Maisie Music Publishing will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix docu-series Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer. The album features selections of the original score from the show composed by Brooke Blair & Will Blair (Green Room, Hold the Dark, The Informer, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Blue Ruin). Also included is the Night Stalker-inspired song Under Your Skin by moa. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 5 and will be available to stream/download here. Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer is directed by Tiller Russell and tells the true story of how one of the most notorious serial killers in American history was hunted down and brought to justice. Read the rest of this entry »

Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the comedy Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar. The album features the film’s original score composed by Christopher Lennertz (The Boys, Sausage Party, Lost in Space, Horrible Bosses, Agent Carter, Ride Along) & Dara Taylor (Echo Boomers, Colewell). Also included are the original songs I Love Boobies (performed by Richard Cheese, aka Mark Jonathan Davis), Palm Vista Hotel (performed by the film’s stars Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo) and Edgar’s Prayer (performed by Jamie Dornan feat. Amy Keys). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 12, 2021. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album. Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar is directed by Josh Greenbaum and stars Wiig & Mumolo (who also co-wrote the screenplay), Dornan and Damon Wayans. Read the rest of this entry »

Dubois Records will release a soundtrack album for the ITV drama Finding Alice. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Edmund Butt (Life on MarsOriginBancroft, Ashes to Ashes, Mistress). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 5 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other digital music stores. Finding Alice is created by Roger Goldby, Keeley Hawes & Simon Nye and stars Hawes herself, alongside Joanna Lumley, Nigel Havers, Gemma Jones, Jason Merrells, Isabella Pappas, Kenneth Cranham, Sharon Rooney and Rhashan Stone. The 6-part drama centers on a woman’s journey of grief, love and life after her partner falls down the stairs and dies soon after the couple move into the dream home he designed. Read the rest of this entry »

WaterTower Music will release a new soundtrack album for Patty Jenkins’ superhero movie Wonder Woman 1984, The album features eleven sketches written for the film by Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Inception, The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Interstellar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Man of Steel). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 5 and will be available to stream/download here. The label has previously released the original soundtrack album for the sequel in December. Wonder Woman 1984 starring Gal Gadot, Kristen Wiig, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Pedro Pascal and Connie Nielsen follows the title character as she is facing two all-new foes: Max Lord and The Cheetah. Read the rest of this entry »

BAFTA Awards Original Score Longlist Announced

Posted: February 4, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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bafta1The British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) today revealed the longlists for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2021. For this year’s Film Awards, a new longlisting initial round was introduced, resulting in three rounds of voting. Round One voting, which took place from January 12-26, produced the longlists in all categories announced today. Every category in this round was voted on by a craft chapter, opt-in chapter or jury, with the exception of Best Film which was voted for by all film voting members. The nominations are set to be announced on March 9 and the EE British Academy Film Awards will take place on April 11. Read the rest of this entry »

The details of the fourth soundtrack album for Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series WandaVision have been revealed. The albums feature the original score from the fourth episode of the show composed by Christophe Beck (Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Frozen, Edge of Tomorrow, The Hangover, The Peanuts Movie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 5 by Marvel Music/Hollywood Records and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music store. The composer’s score from the first three episodes, as well as Kristen Anderson-Lopez’s & Robert Lopez’s theme songs have previously been released last month. WandaVision is created by Jac Schaeffer based on the Marvel Comics characters, directed by Matt Shakman and stars Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany,  Kat Dennings, Kathryn Hahn, Teyonah Parris and Randall Park. Read the rest of this entry »

A soundtrack album has been released for the Australian drama Measure for Measure. The album features the film’s original music composed by Tristan Dewey & Tai Jordan (Pawno, Twentysomething). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon or any other digital music store. Measure for Measure is co-written and directed by Paul Ireland and stars Hugo Weaving, Daniel Henshall, Harrison Gilbertson, Mark Leonard Winter and Doris Younane. The movie is inspired by Shakespeare’s play of the same title and tells the love story between a young immigrant Muslim girl and a young musician, set against Melbourne’s notorious commission flats, where a world of crime, drugs, and racial disharmony reign. Read the rest of this entry »

John Debney has composed the original score for the upcoming romantic comedy Marry Me. The film is directed by Kat Coiro (And While We Were Here, Life Happens) and stars Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma, John Bradley, Chloe Coleman and Sarah Silverman. The movie centers on the relationship between a musical superstar and a math teacher – two total strangers who agree to marry and then get to know each other. John Rogers (The Librarians, Leverage), Tami Sagher and Harper Dill wrote the screenplay based on the graphic novel by Bobby Crosby. Read the rest of this entry »

Cosmosis Prime Publishing will release a soundtrack album for the indie comedy Take Me to Tarzana. The album features the film’s original score composed by Jared Meeker (Interreflections). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 19, 2021 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Take Me to Tarzan is directed by Maceo Greenberg and stars Andrew Creer, Samantha Robinson, Jonathan Bennett, Maria Conchita Alonso, Kahyun Kim, Oliver Cooper, Christopher Coppola, Bob Wiltfong, Desiree Staples, Owen Harn and Kent Shocknek. The movie follows a man and a woman struggling to survive in the corporate jungle at a top data-mining company who learn that their lecherous boss has been secretly recording the women in the office and a plan to take him down. Read the rest of this entry »

Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (The Old Guard, Ammonite, Adrift, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Patrick Melrose) has been hired to score the upcoming thriller Monkey Man. The film marks the directorial debut of actor Dev Patel who also stars in the movie, which is set in modern day India and follows a recently-released ex-felon who struggles to adjust to a world of corporate greed and eroding spiritual values. Patel also co-wrote the screenplay with Paul Angunawela and John Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Happy Feet). Read the rest of this entry »