The full details of the soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey have been revealed. The album features the songs from the musical performed by Usher feat. Kiana Ledé, Ricky Martin, Marisha Wallace, as well as the movie’s cast. Also included is a score suite by the film’s composer John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, The Jungle Book, Elf). Harvey Mason Jr. serves as the project’s executive music producer. The soundtrack is being released by Atlantic Records today and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey is directed by David E. Talbert and stars Forest Whitaker, Keegan-Michael Key, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Hugh Bonneville and Madalen Mills. The movie follows a once-joyful toymaker who – decades after his trusted apprentice betrayed him – finds new hope when his kind and curious granddaughter comes into his life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 12, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David E. Talbert, Harvey Mason Jr., Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, John Debney, Netflix, Soundtrack
Alex Geringas to Score Netflix’s ‘Arlo the Alligator Boy’ Movie and TV Series
Posted: November 12, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments, TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Geringas, Arlo the Alligator Boy, Netflix, Ryan Crego
Netflix announced today that Alex Geringas (Woody Woodpecker, Impractical Jokers, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!) is composing the original music for the upcoming animated musical Arlo the Alligator Boy. The film is directed by Ryan Crego and features the voices of Michael J. Woodard, Mary Lambert, Michael “Flea” Balzary, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Brett Gelman, Jonathan Van Ness, Haley Tju, Jennifer Coolidge and Vincent Rodriguez III. The movie tells the story of a wide-eyed boy, who is half human and half alligator, who learns that he is from New York City and decides to leave his sheltered life in the swamp and search for his long lost father. Blake Lemons will serve as the project’s supervising producer. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jungleland’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: November 12, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jungleland, Lorne Balfe, Max Winkler, score, Soundtrack
Universal Music’s Globe will release a soundtrack album for the drama Jungleland. The album features the film’s original score composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, His Dark Materials, Bad Boys for Life,The LEGO Batman Movie, Genius, Home). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 13 and will be available to stream/download here. Jungleland is directed by Max Winkler and stars Charlie Hunnam, Jack O’Connell and Jessica Barden. The movie follows a boxer and his manager brother who are left in debt to a local crime boss after a devastating loss in the ring and are forced to risk it all in a bare-knuckle boxing tournament. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Freaky’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 12, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bear McCreary, Christopher Landon, Freaky, score, Soundtrack
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the horror comedy Freaky. The album features the film’s original music composed by Bear McCreary (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Outlander, Happy Death Day, The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 13 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music services. Freaky is co-written and directed by Christopher Landon and stars Kathryn Newton, Vince Vaughn, Celeste O’Connor, Misha Osherovich, Dana Drori, Uriah Shelton, Katie Finneran and Alan Ruck. The Blumhouse production centers on a teenage girl who trying to survive the bloodthirsty halls of her high school and the cruelty of the popular crowd when she switches bodies with a relentless serial killer. Read the rest of this entry »
Quincy Jones to Receive Guild of Music Supervisors Icon Award
Posted: November 12, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, Quincy Jones
The Guild of Music Supervisors announced today that record producer, composer, and songwriter Quincy Jones will be honored with the Icon Award at next year’s 11th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards. The Icon Award was created to celebrate those who have made legendary contributions to the music and film industry. Jones who is the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 80 Grammy nominations and as received the award 28 times has contributed music to numerous film and TV projects. He won an Emmy Award for his score of the opening episode of Roots, received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and was honored with seven Oscar nominations throughout his career. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Too Funny to Fail’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 12, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hulu, John Piscitello, Josh Greenbaum, score, Soundtrack, Too Funny to Fail
John Piscitello (Becoming Bond, No Place on Earth, The All-Americans, Mike Wallace Is Here, Memory Games) has released a soundtrack album for the Hulu original documentary Too Funny to Fail. The album, which features the composer’s original music from the film, is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Too Funny to Fail directed and produced by Josh Greenbaum (The Short Game) explores the creation of The Dana Carvey Show and asks the question why a show with a writer’s room and cast including then unknowns Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Robert Smigel would flop so spectacularly. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Embattled’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 11, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Embattled, Michael Brook, Nick Sarkisov, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama Embattled. The album features the film’s original music composed by Michael Brook (Brooklyn, Into the Wild, The Vow, The Fighter, The Perks of Being a Wallflower). The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 20 and is now available for pre-order here. Embattled is directed by Nick Sarkisov and stars Stephen Dorff, Darren Mann, Colin McKenna, Elizabeth Reaser, Karrueche Tran, Saïd Taghmaou and Donald Faison. The movie tells the story of a man who channels his aggression into a World Champion MMA fighter, but when his second son is born with an incurable developmental disorder, he runs away from his family. Read the rest of this entry »
Eleni Karaindrou Scoring Terrence Malick’s ‘The Last Planet’
Posted: November 11, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eleni Karaindrou, Terrence Malick, The Last Planet
Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou has written the original score for the upcoming drama The Last Planet. The film is written and directed by Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven, The Tree of Life) and stars Geza Rohrig as Jesus Christ, Matthias Schoenaerts as Apostle Peter, Mark Rylance as Satan, as well as Aidan Turner, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Douglas Booth, Martin McCann, Tawfeek Barhom, Ori Pfeffer, Shadi Mar’i, Makram Khoury, Numan Acar and Emilio De Marchi. The movie tells the story of Christ’s life through a series of parables. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Last Vermeer’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 11, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dan Friedkin, Johan Söderqvist, score, Soundtrack, The Last Vermeer
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama The Last Vermeer. The album features the film’s original music composed by Johan Söderqvist (Let the Right One In, The Bridge, Kon-Tiki, After the Wedding, Things We Lost in the Fire, In a Better World). The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 20, 2020 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Last Vermeer is directed by Dan Friedkin and stars Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps, Roland Møller, August Diehl, Olivia Grant, Adrian Scarborough and Andrew Havill. The movie follows a soldier and member of the Dutch resistance as he investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant painter. Read the rest of this entry »
Johan Söderqvist Scoring Eirik Svensson’s ‘Betrayed’ (‘Den storste forbrytelsen’)
Posted: November 11, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Betrayed, Den største forbrytelsen, Eirik Svensson, Johan Söderqvist
Johan Söderqvist (Let the Right One In, Kon-Tiki, Battlefield V, In a Better World) has recently recorded his score for the upcoming Norwegian historical drama Betrayed (Den største forbrytelsen). The film is directed by Eirik Svensson (Harajuku, One Night in Oslo) and stars Jakob Oftebro, Silje Storstein, Eilif Hartwig, Carl Martin Eggesbø, and Michalis Koutsogiannakis. The movie tells the true story of the Jewish Braude family, an ordinary Norwegian working class family who had lived in safety in Oslo before being transported to Auschwitz during World War II. Lars Gudmestad (Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters, Buddy) and Harald Rosenløw-Eeg (The Wave, The King’s Choice) wrote the screenplay based on Marte Michelet’s book The Ultimate Crime. Read the rest of this entry »
