Opening in limited release this weekend is the sci-fi thriller Possessor written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg and starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The film’s original music is composed by Jim Williams (Raw, Beast, Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring […]
Archive for the ‘Film Music News’ Category
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 2, 2020)
Posted: October 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 2067, A Call to Spy, Andrew Orkin, Elliot Goldenthal, Jim Williams, Joseph Trapanese, Kenneth Lampl, Kirsten Axelholm, Lillie Rebecca McDonough, On the Rocks, Once Upon a River, Phoenix, Possessor, Save Yourselves!, Spontaneous, The 40-Year Old Version, The Forty-Year Old Version, The Glorias, Zac Rae
0
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 25, 2020)
Posted: September 25, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ava, Bear McCreary, Brian Keane, Daniel Pemberton, Dickon Hinchliffe, Emile Mosseri, Jay Sebring...Cutting to the Truth, Jeff Beal, Kajillionaire, Leap!, Mark Orton, Misbehaviour, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Oliver Sacks: His Own Words, Shigeru Umebayashi, Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, The Last Shift, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Opening nationwide this weekend is the drama The Last Shift written and directed by Andrew Cohn and starring Richard Jenkins, Shane Paul McGhie, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Birgundi Baker, Allison Tolman and Ed O’Neill. The film’s original music is composed by Mark Orton (Nebraska, The Good Girl, My Old Lady). No soundtrack album has been announced. Check out […]
Starrah to Write Original Songs for Animated Musical ‘Century Goddess’
Posted: September 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Century Goddess, Starrah
Singer/songwriter Starrah (aka Brittany Hazzard) is writing original songs for the upcoming animated musical Century Goddess. The film tells the story of a young woman who is revealed to be a once-in-a-century goddess who unleashes her generational power of song and spoken word to ignite a revolution in a dictatorship where artists are suppressed. The […]
Ludwig Göransson Wins Emmy Award for ‘The Mandalorian’ Score
Posted: September 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards
Ludwig Göransson has won his first Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) category for his score from the episode Chapter 8: Redemption of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian at today’s fifth and final night of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The Academy Award and Grammy […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 18, 2020)
Posted: September 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alone, Antebellum, Blackbird, Brandon Roberts, Buck Sanders, Crystal Grooms Mangano, Geoff Zanelli, Hannes De Maeyer, Infidel, John Paesano, Lost Girls and Love Hotels, Marco Beltrami, Natalie Holt, Nate Wonder, Nima Fakhrara, No Escape, Ola Flottum, Peter Gregson, Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs, Richard Reed Parry, Roman Gianarthur, The Nest, The Racer, The Secrets We Keep, The Way I See It
The only movie opening in theaters nationwide this week is the political thriller Infidel written and directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh and starring Jim Caveziel, Claudia Karvan, Hal Ozsan, Stelio Savante and Aly Kassem. The album features the film’s original music composed by Natalie Holt (The Honourable Woman, Journey’s End, Knightfall, Press, Beecham House, Deadwater Fell). […]
‘Blackbird’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: September 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Blackbird, Peter Gregson, Roger Michell, score, Soundtrack
Deutsche Grammophon will release a soundtrack album for the British drama Blackbird. The album features the film’s original music composed by Peter Gregson (A Little Chaos, Adolescence), as well as two tracks from the composer/cellist’s “recomposed” Bach Cello Suites. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 18 and will be available to stream/download on […]
Rickey Minor Wins Emmy Award for The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: September 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards, Rickey Minor
Rickey Minor has received his second Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Direction category for his work on the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors gala at today’s second night of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. He previously won the award in 2017 for Taking The Stage: African American Music And Stories That Changed America […]
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 […]
