Fil Eisler (Revenge, How to Be Single, UnReal, Proud Mary, CHiPs, Life of the Party) is the composer of the new Netflix original series Outer Banks. The show is created by Jonas Pate (Aquarius), Josh Pate (Surface) and Shannon Burke and stars Charles Esten, Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss, Rudy Pankow, Austin North and Drew Starkey. The coming-of-age drama follows a tight-knit group of local teens in the beach vacation destination of the Outer Banks of North Carolina as they hunt for a legendary treasure. Jonas & Josh Pate and Burke are also executive producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix’s ‘Outer Banks’ to Feature Music by Fil Eisler
Posted: March 31, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fil Eisler, Netflix, Outer Banks
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Lorne Balfe Scoring Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’
Posted: March 31, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Black Widow, Cate Shortland, Lorne Balfe, Marvel
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Crown, Bad Boys for Life) has recently been scoring Marvel Studios’ upcoming spy thriller Black Widow. The film is directed by Cate Shortland (Lore, Somersault) and stars Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, William Hurt and O-T Fagbenle. The movie follows the title character as she confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Eric Pearson (Thor: Ragnarok) wrote the screenplay based on a story by Jac Schaeffer (The Hustle) and Ned Benson (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby). Kevin Feige (Avengers: Endgame, Black Panther, Iron Man) is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jumbo’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 31, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jumbo, score, Soundtrack, Thomas Roussel, Zoé Wittock
Universal Music France has released a soundtrack album for the French drama Jumbo. The album features the film’s original music composed by Thomas Roussel (Take-Away Romance). The soundtrack is now available to stream on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Jumbo is written and directed by Zoé Wittock and stars Noémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot and Sam Louwyck. The movie follows a shy young woman who works in an amusement park and still lives at home with her mother, when she meets Jumbo, the park’s new flagship attraction. The drama premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was originally set to be released in French theaters earlier this month. 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
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 »
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 »
