The World Soundtrack Academy has announced the next wave of nominees for the 2019 World Soundtrack Awards in the categories Discovery of the Year, Public Choice Award, Best Original Score for a Belgian Production and SABAM Award for Best Young International Composer. The winners will be announced at the World Soundtrack Awards Gala on October 18 at the Ghent International Film Festival. Also check out our previous news article for the previously announced nominees. Read the rest of this entry »
2019 World Soundtrack Awards Discovery of the Year Nominations Announced
Posted: September 11, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: World Soundtrack Awards
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Gabriel Mann Scoring CBS’ ‘The Unicorn’ & ‘Carol’s Second Act’
Posted: September 11, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Carol's Second Act, CBS, Gabriel Mann, The Unicorn
Gabriel Mann is composing the original score for two new CBS comedies, including The Unicorn created by Bill Martin & Mike Schiff (3rd Rock from the Sun) and starring Walton Goggins, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins, Omar Miller, Maya Lynne Robinson, Ruby Jay, Makenzie Moss and Devin Bright. The show follows a tight-knit group of best friends and family who help the series’ lead character embrace his “”new normal”” after the loss of his wife a year earlier. Read the rest of this entry »
Hulu’s ‘Dollface’ to Feature Music by Jonathan Sadoff
Posted: September 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dollface, Hulu, Jonathan Sadoff
Jonathan Sadoff (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, The Meddler, The Mick) is scoring the upcoming Hulu original series Dollface. The show is created by Jordan Weiss and stars Kat Dennings, Brenda Song, Shay Mitchell and Esther Povitsky. The comedy centers on a young woman who – after being dumped by her longtime boyfriend – must deal with her own imagination in order to literally and metaphorically re-enter the world of women, and rekindle the female friendships she left behind. Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘See’
Posted: September 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Bear McCreary, See, Steven Knight
Bear McCreary (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Happy Death Day, Child’s Play, Battlestar Galactica) is the composer of the upcoming Apple original series See. The show is created by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders) and stars Jason Momoa, Alfre Woodard, Yadira Guevara-Prip, Nesta Cooper, Sylvia Hoeks, Archie Madekwe, Christian Camargo and Hera Hilmar. The drama follows a father of twins born centuries later with the mythic ability to see – who must protect his tribe against a powerful yet desperate queen who believes it’s witchcraft and wants them destroyed. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Brimstone & Glory’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benh Zeitlin, Brimstone & Glory, Dan Romer, score, Soundtrack, Viktor Jakovleski
Drawing Number One has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Brimstone & Glory. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dan Romer (No Time to Die, Beasts of No Nation, Maniac, The Good Doctor) & Benh Zeitlin who have previously co-scored Beasts of the Southern Nation, Mediterranea, as well as several shorts. The soundtrack is now available to download and stream on Amazon Music, where you can also check out audio samples. Brimstone & Glory is directed by Viktor Jakovleski and focuses on the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico, a 10-day celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers. Read the rest of this entry »
Dario Marianelli Scoring Marc Munden’s ‘The Secret Garden’
Posted: September 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dario Marianelli, Marc Munden, The Secret Garden
Academy Award winner Dario Marianelli (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, Darkest Hour, Bumblebee, Anna Karenina) is composing the original music for the upcoming fantasy drama The Secret Garden. The film is directed by Marc Munden (Utopia, The Mark of Cain) and stars Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Dixie Egerickx, Edan Hayhurst, Amir Wilson and Isis Davis. The movie is based on the children’s novel of the same title by Frances Hodgson Burnett and follows a 10-year-old orphan who is sent from India to live with her reclusive uncle and his strict housekeeper in an eerie mansion, where finds a hidden garden and bonds with local boy, sick cousin and a stray dog over a shared fantasy world. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Mission: Impossible’ Score by Danny Elfman to Be Released
Posted: September 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian De Palma, Danny Elfman, Mission Impossible, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1996 original Mission: Impossible movie directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames and Jon Voight. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the Paramount Pictures production composed by Danny Elfman (Spider-Man, Batman, Alice in Wonderland, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Nightmare Before Christmas), including over 20 minutes of previously unreleased music. The 2-CD set, which is limited to 3,000 copies, will be available to purchase on the label’s official website later today. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans to Score HBO’s ‘The Outsider’
Posted: September 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Bensi, HBO, Jason Bateman, Saunder Jurriaans, The Outsider
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Boy Erased, The Gift, Enemy, Ozark, Fear the Walking Dead, American Gods) have been tapped to score the upcoming HBO limited series The Outsider. The show is developed by Richard Price (The Night Of, Ransom) based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel of the same title and stars Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, Jason Bateman, Bill Camp, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine, Julianne Nicholson, Yul Vázquez, Jeremy Bobb and Marc Menchaca. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, Nick Broomfield, Nick Laird-Clowes, score, Soundtrack
Rhino Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love. The album features the film’s original score composed by Nick Laird-Clowes (About Time, The Invisible Circus, Fierce People, Battle for Haditha). The soundtrack is now available to download and stream on Amazon Music, where you can also check out audio samples. Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is directed by Nick Broomfield and focuses on the enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. The movie centers on their relationship from the early days in Greece to how their love evolved when Leonard became a successful musician. Read the rest of this entry »
Dustin O’Halloran & Volker Bertelmann Scoring BBC’s & FX’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
Posted: September 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Christmas Carol, BBC, Dustin O'Halloran, FX, Hauschka, Steven Knight, Volker Bertelmann
Dustin O’Halloran & Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) are teaming up to score upcoming BBC and FX limited series A Christmas Carol. The 3-parter is written by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders) based on Charles Dickens’ iconic ghost story and stars Guy Pearce as Ebenezer Scrooge, Andy Serkis as Ghost of Christmas Past, as well as Stephen Graham, Charlotte Riley, Joe Alwyn, Vinette Robinson, Jason Flemyng and Kayvan Novak. Nick Murphy (The Awakening) is directing all episodes. Read the rest of this entry »
