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 »
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
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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 »
Carter Burwell’s Complete ‘Psycho III’ Score to Be Released
Posted: January 11, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anthony Perkins, Carter Burwell, Psycho III, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1986 horror sequel Psycho III directed by Anthony Perkins and starring Perkins himself (as Norman Bates), Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey and Roberta Maxwell. The album features the complete original score from the Universal Pictures production composed and arranged by Academy Award nominee Carter Burwell (Fargo, Carol, Twilight, True Grit, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, In Bruges), including over 60 minutes of previously unreleased music. Also included is the content of the the 1986 original soundtrack album, which was released on vinyl by MCA Records. Visit the label’s official website to order the 2-CD set and to check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Marius de Vries to Serve as Executive Music Producer & Composer on Sian Heder’s ‘Coda’
Posted: January 11, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Coda, Marius de Vries, Sian Heder
Marius de Vries is the executive music producer of the upcoming drama Coda. He has also composed the original score for the film written and directed by Sian Heder (Tallulah, Little America) and starring Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant and Marlee Matlin. The movie tells the story of the only hearing member of a deaf family as she joins her high school’s choir club and dinds herself drawn to both her duet partner and her latent passion for singing. Nick Baxter serves as the music producer and Alexandra Patsavas is the drama’s music supervisor. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Barr Scoring Daniel Stamm’s ‘The Devil’s Light’
Posted: January 11, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Stamm, Nathan Barr, The Devil's Light
Composer Nathan Barr (True Blood, The Americans, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Hollywood, Cabin Fever, Hemlock Grove) is reteaming with director Daniel Stamm on the upcoming supernatural horror thriller The Devil’s Light. The film starring Jacqueline Byers, Virginia Madsen, Ben Cross, Colin Salmon, Christian Navarro and Nicholas Ralph revolves around a nun studying at a school to master the ritual of exorcism as she confronts a demonic force that infests her school and has mysterious ties to her past. Robert Zappia (5ive Days to Midnight) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘De Gaulle, L’éclat et le secret’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 11, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Armand Amar, De Gaulle l'éclat et le secret, François Velle, score, Soundtrack
Long Distance has released a soundtrack album for the French mini-series De Gaulle, L’éclat et le secret. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Armand Amar (The Concert, Mia and the White Lion, The Source, A Bag of Marbles, The History of Love, Belle & Sebastian). 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. De Gaulle, L’éclat et le secret is directed by François Velle, written by Jacques Santamaria & Patrice Duhamel and stars Francis Huster, Pierre Rochefort, Margaux Chatelier, Christophe Barbier, Eric Naggar and Pierre Aussedat. The 6-parter chronicles Charles de Gaulle’s live rom the appeal of June 18, 1940 to his departure from power in 1969. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 10, 2021)
Posted: January 10, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandra Harwood, American Gods, Andrew Lockington, Anna Waronker, Brooke Blair, Call Me Kat, Christophe Beck, Erick Schroder, Fox, H. Scott Salinas, HBO, HBO Max, Hulu, Jeff Richmond, John Powell, Locked Down, Mr. Mayor, NBC, Netflix, Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, PBS, Starz, The CW, The Ultimate Playlist of Noise, Tiger, Todor Kobakov, Trickster, WandaVision, Will Blair
Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British series All Creatures Great and Small written by Ben Vanstone based on the classic BBC programme, directed by Brian Percival and starring Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Callum Woodhouse and Rachel Shenton The show’s original music is composed by Alexandra Harwood (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Escape, Growing Up Wild). All3Media & Playground Television have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score when the drama premiered in the UK last year. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which will air in the U.S. on PBS.
Also premiering today is the HBO documentary Tiger directed by Matthew Heineman & Matthew Hamachek about the rise, fall, and epic comeback of global icon Tiger Woods. H. Scott Salinas (The Banker, The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Warrior, Birth of the Dragon, Sea of Shadows) has composed the original music for the 2-parter. Check out our previous news article for more information about the documentary, which is premiering on HBO today and next Sunday, January 17 and will also be available to stream on HBO Max. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooke Blair & Will Blair Scoring Netflix’s ‘Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer’
Posted: January 10, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brooke Blair, Netflix, Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, Tiller Russell, Will Blair
Will Blair & Brooke Blair (Green Room, Hold the Dark, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Black Christmas, Blue Ruin) have recently scored the new Netflix docu-series Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer. The show is directed by Tiller Russell (The Last Narc, Operation Odessa, The Last Rites of Ransom Pride) and tells the true story of how one of the most notorious serial killers in American history was hunted down and brought to justice. The 4-parter is told through first-person interviews, archival footage and original photography and paints a portrait of how it felt to live in fear at a time when absolutely anyone could be the Night Stalker’s next victim. Read the rest of this entry »
