2013: December 03: new project announced:
NOVEMBER MAN According to most
recent news Marco Beltrami has signed on to score and is
currently working on the upcoming action spy thriller NOVEMBER
MAN. Based on Bill Granger's
There Are No Spies, the seventh book in Granger's 13-part
"November Man" series. NOVEMBER MAN tells the story
of an ex-CIA operative
(Pierce Brosnan) who finds himself pitted against his former
pupil (Luke Bracey) in a race to find a woman hiding from her
past (Olga Kurylenko) who holds the key to an international
conspiracy. The movie is directed by action veteran Roger
Donaldson and is currently in post production and should be
released in late 2014.
2013: November 27: Marco Beltrami scores
THE WOLVERINE Scoring Sessions
recently published an article about recording sessions of THE
WOLVERINE. You can check a few dozen pictures here.
2013: November 20: CARRIE CD and
LP available soon CD
version of CARRIE score will be released at the end of
November and is currently available to pre-order only through
German Amazon as well as in Japan. So far there is no information about
the CD availability in other territories, although you can
also pre-order the score on LP through US Amazon (with estimated release date on
December 5).
2013: October 18: CARRIE soundtrack released
and samples added CARRIE
soundtrack was finally released as SHITTY DOWNLOAD ONLY! Good
job, Sony! :-/ Samples are now available in the audio
section. For more details, click on the album cover
below.
1. Carrie Main Title (1:28) 2.
The Birth of Carrie (2:48) 3. When Periods
Attack (2:07) 4. Carrie On (1:48) 5. Headbanger
(1:16) 6. Go To Your Closet (3:29) 7. Love You
Too, Mom (0:45) 8. Mind Over Matter (3:10) 9. Sue
Gets An Idea (4:14) 10. Shopping (1:44)
11. Levitated Mass (2:44) 12. Preparing for Prom
(2:02) 13. Trapped in the Closet (1:37) 14. Blood
Bath (1:11) 15. Kill 'Em All (2:48) 16. Driving
Her Crazy (4:26) 17. Heading Home (2:24) 18.
Mommie Dearest (4:23) 19. House Crumbles
(3:28) 20. Burn In Hell
(1:05)
2013: October 17: Beltrami's Bloody Prom Night
- FSMO Interview New interview
with Marco Beltrami was just published today in latest issue
of Film Score Monthly Online. The composer is discussing not
only lengthy post-production process on CARRIE, but also goes
into details about his experiments on the score, developing
thematic ideas and his view on SNOWPIERCER being
re-edited by Harvey "The Cunt" (copyright Martin Scorsese)
Weinstein for release in the U.S. The interview also
offering a few clips from the CARRIE is available for FSMO
subscribers here.
2013: October 15: CARRIE
samples CARRIE is finally
opening later this week you can check at least 4
samples available on Marco Beltrami's official
website. Although it wasn't announced officially yet and
there is still no release date confirmed, Sony Classical will
be releasing the score album.
2013: October 07: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MARCO
BELTRAMI! 47 years old
today!
2013: October 07: Behind
the Score of The Wolverine with Marco
Beltrami
THE WOLVERINE
behind the scenes (also included as part of the interview
below) has been recently published (well, actually a while
ago) by Costa Communications Inc. You can check it below:
2012: October 06: Marco
Beltrami Master Class from Poznan, Poland
As a little dual birthday
gift for the fans of Marco Beltrami (born October 7th) and Ray
Costa (born October 6th), here is finally recording of the
panel they held during this year's Transatlantyk Film Festival
on August 8th in Poznao, Poland. In the interview Marco
Beltrami is discussing mostly his most recent scores for World
War Z and The Wolverine as well as his recent award-winning
and nominated scores for Soul Surfer, The Hurt Locker, etc.
Also discussed are various other aspects of his job and his
beginnings. Since the panel was basically master class for
aspiring composers, Q+A is also included in the end. You
can check out the recording below:
2013: September 29: CARRIE
theme on Youtube Main
theme from Carrie has just been posted on youtube and you can
check it below. So far there is still no info about the score
album...
2013: September 25: SEVENTH SON
recording sessions Marco Beltrami has just completed recording his
score for THE SEVENTH SON. The score was recorded over
the last 5 days in London's Abbey Road Studios and
features 90-piece orchestra and 30 members of London Voices
with only small amount of electronics. The score is described
as "hugely rich orchestral based score with great
complexity and organic growth." Still no release date of
the movie has been confirmed but if there are no more delays
the movie should be released in late Spring/early Summer 2014.
