Chris Benstead is reteaming with director Guy Ritchie (Snatch, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) on the upcoming spy thriller Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre. The film starring Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone and Hugh Grant follows a super spy who recruits Hollywood’s biggest movie star to track down and stop the […]
Archive for October, 2021
Chris Benstead Scoring Guy Ritchie’s ‘Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre’
Posted: October 11, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Benstead, Guy Ritchie, Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre
‘Parallel Mothers’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: October 11, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alberto Iglesias, Madres paralelas, Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodovar, score, Soundtrack
Quartet Records has announced a soundtrack album for Pedro Almodóvar’s Spanish drama Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Kite Runner, The Constant Gardener, Pain & Glory, Volver, Talk to Her). Also included are two classic pieces by Janis Joplin and Miles […]
Siddhartha Khosla & Scoring Amazon’s ‘With Love’
Posted: October 11, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Lauren Culjak, Siddhartha Khosla, With Love
Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, Runaways, Queenpins, Looking for Alaska) & Lauren Culjak (Long Weekend) have teamed up to score the upcoming Amazon original series With Love. The show is created by Gloria Calderón Kellett (One Day at a Time) and stars Emeraude Toubia, Mark Indelicato, Rome Flynn, Vincent Rodriguez, Desmond Chiam, Isis King, Constance […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 10, 2021)
Posted: October 10, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Blitz/Berlin, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Cartoon Network, Day of the Dead, Disney Plus, Dopesick, Drum & Lace, HBO Max, Hulu, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Ian Hultquist, Just Beyond, Lorne Balfe, Matthew Janszen, Syfy
Premiering on Wednesday, October 13, is the Disney+ anthology series Just Beyond created by Seth Grahame-Smith inspired by the writings of R.L. Stine and starring Mckenna Grace, Leeann Ross, Nasim Pedrad, Gabriel Bateman, Arjun Athalye, Timothy Heidecker, Riki Lindhome, Parvesh Cheena, Henry Thomas, Rachel Marsh, Jy Prishkulnik, Megan Stott, Sally Pressman, Izabela Vidovic, Christine Ko, […]
Linda Perry to Compose Music for Stephen David Brooks’ ‘Meet the Pumps’
Posted: October 10, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Linda Perry, Meet the Pumps, Stephen David Brooks
Grammy Award nominee Linda Perry (of the former rock band 4 Non Blondes) is set to compose the music for the upcoming drama Meet the Pumps. The singer/songwriter and film & TV composer will also serve as the music supervisor and an executive producer of the movie directed by Stephen David Brooks (Flytrap, Heads N […]
‘Annette’ Unlimited Edition Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: October 9, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Annette, Leos Carax, Soundtrack, Sparks
Milan Records will release a new soundtrack album for the musical drama Annette. The album features all the music from the film written by art-pop duo Sparks (Ron and Russell Mael), with lyrics co-written by the band and director Leos Carax, and performed by movie’s cast and Sparks themselves. Also included are six demos and unreleased […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 8, 2021)
Posted: October 8, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Convergence: Courage in a Crisis, Daniel Pemberton, Darren Morze, David Fleming, Fever Dream, Hans Zimmer, Lamb, Mass, Natalie Holt, No Time to Die, Patrick Jonsson, South of Heaven, Survive the Game, The Rescue, Tim Jones, Tóti Guðnason
The only movie opening nationwide this weekend is the 25th James Bond movie No Time to Die directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Ben Whishaw, Christoph Waltz, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Billy Magnussen, Lashana Lynch, Ana de Armas and Ralph Fiennes. The film’s original score is composed by […]
First Song from ‘Cyrano’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 8, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Carin Besser, Cyrano, Joe Wright, Matt Berninger
Decca Records has released the first song from the soundtrack for the musical drama Cyrano. Available to stream/download now is Someone to Say written by Bryce Dessner & Aaron Dessner (of The National), with lyrics by Matt Berninger & Carin Besser and performed by lead actress Haley Bennett, Víkingur Ólafsson (on piano) and the London […]
Ludwig Göransson to Score Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’
Posted: October 8, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Nolan, Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Universal Pictures announced today that Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther, Creed, The Mandalorian, Venom, Community) will reteam with Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento) on the director’s upcoming historical drama Oppenheimer. The film is written and directed by Nolan and will star Cillian Murphy in the title role of American physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie is based […]
First Track from Lorne Balfe’s ‘The Wheel of Time’ Score Released
Posted: October 8, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Lorne Balfe, The Wheel of Time
Milan Records has released the first track from the soundtrack for the Amazon original series The Wheel of Time. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is Al’Naito written by the show’s composer Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, His Dark Materials, Black Widow, The LEGO Batman Movie, Bad Boys for Life). Also listen […]