Peter G. Adams (Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, A Violent Man) has composed the original score for the new Quibi original series Survive. The show is written by by Richard Abate & Jeremy Ungar (Ride) based on the novel by Alex Morel and stars Sophie Turner, Corey Hawkins and Marta Timofeeva. The thriller follows a woman who has to fight for her life when her plane crashes on a remote snow-covered mountain. Mark Pellington (Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies) has directed all episodes. Read the rest of this entry »
Peter G. Adams Scoring Quibi’s ‘Survive’
Posted: March 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Peter G. Adams, Quibi, Survive
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Soundtrack Album for Disney+ Documentary ‘Elephant’ to Be Released
Posted: March 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Disney Plus, Elephant, Mark Linfield, Ramin Djawadi, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Disneynature documentary Elephant. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Westworld, Iron Man, Clash of the Titans, Pacific Rim, A Wrinkle in Time). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 3 and will be available to stream and download on Amazon Music. Elephant is directed by Mark Linfield (Monkey Kingdom, Chimpanzee), co-directed by Vanessa Berlowitz & Alastair Fothergill (Planet Earth, Penguins) and narrated by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex. The movie follows African elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo as their herd make an epic journey hundreds of miles across the vast Kalahari Desert. Read the rest of this entry »
BELLSAINT’s ‘Uninvited’ Cover from Hulu’s ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Released
Posted: March 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BELLSAINT, Hulu, Isabella Summers, Little Fires Everywhere, Mark Isham
Hollywood Records has released the cover version of Alanis Morissette’s Uninvited featured in the fifth episode of the Hulu original series Little Fires Everywhere (premiering this Wednesday, April 1). The song is performed by BELLSAINT and produced by the show’s composers Mark Isham and Isabella Summmers. The track is now available to stream/download as a digital single on Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. The label will release a full soundtrack album for the show on April 17, 2020. Little Fires Everywhere is created by Liz Tigelaar based Celeste Ng’s bestselling novel and stars Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Joshua Jackson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jade Pettyjohn, Jordan Elsass, Gavin Lewis, Megan Stott, Lexi Underwood and Huang Lu. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lev Yashin: The Dream Goalkeeper’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: George Kallis, Lev Yashin: The Dream Goalkeeper, score, Soundtrack, Vasiliy Chiginskiy
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the Russian biographical sports drama Lev Yashin: The Dream Goalkeeper. The album features the film’s original music composed by George Kallis (Cliffs of Freedom, The Black Prince, Albion: The Enchanted Stallion, 93 Days). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. KeepMoving Records will release a CD version. Lev Yashin: The Dream Goalkeeper is directed by Vasiliy Chiginskiy and stars Aleksandr Fokin, Yuliya Khlynina, Aleksey Kravchenko, Yevgeny Dyatlov and Vitaliy Khaev. The movie is set in the historical period of the 50s and 60s of the USSR and tells the story of the titular legendary Soviet-Russian goalkeeper. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 29, 2020)
Posted: March 29, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Apple TV +, Broke, CBS, Coffee & Kareem, Danny Bensi, Disney Plus, Dolphin Reef, Frank Ciampi, HBO, Home Before Dark, Joseph Trapanese, Nathan Lanier, Netflix, Paul Leonard Morgan, Philip Glass, Saunder Jurriaans, Steven Price, Tales from the Loop, The Scheme
Premiering on Tuesday, March 31, is the HBO Sports documentary The Scheme directed by Pat Kondelis about Christian Dawkins who was convicted in federal court in the biggest criminal case in collegiate sports history. The film’s original music is composed by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Boy Erased, The Gift, Ozark, Enemy, Fear the Walking Dead). Check out our previous news article and visit HBO’s official website to learn more about the movie, which will premiere on HBO.