Here is at least a few pictures from the sessions:
2013: September
21: CARRIE songs album announced
Soundtrack album to
CARRIE will be released by Columbia Records on October 15th,
2013. Unfortunately it's a song compilation only without any
score included, so be very careful what you buy. No score
album has been announced so far.
01. Ends Of The Earth 02.
College 03. Hip Hop Kids 04. Let Me Go 05.
Diane Young 06. Young Blood (Radio Edit 07. Live
for the Night (Explicit Version) 08. Dust to
Dust 09. All the Days 10. Take a Walk 11. I Can
Hardly Make You Mine 12. Tombstone Blues (Bonus
Track)
2013: September 02: The Seventh
Son still in trouble While
Marco Beltrami is currently working on his score (some
elements have been recorded back in early
August including solo harpsichord) as well as new movie
with Tommy Lee Jones THE HOMESMAN, it seems that it will take
much longer than originally expected before we get to see the
movie and hear new Marco Beltrami's score. THE SEVENTH SON was
originally set to be released this Fall and Tuomas
Kantelinen recorded his score earlier this year. A.R. Rahman
was also briefly involved but claimed to have backed out of
the project on his Twitter account. Shortly after the movie
got delayed until January 17, 2014 and Marco Beltrami was
hired to score new version, which was still supposed to be
distributed by Warner Bros. while Legendary Pictures financed
the production. But the deal between Legendary Pictures and
Warner Bros. is coming to its end and while there is still few
movies that are currently in production and will be released
during 2014 as part of original Legendary Pictures/Warner
Bros. deal, THE SEVENTH SON isn't one of them. The movie will
get released through Universal Pictures who will be handling
distribution for Legendary Pictures for the next 5 years
and new release date will have to be announced by the new
distributor. The movie is still listed as mid January release
in Korea and Thailand only. No release dates are currently
announced for US, EU and rest of the world.
2013: August 28: Marco Beltrami
joins the Varese Sarabande 35th Anniversary Halloween
Gala Official
announcement follows: We've been with Marco from the very
beginning, with his score for Wes Craven's SCREAM. He's now
one of the biggest stars in film music and continues to define
his work with an inventiveness that is truly exciting. Marco's
creative musical drive has been on ample display in such
scores as Mimic, Hellboy, The Watcher, Blade II, Flight of the
Phoenix, Live Free Or Die Hard, Knowing, The Thing, Soul
Surfer, Trouble With the Curve and his latest blockbuster -
Wolverine. Marco has been with us for the Varese Sarabande
celebrations in both Tenerife and Poznan this summer and we
couldn't be more excited that he will be with us for the
Varese Sarabande 35th Anniversary Halloween Gala with the
Golden State Pops Orchestra at the Warner Grand Theatre on
October 19, 2013. Tickets are now available!
2013: August 27: SNOWPIERCER
samples added to audio section SNOWPIERCER samples are now online.
2013: August 26: SNOWPIERCER
OST released SNOWPIERCER score has just been released in
Korea where the movie opened earlier this month. So far there
is still no confirmation of wide international release dates
of the movie and international release of the score, but the
CD can be also ordered from YesAsia . If you prefer download, you can
try to get it here. Tracklist follows. Click on the image
below for more details.
1. This is the End (3:41) 2. Stomp
(1:00) 3. Preparation (3:10) 4. Requesting an
Upgrade (3:40) 5. Take the Engine (2:04) 6. Axe
Gang (2:22) 7. Axe Schlomo (1:47) 8. Blackout
Fight (4:24) 9. Water Supply (2:32) 10. Go Ahead
(2:45) 11. Sushi (1:14)
12. The Seven (1:00) 13. We Go Forward
(2:05) 14. Steam Car (2:38) 15. Seoul Train
(2:26) 16. Snow Melt (2:02) 17. Take My Place
(5:56) 18. Yona Lights (3:33) 19. This is the
Beginning (4:00) 20. Yona's
Theme (3:38)
TT:
55:57
2013: August 20: WORLD WAR Z
and THE WOLVERINE more music... You can now listen to some previously unreleased
cues from both scores on the official
website.
2013: August 11: New Project
Announced: 1864 Marco
Beltrami will reunite with director Ole Bornedal (NIGHTWATCH,
DEEP WATER, I AM DINA, THE SUBSTITUTE) scoring his
upcoming epic TV series 1864 - Denmark’s most expensive
television production ever. Historical TV series is
revolving around the Battle of Dybbol,
which was a national drama for the whole Denmark, as
declared to the press by Bornedal: “1864 was a fateful
year for Denmark. The nation lost the Battle of Dybbol to the
Prussians and, in turn, two thirds of its land and population,
5,000 troops and a good measure of self-respect. The
ignominious defeat became a national trauma that can still
make Danes feel small”. 1864 is currently in production
and will be released in 2014. You can check a few very
promising photos here.
