John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, Shrek, Happy Feet, Chicken Run, X-Men: The Last Stand) has announced the track list for the deluxe edition soundtrack album of Lucasfilm’s Solo: A Star Wars Story directed by Ron Howard and starring Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Woody Harrelson, Donald Glover, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Thandie Newton and Paul Bettany. The album features the Academy Award-nominated composer’s expanded original score from the movie, including over 40 minutes of previously unreleased music. John Williams provided the Han Solo Theme. The soundtrack is set to be released next month by Walt Disney Records and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music services. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: October 20, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Powell, Ron Howard, score, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Soundtrack, Star Wars
‘Madre’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 20, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Madre, Mother, Olivier Arson, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, score, Soundtrack
Quartet Records has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish/French drama Madre. The album features the film’s original music composed by Olivier Arson (The Candidate, May God Save Us, The Zone). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Madre is co-written and directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen based on his Academy Award-nominated short of the same name and stars Marta Nieto, Jules Porier and Alex Brendemühl. The movie follows the title character ten years after her son has disappeared when she meets a teenager who reminds her of her missing son. Read the rest of this entry »
Fil Eisler Scoring Ben Falcone’s Netflix Film ‘Thunder Force’
Posted: October 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Falcone, Fil Eisler, Netflix, Thunder Force
Composer Fil Eisler (Empire, Revenge, How to Be Single, CHiPs, UnReal, The Titan) is reuniting with director Ben Falcone on the upcoming Netflix original film Thunder Force. The movie is written and directed by Ben Falcone (The Boss, Tammy) and stars Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Pom Klementieff, Melissa Leo and Tyrel Jackson Williams. The comedy is set in a world overrun with super-villains and follows two childhood friends who reunite to battle the Miscreants that threaten to destroy Chicago. Falcone and McCarthy are also producing the project with Marc Platt (La La Land, Bridge of Spies, Drive). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Grant Fonda, Jonathan Cipiti, Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the documentary Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton. The album features the film’s original music composed by Grant Fonda (Down the Fence, The Dating Project Power of the Air). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton is directed by Jonathan Cipiti and tells the story of a poor, uneducated Irish immigrant who sets sail for America in 1928 with nothing but his faith and dreams of becoming a millionaire. The documentary was released in select theaters earlier this month by ArtsAffects Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
Amelia Warner Scoring John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’
Posted: October 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amelia Warner, John Patrick Shanley, Wild Mountain Thyme
Amelia Warner (Mary Shelley, Mum’s List) has recently recorded her score for the upcoming romantic drama Wild Mountain Thyme. The film is written and directed by John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Joe Versus the Volcano) and stars Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, Dearbhla Molloy and Christopher Walken. The movie is based on Shanley’s Broadway play Outside Mullingar and centers on two obstinate star-crossed lovers whose families are caught up in a feud over a hotly contested patch of land that separates their two farms. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Robert Altman’s ‘3 Women’ Announced
Posted: October 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 3 Women, Allan Nicholls, Jeff Wilson, Robert Altman, Soundtrack, Tom Walls
Wave Theory Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1977 drama 3 Women directed by Robert Altman and starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule. The album features the original country music from the movie were written by Altman’s long-time associate and friend, Allan Nicholls, alongside the film’s music editor, Tom Walls, and songwriter Jeff Wilson and performed by the Desert Centre Country Band and supporting vocal performances from Vince Gill, Marti Gwynn, Jo Ann Harris, Janis Oliver, John Considine and Nicholls himself. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, October 23. The streaming/download link will be added to this article later this week. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Eve’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Eve, Rory Kindersley, score, Soundtrack, Toby Dundas
Fablemaze has released a soundtrack album for the British horror thriller Eve. The album features the film’s original score composed by Toby Dundas. Also included is the song Here in the Dark by Oblivion Bell. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Eve is co-written and directed by Rory Kindersley and stars Christine Marzano, Andrew Lee Potts, Jonathan Forbes, Lex Shrapnel, Rachel Warren, Rhashan Stone, Ali Bastian and Yennis Cheung. The movie follows a talented actress fails to land the coveted role of ‘Eve’ in a screen adaptation of Paradise Lost and becomes obsessed with the up-and-comer who gets the part. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 18, 2020)
Posted: October 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Silvestri, Ali N. Askin, Barbarians, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Christophe Beck, Danny Bensi, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Helstrom, Hulu, Jeff Morrow, Maurus Ronner, Netflix, Once Upon a Snowman, Over the Moon, Saunder Jurriaans, Steven Price, The Queen's Gambit, The Witches
Premiering on Thursday, October 22 is the fantasy adventure comedy The Witches directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Rock and Jahzir Kadeen Bruno. The film’s original music is composed by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump. Marvel’s The Avengers, Cast Away, Who Framed Roger Rabbit). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced this coming week. Check out our previous article to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures production, which was originally set to open in theaters (and is still being released theatrically in several foreign markets next week) and will debut in the U.S. exclusively on HBO Max.
Premiering on Friday, October 23 (following a very limited theatrical release on October 9 we missed in our film music roundup that week) is the Netflix animated film Over the Moon directed by Glen Keane and starring Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, Ken Jeong, John Cho, Margaret Cho, Kimiko Glenn, Robert G. Chiu, Ruthie Ann Miles, Artt Butler and Sandra Oh. Steven Price (Gravity, Our Planet, Suicide Squad) has composed the film’s original score and Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield & Helen Park have written the original songs. Milan Records will release a soundtrack album featuring both score and all songs this coming Friday. Click here for the full album details and for more information about the movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ to Be Released
Posted: October 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Laura Karpman, Lovecraft Country, Raphael Saadiq, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the HBO original series Lovecraft Country. The album features selections of the original score from all episodes of the show’s first season composed by Emmy Award winner Laura Karpman (Step, Set It Up, Why We Hate) and Raphael Saadiq (Underground, Insecure, Black Nativity). Also included are the songs from the horror drama performed by actors Wunmi Mosaku and Jurnee Smollett, as well as Alice Smith’s cover of Nina Simone’s Sinnerman. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, October 19 and will be available to stream/download here. Lovecraft Country is developed by Misha Green based on Matt Ruff‘s novel of the same name and also stars Jonathan Majors, Aunjanue Ellis, Abbey Lee, Jada Harris and Michael Kenneth Williams. Read the rest of this entry »
National Geographic’s ‘The Real Right Stuff’ to Feature Original Score by James Everingham
Posted: October 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, Hans Zimmer, James Everingham, Russell Emanuel, The Real Right Stuff, Tom Jennings
Disney+ announced this week that National Geographic’s upcoming documentary The Real Right Stuff will feature an original score composed by James Everingham (Heroes, Grand Prix Driver) for Bleeding Fingers Music and produced by Hans Zimmer & Russell Emanuel. The composer’s orchestral score was recorded remotely by a socially distant 44-piece orchestra this past May. The movie is directed by Tom Jennings (Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes) and tells the true story of the nation’s first astronauts, the original Mercury 7. Jennings is also executive producing the 1895 Films production with Simon Raikes (Drain the Oceans). Read the rest of this entry »
