Quartet Records has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the animated feature Buffalo Kids. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Fernando Velázquez (The Impossible, A Monster Calls, The Orphanage, Mama, Hercules, Crimson Peak, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Devil). A CD version of the soundtrack is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. A digital version is expected to be released in the coming days by Atresmedia Música (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). Buffalo Kids is directed by Juan Jesús Galocha & Pedro Solís and features the voices of Alisha Weir, Stephen Graham, Gemma Arterton and Sean Bean (in its English language version). The movie tells the story of two parentless Irish siblings who arrive in New York City via ocean liner in 1886 and quickly find themselves on a journey aboard a transcontinental “Orphan Train” where they meet an extraordinary new friend who will change their lives forever. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Buffalo Kids’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: September 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Buffalo Kids, Fernando Velazquez, Juan Jesús Galocha, Pedro Solís, score, Soundtrack
Ludwig Göransson Scoring Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’
Posted: September 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ludwig Göransson, Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Composer Ludwig Göransson (Oppenheimer, The Mandalorian, Tenet, Turning Red, Community, Venom) is reteaming with director Ryan Coogler on the upcoming supernatural horror movie Sinners. The film is written and directed by Coogler and stars Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Omar Benson Miller, Jayme Lawson and Delroy Lindo. The movie follows two twin brothers who are trying to leave their troubled lives behind as they return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Visitor’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bruce LaBruce, Hannah Holland, score, Soundtrack, The Visitor
Spotlight Records has released a soundtrack album for the British satire The Visitor. The album features the film’s original music composed by Hannah Holland (Adult Material, Electrician). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s main theme below. The Visitor is co-written and directed by Bruce LaBruce and stars Bishop Black, Macklin Kowal, Amy Kingsmill, Ray Filar, Kurtis Lincoln and Luca Federici. The British-set reimagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 feature Teorema follows a refugee who washes up in a small suitcase on the banks of the River Thames in London and seduces each and every member of an upper-class family. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Summer of Violence’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: September 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marcus Norris, Nicki Micheaux, score, Soundtrack, Summer of Violence
South Side Sound will release a soundtrack album for the drama Summer of Violence. The album features the film’s original music composed by Marcus Norris (Lady in the Lake, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, September 27 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Summer of Violence is written and directed by Nicki Micheaux and stars Kasey Inez, Jahking Guillory, Damon Gupton, Pedro Correa, Stelio Savante and Madhulika Krishnan. The movie is set during the turbulent summer of 1993 when Denver was rocked by a wave of violent crimes and follows a recent college graduate as she navigates a city gripped by fear and spirals into a battle for her own survival. Read the rest of this entry »
Nate Heller Scoring Michael Tyburski’s ‘Turn Me On’
Posted: September 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Michael Tyburski, Nate Heller, Turn Me On
Nate Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?) has provided the original score for the upcoming romantic comedy Turn Me On. The film is directed by Michael Tyburski (The Sound of Silence) and stars Bel Powley, Nick Robinson, Justin H. Min, D’Arcy Carden, Luke Kirby, Nesta Cooper, Patti Harrison and Griffin Newman. The movie is set in a community where the inconvenience of human emotion has been eradicated by a single daily vitamin and revolves around a young couple who skip their dose and discover love, joy, sex and all the baggage that comes with it. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Brian Chan, Caleb Chan, Courtney Lofty, Nickelodeon, Ryan Lofty, score, Soundtrack, The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish
Republic Records Kids & Family has released a soundtrack album for the Nickelodeon animated series The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Caleb Chan & Brian Chan (The Thundermans Return, Alert: Missing Persons Unit, Allegiance, Panhandle, Pinecone & Pony, 50 Stages of Fright). Also included are the songs from the series written by Ryan Lofty & Courtney Lofty, as well as the theme song arranged and produced by Chris Sernel & Grayson DeWolfe (previously released as a digital single). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the first score track after the jump. The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish is developed by Daniel Abramovici, Ashleigh Crystal Hairston, Lindsay Katai & David Stone based on the original The Fairly OddParents series, which ran between 2001 and 2017, and stars Ashleigh Crystal Hairston, Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee. Read the rest of this entry »
Katie Austra Stelmanis to Score Anita Doron’s ‘Maya & Samar’
Posted: September 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anita Doron, Katie Austra Stelmanis, Maya & Samar
Canadian singer/songwriter and music producer Katie Austra Stelmanis is set to make her narrative feature scoring debut on the upcoming drama Maya & Samar. The film is directed by Anita Doron (screenwriter of The Breadwinner) and stars Nicolette Pearse and Amanda Babaei Vieira. The movie follows a rising journalist for a hip indie website who covers sex and music with free-flowing thought and liberal practice and a queer Afghan who escaped from the Taliban and now lives without papers and working as a dancer in a Athens club for cash whose worlds collide in a torrid affair that exposes their conflicting cultures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Penelope’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: September 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Danny Bensi, Julia Piker, Mark Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Penelope, Saunder Jurriaans, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the coming-of-age drama series Penelope. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, Speak No Evil, Enemy, The Gift, The Staircase, Boy Erased, Fear the Walking Dead, A Murder at the End of the World) with Julia Piker. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 24 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ first track (Feels Free) below. Penelope is created by Mark Duplass & Mel Eslyn and stars Megan Stott, Austin Abrams, Rhenzy Feliz and Krisha Fairchild. The 8-parter follows the 16-year-old title character who is feeling out of place in modern society and gets drawn into the unknown wilderness, where she begins forming a new life for herself. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of Philippe Sarde’s ‘La Garce’ Score Announced
Posted: September 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Choice of Arms, Christine Pascal, Garçon!, La Garce, Le Choix des arme, Philippe Sarde, score, Soundtrack, Waiter!
Music Box Records has announced the world premiere release of the score for the 1984 French thriller La Garce co-written and directed by Christine Pascal and starring Isabelle Huppert, Richard Berry, Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Jean Benguigui. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Philippe Sarde (The Tenant, Quest for Fire, Tess, Lord of the Flies, Pirates, Ghost Story, Barocco, Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud). The limited edition CD also includes the composer’s newly remastered score from the 1981 crime drama Choice of Arms (Le Choix des arme) directed by Alain Corneau and starring Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu, as well as his (newly remastered and slightly expanded) music from the 1983 feature Waiter! (Garçon!) directed by Claude Sautet and starring Yves Montand, Nicole Garcia, Jacques Villeret and Marie Dubois. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dog on Trial’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Sztanke, Dog on Trial, Laetitia Dosch, Le procès du chien, score, Soundtrack
Grande Ourse has released a soundtrack album for the Swiss/French comedy Dog on Trial (Le procès du chien). The album features the film’s original music composed by David Sztanke (Transatlantic, Raël: The Alien Prophet, Magnetic Beats, Sophie’s Misfortunes, Keep an Eye Out). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Dog on Trial is co-written and directed by Laetitia Dosch and stars Dosch herself, Françaois Damiens and Jean-Pascal Zadi. The movie revolves around a spirited young attorney and her client, her faithful canine companion who goes on trial for biting three people, confronting not only the legal system but also advocating for both women’s and animal rights. Read the rest of this entry »