2013: August 10: Marco Beltrami
attended Transatlantyk Festival in Poznan, Poland
Earlier this week Marco
Beltrami attended third Transatlantyk Festival in Poznan,
Poland. During his visit he served as a member of the jury of
Film Music Competition, did a Master Class with Ray Costa,
attended Closing Gala Concert and gave several interviews and
signed a ton of stuff for various fans (including this
one). OK, some days is just impossible not to take deeply
personally and August 8 was one of those for me -
especially after missing the opportunity to meet Marco
Beltrami at the festivals in Paris, Cordoba and Tenerife;
Poznan was not to be missed. Many thanks to Marco Beltrami,
Sara Andon, Robert Townson, Ray Costa, Lukasz Waligórski and
the president of the festival Jan A.P. Kaczmarek as well as
all other attendees and participants who made this year such a
success. If anyone pictured below wants more
pictures, feel free to contact me and I will
try to dig them up for you (just let me know specific number
you are in). Hopefully more pictures will follow as well as
some exclusive content. As usually, click on the images to
display them in full resolution in a new
window.
2013: August 01: New Project
Announced: SEVENTH SON Marco Beltrami has recently signed to score
upcoming 18th century fantasy adventure SEVENTH SON
centered on young Thomas, who is apprenticed to the local
Spook to learn to fight evil spirits. His first great
challenge comes when the powerful Mother Malkin escapes her
confinement while the Spook is away. The movie is
directed by Sergey Bodrov (MONGOL, NOMAD: THE WARRIOR) and
features impressive cast including Jeff Bridges, Julianne
Moore, Ben Barnes, Olivia Williams, Djimon Hounsou and Jason
Scott Lee. SEVENTH SON will be released by Warner Bros on
January 17, 2014. You can watch the trailer below and check
the official website here.
2013: August 01: CNF Interview
with Marco Beltrami New two-part interview with Marco Beltrami was
recently published by Cinema Knife Fight. While first part
focuses mostly on his score for WORLD WAR Z, part two
discusses his music for THE WOLVERINE as well as his work in
general. Check them below:
2013: July 21: THE WOLVERINE
samples now online Three samples from THE WOLVERINE score has just
been added to the audio section.
2013: July 11: THE WOLVERINE
details Track times
has been revealed by Amazon. Check out July 7th post or album page for details. Total
running time of the CD is approximatelly 58:37. You can also
check the back cover here .
2013: July 10: Marco Beltrami at Poznan,
Poland Marco Beltrami
will be attending upcoming TRANSATLANTYK film festival in
Poznan, Poland. So far no detailed programme has been
announced, but Marco Beltrami's work (suite consisting of his
scores for I, ROBOT, HELLBOY, MIMIC and KNOWING) will be part
of planned Varese Sarabande's 35th Anniversary concert on
August 4 in aula of UAM. You can buy tickets for 50 PLZ here. More details about festival programme
will be hopefully announced soon. For more information about
the festival and other guests, click on the image on the
right. See you there!
2013: July 09: THE WOLVERINE
samples! Samples from
all of the tracks have been posted on youtube.
2013: July 07: THE WOLVERINE
tracklist revisited New tracklist for upcoming THE
WOLVERINE soundtrack album has been revealed. The amount of
cues is exactly the same so it seems that only track titles
have been altered on some of the cues. The CD should be
approximately 57 minutes long and the download version should
include one bonus track. No track times or samples have been
revealed so far, but new cover seems to be available on US and
UK version (german version still includes the original one).
01. A Walk in the Woods (1:02) 02. Threnody for
Nagasaki (1:15) 03. Euthanasia (1:36) 04. Logan’s
Run (3:56) 05. The Offer (3:15) 06. Arriving at
the Temple (2:10) 07. Funeral Fight (4:22) 08. Two
Handed (4:04) 09. Bullet Train (1:31) 10. The
Snare (1:32) 11. Abduction (2:11) 12. Trusting
(1:54) 13. Ninja Quiet (3:40) 14. Katana Surgery
(3:50) 15. The Wolverine (2:21) 16. The Hidden
Fortress (5:02) 17. Silver Samurai (3:27) 18.
