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 »
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
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 »
Details for Sia’s ‘Music’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: January 18, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: music, Sia, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for Sia’s directorial debut Music have been announced. The album features the songs from and inspired by the movie written and performed by Sia. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on February 12, 2021 by Monkey Puzzle/Atlantic Records and is now available for pre-order here. Several tracks (Together, Hey Boy, Saved My Life & Courage to Change) are already available to stream/download now. Music starring Kate Hudson, Maddie Ziegler and Leslie Odom Jr. follows a newly sober woman who receives news that she is to become the sole guardian of her half-sister named Music, a young girl on the autism spectrum. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe to Score John Michael McDonagh’s ‘The Forgiven’
Posted: January 18, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Michael McDonagh, Lorne Balfe, The Forgiven
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Bad Boys for Life, The Lego Batman Movie, Genius, The Crown) has been hired to score the upcoming drama The Forgiven. The film is written and directed by John Michael McDonagh (The Guard, Calvary) and stars Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Saïd Taghmaoui, Caleb Landry Jones, Matt Smith, Christopher Abbott, Ismael Kanater, Marie-Josée Croze, Alex Jennings and Abbey Lee. The movie based on the novel of the same title by Lawrence Osborne takes place over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of both the locals and western visitors to a house party in a grand villa. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Cold Mountain’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: January 18, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anthony Minghella, Cold Mountain, Gabriel Yared, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 2003 drama Cold Mountain directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Eileen Atkins, Jack White, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland and Ray Winstone. The 2-CD set features the expanded and remastered score from the Miramax production composed by Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1408, Judy, The Life Ahead, Betty Blue, City of Angels) who received an Academy Award nomination for his music. The first disc includes the composer’s score in chronological order and the second disc features the original Academy Awards promo album, including variations, unused tracks and alternates. Read the rest of this entry »
Murray Gold Scoring Channel 4’s & HBO Max’s ‘It’s a Sin’
Posted: January 18, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Channel 4, HBO Max, It's a Sin, Murray Gold, Russell T. Davies
Murray Gold is the composer of the new Channel 4 & HBO Max limited series It’s a Sin. The show is created by Russell T. Davies and stars Olly Alexander, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howell, Keeley Hawes, Stephen Fry, Neil Patrick Harris, Tracy Ann Oberman, Shaun Dooley, Nathaniel Curtis and Lydia West. The 5-part drama explores friendship and love during the 1980s AIDS crisis through the eyes of three young gay men as they embark on a new life in London. Read the rest of this entry »
Lili Haydn Scoring Michèle Ohayon’s Netflix Documentary ‘Strip Down, Rise Up’
Posted: January 17, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lili Haydn, Michèle Ohayon, Netflix, Strip Down Rise Up
Lili Haydn (DriverX, Broken Kingdom, The House That Jack Built, Somewhere Between) has recently scored the new Netflix original documentary Strip Down, Rise Up. The film is directed by Michèle Ohayon (Colors Straight Up, Cowboy del Amor) and focuses on a diverse and vibrant group of women who heal their trauma and body image issues through sensual movement and the art of pole dancing. The movie follows women of all walks of life, all ages and ethnic backgrounds, as they shed trauma, shame, body image, sexual abuse and other issues locked in their bodies, and embark on a journey to reclaim themselves. Ohayon is also producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Killers Anonymous’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 16, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Killers Anonymous, Martin Owen, Roger Goula, score, Soundtrack
Manners McDade has released a soundtrack album for the crime thriller Killers Anonymous. The album features the film’s original music composed by Roger Goula (The Frankenstein Chronicles, Next Goal Wins, Tiger House, Identicals). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital service. Killers Anonymous is directed by Martin Owen and stars Gary Oldman, Jessica Alba, Tommy Flanagan, Michael Socha, Tim McInnerny, Suki Waterhouse, Rhyon Nicole Brown, Sam Hazeldine, Elizabeth Morris and Elliot James Langridge. The movie follows the members of a support group for killers, where one of the members is likely responsible for the assassination of a US senator that has police authorities on high alert. Read the rest of this entry »


