Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Australian comedy Below. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ned Beckley (White Rabbit Project) & Josh Hogan. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, July 3 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Below is directed by Maziar Lahooti and stars Ryan Corr, Anthony LaPaglia, Phoenix Raei, Alison Whyte, Morgana O’Reilly and Zenia Star. The movie is set in the near future and follows a darknet grifter as he is recruited to work security at a refugee detention center. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Below’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Below, Josh Hogan, Maziar Lahooti, Ned Beckley, score, Soundtrack
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James Newton Howard to Score Paul Greengrass’ ‘News of the World’
Posted: July 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James Newton Howard, News of the World, Paul Greengrass
James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, The Sixth Sense, King Kong, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Signs, The Fugitive) has been tapped to score the upcoming drama News of the World. The film is directed by Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy/Ultimatum, United 93, Captain Phillips) and stars Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Michael Covino, Fred Hechinger and Thomas Francis Murphy. The movie based on the best-selling 2016 novel of the same title by Paulette Jiles is set in the days following the Civil War and centers on the the unlikely friendship between Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an early precursor to today’s newscasters, and a 10-year-old girl he is tasked with bringing to her relatives. Luke Davies (Lion, Catch-22) wrote the original screenplay with revisions by Greengrass. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for RTÉ’s ‘Resistance’ Released
Posted: July 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Rebellion, Resistance, RTÉ, score, Soundtrack, Vince Pope
Zodiak Music has released soundtrack album for the Irish mini-series Resistance. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Vince Pope (No Offence, Tigers Are Not Afraid, Black Mirror: Be Right Back, Misfits). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Resistance is created by Colin Teevan and stars Brian Gleeson, Aoife Duffin, Simone Kirby, Natasha O’Keeffe and Gavin Drea. The 5-parrt drama is the sequel to 2016’s Rebellion (scored by Stephen Rennicks) and centers on the events surrounding the Irish War of Independence during the time of Bloody Sunday in 1920. Read the rest of this entry »
West Dylan Thordson Scoring Netflix’s ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Reboot
Posted: July 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Netflix, Unsolved Mysteries, West Dylan Thordson
West Dylan Thordson (Split, Glass, Foxcatcher, Joy) has composed the original music for Netflix’s new reboot of the docu-series Unsolved Mysteries. The modern take on the classic series is rooted in the experiences of ordinary people who have lived the unthinkable – from the trauma of a loved one’s unexplained disappearance or horrific death, to the shock of a bizarre paranormal encounter. Each episode will focus on one mystery and once again will look to viewers to help aid investigators in closing the book on long outstanding cases. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Darkness Falls’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Darkness Falls, Julien Seri, Sacha Chaban, score, Soundtrack
1908 Scoring Studios has released a soundtrack album for the crime thriller Darkness Falls. The album features the film’s original music composed by Sacha Chaban (Girls with Balls, Redemption Day, Breaking & Exiting). The soundtrack is now available to stream and download on Amazon, where you can also checkout audio clips. Darkness Falls is directed by Julien Seri and stars Shawn Ashmore, Gary Cole, Daniella Alonso and Lin Shaye. The movie centers on a detective investigating his wife’s death who finds out she was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers and sets out to stop them. Read the rest of this entry »
Max Richter, Jeff Russo, Blake Neely, Tamar-kali, Michael Nyman & Others Invited to Join Academy
Posted: June 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 819 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures to join the organization. Among the invited artists this year are a number of film composers, including Max Richter (Ad Astra, Hostiles), Jeff Russo (Lucy in the Sky, Mile 22), Jung Jae-Il (Parasite, Okja), Blake Neely (Life As We Know It, Greyhound), Tamar-Kali Brown (Mubound, The Assistant), Michael Nyman (Gattaca, The Piano), Bryce Dessner (Irresistible, The Two Popes), Tom Howe (A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Early Man), Robert Glasper (Miles Ahead, The Photograph), Ilan Eshkeri (Stardust, The Young Victoria), Nainita Desai (For Sama, The Reason I Jump), Roger Neill (20th Century Women, Beginners), Arturo Sandoval (Richard Jewell, The Mule), Anton Sanko (Ouija, The Possession), Andrea Guerra (The Pursuit of Happyness, Hotel Rwanda), Cyril Morin (Zaytoun, Samsara), Jermaine Stegall (Proximity, Jamesy Boy), Lele Marchitelli (Loro, The Great Beauty), Peter Kam (Dragon, The Warlords), Khaled Mouzanar (Capernaum, Where Do We Go Now?), Sattar Oraki (The Salesman, Give Back), Chanda Dancy (After We Leave, Everything before Us), Michiru Oshima (Memories of Tomorrow, Lost Paradise), Arhynn Descy (Eye for an Eye, 50 Kisses), Park Inyoung (Pieta, Poongsan) and Devonté “Blood Orange” Hynes (Queen & Slim). Read the rest of this entry »
Terence Blanchard to Score Halle Berry’s ‘Bruised’
Posted: June 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bruised, Halle Berry, Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Inside Man, Malcolm X, 25th Hour, Da 5 Bloods) has been hired to score the upcoming drama Bruised. The film marks the directorial debut of actress Halle Berry who also stars in the movie as Jackie Justice, a washed-up MMA wrestler who has to conquer her own demons, face one of the fiercest rising stars of the MMA world and and deal with the return of her 6-year-old son. Shamier Anderson, Adan Canto and Sheila Atim are co-starring. Michelle Rosenfarb wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘We Bare Bears: The Movie’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: June 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brad Breeck, Daniel Chong, Soundtrack, We Bare Bears, We Bare Bears: The Movie
WaterTower Music and Cartoon Network have released a soundtrack EP for the animated comedy We Bare Bears: The Movie. The 3-track EP features the songs We’ll Be There, On the Road to Canada and Place for Me written by Daniel Chong, Estelle Swaray, Ivan Barias & Louie Zong, produced by the movie’s composer Brad Breeck and performed by the film’s cast. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. Also listen to all three songs after the jump. We Bare Bears: The Movie is directed by Chong and features the voices of Eric Edelstein, Bobby Moynihan, Demetri Martin and Marc Evan Jackson. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Scheme Birds’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Charlie Jefferson, Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin, Scheme Birds, score, Soundtrack
Manners McDade has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Scheme Birds. The album features the film’s original score composed by Charlie Jefferson. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Scheme Birds is directed by Ellinor Hallin & Ellen Fiske and tells the story of a teenage troublemaker from Motherwell, Scotland, as she is growing up in her world of violence and pigeons. The Swedish/UK co-production. The documentary premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary Feature and Best New Documentary Director, and is being released in the UK on VOD today. Read the rest of this entry »
Johnny Mandel (1925 – 2020)
Posted: June 29, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel has passed away at 94. The Grammy Award-winning composer wrote numerous scores and songs for film and TV between the late 50s and early 90s and was also known for writing and arranging other popular songs. Among his best known film scoring credits are Robert Altman’s 1970 classic MASH (for which he also wrote the theme song Suicide Is Painless), Harold Ramis’ 1980 comedy Caddyshack, Hal Ashby’s comedy dramas Being There and The Last Detail, Disney’s original Freaky Friday and Escape to Witch Mountain movies, Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict and Death Trap, John Boorman’s 1967 thriller Point Blank, Michael Apted’s 1979 thriller Agatha and Jack Smight’s 1966 crime drama Harper. He won the Academy Award for co-writing the original song The Shadow of Your Smile from 1965’s The Sandpiper with Paul Francis Webster and received another Oscar nomination for the song A Time for Love from 1966’s An American Dream (also featuring lyrics by Webster). Read the rest of this entry »