Sword of Vengeance (4:32) 19. Dreams (1:21) 20.
Goodbye Mariko (1:01) 21. Where to? (2:25) 22.
Whole Step Haiku (2:08)
2013: July 05: Marco Beltrami
at San Diego Comic Con On Thursday,
July 18, a number of film directors and composers will
participate in the panel The Anatomy of Superhero Film Music:
Bringing a Comic Book to Life. Composer Marco Beltrami and
director James Mangold (The Wolverine), composer Brian Tyler
and director Shane Black (Iron Man 3), composer Henry Jackman
(X-Men: First Class, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and
director Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass),
composer Christopher Lennertz (Marvel: Agent Carter), composer
John Debney (Iron Man 2, Sin City) and music supervisor Dave
Jordan (The Avengers) will discuss the challenges faced when
bringing a comic book character to life and giving that
character a voice, working with directors and how they
collaborate to convey the story of the character. The panel
will be moderated by Ray Costa of Costa Communications and
will take place on July 18 from 10:30am to 11:30am in Room
6A.
2013: July 02: Cordoba
Videos First two videos
from recent Cordoba Film Music Festival has been posted on
YouTube and you can watch two of them below. The first
one features the ceremony when Marco received first Elmer
Bernstein Award for Excellence in Film Scoring (starts at
4:30) as well as selection of various Beltrami's pieces
performed during the evening (starts at 14:58). See May 5 post
for the list of scores performed during the evening. The other
is I, ROBOT suite.
2013: June 29: Cordoba
Photos Here is a first
batch of photos from Cordoba, Spain, where Marco Beltrami
received first Elmer Bernstein Award for Excellence in Film
Scoring, participated in the panel and also prepared (together
with Mikael Carlsson) lengthy concert retrospective of his
carreer. Hopefully videos will be available during next
week. Many thanks to Phil Watkins and Sergio Hardasmal
for these photos. If you want to check them in full
resolution, click on the images and they'll load in their full
size in new window.
2013: June 27: ASCAP 2013
interview Marco
Beltrami earned a Top Box Office award at the 2013 ASCAP Film
& TV Music Awards for his score to The Woman in Black.
Here is a brief pre-ceremony interview.
2013: June 25: WORLD WAR Z
Music Feature The
series of WORLD WAR Z interviews seems to be pretty much
endless and here comes another one. Music Feature also shows
brief interviews with director Marc Forster and Paramount
Pictures' Executive in Charge of Music Department Randy
Spendlove. The video also includes number of clips from the
sessions. Watch it below:
2013: June 24: Programme of
Marco Beltrami's concerts at Tenerife
Programme of Marco Beltrami's
portion of the concert at Tenerife on July 12 has been
announced. The concert will also feature suites by the other
big guest of Fimucite Festival, David Arnold and will
include his scores for Independence Day, The Stepford
Wives and
Stargate. Steven Allen Fox will conduct Orquesta sinfónica de
Tenerife and Tenerife Film Choir. For more information about
the festival, visit its official website. Here is the programme
of Marco Beltrami's concert on July 12th:
SNOWPIERCER This is
the Beginning Go Ahead Train Riot Ec Yona
SOUL
SURFER Main Title Half Pint Boards Hymn for
Bethany Bethany's Wave
THE
WOLVERINE Where to?
On July 13, there is another
big concert planned as continuation of Varese's 35th
Anniversary celebration, which will also include lengthy suite
of Marco Beltrami's scores (probably quite similar or the same
suite as the one performed in Paris last year), which will
include selection of the following scores: I,
ROBOT / MIMIC /
KNOWING / HELLBOY.
Orquesta sinfónica de Tenerife and Tenerife Film Choir will be
conducted by Diego Navarro.
2013: June 23: WORLD
WAR Z interview Here is
one more videointerview with Marco Beltrami discussing his WWZ
score and the movie. If you have already seen the movie and
are curious about what changes it went through, you can also
check this article, which compares original and
reshot version.
2013: June 21: WORLD WAR Z
samples, interviews and session photos
Three samples from WORLD WAR
Z are now online and you can check them in the audio section.
The movie opened in theatres earlier this week and there has
been a few articles discussing the score. While all of them
have something interesting to offer, WAMG article also
features plenty of pictures from WWZ recording sessions. More
articles will be added as they become published. Here is
a few photos from WWZ recording sessions compiled from various
articles online:
2013: June 17: WORLD WAR Z
screening and signing featuring Marco
Beltrami Amoeba is
currently offering unique opportunity for first 100 lucky
customers to to order special WWZ fan pack including access to
the premiere screening of the movie, CD soundtrack and poster
and also chance to meet Marco Beltrami who will be
participating in special signing. More information is
available at Amoeba's website here. The event is planned on 19th at 9:30
PM at ArcLight Hollywood.
