Composer Cho Young-wuk is reuniting with director Park Chan-wook on the new HBO limited series The Sympathizer. The show is based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title and stars Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Vy Le, Phanxine, Ky Duyen, Kieu Chinh, Alan Trong, Duy Nguyen and Sandra Oh. The 7-parter centers on the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his new life as a refugee in Los Angeles, where he learns that his spying days aren’t over. Read the rest of this entry »
Cho Young-wuk Scoring HBO’s ‘The Sympathizer’
Posted: April 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cho Young Wuk, HBO, The Sympathizer
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 12, 2024)
Posted: April 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anna Drubich, Arcadian, Ben Salisbury, Civil War, Daniel Davies, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Geoff Barrow, Jonathan Scott Friedman, Josh Martin, Kristin Gundred, Oliver Coates, Sasquatch Sunset, Sting, Sweet Dreams, The Absence of Eden, The Octopus Project
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the dystopian war drama Civil War written and directed by Alex Garland and starring Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Nick Offerman and Stephen McKinley Henderson. The film’s original music is composed by Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina, Devs, Luce, Annihilation, Archive 81, Men, Hanna, Free Fire). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be released next Friday, April 19. Check back on this page for the full album details, click here to check out the project’s music team credits and visit our previous article to learn more about the A24 release.
Also opening wide is the Australian horror thriller Sting written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner and starring Ryan Corr, Alyla Browne, Jermaine Fowler, Penelope Mitchell, Noni Hazelhurst, Robyn Nevin, Danny Kim and Silvia Colloca. Anna Drubich (Barbarian, Fear Street Part 3: 1666, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Werewolves Within) has composed the film’s original music. MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being distributed in the U.S. by Well Go USA Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
Jason Hill Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Dark Matter’
Posted: April 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Blake Crouch, Dark Matter, Jason Hill
Jason Hill (Mindhunter, The Confession Killer, City on Fire, Voir, Extrapolations, Love, Death & Robots) is scoring the upcoming Apple TV+ original series Dark Matter. The show is created by Blake Crouch (Good Behavior, Wayward Pines) based on his bestselling book of the same title and stars Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Dayo Okeniyi, Jimmi Simpson and Oakes Fegley. The 9-part sci-fi thriller centers on a physicist, professor and family man who — one night while walking home in Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life and has to try to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. Read the rest of this entry »
Meghan Trainor’s & Jimmy Fallon’s Original Song ‘Sweet Morning Heat’ from Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Unfrosted’ Released
Posted: April 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Wyatt, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Mark Ronson, Meghan Trainor, Netflix, Unfrosted
Netflix Music has released the original song Sweet Morning Heat from the streamer’s original film Unfrosted. The track is produced by Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt (Barbie) and co-written (with Ronson, Wyatt, Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Feresten and Maxime & Clément Picard) and performed by Meghan Trainor & Jimmy Fallon. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the song and also listen to the track after the jump. A full soundtrack album featuring Christophe Beck’s original score from the movie will be released in the coming weeks. Unfrosted is co-written directed by Seinfeld and stars Seinfeld himself, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Max Greenfield, Amy Schumer, Christian Slater and James Marsden. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Half Baked: Totally High’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Haim Mazar, Half Baked: Totally High, Michael Tiddes, score, Soundtrack
Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album for the comedy Half Baked: Totally High. The album features the film’s original score composed by Haim Mazar (The Iceman, Sneakerheads, The Taking of Deborah Logan, Woke, Desperation Road, I Am Wrath). Also included are songs by Pat Savii, Jeane Marie and Cade Ellis. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Half Baked: Totally High is directed by Michael Tiddes and stars Dexter Darden, Moses Storm, Ramona Young, David Koechner, Harland Williams, Frankie Muniz, Rachel True, Joel Courtney, Ash Santos, Jeffrey Ross, Justin Miles, Justin Hires and Jeff Ross. The sequel to the 1998 cult movie follows three stoners who stumble across a strain of marijuana and blaze a trail across L.A.’s underground pot market, destroying the business of a ruthless and now very unhappy drug lord. Read the rest of this entry »
Keith Urban’s & Snoop Dogg’s Original Song ‘Let It Roll’ from ‘The Garfield Movie’ Released
Posted: April 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Keith Urban, Mark Dindal, Snoop Dogg, The Garfield Movive
Republic Records Kids & Family and ASG Records have released the original song Let It Roll from the animated feature The Garfield Movie. The track is co-written (with Michael Hodges, Kayla Morrison, Gerald Trottman & Ghian Wright) and performed by Keith Urban & Snoop Dogg and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the track after the jump. A full soundtrack album featuring more songs and three tracks from John Debney’s original score will be coming out next month. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Baby Reindeer’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: April 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Baby Reindeer, Evgueni Galperine, Netflix, Richard Gadd, Sacha Galperine, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack EP for the British Netflix original series Baby Reindeer. The 6-track EP features selections of the show’s original music composed by Evgueni Galperine & Sacha Galperine (The Undoing, Scenes from a Marriage, Loveless, Radioactive, Wizard of Lies, Happening, The Family). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ first three tracks below. Baby Reindeer is created by Richard Gadd and stars Gadd himself, Jessica Gunning, Tom Goodman-Hill and Nava Mau. The 8-part dramedy follows a struggling comedian whose act of kindness to a vulnerable woman sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their lives. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Challengers [MIXED]’ Special DJ Mix by Boys Noize Announced
Posted: April 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Atticus Ross, Boys Noize, Challengers, Luca Guadagnino, score, Soundtrack, Trent Reznor
Milan Records has announced Challengers [MIXED], a special mix featuring music from the score to Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers composed by Academy Award winners Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Soul, Watchmen, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mank), newly reworked by renowned DJ and producer Boys Noize who was hand-selected by the duo to create a continuous DJ set. Included on the record is Compress / Repress, an original vocal song featuring lyrics written by Guadagnino. The album is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms. Challengers starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor & Mike Faist follows a former tennis prodigy turned coach married to a champion on a losing streak whose strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against a washed-up player who happens to be her former boyfriend. Read the rest of this entry »
‘What Jennifer Did’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jenny Popplewell, Nainita Desai, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, What Jennifer Did
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary What Jennifer Did. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nainita Desai (For Sama, The Deepest Breath, Nautilus, Crossfire, The Reason I Jump, The Tower, Funny Woman). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes and most other major digital music services.Also check out the composer’s title track after the jump. What Jennifer Did is directed by Jenny Popplewell and centers on a violent crime that shook a quiet Canadian town, when a group of intruders broke into the home of Vietnamese immigrants and leave a traumatized daughter as the only witness. The movie uses police interrogation footage and testimony from those involved to unravel a web of complexities that no one saw coming. Read the rest of this entry »
David Fleming Scoring Ron Howard’s Disney+ Documentary ‘Jim Henson Idea Man’
Posted: April 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Fleming, Disney Plius, Jim Henson Idea Man, Ron Howard
David Fleming (The Last of Us, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Unforgivable, Damsel, Blue Planet II, Hillbilly Elegy, The Night Logan Woke Up) has composed the original score for the upcoming Disney+ original documentary Jim Henson Idea Man. The film is directed by Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind) and explores the creative visionary’s mind, from his early years puppeteering on local television to the worldwide success of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and beyond. The movie features new interviews with Henson’s closest collaborators and children, as well as never-before-seen materials from his personal archives. Read the rest of this entry »
