March 2019 – Page 7 – Film Music Reporter

Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 17, 2019)

March 17, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Premiering tomorrow, March 18, is the new ABC drama The Fix created by Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Fain & Marcia Clark and starring Robin Tunney, Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje and Scott Cohen. The show’s original music is composed by Gregory Tripi (Ma, Manhunt: Unabomber, Dark Places, Rememory). Check out our previous news article and the official show website to learn more bout the series, which follows a retired prosecutor who returns to the Los Angeles DA’s office for a second chance at justice, and will air every Monday night on ABC.

Also premiering tomorrow is the documentary The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley directed by Alex Gibney about the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. Will Bates (The Looming Tower, The Path, I Origins, The Magicians) has composed the film’s original music. Click here and also visit the official movie website for more information about the documentary, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is premiering on HBO on March 18.

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‘Fisherman’s Friends’ Score Album Released

March 17, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Chris Foggin, Fisherman's Friends, Rupert Christie, score, Soundtrack

Universal Music has released a score album for the British comedy Fisherman’s Friends. The album features the film’s original score composed by Rupert Christie (SuperBob). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. As previously reported, Island Records has released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie. Fisherman’s Friends is directed by Chris Foggin and stars Daniel Mays, Tuppence Middleton, James Purefoy, David Hayman, Dave Johns, Sam Swainsbury, Maggie Steed, Christian Brassington and Noel Clarke. The movie tells the true story of the titular male singing group.

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Scott Bomar Scoring Craig Brewer’s ‘Dolemite Is My Name’

March 16, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: Craig Brewer, Dolemite Is My Name, Netflix, Scott Bomar

Scott Bomar has recently composed the original score for the upcoming biographical comedy drama Dolemite Is My Name. The film is directed by Craig Brewer (Footloose) and stars Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Craig Robinson, Mike Epps, Tituss Burgess and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. The movie tells the life story of Rudy Ray Moore, a “larger than life” comedian, musician, singer, actor, and film producer in the 1970s who – when he couldn’t get work in Hollywood – simply created his own – including the most well-known Blaxploitation film of all time, Dolemite. Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, The People v. Larry Flynt) wrote the screenplay.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 15, 2019)

March 15, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Three new movies are opening in theaters nationwide this weekend:

Opening in most theaters is the animated feature Wonder Park written and produced by Josh Applebaum & Andre Nemec and featuring the voices of Jennifer Garner, Matthew Broderick, John Oliver, Mila Kunis and Ken Jeong. The film’s original score is composed by Steven Price (Gravity, Suicide Squad, Baby Driver). Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Click here for the full album details. Also available now are two original songs by Rachel Platten and Grace VanderWaal. Click here to learn more about the two tracks, which have been released today.

Also opening wide is the romantic drama Five Feet Apart directed by Justin Baldoni and starring Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Moises Arias, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Paraminder Nagra and Claire Forlani. Brian Tyler (Fast & Furious, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Crazy Rich Asians, Iron Man 3) & Breton Vivian have composed the film’s original music. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our previous article for the full album details. Also click here to learn more about an original song by Andy Grammer featured in the movie.

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‘No Manches Frida 2’ Soundtrack Released

March 15, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: No Manches Frida, No Manches Frida 2, Soundtrack

ASG Records has released a soundtrack album for the comedy sequel No Manches Frida 2. The album features the songs from the movie by artists such as Lord Netty, Angie Vázquez, Session, Ani Bani, Bacondo, Dewon, Nakor, Jaron Strom, Gerald Trottman, Ruxell & others. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. No Manches Frida 2 is directed by Nacho G. Velilla, written by David S. Olivas and stars Omar Chaparro, Martha Higareda, Aaron Díaz, Itatí Cantoral, Regina Pavón, Mario Moran and Memo Dorantes.

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David Schwartz Tapped as New Composer of HBO’s ‘Veep’

March 15, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments 0 comments

Tags: David Schwartz, HBO, Veep

David Schwartz (Arrested Development, The Good Place, Northern Exposure) is the new composer of the HBO original series Veep. He is scoring the seventh and final season of the political comedy created by Armando Iannucci and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Matt Walsh, Reid Scott, Kevin Dunn, Gary Cole, Timothy Simons and Sam Richardson. David Mandel (Curb Your Enthusiasm, EuroTrip) serves as the showrunner of the new season and is executive producing the project with Frank Rich (Succession), Louis-Dreyfus, Lew Morton and Morgan Sackett (Parks and Recreation).

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‘The Hummingbird Project’ Soundtrack Released

March 15, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Kim Nguyen, score, Soundtrack, The Hummingbird Project, Yves Gourmeur

Filmtrax has released a soundtrack album for the thriller The Hummingbird Project. The album features the film’s original music composed by Yves Gourmeur. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The Hummingbird Project is written and directed by Kim Nguyen and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek and Michael Mando. The movie follows two scheming cousins as they try to build a thousand-mile-long, four-inch-wide tunnel from Kansas to New Jersey that will give them a one-millisecond edge on transactions at the New York Stock Exchange.

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‘RoboCop 2’ & ‘Dreamcatcher’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Albums Announced

March 15, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Dreamcatcher, James Newton Howard, Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenman, Raggedy Man, RoboCop 2, score, Soundtrack

Varese Sarabande has announced the newest titles in its CD Club series, including a deluxe soundtrack edition for the 1990 action sequel RoboCop 2 directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. The album features the expanded original score from the Orion Pictures production composed and conducted by Leonard Rosenman (Beneath The Planet of the Apes, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Fantastic Voyage), including over 40 minutes of previously unreleased music. The soundtrack, which is limited to 1,500 copies is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples.

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Soundtrack for Pixar’s ‘Purl’ Released

March 15, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 0 comments

Tags: Pinar Toprak, Pixar, Purl, score, Soundtrack

Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album for the Pixar animated short Purl. The album features the film’s original music composed by Pinar Toprak (Captain Marvel, Krypton, The Angel, The River Murders, The Wind Gods). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Purl is written and directed by Kristen Lester, produced by Gillian Libbert-Duncan, and features an earnest ball of yarn named Purl who gets a job in a fast-paced, high energy, bro-tastic start-up, where she gets ignored by her fellow employees. The short, which is the first of Pixar’s SparkShorts program, opened at Disney’s El Capitan Theater in January and is now available to stream on YouTube. Watch the full short after the jump.

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Rachel Platten’s ‘Wonder’ & Grace VanderWaal’s ‘Hideaways’ from ‘Wonder Park’ Released

March 15, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums 3 comments

Tags: Anne Preven, Grace VanderWaal, Rachel Platten, Steven Price, Wonder Park

Columbia Records has released the two original songs from the animated feature Wonder Park, including Wonder performed by Rachel Platten and written by Anne Preven & the film’s composer Steven Price (Gravity, Suicide Squad). Click here to download the song, which is now available as a digital single. Also released as a single today is Hideaway written by Jonny Shorr, Katie Stump, Emily Kocontes and Will Jay and performed by Grace VanderWaal. Visit Amazon to download the track. Both songs can also be checked out after the jump. A full soundtrack album featuring Price’s score is now available on Sony Classical. Wonder Park is written and produced by Josh Applebaum & Andre Nemec and stars Jennifer Garner, Matthew Broderick, John Oliver, Mila Kunis, Kenan Thompson, Ken Jeong, Norbert Leo Butz, Brianna Denski and Ken Hudson Campbell.

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