Rickey Minor has received his second Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Direction category for his work on the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors gala at today’s second night of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. He previously won the award in 2017 for Taking The Stage: African American Music And Stories That Changed America and received multiple other nominations in the category. He received a second nomination this year for his music direction of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony. Read the rest of this entry »
Rickey Minor Wins Emmy Award for The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: September 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards, Rickey Minor
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Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Away’ to Be Released
Posted: September 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Away, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Will Bates
Back Lot Music & Universal Television will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Away. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Will Bates (Unbelievable, I Origins, The Magicians, The Looming Tower, Nightflyers). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 16 and will be available to stream/download here. Away is created by Andrew Hinderaker and stars Hilary Swank, Josh Charles, Vivian Wu, Mark Ivanir, Ato Essandoh, Ray Panthaki and Talitha Bateman. The sci-fi drama executive produced by Jason Katims, Matt Reeves & Jessica Goldberg revolves around an American astronaut who leaves behind her husband and daughter to lead an international crew of astronauts on a perilous three-year mission to Mars. Read the rest of this entry »
Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange) to Score Rebecca Hall’s ‘Passing’
Posted: September 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blood Orange, Dev Hynes, Passing, Rebecca Hall
Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) (Queen & Slim, Palo Alto) has revealed in a recent interview with Variety that he is composing the score for the upcoming drama Passing. The film marks the feature directorial debut of actress Rebecca Hall and stars Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland and Alexander Skarsgård. The movie is based on the Harlem Renaissance novel by Nella Larsen and ed the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, each of whom can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line in 1928 Harlem. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Streets of San Francisco’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, TV Music AlbumsTags: A Man Called Sloane, Jack Marshall, Munster Go Home!, Patrick Williams, score, Soundtrack, The Streets of San Francisco
La-La Land Records has announced the first-ever soundtrack release for the classic 70s series The Streets of San Francisco starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as part of the label’s third volume of the Quinn Martin Collection. The album features music from the ABC drama composed by Patrick Williams (Cry-Baby, The Cutting Edge, Columbo, Used Cars, The Toy, Cuba), including the composer’s pilot score and music from nine additional episode. Also included are selections of the composer’s music from the 1979 TV series A Man Called Sloane. The 2-CD set is limited to 2,000 copies and is now available to order in the label’s online store, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Peter Nashel Scoring Alex Gibney’s ‘Totally Under Control’
Posted: September 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Peter Nashel, Suzanne Hillinger, Totally Under Control
Peter Nashel (I, Tonya, Book Club, Marco Polo, The Night Listener, Bee Season) is scoring the upcoming documentary Totally Under Control. The film is directed by Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks), Ophelia Harutyunyan & Suzanne Hillinger and centers on the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic crisis in the US. The movie, which features testimony from public health officials, dates back to this past January when the U.S. and South Korea both discovered their first cases and how nine months later the coronavirus pandemic has told two completely different stories across the two countries. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Forces of Nature’ Score Album Announced
Posted: September 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bronwen Hughes, Forces of Nature, John Powell, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has announced the world premiere official release of the original score from the 1999 romantic comedy Forces of Nature directed by Bronwen Hughes and starring Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn and Blythe Danner. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, Happy Feet, Star Wars: A Solo Story, United 93, Bolt). The CD, which is limited to 1,000 copies, will be available to order on the label’s official website starting at noon today. Read the rest of this entry »
Al Kasha (1937-2020)
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Al Kasha
Songwriter/composer Al Kasha has passed away today at age 83. He is best known for co-writing (with Joel Hirschhorn) numerous songs for stage and screen, including The Morning After from 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure and We May Never Love Like This Again from 1974’s The Towering Inferno, for which he received two Academy Awards. He was also Oscar-nominated for the song Candle on the Water from the 1977 original Pete’s Dragon movie and received a second nomination (shared with Hirschhorn and Irwin Kostal) for the Disney production in the Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score category. Read the rest of this entry »
Laura Karpman Wins Emmy Award for ‘Why We Hate’
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards, Laura Karpman, Why We Hate
Laura Karpman has won her first Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score) category for her score for the episode Tools & Tactics from the Discover docu-series Why We Hate at today’s first part of the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. She has previously been received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the TV series Odyssey 5 and Masters of Science Fiction and is also up for an Emmy this year for her main title theme from Why We Hate. Her score from the series has been released by Lakeshore Records. Read the rest of this entry »
‘House of Cardin’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: House of Cardin, James Peter Moffatt, P. David Ebersole, score, Soundtrack, Todd Hughes
Earth Libraries will release a soundtrack album for the documentary House of Cardin. The album features the film’s original score composed by James Peter Moffatt (Mansfield 66/67). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 15 and will be available to stream/download here. House of Cardin is directed by P. David Ebersole & Todd Hughes and chronicles the life and career of legendary French designer Pierre Cardin. The movie traces traces his origins as an apprentice all the way through to his current position atop a fashion empire. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Willis Scoring Disney+ Series ‘The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse’
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Willis, Disney Plus, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse.
Disney+ announced today that Christopher Willis is returning to compose the music for the streamer’s upcoming animated shorts series The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse. The show is produced by Disney Television Animation with Paul Rudish (Dexter’s Laboratory, Sym-Bionic Titan) serving as executive producer and supervising director. The series follows Mickey and his best pals – Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto – as they embark on their greatest adventures yet and will include stories inspired by various lands at Disney parks and cameos by classic Disney heritage characters. Read the rest of this entry »
