Composer Keegan DeWitt (Gemini, Divorce, Her Smell, Sorry for Your Loss) is reteaming with director Brett Haley on the upcoming Netflix original film Sorta Like a Rockstar. The movie stars Auli’i Cravalho, Carol Burnett, Fred Armisen, Rhenzy Feliz, Justina Machado, Judy Reyes, Gerald Isaac Waters, Taylor Richardson and Anthony Jacques. The drama is based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quick (Silver Lining’s Playbook) novel by the same name and follows a teenage girl who, despite her difficult circumstances, is preternaturally optimistic about the world and her place in it, until she faces a devastating loss and can no longer ignore the challenges in her own life. Read the rest of this entry »
Keegan DeWitt Scoring Brett Haley’s ‘Sorta Like a Rockstar’
Posted: May 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brett Haley, Keegan DeWitt, Netflix, Sorta Like a Rockstar
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John Williams in Vienna Concert Album Announced
Posted: May 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Williams
Deutsche Grammophon has announced the concert album John Williams in Vienna. The album features the the live recordings of the Hollywood legend’s Vienna Philharmonic 2020 debut. The composer shared the stage with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Among the titles features on the release are Star Wars, Harry Potter, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, E.T. the Extra-Terrestria’, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Schindler’s List, Hook, War Horse, The Witches of Eastwick, Far and Away and The Adventures of Tintin. The album will be released on August 14, 2020. Visit Amazon to order the CD and vinyl version of the standard edition and click here to order the deluxe edition, which features 6 additional tracks, as well as Blu-ray Disc. A first track, Imperial March, is now already available to stream/download on Apple Music. Also check out a video of the live performance after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ – The Final Season (Episodes 9-12) Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Plus, Kevin Kiner, score, Soundtrack, Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Walt Disney Records has released the last soundtrack album for Lucasfilm’s animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s final four episodes composed by Kevin Kiner (Star Wars Rebels,Narcos: Mexico, Doom Patrol, Titans, CSI: Miami, Making a Murderer). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon Music, where you can also check out audio samples. The label has previously released a soundtrack album featuring selections of Kiner’s score from the show’s first six seasons and two albums featuring the composer’s music from the first eight episodes of the final season. Season 7. The final episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars created by George Lucas, executive produced by Dave Filoni and starring Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, Dee Bradley Baker, James Arnold Taylor, Katee Sackhoff and Sam Witwer premieres today on Disney+. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Westworld’ Season 3 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Ramin Djawadi, score, Soundtrack, Westworld
WaterTower Music has released a new soundtrack album for the HBO original series Westworld. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s third season composed by Emmy Award winner Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans, A Wrinkle in Time, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. The label has previously released two soundtrack albums featuring the composer’s score from the first two seasons, as well as his cover versions of Sweet Child O’Mine and Wicked Games from Season 3. Westworld is created by Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie and stars Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, Aaron Paul and Ed Harris. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 3, 2020)
Posted: May 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aska Matsumiya, Becoming, Betty, Chris Westlake, Glen Ballard, HBO, Hulu, Kamasi Washington, Randy Kerber, Solar Opposites, The Eddy
Premiering on Wednesday, May 6, is the Netflix documentary Becoming directed by Nadia Hallgren and produced by Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness & Lauren Cioffi about the life of former First Lady Michelle Obama as she embarks on a 34-city tour. The film’s original music is composed by jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington. Check out our previous news article for more information about the movie, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Premiering on Friday, May 8, is the Netflix limited series The Eddy created by Jack Thorne and starring André Holland, Joanna Kulig, Amandla Stenberg, Leila Bekhti and Tahar Rahim. Glen Ballard (The Polar Express) and Randy Kerber (The Color Purple) have composed the show’s original music. Arista Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ songs from the drama on Friday. Check out our soundtrack album announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the series. 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
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 »
‘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 »
