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 »
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
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‘Held’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: March 23, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chris Lofing, Held, Richard Breakspear, score, Soundtrack, Travis Cluff
MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Held. The album features the film’s original music composed by Richard Breakspear (Prey). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 9, 2021 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Held is directed by Chris Lofing & Travis Cluff and stars Jill Awbrey (who also wrote the screenplay) and Bart Johnson. The movie follows a couple whose ailing marriage is put to the test when they are held hostage in an isolated remote high-end rental vacation by an unseen ‘Voice’ that commands their every move. Read the rest of this entry »
Adam Janota Bzowski to Score Andrew Cumming’s ‘The Origin’
Posted: March 23, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Janota Bzowski, Andrew Cumming, The Origin
Adam Janota Bzowski (Saint Maud) has been tapped to score the upcoming British horror movie The Origin. The Stone Age-set film is directed by Andrew Cumming (Clique) and stars Chuku Modu, Kit Young, Iola Evans, Safia Oakley-Green, Arno Lüning and Luna Mwezi. No plot details have been announced yet. Ruth Greenberg wrote the screenplay. Oliver Kassman who collaborated with the composer on Rose Glass’ Saint Maud is producing the project for Escape Plan. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Soundtrack Release for ‘Face of a Fugitive’ Announced
Posted: March 22, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Face of a Fugitive, Jerry Goldsmith, Paul Wendkos, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1959 western Face of a Fugitive directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy and Dorothy Green. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Poltergeist, Gremlins, Patton, Chinatown, Basic Instinct, Planet of the Apes) and performed by the Columbia Pictures Orchestra. Visit the label’s official website for more information about the release, to check out audio samples and to order the CD. Read the rest of this entry »
Andrew Lockington & Michael White Scoring Brad Turner’s ‘Trigger Point’
Posted: March 22, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Lockington, Brad Turner, Michael White, Trigger Point
Andrew Lockington (San Andreas, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Rampage, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters) & Michael White (Aftermath) are co-scoring the upcoming thriller Trigger Point. The film is directed by Brad Turner (24, Helix, The Shannara Chronicles) and stars Barry Pepper, Colm Feore, Eve Harlow, Laura Vandervoort, Jayne Eastwood, Rainbow Sun Francks and Karen Robinson. The movie revolves around a disgraced U.S. operative who suffered memory loss at the hand of captors as he is dragged back into the deadly spy world when a colleague goes missing. Michael Vickerman (Tut) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Poison Rose’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 22, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aldo Shllaku, George Gallo, score, Soundtrack, The Poison Rose
Millennium Media Records has released a soundtrack album for the detective thriller The Poison Rose. The album features the film’s original music composed by Aldo Shllaku (The Comeback Trail, The Doorman, Downrange, Vanquish, Triumph) . The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The Poison Rose is directed by George Gallo and stars John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Famke Janssen, Ella Bleu Travolta, Robert Patrick and Brendan Fraser. The movie follows a troubled private eye whose latest case forces him to confront dangerous men, desirable women and his own dark past. Read the rest of this entry »
Rachel Portman Scoring Julie Cohen’s & Betsy West’s ‘Julia’
Posted: March 22, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Betsy West, Julia, Julie Cohen, Rachel Portman
Rachel Portman (The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Emma, The Manchurian Candidate, Never Let Me Go, Godmothered) has composed the original music for the upcoming documentary Julia. The film is directed by Julie Cohen & Betsy West (RBG, My Name Is Pauli Murray) and tells the story of the legendary cookbook author and television superstar Julia Childs who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women. The movie uses never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos and first-person narratives to trace Child’s path and her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nemesis’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: March 22, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chris Hurst, James Crow, Nemesis, Robert Geoffrey Hughes, score, Soundtrack, Talia Dean
Planets In Alignment will release a soundtrack album for the British crime thriller Nemesis. The album features the film’s original score composed by Chris Hurst & Robert Geoffrey Hughes (We Still Steal the Old Way, Tango One). The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 29 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A limited edition CD version will also be available to order on the same day. Also available now separately as a digital single is the title song from the movie performed by Talia Dean. Listen to the track after the jump. Nemesis is directed by James Crow and stars Billy Murray, Nick Moran, Frank Harper, Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott, Julian Glover and Bruce Payne. The Shogun Films production centers on an underworld kingpin whose return to London triggers a violent series of events as his murky past catches up with him. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 21, 2021)
Posted: March 21, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Week Away, Amazon, Andrea Boccadoro, Bad Trip, Benjamin Carson Backus, Danny Bensi, Dino Meneghin, Disney Plus, DOTA: Dragon's Blood, Genius: Aretha, HBO, HBO Max, Invincible, John Debney, John Paesano, Joseph Shirley, Keith Kenniff, Ludwig Göransson, Marcelo Zarvos, National Geographic, Netflix, Paul Haslinger, Raphael Saadiq, Saunder Jurriaans, Shudder, Terence Blanchard, The Day Sports Stood Still, The Irregulars, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, The Runaway Bunny, Tina, Violation
Premiering today is the the National Geographic event series Genius: Aretha created by Suzan-Lori Parks and starring Cynthia Erivo, Courtney B. Vance, Malcolm Barrett, Pauletta Washington, David Cross, Patrice Covington, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Steven Norfleet. The show’s original score is composed by Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Inside Man, Da 5 Bloods, Malcolm X). Raphael Saadiq (Lovecraft County, Insecure) serves as the project’s executive music producer and Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe have provided a new version of their Emmy Award-nominated main titles theme. Rhino Atlantic has released a first song from the drama last week. Click here for more details and check back on this page for more information about a full soundtrack release.
Premiering on Wednesday, March 24 is the HBO Sports documentary The Day Sports Stood Still directed by Antoine Fuqua and produced by Brian Grazer & Justin Wilkes about the unprecedented sports shutdown in March of 2020 and the remarkable turn of events that followed. Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, Wonder, Enough Said, The Affair, Ray Donovan, The Good Shepherd, The Loudest Voice) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our previous article to learn more about the movie, which will premiere on Wednesday on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max the following day. Read the rest of this entry »
Keefus Ciancia Scoring HBO Max’s ‘Made for Love’
Posted: March 21, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO Max, Keefus Ciancia, Made for Love
Keefus Ciancia (Killing Eve, London Spy, The Fall, Nashville, Diana, The Motel Life) is scoring the new HBO Max original series Made for Love. The show is based on the novel of the same title by Alissa Nutting and stars Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Dan Bakkedahl, Augusto Aguilera, Noma Dumezweni and Ray Romano. The comedy follows a thirty-something woman on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage who discovers that her husband has implanted a monitoring device in her brain, allowing him to track and watch her as she tries to regain her independence. Read the rest of this entry »
