Walt Disney Records has a soundtrack EP for Pixar SparkShorts’ Float. The 5-track EP features the film’s original music composed by Barney Jones who previously scored the SparksShorts title Smash and Grab. The soundtrack is now available to stream and download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Float is written and directed by Bobby Rubio and features the voices of Rubio himself, Eli Fucile, Luna Watson and Mika Kubo. The Pixar Animation Studios production follows a father who discovers that his son floats and must decide whether to run and hide or to accept his son as he is. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Fukushima 50’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Fukushima 50, score, Soundtrack, Taro Iwashiro, Wakamatsu Setsuro
Universal Music has released a soundtrack album for the Japanese drama Fukushima 50. The album features the film’s original music composed by Taro Iwashiro (Red Cliff, The Crossing, Memories of Murder, Manhunt) and performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra & The Choristers of the Temple Church. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Fukushima 50 is directed by Wakamatsu Setsuro and stars Koichi Sato and Ken Watanabe. The movie tells the true life story of workers at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant who, over five desperate days, reined in a nuclear disaster that could have caused the evacuation of Tokyo and other country-crippling damage, following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Read the rest of this entry »
Fil Eisler Scoring NBC’s ‘Council of Dads’
Posted: March 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Biohackers, Council of Dads, Fil Eisler, NBC, Netflix
Fil Eisler (Revenge, How to Be Single, UnReal, Proud Mary, CHiPs, Life of the Party) is the composer of the new NBC drama Council of Dads. The show is created by Joan Rater & Tony Phelan (Grey’s Anatomy, Doubt) and stars Sarah Wayne Callies, Clive Standen, J. August Richards, Michael O’Neill, Michelle Weaver, Steven Silver, Emjay Anthony, Thalia Tran and Blue Chapman. The series centers on a loving father of five who has his entire life’s plan thrown into upheaval by an unexpected health scare as he calls on a few of his most trusted friends to step in as back-up dads to help guide and support his growing family. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Doctor Who’ Season 12 Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, BBC America, Doctor Who, score, Segun Akinola, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records will release a new soundtrack album for BBC’s Doctor Who. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s twelfth season composed by Segun Akinola (The Last Tree) who previously scored Season 11 of the series. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on April 3, 2020. Visit Amazon to pre-order the digital version. The label has previously released Akinola’s score from last season, as well as several soundtrack albums featuring Murray Gold’s music from the first ten seasons. Season 12 of Doctor Who is executive produced by Chris Chibnall, Matt Strevens & Sam Hoyle and stars Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Andrews Scoring Judd Apatow’s ‘The King of Staten Island’
Posted: March 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Judd Apatow, Michael Andrews, The King of Staten Island
Composer Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko, Neighbors, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Bad Teacher) is reuniting with director Judd Apatow on the upcoming comedy The King of Staten Island. The film starring Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, Bel Powley, Maude Apatow and Steve Buscemi centers on a burnout stuck living with his mom on Staten Island. Apatow (The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and Davidson also co-wrote the screenplay with Dave Sirus. The director is also producing the project with Barry Mendel (The Sixth Sense, Munich). Read the rest of this entry »
‘De Gaulle’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: De Gaulle, Gabriel Le Bomin, Romain Trouillet, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records has released a soundtrack for the French historical drama De Gaulle. The album features the film’s original music composed by Romain Trouillet (Cyrano, My Love, Sauvage / Wild). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. De Gaulle is directed by Gabriel Le Bomin and stars Lambert Wilson, Isabelle Carré and Olivier Gourmet. The movie charts the epic rise of Charles de Gaulle, the French general who built the Resistance movement during the fateful month of June in 1940, when French was occupied by Nazi Germany. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Leonard-Morgan Scoring BBC’s ‘The Nest’
Posted: March 4, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Paul Leonard Morgan, The Nest
Paul Leonard-Morgan (Limitless, Dredd, Wormwood, Walking with Dinosaurs 3D) is currently scoring the upcoming BBC series The Nest. The show is created by Nicole Taylor (Wild Rose, Three Girls) and stars Martin Compston, Sophie Rundle, Mirren Mack, Shirley Henderson, Katie Leung, David Hayman, Fiona Bell, James Harkness, Bailey Patrick, Kate Dickie, Paul Brannigan, Samuel Small, Liz Ewing and Christine Bottomley. The 5-part thriller follows a wealthy couple and a teenage girl who make a pact that will change all of their lives forever. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for OWN’s ‘Love Is_’ Released
Posted: March 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Akira Kosemura, Love Is_, OWN, score, Soundtrack
Schole Records has released a soundtrack album for the OWN original series Love Is_. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Akira Kosemura. The soundtrack is now available to download/stream here. Also visit Amazon to order a CD and vinyl version. Love Is_ is created by Mara Brock Akil & Salim Akil and stars Michele Weaver, Will Catlett, Wendy Davis, Idara Victor, Tyrone Brown, Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing, Kadeem Hardison and Clarke Peters. The series, which follows a modern-day power couple in Black Hollywood balancing successful careers and family over three decades, premiered in 2018 on OWN. Read the rest of this entry »
Robert A. A. Lowe to Score Nia DaCosta’s ‘Candyman’ Sequel
Posted: March 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Candyman, Nia DaCosta, Robert A. A. Lowe
Director Nia DaCosta has revealed in a recent interview with Fandom that experimental musician Robert A. A. Lowe (aka Lichens) is composing the music for the upcoming Candyman sequel. The film starring Tahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Colman Domingo is based on the Philip Glass-scored 1992 feature of the same title written by Bernard Rose and the short story The Forbidden by Clive Barker and returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began. DaCosta (Little Woods) also co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) & Win Rosenfeld (Hunters, The Twilight Zone). Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Far and Away’ & ‘The Swarm’ Soundtracks Announced
Posted: March 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Far and Away, Irwin Allen, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Ron Howard, score, Soundtrack, The Swarm
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1992 historical drama Far and Away directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The album features the remastered and expanded original music from the Universal Pictures release composed and conducted by John Williams (Star Wars, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Schindler’s List), including previously unreleased tracks from the score and alternate cues. The 2-CD set, which is limited to 3,500 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