2013: June 17: WORLD WAR Z
samples First WORLD
WAR Z samples are now available on Amazon UK. While both
digital and physical edition of the score will be released in
US tomorrow, it is already available in EU and you can check
the samples here . Full length samples coming in a
couple of days.
2013: June 16: WOLVERINE
tracklist Tracklist of
upcoming WOLVERINE soundtrack album was just revealed. So
far there are no running times available and will be
added later on. Soundtrack album will be released in
EU on July 22nd and in US on July 30th by Sony Music and
is available to pre-order from various retailers.
1. A Walk in the Woods 2. Threnody for
Nagasaki 3. Logan Can’t Bear It 4. Logan’s
Run 5. The Offer 6. Get Me to the Temple on
Time 7. Who Invited the Yakuza? 8. Hold My
Sword 9. Logan in the Latraine 10.
Matzah-Hisu 11. Abduction
12. Logan’s Fun 13. Ninja Knocking 14. Kantana
Surgery 15. The Wolverine 16. The Hidden
Fortress 17. Silver Samurai 18. Sword of
Vengence 19. Dreams 20. Abayo Mariko 21. Where
to? 22. Whole Step Haiku
2013: June 12: SNOWPIERCER
trailer Finally first
trailer for upcoming SNOWPIERCER has been released and you can
watch it below. While the movie should be released in some
european countries at the end of August, there is still no
release date set for US, UK and many major countries and no
soundtrack album has been confirmed yet either. Hopefully more
information coming soon...
2013: June 04: DEATCH MATCH
(1994) sample You can
listen to a brief sample from one of Marco Beltrami's earliest
scores here.
The movie tells the story of a kickboxing champ and a reporter
are searching for a missing man, but they turn up a series of
illegal kickboxing matches run by an arms dealer. The score is
mostly electronic with only a few instruments performed live
by Marco Beltrami himself (piano, guitar) and Dennis Smith
(guitar). No music composed for this project has ever been
released in any format.
2013: May 28: WORLD WAR Z
cover The cover art of
upcoming WORLD WAR Z album has just been revealed. Click on
the images to display them in full resolution.
More details (tracklist, purchase links, movie
trailer) available through discography.
2013: May 23: Marco Beltrami
interview from last year's Festival des Musiques a
l'image French film
music website Cinezik has published interview with Marco
Beltrami filmed during last year's Festival des Musiques a
l'image in Paris, France. In the following interview Marco is
discussing various aspects of his carreer including his
relationship with Jerry Goldsmith, working on the Scream
series up to his more recent scores such as I am Dina, In the
Electric Mist, The Hurt Locker and also offers a fairly
exciting brief info about his upcoming score for WORLD
WAR Z (8:40). Check it out:
2013: May 23: Marco Beltrami to
attend FIMUCITE 7 in Tenerife Marco Beltrami will be participating not
only the film music festival in Cordoba, Spain,
where he will be awarded with newly established Elmer
Bernstein Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Art of
Film Scoring, but he will also visit Fimucité 7 held
in Tenerife on July 5-14. The event, which is planned as part
of this year's Celebration of Varese Sarabande's 35th
Anniversary, will also feature David Arnold and the
festival will host the highlights of these two well-known
composers that will be performed July 12 at Auditorio de
Tenerife “Adán Martin”, together with the highly anticipated
007 concert. The programme of the concert hasn't been revealed
yet, but you can read more about this event at its official website.
2013: May 23: THE WOLVERINE
sessions photographs The recording sessions for James Mangold's
sequel entitled THE WOLVERINE has started last week and
continued until yesterday at The Newman Scoring Stage at 20th
Century Fox. The sessions took slightly longer than originally
expected as it was required that major part of the score was
recorded with full orchestra as well as in stripes
spotlighting various groups and offering more possibilites in
the final mix (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussions). Some
parts needed to be recorded in even more detailed form than
that. Anyway, here is a few pictures from the sessions
featuring the composer Marco Beltrami, flute soloist Sara
Andon, Buck Sanders and composers Scott Glasgow and Diego
Navarro who visited the sessions. Click on the images to
display them in full resolution.
