Mark Isham (Crash, Once Upon a Time, A River Runs Through It, Miracle, Warrior, The Accountant) is the composer of the new HBO original series The Nevers. The show is created by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marvel’s The Avengers) and stars Laura Donnelly, Ann Skelly, Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Rochelle Neil, Eleanor Tomlinson, Amy Manson, Pip Torrens, Denis O’Hare, Zackary Momoh, Elizabeth Berrington, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Anna Devlin, Viola Prettejohn, Ella Smith, Nick Frost and Ben Chaplin. The sci-fi drama is set in the late 19th Century, when Victorian London is rocked to its foundations by a supernatural event which gives certain people – mostly women – abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Isham Scoring HBO’s ‘The Nevers’
Posted: March 31, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO, Joss Whedon, Mark Isham, The Nevers
‘Cardinal’ Season 4 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 31, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Cardinal, Hulu, score, Soundtrack, Todor Kobakov
Kobakov Music & Sienna Films have released the first soundtrack album for the Canadian series Cardinal. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s fourth season composed by Todor Kobakov (Born to Be Blue, The Samaritan, Tricksters, Backstabbing for Beginners, Sweetness in the Belly, Most Dangerous Game). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Cardinal is created by Aubrey Nealon and stars Billy Campbell, Karine Vanasse, Glen Gould, Eric Hicks, Kristen Thomson, Alanna Bale, James Downing, Zach Smadu and Eric Hicks. The crime drama based on Giles Blunt’s follows the titular detective and his partner as they investigate crimes in the fictional city of Algonquin Bay. Read the rest of this entry »
Nicholas Britell Scoring Craig Gillespie’s ‘Cruella’
Posted: March 31, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Gillespie, Cruella, Disney Plus, Nicholas Britell
Nicholas Britell (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Succession, The Big Short, Vice) has recently been scoring Disney’s upcoming family comedy drama Cruella. The film is directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya, Lars and the Real Girl, Million Dollar Arm) and stars Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser and Mark Strong. The movie based on the character from Disney’s 101 Dalmations is set in 1970s London and centers on young fashion designer Cruella de Vil as she becomes obsessed with dogs’ skins, especially Dalmatians, until she eventually becomes a ruthless and terrifying legend. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Shortcut’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 31, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alessio Liguori, Benjamin Burrell, score, Shortcut, Soundtrack
Ala Bianca Records has released a soundtrack album for the horror movie Shortcut. The album features the film’s original music composed by Benjamin Burrell. Visit Amazon to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. Shortcut is directed by Alessio Liguori and stars Andrei Claude, Jack Kane, Zack Sutcliffe and Sophie Jane Oliver. The Minerva Pictures production revolves around a group of five classmates trapped inside their school bus after a mysterious creature invades the road. The movie was released in theaters last fall by Gravitas Ventures and is now available on VOD. Read the rest of this entry »
Isobel Waller-Bridge to Score Christian Schwochow’s Netflix Film ‘Munich’
Posted: March 31, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christian Schwochow, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Munich, Netflix
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, Vita & Virginia, Vanity Fair, The Split, The ABC Murders) has been tapped to score the upcoming Netflix original film Munich. The spy thriller is directed by Christian Schwochow (Cracks in the Shell, The German Lesson) and stars Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, Jannis Niehwöhner, Sandra Hüller, Liv Lisa Fries, August Diehl, Erin Doherty and Martin Wuttke. The movie based on the book by Robert Harris is set in the run-up to World War II and centers on a British civil servant and a German diplomat who travel to Munich for the emergency Conference and find themselves at the centre of a web of political subterfuge and very real danger. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Loving Pablo’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Federico Jusid, Fernando León de Aranoa, Loving Pablo, score, Soundtrack
Termitas Records has released a soundtrack album for the biographical crime drama Loving Pablo. The album features the film’s original music composed by Federico Jusid (The Secret In Their Eyes, Kidnap, Watership Down, Life Itself, The Head, Misconduct). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Loving Pablo is co-written and directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and stars Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Peter Sarsgaard. The movie is based on Virginia Vallejo’s memoir Loving Pablo, Hating Escoba and tells the true story of drug lord Pablo Escobar and his passionate love affair with journalist Virginia Vallejo that led to his downfall. Read the rest of this entry »
Wendy & Lisa Scoring Freeform’s ‘Cruel Summer’
Posted: March 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cruel Summer, Freeform, Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin
Wendy Melvoin & Lisa Coleman (Heroes, Dangerous Minds, Nurse Jackie, Crossing Jordan) are scoring the new Freeform original series Cruel Summer. The show is created by Bert V. Royal (Easy A, Recovery Road) and stars Olivia Holt, Chiara Aurelia, Froy Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Michael Landes, Allius Barnes, Blake Lee and Brooklyn Sudano. The drama takes place over three summers in the 90s when a beautiful and popular teen goes missing, and follows a seemingly unrelated girl who transforms from a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town, eventually becoming the most despised person in America. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Honeydew’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: March 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Devereux Milburn, Honeydew, John Mehrmann, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the horror movie Honeydew. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Mehrmann (Loud Noises). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 16 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Honeydew is written and directed by Devereux Milburn and stars Sawyer Spielberg, Malin Barr and Barbara Kingsley. The movie centers a young couple who are forced to seek shelter in the home of an aging farmer and her peculiar son and soon begin having strange cravings and hallucinations. Read the rest of this entry »
Peter Nashel Scoring Tim Kirkby’s ‘Last Looks’
Posted: March 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Last Looks, Peter Nashel, Tim Kirkby
Peter Nashel (I, Tonya, Book Club, The Night Listener, Marco Polo, Totally Under Control, Bee Season) has composed the original score for the upcoming action thriller Last Looks. The film is directed by Tim Kirkby (Action Point, Brockmire) and stars Charlie Hunnam, Morena Baccarin, Mel Gibson, Dominic Monaghan, Eiza Gonzalez, Paul-Ben Victor, Jacob Scipio, Lucy Fry, Rupert Friend and Clancy Brown. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Howard Gould and follows a disgraced LAPD detective who has spent the past three years living off the grid, when he is reluctantly pulled back into his old life by a former lover in order to solve the murder of an eccentric celebrity’s wife. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Drop Zone’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: March 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Drop Zone, Hans Zimmer, John Badham, score, Soundtrack
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1994 action thriller Drop Zone directed by John Badham and starring Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler, Michael Jeter, Luca Bercovici and Kyle Secor. The album features the expanded score from the Paramount Pictures production composed by Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, The Dark Knight, Inception, Pirates of the Caribbean, Interstellar, Rain Man, Gladiator), as well as additional music by Nick Glennie-Smith and John Van Tongeren. The limited edition CD, which is limited to 1,500 copies, includes around 30 minutes of previously unreleased music and is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more details about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
