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The tunesmiths and supervisors behind first-quarter theatrical releases:
ATO Pictures
“Thin Ice”Release date: Feb. 17
Director: Jill Sprecher
Composer: Jeff Danna
Music supervisor: Doug Bernheim “The Monk”
Release date: March/April
Director: Dominik Moll
Composer: Alberto Iglesias
Disney
“Beauty and the Beast (3D)”Release date: Jan. 13
Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Composer: Alan Menken “The Secret World of Arrietty”
Release date: Feb. 17
Directors: Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Gary Rydstrom
Composer: Cecile Corbel “John Carter”
Release date: March 9
Director: Andrew Stanton
Composer: Michael Giacchino
Focus Features
“Being Flynn”Release date: March 2
Director: Paul Weitz
Composer: Badly Drawn Boy
Music supervisor: Linda Cohen
IFC
“Perfect Sense”Release date: Feb. 3
Director: David Mackenzie
Composer: Tom Sayer “The Forgiveness of Blood”
Release date: Feb. 24
Director: Joshua Marston
Composers: Leonardo Heiblum, Jacobo Lieberman “The Kid With a Bike”
Release date: March 16
Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Lionsgate
“One For the Money”Release date: Jan. 21
Director: Julie Anne Robinson
Composer: Deborah Lurie
Music supervisors: Brian McNelis, Eric Craig “Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds”
Release date: Feb. 24
Director: Tyler Perry
Composer: Aaron Zigman
Music supervisor: Joel C. High “The Cabin in the Woods”
Release date: April 13
Director: Drew Goddard
Composer: David Julyan
Music supervisor: Dana Sano
Magnolia Pictures
“Roadie”Release date: Jan. 6
Director: Michael Cuesta
Composer: Chris Seefried
Music supervisor: Robin Urdang “The Innkeepers”
Release date: Feb. 3
Director: Ti West
Composer: Jeff Grace
Music supervisor: Marguerite Phillips “Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie”
Release date: March 2
Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Composer: Davin Wood “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”
Release date: March 9
Director: David Gelb
Music supervisors: Janet Billing Rich, David Rich “Playback”
Release date: March 9
Director: Michael A. Nickles
Composer: Woody Pak
Music supervisor: John B. Davis “Sound of Noise”
Release date: March 9
Directors: Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjarne Nilsson
Composer: Fred Avril
Music supervisors: Pierre-Marie Dru, Clement Souchier “Goon”
Release date: March 30
Director: Michael Dowse
Composer: Ramachandra Borcar
Music supervisor: Evan Dubinski “The Hunter”
Release date: April 6
Director: Daniel Nettheim
Composer: Matteo Zingales
Pantelion
“Casa de mi Padre”Release date: March 16
Director: Matt Piedmont
Composer: Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau
Music supervisor: Hal Willner
Paramount
“The Devil Inside”Release date: Jan. 6
Director: William Brent Bell
Composers: Brett Detar, Ben Romans “Jeff, Who Lives at Home”
Release date: March 2
Directors: Jay and Mark Duplass
Composer: Michael Andrews
Music supervisor: Marguerite Phillips “A Thousand Words”
Release date: March 23
Director: Brian Robbins
Composer: John Debney
Music supervisor: Madonna Wade-Reed “Titanic (3D)”
Release date: April 6
Director: James Cameron
Composer: James Horner
Music supervisor: Randy Gerston
Relativity
“Haywire”Release date: Jan 20
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Composer: David Holmes “Act of Valor”
Release date: Feb 24
Directors: Scott Waugh, Mike “Mouse” McCoy
Composer: Nathan Furst
Music supervisors: Peter Afterman, Alison Litton “The Raven”
Release date: March 9
Director: James McTeigue
Composer: Lucas Vidal “Mirror Mirror”
Release date: March 16
Director: Tarsem Singh
Composer: Alan Menken
Music supervisors: Happy Walters, Bob Bowen
Samuel Goldwyn Films
“The Island President”Release date: March 28
Director: Jon Shenk
Music by: Radiohead, Stars of the Lid
Additional music composed by: Marco D’Ambrosio
Screen Gems
“Underworld Awakening”Release date: Jan. 20
Director: Mans Marlind, Bjorn Stein
Composer: Paul Haslinger “The Vow”
Release date: Feb. 10
Director: Michael Sucsy
Composers: Rachel Portman, Michael Brook
Music supervisors: Randall Poster, Stephanie Diaz-Matos “Think Like a Man”