2013: May 19: WORLD WAR Z
tracklist Warner Bros
records revealed tracklist of the WORLD WAR Z soundtrack. You
can check it below. Still no cover art available. Total
playing time is rougly 44:12.
01. Philadelphia (4:06) 02. The Lane
Family (2:47) 03. Ninja Quiet (2:54) 04. Searching
For Clues (5:33) 05. NJ Mart (4:01) 06. Zombies In
Coach (3:43)
07. Hand Off! (2:49) 08. No
Teeth No Bite (3:25) 09. The Salvation
Gates (4:24) 10. Wales (5:22) 11. A
River Around A
Rock (5:08)
2013: May 17: First WORLD WAR Z
and SNOWPIERCER samples Marco Beltrami's agency is now including samples
from Marco Beltrami's scores for SNOWPIERCER and WORLD WAR Z.
You can check them out at the artist's profile page on Kraft-Engel
website.
2013: May 11: WORLD WAR Z
soundtrack album announced Warner Bros records will release Marco
Beltrami's score for WORLD WAR Z on June 18th. You can already
pre-order the CD either from Amazon US or soon from Amazon UK . So far there is no cover or tracklist
available, but hopefully will be revealed soon. Stay tuned for
more details coming soon...
2013: May 08: THE
WOLVERINE cover art revealed The front cover of the upcoming (July 22nd)
album of THE WOLVERINE score has been revealed by Amazon
UK. Considering that the sessions won't start until next week
and the album's release date is still more than 2 months away,
it is still possible this is just a fan-made cover, but still
it looks pretty good. Click on the image to see it in high
resolution.
2013: May 05: E. Bernstein
Award Gala Concert featuring Film Music of M. Beltrami
Programme of the upcoming
Marco Beltrami concert in Cordoba, Spain has just been
revealed. The concert will feature music from the following
scores: HELLBOY, I ROBOT, KNOWING, MIMIC, THE OMEN,
SNOWPIERCER (world premiere), SOUL SURFER and TEXAS RANGERS.
The concert is produced by Mikael Carlsson and Marco Beltrami
and will feature Orquesta de Cordoba and Coro Ziryab conducted
by Arturo Diez Boscovich. The concert will take place on June
28th, 2013. For more information about the event, visit
festival's official website .
2013: May 05: WARM BODIES CD
edition finally announced, more samples added
While there has been no
definitive and official confirmation of the physical edition
of this score actually being in the works, Amazon (both US and UK) is already taking pre-orders for the CD
edition. There is also no mention of it being a CD-R, which is
currently common practice of some of the labels specialising
mostly in downloads only. The release date is currently
planned for June 11th. More information coming soon. Two more
sample from the score have been added to the audio section.
2013: May 04: THE WOLVERINE
Soundtrack album announced Sony Music has announced their upcoming release
of Marco Beltrami's score for THE WOLVERINE. While the score
hasn't been even recorded yet, you can already pre-order the
album at Amazon UK. More details (and pre-order
links) coming as soon as they are available. Release date is
set for July 22nd.
2013: April 25: Marco Beltrami
scores A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD Scoring Sessions just published their latest
report covering A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD sessions. You can
read the article and check the photos here . Don't forget to check the full
gallery featuring 39 photos.
2013: April 17: Marco Beltrami
scores WORLD WAR Z As
mentioned earlier today Marco Beltrami is currently in London
recording his score for WORLD WAR Z. The sessions actually
started last week at British Groove Studios, where some
additional elements (28 strings, electric guitar
and percussions) were recorded before the sessions were
moved to Abbey Road Studios for full orchestra, which is
currently being recorded there under the batton of Matt
Dunkley. Here is one picture from the sessions. Click on the
image to display it in full resolution.
2013: April 17: Marco Beltrami
discusses THE WOLVERINE After having recently recorded SNOWPIERCER
and while he is currently in London recording his score for
WORLD WAR Z, Marco Beltrami has already started working on his
next project THE WOLVERINE and here is an excerpt from Jon
Burlingame's article in Variety where he mentioned a few
details about his next score: As for Marco Beltrami,
who is just starting to write music for “The Wolverine” — the
fifth cinema outing for Hugh Jackman as the mysterious,
long-clawed “X-Men” character — he says “there are
definitely expectations, just with the nature of the project.
But it’s fun to play with those expectations.” Even
though the story takes place in Japan, “musically, it’s
not going to be overtly Japanese because it could easily fall
into cliche,” Beltrami says. He does plan on using
traditional Japanese instruments (including the koto and
massive taiko drums) but “in a non-traditional way,” he
adds. Director James Mangold (with whom Beltrami worked
on “3:10 to Yuma,” which earned the composer his first Oscar
nomination) “has made a real original movie here, so there
is room for a less traditional score, less of a cookie-cutter
musical orientation.” He will record in L.A. at the end
of May.
