Maisie Music Publishing has released a soundtrack album for the Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kevin Smuts (Trouble in Lemur Land, Saving Sirga: Journey into the Heart of a Lion). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music services. My Octopus Teacher is directed by Craig Foster and follows the filmmaker as he forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world. Read the rest of this entry »
‘My Octopus Teacher’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 16, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Craig Foster, Kevin Smuts, My Octopus Teacher, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
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Marcus Miller Scoring Reginald Hudlin’s Disney+ Movie ‘Safety’
Posted: November 16, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, H.E.R., Marcus Miller, Reginald Hudlin, Safety
Marcus Miller (Everybody Hates Chris, About Last Night, I Think I Love My Wife) has composed the original score for the upcoming Disney+ original movie Safety. The film is directed by Reginald Hudlin and stars Jay Reeves, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Corinne Foxx, Matthew Glave,Hunter Sansone, Amanda Warren, Miles Burris, Isaac Bell, Elijah Bell and James Badge Dale. The drama tells the true story of former Clemson University football safety Ray McElrathbey, a young man facing a series of challenging circumstances, whose dedication and persistence help him to triumph over repeated adversities. Nick Santora (Scorpion, The Fugitive) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Breaking Surface’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: November 16, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Breaking Surface, Joachim Hedén, Patrick Kirst, score, Soundtrack
Urban Republic Records has released a soundtrack album for the Swedish survival thriller Breaking Surface. The album features the film’s original music composed by Patrick Kirst (The Kissing Booth, Inherit the Viper, Grace Stirs Up Success, Convergence). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples, and will also be available in other digital music stores within the next few days. Breaking Surface is written and directed by Joachim Hedén and starring Moa Gammel, Madeleine Martin and Trine Wiggen. The film revolves around two half sisters who go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide. Read the rest of this entry »
Kubilay Uner to Score Juan Martinez Vera’s ‘Spiked’
Posted: November 16, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Juan Martinez Vera, Kubilay Uner, Spiked
Kubilay Uner (Force of Nature, Big Sur, Gone Are the Days) is currently scoring the upcoming drama Spiked. The film is written and directed by Juan Martinez Vera and stars Aidan Quinn, Wendy Makkena, Walter Belenky, Deirdre Lovejoy, Danay Garcia and Carlos Gomez. The movie is inspired by the real-life events surrounding Arizona based newspaper publisher Joseph Soldwedel and centers on the feud between a newspaper owner and the chief of police that leads to the blurring of the truth when the murder of a migrant worker shakes a southwest border town. Per Melita (Tesla, Experimenter, A Good Marriage) is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lost Husband’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 16, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: score, Sherri Chung, Soundtrack, The Last Husband, Vicky Wight
Sherri Chung (Riverdale, Blindspot, Batgirl, Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, The Red Line) has released a soundtrack album for the indie drama The Last Husband. The album features the composer’s original score from the movie and is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The Last Husband is written and directed by Vicky Wight and stars Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Nora Dunn and Sharon Lawrence. The movie is based on the novel by Katherine Center and centers on a woman attempting to put her life back together after the death of her husband, as she moves with her children into her estranged Aunt’s goat farm in Central Texas, meeting and matching wills with the ranch’s resident cowboy. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 15, 2020)
Posted: November 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Ari Lazar, Alex Geringas, Amazon, Animaniacs, Christopher Willis, Crazy Not Insane, Disney Plus, HBO, HBO Max, Hulu, I Hate Suzie, James Everingham, Johnny Llyod, Julie Bernstein, Lorne Balfe, Mica Levi, Nathan Coen, Netflix, No Man's Land, Peacock, Run, Rutger Hoedemaekers, Showtime, Small Axe, Steven Bernstein, The Princess Switch: Switched Again, The Reagans, The Real Right Stuff, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse., Torin Borrowdale, TrollsTopia, Will Bates
Premiering tonight is the Showtime docu-series The Reagans directed and executive produced by Matt Tyrnauer about the rise and reign of America’s ultimate power couple, Ronald & Nancy Reagan. The show’s original music is composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The LEGO Batman Movie, His Dark Materials, The Crown, Home, Bad Boys for Life) who previously scored Tyrnauer’s features Studio 54 and Where’s My Roy Cohn?. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 4-part series, which will air Sunday nights on Showtime.
