Magic Light Pictures has released a soundtrack album for the animated short Zog and the Flying Doctors. The album features the original music from the holiday special composed by René Aubry (The Gruffalo, The Bears’ Famous Invasion, The Snail and the Whale, The Highway Rat) who previously scored the 2018 original Zog short. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Zog and the Flying Doctors is directed by Sean Mullen and features the voices of Sir Lenny Henry as the narrator, Hugh Skinner, Tracey Ullman, Patsy Ferran and Kit Harington. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Orville’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: December 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Cottee, Fox, Hulu, Joel McNeely, John Debney, score, Seth MacFarlane, Soundtrack, The Orville
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the Fox/Hulu original series The Orville. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s second season composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, The Jungle Book, Elf, Iron Man 2), Joel McNeely (A Million Ways to Die in the West, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) and Andrew Cottee. Also included is Bruce Broughton’s main titles theme. The 2-CD set will be released on January 19, 2021 and is now available to order on Amazon or La-La Land’s official website. A digital version is set to come out on January 22 (click here to stream/download). The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring the composers’ music from the first season last year. The Orville is created by Seth MacFarlane and stars Macfarlane himself, Adrianne Palicki, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, Halston Sage, J. Lee, Mark Jackson, Jessica Szohr and Penny Johnson Jerald. Read the rest of this entry »
Andrew Lockington Tapped as Composer of ‘American Gods’ Season 3
Posted: December 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: American Gods, Andrew Lockington, Starz
Andrew Lockington (San Andreas, Rampage, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Rampage, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters) has been tapped as the new composer of the Starz original series American Gods. He is scoring the third season of the show developed by Bryan Fuller & Michael Green based on Neil Gaiman’s novel and starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, Yetide Badaki, Bruce Langley, Omid Abtahi, Ashley Reyes, Crispin Glover, Demore Barnes, Devery Jacobs, Blythe Danner, Marilyn Manson, Julia Sweeney, Iwan Rheon, Danny Trejo, Peter Stormare, Denis O’Hare, Lela Loren, Dominique Jackson, Wale, Herizen Guardiola and Eric Johnson. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Benstead Scoring Guy Ritchie’s ‘Wrath of Man’
Posted: December 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Benstead, Guy Ritchie, Wrath of Man
Chris Benstead is reteaming with director Guy Ritchie on the upcoming action thriller Wrath of Man. The film is co-written and directed by Ritchie (Snatch, Sherlock Holmes, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and stars Jason Statham, Scott Eastwood, Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso and Josh Hartnett. The movie is based on the 2004 French triller Cash Truck by Nicolas Boukhrief and revolves around a mysterious character who works for an armored truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week. 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
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 »
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 »
