Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy The Big Hit (Un triomphe). The album features the film’s original music composed by Fred Avril (The Lifeguard, I Am Not an Easy Man, Pearl, Sound of Noise). Also included Nina Simone’s song I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. The Big Hit is directed by Emmanuel Courcol and stars Kad Merad, David Ayala, Lamine Cissokho, Pierre Lottin, Wabinlé Nabié, Sofian Khammes, Alexandre Medvedev, Saïd Benchnafa, Marina Hands and Laurent Stocker. The movie follows a past-his-prime actor who attempts to give drama lessons to a group of prisoners preparing a staging of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Big Hit’ (‘Un triomphe’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Emmanuel Courcol, Fred Avril, score, Soundtrack, The Big Hit, Un triomphe
Covers from Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton’ to Be Released
Posted: December 22, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bridgerton, Kris Bowers, Netflix, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack EP for the Netflix original series Bridgerton featuring the classical cover versions of songs including Ariana Grande’s thank u, next, Maroon 5’s Girls Like You, Shawn Mendes’ In My Blood & Billie Eilish’s bad guy performed by the Vitamin String Quartet, as well as Celeste’s Strange by the show’s composer Kris Bowers feat. Hillary Smith and Taylor Swift’s Wildest Dreams by Duomo. The 6-track EP will be released digitally on December 25 and is now available for pre-order here. As previously reported, the label will also release a separate soundtrack featuring Bowers’ score from the drama. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Somers Scoring Nikole Beckwith’s ‘Together Together’
Posted: December 22, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Somers, Nikole Beckwith, Together Together
Alex Somers (Captain Fantastic, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Miss Americana, Aloha, Charm City Kings) has composed the original music for the upcoming comedy Together Together. The film is written and directed by Nikole Beckwith (Stockholm, Pennsylvania) and stars Ed Helms, Patti Harrison, Tig Notaro, Julio Torres and Anna Konkle. The movie centers on an unexpected relationship that unfolds between a young loner who is hired as the surrogate for a single man in his 40s. Anthony Brandonisio (Bottled Up), Daniela Taplin Lundberg (The Kids Are All Right, Harriet) and Tim Headington (Hugo, Never Rarely Sometimes Always) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sylvie’s Love’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 22, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Eugene Ashe, Fabrice Lecomte, score, Soundtrack, Sylvie's Love
Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for the romantic drama Sylvie’s Love. The album features the film’s original music composed by Fabrice Lecomte. Also included are the songs Quizás, Quizás, Quizás performed by Eva Longoria and Waltz For Debby performed by Samantha Sidley. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 23 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Sylvie’s Love is written and directed by Eugene Ashe and stars Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Aja Naomi King, Eva Longoria, Wendi Mclendon-Covey and Jemima Kirke. The movie tells the story of a young woman who meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem. Read the rest of this entry »
Clinton Shorter Scoring Netflix’s ‘Tribes of Europa’
Posted: December 22, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Clinton Shorter, Netflix, Tribes of Europa
Clinton Shorter (District 9, 2 Guns, Contraband, Pompeii) is scoring the upcoming German Netflix original series Tribes of Europa. The show is created by Philip Koch (Picco) and stars Emilio Sakraya, Henriette Confurius, David Ali Rashed, Melika Foroutan, Robert Finster, Oliver Masucci, Ana Ularu, Benjamin Sadler, Jeanette Hain, Jannik Schümann and James Faulkner. The sci-fi adventure is set in in Europe 2074, 45 years after a mysterious catastrophe when the continent is split into small states and microstates in which different tribes fight for predominance, and follows three siblings who are separated and forced to forge their own paths. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rams’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 22, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Antony Partos, Jeremy Sims, Rams, score, Soundtrack
Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) has released a soundtrack album for the Australian comedy Rams. The album features the film’s original score composed by Antony Partos (Animal Kingdom, The Rover, I Am Mother, 99 Homes, Adore). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Rams is directed by Jeremy Sims and stars Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Miranda Richardson, Asher Keddie and Wayne Blair. The movie is based the 2015 feature of the same title by Grímur Hákonarson and tells the story of a decades-long feud between two estranged sheep farming brothers which comes to a head when disaster strikes their flocks. Read the rest of this entry »
Tamar-kali Scoring Fisher Stevens’ ‘Palmer’
Posted: December 21, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Fisher Stevens, Palmer, Tamar-Kali
Tamar-kali (Mudbound, Shirley, The Assistant, Come Sunday, The Lie) has composed the original score for the upcoming drama Palmer. The film is directed by Fisher Stevens (Before the Flood, Stand Up Guys) and stars Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple, Alisha Wainwright, June Squibb and Ryder Allen. The movie revolves around a ormer high school football star who went from hometown hero to convicted felon as he returns home to Louisiana, where he moves back in with his grandmother who raised him and forms an unlikely bond with an outcast boy from a troubled home. Cheryl Guerriero (Pledge This!) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bridgerton’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 21, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bridgerton, Kris Bowers, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Bridgerton. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Kris Bowers (Green Book, When They See Us, Dear White People, Bad Hair, Mrs. America). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 25, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A separate soundtrack EP featuring the covers from the drama will also be coming out on the same day (check back on this page for more information). Bridgerton is created by Chris Van Dusen, executive produced by Shonda Rhimes and stars Phoebe Dynevor, Regé-Jean Page, Golda Rosheuvel, Luke Newton, Jonathan Bailey, Claudia Jessie, Nicola Coughlan, Ruby Barker, Sabrina Bartlett, Polly Walker, Ruth Gemmell, Adjoa Andoh, Bessie Carter, Harriet Cains and Julie Andrews. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Scoring Martin Bourboulon’s ‘Eiffel’
Posted: December 21, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Eiffel, Martin Bourboulon
Alexandre Desplat has recently been scoring the upcoming French romantic period drama Eiffel. The film is directed by Martin Bourboulon (Daddy or Mommy, Divorce French Style) and stars Emma Mackey and Romain Duris. The movie follows celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel who is under pressure to design something for the 1889 Paris World Fair as spectacular as his recent collaboration with Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi on the Statue of Liberty, when he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past who inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Two by Two: Overboard!’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 21, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Craig Stuart Garfinkle, Eimear Noone, Ooops! 2, score, Sean McCormack, Soundtrack, Toby Genkel, Two by Two: Overboard!
Redrocca has released a soundtrack album for the animated family adventure Two by Two: Overboard! (aka Ooops! 2). The album features the film’s original music composed by Eimear Noone (World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, The Donner Party) & Craig Stuart Garfinkle (The Occupants). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital stores. ‘Two by Two: Overboard! is directed by Toby Genkel & Sean McCormack and features the voices of Max Carolan, Dermot Magennis and Ava Connolly. The movie is the sequel to 2015’s All Creatures Big and Small (Ooops! Noah Is Gone..) and follows a young Nestrian and his best friend who accidentally fall out of Noah’s Ark and must contend with an active volcano and odd island creatures in their attempt to reunite with their family. Read the rest of this entry »
