WaterTower Music will release the official soundtrack album for the comedy An American Pickle. The album features the film’s original music written by Michael Giacchino (Up, Star Trek, Lost, Ratatouille, Jurassic World, Doctor Strange, The Incredibles) who has provided the original themes and Nami Melumad (Absentia) who has composed the original score. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 7 and will be available to stream/download here. An American Pickle is directed by Brandon Trost and stars Seth Rogen, Maya Erskine, Jorma Taccone and Sarah Snook. The movie is based on Simon Rich’s New Yorker novella and tells the story of a struggling laborer who immigrates to America in 1920 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. Read the rest of this entry »
‘An American Pickle’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: August 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: An American Pickle, HBO Max, Michael Giacchino, Nami Melumad, score, Soundtrack
‘Made in Italy’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Belcher, James D'Arcy, Made in Italy, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande/Music.Film Recordings will release a soundtrack album for comedy Made in Italy. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alex Belcher (Extraction, 21 Bridges, IO). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 7 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon. Made in Italy is written and directed by James D’Arcy and stars Liam Neeson, Valeria Bilello, Micheál Richardson and Lindsay Duncan. The movie is set in the Tuscany and tells the story of a bohemian London artist who returns to Italy with his estranged son to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. Read the rest of this entry »
Roque Banos Scoring HBO Europe’s ’30 Coins’ (’30 Monedas’)
Posted: August 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 30 Coins, 30 Monedas, Alex de la Iglesia, HBO Europe, Roque Banos
Roque Banos (Don’t Breathe, Evil Dead, The Machinist, In the Heart of the Sea, Sexy Beast) is the composer of HBO Europe’s upcoming horror series 30 Coins (30 Monedas). The show is directed by Álex de la Iglesia (The Day of the Beast, Witching and Bitching) and stars Eduard Fernández, Megan Montaner, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Macarena Gómez, Pepón Nieto and Manolo Solo. The series revolves around an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict, who is exiled by the church to a remote town in Spain, where a series of paranormal events expose his past and unravel a conspiracy that will lead straight to the heart of the Vatican. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Gotham’ Season 2, 3, 4 & 5 Soundtrack Albums Released
Posted: August 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: David Russo, Fox, Gotham, score, Soundtrack
Composer David Russo (Pennyworth, Nikita, The Tomorrow People) has released four new soundtrack albums for the Fox drama Gotham. The albums feature selections of the original music from the show’s second, third, fourth and fifth season. The Season 2, Season 3, Season 4 and Season 5 albums are now available to stream/download on Amazon, Apple Music and other digital music stores/services. WaterTower Music has previously released a soundtrack album featuring Russo’s & Graeme Revell’s score from the first season in 2018. Gotham developed by Bruno Heller based on the DC Comics characters and starring Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue,David Mazouz, Sean Pertwee, Zabryna Guevara, Robin Lord Taylor and Erin Richards premiered on between 2014 and 2019 on Fox. Read the rest of this entry »
Ben Frost Scoring HBO Max’s ‘Raised by Wolves’
Posted: August 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aaron Guzikowski, Ben Frost, HBO Max, Raised by Wolves
Ben Frost (Dark, Sleeping Beauty, Fortitude, Super Dark Times) has composed the original score for the upcoming HBO Max original series Raised by Wolves. The show is created by Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners, The Red Road) and stars Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim, Winta McGrath, Niamh Algar, Jordan Loughran, Matias Varela, Felix Jamieson, Ethan Hazzard, Aasiya Shah, Ivy Wong and Travis Fimmel. The sci-fi drama centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) has directed the first two episodes. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Channel 5’s ‘The Deceived’ Announced
Posted: August 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Channel 5, Hannah Peel, score, Soundtrack, The Deceived
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the Channel 5 drama The Deceived. The album features the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominee Hannah Peel (Game of Thrones: The Last Watch). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, August 7 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. The Deceived is written by Lisa McGee & Tobias Beer and stars Emily Reid, Emmett J. Scanlan, Catherine Walker, Eleanor Methven, Ian McElhinney, Shelley Conn, Dempsey Bovell and Paul Mescal. The 4-part psychological thriller directed by Chloe Thoma follows an English student who falls in love with her married lecturer. Read the rest of this entry »
Billy Goldenberg (1936 – 2020)
Posted: August 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Billy Goldenberg
Billy Goldenberg has passed away at age 84. The composer wrote dozens of scores for film and television between the late 60s and late 90s. His best known works include the first theme for Kojak, his scores for seven episodes of Columbo, Herbert Ross’ 1975 feature The Last of Sheila, Michael Schultz’s 1979 comedy Scavenger Hunt, and the themes for the CBS comedy Rhoda, the ABC western Alias Smith and Jones and the NBC drama Our House. He collaborated with Steven Spielberg on two of the director’s early projects, Night Gallery and Duel, and later scored several episodes of the Spielberg-produced anthology series Amazing Stories. Throughout his career, he received over 20 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won the award multiple times for the 1974/75 mini-series The Lives of Benjamin Franklin, the 1978 Martin Luther King Jr. biographical mini-series King and the TV movies Queen of the Stardust Ballroom and Rage of Angels. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bigfoot Family’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Stassen, Bigfoot Family, Jeremy Degruson, Puggy, score, Soundtrack
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature Bigfoot Family. The album features the film’s original score and songs composed by the Belgian band Puggy who have previously scored 2017’s The Son of Bigfoot. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music services. Bigfoot Family is directed by Jeremy Degruson & Ben Stassen (The Wild Life, Fly Me to the Moon 3D) and stars Pappy Faulkner, Lindsay Torrance and Chris Parsons. The movie produced by nWave Pictures follows Adam and his animal friends as they try to find Bigfoot when he mysteriously disappears and save a large wildlife reserve in Alaska. Read the rest of this entry »
Mychael Danna Scoring Tom McCarthy’s ‘Stillwater’
Posted: August 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mychael Danna, Stillwater, Tom McCarthy
Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Capote, The Ice Storm, The Good Dinosaur, The Addams Family) is currently recording his score for the upcoming drama Stillwater. The film is directed by Tom McCarthy (Spotlight, The Visitor, The Station Agent) and stars Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, Camille Cottin and Deanna Dunagan. The movie revolves around a father who travels from Oklahoma to Marseille, France to help his daughter who has been arrested for murder. McCarthy also co-wrote the screenplay with Thomas Bidegain (A Prophet, Rust and Bone) and Noé Debré (Racer and the Jailbird). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Casper’ 25th Anniversary Soundtrack Announced
Posted: August 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brad Silberling, Casper, James Horner, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1995 fantasy comedy drama Casper directed by Brad Silberling and starring Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle and Amy Brenneman featuring the music from the Amblin Entertainment production composed and conducted by Academy Award winner James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Aliens, Field of Dreams). The 2-CD set featured the composer’s expanded score, including previously unreleased music, on the first disc, and a remastered version of the original 1995 soundtrack album on the second disc. The soundtrack, which is limited to 3,000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
