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 »
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
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 »
Tom Howe to Score ‘The Amazing Maurice’ Animated Movie
Posted: April 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: The Amazing Maurice, Toby Genkel, Tom Howe
Tom Howe (A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Early Man, Professor Marston & the Wonder Women, Charming) has been tapped to score the upcoming animated feature The Amazing Maurice. The film is directed by Toby Genkel (All Creatures Big And Small, Two by Two: Overboard!), co-directed by Florian Westermann and features the voices of Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, Himesh Patel, David Thewlis, Gemma Arterton and Hugh Bonneville. The movie is based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents and a centers on streetwise cat who leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a dumb-looking kid) on a nice little earner. Terry Rossio (Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Mask of Zorro) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Drifters’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: April 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Bond, score, Soundtrack, The Drifters, Zero VU
Air-Edel Records will release a soundtrack album for the British romantic drama The Drifters. The album features the film’s original music composed by Zero VU (The Drifters, Tuff Money, The Cockfields). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 9 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. The Drifters is written and directed by Ben Bond and stars Lucie Bourdeu and Jonathan Ajay. The movie is set in a post-Brexit United Kingdom and follows an African migrant and a French waitress who attempt to find home in one another and escape the labels that inevitably leave them homeless. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Company Business’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Company Business, Michael Kamen, Nicholas Meyer, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1991 action comedy Company Business written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The 2-CD set features the original score from the MGM production composed and conducted by Michael Kamen (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, X-Men, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Band of Brothers, Brazil), including the content of the original 1991 soundtrack on the first disc and the score in film order (including around 10 minutes of previously unreleased music) on the second disc. The album is now available to order on Intrada’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples, and will also be available to order on Amazon within the next few days. Read the rest of this entry »
David Schwartz Scoring Peacock’s ‘Rutherford Falls’
Posted: April 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Schwartz, Michael Schur, Peacock, Rutherford Falls
David Schwartz (Arrested Development, Northern Exposure, Lady Dynamite, Veep, Standing Up, Falling Down) is co-scoring the new Peacock original series Rutherford Falls. The show is created by Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation, Master of None), Ed Helms & Sierra Teller Ornelas and stars Helms himself, Jana Schmieding, Michael Greyeyes, Jesse Leigh and Dustin Milligan. The comedy revolves around two lifelong best friends who find themselves at a crossroads – quite literally – when their sleepy town gets an unexpected wakeup call. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Doors’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Doors, John Beltran, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the sci-fi drama Doors. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Beltran. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Doors is directed by Saman Kesh, Jeff Desom & Dugan O’Neal and stars Josh Peck, Wilson Bethel, Kyp Malone and Lina Esco. The movie is set in a world where numerous mysterious alien “doors” appear around the globe that leads humanity to question their own existence and an altered reality as they attempt to enter them. Read the rest of this entry »
Fil Eisler to Score Phillip Noyce’s ‘Lakewood’
Posted: April 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fil Eisler, Lakewood, Phillip Noyce
Fil Eisler (Revenge, Empire, How to Be Single, UnReal, Superintelligence, Proud Mary, CHiPs) has been hired to score the upcoming thriller Lakewood. The film is directed by Phillip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger, Dead Calm, Salt) and stars Naomi Watts as a mother who desperately races against time to save her child as authorities place her small town on lockdown. Chris Sparling (Buried, Greenland) wrote the screenplay. Zack Schiller (Jane Got a Gun, The Babysitter) and David Boies are producing the project with Watts, Dylan Sellers (Footloose, Passenger 57) & Chris Parker (Palm Springs), Andrew Corkin (A Vigilante, Mercy), as well as Sparling & Alex Lalonde. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Charlatan’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 4, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Agnieszka Holland, Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz, Charlatan, Mary Komasa, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has announced a soundtrack album for the biographical drama Charlatan. The album features the film’s original music composed by Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz (In Darkness, Copying Beethoven, Rosemary’s Baby, Spoor, The Affair) & Mary Komasa. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 23 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Charlatan is directed by Agnieszka Holland and stars Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan and Juraj Loj. The movie, which was selected as the Czech entry and shortlisted in the Best International Film category at this year’s Academy Awards, tells the story of Jan Mikolášek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer who won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for “urinary diagnosis”. Read the rest of this entry »
