WaterTower Music will release the official soundtrack album for Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Ready Player One. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, The Avengers, Captain America: The First Avengers, The Croods). A 2-CD version is set to be released on April 6, 2018 […]
Archive for February, 2018
WaterTower Music to Release ‘Ready Player One’ Soundtrack
Posted: February 26, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Ready Player One, score, Soundtrack, Steven Spielberg
‘Aliens Ate My Homework’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 26, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aliens Ate My Homework, Brandon Moore, score, Soundtrack
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the family comedy Aliens Ate My Homework. The album features the film’s original music composed by Brandon Moore. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, March 2, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Aliens Ate My […]
Benjamin Wallfisch to Score Jennifer Yuh Nelson’s ‘The Darkest Minds’
Posted: February 26, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Benjamin Wallfisch, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, The Darkest Minds
Benjamin Wallfisch has been hired to score the upcoming dystopian thriller The Darkest Minds. The film is directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Kung Fu Panda 2 & 3) and stars Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson, Mandy Moore, Golden Brooks, Skylan Brooks, Gwendoline Christie and Patrick Gibson. The movie based on Alexandra Bracken’s YA trilogy is set after a pandemic […]
Michael Andrews Scoring HBO’s ‘The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling’
Posted: February 26, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO, Judd Apatow, Michael Andrews, The Elephant and the Butterfly, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
Michael Andrews has recently scored the upcoming HBO documentary The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling. The 2-parter is directed and executive produced by Judd Apatow (The 40-Year Old Virgin, Trainwreck, Knocked Up) and centers on the top stand-up comic and TV star who passed away in 2016. The documentary features conversations with more than 40 of […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 25, 2018)
Posted: February 25, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, B: The Beginning, Bobby Krlic, Franz Kirmann, Good Girls, Hulu, Joseph Trapanese, Les Affamés, McMafia, Michael Penn, NBC, Netflix, Seven Seconds, The Looming Tower, Tom Hodge, Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac & The Notorious B.I.G., USA, Will Bates, Yoshihiro Ike
Premiering tomorrow, February 26, in the U.S. is the BBC & AMC series McMafia created by Hossein Amini & James Watkins and starring James Norton, Aleksey Serebryakov, Maria Shukshina, Faye Marsay and Juliet Rylance. The show’s original music is composed by Tom Hodge & Franz Kirmann. Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score from the drama’s […]
‘Dunkirk’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award
Posted: February 24, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society, Coco, Dunkirk, Jane
The team behind the sound mixing of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures – Live Action category at tonight’s 54th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Bunker Hill Ballroom of the OMNI Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza. Scoring mixer Alan Meyerson, along with production mixer Mark Weingarten, […]
‘I Kill Giants’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 24, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: I Kill Giants, Laurent Perez Del Mar, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for the fantasy thriller I Kill Giants have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Laurent Perez Del Mar (The Red Turtle, My Son, To the Top). Also included is the previously unreleased song Under the Stars by the indie pop band London Grammar and a […]
Michael Penn Scoring NBC’s ‘Good Girls’
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Good Girls, Jenna Bans, Michael Penn, NBC
Composer Michael Penn (Girls, Masters of Sex, Boogie Nights, Sunshine Cleaning) is scoring the new NBC comedy drama Good Girls. The show is created by Jenna Bans and stars Christina Hendricks, Retta, Mae Whitman, Matthew Lillard, Reno Wilson, Manny Montana, Lidya Jewett and Izzy Stannard. The series follows three suburban moms who get tired of trying to make […]
‘Red Sparrow’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Francis Lawrence, James Newton Howard, Red Sparrow, score, Soundtrack
Sony Classical will release the official soundtrack album for the spy thriller Red Sparrow. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, The Sixth Sense, The Fugitive, Signs, King Kong, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them). The soundtrack is expected to be released on March 2 and […]