A&E Television Networks have released a soundtrack album for the Lifetime original documentary series The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. The album features selections of the original music from the 2-parter composed by Jim Fairchild (Common Ground). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Nicole’s Hymn) below. The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson is executive produced by Jesse Daniels, Melissa Moore, Rit Saraswat, Brie Miranda Bryant, Kim Chessler & Julie Pizzi and is being released in honor of the 30th anniversary of Brown’s death. The show features 50 participants, including Brown’s friends and family, to shed new light on her life and tragic death of the woman behind the murder and trial of the century. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Lifetime’s ‘The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson’ Released
Posted: June 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Jim Fairchild, Lifetime, score, Soundtrack, The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson
‘Louise by the Shore’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jean-François Laguionie, Louise by the Shore, Louise en hiver, Pascal Le Pennec, score, Soundtrack
22D Music has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2016 French animated Louise by the Shore (Louise en hiver) written and directed by Jean-François Laguionie and starring Dominique Frot. The album features the film’s original music composed by Pascal Le Pennec (The Painting, Peekaboo, The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess) and performed by the Orchestre National de Bretagne. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Bryce Dessner Scoring John Crowley’s ‘We Live in Time’
Posted: June 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bryce Dessner, John Crowley, We Live in Time
Bryce Dessner (The Two Popes, Bardo, She Came to Me, The Kitchen, Manhunt, A Good Person, Irresistible) has been tapped to score the upcoming romantic drama We Live in Time. The film is directed by John Crowley (Brooklyn, The Goldfinch) and stars Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield, Marama Corlett and Adam James. The movie follows an up-and-coming chef who finds her life forever changed by a chance encounter with a recent divorcee. Nick Payne (The Sense of an Ending, The Last Letter from Your Lover) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Guy Davidi’s ‘Innocence’ Released
Posted: June 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Guy Davidi, Innocence, score, Snorri Hallgrímsson, Soundtrack
Moderna Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Innocence. The album features the film’s original music composed by Snorri Hallgrímsson (Chalk the Line, Chasing the Present). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Innocence is directed by Guy Davidi and tackles the issue of militarization and its impact on the lives of young Israeli people who are forced to serve against their own identity and values. The movie shows how children and young people are being tracked and pressured from early childhood into military enrollment and away from their parents. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Halpern Scoring Jeff Celentano’s ‘Blackwater Lane’
Posted: June 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blackwater Lane, Jeff Celentano, Nathan Halpern
Nathan Halpern (The Rider, Emily the Criminal, Watcher, Swallow, In the Same Breath, Consecration, Minding the Gap) has provided the original score for the new supernatural thriller Blackwater Lane. The film is directed by Jeff Celentano (The Hill, Gunshy) and stars Minka Kelly, Maggie Grace and Dermot Mulroney. The movie is based on the bestselling novel The Breakdown by B.A. Paris and follows a young woman is visited by a ghostly presence after witnessing a tragedy on a dangerous country road and begins to question her sanity as these otherworldly experiences intensify. Read the rest of this entry »
‘City Hunter’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Eishi Segawa, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Yûichi Satô
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Japanese Netflix original film City Hunter. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Eishi Segawa (Flying Colors, Once Upon a Crime, HK: Forbidden Super Hero). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s first track (XYZ) below. City Hunter is directed by Yûichi Satô and stars Ryohei Suzuki, Misato Morita, Masanobu Ando, Ayame Misaki, Asuka Hanamura and Moemi Katayama. The action comedy is based on the serial manga by Tsukasa Hōjō and revolves around an exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy who reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner’s sister to investigate his death. Read the rest of this entry »
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul to Write Original Songs for Jon M. Chu’s & Jill Culton’s ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Benj Pasek, Jill Culton, Jon M. Chu, Justin Paul, Oh the Places You’ll Go!
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen, Spirited, La La Land, Lyle Lyle Crocodile) have been hired to compose the original songs for Warner Bros. Animation’s upcoming feature Oh, the Places You’ll Go!. The film directed by Jon M. Chu (Cray Rich Asians, In the Heights) & Jill Culton (Abominable) is based on Dr. Seuss’ final book of the same title and tells the story a young adventurer amid the peaks and valleys of life. Rob Lieber (Peter Rabbit, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween) is writing the screenplay for the animated musical. Read the rest of this entry »
‘In Fidelity’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ilan Rubin, In Fidelity, Rob Margolies, score, Soundtrack
Ilan Rubin (Monsters of California, Bobcat Moretti) has released a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy drama In Fidelity. The album features the film’s original music written by the singer/songwriter, composer and Nine Inch Nails drummer now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also check out Rubin’s opening theme after the jump. In Fidelity is written and directed by Rob Margolies and stars Chris Parnell, Cara Buono, Dennis Haysbert, Willow Shields and Illeana Douglas. The movie follows a happily married New York couple whose world is rocked when of them becomes terminally ill and asks to sleep with their well-known rock star neighbor before she dies young. Read the rest of this entry »
Ruth Barrett Scoring Netflix’s ‘The Decameron’
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Netflix, Ruth Barrett, The Decameron
Ruth Barrett (Bodyguard, Victoria, Sanditon, The Terminal List, Harry Brown, Collateral) is the composer of the upcoming Netflix original series The Decameron. The show is created by Kathleen Jordan (Teenage Bounty Hunters) and stars Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala, Tony Hale, Karan Gill, Zosia Mamet, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Douggie McMeekin, Tanya Reynolds and Jessica Plummer. The comedy is set in the Italian countryside in the year 1348 when the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence, and follows a handful of nobles as they retreat with their servants to a grand villa to wait out the plague with a lavish holiday. Read the rest of this entry »
Remastered ‘The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Black and White in Color, Gwendoline, Hothead, Just Jaeckin, La Soubrette perverse, Pierre Bachelet, score, Soundtrack, The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak
Music Box Records has announced the premiere CD release of the soundtrack for the 1984 French action comedy The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (Gwendoline) written and directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff and Zabou. The album features the film’s newly remastered original score composed by Pierre Bachelet (Emmanuelle, The Story of O, Les Bronzés font du ski). Also included is the composer’s previously unreleased music for the 1974 feature La Soubrette perverse directed by José Benazéraf, as well as the cult instrumental hit OK Chicago performed by the band Resonance (aka Pierre Bachelet & Mat Camison). The limited edition CD is now available to order on Amazon and the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full album details and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
