Orange Mountain Music will release a soundtrack album for the documentary The Last Dalai Lama?. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Philip Glass (The Hours, Notes on a Scandal, The Illusionist, Candyman, Kundun) & Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal and performed by Glass and Michael Riesman on pianos, Choegyal on vocals and various Tibetan instruments, Tim Fain on Violin, Robert Black on double bass, and the Scorchio String. Also incuded is Glass’s own live performance of Mad Rush, composed for the Dalai Lama’s first public address in New York in 1978. The soundtrack will be released on July 24 and is now available for pre-order on Apple Music/iTunes. A CD version will be available to order on Amazon soon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Last Dalai Lama?’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: June 25, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mickey Lemle, Philip Glass, score, Soundtrack, Tenzin Choegyal, The Last Dalai Lama?
‘The Old Guard’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: June 25, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dustin O'Halloran, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Hauschka, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, The Old Guard, Volker Bertelmann
Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Netflix original film The Old Guard. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Academy Award nominees Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) & Dustin O’Halloran (Lion, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Ammonite, A Christmas Carol). The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 10, 2020 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Old Guard is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and stars Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The movie based on the graphic novel by Greg Rucka follows four undying warriors who’ve secretly protected humanity for centuries an become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal. Read the rest of this entry »
Hannes De Maeyer to Score Adil El Arbi’s & Bilall Fallah’s ‘Rebel’
Posted: June 25, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Hannes De Maeyer, Rebel
Hannes De Maeyer is attached to score the upcoming Belgian coming-of-age drama Rebel. The film is directed by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys for Life) and stars Amir El Arbi, Aboubakr Bensaihi and Lubna Azabal. The movie revolves around a 13-year-old Moroccan boy from Molenbeek as he is searching for an identity after his father’s death. El Arbi and Fallah also co-wrote the screenplay with Jan Van Dyck and Kevin Meul. Bert Hamelinck (The Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Rider) and Dimitri Verbeeck are producing the Caviar, Beluga Tree, Calach Films and Le Collectif 64 production. De Maeyer (Rafaël, Torpedo) has previously collaborated with the directors on the features Gangsta, Black and Image. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Buddy Holly Story’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Announced
Posted: June 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Soundtrack, Steve Rash, The Buddy Holly Story
Varese Sarabande has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1978 biographical drama The Buddy Holly Story directed by Steve Rash and starring Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis, William Jordan and Maria Richwine. The album features the songs from the movie, including eleven tracks not included on the original soundtrack, such as That’ll Be the Day, Mockingbird Hill and Tennessee Waltz performed by Busey (as Buddy Holly), Chantilly Lace performed by Gailard Sartain (as the Big Bopper) and You Send Me performed by Paul Mooney (as Sam Cooke). The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on August 21, 2020. Visit Amazon to order the CD and vinyl versions. Read the rest of this entry »
The Chainsmokers & Andrew Hollander Scoring Thor Freudenthal’s ‘Words on Bathroom Walls’
Posted: June 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Hollander, The Chainsmokers, Thor Freudenthal, Words on Bathroom Walls
The Chainsmokers have made their film scoring debut on the upcoming drama Words on Bathroom Walls. The EDM duo has co-scored the movie with composer Andrew Hollander (Waitress, Sleepwalk with Me, Gray Matters, Serious Moonlight). The movie is directed by Thor Freudenthal (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters) and stars Charlie Plummer, Taylor Russell, Andy Garcia, AnnaSophia Robb, Beth Grant, Devon Bostick, Lobo Sebastian, Molly Parker and Walton Goggins. The teen drama is based on Julia Walton’s YA novel of the same title and follows a young adult with raging hormones that has dreams of becoming a chef, when he is diagnosed with mental illness that he keeps secret at his new school. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: June 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Atli Orvarsson, David Dobkin, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Netflix, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga have been revealed. The album features the songs from the movie performed by Will Ferrell, My Marianne, Demi Lovato, Erik Mjöne, Savan Kotecha, Anteros, Salvador Sobral & others. Also included is a score suite by the movie’s composer Atli Orvarsson (The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Defending Jacob, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 26 by Arista Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is directed by David Dobkin and stars Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Pierce Brosnan, Dan Stevens and Lovato. The comedy follows two aspiring musicians as they are given the opportunity of a lifetime to represent their country at the world’s biggest song competition, where they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for. Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary Scoring Tate Taylor’s ‘Ava’
Posted: June 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ava, Bear McCreary, Tate Taylor
Bear McCreary has recently scored the upcoming action thriller Ava. The film is directed by Tate Taylor (The Help, Ma, The Girl on the Train) and stars Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, Common, John Malkovich, Geena Davsi, Ioan Gruffudd and Joan Chen. The movie revolves around a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival. Matthew Newton wrote the screenplay. Chastain is also producing the project with Kelly Carmichael (The Chaperone), alongside Voltage Pictures’ Nicolas Chartier (The Hurt Locker, Killer Joe) & Dominic Rustam (I Feel Pretty). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hurt by Paradise’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: June 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dalal Bruchmann, Greta Bellamacina, Hurt by Paradise, Jeff Franzel, score, Soundtrack
Golden Eagle Entertainment will release a soundtrack album for the British drama Hurt by Paradise. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dalal Bruchmann and Jeff Franzel. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 26 and is now available for pre-order on Apple Music/iTunes. A first track was released earlier this month and is now available to stream/download here. Hurt by Paradise is directed by Greta Bellamacina who also stars in the movie, alongside Camilla Rutherford, Anna Brewster and Sadie Brown. The film centers on a young mother trying to carve out a career as a poet in modern-day London. Read the rest of this entry »
Glen Keane’s ‘Over the Moon’ to Feature Score by Steven Price & Original Songs by Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield & Helen Park
Posted: June 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Curtis, Glen Keane, Helen Park, Marjorie Duffield, Over the Moon, Steven Price
Netflix announced today that Steven Price (Gravity, Our Planet, Fury, Suicide Squad, The Aeronauts, Wonder Park) is composing the original score for the upcoming animated musical Over the Moon. Christopher Curtis (Chaplin: The Musical), Marjorie Duffield and Helen Park (KPOP The Musical) have written original songs to the film, which is directed by Glen Keane (Dear Basketball) and features the voice talent of Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, Robert G. Chiu, Ken Jeong, John Cho, Ruthie Ann Miles, Margaret Cho, Kimiko Glenn, Artt Butler and Sandra Oh. The movie follows a girl who fueled with determination and a passion for science – builds a rocket ship and blasts off, hoping to meet a mythical moon goddess. Read the rest of this entry »
Theodore Shapiro to Score Michael Showalter’s ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’
Posted: June 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Michael Showalter, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Theodore Shapiro
Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada, Tropic Thunder, Bombshell, Spy, Ghostbusters) has been tapped to score the upcoming biographical drama The Eyes of Tammy Faye. The film is directed by Michael Showalter (The Big Sick, Hello, My Name Is Doris) and stars Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Sam Jaeger, Vincent D’Onofrio, Gabriel Olds, Mark Wystrach, Chandler Hand, Fredric Lehne and Jay Hugule. The movie is based on the 2000 documentary of the same title by Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato and tells the story of the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker e and her husband, Jim Bakker, who rose from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance and prosperity. Read the rest of this entry »
