Composer Herdís Stefánsdóttir (Y: The Last Man, The Essex Serpent, The Sun Is Also a Star, We’re Here) is reteaming with director M. Night Shyamalan on the upcoming psychological thriller Trap. The film is written and directed by Shyalaman (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and stars Josh Hartnett and Saleka Shyamalan. The movie revolves around a father and teen daughter who attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event. Shyamalan is also producing the project with Marc Bienstock (Split, Glass) and Ashwin Rajan (Old, Servant). Read the rest of this entry »
Herdís Stefánsdóttir Scoring M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Trap’
Posted: April 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Herdís Stefánsdóttir, M. Night Shyamalan, Trap
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Soundtrack Album for SkyShowtime’s ‘Veronika’ to Be Released
Posted: April 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Mikkel Hess, score, SkyShowtime, Soundtrack, Veronika
This Is Care Of will release a soundtrack album for the SkyShowtime original series Veronika. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Mikkel Hess (When Animals Dream, Exit Plan). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Wednesday, April 10 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Veronika is created by Katja Juras & Anna Lindblom and stars Alexandra Rapaport, Tobias Santelmann, Arvin Kananian, Olle Sarri, Per Graffman, Isac Calmroth, Sarah Rhodin, Wilma Lidén and Eddie Eriksson Dominguez. The 8-part crime thriller directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby follows the titular police officer who struggles with her complicated family life and a secret pill addiction and finds herself in a murder investigation that goes deeper than anyone in her town would like to believe when she learns about the murder of two teenage girls. Read the rest of this entry »
‘It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown’ 55th Anniversary Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bill Melendez, It Was a Short Summer Charlie Brown, score, Soundtrack, Vince Guaraldi
Lee Mendelson Film Productions has announced the premiere release of the complete soundtrack for the 1969 animated television special It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown created by Charles M. Schulz and directed by Bill Melendez. The album features the original music from the sixth Peanuts special composed by Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, A Boy Named Charlie Brown), including the original recordings that comprise the song cues of the special, as well as another six previously unreleased bonus/alternative tracks. The 55th Anniversary Edition will first be available as a vinyl edition at participating stores starting April 20, 2024 as part of Record Store Day and be released digitally and physically everywhere on July 5. Visit Amazon to pre-order the digital version and check back on this page for the pre-order links for the CD and vinyl editions. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ‘Murdoch Mysteries’ Musical Episode ‘Why Is Everybody Singing?’ Released
Posted: April 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Jono Grant, Murdoch Mysteries, Ovation CBC, Paul Aitken, Robert Carli, score, Soundtrack
Shaftesbury Music has released a soundtrack album for the musical episode of the CBC original drama Murdoch Mysteries. The album features the original songs from the Season 17 episode Why Is Everybody Singing? written by Paul Aitken, produced and arranged by Jono Grant and performed by the series’ cast members including Yannick Bisson, Hélène Joy, Thomas Craig, Arwen Humphreys , Colin Mochrie & others. Also included is the episode’s score written by the show’s composer Robert Carli (Wynonna Earp, Survival of the Dead, Sky Med). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Listen to the opening titles track and the first two songs (The World Keeps Getting Better & He’s Dead As He Can Be) after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Evgueni & Sacha Galperine Scoring Netflix’s ‘Baby Reindeer’
Posted: April 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Baby Reindeer, Evgueni Galperine, Netflix, Richard Gadd, Sacha Galperine
Evgueni Galperine & Sacha Galperine (The Undoing, Loveless, Scenes from a Marriage, Radioactive, The Family, Wizard of Lies, Happening) are the composers of the new British Netflix limited series Baby Reindeer. The show is created by Richard Gadd and stars Gadd himself, Jessica Gunning, Nava Mau and Tom Goodman-Hill. The 8-part comedy drama explores a struggling comedian’s act of kindness to a vulnerable woman that sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their lives. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Jack in the Box Rises’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christoph Allerstorfer, Lawrence Fowler, score, Soundtrack, The Jack in the Box Rises
