Sony Classical will release the official soundtrack album for the pandemic thriller Songbird. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The LEGO Batman Movie, His Dark Materials, Bad Boys for Life, The Crown, Home). Also included is the song Kingdom by Royale. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 11 and will be available to stream/download here. Songbird is co-written and directed by Adam Mason and stars KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser, Demi Moore, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare and Alexandra Daddario. The movie produced by Michael Bay is set in a world where the COVID-23 virus has mutated in its fourth year of lockdown and follows a fearless courier, who’s immune to the deadly pathogen, as he races desperately across the barren streets of Los Angeles in search of the only thing that can save his partner from imprisonment. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Songbird’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 10, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adam Mason, Lorne Balfe, score, Songbird, Soundtrack
Craig Armstrong to Score Norman Stone’s ‘The Most Reluctant Convert’
Posted: December 10, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Armstrong, Norman Stone, The Most Reluctant Convert
Craig Armstrong (Moulin Rouge!, The Incredible Hulk, The Great Gatsby, Romeo + Juliet, The Bone Collector, Love Actually) has been tapped to score the upcoming biographical drama The Most Reluctant Convert. The film is directed by Norman Stone (Shadowlands) and stars Max McLean, Nicholas Ralph, Eddie Ray Martin, Tom Glenister (as J.R.R. Tolkien), David Shields and Owen Barfield. The movie is based on the stage play of the same title and charts the spiritual journey of renowned writer C.S. Lewis prior to the publication of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and before his marriage to Joy Davidman. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 10, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amelia Warner, John Patrick Shanley, score, Soundtrack, Wild Mountain Thyme
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama Wild Mountain Thyme. The album features the film’s original music composed by Amelia Warner (Mary Shelley, Mum’s List). Also included is the original song I’ll Be Singing co-written by Warner & director John Patrick Shanley and performed by Sinéad O’Connor, as well as Emily Blunt’s and Jamie Dornan’s renditions of the folk song Wild Mountain Thyme. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 11 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Wild Mountain Thyme is written and directed by Shanley based on his Broadway play Outside Mullingar and stars Blunt, Dornan, Jon Hamm, Dearbhla Molloy and Christopher Walken. Read the rest of this entry »
‘DEAD’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: December 9, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Walker, Chantal Claret, DEAD, Hayden J. Weal, Jimmy Urine, score, Soundtrack, Tom McLeod, Tom Pierard, William Philipson
Major Tom Productions will release a soundtrack album for the New Zealand horror comedy DEAD. The album features the film’s original music composed by Tom McLeod, Jimmy Urine (frontman of punk band Mindless Self Indulgence) & William Philipson, as well as additional music by Tom Pierard, Chantal Claret, director Hayden J. Weal & Alex Walker. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 10 and will be available to stream/download here. DEAD is co-written and directed by Weal and stars Thomas Sainsbury, the director himself, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Tōmairangi Ihaia, Jess Sayer and Kayne Ngātakowhā Peters. The movie follows a wannabe super cop who after being murdered enlists the help of a hapless stoner to help him stop a serial killer. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Apple TV+’s ‘Stillwater’ Released
Posted: December 9, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Kishi Bashi, score, Soundtrack, Stillwater, Toby Chu
Joyful Noise Recordings has released a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series Stillwater. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Kishi Bashi and Toby Chu (Bao, Unforgettable, Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, Covert Affairs). Also included is Bashi’s theme song Never Ending Dream, which has already been released as a digital single last month. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Stillwater is developed by Rob Hoegee based on Jon J Muth’s Caldecott Honor Children’s book series and stars James Sie, Judah Mackey, Eva Binder and Tucker Chandler. The show centers on the friendship between three siblings and their next-door neighbor, a wise panda named Stillwater. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Holkenborg to Score George Miller’s ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’
Posted: December 9, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: George Miller, Junkie XL, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Tom Holkenborg
Composer Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) (Deadpool, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Alita: Battle Angel, Divergent, Black Mass) is set to reteam with director George Miller (Mad Max, Babe, Happy Feet) on the upcoming romantic fantasy drama Three Thousand Years of Longing. The film stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. No plot details have been announced yet. Doug Mitchell (Dead Calm, Lorenzo’s Oil) is producing the project. Holkenborg has previously collaborated with Miller on the director’s last feature, Mad Max: Fury Road. 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
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 »
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 »
