A soundtrack album will be released for the documentary Try Harder! The album features the film’s original music composed by Diana Salier (5 Blocks, Visitor’s Day). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, March 26 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Try Harder! is directed by Debbie Lum and explores the intersection of class, race & educational opportunity. The movie produced by Lum, Lou Nakasako & Nico Opper follows five kids at Lowell High School, the top public high school in San Francisco, trying to get into their dream college. The documentary premiered in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Try Harder!’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: March 17, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Debbie Lum, Diana Salier, score, Soundtrack, Try Harder!
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Mark Isham & Isabella Summers Scoring Netflix’s ‘Sex/Life’
Posted: March 17, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Isabella Summers, Mark Isham, Netflix, Sex/Life
Mark Isham (Crash, A River Runs Through It, Judas and the Black Messiah, Once Upon a Time, Miracle, The Accountant) & Isabella Summers (aka Isa Machine of Florence + the Machines) are reuniting to co-score the upcoming Netflix original series Sex/Life. The show is developed by Stacy Rukeyser (UnReal) based on BB Easton’s book of the same title and stars Sarah Shahi, Mike Vogel, Adam Demos and Margaret Odette. The dramedy follows a suburban mother of two as she takes a fantasy-charged trip down memory lane that sets her very married present on a collision course with her wild-child past. Read the rest of this entry »
Amazon’s ‘Them’ to Feature Music by Mark Korven
Posted: March 17, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Mark Korven, Them
Mark Korven (The Witch, The Lighthouse, Cube, In the Tall Grass, The Terror: Infamy, Our House) is the composer of the upcoming Amazon original anthology series Them. The show is created by Little Marvin and stars Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Alison Pill, Melody Hurd, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Ryan Kwanten. The first season is set in the 1950s and centers around a Black family who move from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood during the period known as The Great Migration, when their idyllic home becomes ground zero where malevolent forces threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them. Read the rest of this entry »
Peter Raeburn Scoring Robert Pulcini’s & Shari Springer Berman’s Netflix Film ‘Things Heard & Seen’
Posted: March 17, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Netflix, Peter Raeburn, Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, Things Heard and Seen
Peter Raeburn (Woodshock, Nancy, Tell Me Your Secrets, Photograph, Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism) has composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix original film Things Heard & Seen. The movie is written and directed by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman (American Splendor, Cinema Verite) and stars Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Rhea Seehorn, Alex Neustaedter and F. Murray Abraham. The thriller is based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundange and revolves around a young woman who discovers that both her husband and their new home harbor sinister secrets after they leave Manhattan for small-town life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Los Lobos’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: March 16, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: HBO Max, Kenji Kishi, Los Lobos, Samuel Kishi, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the Mexican drama Los Lobos. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kenji Kishi (The Blue Years, Somos Mari Pepa). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 2 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Los Lobos is co-written and directed by Samuel Kishi and stars Maximiliano Najar Marquez, Leonardo Najar Marquez, Martha Reyes Arias, Cici Lau and Jhon T. Lau. The movie follows two young boys who have come to the U.S. from Mexico with their mother dream of going to Disneyland. 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
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 »
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 »
