Owen Pallett (Her, Dream Scenario, The Box, Life, Alice/Darling, On the Count of Three, Spaceship Earth) has composed the original music for thew new Canadian drama Longing. The film is written and directed by Savi Gabizon (Nina’s Tragedies) and stars Richard Gere, Suzanne Clément and Diane Kruger. The movie is a remake of Gabizon’s 2017 Israeli feature Ga’agua and follows a bachelor who is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers that an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son twenty years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Owen Pallett Scoring Savi Gabizon’s ‘Longing’
Posted: May 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Longing, Owen Pallett, Savi Gabizon
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‘The Sympathizer’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Cho Young Wuk, HBO, Park Chan-wook, score, Soundtrack, The Sympathizer
WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the HBO limited series The Sympathizer. The album features the show’s original score composed by Cho Young-Wuk (Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Lady Vengeance, Thirst, The Little Drummer Girl, Decision to Leave). Also included are songs by Maxwell Whittington-Cooper, Pham Thi Bao Tran, Duong Minh Quan, Đình Bảo, Lam Anh, as well as Robert Downey Jr.’s rendition of Helen Reddy’s You and Me Against the World and Vy Le’s Lady Marmalade cover. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track (I Spy) and the two covers after the jump. The Sympathizer is developed by Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen and stars Hoa Xuande, Downey Jr., Fred Nguyen Khan, Vy Le, Toan Le, Phanxine, Kieu Chinh, Ky Duyen, Alan Trong, Duy Nguyen and Sandra Oh. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 26, 2024)
Posted: May 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Camden, Eric, Geek Girl, HBO, Hulu, Julian Winding, Keefus Ciancia, Mac Quayle, Max Aruj, MoviePass MovieCrash, Netflix, Nikhil Seetharam, The Famous Five, The Great Lillian Hall, Toydrum
Premiering on Wednesday, May 29, is the Hulu documentary series Camden directed by Asif Kapadia and executive produced by Dua Lipa, Dukagjin Lipa, Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Suzanne Lavery, Nick Shymansky, Jasper Waller-Bridge and Ben Friedman. The show’s original score is composed by Toydrum (Slow Horses, Detour, Prevenge, Three Pines, Platform 7, The Banishing, Future World, Sweetheart). The Lightbox production, which reveals the untold stories of how the lives and careers of some of the world’s most iconic artists were influenced by this corner of London, is premiering in the U.S. on Hulu and in most international markets on Disney+.
Also premiering on Wednesday is the HBO original documentary Moviepass, Moviecrash directed by Muta’Ali about the rise and implosion of the theatrical movie subscription app as told through the eyes of the visionary co-founders. Max Aruj (Crawl, The Old Guard 2, The Ice Road, iBoy, The Tank, Mech Cadets, Lansky) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the movie, which premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival and will also be available to stream on Max. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Them’ (‘Ils’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Moreau, Ils, René-Marc Bini, score, Soundtrack, Them, Xavier Palud.
