Orange Mountain Music will release a soundtrack album for the period action movie Samurai Marathon. The album features the film’s music composed by Academy Award nominee Philip Glass (The Hours, Notes on a Scandal, Candyman, The Illusionist). The soundtrack is comprised of short excerpts of the composer’s music from Mishima, The Fog of War & Naqoyqatsi , movements from Symphonies 2, 3 and 8, Violin Concerto No. 1, as well as the operas Akhnaten and Satyagraha. The pieces were newly recorded for the project with the City of Prague Philharmonic under the baton of Richard Hein. The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 19. A CD version is set to be released on August 16 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Samurai Marathon’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: July 3, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bernard Rose, Philip Glass, Samurai Marathon, Soundtrack
Dustin O’Halloran & Volker Bertelmann to Score Gina Prince-Bythewood’s ‘The Old Guard’
Posted: July 3, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dustin O'Halloran, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Hauschka, Netflix, The Old Guard, Volker Bertelmann
Dustin O’Halloran & Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) have signed on to score the upcoming Netflix original movie The Old Guard. The film is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball, Beyond the Lights) and stars Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Marwan Kenzari, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli, Harry Melling and Veronica Ngo. The action fantasy movie is based on the comic book series of the same title created by author Greg Rucka (who also wrote the screenplay) and illustrator Leandro Fernández and tells the story of a small covert group of immortal mercenaries who must fight to keep their team together when they discover the existence of a new immortal and their extraordinary abilities are exposed. Read the rest of this entry »
Aloe Blacc’s Song ‘Getting Started’ from ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Released
Posted: July 3, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aloe Blacc, Hobbs & Shaw, J.I.D.
Back Lot Music has released the new song Getting Started that will be featured in the upcoming Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw. The track is written by Kyle Williams and performed by Aloe Blacc feat. J.I.D. The song, which was selected to appear in the film during NBC’s songwriting competition series Songland, is now available to download on Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Hobbs & Shaw directed by David Leitch and starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby and Helen Mirren will be released in theaters nationwide on August 2 by Universal Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Jay Wadley to Score Charlie Kaufman’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’
Posted: July 2, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Charlie Kaufman, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Jay Wadley, Netflix
Jay Wadley has been hired to score the upcoming Netflix original movie I’m Thinking of Ending Things. The film is written and directed by Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa, Synecdoche, New York) and stars Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette and David Thewlis. The drama is based on Iain Reid’s best-selling novel of the same title and follows a man as he is going on a road trip to meet his parents on their secluded farm with his girlfriend and is thinking of terminating their relationship. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan Romer to Reteam with Cary Fukunaga on ‘Bond 25’
Posted: July 2, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bond 25, Cary Fukunaga, Dan Romer
Indiewire is reporting that composer Dan Romer is set to retam with director Dan Fukunaga (True Detective, Jane Eyre) on the next, currently untitled James Bond movie. Daniel Craig returns in the title role and is joined by Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright and Ana de Armas. The film follows Bond as he has left active service, when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe to Score Amazon’s ‘This Is Football’
Posted: July 2, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Lorne Balfe, This Is Football
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible: Fallout, The Lego Batman Movie, Home, Terminator Genysis, Genius, Pacific Rim: Uprising) is set to score the upcoming Amazon docu-series This Is Football. The show written and co-created by journalist and author John Carlin will tell six stories about the global power of soccer, including football’s uplifting role in Rwanda after the genocide, the rise of the women’s game, and Barcelona and Argentina superstar Lionel Messi. Joe Roth (Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent) is producing the October Films, Brutal Media and Starbucks production with Jos Cushing (Barbarians Rising). Read the rest of this entry »
TNT’s ‘Tell Me Your Secrets’ to Feature Music by Peter Raeburn
Posted: July 2, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Peter Raeburn, Tell Me Your Secrets, TNT
Peter Raeburn (Woodshock, Nancy, Photograph) is the composer of the upcoming TNT original series Tell Me Your Secrets. The show is created by Harriet Warner (Call the Midwife, Mistresses) and stars Lily Rabe, Enrique Murciano, Hamish Linklater, Elliot Fletcher, Xavier Samuel, Stella Baker, Ashley Madekwe, Charles Esten, Chiara Aurelia, Bryant Tardy and Amy Brenneman. The thriller centers on a trio of characters each with a mysterious and troubling past, including a young woman who once looked into the eyes of a dangerous killer, a former serial predator desperate to find redemption and a grieving mother obsessed with finding her missing daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Abels to Score Cory Finley’s ‘Bad Education’
Posted: July 1, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bad Education, Cory Finley, Michael Abels
Michael Abels (Get Out, Us, See You Yesterday) has been tapped to score the upcoming comedy drama Bad Education. The film is directed by Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds) and stars Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, Rafael Casal, Ray Romano, Geraldine Viswanathan and Alex Wolff. The movie follows a superintendent of the school district who works for the betterment of the student’s education while embezzling public funds to live the life he wants. Mike Makowsky (I Think We’re Alone Now) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Stuber’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 1, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joseph Trapanese, Michael Dowse, score, Soundtrack, Stuber
Fox Music will release the official soundtrack album for the action comedy Stuber. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joseph Trapanese (Oblivion, Straight Outta Compton, The Greatest Showman, The Raid 2, Insurgent, Arctic). The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 12, 2019 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Stuber is directed by Michael Dowse and stars Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Bautista, Iko Uwais, Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy Tatro, Mira Sorvino and Karen Gillan. The movie follows a mild-mannered Uber driver who picks up a grizzled cop on the trail of a brutal killer and is thrust into a harrowing ordeal. Read the rest of this entry »
Ludwig Goransson, Michael Abels, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Nathan Barr, Hildur Gudnadottir & Others Invited to Join Academy
Posted: July 1, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 928 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures to join the organization. Among the invited artists this year are a number of film composers, including Ludwig Goransson (Creed, Venom) who received the Academy Award for Black Panther this year, Michael Abels (Get Out, Us), Rupert Gregson-Williams (Wonder Woman, Aquaman), Nathan Barr (The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Hostel), Kris Bowers (Green Book, Monsters and Men), Hildur Gudnadottir (Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene), Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me, Minions), Jed Kurzel (Alien Covenant, Macbeth), John Swihart (Napoleon Dynamite, Table 19), Anne Nikitin (American Animals, The Imposter), Jane Antonia Cornish (Fireflies in the Garden, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City) and Annette Focks (Ostwind, Krabat). Read the rest of this entry »