Premiering on Thursday, April 2, is the new CBS comedy Broke created by Alex Herschlag and starring Jaime Camil, Pauley Perrette, Natasha Leggero, Izzy Diaz and Antonio Raul Corbo. Frank Ciampi (Happy Together, All About the Washingtons) is composing the show’s original music. The CBS Television Studitos production centers on a single suburban mother who’s shocked when her estranged sister and her husband and his fiercely loyal assistant/driver/friend land on her doorstep in need of a place to live after the couple’s money dries up. Visit the official show website for updates on the comedy, which will air every Thursday night on CBS. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hunter’s Moon’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 29, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexander Taylor, Hunter's Moon, Michael Caissie, score, Soundtrack
Air-Edel Records has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Hunter’s Moon. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexander Taylor (Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street, FML). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Hunter’s Moon is directed by Michael Caissie and stars Thomas Jane, Katrina Bowden, Jay Mohr, Sean Patrick Flanery and Amanda Wyss. The movie follows three isolated women who are forced to not only defend themselves from the evil inside of the house, but an unseen bloodthirsty predator that is hunting them one by one outside of the house Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Beal Scoring Bonni Cohen’s & Jon Shenk’s Netflix Documentary ‘Athlete A’
Posted: March 28, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Athlete A, Bonni Cohen, Jeff Beal, Jon Shenk, Netflix
Jeff Beal has composed the original music for the upcoming Netflix documentary Athlete A. The film is directed by Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk (The Rape of Europa, Audrie & Daisy) and explores Larry Nassar’s systematic abuse of young women on the USA Gymnastics team. The movie follows the team of investigative journalists from The Indianapolis Star newspaper who exposed the abuse led by Steve Berta, Marisa Kwiatkowski, Mark Alesia, and Tim Evans. Serin Marshall, Jen Sey and Julie Parker Benello are producing the project. Beal (House of Cards, Rome, Monk, Carnivale, Pollock, The Biggest Little Farm) has previously scored Cohen’s & Shenk’s last feature An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 27, 2020)
Posted: March 27, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Angelo Milli, Annie Hart, Banana Split, Kristian Eidnes Andersen, Resistance, Vivarium
Opening on VOD today is the historical drama Resistance written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Félix Moati, Géza Rohrig, Karl Markovics, Vica Kerekes, Bella Ramsey and Edgar Ramírez. The film’s original music is composed by Angelo Milli (Seven Pounds, Hands of Stone, Bravetown). Filmtrax has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the IFC Films release.
Also opening on VOD today is the sci-fi thriller Vivarium directed by Lorcan Finnegan and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots, Jonathan Aris, Senan Jennings and Eanna Hardwicke. Kristian Eidnes Andersen (Antichrist, Ida, The Man Who Saved the World) has composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced. The movie, which revolves around a couple’s search for a dream home that plunges them into a terrifying nightmare after they are trapped in a mysterious, labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses, is being released by Saban Films. Read the rest of this entry »
Rupert Parkes (Photek) Scoring Jay Karas’ Netflix Film ‘The Main Event’
Posted: March 27, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jay Karas, Netflix, Photek, Rupert Parkes, The Main Event
Rupert Parkes (aka Photek) has recently scored the upcoming Netflix original film The Main Event. The movie is directed by Jay Karas (Break Point) and stars Seth Carr, Tichina Arnold, Adam Pally, Ken Marino, as well as WWE superstars Kofi Kingston, Mike “The Miz” Mizanin, Sheamus, and Babatunde Aiyegbusi. The family comedy centers on a young WWE fan possessing special powers from a magical mask who causes chaos when he enters a wrestling competition and fights an intimidating rival. Larry Postel and Zach Lewis & Jim Mahoney (Klaus) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Bill Conti’s ‘The Big Fix’ Score to Be Released
Posted: March 27, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bill Conti, Jeremy Kagan, score, Soundtrack, The Big Fix
Varese Sarabande has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1978 comedy thriller The Big Fix directed by Jeremy Kagan and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow and F. Murray Abraham. The album features the original music from the Universal Pictures release composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Bill Conti (Rocky, The Right Stuff, The Karate Kid, For Your Eyes Only, The Thomas Crown Affair, Masters of the Universe), including unused and alternate cues. The CD, which is limited to 1,500 copies, is now available to order in the label’s online store, where you can also check out audio clips and learn more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
