Mille et Une Productions has released a soundtrack album for the French coming-of-age drama Slalom. The album features the film’s original music composed by LoW Entertainment (aka Alexandre Lier, Sylvain Ohrel & Nicolas Weil) (The Freshmen, The Country Doctor, Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor, Photo de famille). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also listen to audio samples and to check out the full track list. Slalom is written and directed by Charlène Favier and stars Noée Abita and Jérémie Renier. The movie follows a 15-year-old high school student in the French Alps who has been accepted to a highly selective ski club that trains future professional athletes and is recruited by an ex-champion turned coach and slowly trains her as his shining star. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Slalom’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 20, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Lier, Charlène Favier, LoW Entertainment, Nicolas Weil, Slalom, Sylvain Ohrel
Austin Wintory Scoring Ross McCall’s ‘Ire’
Posted: January 20, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Austin Wintory, Ire, Ross McCall
Austin Wintory is scoring the upcoming British prison drama Ire. The film marks the directorial debut of actor Ross McCall and stars Craig Fairbrass, Stephen Odubola, Jason Flemyng, Ulrich Thomsen, Zoe Tapper and Rosie Sheehy. The movie follows an institutionalized criminal incarcerated for murdering his wife whose routine life is disrupted when his estranged daughter asks to meet him and a 19 year old serving his first sentence in a maximum security prison is placed inside as his cell mate. McCall also wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Resistance Fighter’ (‘Kurier’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 20, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Fighter, Jan Duszyński, score, Soundtrack, The Resistance Fighter, Wladyslaw Pasikowski
WM Poland has released a soundtrack album for the Polish historical drama The Resistance Fighter (Kurier). The album features the film’s original music composed by Jan Duszyński (Jack Strong, Cold Bloom). Visit Amazon or any other digital music services to stream the album, check out the track list and listen to audio samples. The Resistance Fighter is co-written and directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski and stars Phillippe Tlokinski, Bradley James and Julie Engelbrecht. The movie the true story of war hero Jan Nowak-Jeziorańsk, a legendary courier from Warsaw, a spy whose lonely mission could decide the fate of Poland and World War II. Read the rest of this entry »
Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad Scoring Eddie Huang’s ‘Boogie’
Posted: January 19, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Boogie, Eddie Huang
Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge (Luke Cage, Run This Town) have composed the original score for the upcoming coming-of-age drama Boogie. The film marks the feature directorial debut of writer, producer and restaurateur Eddie Huang (Fresh Off the Boat) and stars Taylor Takahashi, Taylour Paige, Pamelyn Chee, Mike Moh, Alexa Mareka, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Perry Yung, as well as Pop Smoke who is also contributing music to the project. The movie tells the story of a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York, who dreams of one day playing in the NBA and must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals and the burden of expectation. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Landfall’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 19, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Angélica Negrón, Cecilia Aldarondo, Landfall, score, Soundtrack
Big Branch Music has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Landfall. The album features the film’s original music composed by Angélica Negrón (The Condemned, Memories of a Penitent Heart). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Landfall is directed by Cecilia Aldarondo and chronicles the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the fraught relationship between the US and Puerto Rico. The movie documents the resilience of a community banding together to rebuild, taking things into their own hands after expectations for help from the mainland dissipated. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Newman Scoring John Madden’s ‘Operation Mincemeat’
Posted: January 19, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Madden, Operation Mincemeat, Thomas Newman
Composer Thomas Newman (American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo, 1917, Skyfall) is reuniting with director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Proof) on the upcoming war drama Operation Mincemeat. The film starring Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn & Jason Isaacs is based on the book of the same name by Ben Macintyre and takes place in 1943 when the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on Fortress Europe. The movie follows two intelligence officers as they concoct a disinformation strategy, aimed at preventing their massive invasion force from being massacred by German soldiers and planes when they touch down on the continent. Michelle Ashford (Masters of Sex) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Belly of the Beast’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 19, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Belly of the Beast, Erika Cohn, Omar Fadel, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Belly of the Beast. The album features the film’s original score composed by Omar Fadel (Yomeddine, The Advocates, The Judge). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio clips. Belly of the Beast is directed by Erika Cohn and centers on courageous young woman and a radical lawyer who discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system and take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. Read the rest of this entry »
Volker Bertelmann to Score Peter Flinth’s ‘Against the Ice’
Posted: January 19, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Against the Ice, Baltasar Kormakur, Netflix, Peter Flinth, Volker Bertelmann
Netflix announced today that Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Hotel Mumbai, Ammonite, The Old Guard, Patrick Melrose, The Art of Racing in the Rain) is set to score the upcoming drama Against the Ice. The film is directed by Peter Flinth (Arn: The Knight Templar, Nobel’s Last Wil) and stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Charles Dance and Heida Reed. The movie based on the Danish novel Two Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelsen is set in the early 1900s and centers on Denmark’s Alabama Expedition, led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen who was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to North Eastern Greenland. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Barcelona Vampiress’ (‘La vampira de Barcelona’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 19, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alfred Tapscott, La vampira de Barcelona, Lluis Danes, score, Soundtrack, The Barcelona Vampiress
Quartet Records has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish period drama The Barcelona Vampiress (La vampira de Barcelona). The album features the film’s original music composed by Alfred Tapscott (Superagente Makey, Sanctuary, The Wedding Unplanner). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and other digital music stores), where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. The Barcelona Vampiress is directed by Lluis Danes and stars Nora Navas, Roger Casamajor, Bruna Cusi, Sergi Lopez and Francesc Orella. The movie is set in early 1900s Barcelona and revolves around Enriqueta Martí, also known as the Vampiress of Rava, and her connection to the disappearance of the young daughter of a wealthy family. Read the rest of this entry »
Original Song ‘Jungle Mantra’ by DIVINE feat. Vince Staples & Pusha T from Netflix’s ‘The White Tiger’ Released
Posted: January 18, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Divine, Netflix, Pusha T, Ramin Bahrani, The White Tiger, Vince Staples
Mass Appeal India has released the original song Jungle Mantra from the Netflix original film The White Tiger. The track is written and performed by DIVINE feat. Vince Staples & Pusha T and produced by Karan Kanchan. Visit Amazon or any other digital music store to stream/download the song and also listen to the full track after the jump. The White Tiger is directed by Ramin Bahrani and stars Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. The movie is based on the best-selling novel by Aravind Adiga and follows an ambitious driver of a rich Indian couple who uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and become an entrepreneur. Read the rest of this entry »
