Endeavor Content & Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ anthology series Roar. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, Munich: The Edge of War, Vita & Virginia, The Phantom of the Open, Vanity Fair, The Split). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 15 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Roar is created by Liz Flahive & Carly Mensch based on the book by best-selling author Cecelia Ahern and stars Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, Issa Rae, Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Fivel Stewart, Meera Syal and Kara Hayward.
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‘The Mute Man of Sardinia’ Soundtrack Released
Radiofandango has released a soundtrack album for the Italian drama The Mute Man of Sardinia (Il muto di Gallura). The album features the film’s original music composed by Paolo Baldini DubFiles. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. The Mute Man of Sardinia is co-written and directed by Matteo Fresi and stars Andrea Arcangeli, Marco Bullitta, Giovanni Carroni and Syama Rayner. The movie revolves around the feud between the Vasa and Mamia families that led to the death of more than 70 people in mid-19th century Sardinia, from the perspective of Bastiano Tansu, a death-mute since birth who turned into a feared assassin, driven into a killing frenzy following his brother’s murder.
Blake Neely Scoring Ryan White’s ‘Good Night Oppy’
Composer Blake Neely (The Flight Attendant, Arrow, The Pacific, Greyhound The Flash, You) is reteaming with director Ryan White on the upcoming documentary Good Night Oppy. The film tells the story of Opportunity, one of NASA’s twin Mars Exploration Rovers, and the connection that grew between the robotic explorer and the people who built and ran it. Industrial Light & Magic created the project’s visual effects.
‘Peace by Chocolate’ Soundtrack Album Details
Everlight Entertainment will release a soundtrack album for the Canadian drama Peace by Chocolate. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Bertok (For the Love of George, The Wedding Invitation, Botero). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 29 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Peace by Chocolate is co-written and directed by Jonathan Keijser and stars Hatem Ali, Ayham Abou Ammar, Mark Camacho, Yara Sabri and Kathryn Kirkpatrick. The movie tells the story of a young Syrian refugee who struggles to settle into his new Canadian small-town life and is caught between following his dream to become a doctor and preserving his family’s chocolate-making legacy.
Abel Korzeniowski to Score Chinonye Chukwu’s ‘Till’
Abel Korzeniowski (A Single Man, Nocturnal Animals, W.E., The Courier, The Nun, Romeo and Juliet) has been tapped to score the upcoming biographical drama Till. The film is directed by Chinonye Chukwu (Clemency) and stars Danielle Deadwyler, Whoopi Goldberg, Haley Bennett, Frankie Faison, Jalyn Hall, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, Kevin Carroll, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson and Roger Guenveur Smith. The movie tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son Emmett Louis Till became a galvanizing moment that helped lead to the creation of the civil rights movement.
T Bone Burnett to Compose Music for Lily Rabe’s & Hamish Linklater’s ‘Downtown Owl’
Deadline is reporting that T Bone Burnett (Inside Llewyn Davis, Crazy Heart, True Detective, Walk the Line) is attached to compose music for a film adaptation of Chuck Klosterman’s novel Downtown Owl. The film is directed by actors Lily Rabe & Hamish Linklater and stars Rabe herself, Ed Harris Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wittrock, Jack Dylan Grazer and August Blanco Rosenstein. The drama is set in rural North Dakota in 1983 and revolves around a high school English teacher whose presence upends the lives of locals just in time for a white-out blizzard for the ages.
‘Nightride’ Soundtrack Album Announced
PKR will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Nightride. The album features the film’s original music composed by DJ and electronic music artist Phil Kieran who has made his feature scoring debut on the project. The soundtrack will be released on all major digital music platforms on May 6. Three first tracks can already be checked out on Bandcamp. Nightride is directed by Stephen Fingleton and stars Moe Dunford andJoana Ribeiro. The movie is set in Belfast over a single night and follows a small-time dealer who tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark and – when the handover goes wrong – has to race against the clock to find his missing product and secure a new buyer before the loan shark finds him.
Stephen Rennicks Scoring Hulu’s & BBC’s ‘Conversations with Friends’
Stephen Rennicks is scoring the upcoming Hulu limited series Conversations with Friends. The show is based on Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel of the same name and stars Alison Oliver, Joe Alwyn, Sasha Lane and Jemima Kirke. The drama centers on a 21-year old college student as she navigates a series of relationships that force her to confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time. Ed Guiney (The Favourite, The Lobster), Emma Norton (Rosie, The Souvenir: Part II) and Andrew Lowe (The Guard, Ripper Street) are executive producing the Element Pictures production with Lenny Abrahamson who also directed multiple episodes.
‘Singing Jailbirds’ Soundtrack Released
Maneki & Arche Films have released a soundtrack album for the French prison drama Singing Jailbirds (À l’ombre des filles). The album features the film’s original music composed by Arthur Simonini (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Hibou, Tendre et saignant). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Singing Jailbirds is written and directed by Etienne Comar (Django) and stars Alex Lutz, Agnès Jaoui, Veerle Baetens, Hafsia Herzi, Marie Berto, Fatima Berriah and Anna Najder. The movie is set over a summer and follows a renowned singer who agrees to give singing lessons in a women’s prison and has to deal with with the prisoner’s unpredictable temperaments.
Ian Hultquist and Drum & Lace Scoring Wanuri Kahiu’s Netflix Film ‘Plus/Minus’
Ian Hultquist and Drum & Lace (Dickinson, Night Teeth, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Gospel According to André, Good Girls) have recently been scoring the upcoming Netflix original film Plus/Minus. The movie is directed by Wanuri Kahiu (Rafiki) and stars Lili Reinhart, Danny Ramirez, Luke Wilson, Nia Long, David Corenswet, Aisha Dee and Andrea Savage. The romantic comedy follows a young woman whose life diverges into two parallel realities on the eve of her college graduation; one in which she becomes pregnant and must navigate motherhood in her Texas hometown, the other in which she moves to Los Angeles to pursue her career.