Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 15, 2020)

Posted: March 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Premiering on Wednesday, March 18, is the Hulu limited series Little Fires Everwhere created by Liz Tigelaar based on Celeste Ng’s novel of the same title and starring Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Joshua Jackson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jade Pettyjohn, Jordan Elsass, Gavin Lewis, Megan Stott, Lexi Underwood and Huang Lu. The show’s original score is composed by Mark Isham (Crash, Once Upon a Time, A River Runs Through It, The Accountant, Miracle) & Florence + the Machine’s Isabella Summers. Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama and check back on this page within the next few days for more information about a soundtrack release.

Also premiering on Wednesday is the Freeform original series Motherland: Fort Salem created by Eliot Laurence and starring Taylor Hickson, Ashley Nicole Williams, Lyne Renee and Jessica Sutton, Brandon Roberts (Underwater, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, TURN: Washington’s Spies, The Twilight Zone, Little Evil) is composing the show’s original music. Visit the official show website for more information about the drama, which follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into early deployment at Fort Salem, and which will air every Wednesday night on Freeform. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Calm With Horses’ Soundtrack Released

Posted: March 15, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Invada Records has released a soundtrack album for the British/Irish crime drama Calm With Horses. The album features the film’s original music composed by Blanck Mass (aka Benjamin John Power). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon Music, where you can also check out audio samples. Calm With Horses is directed by Nick Rowland and stars Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar, Ned Dennehy and David Wilmot. The movie is based on the novella by Colin Barrett and follows a former boxer who is offered a gig as an enforcer with the local drug mafia, but the demands weigh heavily as he makes inroads with his young son. Read the rest of this entry »

Larry Goldings Scoring Netflix’s ‘Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker’

Posted: March 14, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Larry Goldings is the composer of the new Netflix original limited series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker. The show is created by Nicole Jefferson Asher (Love Beats Rhymes) and stars Octavia Spencer, Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo, Blair Underwood, Garrett Morris, Kevin Carroll and Bill Bellamy. The drama is inspired by the book On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter A’Lelia Bundles and tells the true story of an African American washerwoman who rises from poverty to build a beauty empire and become the first female self-made millionaire. Read the rest of this entry »

Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 13, 2020)

Posted: March 13, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Three new movies are opening in theaters nationwide this weekend:

Opening in most theaters is the faith-based drama I Still Believe directed by Jon & Andrew Erwin and also stars KJ Apa, Britt Robertson, Shania Twain and Gary Sinise. The film’s original score is composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, The Jungle Book, Elf, Iron Man 2, Hocus Pocus). Capitol Records has released a soundtrack album featuring five tracks from the composer’s score, as well as the Jeremy Camp songs from the movie performed by Apa, as well as other tracks by Apa. Check out our previous article for the full album details and for more information about the Lionsgate release.

Also opening wide is the thriller The Hunt directed by Craig Zobel and starring Betty Gilpin, Ike Barinholtz, Emma Roberts, Hilary Swank, Glenn Howerton, Amy Madigan and Ethan Suplee. Nathan Barr (True Blood, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Hostel, The Americans, Cabin Fever, Carnival Row) has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the Universal Pictures release. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Lost Transmissions’ Soundtrack Details

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Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the drama Lost Transmissions. The album features the film’s original music composed by Hugo Nicolson. Also included is the song Goodnight Not Goodbye performed by IO Echo. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Lost Transmissions is written and directed by Katharine O’Brien and stars Simon Pegg, Juno Temple, Jamie Harris, Rebecca Hazlewood, Tao Okamoto, Bria Vinaite and Alexandra Daddario. The movie follows an acclaimed music producer whose friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital when he goes off his medication for schizophrenia. Read the rest of this entry »

‘The Expanse’ Season 4 Soundtrack Album Released

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Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records has released a new soundtrack album for the Amazon original series The Expanse. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s fourth season composed by Clinton Shorter (District 9, 2 Guns, Contraband, Pompeii, Colony, Code Black). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The label has previously released two soundtrack albums featuring the composer’s music from Season 2 & 3, while Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack featuring music from the first season. The Expanse is created by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby based on James S.A. Corey’s novels and stars Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashlo, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham and Frankie Adams. Read the rest of this entry »

Sharon Van Etten’s Original Song ‘Staring at a Mountain’ from ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Released

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The original end credits song Staring at a Mountain from Eliza Hittman’s drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always has been released. The track is written and performed by Sharon Van Etten (who also appears in the movie) and produced by the singer/songwriter and Adam Gunther. The song is now available to stream/download on Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. As previously reported, a full soundtrack album featuring the film’s original score composed by Julia Holter is being released today. Never Rarely Sometimes Always written and directed by Hittman and starring Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin and Ryan Eggold is being released in select theaters this weekend by Focus Features. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ – The Final Season (Episodes 1-4) Soundtrack Released

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Walt Disney Records has released the first full soundtrack album for the final season of Lucasfilm’s animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first four episodes from Season 7 composed by Kevin Kiner (Star Wars Rebels, Narcos: Mexico, Doom Patrol, CSI: Miami, Titans, Making a Murderer).  The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon Music, where you can also listen to audio samples. The label has previously released a soundtrack album featuring selections of Kiner’s score from the first six seasons, as well as his Bad Batch Theme from the current season. Two more soundtrack featuring more music from the final season are scheduled to come out on April 10 and May 4. Read the rest of this entry »

Lola Kirke’s ‘Beautiful Dreamer’ Cover from Netflix’s ‘Lost Girls’ Released

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Downtown Records has released the cover version of Beautiful Dreamer from the Netflix original film Lost Girls. The track (originally writeen by Stephen Foster) is performed by Lola Kirke (who also stars in the movie) and produced by Wyndham Garnett. The song is now available to stream/download as a digital single on Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Lost Girls is directed by Liz Garbus and stars Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Kirke, Oona Laurence, Gabriel Byrne and Miriam Shor. The movie is based on a true story and centers on a mother, desperate to find her missing daughter,  who fights to uncover the truth – and helps expose a string of unsolved murders. Read the rest of this entry »

‘The Postcard Killings’ Soundtrack Released

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Filmtrax has released a soundtrack album for the thriller The Postcard Killings. The album features the film’s original music composed by Simon Lacey (Good, Above Suspicion). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The Postcard Killings is directed by Danis Tanovic and stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Famke Janssen, Cush Jumbo, Joachim Król, Steven Mackintosh and Denis O’Hare. The movie is based on James Patterson’s and Liza Marklund’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same title and follows a NY Detective whose world is destroyed when his daughter and son-in-law are brutally murdered in London as part of a series of heinous murders across Europe and travels to Europe to stop the killings. Read the rest of this entry »

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