakdown. Surrogates is set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots. Lakeshore’s release of the score will be released as a download on November 10 and on CD on November 24.
Source: Movie Score Magazine
Watch a featurette on the making of Karen O And The Kids’ song soundtrack to Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are.
You have to love the childish energy going into every aspect of this highly anticipated film, and I say “childish” in an extremely positive way.
The featurette also includes a couple of new clips from the film as well as a few moments from behind-the-scenes. Watch it after the jump.
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Although James Cameron’s Avatar has been generating a lot of buzz, very little information has surfaced regarding James Horner’s musical score for the film. In fact, details about the score have been as secretive if not more secretive than the film itself, especially when you consider Horner has been working on it since as early as June 2008.
Thanks to Fox Music executive vice president Mike Knobloch, we now have a little more insight into what to expect from the score, how long it will be, and what it might sound like.
“It’s a brilliantly unique blend of traditional and contemporary, electronic elements and spans the entire spectrum of attitude and energy – from bombastic action to the delicate, romantic discovery of a new world,” Knobloch said.
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If you live in Los Angeles then this one is for you. On October 24th, the Golden State Pops Orchestra will be hosting a special symphonic concert to pay tribute to original Battlestar Galactica composer Stu Phillips to commemorate his 80th birthday. The event will be performed by a full orchestra and will take place on only one night.
Stu Phillips will be in attendance to conduct his scores to Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers and Star Trek.
Also, the event will host the premiere of John Ottman’s suite from the new film Astro Boy – arranged and conducted by GSPO’s assistant conductor, Jason Livesay.
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If you’re a film score buff and you live in New York, you’re going to love this.
On October 9 and 10 the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring score will be performed live by more than 300 musicians while the movie plays on a 60-foot screen at the Radio City Musical Hall in New York. Now how awesome is that!
Further, a panel will be held on October 1 at the Paley Center for Media in New York that will feature LOTR composer Howard Shore, author of ‘The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films’ Doug Adams, and actor Billy Boy (aka Pippin the Hobbit). The panel will be moderated by MTV’s Kurt Loder and to celebrate, MTV are offering fans an offer to purchase tickets to the event at 50% off (only $10!).
The links you need are:
For the concert: http://www.theradiocitylotrconcert.com/
For MTV’s deal: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7568625/prm/mtv
Joseph LoDuca wins an Emmy for 'Legend of the Seeker'
Legend of the Seeker has won the Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score).
The award goes to music composer Joseph LoDuca for his superb score to the first Legend of the Seeker episode, ‘Prophecy’.
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Bear McCreary scores the pilot to Fox's 'Human Target'
Bear McCreary has announced he is working on two upcoming “must have” soundtrack releases.
The first is the score to Capcom’s sci-fi video game Dark Void, which will be released by Sumthing Else in 3-6 months time. The second is a new Battlestar Galactica soundtrack that will combine the scores of the BSG movie Razor and the soon to be released BSG movie The Plan.
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Although it hasn’t been officially announced, it seems award winning music composer John Powell (Hancock / Jumper / X-Men: The Last Stand) is working with famed heavy metal band Mastodon on the score to director Jimmy Hayward’s upcoming supernatural western, Jonah Hex.
The news comes via Mastodon’s Myspace blog where they posted:
Mastodon is currently working on JONAH HEX with composer John Powell and the movie’s director, Jimmy Hayward on the Score to JONAH HEX.
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Music composers Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica) and Nathan Barr (True Blood) will be signing CD’s this Sunday, September 13th, at 1pm at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA.
McCreary will be signing CD’s from Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Eureka, Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
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Runaway Deluxe Special Edition Soundtrack Cover
If you’re a fan of rare soundtracks then you may be interested in this.
Way back in 1984 director Michael Crichton and famed music composer Jerry Goldsmith collaborated on a little known sci-fi thriller titled Runaway. The film marked Goldsmith’s first all-electronic score and to this day and forever will remain one of only three all electronic scores that he ever composed.
Since then both Crichton and Goldsmith have sadly passed away, which kind of makes this all the more special.
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