Chris Westlake (Castle Rock, Before We Go, Small Town Crimes, Transit, Midnighters) is the composer of the new Hulu original series Solar Opposites. The show is created by Justin Roiland (Rick & Morty) & Mike McMahan and features the voices of Roiland himself, Sean Giambrone, Thomas Middleditch and Mary Mac. The animated comedy centers around a team of four aliens who escape their exploding home world only to crash land into a move-in ready home in suburban America. Roiland and McMahan are also executive producing the 20th Century Fox Television production with Josh Bycel (Scrubs, Happy Endings). Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Westlake Scoring Hulu’s ‘Solar Opposites’
Posted: May 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Westlake, Hulu, Justin Roiland, Solar Opposites
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‘Normal People’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Hulu, Lenny Abrahamson, Normal People, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Rennicks
Element Pictures has released a soundtrack album for the BBC/Hulu limited series Normal People. The album features the show’s original music composed by Stephen Rennicks (Room, Frank, The Little Stranger, What Richard Did, Rebellion, Birthmarked). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Normal People is written by Sally Rooney & Alice Birch based on Rooney’s New York Times best-selling novel of the same name and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal. The drama produced by Lenny Abrahams revolves around the complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in a small town in the west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 1, 2020)
Posted: May 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Billy Jupp, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Devin Burrows, Endings Beginnings, JB Dunckel, Philip Ekstrom, The Flood, The Infiltrators, The Wretched, tomandandy
Opening in virtual theaters today is the documentary Capital in the Twenty-First Century directed by Justin Pemberton and based on the international bestseller by French economist Thomas Piketty. The film’s original music composed by AIR’s JB Dunckel (K.O., The Summer of Sangaile, Cyprien). Prototype Recording has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score in March. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Kino Lorber release, which explores wealth and power and shines a light on today’s growing inequality.
Also opening in virtual theaters before premiering on VOD on June 2 is the documentary The Infiltrators directed by Alex Rivera & Cristina Ibarra about a group of young immigrants who get detained by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center – on purpose. tomandandy (The Strangers, Resident Evil: Retribution, The Mothman Prophecies, The Rules of Attraction) have composed the film’s original music. No word on a soundtrack release. The movie, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, is being released by Oscilloscope Laboratories. Visit the official movie website for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Trying’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Guy Garvey, Paul Saunderson, Soundtrack, Trying
Polydor Records has released a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series Trying. The album features the original songs from the show composed by Guy Garvey & Peter Jobson (Cleaning Up, Dead in a Week or Money Back) &Paul Saunderson (Three Identical Strangers, Starfish, The More You Ignore Me, Strike Back) and performed by artists such as Garvey himself, Isaac Gracie, Chilli Chilton, Hattie Whitehead, Sheila Atim, Maisie Peters and Marie White. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes. Trying is created by Andy Wolton and stars Rafe Spall, Esther Smith and Imelda Staunton. The British comedy follows a couple as they try for adoption after discovering they are unable to have children naturally. Read the rest of this entry »
Ram Khatabakhsh to Score Steven Quale’s ‘Alphas’
Posted: May 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alphas, Ram Khatabakhsh, Steven Quale
Ram Khatabakhsh (The Hunger Games Exhibition, Portals, Transformers Autobots) has signed on to score the upcoming thriller Alphas. The film is directed by Steven Quale (Into the Storm, Final Destination 5, Aliens of the Deep) and stars Sam Worthington as an environmentalist who is tasked with finding a natural solution to the shark problem after the local Great White population spirals out of control and must convince the owner of a killer whale sanctuary to unleash the orca that nearly killed her when she was attacked by the star of her own show. Frank Hannah (The Cooler) wrote the screenplay based on an original story by himself and Christopher Tuffin (Peppermint). Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Amazon’s ‘ZeroZeroZero’ Released
Posted: May 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Mogwai, score, Soundtrack, ZeroZeroZero
Mogwai (The Returned, Kin, Before the Blood) have released their score for the Sky Atlantic and Amazon original series ZeroZeroZero. The album is now available on Bandcamp for one week exclusively on a pay-what-you-can basis with half of proceeds going to Help Musicians and NHS charities. The album will be available to stream/download on Amazon later this month. ZeroZeroZero is created by Stefano Sollima, Leonardo Fasoli & Mauricio Katz based on the novel of the same title by Roberto Saviano and stars Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan and Gabriel Byrne. The crime drama traces the global cocaine trade by following one shipment on its journey around the world. The series premiered earlier this year in the U.S. Spain and Latin America on Amazon Prime and on Sky Atlantic in several European markets. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Das Boot’ Season 2 Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Das Boot, Hulu, Matthias Weber, score, Sky, Soundtrack
Bavaria Sonor Mediathek has released a soundtrack album for the Sky sequel series Das Boot. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Matthias Weber (The Dark Valley, My Best Enemy). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. The label has previously released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score from the first season. Season 2 of Das Boot is directed by Matthias Glasner & Rick Ostermann and stars Vicky Krieps, Tom Wlaschiha, Rick Okon, Vincent Kartheiser, Fleur Geffrier, Thierry Frémont, Rainer Bock, Leonard Scheicher, Robert Stadlober, Franz Dinda, Stefan Konarske, Leon Lukas Blaschke and Pit Bukowski who reprise their roles from the first season. Read the rest of this entry »
‘My Brilliant Friend’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Max Richter, My Brilliant Friend, score, Soundtrack
The details of the new soundtrack album for the HBO original series My Brilliant Friend have been revealed. The album features selections of the music from the second season of the show composed by Max Richter (The Leftovers, Ad Astra, Mary Queen of Scots, Hostiles, Waltz with Bashir, Miss Sloane, Taboo). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 1 by Deutsche Grammophon and will be availabl to stream/download on Amazon. The label has previously released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score from Season 1. My Brilliant Friend based on the bestselling books by Elena Ferrante is co-written and directed by Saverio Costanzo and stars Elisa Del Genio, Ludovica Nasti, Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace. The series’ second season aired in Italy earlier this year on RAI and currently premieres in the U.S. every Monday night on HBO. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Devs’ Soundtrack Album to Be Released
Posted: April 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alex Garland, Ben Salisbury, Devs, Geoff Barrow, Hulu, score, Soundtrack, The Insects
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the FX on Hulu original series Devs. The album features the show’s original music composed by Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Annihilation, Ex Machina, Hanna, Luce, Free Fire) and The Insects (Hanna). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 1 and will be available to stream/download here. CD and vinyl editions are also in the works. Devs is created by Alex Garland and stars Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, Jin Ha, Zach Grenier, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny and Alison Pill. The sci-fi thriller follows a young software engineer who investigates the secret development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in Silicon Valley, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mystery Men’ Score Album Announced
Posted: April 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Kinka Usher, Mystery Men, score, Shirley Walker, Soundtrack, Stephen Warbeck
La-La Land Records has announced the world premiere score album release for the 1999 superhero action comedy Mystery Men directed by Kinka Usher and starring Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Hank Azaria, Claire Forlani, Eddie Izzard, Greg Kinnear, William H. Macy, Kel Mitchell, Lena Olin, Paul Reubens, Geoffrey Rush, Wes Studi and Tom Waits. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love, Quills, Proof, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin), as well as additional music by Shirley Walker (Final Destination, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Batman: The Animated Series). The 2-CD set, which is part of the label’s Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection, is now available to order on La-La Land’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
