LAB Records has released the first song from the fourth season of the Apple TV+ original series Trying. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is Forever co-written (with Tobie Tripp) and performed by BEKA. Also listen to the full track after the jump. A soundtrack album featuring more songs by BEKA from Season 4 is expected to be released in a couple of weeks. Trying is created by Andy Wolton and stars Esther Smith, Rafe Spall, Scarlett Rayner, Sian Brooke, Darren Boyd and Cooper Turner. The new season takes place six years after events of Season 3 and follows Nikki & Jason who are now experienced adopters who have built a lovely little nuclear family. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Auction’ (‘Le Tableau Volé’) Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexei Aigui, Auction, Le tableau volé, Pascal Bonitzer, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a soundtrack album for the French drama Auction (Le tableau volé). The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexei Aigui (I Am Not Your Negro, The Truth, The Young Karl Marx, Wild Field, Exterminate All the Brutes, Silver Dollar Road). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 26 (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). A CD version, which also includes Aigui’s scores from Je pense à vous, Le Grand Alibi and Cherchez Hortense, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. Auction is written and directed by Pascal Bonitzer and stars Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi, Arcadi Radeff, Louise Chevillotte, Laurence Côte and Matthieu Lucci. The movie follows a modern art appraiser who works for an auction house whose routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost work by Egon Schiele. Read the rest of this entry »
Brittany Howard’s Original Song ‘Fire Inside’ from Netflix’s ‘Thelma the Unicorn’ Released
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brittany Howard, Jared Hess, Lynn Wang, Netflix, Thelma the Unicorn
Island Records has released the first song from the Netflix original animated film Thelma the Unicorn. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is Fire Inside written by Theo Katzman & Louis Cato, produced by Mike Elizondo and performed by Brittany Howard who also stars in the title role. The movie’s composer John Powell provided the orchestral arrangement. Listen to the track after the jump. A full soundtrack album will be released on May 17. Thelma the Unicorn is directed by Jared Hess & Lynn Wang and also features the voices of Will Forte and Jemaine Clement. Read the rest of this entry »
Chanda Dancy Scoring Zoë Kravitz’s ‘Blink Twice’
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blink Twice, Chanda Dancy, Zoë Kravitz
Chanda Dancy (Devotion, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, The Defeated, Aftershock) has composed the original score for the upcoming thriller Blink Twice. The film marks the directorial debut of actress Zoë Kravitz and stars Naomie Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Christian Slater, Haley Joel Osment, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis. The movie follows a young and clever cocktail waitress who skillfully maneuvers her way into a tech billionaire’s inner circle and ultimately an intimate gathering on his private island, where strange things start to happen. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jeff Wamester, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Two, Kevin Riepl, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for the DC animated movie Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kevin Riepl (Superman: Man of Tomorrow, Cabin Fever, Green Lantern: Beware My Power, The Night Crew, Justice Society: World War II). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 23 by Gardener Recordings (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). Check out the composer’s opening titles track below. The label has previously released the composer’s score from Part One last December. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two is directed by Jeff Wamester and stars Jensen Ackles (as Batman/Bruce Wayne), Darren Criss (as Superman & Earth-2 Superman), Meg Donnelly (as Supergirl & Harbinger) and Stana Katic (as Wonder Woman & Superwoman). The Warner Bros. Animation production based on DC’s comic book limited series of the same title by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez is the second of three parts and marks the beginning of the end to the Tomorrowverse story. Read the rest of this entry »
Academy Announces Updates Rules in Original Score Category
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy’s Board of Governors has approved rules and campaign regulations for the 97th Academy Awards, including two changes in the Original Score category. The new rules state that “three composers will be allowed to receive individual statuettes if, in rare circumstances, they all contributed fully to the score. Previously, three composers were required to submit as a group. The rules now clarify the definition of a group as a recognized band. The shortlist will increase from 15 to 20 titles”. Visit Oscars.org for the full list of rules and regulations. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Brigands: The Quest for Gold’ (‘Briganti’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Brigands: The Quest for Gold, Briganti, Michele Braga, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original series Brigands: The Quest for Gold (Briganti). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Michele Braga (Dogman, Rose Island, Freaks Out, Strangeness, Shadows, Blessed Madness). Also included is the song Brigante se more performed by Raiz. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Listen to Braga’s score title track and the song after the jump. Brigands: The Quest for Gold is created by GRAMS and stars Michela De Rossi, Ivana Lotito, Matilda Lutz, Marlon Joubert, Pietro Micci, Orlando Cinque and Leon Faun. The period drama is set in the 19th century, when the southern lands of Italy are bandit territory, and follows a woman who escapes her wealthy but sad life to lead a risky treasure hunt. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Arsène Lupin’ 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arsène Lupin, Debbie Wiseman, Jean-Paul Salome, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 2004 French adventure crime movie Arsène Lupin co-written and directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and starring Romain Duris, Kristin Scott Thomas, Pascal Greggory, Eva Green, Robin Renucci and Patrick Toomey. The 2-CD set features the remastered expanded original score from the film composed, orchestrated and conducted by Debbie Wiseman (Wilde, Wolf Hall, Dickensian, Vampire Killers, Haunted, Father Brown, Flood) and performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Crouch End Festival Chorus, including around an hour of previously unreleased music. The 20th Anniversary soundtrack is limited to 500 copies and now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
Disneynature’s ‘Tiger’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Disneynature, Mark Linfield, Nitin Sawhney, score, Soundtrack, Tiger
Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album for Disneynature documentary Tiger. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nitin Sawhney (The Namesake, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Breathe, The Colour Room, What’s Love Got to Do With It?, Lila Says, Traitors, Settlers). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s final track (Tigers on the Rise) after the jump. Tiger is directed by Mark Linfield, co-directed by Vanessa Berlowitz & Rob Sullivan and tells the story of Ambar, a young tigress raising her cubs in the fabled forests of India who does everything she can to keep them safe from pythons, bears and marauding male tigers. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ITV’s ‘Red Eye’ to Be Released
Posted: April 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Ian Arber, ITV, Red Eye, score, Soundtrack
Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the ITV drama Red Eye. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Ian Arber (The Capture, Medici, The Chelsea Detective, My Name Is Lenny, The One, War of the Worlds). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 22 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composer’s main title track below. Red Eye is written by Peter A Dowling, directed by Kieron Hawkes and stars Jing Lusi, Richard Armitage, Lesley Sharp and Jemma Moore. The 6-part thriller follows three women who are thrown into the same life threatening conspiracy when a British doctor is arrested for murder on a red eye flight from London to Beijing. Read the rest of this entry »
