British rock band Queen’s legendary performance at Live Aid For will be available on record the first time as part of the soundtrack for the film Bohemian Rhapsody. The album also contains a Queen-ized version of the famous 20th Century Fox fanfare, which will play in theaters before the movie, opening in the US Nov. 2. […]
Icelandic film composer Atli Örvarsson and Australian director Patrick Hughes are an unlikely team to tackle U.S. roots music, but they pull it off, with a blues-themed score for The Hitman’s Bodyguard that combines gospel choirs, a Hammond organ and a wailing electric guitar. “It’s an exploration of jazz and blues and those genres in the context […]
Dave Porter’s music for the first two seasons of AMC’s Better Call Saul will be released by Madison Gate Records and Sony Classical on April 7, available digitally and on CD. Porter, who also scored Better Call Saul’s predecessor, AMC’s Breaking Bad, said his Saul sound was inspired by that earlier show, but stands its own with […]
Walt Disney Pictures’ live-action Beauty and the Beast dominates both the box office and soundtrack charts for the third consecutive week, holding steady at No. 1 on both. The film crossed the $300 million mark after just 10 days in theaters, while the soundtrack debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart the week […]
Melinda Newman safaried to the heart of song licensing territory for Billboard, reporting “From the Desk of…” Universal Film Group President of Music and Publishing Mike Knobloch, who presided over the licensing feat of what is believed to be a record-setting 60 songs for the animation motion picture Sing. The Dec. 21 Universal Pictures release […]
Warner Bros. summer smash Suicide Squad is the first soundtrack of 2016 to be certified gold by the RIAA, having sold more than the requisite 500,000 units in a scant six weeks. During that same period the film more than $315 million domestically and $700 million worldwide. The soundtrack features tunes by Skylar Grey, Eminem, Twenty One Pilots, […]
“This is one of the highlights of my career,” British singer songwriter Sam Smith tweeted today of performing the theme for the new James Bond film, Spectre. Called “Writing’s On the Wall,” Smith let slip in a January BBC Radio 1 interview that he’d recorded the song, then tried his best to bury the news after apparently […]
