Film Fest Gent today announced the James Horner Tribute Concert, which will take place on October 17, 2024 in Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, where a selection of the legendary composer’s scores will be performed. Dirk Brossé will lead the Brussels Philharmonic in this musical celebration. Long time colleague and friend of Horner, Simon Franglen, is involved in the program’s curation and will be in attendance at the event. Franglen collaborated with Horner on such films as Titanic, Avatar and The Amazing Spider-Man and completed his score for The Magnificent Seven before composing the music for Avatar: The Way of Water, for which he won the WSA Discovery of the Year Award last year. Read the rest of this entry »
James Horner Tribute Concert at Film Fest Gent Announced
Posted: March 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: James Horner, Simon Franglen, World Soundtrack Awards
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‘The Tearsmith’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: March 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alessandro Genovesi, Andrea Farri, Fabbricante di lacrime, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, The Tearsmith
San Isidro Edizioni Musicali will release a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original film The Tearsmith (Fabbricante di lacrime). The album features the movie’s original music composed by Andrea Farri (Io Capitano, The First King, The Hanging Sun, Security, Latin Lover, Italian Race). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 4 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Tearsmith is directed by Alessandro Genovesi and stars Simone Baldasseroni, Caterina Ferioli, Sabrina Paravicini, Roberta Rovelli, Alessandro Bedetti and Orlando Cinque. The romantic drama is based Eric Doom’s best-selling novel of the same title and follows two orphans who have been adopted together after a tough childhood and realize that unexpected but irresistible feelings pull them together. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Davos 1917’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Adrian Frutiger, Davos 1917, Marcel Vaid, score, Soundtrack
Adrian Frutiger (Wilder, The Awakenings of Motti Wolenbruch, And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead, Virgin Tales) & Marcel Vaid (South of Hope Street, Semret, Polish Prayers) have released a soundtrack album for the Swiss TV series Davos 1917. The album features selections of the composers’ original score and is now available to stream/download on most major digital music services, including Amazon. Also check out Frutiger’s & Vaid’s title sequence music after the jump. Davos 1917 is created by Adrian Illien and stars Dominique Devenport, Jeanette Hain, David Kross, Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, Anna Schinz, Thomas Prenn, Sven Schelker, Sunnyi Melles, Welket Bungué, Max Herbrechter, Ruben Brinkmann and Cornelius Obonya. The 6-part spy thriller is set in the titular noble Swiss resort town during World War I as a relentless battle between secret agents of the world powers is raging in Europe and follows a young nurse who unexpectedly gets caught between the fronts of the spies. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1 Complete Soundtrack Collection Announced
Posted: March 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Bear McCreary, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Mondo, in partnership with Amazon Studios and Sparks and Shadows, has announced a Complete Soundtrack Collection for the first season of the Prime Video original series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The 10-CD box set features the original music from all eight episodes of Season 1 composed by Emmy Award winner Bear McCreary (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Outlander, Battlestar Galactica, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Walking Dead, Happy Death Day), as well as the original 2-CD soundtrack release, which also includes Howard Shore’s main title theme and Where the Shadows Lie performed by Fiona Apple. The soundtrack collection, which also includes a 136-page journal featuring McCreary’s episode-by-episode account and is limited to 1,000 copies, will be released on April 26, 2024 and is now available to order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Pemberton to Score DreamWorks Animation’s ‘The Bad Guys 2’
Posted: March 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Pemberton, Dreamworks Animation, Pierre Perifel, The Bad Guys, The Bad Guys 2
Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into/Across the Spider-Verse, Steve Jobs, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Enola Holmes, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Ocean’s 8,The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Being the Ricardos) is set to score the upcoming animated sequel The Bad Guys 2. The film is directed by Pierre Perifel (who previously helmed the original film) and features the voices of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson, Awkwafina, Zazie Beetz, Richard Ayoade, Alex Borstein and Lilly Singh. The DreamWorks Animation production follows the crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws as they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do “one last job” by an all-female squad of criminals. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Unsung Hero’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: March 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: for KING & Country, Joel Smallbone, Richard Ramsey, Soundtrack, Unsung Hero
Curb Records will release a soundtrack album for the faith-based biographical drama Unsung Hero. The album features songs from and inspired by the film by Christian pop duo for KING & Country, including reimagined versions of Christian music, several new songs and collaborations with artists such as Amy Grant, Rebecca St. James, Michael W. Smith, Stryper, Lee Brice and Hillary Scott. The soundtrack will be released digitally, on CD and vinyl on April 26 and is now available for pre-order (in all three formats) on Amazon. Unsung Hero is written and directed by Richard Ramsey & Joel Smallbone and starring Smallbone himself, Daisy Betts, Kirrilee Berger, Jonathan Jackson, Lucas Black, Candace Cameron Bure, Terry O’Quinn and Hillary Scott. The movie tells the story of David Smallbone who – after his successful music company collapses – moves his family from Australia to the States and sets out to rebuild their lives. Read the rest of this entry »
Jerskin Fendrix Scoring Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’
Posted: March 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jerskin Fendrix, Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos
Composer Jerskin Fendrix is reteaming with director Yorgos Lanthimos on the upcoming sci-fi anthology movie Kinds of Kindness. The film is co-written (with Efthimis Filippou) and directed by Lanthimos (The Favourite, The Lobster) and stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Hunter Schafer and Mamoudou Athie. No plot details have been revealed yet. Lanthimos is also producing the project with Ed Guiney (Room, Disobedience), Andrew Lowe (Normal People, The Wonder) and Kasia Malipan. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Down Low’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adam Crystal, Down Low, Rightor Doyle, score, Soundtrack
Paper Drum Music has released a soundtrack album for the comedy Down Low. The album features the film’s original score composed by Adam Akio Crystal (Bonding, The Dawn Wall, Those People, The Institute, Almost Sunrise). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composer’s “opening” track below. Down Low is directed by Rightor Doyle and stars Zachary Quinto, Lukas Gage (who also co-wrote the screenplay), Simon Rex, Audra McDonald and Judith Light. The movie follows a repressed divorcé who hires a spirited and boundary-free sex worker to give him an erotic massage who becomes determined to deliver a crash course to his client in unapologetic queer life. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe to Return for Adil & Bilall’s ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’
Posted: March 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adil El Arbi, Bad Boys, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Bilall Fallah, Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Black Widow, His Dark Materials, The Wheel of Time, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) is returning to score the upcoming action comedy sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die. The film is directed by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah and stars Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Eric Dane, Paola Nuñez, Ioan Gruffudd, Jacob Scipio, Tasha Smith, Melanie Liburd, Tiffany Haddish and Joe Pantoliano. The fourth installment in the action franchise follows Miami’s finest who are now on the run. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wreck’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, score, Soundtrack, Steve Lynch, Wreck
Steve Lynch (Obituary, Let Us Prey, Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, Boys from Hell) has released a new soundtrack album for the BBC series Wreck. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the composer’s first track (Welcome to Exodum) after the jump. Lynch has previously released a soundtrack featuring his music from Season 1 back in 2022. Wreck is created by Ryan J. Brown and stars Oscar Kennedy, Thaddea Graham, Jodie Tyack, Anthony Rickman, Amber Grappy, Peter Claffey, Miya Ocego, Warren James Dunning, Alice Nokes, James Phoon, Ali Hardman, Rory O’Neill and Harriet Webb. Read the rest of this entry »
