La-La Land Records has announced the world premiere official release of the original score from the 1999 romantic comedy Forces of Nature directed by Bronwen Hughes and starring Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn and Blythe Danner. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee John Powell (How to […]
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‘Forces of Nature’ Score Album Announced
Posted: September 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bronwen Hughes, Forces of Nature, John Powell, score, Soundtrack
Al Kasha (1937-2020)
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Al Kasha
Songwriter/composer Al Kasha has passed away today at age 83. He is best known for co-writing (with Joel Hirschhorn) numerous songs for stage and screen, including The Morning After from 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure and We May Never Love Like This Again from 1974’s The Towering Inferno, for which he received two Academy Awards. He […]
Laura Karpman Wins Emmy Award for ‘Why We Hate’
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards, Laura Karpman, Why We Hate
Laura Karpman has won her first Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score) category for her score for the episode Tools & Tactics from the Discover docu-series Why We Hate at today’s first part of the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. She has previously been […]
‘House of Cardin’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: House of Cardin, James Peter Moffatt, P. David Ebersole, score, Soundtrack, Todd Hughes
Earth Libraries will release a soundtrack album for the documentary House of Cardin. The album features the film’s original score composed by James Peter Moffatt (Mansfield 66/67). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 15 and will be available to stream/download here. House of Cardin is directed by P. David Ebersole & Todd Hughes […]
Christopher Willis Scoring Disney+ Series ‘The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse’
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Willis, Disney Plus, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse.
Disney+ announced today that Christopher Willis is returning to compose the music for the streamer’s upcoming animated shorts series The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse. The show is produced by Disney Television Animation with Paul Rudish (Dexter’s Laboratory, Sym-Bionic Titan) serving as executive producer and supervising director. The series follows Mickey and his best pals […]
‘Wish Upon a Unicorn’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Frederik Wiedmann, score, Soundtrack, Steve Bencich, Wish Upon a Unicorn
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the family fantasy adventure Wish Upon a Unicorn. The album features the film’s original music composed by Frederik Wiedmann (The Dragon Prince, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Doom: Annihilation, Field of Lost Shoes, Hangman). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 15 and will be […]
Mondo Boys Scoring Eshom Nelms’ & Ian Nelms’ ‘Fatman’
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eshom Nelms, Fatman, Ian Nelms, Mondo Boys
Mondo Boys (Phoenix Forgotten, The Girlfriend Experience, She Dies Tomorrow, Dave Made a Maze) have composed the original music for the upcoming comedy Fatman. The film is written and directed by Eshom Nelms & Ian Nelms (Small Town Crime, Waffle Street) and stars Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The movie follows a 12-year-old […]
‘Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood’ (‘Oktoberfest 1900’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Michael Klaukien, Netflix, Oktoberfest 1900, Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood, score, Soundtrack
2 Lane Records has released a soundtrack album for the German limited series Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood (Oktoberfest 1900). The album features the show’s original score composed by Michael Klaukien (Vares: The Sheriff, Tatort), as well as other music from the drama. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 13, 2020)
Posted: September 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Danny Bensi, Dev Hynes, Dickon Hinchliffe, Enslaved, Epix, HBO, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Leo Birenberg, Mac Quayle, Matthijs Kieboom, Nainita Desai, Netflix, PBS, Ratched, Saunder Jurriaans, The Devil All the Time, The Third Day, Van der Valk, We Are Who We Are
Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the reboot of the classic detective series Van der Valk written by Chris Murray and starring Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Darrell D’Silva and Emma Fielding. The show’s original music is composed and conducted by Matthijs Kieboom (Wild, Bloody Marie). All3Media has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this year […]
‘Savage’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arli Liberman, Sam Kelly, Savage, score, Soundtrack
Loop Recordings Aot(ear)oa has released a soundtrack album for the crime drama Savage. The album features the film’s original music composed by Arli Liberman. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. Savage is written and directed by Sam Kelly and stars Jake Ryan, John Tui and Chelsie Preston Crayford. The movie is inspired by […]