Nathan Lanier has signed on to score the upcoming Apple original series Home Before Dark. The show is created by Dana Fox (Couples Retreat, How to Be Single) & Dara Resnik and stars Brooklynn Prince, Jim Sturgess, Abby Miller, Louis Herthum, Michael Weston, Kylie Rogers, Aziza Scott, Adrian Hough, Joelle Carter and Jibrail Nantambu. The mystery drama is inspired by the real-life story of Hilde Lysiak and follows a young girl who moves from Brooklyn to the small lakeside town her father left behind and leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple’s ‘Home Before Dark’ to Feature Music by Nathan Lanier
Posted: September 3, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple, Home Before Dark, Jon M. Chu, Nathan Lanier
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John Debney to Score Brenda Chapman’s ‘Come Away’
Posted: September 3, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brenda Chapman, Come Away, John Debney
John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2, Elf, The Jungle Book) is currently scoring the upcoming fantasy drama Come Away. The film marks the live-action of debut of director Brenda Chapman (Brave, The Prince of Egypt) and stars Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, Keira Chansa, Jordan Nash, Reece Yates, Michael Caine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and David Gyasi. The movie follows the brother and sister who became the protagonists of Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan as they seek to help their parents overcome the death of their eldest son and are then forced to choose between home and imagination. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Gut Gegen Nordwind’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 3, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gut Gegen Nordwind, Hauschka, score, Soundtrack, Vanessa Jopp, Volker Bertelmann
Sony Classical will release the official soundtrack album for the German romantic drama Gut Gegen Nordwind. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Adrift, Patrick Melrose, Hotel Mumbai, Gunpowder, The Art of Racing in the Rain). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 13, 2019 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Gut Gegen Nordwind is directed by Vanessa Jopp and stars Nora Tschirner, Alexander Fehling, Ulrich Thomsen, Ella Rumpf, Piet Fuchs and Claudia Eisinger. The movie based on the novel of the same title by Daniel Glattauer will be released in German theaters on September 12. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Imprisoned’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 2, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Imprisoned, Paul Kampf, Robert Rospide, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the indie thriller Imprisoned. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Robert Rospide. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Imprisoned is written and directed by Paul Kampf and stars Laurence Fishbourne, Juan Pablo Raba, Juana Acosta, John Heard and Esai Morales. The movie centers on a man who attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal and soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden has not forgiven him for an old crime. Read the rest of this entry »
Matthew Herbert Scoring Feras Fayyad’s National Geographic Documentary ‘The Cave’
Posted: September 2, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Feras Fayyad, Matthew Herbert, The Cave
Matthew Herbert (Disobedience, A Fantastic Woman, Gloria Bell, Life in a Day) has composed the original music for the upcoming documentary The Cave. The film is directed by Feras Fayyad (One Day in Aleppo) and follows the documentarian as he returns to his native, wartorn Syria to follow a dedicated team of female doctors who tirelessly treat casualties in an underground hospital while battling systemic sexism. Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær (Aquarela) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Collini Case’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 2, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Lukas Boysen, Der Fall Collini, Marco Kreuzpaintner, score, Soundtrack, The Collini Case
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the German thriller The Collini Case (Der Fall Collini). The album features the film’s original music composed by Ben Lukas Boysen (Beat, Manifesto) The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. The Collini Case is directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner and stars Elyas M’Barek, Alexandra Maria Lara, Franco Nero and Heiner Lauterbach. The movie is based on Ferdinand von Schirach’s bestselling novel of the same title and centers on an attorney who takes on a defendant accused of the vicious murder of a respected elderly businessman and comes across one of the biggest judicial scandals in German history. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 1, 2019)
Posted: September 1, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aivi Tran, Anne Nikitin, Cartoon Network, Frederik Wiedmann, Guillaume Roussel, Hulu, Into the Dark, Netflix, RZA, Steven Universe: The Movie, Steven Velema, The Spy, Untouchable, Wu-Tang: An American Saga
Premiering tomorrow, September 2, is the documentary Untouchable directed by Ursula Macfarlane. The movie chronicles the recent fall of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and his years of alleged abuse. The film’s original music is composed by Anne Nikitin (American Animals, Mrs. Wilson, This Beautiful Fantastic, Calibre, The Imposter). The documentary premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu.
Also premiering tomorrow is Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe: The Movie co-written and directed by Rebecca Sugar and starring Zach Callison, Estelle, Michaela Dietz and Deedee Magno Hall. Aivi Tran & Steven Velema (aka Aivi & Surasshu) have composed the film’s original score. WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the movie written by Rebecca Sugar and performed by Chance The Rapper, Estelle, Patti LuPone, Uzo Aduba, Gallant, Aimee Mann, among others. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
RZA Scoring Hulu’s ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’
Posted: September 1, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Tse, Hulu, RZA, Wu-Tang: An American Saga
RZA is composing the original score for the new Hulu original series Wu-Tang: An American Saga. The show is created by the Wu-Tang Clan leader himself & Alex Tse (Watchmen, SuperFly) and stars Ashton Sanders, Shameik Moore, Siddiq Saunderson (playing Ghostface Killah), Marcus Callender, Zolee Griggs and Erika Alexander. The drama is set in early ’90s New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic and tracks the Clan’s formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA, who unites the men torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Steven Universe: The Movie’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 1, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Cartoon Network, Jeff Liu, Rebecca Sugar, Soundtrack, Steven Universe, Steven Universe: The Movie
WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe: The Movie. The album features the songs from the film written by Rebecca Sugar, among others and performed by the movie’s voice cast and artists including Chance The Rapper, Estelle, Patti LuPone, Uzo Aduba, Gallant and Aimee Mann. The soundtrack will be released digitally this coming Monday, September 2 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A deluxe vinyl edition with additional eight bonus tracks is set to come out on November 15 and can be pre-ordered here. Steven Universe: The Movie is co-written and directed by Sugar based on the hit animated TV series and features the voices of Zach Callison, Estelle, Michaela Dietz and Deedee Magno Hall. The film follows the Crystal Gems as they attempt to save all organic life on Earth from a mysterious new Gem. Read the rest of this entry »
Dhani Harrison & Paul Hicks Scoring Netflix’s ‘Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates’
Posted: August 31, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dhani Harrison, Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, Netflix, Paul Hicks
Dhani Harrison & Paul Hicks (Learning to Drive, Beautiful Creatures, The Divide, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., Outsiders) are the composers of the new Netflix docu-series Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates. The show is directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman) and tells Bill Gates’ life story, in-depth and unfiltered, as he pursues unique solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems. The 3-parter draws on interviews with Bill and Melinda Gates in addition to their friends, family, and partners in philanthropy and business. Read the rest of this entry »
