Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning & Ohad Benchetrit are the composers of the new Netflix original series Spinning Out. The show is created by Samantha Stratton and stars Kaya Scodelario, Evan Roderick, January Jones, Will Kemp, Willow Shields, Amanda Zhou, Svetlana Efremova, Mitchell Edwards and Jonathan Van Ness. The drama follows a figure skating Olympic hopeful who struggles to balance love, family and fragile mental health as her dream of winning takes a dizzying hold. Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix’s ‘Spinning Out’ to Feature Music by Brendan Canning & Ohad Benchetrit
Posted: January 1, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brendan Canning, Netflix, Ohad Benchetrit, Spinning Out
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‘Coyote Lake’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 31, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Coyote Lake, Fabrizio Mancinelli, Sara Seligman, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the crime drama Coyote Lake. The album features the film’s original score composed by Fabrizio Mancinelli (The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice). The soundtrack is now available to stream and download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Coyote Lake is co-written and directed by Sara Seligman and stars Camila Mendes, Adriana Barraza, Charlie Weber, Neil Sandilands and Manny Perez. The movie is set in a deserted Texas town near the border of Mexico and follows a young daughter and her overbearing mother who run a makeshift motel out of their home, where they kill the unsuspecting drug runners and human traffickers who spend the night. Read the rest of this entry »
Natalie Holt Scoring Channel 4’s ‘Deadwater Fell’
Posted: December 31, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Channel 4, Deadwater Fell, Natalie Holt
Natalie Holt (Journey’s End, The Honourable Woman, Knightfall, Beecham House) has composed the original music for the new Channel 4 original series Deadwater Fell. The show is created by Daisy Coulam (Grantchester) and stars David Tennant, Cush Jumbo, Anna Madeley and Matthew McNulty. The 4-part thriller centers on two families in the aftermath of a tragedy that claims the lives of a woman and her three children. Lynsey Miller (The Boy with the Topknot, Eve) is directing the project, which is executive produced by Coulam, Tennant, Emma Kingsman-Lloyd (Humans, Grantchester) and Karen Wilson (Utopia, The Tunnel). Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Grímur Hákonarson’s ‘The County’ Announced
Posted: December 31, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Grímur Hákonarson, score, Soundtrack, The County, Valgeir Sigurdsson
Bedroom Community will release a soundtrack album for the Icelandic comedy drama The County. The album features the film’s original music composed by Valgeir Sigurðsson (An Acceptable Loss). The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 10, 2020. Check back on this page for the pre-order link. The County is written and directed by Grímur Hákonarson (Rams) and stars Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson and Sigurður Sigurjónsson. The movie follows an Icelandic woman who takes on the corruption of her local co-op and the outdated, exploitative system that supports it. Read the rest of this entry »
Adam Peters Scoring Bryan Fogel’s ‘The Dissident’
Posted: December 30, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Peters, Bryan Fogel, The Dissident
Composer Adam Peters (Savages, Snowden, The Yellow Birds) is reuniting with director Bryan Fogel on the upcoming documentary The Dissident. The film centers on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul and follows his fiancée and dissidents around the world as they are left to piece together clues to his brutal murder. Fogel is also producing the project with Jake Swantko, Mark Monroe and Thor Halvorssen. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘The Truth’ (‘La vérité’) Announced
Posted: December 30, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexei Aigui, Hirokazu Kore-eda, La vérité, score, Soundtrack, The Truth
Music Box Records has announced a soundtrack album for the French drama The Truth (La vérité). The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexei Aigui (The Young Karl Marx, I Am Not Your Negro). The soundtrack will be released on January 6, 2020. Visit the label’s official website to check out the full track list and pre-order the CD version. Also visit Amazon to stream/download the album. The Truth is directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and stars Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke and Ludivine Sagnier. The movie revolves around a mother and daughter in the film industry whose professional collaboration triggers long-buried resentments. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Orton Scoring Andrew Cohn’s ‘The Last Shift’
Posted: December 30, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Cohn, Mark Orton, The Last Shift
Mark Orton has recently scored the upcoming drama The Last Shift. The film is written and directed by Andrew Cohn (Night School, Warriors of Liberty City) and stars Richard Jenkins, Shane Paul McGhie, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Birgundi Baker, Allison Tolman and Ed O’Neill. The movie centers on an aging fast food worker as he prepares to work his final graveyard shift after 38 year. Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa (Little Miss Sunshine, Election) are producing the project with Sam Bisbee (The Hero, Cop Car), Alex Lipschultz (Lovesong, Menashe) and Bert Kern. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Klaus’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 30, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alfonso Gonzalez Aguilar, Klaus, Netflix, score, Sergio Pablos, Soundtrack
Epic Records has released a soundtrack album for the Netflix animated film Klaus. The album features the movie’s original score composed by Alfonso Aguilar (Perdida, You Shall Not Sleep). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The label has previously released the Zara Larsson-performed original song Invisible, which is also included on the full soundtrack album. Klaus is directed by Sergio Pablos and features the voices of Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones, Joan Cusack, Will Sasso and Norm Macdonald. The movie centers on a selfish postman and a reclusive toymaker who form an unlikely friendship, delivering joy to a cold, dark town that desperately needs it. Read the rest of this entry »
Theodore Shapiro to Score Maya Forbes’ & Wally Wolodarsky’s ‘The Good House’
Posted: December 29, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Maya Forbes, The Good House, Theodore Shapiro, Wally Wolodarsky
Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada, Tropic Thunder, Ghostbusters, Spy) has been tapped to score the upcoming comedy drama The Good House. The film is written and directed by Maya Forbes & Wally Wolodarsky and stars Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Beverly D’Angelo, David Rasche, Rebecca Henderson, Molly Brown, Kathryn Erbe and Kelly AuCoin. The movie is based on the New York Times bestseller of the same name by Ann Leary and revolves around a New England realtor who lives in a small town on Boston’s North Shore and whose life starts to unravel as she rekindles an old romance. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 29, 2019)
Posted: December 29, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dare Me, David Arnold, Deputy, Dracula, Fox, Gabriel Mounsey, Johnny Klimek, Jonathan Sanford, Messiah, Michael Price, Michael Yezerski, Netflix, USA
Premiering tonight is the USA original series Dare Me created by Megan Abbott based on her novel and starring Herizen Guardiola, Marlo Kelly, Willa Fitzgerald, Rob Heaps, Zach Roerig and Paul Fitzgerald. The show’s original music is composed by Jonathan Sanford. The drama, which dives into the cutthroat world of competitive high school cheerleading, will air Sunday nights on USA. Visit the official show website for updates.
Premiering on Wednesday, January 1, is the Netflix original series Messiah created by Michael Petroni and starring Michelle Monaghan, John Ortiz, Tomer Sisley, Mehdi Dehbi, John Ortiz, Melinda Page Hamilton, Stefania LaVie Owen, Jane Adams, Sayyid El Alami, Fares Landoulsi and Wil Traval. Johnny Klimek (Run Lola Run, One Hour Photo, Cloud Atlas, Deadwood) and Gabriel Mounsey are composing the show’s original score. Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
