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‘Greater’ Score By Grammy Nominee Stephen Endelman Out Now, Film Opens August 26

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Download The ‘Greater’ Soundtrack Here: [iTunes]

 

Lakeshore Records is very pleased to release Greater (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), out now!  The album features original score by Grammy®-nominated composer Stephen Endelman (Rob The Mob, The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down a Mountain).  Read further for full album details.

Greater the movie is based on the true story of Brandon Burlsworth, the greatest walk-on in the history of college football.  Directed by David Hunt, Greater stars Christopher Severio, Neal McDonough, Leslie Easterbrook, Michael Parks and Nick Searcy.

Greater Productions presents GREATER, in theaters August 26!


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10 Romantic And Fun Soundtracks For Valentine’s Day Weekend, Watch The Films On Demand!

For Valentine’s Day weekend, we take a look at some of our favorite soundtrack and score albums from great movies with love stories.  From incredibly romantic and sweet, to shout-it-from-the-rooftops kind of love, we’ve got something for every taste.  The movies are also available now On Demand, so add them to your play queue or watch them this weekend.  Preview the albums to these 10 soundtrack selections.  Share with us which ones you would love to have in your collection in the comments below!

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Beastly (Songs From The Motion Picture): iTunes | Buy CD
True love.  A modern retelling of Beauty & The Beast, a once charmed man is cursed and must find true love within a year, or he will forever remain cursed.  Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen stars.  Watch the movie on iTunes.  Check out the score album featuring Composer Marcelo Zarvos.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izLs96TyXYw
Preview the full Beastly soundtrack on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgDiX0zvRAk

 

Words and Pictures (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes
Love comes after foreplay.  An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.  Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche stars. Rent the movie on iTunes.  Soundtrack features the score by Composer Paul Grabowsky.


Watch the album preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drIJYUseOs

 

The One I Love (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love is weird.  A married couple find their relationship and very existence put to the test in this wickedly inventive romantic comedy.  Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss and Ted Danson stars.  Watch the movie on Netflix.  Soundtrack features the score by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0-GY_10k20

 

Wicker Park (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love makes you do crazy things.  Intricately moving back and forth in time revealing the story from each character’s perspective, Wicker Park is an intense psychological drama about a man in an obsessive search for a woman he fell deeply in love with – a woman who then vanishes without a trace.  Two years after her disappearance, he catches a fleeting glimpse of her in a local bar and begins a twisting search to find her and discover what really happened.  Josh Hartnett, Rose Byrne, Matthew Lillard, Diane Kruger and Christopher Cousins star.  Watch the music video below featuring Ben Gibbard’s (Laggies Soundtrack) The Postal Service band.  Watch the movie on iTunes.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjlivsCBcM

 

The Song (Original Motion Picture Score): iTunes | pre-order CD
Love never fails.  An aspiring singer-songwriter’s life and marriage suffer when the song he writes for his wife propels him to stardom.  Alan Powell (frontman of “Anthem Lights”), Ali Faulkner (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1) and Caitlin Nicol-Thomas (Nashville) stars.  Watch the movie on iTunes.  The album features the score by Composer Vincent Emmett.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBGAzjr3lfA

 

Rob The Mob (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love can be trouble.  A modern day Bonnie and Clyde hatch an idea to rob the mob.  Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Ray Romano and Andy Garcia stars.  Watch the movie on iTunes.  The soundtrack features the score by Composer Stephen Endelman.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwMYx3pBIcU
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9TTs6DkZKA

 

G.B.F. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love comes unexpectedly.  When Tanner is outed as a school’s only openly gay student, three popular girls engage in an epic fight to acquire him as their “Gay Best Friend.”  Michael J. WillettPaul IaconoSasha Pieterse and Xosha Roquemore stars.  Watch the movie on Netflix.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHz1iL0Gx4

 

Cavemen (Original Motion Picture Soundrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love isn’t easy to find.  L.A. playboy Dean is fed up with one-night stands and empty relationships – he wants more out of life than just a party.  With a little help from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess, Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time – which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles.  Camilla Belle, Skylar Austin, Chad Michael Murray, Alexis Knapp, Chasty Ballesteros, Kenny Wormald and Dayo Okeniyi stars.  Rent the movie on iTunes.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9ZUE5ByhA

 

Blue Valentine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love evolves.  The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.  Ryan Gosling (Drive) and Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams star.  Rent the movie on iTunes.  Soundtrack feature the score by Grizzly Bear.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUm2Gp3_AA
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmuwCkeeMo

 

Girl On A Bicycle (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love can get complicated.  Paolo, an Italian who drives a Paris tour bus, has just proposed to his true love, when the young French beauty, Cécile pulls up beside his bus on her bicycle – and, in short order, Paolo, following some very bad advice from his friend, Derek, finds himself with a German fiancée, a French “wife”, two Australian children who call him “Papa”, and his life upside-down.  Vincenzo Amato, Paddy Considine, Stephane Debac, Louise Monot and Nora Tschirner stars.  Watch the movie on Netflix.  The soundtrack features the score by Composer Craig Richey.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbwzELXCBaw

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Weekly Roundup: 6 Stories You May Have Missed, Including ‘Blue Valentine’ On Demand & Jim Jarmusch’s ‘The Limits Of Control’

