Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album for Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special. The album features the songs from the TV special, including The Perfect Gift written and performed by Joshua Bassett (featured in the trailer, which can be checked out after the jump), a sneak peek of Something in the Air, the first major musical number of the show’s second season, as well as tracks performed by cast members Sofia Wylie, Frankie Rodriguez, Joe Serafini, Julia Lester, Matt Cornett, Larry Saperstein,Dara Reneé, Olivia Rodrigo, Kate Reinders and Mark St. Cyr. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, November 20 and will be available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: November 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Plus, High School Musical: The Musical, High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special, Soundtrack
‘The Kid Detective’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Evan Morgan, Jay McCarrol, score, Soundtrack, The Kid Detective
A soundtrack album has been released for the crime comedy The Kid Detective. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jay McCarrol (The Dirties, Operation Avalanche). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The Kid Detective is written and directed by Evan Morgan and stars Adam Brody, Sophie Nélisse, Wendy Crewson, Tzi Ma and Sarah Sutherland. a once-celebrated kid detective who continues to solve the same trivial mysteries until a naïve client brings him his first “adult” case – to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend. Read the rest of this entry »
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch Scoring Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s ‘The Forgotten Battle’
Posted: November 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: De Slag om de Schelde, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., Netflix, The Forgotten Battle
This week, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Rocks, Only You, Tiger Orange) is recording her score for the upcoming Dutch historical drama The Forgotten Battle (De Slag om de Schelde). The film is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen (The Thing) and stars Gijs Blom, Susan Radder, Jamie Flatters and Tom Felton. The movie centers on the bloody but crucial battle (known as the Battle of the Scheldet) that claimed ten thousand lives during World War II, but secured supply lines for the Allied forces’ push to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. Paula van der Oest (The Bay of Silence, Black Butterflies) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘After We Collided’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: November 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: After, After We Collided, Justin Burnett, Roger Kumble, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album will be released for the romantic drama After We Collided. The album features the film’s original score composed by Justin Burnett (Dungeons & Dragons, An American Haunting, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Getaway, Re-Kill) who previously scored last year’s first After installment. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 18 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. After We Collided is directed by Roger Kumble and stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Josephine Langford, Dylan Sprouse, Selma Blair, Charlie Weber and Candice King. The movie is based on the YA romance novel by Anna Todd and follows Tessa’s intense breakup and its aftermath. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Branford Marsalis, George C. Wolfe, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The album features the movie’s original music written by Grammy Award-winning saxophonist and composer Branford Marsalis (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Once in the Life). The soundtrack is set to be released digitally and physically on December 18, 2020 and is now available for pre-order here. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is directed by George C. Wolfe and stars Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts, Glynn Turman, Dusan Brown and Taylour Paige. The movie based on Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s play is set in 1927 as tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio. Read the rest of this entry »
ABC’s ‘Big Sky’ to Feature Original Score by Trevor Morris
Posted: November 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Big Sky, David E. Kelley, Trevor Morris
Trevor Morris (Vikings, The Tudors, Immortals, The Borgias, Olympus/London Has Fallen) is scoring the new ABC drama Big Sky. The show is created by David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies, Ally McBeal, The Practice) based on the series of books by C.J. Box, and stars Katheryn Winnick, Kylie Bunbury, Brian Geraghty, Dedee Pfeiffer, Natalie Alyn Lind, Jade Pettyjohn, Jesse James Keitel, Valerie Mahaffey, John Carroll Lynch and Ryan Phillippe. The series follows two private detectives who join forces with an ex-cop to search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. Read the rest of this entry »
Stew Stewart & Heidi Rodewald to Compose Music for Spike Lee-Directed Viagra Movie
Posted: November 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Heidi Rodewald, Spike Lee, Stew Stewart
Deadline is reporting that Stew Stewart & Heidi Rodewald will compose the original songs and music for a movie musical about the breakthrough of the Pfizer miracle drug: Viagra. The currently untitled film will be directed by Spike Lee (Malcolm X, BlacKkKlansman, Do the Right Thing, Inside Man) who is also co-writing the screenplay with Kwame Kwei-Armah. The movie is based on the Esquire article All Rise: The Untold Story of The Guys Who Launched Viagra by David Kushner and is inspired by the true events surrounding around Pfizer’s discovery and launch of the erectile dysfunction drug. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘Industry’ to Be Released
Posted: November 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Industry, Nathan Micay, score, Soundtrack
LuckyMe Records will release a soundtrack album for the HBO original series Industry. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Nathan Micay. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 4, 2020 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon and other digital music stores. A first track is already available to stream/download here and can also be checked out after the jump. A vinyl edition is set to come out in early 2021. Industry is created by Mickey Down & Konrad Kay and stars Myha’la Herrold, Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey, David Jonsson, Nabhaan Rizwan, Conor MacNeill and Ken Leung. The drama follows an ambitious group of graduates as they compete for a limited number of permanent positions at a leading bank in London, while being thrown head-first into the exhilarating world of international finance. Read the rest of this entry »
Chad Rehmann to Score Paramount Network’s ‘Dashing in December’
Posted: November 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chad Rehmann, Dashing in December, Jake Helgren, Paramount Network
Chad Rehmann (Camp Cold Brook, The Funhouse Massacre, Dream Killer) has been tapped to score the upcoming Paramount Network original movie Dashing in December. The film is written and directed by Jake Helgren and stars Juan Pablo Di Pace, Peter Porte, Caroline Harris and Andie MacDowell. The drama centers on a sophisticated, New York City financier who returns home for the holidays in an effort to convince his mother to sell the family’s ranch and beloved magical Winter Wonderland attraction, when an unexpected romance ignites. The movie also features original songs from Cody Belew, Fancy Hagood and Styles Haury. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Species II’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: November 16, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Edward Shearmur, score, Soundtrack, Species, Species II
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1998 sci-fi horror thriller Species II directed by Peter Medak and starring Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger, Mykelti Williamson, George Dzundza, James Cromwell and Justin Lazard. The album features the expanded original score from the MGM production composed and conducted by Edward Shearmur (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Johnny English, Cruel Intentionsp, Escape from Dannemora, Charlie’s Angels, The Count of Monte Cristo), including over 30 minutes of previously unreleased music. Visit Amazon or the label’s official website to order the CD and for more information. TVT Records has previously released a soundtrack album featuring selections of Shearmur’s score and songs by B.B. King and Apollo Four Forty back in 1998. Read the rest of this entry »