2013: April 08: new project THE
HOMESMAN Earlier this
month Tommy Lee Jones started shooting his upcoming drama THE
HOMESMAN, including cast of TLJ, Meryl Streep, John Ligthgow,
James Spader, Hilary Swank and Tim Blake Nelson. There is
currently no release date set for this ambitious pioneer-era
story, but with such a strong cast, it is already expected to
be one of the contenders of upcoming award season and
should therefore be released by the end of this
year.
2013: April 08: CARRIE
trailer New trailer for
CARRIE was finally released. Although the movie was originally
planned to be released by now, it has been pushed back until
this year's Halloween, also giving more time to Marco Beltrami
to work on the score considering his currently superbusy
schedule. You can watch the trailer below:
2013: March 27: THE
WOLVERINE: International trailer After two very short teasers released earlier
this week, first full-length THE WOLVERINE trailer was just
released and you can watch it below. The movie marks the 2nd
collaboration between composer Marco Beltrami and director
James Mangold, following Oscar nominated score for 3:10 TO
YUMA. THE WOLVERINE will be released on July 26th.
2013: February 27: Marco
Beltrami to visit Spain Film Music Festival this summer
Marco Beltrami will be
visiting this year's Cordoba Film Music Festival where he will
receive first Elmer Bernstein Award for Outstanding
Contributions to the Art of Film Scoring. The concert is being
planned. The other guests are still in negotiations and will
be announced within the next few months - so far the only one
confirmed is the recent Academy Award winner Mychael Danna
(Life of Pi). The 2nd International Film Music Festival,
Cordoba (formerly held in Ubeda) is planned for June 23-30,
2013. More information available on Facebook .
2013: February 13: WARM BODIES
score finally released Warm Bodies score has been finally released
on iTunes. So far there is
no word about CD release.
2013: February 12: More
audio samples added Just
added is a few samples from Marco Beltrami's most recent
scores for DEADFALL, WARM BODIES and A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD.
You can enjoy them all in Audio section.
2013: February 05: new
interview with Marco and Buck at Film Music
Mag New interview with
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders has just been released by
Daniel Schweiger at Film Music Magazine. The composers are
discussing their work on all of their upcoming projects such
as WARM BODIES, A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD, SNOWPIERCER and WORLD
WAR Z as well working relationship developing over the last 15
years. You can read the interview here and there is most likely more to
come.
2013: February 03: WARM
BODIES tracklist While
no label or release date has been announced yet, here is the
tracklist of the upcoming WARM BODIES soundtrack album
featuring roughly 58 minutes of original score composed by
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders... More details coming
soon.
1. Music for Airport Zombies (3:50) 2.
Into the Greenzone (1:30) 3. Back to the Lair (3:35)
4. Zombie March (1:22) 5. Eating Vicariously
(3:27) 6. Why Me? (1:13) 7. Run For It (2:23)
8. For a Few Days More (1:08) 9. Bad Brains /
Zombie Wacker (2:53) 10. Boney Chase (1:41) 11.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (3:39)
12. Marcus Sees the Light (2:08) 13.
Admission to Dream (5:01) 14. Zombie Bros (3:42)
15. Looking for Julie / Balcony Serenade (3:40)
16. Walk Through Greenzone (2:03) 17. Entering
the Armory (2:41) 18. Run from Dad / Zombies United
(2:46) 19. Run! / Zombie Saves (3:00) 20.
Marcus' Trump Stumps (1:19) 21. Might as Well Jump
(1:59) 22. R Shot Alive
(3:10)
2013: February 03: WARM BODIES
and A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD samples Marco Beltrami's official website now offers
opportunity to listen to 3 samples from both Marco Beltrami's
scores that will be released later this month. While WARM
BODIES opened earlier this week and earned 20 million USD in
its opening weekend, A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD is opening on
February 14. Unfortunately there is soundtrack album announced
for WARM BODIES, which should be released on iTunes later this
month. Check out also full scores now also available for all A
GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD samples included on the official
website .
2013: January 13: A GOOD DAY TO
DIE HARD tracklist and samples Tracklist is finally available now and you can
also sample all tracks on Sony Classical's Soundcloud page. Total time of the CD is
roughly 64:39.
1. Yuri Says (2:19) 2. Getting Yuri To
The Van (2:14) 3. Jack Makes The Call (2:53) 4.
