This Is Care Of will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Exit Plan (aka Suicide Tourist). The album features the film’s original music composed by Hess Is More (aka Mikkel Hess) (When Animals Dream, Camping). The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 17, 2020 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Exit Plan is directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby and stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tuva Novotny, Robert Aramayo, Jan Bijvoet, Solbjørg Højfeldt, Sonja Richter, Slimane Dazi, Johanna Wokalek and Lorraine Hilton. The movie centers on an insurance claims investigator Max as he follows the clues of a mysterious death to the remote Hotel Aurora, a unique and secretive facility that specializes in assisted suicide. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Exit Plan’ (‘Suicide Tourist’) Soundtrack Album to Be Released
Posted: July 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Exit Plan, Hess Is More, Jonas Alexander Arnby, Mikkel Hess, score, Soundtrack, Suicide Tourist
Ennio Morricone (1928 – 2020)
Posted: July 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone has passed away at age 91 today in Rome, Italy. The composer has written more than 400 scores for film and television over a six decade-spanning career. His best known film scoring credits include Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars and Once Upon a Time in America, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Roman Polanski’s Frantic, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso, Wolfgang Petersen’s In the Line of Fire and Mike Nichols’ Wolf . He received six Academy Award nominations for his scores for Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, Roland Joffe’s The Mission, Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables, Barry Levinson’s Bugsy, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Malena and won the Oscar for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Perry Mason’ Chapter 3 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Perry Mason, score, Soundtrack, Terence Blanchard
WaterTower Music has released the third soundtrack album for the HBO original series Perry Mason. The album features the original score from the third episode of the show composed by Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Inside Man, 25th Hour). Also included are two tracks performed by Josephine Foster and The Victor Herrero Band. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. The label has previously released two albums featuring the music from Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. A full soundtrack will be coming out at the season’s end. Perry Mason is developed by Ron Fitzgerald & Rolin Jones based on characters from Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels and stars Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Shea Whigham, Tatiana Maslany, John Lithgow, Chris Chalk, Stephen Root and Nate Corddry. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 5, 2020)
Posted: July 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Albert Fox, Apple TV +, Blake Neely, Close Enough, Cornel Wilczek, Dustin O'Halloran, Greyhound, Hanan Townshend, HBO Max, Japan Sinks: 2020, Jeff Morrow, Jeff Russo, John Enroth, Kensuke Ushio, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado, Netflix, Outcry, Showtime, Stateless, The Old Guard, Unsolved Mysteries, Volker Bertelmann, Warrior Nun, West Dylan Thordson
Premiering tonight is the Showtime docu-series Outcry directed by Pat Kondelis. The show’s original music is composed by Hanan Townshend (Knights of Cup, To the Wonder, Semper Fi, The Vessel). The 5-parter examines the story of high school football star Greg Kelley who was arrested, convicted and jailed for sexual assault of a 4-year-old boy, and his supporters’ quest for truth and justice. To learn more about the series, which will air every Sunday night on Showtime, visit the official show website.
