Howe Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama Funny Boy. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Silence of the Lambs, The Aviator, Hugo, The Hobbit, Ed Wood, Mrs. Doubtfire). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 10 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Funny Boy is co-written and directed by Deepa Mehta and stars Brandon Ingram, Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Rehan Mudannayake, Agam Darshi, Shivantha Wijesinha, Arush Nand, Ruvin De Silva, Hidaayath Hazeer and Seema Biswas. The movie based on the best-selling Canadian novel of the same title by Shyam Selvadurai is set in Sri Lanka in the 1970’s and 80’s and explores the awakening of sexual identity by a young boy and chronicles his struggle to find balance and self-love despite the absence of empathy and understanding. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Funny Boy’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 9, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Deepa Mehta, Funny Boy, Howard Shore, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Carly Paradis Scoring ITV’s ‘The Pembrokeshire Murders’
Posted: December 9, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BritBox, Carly Paradis, ITV, The Pembrokeshire Murders
Carly Paradis (The Innocents, Sick Note, Prime Suspect 1973) is scoring the upcoming ITV crime drama The Pembrokeshire Murders. The show is written by Nick Stevens (In Plain Sight) based on the true crime book Catching the Bullseye Killer by Steve Wilkins & Jonathan Hill and stars Luke Evans, Keith Allen, Owen Teale, Alexandria Riley, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan and David Fynn. The 3-part series directed by Marc Evans (Snow Cake, Hunky Dory) revolves around two unsolved double murders from the 1980s that cast a shadow over the work of the Dyfed Powys police force. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rose Island’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 9, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: L'incredibile storia dell'isola delle rose., Michele Braga, Netflix, Rose Island, score, Soundtrack, Sydney Sibilia
Maisie Music Publishing has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original film Rose Island (L’incredibile storia dell’Isola delle Rose). The album features the movie’s original music composed by Michele Braga (Dogman, They Call Me Jeeg, Shadows, Blessed Madness, Nevia). Visit Amazon or any other major digital service to check out the track list and to listen to audio samples. Rose Island is co-written and directed by Sydney Sibilia and stars Elio Germano, Matilda De Angelis, Tom Wlaschiha, Luca Zingaretti, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Leonardo Lidi and François Cluzet. The comedy drama tells the story of an idealistic engineer as he builds his own island off the coast of Italy and declares it a nation, drawing the attention of the world — and the government. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Intrigo: Dear Agnes’ & ‘Samaria’ Soundtrack Albums Released
Posted: December 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anders Niska, Intrigo: Dear Agnes, Intrigo: Samaria, Klas Wahl, score, Soundtrack
Spinnup has released two soundtrack albums for the second and third part in the Intrigo trilogy, Intrigo: Dear Agnes and Intrigo: Samaria. The album features the films’ original music composed by Klas Wahl & Anders Niska (Swedish Dicks, Farang) who previously scored the first installment, Intrigo: Death of an Author. Click here to stream/download the Intrigo: Dear Agnes album and click here to stream/download the Intrigo: Samaria soundtrack. Both movies are directed by Daniel Alfredson and are based on the bestseller by Hakan Nesser. Dear Agnes starring Carla Juri, Gemma Chan & Jamie Sives follows a wealthy woman who wants to get rid of her cheating husband and offers money to a widowed friend to murder him. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘We’re Here’ Released
Posted: December 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Herdís Stefánsdóttir, score, Soundtrack, We're Here
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the HBO unscripted series We’re Here. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Herdís Stefánsdóttir (The Sun Is Also a Star, South Mountain). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music services. We’re Here is created by Steve Warren & Johnnie Ingram and follows a group of small-town residents as they’re recruited and trained (by Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela Laquifa Wadley & Eureka O’Hara) to participate in a one-night only drag performance. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Banana Split’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Annie Hart, Banana Split, Benjamin Kasulke, score, Soundtrack
American High Records has released a soundtrack album for the comedy Banana Split. The album features the film’s original score composed by Annie Hart (Olympic Dreams). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Banana Split is directed by Benjamin Kasulke and stars Hannah Marks (who also co-wrote the screenplay), Liana Liberato, Dylan Sprouse and Addison Riecke. The movie follows two teenage girls develop the perfect kindred spirit friendship over the course of a summer, with one problem: one of them is dating the other’s ex. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Recording of Bernard Herrmann’s ‘Endless Night’ Score Announced
Posted: December 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bernard Herrmann, Endless Night, score, Sidney Gilliat, Soundtrack
Quartet Records has announced the world premiere recording of the previously unreleased score for the 1972 horror mystery drama Endless Night directed by Sidney Gilliat, based on Agatha Christie’s novel of the same title and starring Hayley Mills, Britt Ekland, Hywel Bennett, Per Oscarsson and George Sanders. Reconstructed from the original manuscript by the film’s composer Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, Vertigo, Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, North by Northwest), the music is performed by the Basque National Orchestra and conducted by Fernando Velázquez (The Impossible, Mama, A Monster Calls), with original Moog synthesizer sessions played by Toni Saigi. Visit the label’s official website for the full album details, to check out audio samples and to order the CD. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Midnight Cowboy’, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ & ‘A Bridge Too Far’ Soundtracks Announced
Posted: December 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Bridge Too Far, Ennio Morricone, John Addison, John Barry, John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, Richard Attenborough, score, Sergio Lione, Soundtrack, The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Quartet Records has announced a number of new soundtracks, including a new album for the 1969 drama Midnight Cowboy directed by John Schlesinger and starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. John Barry (Goldfinger, Dances with Wolves, Out of Africa) who is credited as the film’s music supervisor composed a series of original cues and supervised the entire musical concept of the project. Everybody’s Talkin’ written by Fred Neil was selected as a main theme for the movie and was newly recorded with arrangements by George Tipton and performed by Harry Nilsson. The 2-CD set features a remastered version of the original soundtrack album, as well as alternate song versions on the first disc and the complete music (both songs and score) as it appears in the film on the second disc. Read the rest of this entry »
Stefan Gregory Scoring Simon Stone’s Netflix Film ‘The Dig’
Posted: December 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Simon Stone, Stefan Gregory, The Dig
Stefan Gregory has made his feature scoring debut on the the upcoming British Netflix original film The Dig. The movie is directed by Simon Stone (The Daughter) and stars Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin and Ken Stott. The drama is set in 1938 as World War II looms and follows a wealthy widow who hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. Moira Buffini (Harlots, Jane Eyre) wrote the screenplay based on a book by John Preston. Read the rest of this entry »
‘One Night in Miami…’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, One Night in Miami, Regina King, score, Soundtrack, Terence Blanchard
ABKCO Records will release the official soundtrack album for the drama One Night in Miami… The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award nominee Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Perry Mason, Inside Man, 25th Hour, Da 5 Bloods). Also included is the original song Speak Now performed by Leslie Odom, Jr. and co-written by himself & Sam Ashworth, as well as other songs performed by the actor/singer and tracks by L.C. Cooke, Jeremy Pope, Billy Preston & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically (on CD and vinyl) on January 15, 2021 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. One Night in Miami… marks the feature directorial debut of Regina King and stars Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr. Read the rest of this entry »
