La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1989 slasher movie Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan directed by Rob Hedden and starring Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves, Peter Mark Richman and Kane Hodder. The album features the film’s original music composed and performed by Fred Mollin (Fast Company, Screwballs II) who also co-scored the previous installment in the series (Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood) with Harry Manfredini. Also included are four previously unreleased songs from the movie from Mollin’s and songwriter Stan Meissner’s personal archives. Visit the label’s official website for the full album details and to order the CD, which is limited to 2,000 copies. Read the rest of this entry »
New Soundtrack Album for ‘Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan’ Announced
Posted: March 16, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Fred Mollin, Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Rob Hedden, score, Soundtrack
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John Debney Scoring Disney+’s ‘The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’
Posted: March 16, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, John Debney, Steven Brill, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2, The Jungle Book, Elf, Hocus Pocus, The Emperor’s New Groove) is scoring the new Disney+ original series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. The show is based on the 1992 The Mighty Ducks feature film (scored by David Newman) and stars Lauren Graham, Emilio Estevez, Brady Noon, Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, Luke Islam, Kiefer O’Reilly, Taegen Burns, Bella Higginbotham and DJ Watts. The drama is set in present day Minnesota and follows a 12-year old boy who failed to make the cut to join the Mighty Ducks junior hockey team and is encouraged by his mother to form a new team of underdogs with help from Gordon Bombay, the Ducks’ original coach. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Time Tunnel’ Soundtrack Collection Announced
Posted: March 16, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: John Williams, Lyn Murray, Paul Sawtell, score, Soundtrack, The Time Tunnel
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 60s sci-fi series The Time Tunnel created by Irwin Allen and starring James Darren, Robert Colbert, Whit Bissell, John Zaremba and Lee Meriwether. The first volume in The Time Tunnel soundtrack collection features the original music from several episodes of the show composed by John Williams (as Johnny Williams) (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Jurassic Park), Lyn Murray (To Catch a Thief, Gunsmoke), Paul Sawtell (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Jack the Giant Killer) and Robert Drasnin (Mission: Impossible, Lost in Space). The 3-CD set, which is limited to 1,000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full album details and listen to audio samples.
Neil Davidge Scoring National Geographic’s ‘Earth Moods’
Posted: March 16, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, Earth Moods, National Geographic, Neil Davidge
Neil Davidge (Unleashed, Push, Halo 4, Monsters: Dark Continent, Britannia, Hard Sun, Good People) has composed the original music for National Geographic’s upcoming short-form visual series Earth Moods. The show is produced and edited by Ryan Fouss and takes viewers on the ultimate retreat – transporting them to a vast array of colorful and calming corners of the world. Over five episodes, viewers travel to blue glaciers, arid deserts, lush rainforests and pulsating metropolises to escape from the cacophony of everyday life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ku’damm 63’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: March 16, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Karim Sebastian Elias, Ku'damm 63, score, Soundtrack
Bavaria Sonor Records will release a soundtrack album for the German mini-series Ku’damm 63. The album features the show’s original music composed by Karim Sebastian Elias (Treasure Island, Saudi Runaway, Of Fathers and Sons, Siegfried) and performed by the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester . The soundtrack will be released digitally this coming Friday, March 19 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Ku’damm 63 created by Annette Hess is the followup to 2016’s Ku’damm 56 and 2018’s Ku’damm 59 and tells the story of Germany’s halting evolution toward larger justice and liberty told through the loves, hard-won freedoms and suffering of three sisters. Read the rest of this entry »
Marcelo Zarvos Scoring Antoine Fuqua’s HBO Documentary ‘The Day Sports Stood Still’
Posted: March 15, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Antoine Fuqua, HBO, Marcelo Zarvos, The Day Sports Stood Still
Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, The Affair, Wonder, Ray Donovan, The Good Shepherd, Enough Said, The Loudest Voice) has recently scored the new HBO Sports documentary The Day Sports Stood Still. The film is directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer) and tells the story of the unprecedented sports shutdown in March of 2020 and the remarkable turn of events that followed. The movie chronicles the abrupt stoppage, athletes’ prominent role in the cultural reckoning on racial injustices that escalated during the pandemic, and the complex return to competition in the summer and fall. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hi, Mom’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 15, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Fei Peng, Hi Mom, Jia Ling, score, Soundtrack
Ruyi Pictures has released a soundtrack album for the Chinese comedy Hi, Mom. The album features the film’s original music composed by Fei Peng (Bleeding Steel, Lost in Hong Kong, Lost in Russia, Hello Mr. Billionaire). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music stores), where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Hi, Mom is co-written and directed by Jia Ling and stars Jia Ling, Shen Teng, Chen He and Zhang Xiaofei. The movie centers on a woman who travels back in time to befriend her own mother in an attempt to make her life better. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Willis Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Schmigadoon!’
Posted: March 15, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Christopher Willis, Cinco Paul, Schmigadoon!
Christopher Willis (The Death of Stalin, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Veep, The Lion Guard) is composing the underscore for the upcoming Apple TV+ original series Schmigadoon! The musical comedy is co-created by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio (Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets) and stars Cecily Strong, Keegan-Michael Key, Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Dove Cameron, Aaron Tveit, Ariana DeBose, Jaime Camil, Fred Armisen, Jane Krakowski and Ann Harada. The show follows a couple on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship when they discover a magical town in which everyone is living in a studio musical from the 1940s. Read the rest of this entry »
93rd Academy Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: March 15, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
‘400 Bullets’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 15, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 400 Bullets, Max Sweiry, score, Soundtrack, Tom Paton
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the action thriller 400 Bullets. The album features the film’s original music composed by Max Sweiry (Black Ops, Black Site, G-LOC, Dark Beacon). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio clips. 400 Bullets is written and directed by Tom Paton and stars Jean-Paul Ly, Andrew Lee Potts, James Warren, Adele Oni and Steven Blades .The movie follows a Ghurka Soldier left to guard a British military outpost in Afghanistan, when a Captain arrives looking for refuge from a group of Rogue Special Ops and a cell of heavily armed Taliban. Read the rest of this entry »
