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 »
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
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‘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 »
‘Wish Upon a Unicorn’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Frederik Wiedmann, score, Soundtrack, Steve Bencich, Wish Upon a Unicorn
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the family fantasy adventure Wish Upon a Unicorn. The album features the film’s original music composed by Frederik Wiedmann (The Dragon Prince, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Doom: Annihilation, Field of Lost Shoes, Hangman). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 15 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music services. Wish Upon a Unicorn is directed by Steve Bencich and stars Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Summer Fontana, Kevin J. O’Connor, Tait Blum and Jonathan Lajoie. The movie tells the story of two sister and their father who move from the city to the country to live on a farm with their grandmother, when they miraculously discover and befriend a baby unicorn. Read the rest of this entry »
Mondo Boys Scoring Eshom Nelms’ & Ian Nelms’ ‘Fatman’
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eshom Nelms, Fatman, Ian Nelms, Mondo Boys
Mondo Boys (Phoenix Forgotten, The Girlfriend Experience, She Dies Tomorrow, Dave Made a Maze) have composed the original music for the upcoming comedy Fatman. The film is written and directed by Eshom Nelms & Ian Nelms (Small Town Crime, Waffle Street) and stars Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The movie follows a 12-year-old boy who hires a hitman to kill Santa Claus after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood’ (‘Oktoberfest 1900’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Michael Klaukien, Netflix, Oktoberfest 1900, Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood, score, Soundtrack
2 Lane Records has released a soundtrack album for the German limited series Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood (Oktoberfest 1900). The album features the show’s original score composed by Michael Klaukien (Vares: The Sheriff, Tatort), as well as other music from the drama. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list. Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood is created by Christian Limmer, Ronny Schalk & Alexis von Wittgenstein, directed by Hannu Salonen and stars Misel Maticevic, Martina Gedeck, Klaus Steinbacher, Mercedes Muller, Maximilian Brückner, Brigitte Hobmeier, Markus Krojer and Martin Feifel. The 6-parter is set in 1900 Munich and follows an ambitious brewer who uses brutal tactics on his quest to build a beer hall that will dominate the city’s lucrative Oktoberfest. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 13, 2020)
Posted: September 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Danny Bensi, Dev Hynes, Dickon Hinchliffe, Enslaved, Epix, HBO, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Leo Birenberg, Mac Quayle, Matthijs Kieboom, Nainita Desai, Netflix, PBS, Ratched, Saunder Jurriaans, The Devil All the Time, The Third Day, Van der Valk, We Are Who We Are
Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the reboot of the classic detective series Van der Valk written by Chris Murray and starring Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Darrell D’Silva and Emma Fielding. The show’s original music is composed and conducted by Matthijs Kieboom (Wild, Bloody Marie). All3Media has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this year when the drama premiered in the UK. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which is premiering stateside on PBS.
Premiering tomorrow, September 14, is the HBO limited series The Third Day created by Felix Barrett & Dennis Kelly, directed by Marc Munden and Philippa Lowthorpe and starring Jude Law, Naomie Harris, Katherine Waterston, Paddy Considine, Emily Watson, Nico Parker and Charlotte Gairdner-Mihell. Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Utopia, The Girl with All the Gifts, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) and Dickon Hinchliffe (Winter’s Bone, Locke, Out of the Furnace) have composed the show’s original music. To learn more about the drama, which centers on a small island town and its denizens’ uncanny rituals, visit the official show website. Read the rest of this entry »
