Composer Henry Jackman (Captain America: The Winter Soldier & Civil War, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Wreck-It-Ralph, X-Men: First Class) is reteaming with Nate Parker on the upcoming drama American Skin. The film is written and directed by Parker who also stars in the film alongside Omari Hardwick, Beau Knapp, Theo Rossi, Shane Paul McGhie and Miluana Jackson. The movie follows marine veteran who takes matters into his own hands after his son is killed by a police officer who is found innocent without standing trial. Read the rest of this entry »
Henry Jackman Scoring Nate Parker’s ‘American Skin’
Posted: August 27, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: American Skin, Henry Jackman, Nate Parker
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‘Adam’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 27, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adam, Jay Wadley, Rhys Ernst, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the indie comedy drama Adam. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jay Wadley (Indignation, Tales of the City, The OA, Cruise). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also audio samples. Adam is directed by Rhys Ernst and starring Nicholas Alexander, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Leo Sheng, Chloe Levine and Margaret Qualley. The movie produced by James Schamus follows an awkward teen who spends his last high school summer in New York City with his big sister who throws herself into the city’s lesbian and trans activist scene. Read the rest of this entry »
Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka) to Score Nat Faxon’s & Jim Rash’s ‘Downhill’
Posted: August 27, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Downhill, Hauschka, Jim Rash, Nat Faxon, Volker Bertelmann
Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) has signed on to score the upcoming drama Downhill. The film is directed by Nat Faxon & Jim Rash (The Way Way Back, screenwriters of The Descendants) and stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell, Miranda Otto, Zach Woods, Zoë Chao, Julian Grey, Ammon Jacob Ford and Kristofer Hivju. The movie is based on the Golden Globe-nominated Swedish feature Force Majeure and follows a seemingly picture-perfect family as they are forced to reevaluate life, and how they truly feel about each other when they barely escape an avalanche during a ski vacation in the Alps. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Downhill Racer’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: August 27, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Downhill Racer, Kenyon Hopkins, Michael Ritchie, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1969 sports drama Downhill Racer directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl Michael Vogler, Jim McMullan, Kathleen Crowley and Dabney Coleman. The album features the original music from the Paramount Pictures production composed and conducted by Kenyon Hopkins (12 Angry Men, The Hustler, This Property Is Condemned, Lilith), including the composer’s full score, music not used in the movie, source cues & more. The soundtrack is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples.
Eduardo Cruz Scoring Olivier Assayas’ ‘Wasp Network’
Posted: August 27, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eduardo Cruz, Olivier Assayas, Wasp Network
Eduardo Cruz has composed the original score for the upcoming political thriller Wasp Network. The film is written and directed by Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper) and stars the composer’s sister Penélope Cruz, alongside Edgar Ramírez, Gael García Bernal, Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas and Leonardo Sbaraglia. The movie follows the increasingly complex lives of Cuban dissidents during the country’s 1990s post-Soviet Union economic collapse. Rodrigo Teixeira (Call Me By Your Name, The Witch) & Lourenco Sant’Anna (The Lighthouse) are producing the project for RT Features, alongside Charles Gillibert (Mustang, Certified Copy) for CG Cinéma. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mrs. Lowry & Son’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 26, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adrian Noble, Craig Armstrong, Mrs. Lowry & Son, score, Soundtrack
Decca Gold will release a soundtrack album for the British drama Mrs. Lowry & Son. The album features the film’s original music composed by Craig Armstrong (Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby, The Incredible Hulk, Love Actually, Romeo + Juliet). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 27 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Mrs. Lowry & Son is directed by Adrian Noble (The Importance of Being Earnest) and stars Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave. The movie examines the relationship between British painter L.S. Lowry, who was famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century and his mother, Elizabeth. Read the rest of this entry »
Mervyn Warren to Score Solomon Onita, Jr.’s ‘Tazmanian Devil’
Posted: August 26, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mervyn Warren, Solomon Onita Jr., Tazmanian Devil
Mervyn Warren (The Wedding Planner, Honey, A Walk to Remember, Joyful Noise) has been hired to score the upcoming indie drama Tazmanian Devil. The film is written and directed by Solomon Onita, Jr. and stars Abraham Attah, Adepero Oduye, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine and Kwesi Boakye. The movie centers on a 19-year-old Nigerian immigrant as he struggles to balance his conflicting desires of joining a college fraternity and bonding with his estranged father, a strictly religious pastor at a local church. Tricia Woodgett is producing the project for TigerEye Films. Read the rest of this entry »
Deleted Song ‘Desert Moon’ from ‘Aladdin’ Released
Posted: August 26, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aladdin, Alan Menken, Benj Pasek, Guy Ritchie, Justin Paul
Walt Disney Records has released the unused song Desert Moon written for Disney’s live-action adaptation of Aladdin. The song is written by Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Enchanted) and features lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen). The song, which is featured in a deleted scene on the movie’s home video release, is now available to download as a digital single on Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. The label has released a full soundtrack album featuring the songs from the movie, as well as Menken’s score earlier this year. Aladdin directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari, Navid Negahban, Nasim Pedrad, Billy Magnussen and Numan Acar will be released on VOD August 27 and will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on September 10. Read the rest of this entry »
Colin Stetson Scoring Richard Stanley’s ‘Color Out of Space’
Posted: August 26, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Colin Stetson, Color Out of Space, Richard Stanley
Colin Stetson (Hereditary, The First, Outlaws and Angels) is scoring the Color Out of Space. The film is directed by Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil) and stars Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Elliot Knight, Q’orianka Kilcher and Tommy Chong. The movie is based on H.P. Lovecraft’s classic horror short story about a meteor that falls to earth and lands on the property of a New England family with insidious, delirious, and psychedelic results. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Oh, Mercy!’ (‘Roubaix, une lumière’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 26, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arnaud Desplechin, Gregoire Hetzel, Oh Mercy!, Roubaix une lumière, score, Soundtrack
Why Not Productions has released a soundtrack album for the French thriller Oh Mercy! (Roubaix, une lumière). The album features the film’s original music composed by Gregoire Hetzel (Incendies, Summertime, Ismael’s Ghosts, The Midwife). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Oh Mercy! is written and directed by Arnaud Desplechin and stars Roschdy Zem, Antoine Reinartz, Léa Seydoux and Sara Forestier. The movie is set in the director’s native town of Roubaix in northern France and tells the true story of a crime in which two women murdered an elderly woman. Read the rest of this entry »
