Craig DeLeon (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Music, Scandalous: The True Story of the National Enquirer, The Last Survivors) has been tapped to score the upcoming Netflix original film End of the Road. The movie is directed by Millicent Shelton (Ride) and stars Queen Latifah, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges and Beau Bridges. The thriller follows a woman who embarks on a cross-country trip with her family to start a new life, when they become the targets of a mysterious killer in the New Mexico desert and must learn to fight back.
Category: Film Scoring Assignments
Beach House Scoring Sofia Alvarez’s Netflix Film ‘Along for the Ride’
The indie-pop duo Beach House (Victoria Legrand & Alex Scally) have made their feature scoring debut on the upcoming Netflix original film Along for the Ride. The movie is written and directed by Sofia Alvarez (who scripted the streamer’s To All the Boys films) and stars Emma Pasarow, Belmont Cameli, Andie MacDowell, Dermot Mulroney, Kate Bosworth, Laura Kariuki, Marcus Scribner, Genevieve Hannelius, Samia Finnerty, Ricardo Hurtado and Paul Karmiryan. The teen drama is based on Sarah Dessen’s bestselling YA novel a follows a studious teenage girl who meets a mysterious, fellow insomniac who helps her experience the carefree life she was missing during the summer before college.
Małgorzata Szumowska’s ‘Infinite Storm’ to Feature Score by Lorne Balfe and Original Song by Eliot Sumner
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Black Widow, His Dark Materials, The LEGO Batman Movie, Bad Boys for Life) has composed the original score for the new drama Infinite Storm. The movie also features an original song (entitled Angel) written and performed by singer/songwriter Eliot Sumner who also appears in the film directed by Małgorzata Szumowska (The Other Lamb, Never Gonna Snow Again) and starring Naomi Watts, Billy Howle, Denis O’Hare and Parker Sawyers. The drama based on a true story follows an experienced climber who ascends Mt. Washington, but turns back before she reaches the summit as a huge blizzard approaches and encounters a lone, stranded man on her way down. Joshua Rollins wrote the screenplay.
‘Everybody Hates Johan’ (‘Alle hater Johan’) Soundtrack Released
Kursiv Plater has released a soundtrack album for the Norwegian comedy Everybody Hates Johan (Alle hater Johan). The album features the film’s original music composed by Jørund Fluge Samuelsen (Oslo Zoo). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Everybody Hates Johan is directed by Hallvar Witzø and stars Pål Sverre Hagen and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal. The movie chronicles the life of the title character, a small town loner with a flair for dynamite who finds himself in constant conflict with the rural community.
Brooke & Will Blair Scoring Macon Blair’s ‘The Toxic Avenger’
Composers Brooke Blair & Will Blair (Green Room, Hold the Dark, Blue Ruin, The Informer, Sweet Virginia, Black Christmas) are reteaming with writer/director/actor Macon Blair on the upcoming superhero action comedy The Toxic Avenger. The film starring Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Kevin Bacon, Julia Davis and Elijah Wood is based on Troma Entertainment’s 1984 cult classic of the same title and follows a struggling everyman who is pushed into a vat of toxic waste and transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his friends and his community from the forces of corruption and greed.
Jay Wadley Scoring Andrew Ahn’s ‘Fire Island’
Jay Wadley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Swan Song, Indignation, I Carry You with Me, Tales from the City, Olympic Dreams) has recently been scoring the upcoming romantic comedy Fire Island. The film is directed by Andrew Ahn (Spa Night) and stars Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, Zane Phillips, James Scully, Tomas Matos, Matt Rogers, Conrad Ricamora, Nick Adams Torian Miller and Margaret Cho. The movie inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is set in the New York hamlet of Fire Island Pines and revolves around around two best friends who set out to have a legendary weeklong summer vacation with the help of cheap rosé and a cadre of eclectic friends.
Siddhartha Khosla to Score Rahul Chittella’s ‘Gulmohar’
Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, Queenpins, Runaways, I Want You Back, Looking for Alaska) is set to score the upcoming family drama Gulmohar. The film is directed by Rahul Chittella and stars Suraj Sharma, Sharmila Tagore, Manoj Bajpayee and Kaveri Seth. The movie tracks the final four days of the Batra family, leading up to Holi, as they pack their belongings to move out of their 31-year-old family home. Chitella is also producing the Chalkboard Entertainment, Autonomous Works and Fox Star Studios production with Vikesh Bhutani and Shujaat Saudagar (Rock on 2).
Daniel Pemberton to Return for Harry Bradbeer’s ‘Enola Holmes 2’
Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Trial of the Chicago 7, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Birds of Prey, Being the Ricardos, Steve Jobs, Ocean’s 8) is set to return to score the upcoming Netflix original film Enola Holmes 2. The movie is directed by Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag) and stars Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Louis Partridge, Helena Bonham Carter, David Thewlis, Susan Wokoma, Adeel Akhtar, Hannah Dodd, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Abbie Hern, Gabriel Tierney and Serrana Su-Ling Bliss. The sequel follows the title character as she takes on her first case as a detective, but to unravel the mystery of a missing girl, she’ll need help from friends – and brother Sherlock.
Elvin Ross Scoring Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum’s Disney+ Movie ‘Sneakerella’
Elvin Ross (Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Honey: Rise Up and Dance, Madea Goes to Jail. Boo! A Madea Halloween) has composed the original score for the upcoming Disney+ original movie Sneakerella. The film is directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (Ramona & Beezus, Aquamarine) and stars Chosen Jacobs, Lexi Underwood, Devyn Nekoda, John Salley, Bryan Terrell, Kolton Stewart, Hayward Leach, Juan Chioran, Robyn Alomar and Yvonne Senat Jones. The comedy follows an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens who works as a stock boy in the shoe store that once belonged to his late mother, when he meets and falls in love with the fiercely independent daughter of a legendary basketball star and sneaker tycoon.
Alex Baranowski Scoring Ben Parker’s ‘Burial’
Alex Baranowski (The Windmere Children, A Perfect Enemy, A Christmas Carol, Staged) has composed the original music for the upcoming British thriller Burial. The film is written and directed by Ben Parker (The Chamber) and stars Charlotte Vega, Tom Felton, Harriet Walter, Barry Ward, Bil Milner and Dan Skinner. The movie is set in the last days of World War II and follows a small band of Russian soldiers who is tasked with trafficking the remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. Matthew James Wilkinson (Yesterday, Amulet), Paul Higgins (Hangar 10) and Hugh Spearing are producing the Altitude Film Entertainment production.