Nainita Desai (For Sama, Enemy Within, Telling Lies, Fierce Queens, The Reason I Jump) has recently scored the new Netflix original documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door. The film is directed by Jenny Popplewell and examines the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and the terrible events that followed. The movie is told entirely through archival footage that includes social media posts, law enforcement recordings, text messages and never-before-seen home videos. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded and Remastered ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 21, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Kevin Reynolds, Michael Kamen, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new 4-CD soundtrack set for Kevin Reynolds’ 1991 adventure movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Alan Rickman. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the Warner Bros. Pictures/Morgan Creek production composed and conducted by Michael Kamen (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, X-Men, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Band of Brothers), including almost half an hour of previously unreleased music. The first two discs include the composer’s expanded score, the third disc features alternate takes and additional music and the fourth disc includes the assembly of the original 1991 soundtrack album. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian McOmber Scoring Showtime’s ‘Kingdom of Silence’
Posted: September 21, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian McOmber, Kingdom of Silence, Rick Rowley, Showtime
Brian McOmber (It Comes at Night, Krisha, Blow the Man Down, Little Woods, Mickey and the Bear) is the composer of the new Showtime documentary Kingdom of Silence. The film is directed by Rick Rowley (Dirty Wars) and examines the complex relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and how the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi amplified entanglements between the two countries. Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) is executive producing the Jigsaw production with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright (The Looming Tower, Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief), Stacey Offman (The Innocence Files, Dirty Money), Richard Perello (Super Troopers, Beerfest) and Vinnie Malhotra (Outcry, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men). Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘We Are Who We Are’ Announced
Posted: September 21, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Blood Orange, Dev Hynes, HBO, Luca Guadagnino, score, Soundtrack, We Are Who We Are
Milan Records has announced a soundtrack album for the HBO limited series We Are Who We Are. The album features 12 tracks from the show’s original score composed by Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) (Queen & Slim, Palo Alto, Mainstream). Also included are four previously released instrumental tracks from composers Julius Eastman and John Adams. The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 2, 2020 and will be available to stream/download here. We Are Who We Are is written and directed by Luca Guadagnino and stars Jack Dylan Grazer, Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga, Spence Moore II, Kid Cudi, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Faith Alabi, Francesca Scorsese, Ben Taylor, Corey Knight, Tom Mercier and Sebastiano Pigazzi. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe to Score Camille Griffin’s ‘Silent Night’
Posted: September 21, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Camille Griffin, Lorne Balfe, Silent Night
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The LEGO Batman Movie, Bad Boys for Life, The Crown, Genius, Home) has been hired to score the upcoming comedy Silent Night. The film is written and directed by Camille Griffin and stars Keira Knightley, Roman Griffin Davis, Matthew Goode, Annabelle Wallis, Lily-Rose Depp, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Lucy Punch, Rufus Jones, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù and Davida McKenzie. The movie revolves around an extended family who come together for a Christmas dinner. Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class, Kingsman series, Layer Cake) is producing the project for Marv Films, alongside Trudie Styler (Moon, Filth) and Celine Rattray (The Kids Are Alright, Bernie) for Maven Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Thou Shalt Not Hate’ (‘Non Odiare’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 21, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aldo De Scalzi, Mauro Mancini, Non Odiare, Pivio, score, Soundtrack, Thou Shalt Not Hate
I dischi dell’Espleta has released a soundtrack album for the Italian drama Thou Shalt Not Hate (Non Odiare). The album features the film’s original music composed by Pivio & Aldo De Scalzi (We Can Do That, Love and Bullets, Song of Napoli, Game Therapy). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list. Thou Shalt Not Hate is co-written and directed by Mauro Mancini and stars Alessandro Gassman, Sara Serraiocco and Luka Zunic. The movie follows a renowned surgeon of Jewish origin who finds himself assisting a victim of a hit and run accident. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Blair & Brooke Blair Scoring Oz Rodriguez’s ‘Vampires vs. the Bronx’
Posted: September 21, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brooke Blair, Netflix, Oz Rodriguez, Vampires vs. the Bronx, Will Blair
Will Blair & Brooke Blair (Green Room, Hold the Dark, Blue Ruin, Black Christmas, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore) have composed the original score for the new Netflix original film Vampires vs. the Bronx. The movie is directed by Oz Rodriguez and stars Jaden Michael, Gerald W. Jones III, Gregory Diaz IV, Sarah Gadon, Method Man, Shea Whigham, Coco Jones, The Kid Mero, Chris Redd, Vladimir Caamaño, Jeremie Harris, Adam David Thompson and Zoe Saldana.The horror comedy centers on three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood as they stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 20, 2020)
Posted: September 20, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Apple TV +, Benedict Men, Daniel Pemberton, Disney Plus, Enola Holmes, Filthy Rich, Fox, Haim Mazar, HBO Max, Jeff Russo, Jeff Toyne, Jeremy Zuckerman, Leo Birenberg, Mark Eliyahu, Netflix, Niall Byrne, Quibi, Secret Society of Second Born Royals, Sneakerheads, Tehran, The Murders at White House Farm, The Playbook, Tony Morales, Utopia
Premiering tomorrow, September 21, is the Fox drama Filthy Rich created by Tate Taylor and starring Kim Cattrall, Gerald McRaney, David Denman, Melia Kreiling, Aubrey Dollar, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Mark L. Young, Olivia Macklin and Steve Harris. The show’s original music is composed by Jeff Toyne (Rogue, Dirty Girl, 9/11, Hot Bot, You Me Her). Check out our previous news article for more information about the series, which will air every Monday night on Fox.
Also premiering tomorrow is the Quibi docu-series Benedict Men executive produced by Stephen Curry, Mike Basone, Mark Ciardi, Darin Friedman,Erick Peyton, Jeron Smith, Nate Gaines, Charles Segars and Dominic Ianno. Tony Morales (Elena of Avalor, Bloodline, The Bag Man, The Fugitive, An Actor Prepares, In Your Eyes) has composed the show’s original music. The series, which chronicles life at all-boys school St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, N.J., will be available to stream exclusively on Quibi. 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
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 »
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 »
