Kevin Kiner is returning to score to score Lucasfilm’s upcoming Disney+ animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The show follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. The project is executive produced by Dave Filoni (The Mandalorian), Athena Portillo (Star Wars Resistance), Brad Rau and Jennifer Corbett. Rau also serves as the supervising director and Corbett serves as head writer. Read the rest of this entry »
Kevin Kiner to Return for ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’
Posted: January 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, Kevin Kiner, Star Wars: The Bad Batch
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‘Supernova’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: January 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Harry Macqueen, Keaton Henson, score, Soundtrack, Supernova
Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for the drama Supernova. The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter Keaton Henson (Something Better to Come, Young Men). Also included is Edward Elgar’s Salut d’Amour performed by Jeremy Young as featured in the movie. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 29, 2021 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Supernova is written and directed by Harry Macqueen and stars Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Pippa Haywood, James Dreyfus and Sarah Woodward. The movie follows two partners of twenty years dealing with the onset of illness as they are traveling across England in their old camper van visiting friends, family and places from their past. Read the rest of this entry »
Julian Scherle Scoring Michael Mailer’s ‘Swing’
Posted: January 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Julian Scherle, Michael Mailer, Swing
Julian Scherle (Princess of the Row, Disrupted, Purity Falls) has been tapped to score the upcoming rowing drama Swing. The film is directed by Michael Mailer (Blind) and stars Michael Shannon, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton and David James Elliott. The movie centers on a Ivy League college crew team whose lives are changed in their final year when an army veteran takes over as coach of their dysfunctional rowing team. Vojin Gjaja wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘UFOs’ ‘OVNI(s)’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: OVNI(s), score, Soundtrack, Thylacine
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the French TV series UFOs (OVNI(s)). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Thylacine. Also included are tracks by Jean-Michel Jarre & Tangerine Dream, Janko Nilovic, Cerrone, Bernard Estardy & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. UFOs is created by Clémence Dargent & Martin Douaire and stars Melvil Poupaud, Michel Vuillermoz, Géraldine Pailhas, Quentin Dolmaire and Daphné Patakia. The comedy follows a brilliant space engineer and the head of GEPAN, a unit specializing in UFOs, who is tasked with coming up with scientific explanations for the UFO sightings that are currently dominating the headlines. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Andrews Scoring Miguel Arteta’s Netflix Film ‘Yes Day’
Posted: January 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Michael Andrews, Miguel Arteta, Netflix, Yes Day
Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko, Bridesmaids, Freaks & Geeks, Bad Teacher, The Big Sick, Instant Family, Daddy’s Home) has composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix original film Yes Day. The movie is directed by Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) and stars Jennifer Garner, Edgar Ramirez, Jenna Ortega, Everly Carganilla, Julian Lerner,, Fortune Feimster, Arturo Castro, Nat Faxon and Molly Sims. The family comedy follows a a couple who – tired of always saying no – gives their kids one whole day to make the rules and going on, kicking off a whirlwind adventure around Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »
ABC’s ‘Call Your Mother’ to Feature Music by Matt Cartsonis
Posted: January 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Call Your Mother, Kari Lizer, Matt Cartsonis
Matt Cartsonis (Chump Change, The Women of Country) is the composer of the new ABC comedy Call Your Mother. The show is created by Kari Lizer (The New Adventures of Old Christine) and stars Kyra Sedgwick, Rachel Sennott, Joey Bragg, Emma Caymares, Austin Crute and Patrick Brammall. The series revolves around an empty-nester mom who wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away and decides to reinserts herself into their lives. Lizer is also executive producing the Sony Pictures Television & ABC Signature production with Tim Kaiser (Will & Grace) and Pam Fryman (How I Met Your Mother, Just Shoot Me!). Read the rest of this entry »
Harry Gregson-Williams Scoring Kevin Macdonald’s ‘Life in a Day 2020’
Posted: January 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Harry Gregson-Williams, Kevin Macdonald, Life in a Day 2020
Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Martian, Shrek, Mulan, Kingdom of Heaven, Man on Fire) is composing original music for the upcoming documentary Life in a Day 2020. The film is directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void) and follows the concept of the original 2011 Life in a Day movie. The crowdsourced documentary is compiled from 15,000 hours of footage captured on July 25, 2020 and submitted from 192 countries. Jack Arbuthnott (The Aftermath, Lords of Chaos) and Tim Partridge are producing the project. Ridley Scott serves as an executive producer. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘The Larry Sanders Show’ to Be Released
Posted: January 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Frank Fitzpatrick, HBO, score, Soundtrack, The Larry Sanders Show
Envisage Entertainment will release the first-ever soundtrack album for the HBO comedy The Larry Sanders Show created by Garry Shandling & Dennis Klein and starring Shandling himself, Jeffrey Tambor, Megan Gallagher, Wallace Langham, Jeremy Piven, Penny Johnson, Linda Doucett, Janeane Garofalo and Rip Torn. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Frank Fitzpatrick (Nuns on the Run, Breaking the Rules, Paid in Full, Highway to Hell). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 19, 2021 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
Edmund Butt Scoring ITV’s ‘Finding Alice’
Posted: January 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Edmund Butt, Finding Alice, ITV
Edmund Butt (Life on Mars, Origin, Ashes to Ashes, Bancroft, Mistress) has composed the original music for the new ITV series Finding Alice. The show is created by Roger Goldby (The Time of Their Lives), Keeley Hawes & Simon Nye (The Durrells in Corfu) and stars Hawes herself, Joanna Lumley, Nigel Havers, Jason Merrells, Gemma Jones, Kenneth Cranham, Isabella Pappas, Sharon Rooney and Rhashan Stone. The 6-part drama focuses 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 »
Andra Day’s ‘All of Me’ Cover from ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Released
Posted: January 11, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andra Day, Hulu, Lee Daniels, Salaam Remi, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Warner Records has released the first song from the drama The United States vs. Billie Holiday. All of Me (originally written by Gerald Marks & Seymour Simons) performed by Andra Day (who stars in the movie as Billie Holiday) and produced by Salaam Remi is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Listen to the full song after the jump. The United States vs. Billie Holiday is directed by Lee Daniels and also stars Trevante Rhodes, Natasha Lyonne, Garrett Hedlund, Miss Lawrence, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Rob Morgan, Evan Ross, Tone Bell, Tyler James Williams and Erik LaRay Harvey. Read the rest of this entry »
