A soundtrack album will be released for the Australian sci-fi thriller Ascendant (aka Rising Wolf). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee David Hirschfelder (Shine, Elizabeth, The Railway Man, Australia, Sanctum, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole) .The soundtrack will be released this Thursday, April 8 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Ascendant is directed by Antaine Furlong and stars Charlotte Best, Jonny Pasvolsky, Susan Prior, Alex Menglet, Justin Stewart Cotta and Tahlia Sturzaker. The movie folows a woman who gets kidnapped and is being held hostage in a high-speed elevator in a 120-floor building in Shanghai, where she begins to realize she has incredible powers within. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rising Wolf’ (‘Ascendant’) Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Antaine Furlong, Ascendant, David Hirschfelder, Rising Wolf, score, Soundtrack
Don Davis’ Complete ‘The Matrix’ Score to Be Released
Posted: April 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Don Davis, score, Soundtrack, The Matrix
Varèse Sarabande Records has announced a number of new soundtrack LPs on Record Store Day 2021’s newly announced release dates, including a deluxe 3-LP set for the 1999 sci-fi classic The Matrix directed by the Wachowski siblings and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. The album features the complete score from the film composed and conducted by Don Davis (The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Jurassic Park 3, Bound). The release is pressed on Glitter-Infused Green vinyl, expanded to 44 tracks, and housed in a new art design, and also includes classic film stills and an exclusive new interview with the composer. The soundtrack will be available to order on Record Store Day, June 12. Read the rest of this entry »
G-Eazy Scoring Jimmy Giannopolous’ ’18 & Over’
Posted: April 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 18 & Over, G-Eazy, Jimmy Giannopolous
Rapper/record producer G-Eazy has made his film scoring debut on the upcoming indie horror thriller 18 & Over. The film is directed by Jimmy Giannopolous and stars Ashley Benson, Jon Foster, Jake Weary, Sky Ferreira, Luis Guzman, Duke Nicholson, Winnie Harlow, A$AP Nast, John Robinson, Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson. G-Eazy also appears in the pandemic-inspired movie, which takes place when quarantine leads to a night of terror. Giannopolous co-wrote the screenplay with Diomedes Raul Bermudez who is also producing the project with Benson, Siena Oberman (Mainstream, The Sinners) and Cassius Corrigan. Read the rest of this entry »
Katey Sagal’s ‘Life To Fix’ Cover from ABC’s ‘Rebel’ Released
Posted: April 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ABC, Katey Sagal, Rebel
American Broadcasting Music has released the cover version of The Record Company’s Life To Fix from the new ABC drama Rebel. The track (originally written by Alex Stiff, Marc Cazorla & Chris Vos) is performed by the show’s star Katey Sagal. Bob Thiele has produced the song, which is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Rebel is created by Krista Vernoff and also stars John Corbett, James Lesure, Lex Scott Davis, Ariela Barer, Tamala Jones, Kevin Zegers, Sam Palladio and Andy Garcia. Read the rest of this entry »
Zoë Poledouris & Angel Roché Jr. to Score John D. Eraklis’ ‘Pierre the Pigeon-Hawk’
Posted: April 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Angel Roché Jr., John D. Eraklis, Pierre the Pigeon-Hawk, Zoë Poledouris
Zoë Poledouris & Angel Roché Jr. are teaming up to score the upcoming animated comedy Pierre the Pigeon-Hawk. The film marks the directorial debut of producer John D. Eraklis (Igor) and features the voices of will.i.am, Snoop Dogg, Jennifer Hudson, Whoopi Goldberg, Howie Mandel, Kenan Thompson, Jennifer Coolidge, Luis Guzman, Domenick Lombardozzi, Paul Blackthorne, Jamal Trulove, Evan Ross and Ashley Simpson. The movie is set in New York City and follows the title character who was born out of forbidden love between a hawk and a pigeon and – rejected by both communities – sets out on an adventure to find himself and makes some new friends along the way. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for MagentaTV’s ‘Wild Republic’ to Be Released
Posted: April 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Hauschka, MagentaTV, score, Soundtrack, Volker Bertelmann, Wild Republic
Needlewood Records will release a soundtrack album for the German TV series Wild Republic. The album features the show’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Your Honor, Hotel Mumbai, Adrift, Ammonite, The Old Guard, Patrick Melrose). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 15 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out the track list. Wild Republic is created by Jan Martin Scharf, Arne Nolting & Klaus Wolfertstetter and stars Emma Drogunova, Merlin Rose, Aaron Altaras, Béla Gabor Lenz and Maria Dragus. The 8-part drama directed by Markus Goller & Lennart Ruff follows a group of young offenders who take refuge in the high Alps after a tragic incident during their resocialization project and form a new society – according to their own laws. Read the rest of this entry »
Jason Hill Scoring Netflix’s ‘This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist’
Posted: April 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Colin Barnicle, Jason Hill, Netflix, This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist
Jason Hill (Mindhunter, Fyre, The Confession Killer) has composed the original score for the new Netflix docu-series This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist. The show is directed by Colin Barnicle and focuses on the biggest art heist in history over St. Patrick’s Day weekend in 1990, when two men dressed as cops conned their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and steal a fortune in art. The 4-parter covers the leads, dead ends, lucky breaks and speculations that characterized the investigation of this still unsolved mystery. Read the rest of this entry »
Randy Edelman’s ‘Ghostbusters II’ Score to Be Released
Posted: April 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Ivan Reitman, Randy Edelman, score, Soundtrack
Sony Masterworks will release the first-ever score album for the 1989 comedy Ghostbusters II directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts. The album features the film’s original score by Randy Edelman (Dragonheart, xXx, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Kindergarten Cop, While You Were Sleeping, Gettysburg). No release date has been confirmed yet, but the soundtrack is currently listed to be released on June 11, 2021 in various international music stores. Check back on this page for the pre-order links. MCA Records has previously released the original 1989 soundtrack album featuring the songs from the movie and Sony Classical has released a new album featuring Elmer Bernstein’s score from the original Ghostbusters film in 2019. Read the rest of this entry »
Emile Mosseri to Score Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘When You Finish Saving the World’
Posted: April 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Emile Mosseri, Jesse Eisenberg, When You Finish Saving the World
Emile Mosseri (Minari, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Kajillionaire, Homecoming) has revealed in a recent interview with Next Best Picture that he is set to compose the music for actor Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut When You Finish Saving the World. The film is written and directed by Eisenberg and stars Julianne Moore, Finn Wolfhard, Alisha Boe and Billy Bryk. The comedy drama is based on Eisenberg’s Audible project of the same title, which was told from the perspective of three family members, at different stages of their lives. The movie adaptation is said to focus on the mother/son relationship. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for YouTube Premium/Amazon Series ‘Wayne’ Released
Posted: April 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, score, Soundtrack, Steven Argila, Wayne, YouTube Premium
Steven Argila (Mad About You, Max Steel, Son of the South, Basmati Blues) has released a soundtrack album for the YouTube Premium series Wayne. The album features selections of the composer’s original score from the show and is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music stores), where you can also check out audio samples. Wayne is created by Shawn Simmons and stars Mark McKenna and Ciara Bravo. The comedy follows a 16 year-old Dirty Harry with a heart of gold as he sets out on a small two stroke road bike from Boston to Florida with his new friend to get back their 79′ Trans-Am that was stolen from his father before he died. Read the rest of this entry »