Release date: March 9
Director: Tim Story
Composer: Christopher Lennertz
Music supervisor: Spring Aspers
Sony
“Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (3D)”Release date: Feb. 17
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Composer: David Sardy
Music supervisor: Kier Lehman “21 Jump Street”
Release date: March 16
Director: Phil Lord
Composer: Mark Mothersbaugh “The Pirates! Band of Misfits (3D)”
Release date: March 30
Director: Peter Lord
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
Music consultant: Nick Angel
Sony Pictures Classics
“In Darkness”Release date: Feb. 10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Composer: Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz “
Footnote”
Release date: March 9
Director: Joseph Cedar
Composer: Amit Poznansky “The Raid”
Release date: March 23
Director: Gareth Huw Evans
Composers: Mike Shinoda, Joseph Trapanese “Damsels in Distress”
Release date: April 6
Director: Whit Stillman
Composers: Mark Suozzo, Adam Schlesinger
Music supervisor: Annie Pearlman “Darling Companion”
Release date: April 20
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Composer: James Newton Howard
Music supervisors: Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe
Summit Entertainment
“Man on a Ledge”Release date: Jan. 27
Director: Asger Leth
Composer: Henry Jackman
Music supervisor: Dave Jordan “Gone”
Release date: Feb. 24
Director: Heitor Dhalia
Composer: David Buckley
Music supervisors: Brian McNelis, Eric Craig “The Cold Light of Day”
Release date: April 6
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Composer: Lucas Vidal
Music supervisor: Jojo Villanueva
Tribeca
“Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston”Release date: Feb. (NY/LA)
Director: Whitney Sudler-Smith
Composers: Christopher Franke, Edgar Rothermich
Music supervisor: Thomas Golubic “Detachment”
Release date: March
Director: Tony Kaye
Composers: The Newton Brothers – Andy Grush & Taylor Stewart “Black Butterflies”
Release date: March
Director: Paula Van Der Oest
Composer: Philip Miller
20th Century Fox Studios
“Broken City”Release date: Jan. 18
Director: Allen Hughes
Music supervisor: Scott Vener “Red Tails”
Release date: Jan. 20
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Composer: Terence Blanchard “Chronicle”
Release date: Feb. 3
Director: John Trank
Music supervisor: Andrea von Foerster “Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (3D)”
Release date: Feb. 10
Director: George Lucas
Composer: John Williams “This Means War”
Release date: Feb. 17
Director: McG
Composer: Christophe Beck “Won’t Back Down”
Release date: March 30
Director: Daniel Barnz
Composer: Marcelo Zarvos
Music supervisor: Linda Cohen “Titanic (3D)”
Release date: April 12
Director: James Cameron
Composer: James Horner “The Three Stooges”
Release date: April 13
Directors: Peter and Bobby Farrelly
Composer: John Debney
Music supervisors: Tom Wolfe, Manish Raval
Universal
“Contraband”Release date: Jan. 13
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Composer: Clinton Shorter “Big Miracle”
Release date: Feb. 3
Director: Ken Kwapis
Composer: Cliff Eidelman
Music supervisor: Nick Angel “Safe House”
Release date: Feb. 10
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Composer: Ramin Djawadi “Wanderlust”
Release date: Feb. 24
Director: David Wain
Composer: Craig Wedren
Music supervisor: Jonathan Karp “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (3D)”
Release date: March 2
Director: Chris Renaud
Composer: John Powell
Executive song producer: Christopher “Tricky” Stewart “American Reunion”
Release date: March 6
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Composer: Lyle Workman
Music supervisor: JoJo Villanueva
Warner Bros.
“Joyful Noise”Release date: Jan. 13
Director: Todd Graff
Composer: Mervyn Warren
Music supervisor: Linda Cohen “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island”
Release date: Feb. 10
Director: Brad Peyton
Composer: Andrew Lockington
Music supervisor: Andrea von Foerster “Project X”
Release date: March 2
Director: Nima Nourizadeh
Music supervisor: Gabe Hilfer “Wrath of the Titans”
Release date: March 30?
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Composer: Javier Navarrete
