MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the neo-noir thriller American Night. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma, A Quiet Place, Logan, Scream, Ford v. Ferrari, The Wolverine, Hellboy) & Ceiri Torjussen (The Canal, Jack Goes Home, The Shadow in My Eye, All Creatures Here Below) . Buck Sanders (The Hurt Locker, Warm Bodies) and Michael Picton (Flash Gordon: A Modern Space Opera) have also contributed additional music. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 17 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. American Night is written and directed by Alessio Jim Della Valle and stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emile Hirsch, Jeremy Piven, Paz Vega and Michael Madsen.
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Jeff Cardoni Scoring NBC’s ‘American Auto’
Jeff Cardoni (Silicon Valley, The Kominsky Method, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, CSI :Miami, Turner & Hooch) is scoring the new NBC comedy American Auto. The show is created by Justin Spitzer (Superstore) and stars Ana Gasteyer, Harriet Dyer, Jon Barinholtz, Humphrey Ker, Michael B. Washington, Tye White and X Mayo. The set in Detroit and follows a group of executives of a major American automotive companyas they try to rediscover the company identity amidst a rapidly changing industry. Spitzer is also executive producing the Universal Television production with Aaron Kaplan (The Chi, American Housewife) & Dana Honor (A Million Little Things, The Neighborhood).
27th Critics Choice Film Awards Nominations Announced
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominations for the 27th Critics Choice Movie Awards this morning. The film music-related categories are listed below. For a full list of nominations, click here. The awards will be given out on January 9, 2022 at the 27th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles and will broadcast in the U.S. live on The CW and TBS.
The Best Score nominees are:
Nicholas Britell – Don’t Look Up
Jonny Greenwood – The Power of the Dog
Jonny Greenwood – Spencer
‘Hidden Man’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Soundtrack Magazine has announced a soundtrack album for the Chinese drama Hidden Man. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nicolas Errèra (Shaolin, Raging Fire, Adoring, Shaolin, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, Mountain Cry). The soundtrack is now available to order as a limited edition CD on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and learn more about the release. Hidden Man is directed by directed by Jiang Wen and stars Eddie Peng, Zhou Yun, Wen himself, Liao Fan and Xu Qing. The movie, which is based on Zhang Beihai’s novel Xia Yin, is set in 1930s China and follows a young swordsman who returns home to try and solve a five-year-old murder case.
79th Golden Globe Nominations Announced
The nominations for the 79th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories and nominations:
Best Original Score:
- The French Dispatch – Alexandre Desplat
- Encanto– Germaine Franco
- The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood
- Parallel Mothers – Alberto Iglesias
- Dunel –Hans Zimmer
‘Terry Pratchett’s The Abominable Snow Baby’ Soundtrack Album Released
Eagle Eye Drama has released a soundtrack album for the British animated holiday special Terry Pratchett’s The Abominable Snow Baby. The album features the original music from the Christmas special composed by Stefano Cabrera (Lovers, Lost in Laos). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music services), where you can also check out audio samples. Terry Pratchett’s The Abominable Snow Baby is directed by Massimo Fenati and features the voices of Julie Walters and Hugh Dancy, as well as David Harewood as the narrator.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 12, 2021)
Premiering on Wednesday, December 15 is the animated feature Rumble directed by Hamish Grieve and starring Will Arnett, Geraldine Viswanathan, Terry Crews, Jimmy Tatro, Stephen A. Smith, Tony Danza, Susan Kelechi Watson, Tony Shalhoub, Greta Lee,Bridget Everett, Ben Schwartz, Joe Anoa’i, Becky Lynch, Michael Buffer and Charles Barkley. The film’s original music is composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible: Fallout, Black Widow, The Wheel of Time, His Dark Materials, Bad Boys for Life, The Lego Batman Movie). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the movie, which was originally set to receive a theatrical release by Paramount Pictures and is now premiering exclusively on Paramount+.
Premiering on Thursday, December 16 is the HBO Max limited series Station Eleven created by Patrick Somerville based on Emily St. John Mand’s of the same title and starring Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel, Matilda Lawler, Daniel Zovatto, David Wilmot, Philippine Velge, Nabhaan Rizwan and Lori Petty. Dan Romer (Luca, Beasts of No Nation, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Atypical, The Good Doctor, Wendy) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on HBO Max.
2022 Oscars Best Original Score Predictions
Starting today, we are publishing our predictions for the Best Original Score category of next year’s 94th Academy Awards on the left side column of this page. The selection and ranking is based on our own experience of the scores in context of the movies, reactions of Academy music branch members and others in the film music community, the level of awards campaigning and awareness of the competing titles, historical data and the response to the movies in other categories.
‘The Claus Family 2’ Soundtrack Released
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the Dutch-Belgian family adventure The Claus Family 2. The album features the film’s original music composed by Anne-Kathrin Dern (Fearless, The Jade Pendant, The Legend of the War Horse, Help, I Shrunk My Parents). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The label has previously released the composer’s score for last year’s original The Claus Family movie. The sequel is directed by Ruben Vandenborre and stars Mo Bakker, Jan Decleir, Bracha van Doesburgh, Eva van der Gucht, Josje Huisman, Janne Desmet, Stefaan Degand, Renée Soutendijk, Sien Eggers, Amber Metdepenningen and Pommelien Thijs.
World Premiere Soundtrack Release for Lou Ye’s ‘Blind Massage’ Announced
Soundtrack Magazine has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 2014 Chinese drama Blind Massage directed by Lou Ye and starring Guo Xiaodong, Qin Hao and Zhnag Lei. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, The Theory of Everything, Arrival, Prisoners, Mandy) & Jonas Colstrup (Tigers, The Shadow Play, In the Blood). Visit the label’s official website for more details and to order the limited edition CD. Blind Massage is based on the novel of the same name by Bi Feiyu and revolves around a group of blind employees at a massage parlor.