The film was directed by Alex Gibney, who won Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards in 2007 for Taxi to the Dark Side. The documentary on WikiLeaks premiered at Sundance earlier this year and releases to the public on May 24.

In addition to Gibney’s documentary, a Wikileaks film titled The Fifth Estate is in production and aiming for a November release. It stars Star Trek Into Darkness‘s Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange. Oliver Stone recently met with Assange and described the films as “unhappy” portrayals of WikiLeaks and the site’s founder.

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Original Motion Picture Score comes out May 21 on Back Lot Music but is available to pre-order now [iTunes link]. Below, check out the film’s trailer and let us know what you think of the soundtrack in the comments. (Source)

Joseph Trapanese has signed on to score Walt Disney Pictures’ live-action adventure Echo. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Dave Green who is best known for helming numerous commercials and music videos, as well as comedic short films, including Pinkberry the Movie. The movie has been described as a “wolf adventure”, but no specific plot details have been revealed yet. The film’s cast includes Teo Halm, Astro and Reese C. Hartwig. Henry Gayden wrote the screenplay and Andrew Panay (Wedding Crashers, When in Rome, Van Wilder) is producing the project. Echo marks Trapanese’s first major studio feature assignment on his own. He previously co-scored this year’s Oblivion with Anthony Gonzalez of M83 for Universal Pictures and also collaborated with Daft Punk on Disney’s TRON: Legacy. His other previous film scoring projects include the animated TV series TRON: Uprising and last year’s The Raid: Redemption, which he co-scored with Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda. No word yet on a release date for Echo. (Source)

Additionally, FilmMusicReporter debuted the album artwork and track listing to the eager film music communities.

 ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK TO NEW MOVIE FROM ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR ALEX GIBNEY,

SET FOR RELEASE ON MAY 21, 2013

LOS ANGELES, CA — May 8, 2013 – Back Lot Records will issue a digital release of the soundtrack for We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, the new documentary from Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, on Tuesday May 21^st . The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features new music by Fall On Your Sword. A world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks will be released by Focus World in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, May 24^th and in select cities on Friday, May 31^st; and on digital platforms including VOD beginning on Friday, June 7^th.

Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney’s (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) new movie We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks details the creation of Julian Assange’s controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history, and is a riveting, multi-layered tale about transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth. The movie is MPAA-rated “R.” Visit the film’s official site at www.WeStealSecretsMovie.com.

“I’ve been a fan of Alex [Gibney]‘s work for a long time, so it was great to finally work
together on such an important project,” comments Will Bates, founder of Fall On Your
Sword. “Alex really wanted the music to have a cinematic edge to it. The score is very
thematic and character-driven, like the film itself. Composing for a movie where the story
was unfolding in real time was a unique experience.”

About Fall On Your Sword:

Fall On Your Sword (“FOYS”) is an award-winning film and commercial music production and audio post shop owned and operated by Will Bates.  Based in the beating heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, FOYS (www.fallonyoursword.com) is an artistic collective producing works ranging from independent film scores, to award-garnering commercial music, to Armory Week audio art installations.  Since their launch in 2009, FOYS have achieved a Discovery of the Year nomination with the World Soundtrack Academy, while simultaneously gaining swift recognition in the world of feature length film scoring.

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Track List

1. Wankworm

2. Crushing Bastards

3. Kaupthing Bank

4. Post 9/11

5. Gunship Video

6. First Release

7. Flag-Draped Coffins

8. Adrian Lamo

9. Bradley Manning

10. A Young Julian

11. The War Logs

12. Hackers

13. Washington DC

14. Allegations

15. The Ecuadorian Balcony

16. Adrian Blows the Whistle

17. Rape In The Press

18. Bradley’s Deployment

19. Media Frenzy

20. Julian’s Defence

21. Ellingham Hall

22. Falling Apart

23. Information For The World

24. Bradley’s Blue Dot

Congrats Fernando!!

The song, performed by Rodriguez and rapper Diamonique, was written by Reza Safinia, the film’s composer and music supervisor. Safinia, who has produced for stars such as Kylie Minogue, previously assisted in sessions with artists such as Wu-Tang Clan and Terror Squad. (…read more)

‘Filly Brown’ continues to perform better than expected in the box office and is the film’s distributor’s, Pantelion, largest opening weekend ever.

Reza’s official website is www.musicandtexture.com.

If M83 was a solid pick to dream up music for an elegant sci-fi picture, Trapanese was the right man to marry that sound to an orchestra for a touch of cinematic grandeur. He’s a conservatory-trained musician who developed an interest in electronic music when he was a teenager, and he decided early on to pursue the orchestral life after a middle-school encounter with another movie that combined outer space fantasy with symphony sounds: Star Wars. “If you talk to 50 other L.A.-based composers, they’ll all tell you the same thing,” Trapanese, 28, says.

Perhaps more importantly, Trapanese also knows how to be the missing link between a mainstream musical act and the film world, having arranged and orchestrated with Daft Punk as well as Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda on the score for 2011’s martial arts flick The Raid: Redemption, which Trapanese and Shinoda cooked up in about six weeks. “We work very well together because he’s doing things I can’t do, and I’m doing things he can’t really do either, so we’re very complementary,” says Gonzalez, who previously worked with Trapanese on Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. “He’s a genius.”

Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/24/track-stars-m83-and-the-music-for-oblivion/#ixzz2ROvtoSkr

The jury released a statement saying, “Although we want to stress the very high quality level of every one of the five scores are presented to us in this selection, we feel that the original music of “Purge” stood out because of its probability to convey with great sophistication, melodic sense and sensitivity the deep, emotional complexity of the characters and to underline the extreme hardship of the circumstances should without ever resorting to easy solutions.”

The nominees were Benny Andersson (of ABBA fame) for ‘Palme’, Peter Peter for ‘Over kanten’, Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason for ‘The Deep’ and Peder Kjellsby for ‘Varg Veum Kalde hjerter.’  Kantelinen comments, “All five nominees are already winners because we have the joy and privilege to work on our dream job every day.” Nominees were chosen by each country’s composer guild (i.e. SCL in the US). This year’s international jury consisted of composers Bernard Grimaldi (France, founding member and co-president of FFACE, the European Association of Film Composers), Richard Bellis (USA) and Loek Dikker (NL).

Tuomas is currently composing the music for frequent collaborator Sergei Bodrov’s movie ‘The Seventh Son,’ a fantasy action adventure film by Legendary Pictures starring Jeff Bridges, Julianne Morre and Ben Barnes.  He is sharing composing duties with AR Rahman (‘Slumdog Millionaire’).

Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete.  Living and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, his soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

(Below: Anthony Gonzalez (M83), Jason Bentley (KCRW), Joseph Trapanese, & Kevin Korn (GSA)