The full details of the soundtrack album for the thriller The Good Liar have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Carter Burwell (Carol, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Fargo, Twilight, True Grit). The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically tomorrow, November 8 by WaterTower Music. Click here to stream/download and visit Amazon to order the CD version. The Good Liar is directed by Bill Condon (who previously collaborated with Burwell on Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, The Fifth Estate & Mr. Holmes) and stars Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey and Jim Carter. The movie based novel by Nicholas Searle follows a career con artist who can hardly believe his luck when he meets a well-to-do widow. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Good Liar’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 7, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bill Condon, Carter Burwell, score, Soundtrack, The Good Liar
Soundtrack Album for Roman Polanski’s ‘An Officer and a Spy’ (‘J’accuse’) to Be Released
Posted: November 7, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, An Officer and a Spy, J'accuse, Roman Polanski, score, Soundtrack
Warner Classics will release a soundtrack album for Roman Polanski’s drama An Officer and a Spy (J’accuse). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The King’s Speech, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) who previously scored the director’s last four features, The Ghost Writer, Carnage, Venus in Fur and Based on a True Story. Also included are two classical pieces by Gabriel Fauré. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 8 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon. A CD version is also being released overseas (click here to order). An Officer and a Spy is co-written and directed by Polanski and stars Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner and Grégory Gadebois. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Midway’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 7, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Harald Kloser, Midway, Roland Emmerich, score, Soundtrack, Thomas Wander
Music.Film Recordings/Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the historical action drama Midway. The album features the film’s original music composed by Thomas Wander & Harald Kloser (2012, The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day: Resurgence, White House Down). Also included are three songs performed by Annie Trousseau. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 8 and will be available to stream/download here. A CD version will come out on November 22 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. Midway is directed by Roland Emmerich and stars Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans, Nick Jonas, Tadanobu Asano, Luke Kleintank, Darren Criss, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid and Woody Harrelson. Read the rest of this entry »
The Newton Brothers Scoring Steven C. Miller’s ‘Line of Duty’
Posted: November 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Line of Duty, Steven C. Miller, The Newton Brothers
The Newton Brothers (The Haunting of Hill House, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Life of Crime, Oculus) have composed the original score for the action thriller Line of Duty. The film is directed by Steven C. Miller (Marauders, Silent Night) and stars Aaron Eckhart, Ben McKenzie, Giancarlo Esposito, Jessica Lu, Courtney Eaton and Dina Meyer. The movie follows a disgraced cop who finds himself in a race against time to find a kidnap victim whose abductor he accidentally killed. Jeremy Drysdale wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Report’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, David Wingo, score, Scott Z. Burns, Soundtrack, The Report
Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for the political thriller The Report. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Wingo (Barry, Mud, Take Shelter, Midnight Special, Kidding). The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 15 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Report is written and directed by Scott Z. Burns and stars Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Sarah Goldberg, Michael C. Hall, Douglas Hodge, Fajer Kaisi, Ted Levine, Jennifer Morrison, Tim Blake Nelson, Linda Powell, Matthew Rhys, T. Ryder Smith, Corey Stoll and Maura Tierney. Read the rest of this entry »
Anton Ernst’s & Tati Golykh’s ‘Finding Jack’ to Feature Original Score by Laurent Eyquem & Original Song by Diane Warren
Posted: November 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anton Ernst, Diane Warren, Finding Jack, Laurent Eyquem, Tati Golykh
Laurent Eyquem (Copperhead, Winnie Mandela, Nostalgia, USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage) is set to score the upcoming action drama Finding Jack. The film directed by Anton Ernst & Tati Golykh is based on Gareth Crocker’s novel of the same title about the existence and abandonment of more than 10,000 military dogs at the end of the Vietnam War. Academy Award nominee Diane Warren has composed an original song for the project. James Dean will (through CGI technology) posthumously star in the film. Ernst & Golykh are also producing the project for Magic City Films, alongside Donald A. Barton for Artistry Media Group. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ABC’s ‘The Little Mermaid Live!’ Released
Posted: November 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ABC, Alan Menken, Glenn Slater, Howard Ashman, Soundtrack, The Little Mermaid Live!
Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album for the ABC special The Little Mermaid Live!. The album features the songs from the musical special written by Alan Menken and with lyrics by Howard Ashman (for the animated Disney classic) and Glenn Slater (for the Broadway adaptation) and performed by cast members including Auli’i Cravalho as Ariel, Queen Latifah as Ursula, Shaggy as Sebastian, as well as John Stamos, Amber Riley and Graham Phillips. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon Music. Check out several of the musical numbers from the special after the jump. The Little Mermaid Live! directed by Done+Dusted’s Hamish Hamilton premiered last night on ABC. Read the rest of this entry »
‘La Belle Epoque’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen, La Belle Epoque, Nicolas Bedos, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the French romantic comedy La Belle Epoque. The album features the film’s original music composed by director Nicolas Bedos (Mr & Mrs Adelman) and Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen (I Still Hide to Smoke, Chambord). Also included are the songs from the movie by Billie Holiday, Bobby Goldsboro, among other artists. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. A CD version is available to order as an import on Amazon. La Belle Epoque is written and directed by Bedos and stars Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier and Fanny Ardant. The movie follows a luddite cartoonist suffering an existential crisis who hires a VR company to recreate a happier time in his marriage, as he tries to reconcile the golden-hued past with an inescapable digital present. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Biggest Little Farm’ Live in Concert Event Announced
Posted: November 5, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: The Biggest Little Farm
On December 4, 2019, Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal (House of Cards, Monk, Pollock, Carnivale, Rome) will be conducting his score for the documentary The Biggest Little Farm at a live-to-picture concert at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, CA. The composer’s music will be performed by the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra while the film is playing on the big screen. The movie’s director John Chester and his wife Molly Chester of the Apricot Lane Farms will also be attending the event. Click here to purchase tickets. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I Lost My Body’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 5, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dan Levy, I Lost My Body, Jérémy Clapin, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the animated feature I Lost My Body. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dan Levy (Empire of the Wolves, Wild Camp). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, November 8 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. I Lost My Body is co-written and directed by Jérémy Clapin and features the voices of Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois and Patrick d’Assumçao. The movie is based on Guillaume Laurant’s novel Happy Hand and follows a cut-off hand that escapes from a dissection lab with one crucial goal: to get back to its body. Read the rest of this entry »
