Antonio Pinto (City of God, Lord of War, McFarland, USA, Amy, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind) has composed the original music for the upcoming drama Good Joe Bell. The film is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men) and stars. Mark Wahlberg, Connie Britton, Reid Miller, Maxwell Jenkins and Gary Sinise. The movie tells the true story of a Oregonian father’s walk across the US to raise awareness about the harms of bullying. Dana Ossana & Larry McMurtry (Brokeback Mountain, The Last Picture Show) have written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Antonio Pinto Scoring Reinaldo Marcus Green’s ‘Good Joe Bell’
Posted: September 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Antonio Pinto, Good Joe Bell, Reinaldo Marcus Green
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Original Song ‘Turntables’ by Janelle Monáe from Liz Garbus’ & Lisa Cortés’ ‘All In: The Fight for Democracy’ Released
Posted: September 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: All In: The Fight for Democracy, Amazon, George A. Peters, Janelle Monae, Lisa Cortés, Liz Garbus, Nathaniel Irvin III
Bad Boy Records has released the original song Turntables from the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy. The track is performed by Janelle Monáe and co-written by Monáe herself, Nathaniel Irvin III and George “George 2.0” A. Peters. The song is now available to stream/download as a digital single on Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. All In: The Fight for Democracy is directed by Liz Garbus & Lisa Cortés and – in anticipation of the 2020 presidential election – examines the issue of voter suppression in the United States. The film, which is scored by Gil Talmi (The Great Hack) and also features additional music by Meshell Ndegeocello, interweaves personal experiences with current activism and historical insight to expose a problem that has corrupted our democracy from the very beginning. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Sky’s ‘Little Birds’ Released
Posted: September 8, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Anne Nikitin, Little Birds, score, Sky, Sophia Al-Maria, Soundtrack
SATV has released a soundtrack album for the Sky original series Little Birds. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Anne Nikitin (American Animals, Mrs. Wilson, Lost Girls, The Pale Horse, Calibre, This Beautiful Fantastic) . The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music services. Little Birds is created by Sophia Al-Maria based on Anais Nin’s collection of erotic short stories and stars Juno Temple, Yumna Marwan, Raphael Acloque, Hugh Skinner, Nina Sosanya, Jean-Marc Barr, Rossy De Palma David Costabile, Amy Landecker and Matt Lauria. The 6-part drama is set in Tangier in 1955, in one of the last outposts of colonial decadence, and revolves around a troubled American debutante as she faces a culture shock. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Curious George: Go West Go Wild’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: September 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amanda McBroom, Curious George, Curious George: Go West Go Wild, Germaine Franco, Michele Brourman, Peacock, score, Soundtrack, Yuna
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the animated movie Curious George: Go West Go Wild. The album features the film’s original score composed by Germaine Franco (Tag, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Dope, Little) who previously scored last year’s Curious George: Royal Monkey. Also included are the original songs from the movie written by Michele Brourman & Amanda McBroom: The Other Side by Yuna, as well as five tracks performed by Rob Trow. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 8 and will be available to stream/download here. Curious George: Go West Go Wild is directed by Michael LaBash and features the voices of Frank Welker & Jeff Bennett, as well as Rino Romano as the narrator. Read the rest of this entry »
Dave Kushner & Jose Cancela Scoring Steve Byrne’s ‘The Opening Act’
Posted: September 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dave Kushner, Jose Cancela, Steve Byrne, The Opening Act
Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner (Sons of Anarchy) & Jose Cancela (Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, Kingpin) are scoring the upcoming comedy The Opening Act. The film is written and directed by Steve Byrne and stars Jimmy O. Yang, Alex Moffat, Cedric The Entertainer, Neal Brennan, Ken Jeong, Jermaine Fowler, Debby Ryan, Bill Burr and Russell Peters. The movie follows an aspiring stand-up comedian who is given the opportunity to emcee a comedy show by hid hero, when the realities of life on the stage come crashing in. Read the rest of this entry »
‘World Soundtrack Awards: Tribute to the Film Composer’ Album Announced
Posted: September 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: World Soundtrack Awards