Premiering on Wednesday, November 18, is the documentary Crazy, Not Insane directed and produced by Alex Gibney about Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist who has dedicated her career to studying murderers and seeking answers as to why people kill. Will Bates (Unbelievable, Away, I Origins, The Magicians, The Looming Tower, Nightflyers) who has previously scored numerous of Gibney’s documentaries has composed the film’s original music. The movie, which premiered at this year’s Copenhagen International Documentary Festival and also screened at the 2020 Venice Film Festival will debut in the U.S. exclusively on HBO and HBO Max. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Geringas Scoring Peacock’s & Hulu’s ‘TrollsTopia’
Posted: November 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Geringas, Hulu, Peacock, Trolls, TrollsTopia
Alex Geringas is the composer of DreamWorks Animation’s new Peacock and Hulu original series TrollsTopia. The show is inspired by the studio’s Trolls feature films (scored by Christophe Beck & Theodore Shapiro) and features the voices of Skylar Astin, Amanda Leighton, David Flynn, Ron Funches, Kenan Thompson, Megan Hilty, Jeanine Mason, Kat Graham and Kevin Michael Richardson. The series follows Poppy as she bottles up her endless positivity and invites delegates from every Troll tribe in the forest to live together in harmony in a grand experiment she calls TrollsTopia. Matthew Beans serves as executive producer. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Hulu’s ‘No Man’s Land’ Released
Posted: November 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Hulu, No Man's Land, Rutger Hoedemaekers, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Hulu original series No Man’s Land. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Rutger Hoedemaekers (Trapped, The Last Berliner). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. No Man’s Land is created Maria Feldman, Eitan Mansuri, Amit Cohen & Ron Leshem and stars Félix Moati, Mélanie Thierry, Souheila Yacoub, Joe Ben Ayed, James Floyd, Dean Ridge and James Purefoy. The 8-part drama directed by Oded Ruskin is set against the backdrop of the Syrian War and follows a young French man who, while unraveling the mystery of his estranged, presumed to be dead sister, ends up joining forces with a unit of Kurdish female fighters and travels with them in ISIS occupied territory. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 13, 2020)
Posted: November 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ammonite, Atticus Ross, Bear McCreary, Ben Salisbury, Benson Taylor, Bruno Coulais, Chick Fight, Come Away, Dara Taylor, David Fleming, Dustin O'Halloran, Echo Boomers, Fatman, Freaky, Hans Zimmer, Hillbilly Elegy, John Debney, Jon Natchez, Kila, Make Up, Mank, Martin Mabz, Mondo Boys, The Climb, Trent Reznor, Volker Bertelmann, Wolfwalkers
The only movie opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the horror comedy Freaky co-written and directed by Christopher Landon and starring Kathryn Newton, Vince Vaughn, Celeste O’Connor, Katie Finneran, Dana Drori, Misha Osherovich, Uriah Shelton and Alan Ruck. The film’s original music is composed by Bear McCreary (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Happy Death Day, Outlander, Battlestar Galactica). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Blumhouse production, which is being released by Universal Pictures.
Opening in select theaters today is the comdedy The Climb co-written and directed by Michael Angelo Covino and starring Covino himself, alongside Kyle Marvin, Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam, George Wendt and Judith Godréche. Jon Natchez & Martin Mabz have composed the film’s original score. No soundtrack album has been announced. The movie, which follows two lifelong friends who are out for a bike ride through the mountains in the South of France when one of them confesses that he slept with the other’s fiancé premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and is being released stateside by Sony Pictures Classics. Read the rest of this entry »
‘True to the Game 2’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 'True to the Game 2, Jamal Hill, Soundtrack
Faith Media Distribution has released a soundtrack album for the drama True to the Game 2. The album features the songs from the movie by artists such as Wheezy Beats Future & Yo Gotti, DeJ Loaf, Jeremih feat. OT Genesis, Tamar Braxton, London on Da Track feat. Derez De’Shon, Freeway & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. True to the Game 2 is directed by Jamal Hill and stars Vivica A. Fox, Andra Fuller, Erica Peeples, Jeremy Meeks, Iyana Halley. The sequel to the original 2017 True to the Game movie picks up a year after the murder of drug dealer Quadir Richards, whose death carries consequences for all who knew him, including Gena who has reinvented herself as a journalist, living and working in New York City and is sent on assignment to Los Angeles for a career-changing story. Read the rest of this entry »