Everyone To The Courthouse (3:09) 5. Court Adjourned
(2:19) 6. Truckzilla (3:38) 7. Yippie Kay Yay,
Mother Russia! (1:54) 8. Truckzilla (2:00) 9.
Father & Son (1:24) 10. To The Safe House
(1:51) 11. Regroup (2:30) 12. Leaving the Safe
House (1:59) 13. Getting to the Dance Floor
(1:34)
14. Too Many Kolbasas On The Dance Floor
(3:53) 15. What’s So Funny? (2:30) 16. McClanes
Get The Bird (3:00) 17. Scumbags (2:05) 18.
Entering Chernobyl (4:07) 19. Into The Vault
(2:17) 20. Rubbed Out At The Spa (2:07) 21.
Sunshine Shootout (1:37) 22. Get To The Choppa!
(2:59) 23. Chopper Takedown (3:26) 24. It’s Hard
To Kill A McClane (2:59) 25. Triple Vodka Rhapsody
(1:55) 26. McClane’s Brain
(2:00)
2013: January 13: A GOOD DAY TO
DIE HARD cover revealed Still no tracklist announced yet... The album is
currently available to pre-order at Amazon or Screen Archives.
2013: January 13: A GOOD DAY TO
DIE HARD first sample online! Marco Beltrami's agency Kraft-Engel is now
offering a brief glimpse on the score for upcoming A GOOD
DAY TO DIE HARD. You can listen to the first piece from the
score at Marco's profile at Kraft-Engel
Management website.
2013: January 13: SNOW
PIERCER score sample While there was still no release date announced,
it seems that there is finally first sample from Marco
Beltrami¨s score for SNOW PIERCER finally available on YouTube
and you can listen to it below. There was one more sample
claiming to be from the score posted on YouTube but that was
obvious fake. This one, while still suspicious sounds like it
could actually come from the score, which is described as
"hybrid small orchestra/electronic score". Also posted on
the YouTube is a little score restore featuring opening
sequence of WARM BODIES with full Marco Beltrami's score,
which was partially replaced with a couple of songs. You can
watch both the final and score only version added to the
previous post.
While
Marco Beltrami is currently working on his score (some
elements have been recorded back in early
August including solo harpsichord) as well as new movie
with Tommy Lee Jones THE HOMESMAN, it seems that it will take
much longer than originally expected before we get to see the
movie and hear new Marco Beltrami's score. THE SEVENTH SON was
originally set to be released this Fall and Tuomas
Kantelinen recorded his score earlier this year. A.R. Rahman
was also briefly involved but claimed to have backed out of
the project on his Twitter account. Shortly after the movie
got delayed until January 17, 2014 and Marco Beltrami was
hired to score new version, which was still supposed to be
distributed by Warner Bros. while Legendary Pictures financed
the production. But the deal between Legendary Pictures and
Warner Bros. is coming to its end and while there is still few
movies that are currently in production and will be released
during 2014 as part of original Legendary Pictures/Warner
Bros. deal, THE SEVENTH SON isn't one of them. The movie will
get released through Universal Pictures who will be handling
distribution for Legendary Pictures for the next 5 years
and new release date will have to be announced by the new
distributor. The movie is still listed as mid January release
in Korea and Thailand only. No release dates are currently
announced for US, EU and rest of the world. 
2013: August 11: New Project
Announced: 1864 
On Thursday,
July 18, a number of film directors and composers will
participate in the panel The Anatomy of Superhero Film Music:
Bringing a Comic Book to Life. Composer Marco Beltrami and
director James Mangold (The Wolverine), composer Brian Tyler
and director Shane Black (Iron Man 3), composer Henry Jackman
(X-Men: First Class, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and
director Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass),
composer Christopher Lennertz (Marvel: Agent Carter), composer
John Debney (Iron Man 2, Sin City) and music supervisor Dave
Jordan (The Avengers) will discuss the challenges faced when
bringing a comic book character to life and giving that
character a voice, working with directors and how they
collaborate to convey the story of the character. The panel
will be moderated by Ray Costa of Costa Communications and
will take place on July 18 from 10:30am to 11:30am in Room
6A.
and
Stargate. Steven Allen Fox will conduct Orquesta sinfónica de
Tenerife and Tenerife Film Choir. For more information about
the festival, visit its 
Just
added is a few samples from Marco Beltrami's most recent
scores for DEADFALL, WARM BODIES and A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD.
You can enjoy them all in Audio section.