Film Fest Ghent has announced the album World Soundtrack Awards: Tribute to the Film Composer, which features newly recorded pieces by all winners of the festival’s Film Composer of the Year Award, including Angelo Badalamenti, Nicholas Britell, Carter Burwell, Mychael Danna, Alexandre Desplat, Patrick Doyle, Michael Giacchino, Elliot Goldenthal, James Newton Howard, Alberto Iglesias, Jóhann Jóhannsson, John Williams and Gabriel Yared. Among the tracks is the premiere release of the main title track from Fear by Burwell and a suite from the unused score of Troy by Yared. Also included is the first-ever release of the World Soundtrack Awards Fanfare written by Elmer Bernstein and Tribute to the Film Composer, as well as an homage arranged by John Williams that brings together 23 different Oscar-winning or Oscar-nominated film themes. Read the rest of this entry »
Howard Shore Scoring Deepa Mehta’s ‘Funny Boy’
Posted: September 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Deepa Mehta, Funny Boy, Howard Shore
Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Aviator, The Silence of the Lambs, The Departed, Hugo, The Hobbit) has revealed on the latest episode of Score: The Podcast that he has completed his score for the upcoming drama Funny Boy. The film directed by Deepa Mehta (Water, Earth, Fire, Beeba Boys) is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Arjie Chelvaratnam and tells the story a young boy coming to terms with his sexual identity just as political tensions escalate in Sri Lanka in the years leading up to the 1983 riots. Chelvaratnam also wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘P-Valley’ Season 1 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: J. Alphonse Nicholson, P-Valley, Soundtrack, Starz
Lionsgate Records has released a full soundtrack album for the Starz original series P-Valley. The album features the songs from the show’s first season performed by J. Alphonse Nicholson, Jucee Froot’s opening titles song Down in the Valley, as well as tracks by FM NEW MONEY, Tokyo Vanity, Alan Scoop, Harriett D. Foy and Lil’ Bad Cuzzin. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. The label has previously released a number of digital singles and EPs featuring the songs from each episode over the last couple of weeks. P-Valley is created by Katori Hall and stars Brandee Evans, Nicco Annan, Shannon Thornton, Parker Sawyers, Nicholson, Foy, Skyler Joy, Tyler Lepleym Elarica Johnson and Dan J. Johnson. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 6, 2020)
Posted: September 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Newman, Frederik Wiedmann, HBO Max, Hulu, Jeff Cardoni, Jeff Russo, Julie and the Phantoms, L.A.'s Finest, Madagascar: A Little Wild, Mark Crawford, Netflix, Peacock, Pets United, Power Book II: Ghost, Roger Neill, Spectrum, Stanley Clarke, Starz, The Social Dilemma, Unpregnant, Woke
Premiering tonight is the Starz original series Power Book II: Ghost created by Courtney A. Kemp and starring Michael Rainey Jr., Naturi Naughton, Mary J. Blige, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Daniel Bellomy, Paige Hurd,” Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Shane Johnson, Gianni Paolo and Melanie Liburd. The show’s original music is composed by Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, The Night Of, Legion, The Umbrella Academy) who previously scored all episodes of the original Power series. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the drama, which will air every Sunday night on Starz.
Premiering tomorrow, September 7 is DreamWorks Animation’s new TV series Madagascar: A Little Wild executive produced by Johanna Stein & Dana Starfield and starring Tucker Chandler, Amir O’Neil, Shaylin Becton, Luke Lowe, Jasmine Gatewood and Eric Petersen. Frederik Wiedmann (The Dragon Prince, The Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Hangman) who has previously scored DreamWorks Animation TV’s All Hail King Julien is composing the show’s original music. The series, which follows young versions of Alex, Marty, Gloria & Melman from the Madagascar franchise, as they grow up in New York City, will be available to stream on Hulu and Peacock. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Swashbuckler’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Goldstone, John Addison, score, Soundtrack, Swashbuckler
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1976 adventure movie Swashbuckler directed by James Goldstone and starring Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold, Beau Bridges and Geoffrey Holder. The 2-CD set features the original music from the Universal Pictures production composed and conducted by Academy Award winner John Addison (A Bridge Too Far, Tom Sawyer, Sleuth, Torn Curtain, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution), including the composer’s expanded score, as well alternate cues on the first disc and the (remastered) content of the original soundtrack album on the second disc. Visit the label’s official website for the full track list, to check out audio samples and to order the album, which is limited to 2,000 copies.
