Rob (aka Robin Coudert) (Maniac, Revenge, Horns, Troy: Fall of a City, Planetarium) is composing the original score for the upcoming fantasy horror movie Gretel & Hansel. The film is directed by Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter) and stars Sophia Lillis, Sammy Leakey, Charles Babalola, Alice Krige and Jessica De Gouw. The movie is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale and follows a young girl who leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Scoring Osgood Perkins’ ‘Gretel & Hansel’
Posted: December 11, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gretel & Hansel, Osgood Perkins, Rob
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Expanded ‘Seven Worlds One Planet’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: December 11, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, BBC America, Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea, score, Seven Worlds One Planet, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records will release a new soundtrack album for the BBC Earth natural history series Seven Worlds One Planet. The Expanded Edition soundtrack features selections of the show’s music composed by Jacob Shea (Planet Earth II, Blue Planet II) for Bleeding Fingers Music who also wrote the project’s theme with Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Inception), including over an hour of previously unreleased music. The soundtrack will be released on January 17, 2020 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The original soundtrack for the series was released this past October. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ FYC Score Album Released
Posted: December 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Williams, score, Soundtrack, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Walt Disney Pictures has added the score for Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to their FYC awards website. The 23-track album featuring music composed by John Williams (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, E.T., Schindler’s List, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) is now available to stream here. The content of the official soundtrack album (to be released on December 20) is expected to differ from the FYC promotional release. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix/CBC Series ‘Anne with an “E”‘ Announced
Posted: December 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amin Bhatia, Anne With an E, Ari Posner, CBC, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Varèse Sarabande Records has announced a soundtrack album for the CBC & Netflix original series Anne with an “E”. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Amin Bhatia (X Company, Detention) and Ari Posner (Flashpoint, Johnny Test, Northern Rescue). Also included is the theme song Ahead by a Century by The Tragically Hip. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 27, 2019 (click here to download/stream) and physically on January 24, 2020. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version. Anne with an “E” is created by Moira Walley-Beckett based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel Anne of Green Gables and stars Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James, R.H. Thomson, Lucas Jade Zumann, Dalila Bela, Corinne Koslo and Aymeric Jett Montaz. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mindhunter’ Season 2 Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Jason Hill, Mindhunter, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
BMG has released a new soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Mindhunter. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Jason Hill. The soundtrack is now available to stream and download on Amazon Music, where you can also check out audio samples. Milan Records has previously released released a soundtrack featuring Hill’s score from Season 1. Mindhunter is created by Joe Penhall, executive produced by David Fincher and stars Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv and Stacey Roca. The series is set in the late 1970s and centers on two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul McCartney to Write Original Songs for Timothy Reckart’s ‘High in the Clouds’
Posted: December 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: High in the Clouds, Netflix, Paul McCartney, Timothy Reckart
Netflix announced today that singer/songwriter Paul McCartney will be writing original songs for the animated movie High in the Clouds based on the popular children’s adventure novel of the same title by McCartney and Geoff Dunbar & Philip Ardagh. Timothy Reckart (The Star, Head Over Heels) is directing the film, which follows an imaginative teenage squirrel who finds himself pulled into a ramshackle gang of teenage rebels who live high in the clouds. Jon Croker (Paddington, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) is writing the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
56th Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: December 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society
The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 56th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. For the past few years, scoring mixers have been recognized alongside production, re-recording, ADR and foley mixers. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Tyson Lozensky for James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari (scored by Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders) and Daniel Kresco for Todd Phillips’ Joker (music by Hildur Gudnadottir). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hala’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Hala, Mandy Hoffman, Minhal Baig, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the coming-of-age drama Hala. The album features the film’s original music composed by Mandy Hoffman (The Lovers, Terri, I Love Dick). The soundtrack is now available to stream on Apple Music. A release in other digital music stores is expected in 2020. Hala is written and directed by Minhal Baig and stars Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Gabriel Luna, Purbi Joshi, Azad Khan and Anna Chlumsky. The movie follows a 17-year-old girl who is navigating the conflicting worlds of her traditional Muslim household and her modern high school. Read the rest of this entry »
Scores for ‘Knives Out’, ‘The Irishman’ & ‘The Two Popes’ Ruled Ineligible for Academy Awards Consideration
Posted: December 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
Variety is reporting that several original scores submitted for Academy Awards consideration have been disqualified. Among the titles ruled ineligible are Knives Out (by Nathan Johnson), which was disqualified due to an “administrative mixup”, as well as The Irishman (by Robbie Robertson) and The Two Popes (by Bryce Dessner), both of which were expected to be ineligible because of the limited amount of original score and predominating use of pre-existing songs in the films. As anticipated, A Hidden Life (by James Newton Howard) will also not be eligible. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Newman to Score John Lee Hancock’s ‘The Little Things’ & Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Let Them All Talk’
Posted: December 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO Max, John Lee Hancock, Let Them All Talk, Steven Soderbergh, The Little Things, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman (American Beauty, Finding Nemo, The Shawshank Redemption, Skyfall) has revealed in a recent interview with Deadline that he will be reteaming with John Lee Hancock on the upcoming crime thriller The Little Things. The film starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Natalie Morales, Sofia Vassilieva and John Harlan Kim follows a Kern County, CA deputy sheriff namedwho teams with a crack LASD detective to reel in a wily serial killer. Lee Hancok (The Blind Side, The Rookie) also wrote the screenplay and is producing the project with Mark Johnson (Rain Men, The Chronicles of Narnia). Read the rest of this entry »
