Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the indie drama Driveways. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jay Wadley (Indignation, Tales of the City, The OA, Adam, Cruise). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 8 and will be available to stream/download here. Driveways is directed by Andrew Ahn and stars Hong Chau, Lucas Jaye, Brian Dennehy and Christine Ebersole. The movie, which has received two Indie Spirit nominations this year for Chau and Hannah Bos’ & Paul Thureen’s screenplay, centers on a lonesome boy who accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt’s house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Driveways’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Ahn, Driveways, Jay Wadley, score, Soundtrack
‘The Vasulka Effect’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: May 7, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, Hugar, score, Soundtrack, The Vasulka Effect
Sony Masterworks will release a soundtrack album for the documentary The Vasulka Effect. The album features the film’s original music composed by the Icelandic post-rock duo Hugar (aka Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson). The soundtrack will be released on October 2, 2020 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Vasulka Effect is directed by Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir and portrays the life and work of pioneers of video art: Icelandic violinist Steina Bjarnadóttir and Czech filmmaker Woody Vasulka. The Sagafilm & Krumma Films production follows the artists in present day in Santa Fe, forgotten by the art world, in the process of archiving their lives work and struggling to make ends meet. Read the rest of this entry »
Jesse Novak Scoring Netflix’s ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’
Posted: May 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jesse Novak, Netflix, The Baby-Sitters Club
Jesse Novak (BoJack Horseman, The Mindy Project, Tuca & Bertie) is scoring the upcoming Netflix original series The Baby-Sitters Club. The show is based on the best-selling book series by Ann M. Martin and stars Sophie Grace, Malia Baker, Momona Tamada, Shay Rudolph, Xochitl Gomez, as well as Alicia Silverstone and Mark Feuerstein. The family dramedy follows a group of girlfriends and their homegrown babysitting business in Stoneybrook, Connecticut. Rachel Shukert serves as the showrunner is executive producing the poject with Martin, Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Captain Phillips), Walden Media’s Lucy Kitada & Naia Cucukov, Lucia Aniello (Broad City, Rough Night) who is also directing the series. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Street Survivors’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chris Ridenhour, Christopher Cano, Jared Cohn, Soundtrack, Street Survivors
Cleopatra Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash. The album features Pat Traver’ cover of the Skynyrd classic Call Me the Breeze performed by Pat Travers, as well as songs performed by the sons of Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle. Also included are four tracks from the movie’s original score composed by Chris Ridenhour & Christopher Cano (Sharknado series, Zombie Tidal Wave, Flight 666) . The soundtrack is set to be released on June 26, 2020 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Street Survivors is directed by Jared Cohn and stars Ian Shultis, Sean McNabb, Tom Jenkins, Kelly Lynn Reiter, Anthony Traina and Mark Dippolito. Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Bates to Score James Gunn’s ‘The Suicide Squad’
Posted: May 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James Gunn, Suicide Squad, The Suicide Squad, Tyler Bates
Update (May 7, 2020): John Murphy has been confirmed as the new composer for the film. Bates was originally attached to score the movie (and had written music prior to the film shoot), but it turned out that our information was outdated. Check out our update for more information.
Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool 2, John Wick, 300, Watchmen, Hobbs & Shaw) has been tapped to score the upcoming superhero movie The Suicide Squad. The film is written and directed by James Gunn and stars Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman and Jai Courtney who reprise their roles from the 2016 original movie. They are joined by new cast members David Dastmalchian, Idris Elba, Daniela Melchior, Steve Agee, John Cena, Storm Reid, Flula Borg, Nathan Fillion, Peter Capaldi, Pete Davidson and Michael Rooker. Charles Roven (The Dark Knight, Wonder Woman, Man of Steel) is producing the project with Peter Safran (Aquaman, The Conjuring). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Farewell Herr Schwarz’ (‘Schnee von Gestern’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Farewell Herr Schwarz, Hauschka, Schnee von Gestern), score, Soundtrack, Volker Bertelmann, Yael Reuveny
Needlewood Records has released a soundtrack album for the 2014 German-Israeli documentary Farewell Herr Schwarz (Schnee von Gestern). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Adrift, Hotel Mumbai, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Patrick Melrose, Gunpowder). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon Music, where you can also check out audio samples. Farewell Herr Schwarz is directed by Yael Reuveny and centers on fate of siblings Michla and Feiv’ke Schwarz, two Holocaust survivors who never reunited after the war, one who emigrated to Israel, the other who stayed in communist East Germany. Read the rest of this entry »
Colin Stetson Scoring National Geographic’s ‘Barkskins’
Posted: May 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Barkskins, Colin Stetson, National Geographic
Colin Stetson (Hereditary, Color Out of Space, The First) has composed the original music for the new National Geographic limited series Barkskins. The show is created by Elwood Reid (The Bridge, The Chi) and stars David Thewlis, Marcia Gay Harden, Aneurin Barnard, James Bloor, Christian Cooke, David Wilmot, Thomas M. Wright, Tallulah Haddon, Kaniehtiio (Tiio) Horn, Lily Sullivan and Zahn McClarnon. The 8-part drama is based on the New York Times’ bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Proulx and follows a disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battling to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World. Read the rest of this entry »
HBO’s ‘I Know This Much Is True’ to Feature Original Music by Harold Budd
Posted: May 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Derek Cianfrance, Harold Budd, HBO, I Know This Much Is True
Composer/pianist Harold Budd has made his television scoring debut on the new HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True. The show is written and directed by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines) and stars Mark Ruffalo, Melissa Leo, Rosie O’Donnell, Archie Panjabi, Imogen Poots, John Procaccino, Rob Huebel, Philip Ettinger, Aisling Franciosi, Michael Greyeyes, Guillermo Diaz, Marcello Fonte, Bruce Greenwood, Brian Goodman, Juliette Lewis and Kathryn Hahn. The 6-part drama is based on the bestselling novel by Wally Lamb and revolves around a man he struggles to care for his twin brother, while discovering the truth about his own family history. Read the rest of this entry »
The Newton Brothers Scoring Austin Stark’s ‘The God Committee’
Posted: May 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Austin Stark, The God Committee, The Newton Brothers
The Newton Brothers (The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Life of Crime, Oculus) have recently scored the upcoming dramatic thriller The God Committee. The film is written and directed by Austin Stark and stars Kelsey Grammer, Julia Stiles, Colman Domingo, Janeane Garofalo and Dan Hedaya. The movie follows a group of accomplished doctors who serve on a heart transplant committee at a New York City hospital and have to decide which of three patients deserves a life-saving heart. Six years later, they face the dramatic repercussions of their fateful decision. Molly Conners (Manglehorn, Song One), Amanda Bowers (Like Father), Jonathan Rubenstein, Ari Pinchot, Jane Oster, Bingo Gubelmann & Benji Kohn (Detachment, Infinitely Polar Bear) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cold Courage’ Soundtrack Album to Be Released
Posted: May 5, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Cold Courage, Lasse Enersen, score, Soundtrack, Viaplay
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the TV series Cold Courage. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Lasse Enersen (The Unknown Soldier, Legend of the Ancient Sword, Tom of Finland). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 8 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Cold Courage is created by David Joss Buckley & Brendan Foley based on the novel by Pekka Hiltunen and stars John Simm, Sofia Pekkari, Pilha Viitala, Arsher Ali, Peter Coonan and Caroline Goodall. The thriller follows two Finnish women in London who are drawn inexorably together via the Studio, a clandestine group dedicated to bringing vigilante justice for those without a voice, to those beyond the law. Read the rest of this entry »