Can’t get enough of movies?  This week, we’ve rounded up a collection of posts which feature some great movies and soundtracks released by Lakeshore Records.   Check out the latest list of movie soundtracks and film scores we recommend such as The Limits of Control (both the various artists and EP are fantastic), and Wanted (film scored by Danny Elfman).  Elfman’s signature touches and Director Jim Jarmusch‘s influence makes these soundtracks collectible.  Don’t forget to note the film composers to follow their score work on other Lakeshore Records albums. Lakeshore Records: Weekly Roundup - The Limits of Control & Wanted 1. Two Must-Watch Movies Starring ‘X-Men’ Stars Halle Berry & Hugh Jackman 2. ‘People Like U’s Composer A.R. Rahman Scores This Summer’s Feel-Good Movie, ‘Million Dollar… 3. Now On Netflix: ‘Home of the Brave’ – Score By Stephen Endelman & Song By Sheryl Crow 4. Pick of the Week: Director Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Limits of Control’ Now On Netflix 5. Watch Online: 8 Movies We Love Including Blue Valentine, G.B.F., The Grandmaster & More 6. Two Must-Watch Movies Starring The ‘Maleficent’ Angelina Jolie   Don’t forget to subscribe to Film Music Daily to stay in the know!

Now On Netflix: ‘Home Of The Brave’ – Score By Stephen Endelman & Song By Sheryl Crow | Download The Soundtrack On iTunes

On this Memorial Day, we reflect on the brave men and women who serve in the U.S. military.  Lakeshore Records selects Home of the Brave, a film scored by Grammy Award-nominated Composer Stephen Endelman (Rob The Mob, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain), with a track by Grammy Award-winning musician Sheryl Crow.  Lakeshore Records is pleased to have released the soundtrack to Home Of The Brave, a moving accompaniment to the film (watch it on Netflix).

Lakeshore Records: Home Of The Brave Soundtrack

Academy Award-winning Director Irwin Winkler (Rocky) was at the helm of Home Of The Brave, which stars Samuel L. Jackson (Jumper), Jessica Biel (Next), Brian Presley (General Hospital) and 50 Cent (Date Movie).  The film is centered around three soldiers who attempt to readjust to civilian life after returning from their tour in Iraq.

Download The Album!
Home of the Brave (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack):
 iTunes | Buy CD

Watch the music video for Sheryl Crow’s “Try Not To Remember”:

Watch this interview with Composer Stephen Endelman on his recent film score work on Rob The Mob.  Mr. Endelman’s television score work can be heard on ABC Family’s new TV series, Chasing Life, premiering on June 10.

Exclusive Interview: How ‘Rob The Mob’ Stole Composer Stephen Endelman’s Heart

If you think you know what Rob The Mob is about, think again.  The movie opened in theaters last weekend in New York City, and the soundtrack is now available.  On the eve of the film’s Los Angeles premiere, Lakeshore Records spoke with Grammy-winning Composer Stephen Endelman about this modern-day Bonnie and Clyde story and his introspective approach to scoring the film.

How did you go about conveying the spirit of the couple, Tommy and Rosie, in the music?

There’s something about their chemistry.  It’s a simple love story.  Basically you can’t help but notice the way they look at each other: they are very much in love.  They are so quirky and weird.  Their theme was the opposite of who they are.  The metering is not the same in each track on the album; each bar is a different length.  I wrote a waltz that wasn’t a waltz, for example.

Lakeshore Records Interviews Composer Stephen Endelman

Download The Album: http://bit.ly/RobTheMobMusic

Some of the tracks on the album sound very gentle, like you were guiding the audience into seeing deeper into who Tommy and Rosie are as people.  Was that intentional?  

I feel the movie is respectful of the characters.  Each character in the movie does what they do, honestly.  The characters can’t help themselves.  I didn’t want to just show them as a couple of wild kids robbing people.  I want to show them as a couple of lovers.  None of the music is sentimental, even though the movie is about an end of an era.

Did you already have a goal or idea in mind at the beginning of the project, or did you allow the album to shape itself?

The album shaped itself.  I didn’t have an idea about the score at the beginning.  I read the screenplay and then it became apparent.  We had decided on a piano score already.  When we finished the music, we did move things around a bit based on what seemed right with the movie, but I let the music speak through me through the characters.   I felt sad and a sense of yearning.  I felt their imperfections.

How do you go about choosing soundtracks to score?  Do you have a rule about what kinds of movies you will or won’t score?

No rules. I try to mix it up. I fall in love with characters. If I fall in love with them, then I write music for them.  I feel that the human condition is looking for love, depth and resolution.  When I look back at all the movies I’ve ever done, each character wants to do better in some way.  I’m really drawn to the characters.

The movie Rob The Mob, directed by Raymond De Felitta, opens widely on Friday, March 28 in Los Angeles. The reviews have been very favorable.

“Music. It plays a key role in ROB THE MOB as well. The film takes place circa 1992(ish) but the music is much more timeless, evoking an era far more indicative of the mafia’s hay days. Stephen Endelman composes the original music while accompanied by tracks from The Staple Singers’ “City In the Sky” and Wilson Pickett’s “Somethin’ You Got.” The opening sequence of the film, however, oddly sets the mood in an unexpected use of Deee-Lite’s “Groove Is In the Heart.” Trust me when I say it sounds odd at first, but quickly makes sense…”

Read the rest of the article on We Are Movie Geeks.

 

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