Christoph Allerstorfer (The Ghost Within, Breaking Infinity) will release a soundtrack album for the British horror sequel The Jack in the Box Rises. The album features the original music from the film composed and conducted by Allerstorfer who previously scored 2020’s The Jack in the Box original movie and its 2022 sequel The Jack in the Box: Awakening. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 9 (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). The Jack in the Box Rises is co-written and directed by Lawrence Fowler and stars Nicholas Anscombe, Isabella Colby Browne, Leona Clarke and Anna Blackburn. The movie follows an American teenager who is sent to an all-girls boarding school in the UK, where she unleashes a demon from a mysterious vintage Jack-in-the-box hidden on the school grounds. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Pemberton Scoring Greg Berlanti’s ‘Fly Me to the Moon’
Posted: April 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Daniel Pemberton, Fly Me to the Moon, Greg Berlanti
Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into/Across the Spider-Verse, Steve Jobs, Enola Holmes, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Ocean’s 8, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) has recently been scoring the upcoming romantic comedy drama Fly Me to the Moon. The film is directed by Greg Berlanti (Love, Simon, Life As We Know It) and stars Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Nick Dillenburg, Anna Garcia, Jim Rash, Colin Woodell, Noah Robbins, Christian Zuber, Donald Elise Watkins, Ray Romano and Woody Harrelson. The movie is set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing and follows a marketing maven who is brought in to fix NASA’s public image and wreaks havoc on the launch director’s already difficult task. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spirit Rangers’ Season 3 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, Raye Zaragoza, Soundtrack, Spirit Rangers
Netflix Music has released a new soundtrack album for the streamer’s original animated series Spirit Rangers. The album features the original songs from the third season of the show written by Raye Zaragoza. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The label has previously released two soundtracks featuring the songs from Season 1 in 2022 and from Season 2 last year. Listen to the first track (The Spirit Ocean Song) below. Spirit Rangers is created by Karissa Valencia and features the voices of Wačíŋyeya Iwáš’aka Yracheta, Isis Celilo Rogers, Kimberly Guerrero, Talon Proc Alford and John Timothy. Read the rest of this entry »
Andrea Farri Scoring Peacock’s ‘Those About to Die’
Posted: April 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrea Farri, Peacock, Roland Emmerich, Those About to Die
Andrea Farri (Io Capitano, The Hanging Sun, Security, The First King, Latin Lover, Italian Race) has been tapped to score the upcoming Peacock original series Those About to Die. The show based on Daniel P. Mannix’s nonfiction book of the same title is directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Stargate) & Marco Kreuzpaintner (The Collini Case, Bodies) and stars Anthony Hopkins, Iwan Rheon, Sara Martins, Jojo Macari, Tom Hughes, Moe Hashim, Rupert Penry-Jones, Gabriella Pession, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Emilio Sakraya, David Wurawa, Dimitri Leonidas, Pepe Barroso, Eneko Sagardoy, Gonçalo Almeida and Romana Maggiora Vergano. The 10-part historical drama set in the corrupt world of the spectacle-driven gladiatorial competition and follows a group of characters from all corners of the Roman Empire who collide at the explosive intersection of sports, politics, and dynasties. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘The Regime’ Released
Posted: April 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alex Heffes, Alexandre Desplat, HBO, score, Soundtrack, The Regime
WaterTower Music has released the full soundtrack album for the HBO limited series The Regime. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water, The King’s Speech, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Godzilla) & Alex Heffes (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void, State of Play, Queen of Katwe) . The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. The label has previously released Desplat’s main title theme last month as a digital single. The Regime is created by Will Tracy and stars Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton, Guillaume Gallienne and Hugh Grant. The 6-part political satire directed by Stephen Frears & Jessica Hobbs revolves around an authoritarian chancellor who has grown increasingly paranoid and unstable when she turns to a volatile soldier as an unlikely confidant. Read the rest of this entry »
