The City Light Symphony Orchestra, founded in Lucerne in 2018, has announced its debut album with the 100-minute program Spotlight on John Williams. The 90-piece orchestra recorded a selection of classic film scores by Williams in the concert hall of the KKL Luzern in September 2020 – with a deliberate focus on his great stylistic diversity. The music is conducted by Kevin Griffiths and the featured soloists include Valentine Michaud, Reinhold Friedrich and Paul Meyer. Pirmin Zängerle is producing the record, which will be released digitally on April 9, 2021 by Prospero Classical (visit Amazon to pre-order) and as a 2-CD set overseas on the same day and internationally in May. Listen to several tracks from the album after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spotlight on John Williams’ Album Announced
Posted: March 24, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Williams
‘Dark Web: Cicada 3301’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 24, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Ritchson, Dark Web: Cicada 3301, score, Sergei Stern, Soundtrack
Sergei Stern (AK-47, The Farm, Queen of Spades: Through the Looking Glass) has released a soundtrack album for the cyber thriller Dark Web: Cicada 3301. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Dark Web: Cicada 3301 is co-written and directed by Alan Ritchson and stars Jack Kesy, Conor Leslie, Ritchson himself, Ron Funches and Andreas Apergis. The movie follows a hacker and his friends who discover a mysterious online treasure hunt and must elude aggressive NSA agents as they race to find the clues and claim the prize. Read the rest of this entry »
Nicholas Britell to Score Adam McKay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’
Posted: March 24, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam McKay, Don't Look Up, Netflix, Nicholas Britell
Composer Nicholas Britell is set to reteam with director Adam McKay on the upcoming Netflix original film Don’t Look Up. The movie is written and directed by McKay (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Other Guys) and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ariana Grande, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Timothée Chalamet, Himesh Patel, Chris Evans, Mark Rylance, Scott Mescudi, Matthew Perry, Tomer Sisley, Tyler Perry, Melanie Lynskey, Ron Perlman and Michael Chiklis. The comedy tells the story of two low-level astronomers who must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet earth. Read the rest of this entry »
Questlove to Serve as Oscars Musical Director
Posted: March 24, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Questlove
Oscars show producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh announced today that Questlove has joined the Oscars production team as the show’s musical director. He follows Bill Conti, Marc Shaiman, William Ross, Harold Wheeler, Rickey Minor, among others who have previously been selected as music directors. Questlove who best known as a drummer, DJ, producer, author and founding member of hip hop group The Roots is an Academy member himself and has performed on the Oscars previously. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Beast Beast’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 24, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Beast Beast, Danny Madden, Robert Allaire, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the indie coming-of-age drama Beast Beast. The album features the film’s original score composed by director Danny Madden and additional music by Robert Allaire (Too Late, Some Kind of Hate). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music store to stream/download the album and to check out audio samples. Beast Beast is written and directed by Madden and stars Shirley Chen, Will Madden, Jose Angeles, Courtney Dietz and Daniel Rashid. The movie executive produced by Alec Baldwin is set in a quiet southern town and centers on a popular and charismatic theatre kid who finds herself increasingly drawn to a new student in her high school who catches her attention with his impressive skating videos. Read the rest of this entry »
Jon Ekstrand Scoring Charlotte Sieling’s ‘Margrete – Queen of the North’
Posted: March 24, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Charlotte Sieling, Jon Ekstrand, Margrete – Queen of the North, Margrete den første
Jon Ekstrand (Life, Easy Money, Child 44, Borg vs. McEnroe, Queen of Hearts, I Am Greta) has recently been recording his score for the upcoming historical drama Margrete – Queen of the North (Margrete den første). The film is directed by Charlotte Sieling (The Man) and stars Trine Dyrholm in the title role of Margrete I of Denmark, who is considered the most powerful ruler in Scandinavian history and gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a peaceful union. Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen, Jakob Oftebro, Bjørn Floberg, Magnus Krepper and Thomas W. Gabrielsson are co-starring. Read the rest of this entry »
‘One and the Same’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 23, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Felipe Cisneros, Kasson Crooker, One and the Same, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the sci-fi thriller One and the Same. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kasson Crooker. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. One and the Same is written and directed by Felipe Cisneros and stars Glenn Plummer, Makena Taylor, Acoryé White and Ignacyo Matynia. The movie follows a young woman who is invited to a secret facility, where she discovers an experiment beyond space and time and – after uncovering her own past self -embarks on a malevolent path for justice against the ex-con who killed him. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Cardoni to Score Starz’s ‘Heels’
Posted: March 23, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Heels, Jeff Cardoni, Michael Waldron, Starz
Jeff Cardoni (Silicon Valley, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, CSI: Miami, Just Friends) has been hired to score the upcoming Starz original series Heels. The show is created by by Michael Waldron (Loki) and stars Stephen Amell, Alexander Ludwig, Alison Luff, Kelli Berglund, Chris Bauer, Allen Maldonado, Mary McCormack and two-time Super Bowl champion James Harrison. The drama is set in a close-knit Georgia community and follows a family-owned wrestling promotion as two brothers and rivals war over their late father’s legacy. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Four Good Days’ to Feature Original Song ‘Somehow You Do’ by Diane Warren & Reba McEntire
Posted: March 23, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Diane Warren, Four Good Days, Reba McEntire, Rodrigo Garcia
Academy Award nominee Diane Warren has written an original song for the new drama Four Good Days. The track, entitled Somehow You Do, is performed by Reba McEntire and is featured in the film directed by Rodrigo García and starring Mila Kunis, Glenn Close and Stephen Root. Bonnie Greenberg serves as the project’s executive music producer. Listen to a first clip from the song in the trailer embedded after the jump. The movie (scored by Edward Shearmur) tells the story of a long-estranged mother and daughter who navigate the most difficult four days of their lives together. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Hart Scoring Augustine Frizzell’s ‘The Last Letter from Your Lover’
Posted: March 23, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Augustine Frizzell, Daniel Hart, Netflix, The Last Letter from Your Lover
Daniel Hart (Pete’s Dragon, A Ghost Story, The Old Man and the Gun, Strange Angel, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) has composed the original score for the upcoming romantic drama The Last Letter from Your Lover. The film is directed by Augustine Frizzell (Never Goin’ Back) and stars Felicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner, Nabhaan Rizwan, Joe Alwyn and Ncuti Gatwa. The movie is based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Jojo Moyes and follows a young journalist in contemporary London who uncovers a series of love letters recounting a star-crossed affair in the 1960s. Nick Payne (The Sense of an Ending) and Esta Spalding (On Becoming a God in Central Florida) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