Studiocanal has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2006 French/Romanian horror thriller Them (Ils) written and directed by David Moreau & Xavier Palud, produced by Richard Grandpierre and starring Olivia Bonamy and Michaël Cohen. The album features the film’s original music composed by René-Marc Bini (Savage Nights, Borders, A.L.F., Black Ocean, Sounds of Sand). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s “credits” track below. Read the rest of this entry »
Richard M. Sherman (1928-2024)
Posted: May 25, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Richard M. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman passed away today at age 95 in at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, California, due to age-related illness. Together with his brother Robert B. Sherman, the composer/lyricist wrote numerous songs for film and television and received two Academy Awards for the score and original song Chim Chim Cher-ee from Disney’s 1964 classic Mary Poppins. He received seven additional Academy Award nominations for the 1968 musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Disney’s 1971 feature Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 1973’s film adaptation of Tom Sawyer, the 1976 musical The Slipper and the Rose & 1978’s The Magic of Lassie, as well three Grammy Awards and 24 gold and platinum albums over the course of his 65 year career. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Somers Scoring Mimi Cave’s ‘Holland, Michigan’
Posted: May 25, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Somers, Amazon, Holland Michigan, Mimi Cave
This past week, Alex Somers (Captain Fantastic, Honey Boy, Causeway, Together, Together, Aloha, Charm City Kings, Dawson City: Frozen Time) has recorded his score for the upcoming thriller Holland, Michigan. The film is directed by Mimi Cave and stars Nicole Kidman, Gael García Bernal, Matthew Macfadyen, Rachel Sennott, Jude Hill, Isaac Krasner, Lennon Parham and Jeff Pope. The movie follows a Midwestern housewife who uncovers a dark secret on the part of her husband, after coming to suspect that he’s having an affair. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 24, 2024)
Posted: May 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andrew Lockington, Atlas, Charles Lavoie, David Fleming, Fabio Massimo Capogrosso, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Graham Reynolds, Hit Man, Jim Henson Idea Man, John Debney, Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, Sean Philip Johnson, Sight, Solo, The Garfield Movie, Tom Holkenborg
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the post-apocalyptic action adventure Furiosa: A Mad Max Story co-written and directed by George Miller and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke and Alyla Browne. The film’s original music is composed by Tom Holkenborg (Mad Max: Fury Road, Sonic the Hedgehog, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Deadpool, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Alita: Battle Angel). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last Friday. Check out our previous article for the full album details and click here to check out the music team credits of the Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Also opening wide is the animated feature The Garfield Movie directed by Mark Dindal and starring Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein and Bowen Yang. John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Elf, Iron Man 2, The Jungle Book) has composed the film’s original score. Michael Hodges serves as the project’s executive music producer and co-wrote most of the original songs. Republic/ASG Records have released a soundtrack album featuring the songs and three tracks of Debney’s score last week. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and click here to check out the music team credits of the movie, which is being released by Sony Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
David Michael Frank’s ‘Poison Ivy’ & ‘Suburban Commando’ Scores to Be Released
Posted: May 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Call Me, David Michael Frank, Going Under, Katt Shea, Poison Ivy, score, Soundtrack, Suburban Commando
Dragon’s Domain Records has announced a new soundtrack album featuring the world premiere release of four previously unreleased scores composed by David Michael Frank (Above the Law, Code of Silence, Extreme Justice, The Mole). The 2-CD includes the composer’s score from the 1992 erotic thriller Poison Ivy directed by Katt Shea and starring Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt & Cheryl Ladd and his music for the 1991 comedy Suburban Commando directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall & Larry Miller. Also included are Frank’s scores from Sollace Mitchell’s 1988 erotic thriller Call Me starring Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie & Boyd Gaines and Mark W. Travis’ 1991 comedy Going Under starring Bill Pullman, Wendy Schaal & Ned Beatty. The David Michael Frank Collection – Vol. 4 is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Predator 2’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Predator, Predator 2, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Hopkins
Hollywood Records has released a digital version of the original soundtrack album for the 1990 sci-fi horror sequel Predator 2 directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Ruben Blades, Bill Paxton, María Conchita Alonso and Kevin Peter Hall. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Avengers: Endgame, Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, Captain America: The First Avenger, Death Becomes Her, Cast Away, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack, which includes the same content as the original CD version released in 1990 by Varese Sarabande. Also listen to the composer’s main title track after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Johnson to Return for Rian Johnson’s ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’
Posted: May 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Knives Out, Knives Out 3, Nathan Johnson, Netflix, Rian Johnson, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Nathan Johnson (Looper, Nightmare Alley, Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Don Jon, Poker Face, Kill the Messenger) is set to return to score the third installment in Knives Out series, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. The film written and directed by Rian Johnson will star Daniel Craig who is reprising his role of Benoit Blanc from the first two movies. No other casting announcements have been made yet. The director is also producing the project with Ram Bergman (3 Body Problem, Papillon) for T-Street Productions. Read the rest of this entry »