Premiering on Wednesday, July 8 is the Australian limited series Stateless created by Cate Blanchett, Elise McCredie & Tony Ayres and starring Blanchett, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominic West and Jai Courtney. Cornel Wilczek (Glitch, These Final Hours, Nowhere Boys) has composed the show’s original music. The drama follows four strangers as they intersect at an Australian immigration detention center. The series premiered earlier this year in Australia on ABC and is making its U.S. debut on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
George Kallis to Score ‘The Last Warrior: The Root of Evil’
Posted: July 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dmitry Dyachenko, George Kallis, The Last Warrior, The Last Warrior: The Root of Evil
George Kallis (Cliffs of Freedom, The Black Prince, Albion: The Enchanted Stallion, 93 Days) has signed on to score the two sequels to Disney’s Russian fantasy adventure The Last Warrior (Posledni Bogatyr). The first sequel, The Last Warrior: The Root of Evil, is directed by Dmitry Dyachenko and stars Victor Khorinyak, Elena Yakovleva, Ekaterina Vilkova, Konstantin Lavronenko and Evgeny Dyatlov. The project is produced by Disney CIS, Yellow Black and White. Kallis has previously composed the music for the 2017 original film and his score is available on Walt Disney Records. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Money Plane’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Lawrence, David Bateman, Money Plane, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album will be released for the action thriller Money Plane. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Bateman (A New Christmas, The Assault, A Girl Like Her). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, July 10 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Money Plane is directed by Andrew Lawrence and stars Adam Copeland, Thomas Jane, Denise Richards and Kelsey Grammer. The movie follows a professional thief with $40 million in debt and his family’s life on the line must commit one final heist – rob a futuristic airborne casino filled with the world’s most dangerous criminals. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 3, 2020)
Posted: July 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexei Aigui, Anne Nikitin, Brian Reitzell, Four Kids and It, John Lewis: Good Trouble, Larry Groupe, Relic, Tamar-Kali, The Outpost, The Truth
Opening in select theaters and on VOD today is the war drama The Outpost directed by Rod Lurie and starring Scott Eastwood, Orlando Bloom, Caleb Landry Jones, Kwame Patterson and Cory Hardrict. The film’s original music is composed by Larry Groupé (The Contender, Commander-in-Chief, Resurrecting the Champ, Nothing But the Truth, Straw Dogs). La-La Land Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score later this month. Check back on this page for the full album details and visit out our previous article to learn more about the movie, which is being distributed by Screen Media Films.
Also opening in select U.S. theaters and on VOD is the French drama The Truth (La vérité) directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke and Ludivine Sagnier. Alexei Aigui (The Young Karl Marx, I Am Not Your Negro) has composed the film’s original music. Music Box Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score when the movie opened overseas earlier this year. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the IFC Films release. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Mothersbaugh, Albert Fox & John Enroth Scoring HBO Max’s ‘Close Enough’
Posted: July 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Albert Fox, Close Enough, HBO Max, JG Quintel, John Enroth, Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh, Albert Fox & John Enroth have composed the original score for the new HBO Max original series Close Enough. The show is created by JG Quintel and features the voices of Quintel himself, James Adomian, Danielle Brooks, Jason Mantzoukas, Jessica DiCicco and Gabrielle Walsh. The animated comedy centers on a married couple, their five-year-old daughter, and their two divorced best friends/roommates all living together on the east side of Los Angeles as they are navigating that transitional time in your 30s when life is about growing up, but not growing old. Read the rest of this entry »
‘No. 7 Cherry Lane’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: July 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chapavich Temnitikul, No. 7 Cherry Lane, Phasura Chanvititkul, score, Soundtrack, Yonfan, Yu Yat-Yiu
Milan Records has announced a soundtrack album for the animated feature No. 7 Cherry Lane. The album features the film’s original music composed by director Yonfan, Yu Yat-Yiu and Chapavich Temnitikul. The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, July 10 and will be available to stream/download here. No. 7 Cherry Lane is written and directed by Yonfan (Bishonen) and stars Sylvia Chang, Zhao Wei, Alex Lam, Kelly Yao and Daniel Wu. The film is set in the politically charged Hong Kong of the 1960s and tells the story of an English literature student who enters into a love triangle with the woman he is tutoring and her middle-aged mother. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for Pixar SparkShorts’ ‘Out’ Released
Posted: July 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Plus, Jake Monaco, Out, Pixar, score, Soundtrack, Sparkshorts, Steven Hunter
Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack EP for Pixar SparkShorts’ Out. The 3-track EP features the film’s original score composed by Jake Monaco (Dumplin’, Let’s Be Cops, Keeping Up with the Joneses, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie) who has previously scored Pixar’s Lamp Life and Forky Asks a Question and served as the score arranger of the Pixar short Piper. Also included is the song Pink & Purple written and performed by Natasha Adorlee. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Out is written and directed by Steven Hunter and features the voices of Caleb Cabrera, Matthew Martin, Kyle McDaniel and Bernadette Sullivan. Read the rest of this entry »
