Netflix announced today that the Grammy Award-nominated band HAIM will contribute original music to the Netflix animated musical The Witch Boy. The film directed by Minkyu Lee (Adam and Dog) is based on the graphic novel series of the same nam by Molly Knox Ostertag. The movie is set in a magical community where girls are born to be witches and boys grow into shapeshifters and follows the title character who discovers he has emerging witch powers. Maria Melnik (Escape Room) is writing the screenplay. Roy Lee (The LEGO Movie, It, Doctor Sleep), Miri Yoon (Behaving Badly) and Ryan Harris (The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run) are producing the project for Vertigo Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
HAIM to Compose Original Music for Netflix’s ‘The Witch Boy’
Posted: January 28, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: HAIM, Minkyu Lee, Netflix, The Witch Boy
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‘The Marksman’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: January 28, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Robert Lorenz, score, Sean Callery, Soundtrack, The Marksman
Music.Film Recordings & Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the thriller The Marksman. The album features the film’s original music composed by Sean Callery (24, Homeland, Jessica Jones, La Femme Nikita, Bones, Medium, Inhumans). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 29 and will be available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The Marksman is directed by Robert Lorenz and stars Liam Neeson, Katheryn Winnick, Teresa Ruiz and Juan Pablo Raba. The movie centers on a hardened Arizona rancher who becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who have pursued him into the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Finding ‘Ohana’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: January 28, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Finding Ohana, Joseph Trapanese, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Maisie Music Publishing will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Finding ‘Ohana. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Joseph Trapanese (Oblivion, The Lady and the Tramp, The Greatest Showman, Straight Outta Compton, Project Power, Shadow and Bone). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 29. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music store to stream/download the album. Finding ‘Ohana is directed by Jude Weng and stars Kea Peahu, Alex Aiono, Kelly Hu, Lindsay Watson, Branscombe Richmond, Owen Vaccaro, Ke Huy Quan, Chris Parnell, Brad Kalilimoku, Marc Evan Jackson and Ricky Garcia. The family adventure comedy follows two Brooklyn-raised siblings who travel to Oʻahu for the summer and connect with their Hawaiian heritage – and their family -on a daring quest for long-lost treasure. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Last Warrior: Root of Evil’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: January 28, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dmitry Dyachenko, George Kallis, score, Soundtrack, The Last Warrior, The Last Warrior: Root of Evil
Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album for the Russian fantasy epic The Last Warrior: Root of Evil. The album features the film’s original music composed by George Kallis (Cliffs of Freedom, The Black Prince, Albion: The Enchanted Stallion, 93 Days) who has previously scored 2017’s original The Last Warrior movie. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, January 29 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other digital music store). The Last Warrior: Root of Evil is directed by Dmitry Dyachenko and stars Victor Khorinyak, Elena Yakovleva, Mila Sivatskaya, Konstantin Lavronenko, Ekaterina Vilkova and Sergey Burunov. The movie follows Ivan, a young man living in the present day who travels through a magical portal to the ancient world of Belogorie, where dragons, magic and fairytale creatures abound. Read the rest of this entry »
Details for ‘WandaVision’ Episode 3 Soundtrack Revealed
Posted: January 28, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Christophe Beck, Disney Plus, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Marvel, Robert Lopez, score, Soundtrack, WandaVision
The details of the third soundtrack album for Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series WandaVision have been revealed. The albums feature the original Episode 3 theme song We Got Something Cooking written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (Frozen, Frozen II, The Book of Mormon), as well as the original score from the episode composed by Christophe Beck (Ant-Man, Frozen, Edge of Tomorrow, The Muppets, Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 29 by Marvel Music/Hollywood Records and will be available to stream/download here. Also check out our previous article for the details of the first two soundtracks. WandaVision is created by Jac Schaeffer based on the Marvel Comics characters, directed by Matt Shakman and stars Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn, Kat Dennings, Teyonah Parris and Randall Park. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Little Things’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 28, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: HBO Max, John Lee Hancock, score, Soundtrack, The Little Things, Thomas Newman
