Manners McDade has released a soundtrack album for the BBC mini-series Us. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Oli Julian (Sex Education, Catastrophe, How to Build a Girl, Code 404, Episodes, Plebs) . The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Us is adapted by David Nicholls (Patrick Melrose, Far from the Madding Crowd) from his novel of the same name and stars Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves, Sofie Gråbøl, Tom Taylor, Iain De Caestecker and Thaddea Graham. The 4-part drama directed by Geoffrey Sax follows a man who is blindsided when his wife tells him that she’s not sure she wants to be married to him anymore and vows to win back the love of his wife and repair his troubled relationship with their son. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for BBC Series ‘Us’ Released
Posted: September 20, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, David Nicholls, Oli Julian, score, Soundtrack, Us
Ludwig Göransson Wins Emmy Award for ‘The Mandalorian’ Score
Posted: September 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards
Ludwig Göransson has won his first Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) category for his score from the episode Chapter 8: Redemption of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian at today’s fifth and final night of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The Academy Award and Grammy Award winner was also Emmy-nominated for the first time this year. The other composers nominated in the category were Labrinth for HBO’s Euphoria, Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans for Netflix’s Ozark, Nicholas Britell for HBO’s Succession and Martin Phipps for Netflix’s The Crown. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mother Didn’t Know’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anita Killi, Mor visste ingenting, Mother Didn't Know, score, Soundtrack, Zbigniew Preisner
A soundtrack album has been released for the Norwegian animated short Mother Didn’t Know (Mor visste ingenting). The album features the film’s original music composed by Golden Globe nominee Zbigniew Preisner (Three Colors, When a Man Loves a Woman, The Secret Garden, The Queen of Spain). The soundtrack is now available to stream and download on Amazon and other digital music services. Mother Didn’t Know is directed by Anita Killi who also co-wrote the script with Marianne Bundaard Nielsen. The short produced Trollfilm AS production is being described as a “poetic fable about a young and depressed girl.” Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 18, 2020)
Posted: September 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alone, Antebellum, Blackbird, Brandon Roberts, Buck Sanders, Crystal Grooms Mangano, Geoff Zanelli, Hannes De Maeyer, Infidel, John Paesano, Lost Girls and Love Hotels, Marco Beltrami, Natalie Holt, Nate Wonder, Nima Fakhrara, No Escape, Ola Flottum, Peter Gregson, Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs, Richard Reed Parry, Roman Gianarthur, The Nest, The Racer, The Secrets We Keep, The Way I See It
The only movie opening in theaters nationwide this week is the political thriller Infidel written and directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh and starring Jim Caveziel, Claudia Karvan, Hal Ozsan, Stelio Savante and Aly Kassem. The album features the film’s original music composed by Natalie Holt (The Honourable Woman, Journey’s End, Knightfall, Press, Beecham House, Deadwater Fell). No word on a soundtrack release. The movie, which revolves around an American journalist/blogger who is kidnapped while attending a conference in the Middle East and is put on trial for trumped-up charges of espionage, is being released by Cloudburst Entertainment.
Already playing in around 400 theaters since this past Wednesday is the thriller The Secrets We Keep co-written and directed by Yuval Adler and starring Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Chris Messina and Amy Seimetz. John Paesano (The Maze Runner, Daredevil, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, The Star, My All American, When the Game Stands Tall) has composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the movie, which is being distributed by Bleecker Street. Read the rest of this entry »
‘United Skates’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dyana Winkler, HBO, Jongnic Bontemps, Keezo Kane, score, Soundtrack, Tina Brown, United Skates, Ysoseriouz?
Jongnic Bontemps (The Land, Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story, College Behind Bars, The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel) has released a soundtrack album for the documentary United Skates. The album features the original music from the film written by the composer who collaborated with Keezo Kane and Ysoseriouz? on the project. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and all other major digital music services. United Skates is directed and produced by Dyana Winkler & Tina Brown, executive produced by John Legend and spotlights a community fighting in a racially charged environment to save the African-American subculture of roller skating. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring DreamWorks Animation’s ‘The Croods: A New Age’
Posted: September 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Joel Crawford, Mark Mothersbaugh, The Croods, The Croods: A New Age
Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 21/22 Jump Street, Hotel Transylvania) has been tapped to score DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming animated sequel The Croods: A New Age. The film is directed by Joel Crawford (Trolls Holiday) and features the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman, Clark Duke, Leslie Mann, Peter Dinklage and Kelly Marie Tran. The movie follows the title characters as they need a new place to live and set off into the world in search of a safer place to call home. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Brian Eno – Film Music 1976 – 2020’ Album Announced
Posted: September 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian Eno, Soundtrack
Universal Music has announced a new compilation album featuring the film music of Brian Eno. The album features seventeen of the composer’s most recognizable film and television compositions, including seven previously unreleased tracks. Among the titles featured on the release are films such as Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, David Lynch’s Dune, Michael Mann’s Heat, Jonathan Demme’s Married to The Mob, Gary Hustwitz’s RAMS and Ralph Bakshi’s Cool World, as well as the TV shows Top Boy and BBC Natural World’s Hammerhead. Brian Eno – Film Music 1976 – 2020 will be released digitally on November 13, 2020 and is available for pre-order here. A CD and vinyl edition is set to come out on January 22, 2021 and will be available on Amazon soon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Oliver Sacks: His Own Life’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian Keane, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, Ric Burns, score, Soundtrack
Valley Entertainment has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. The album features the film’s original music composed by Brian Keane (Copper, Death and the Civil War, The Night Flier). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is directed by Ric Burns and centers on renowned neurologist and literary giant Oliver Sack who captured the imagination of the public with his eloquently written case studies of cognitive disorders. The movie features exclusive interviews with Sacks done just after he received a terminal cancer diagnosis, and months prior to his death in August 2015. Read the rest of this entry »
First Track from ‘Ozark’ Season 3 Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Danny Bensi, Ozark, Saunder Jurriaans, score, Soundtrack
Verve Records has released the first track from the soundtrack of the third season of the Netflix original series Ozark. Ben’s Body (Acoustic Version) (from the season finale, All In) is written by series composers Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (The Gift, The Outsider, Boy Erased, Enemy) who received their first Emmy Award nomination this year for their score from the episode. The track is now available to stream/download as a digital single on Amazon. Listen to the full track after the jump. Ozark is created by Bill Dubuque & Mark Williams and stars Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner, Jason Butler Harner, Jordana Spiro and Julia Garner. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Terrible Jungle’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Caviglioli, Hugo Benamozig, score, Soundtrack, Terrible Jungle, Ulysse Klotz
A soundtrack album has been released for the French adventure comedy Terrible Jungle. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ulysse Klotz (Diamantino, Jessica Forever, Atomic Age). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out the track list. Terrible Jungle is directed by Hugo Benamozig & David Caviglioli and stars Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Dedienne, Alice Belaïdi and Jonathan Cohen. The movie follows a possessive mother and renowned ethnologist who sets off to rescue her beloved son, a young and naive anthropology researcher, in the Amazonian jungle. Read the rest of this entry »
