Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1994 historical drama Legends of the Fall directed by Edward Zwick and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond and Henry Thomas. The album features the expanded original score from the TriStar Pictures release composed and conducted by James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, A Beautiful Mind, Aliens, Apollo 13) and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, including over 30 minutes of previously unreleased music. Also included are 35 minutes of alternates. Visit the label’s official website to order the 2-CD set and for more details about the album. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Legends of the Fall’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 20, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Edward Zwick, James Horner, Legends of the Fall, score, Soundtrack
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Will Bates Scoring Mike Cahill’s ‘Bliss’
Posted: April 20, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Bliss, Mike Cahill, Will Bates
Composer Will Bates is reuniting with director Mike Cahill on the upcoming sci-fi drama Bliss. The film is written and directed by Cahill and stars Salma Hayek, Owen Wilson, Madeline Zima, Jorge Lendenborg Jr., Joshua Leonard and DeRon Horton. The movie follows a recently divorced man – whose life is falling apart – as he meets a woman who lives on the streets and is convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is not real. James D. Stern (Looper, I’m Not There, The Brothers Bloom) is producing the Endgame Entertainment production. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Apple TV+ Docu-Series ‘Home’ Released
Posted: April 20, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Amanda Jones, Amritha Vaz, Apple TV +, Bleeding Fingers Music, Garron Chang, Home, John Dragonetti, Matthew Robert Cooper, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ docu-series Home. The album features the selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Garron Chang (Hunting Lands), Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Luke Cage, Run This Town), Bleeding Fingers Music (Planet Earth II), Amanda Jones (Twenties, Cherish the Day), Amritha Vaz (Mira, Royal Detective), John Dragonetti (The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez, All About Nina) and Matthew Robert Cooper (Night Comes On). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Home is executive produced by Matthew Weaver, Doug Pray, Bruce Gersh, Ian Orefice, Collin Orcutt, Matt Tyrnauer, Corey Reeser, Joe Poulin and Kim Rozenfeld and looks inside the world’s most innovative homes. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Canal Street’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 20, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Canal Street, Rhyan LaMarr, Soundtrack
Aviator World Entertainment has released a soundtrack album for the thriller Canal Street. The album features the songs from the movie by artists such as Bri Babineaux & Hollyn, Tauren Wells, Alex Isley, Reed Shannon, Madisyn Elise, The Foreign Exchange, Kenny Lattimore, Keith Brown & others . The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Canal Street is written and directed by Rhyan LaMarr and stars Bryshere Gray, Mykelti Williamson, Mekhi Phifer, Kevin Quinn, Woody McClain and Lance Reddick. The movie tells the story of Kholi Styles who becomes the suspect of a mysterious death of a classmate and his father, an up-and-coming lawyer from the slums of Chicago, to defend his son in court and battle an outraged public before time runs out. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 19, 2020)
Posted: April 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Alex Belcher, Apple TV +, Bad Education, Defending Jacob, Dickon Hinchliffe, Dummy, Extraction, Fernando Velazquez, HBO, Henry Jackman, Herdís Stefánsdóttir, Joachim Horsley, Joe Wong, Mandy Hoffman, Mark Mothersbaugh, Michael Abels, Netflix, Quibi, Run, Showtime, Siddhartha Khosla, The Baker and the Beauty, The Longest War, The Midnight Gospel, The Willoughbys, We're Here
Premiering tonight is the Showtime original documentary The Longest War directed by Greg Barker and executive produced by Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon about America’s involvement in Afghanistan, now the longest war in U.S. history. The film’s original music is composed by Fernando Velazquez (The Impossible, The Orphanage, Crimson Peak, A Monster Calls, Hercules, Devil). Check our our previous news article to learn more about the movie, which will air tonight after the penultimate Homeland episode on Showtime.
Premiering tomorrow, April 20, is the Netflix animated series The Midnight Gospel created by Pendleton Ward & Duncan Trussell and starring Trussell himself, Phil Hendrie, Drew Pinsky, Joey Diaz, Natasha Leggero, Johnny Pemberton, Christina Pazsitzky and Stephen Root. Joe Wong (Master of None, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, Russian Doll) is composing the show’s original music. Click here for more information about the Titmouse Animation production, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
Mandy Hoffman Scoring Quibi’s ‘Dummy’
Posted: April 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cody Heller, Dummy, Mandy Hoffman, Quibi, Tricia Block
Mandy Hoffman (The Lovers, Terri, Hala, I Love Dick, Doll & Em) has composed the original music for the new Quibi original series Dummy. The show is directed by Tricia Brock, written by Cody Heller (Deadbeat) and stars Anna Kendrick and Donal Logue. The comedy is inspired by Heller’s relationship with her fiancé Dan Harmon and revolves around an aspiring-but-blocked writer who happens upon her boyfriend’s sex doll (voiced by Meredith Hagner) that suddenly starts talking to her. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Quarry’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Heather McIntosh, Ryan Bingham, score, Scott Teems, Soundtrack, The Quarry
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the thriller The Quarry. The album features the film’s original score composed by Heather McIntosh (Compliance, Z for Zachariah, The Art of Self-Defense, Faults, 6 Balloons). Also included is the original song The Man written and performed by Academy Award winner Ryan Bingham. The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, April 24 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Quarry is co-written and directed by Scott Teems and stars Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Soto and Bruno Bichir. The movie is based on the novel by Damon Galgut and revolves around a drifter who kills a traveling preacher and takes his place at a small-town church, but the police chief suspects foul play. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 17, 2020)
Posted: April 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bad Therapy, Behind You, Christian Davis, Heather McIntosh, Nathan Larson, The Quarry
Opening on VOD today is the thriller The Quarry co-written and directed by Scott Teems and starring Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Soto and Bruno Bichir. The film’s original music is composed by Heather McIntosh (Compliance, Z for Zachariah, The Art of Self-Defense, 6 Balloons). A soundtrack album will be announced soon. The movie, which is based on a novel by Damon Galgut and centers on a fugitive drifter who – after murdering a traveling preacher – travels to a small town and poses as the man he killed, is being released by Lionsgate.
Also opening on VOD today is the comedy Bad Therapy directed by Bill Teitler and starring Alicia Silverstone, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins, Haley Joel Osment, Aisha Tyler, Sarah Shahi and David Paymer. Nathan Larson (Boys Don’t Cry, Dirty Pretty Things, Margin Call, Juliet, Naked) has composed the film’s original score. No soundtrack album has been announced. The move, which follows a couple who see a marriage counselor to improve their relationship, which brings their marriage to the breaking point, is being distributed by Gravitas Ventures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alex Somers, Apple TV +, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the animated short Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alex Somers (Captain Fantastic, Honey Boy, Aloha, Manhattan). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon. Here We Are is directed by Philip Hunt, narrated by Meryl Streep and features the voice talent of Chris O’Dowd, Jacob Tremblay and Ruth Negga. The short is based on the New York Times bestselling book of the same title by Oliver Jeffers and follows a precocious 7-year-old who, over the course of Earth Day, learns about the wonders of the planet from his parents – and from a mysterious exhibit at the Museum of Everything. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Starz’s ‘Wrong Man’ Released
Posted: April 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Joe Berlinger, Justin Melland, score, Soundtrack, Starz, Wrong Man
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Starz docu-series Wrong Man. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Justin Melland (Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, The Innocence Files, The Force, Dark Net). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. Wrong Man is executive produced by Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost Trilogy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile ) that examines cases of inmates who have been incarcerated for decades and claim they’re innocent. The series followd a team of esteemed legal, investigative and forensic experts as they re-investigate the case. Read the rest of this entry »
