Lakeshore Records will release two soundtrack albums for the AMC original series Dispatches from Elsewhere. The albums feature the show’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Gone Girl, Watchmen, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Leopold Ross & Claudia Sarne (The Book of Eli, Earthquake Bird, Broken City) . The soundtracks will be released digitally next Friday, May 1. Visit Amazon to order the Music from the Jejune Institute album and click here to order the Music from the Elsewhere Society album. Dispatches from Elsewhere is created by Jason Segel and starring Segel himself, André Benjamin, Sally Field, Richard E. Grant, Octavio Coleman and Eve Lindley. The drama follows four ordinary people who stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life and come to find that the mystery winds deeper than they imagined. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Albums for AMC’s ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ to Be Released
Posted: April 25, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: AMC, Atticus Ross, Claudia Sarne, Dispatches from Elsewhere, Leopold Ross, score, Soundtrack
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 24, 2020)
Posted: April 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 1BR, Heather McIntosh, Jed Kurzel, Mel Elias, Robert the Bruce, Ronen Landa, To the Stars, True History of the Kelly Gang
Opening in the U.S. in select drive-in theaters and on VOD today is the western True History of the Kelly Gang directed by Justin Kurzel and starring George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Hunnam, Russell Crowe, Thomasin McKenzie, Sean Keenan, Orlando Schwerdt, Earl Cave, Marlon Williams and Louis Hewison. The film’s original music is composed by Jed Kurzel (Alien: Covenant, Macbeth, The Babadook, The Mustang, The Snowtown Murders). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this year when the movie opened in Australia. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the movie, which is being released stateside by IFC Films.
Also opening on VOD is the historical drama Robert the Bruce directed by Richard Gray and starring Angus Macfadyen (who is reprising his role from Mel Gibson’s Braveheart), Jared Harris, Anna Hutchinson, Patrick Fugit, Emma Kenney, Zach McGowan, Daniel Portman, Talitha Eliana Bateman and Mhairi Calvey. Mel Elias (Blush) has composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the movie, which is being released by Screen Media Films. Read the rest of this entry »
‘We Got the Beat’ Cover from ‘Valley Girl’ Released
Posted: April 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ashleigh Murray, Chloe Bennet, Harvey Mason Jr., Jessica Rothe, Jessie Ennis, Valley Girl
Interscope Records has released the cover version of The Go-Go’s’ We Got the Beat from the musical remake Valley Girl. The song (originally written by Charlotte Caffey) is performed by cast members Jessica Rothe, Jessie Ennis, Chloe Bennet & Ashleigh Murray and produced by Harvey Mason Jr. The track is now available to stream/download as a digital single on Amazon. Also watch the official music video after the jump. A full soundtrack album will be released on May 8. Check back on this page for the full album details. Valley Girl is directed by Rachel Goldenberg and also stars Joshua Whitehouse, Mae Whitman, Mario Revolori, Judy Greer, Alicia Silverstone and Camila Morrone. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL) Scoring Netflix’s ‘White Lines’
Posted: April 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Junkie XL, Netflix, Tom Holkenborg, White Lines
Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) (Mad Max: Fury Road, Deadpool. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Black Mass, Divergent, Alita: Battle Angel) has announced that he has composed the music for the new British Netflix original series White Lines. The show is created by Álex Pina (Money Heist, Kamikaze) and stars Laura Haddock, Nuno Lopes, Marta Milans, Juan Diego Botto, Daniel Mays, Laurence Fox and Angela Griffin. The drama follows a young woman who leaves her quiet life behind to investigate her brother’s disappearance in Ibiza, where she quickly heads down a decadent and dangerous path. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Vivarium’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Kristian Eidnes Andersen, Lorcan Finnegan, score, Soundtrack, Vivarium
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller Vivarium. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kristian Eidnes Andersen (Antichrist, Ida, Nobel, The Man Who Saved the World, Petra). The soundtrack is now available to stream and download on Amazon Music. Vivarium is directed by Lorcan Finnegan and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots, Jonathan Aris, Senan Jennings and Eanna Hardwicke. The movie follows a young couple looking for the perfect home who find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Thieves of the Wood’ Released
Posted: April 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Hans Mullens, Michelino Bisceglia, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Svínhunder, Thieves of the Wood
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the Belgian historical drama Thieves of the Wood. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Hans Mullens (Undercover) & Michelino Bisceglia (Marina, Hannah, Valentino) as Svínhunder. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Thieves of the Wood is developed by Christophe Dirickx & Benjamin Sprengers based on a novel by Louis Paul Boon and stars Matteo Simoni, Tom Van Dyck, Stef Aerts. The drama tells the story of charismatic highwayman Jan de Lichte as he leads the oppressed and downtrodden in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy of 18th-century Flanders. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Defending Jacob’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Atli Orvarsson, Defending Jacob, Mark Bomback, Morten Tyldum, Ólafur Arnalds, score, Soundtrack
Paramount Music will release a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ limited series Defending Jacob. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Atli Örvarsson (The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Vantage Point, The Edge of Seventeen, The Eagle). Also included is the series’ theme written by Ólafur Arnalds (Broadchurch). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 24 and will be available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes. Defending Jacob is created by Mark Bomback based on the 2012 novel of the same title by William Landay and stars Chris Evans, Michelle Dockery, Jaeden Martell, Pablo Schreiber, Cherry Jones, Betty Gabriel and Sakina Jaffrey. The 8-part thriller directed by Morten Tyldum centers on a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town, and follows an assistant district attorney who finds himself torn between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son. Read the rest of this entry »
Benson Taylor to Score Paul Leyden’s ‘Chick Fight’
Posted: April 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Benson Taylor, Chick Fight, Paul Leyden
Benson Taylor (London Fields, The Perfect Dictatorship) has been tapped to score the upcoming action comedy Chick Fight. The film is directed by Paul Leyden (Come Back to Me) and stars Malin Akerman, Alec Baldwin, Bella Thorne, Dulcé Sloan, Fortune Feimster and Alec Mapa. The movie follows a woman who hasn’t reconciled with the recent death of her adored mother, when she gets introduced to an an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around. Joseph Downey wrote the screenplay. Akerman is also producing the project with Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine (Jack Goes Home), Jordan Beckerman (Crypto) & Michael J. Rothstein (Burn, After Everything), Idiot Savant Pictures’ Anne Clements (StartUp, The Oath), as well as Ash Christian (Social Animals). Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘Bad Education’ to Be Released
Posted: April 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bad Education, Cory Finley, HBO, Michael Abels, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the comedy drama Bad Education. The album features the film’s original music composed by Michael Abels (Get Out, Us, See You Yesterday, All Day and a Night). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 24 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. Bad Education is directed by Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds) and stars Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, Rafael Casal, Ray Romano, Geraldine Viswanathan and Alex Wolff. The movie tells the story of an infamous school-larceny scandal that rocked Long Island in the early aughts and revolves around the school superintendent and his assistant who are credited with bringing Roslyn School District unprecedented prestige. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Extraction’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Belcher, Extraction, Henry Jackman, Netflix, Sam Hargrave, score, Soundtrack
BMG will release the official soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Extraction. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Henry Jackman (Captain America: The Winter Solider & Civil War, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Wreck-It-Ralph, X-Men: First Class) & Alex Belcher (21 Bridges, IO). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 24 and will be available to stream/download here. Extraction is directed by Sam Hargrave and stars Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Randeep Hooda, David Harbour and Golshifteh Farahani. The thriller produced by Joe & Anthony Russo centers on a lack market mercenary who embarks on the deadliest mission of his career when he’s enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an international crime lord. Read the rest of this entry »