WaterTower Music will release the official soundtrack album for the psychological thriller The Little Things. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Thomas Newman (American Beauty, Finding Nemo, The Shawshank Redemption, 1917, Skyfall, Road to Perdition). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 29. Click here to stream/download the album. The Little Things is directed by John Lee Hancock and stars Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Natalie Morales, Terry Kinney, Chris Bauer, Joris Jarsky, Isabel Arraiza and Michael Hyatt. The movie follows a Kern County, CA deputy sheriff who is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment, and becomes embroiled in the search for a killer who is terrorizing the city. Read the rest of this entry »
First Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ’30 Coins’ (’30 Monedas’) Released
Posted: January 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: 30 Coins, 30 Monedas, Alex de la Iglesia, HBO, HBO Europe, Roque Banos, score, Soundtrack
Meliam Music has released the first soundtrack album for the HBO Europe original series 30 Coins (30 Monedas). The album features the original music from the show’s first episode composed by Roque Banos (Don’t Breathe, The Machinist, Evil Dead, In the Heart of the Sea, Sexy Beast, Come Play). The 30 Monedas – Vol. 1 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. 30 Coins is co-written and directed by Álex de la Iglesia and stars Eduard Fernández, Megan Montaner, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Pepón Nieto, Macarena Gómez and Manolo Solo. The series centers on an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict who is exiled by the church to a remote town in Spain, where a series of paranormal events expose his past and unravel a conspiracy that will lead straight to the heart of the Vatican. Read the rest of this entry »
Herdís Stefánsdóttir to Score FX on Hulu’s ‘Y: The Last Man’
Posted: January 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: FX on Hulu, Herdís Stefánsdóttir, Y: The Last Man
Herdís Stefánsdóttir (The Sun Is Also a Star, We’re Here, South Mountain) has signed on to score the upcoming FX on Hulu original series Y: The Last Man. The show is based on the DC Comics/Vertigo book series of the same title by Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra and stars Diane Lane, Ben Schnetzer, Ashley Romans, Olivia Thirlby, Juliana Canfield, Marin Ireland, Amber Tamblyn and Elliot Fletcher. The drama is set in a post-apocalyptic world, in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome with the exception of a cisgender man and his pet monkey and follows the survivors in this new world as they struggle with their efforts to restore what was lost and the opportunity to build something better. Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix’s ‘Firefly Lane’ to Feature Music by Wendy & Lisa
Posted: January 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Firefly Lane, Lisa Coleman, Netflix, Wendy & Lisa, Wendy Melvoin
Wendy Melvoin & Lisa Coleman (Heroes, Dangerous Minds, Nurse Jackie, Crossing Jordan, Just Wright) are scoring the new Netflix original series Firefly Lane. The show is created by Maggie Friedman based on the best-selling novel by Kristin Hannah and stars Katherine Heigl, Sarah Chalke, Ben Lawson, Beau Garrett, Ali Skovbye, Roan Curtis, Yael Yurman, Jon-Michael Ecker, Brandon Jay McLaren, Paul McGillion, Chelah Horsdal and Brendan Taylor. The drama tells the story of two inseparable best friends and their enduring, complicated bond, spanning four tumultuous decades. Read the rest of this entry »
Jonny Greenwood to Score Pablo Larraín’s ‘Spencer’
Posted: January 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jonny Greenwood, Pablo Larraín, Spencer
Neon announced today that Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is attached to score the upcoming biographical drama Spencer. The film is directed by Pablo Larraín (Jackie) and stars Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, alongside Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins and Sean Harris. The movie is set during the Christmas holiday in December 1991 when Princess Diana decided to leave her marriage to Prince Charles. Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Eastern Promises, Locke) wrote the screenplay. Jan de Dios Larraín (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria Bell) is producing the project for Fabula Films, alongside Jonas Dornbach & Janine Jackowski (Toni Erdmann) for Komplizen Film and Paul Webster (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice) for Shoebox Films. Read the rest of this entry »
