Joseph Bishara (The Conjuring, Insidious, Annabelle) has recently scored the upcoming horror thriller Body Cam. The film is directed by Malik Vitthal (Imperial Dreams) and stars Mary J. Blige, Nat Wolff, Theo Rossi, Anika Noni Rose and David Zayas. The movie follows several LAPD officers involved with covering up a murder by getting rid of their body cam video footage who find themselves haunted by an evil spirit. Nicholas McCarthy (The Prodigy, The Pact) and John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) wrote screenplay based on earlier version penned by Richmond Riedel. Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph Bishara Scoring Malik Vitthal’s ‘Body Cam’
Posted: April 30, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Body Cam, Joseph Bishara, Malik Vitthal, score, Soundtrack
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‘El Chicano’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 30, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: El Chicano, Mitch Lee, score, Soundtrack
Locash Records has released a soundtrack album for the superhero thriller El Chicano. The album features the film’s original score composed by Mitch Lee. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. El Chicano is directed by Ben Hernandez Bray and stars Raúl Castillo, Aimee Garcia, Jose Pablo Cantillo, David Castañeda, Marco Rodríguez, Sal Lopez, Marlene Forte, Kate del Castillo and George Lopez. The movie co-written by Joe Carnahan and produced by Frank Grillo follows an L.A.P.D. detective who is assigned a case investigating a vicious cartel and uncovers links to his brother’s supposed suicide and resurrects the masked street legend El Chicano. Read the rest of this entry »
Celica Westbrook’s ‘Welcome to Amphibia’ from Disney Channel’s ‘Amphibia’ Released
Posted: April 30, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amphibia, Celica Westbrook, Disney Channel
Walt Disney Records has released the original song Welcome to Amphibia from the Disney Channel animated series Amphibia. The track, which is performed by Celica Westbrook, is now available to download on Amazon. Check out the official music video after the jump. Amphibia is created by Matt Braly (Gravity Falls) and stars Brenda Song and Justin Felbinger. The show follows a 13-year old girl who – after stealing a mysterious music box – is magically transported to the world of Amphibia, a wild marshland full of talking frog-people. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Amazon’s & ITV’s ‘The Widow’ Released
Posted: April 29, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Dominik Scherrer, score, Soundtrack, The Widow
Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album for the Amazon & ITV original series The Widow. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominee Dominik Scherrer (The Missing, Requiem, Primeval, Ripper Street). The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio samples. The Widow is created by Harry & Jack Williams and stars Kate Beckinsale, Alex Kingston, Charles Dance and Babs Olusanmokun. The series follows woman who has cut herself off from her previous life but is pulled back to the face that world after seeing her supposedly deceased husband on the news. Read the rest of this entry »
Ryan Miller Scoring Netflix’s ‘The Last Summer’
Posted: April 29, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Netflix, Ryan Miller, The Last Summer
Ryan Miller has composed the original score for the Netflix original movie The Last Summer. The film is directed by William Bindley (Madison) and stars K.J. Apa, Maia Mitchell, Tyler Posey, Jacob Latimore, Halston Sage, Sosie Bacon, Gage Golightly, Wolfgang Novogratz, Jacob McCarthy, Mario Revolori and Gabrielle Anwa. The romantic comedy drama follows a group of teens from a Chicago high school as they grapple with their dreams, relationships and identities in a transformative summer before they leave for college. Read the rest of this entry »
‘At the Heart of Gold’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 29, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: At the Heart of Gold, At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal, Drum & Lace, HBO, Ian Hultquist, score, Sofia Hultquist, Soundtrack
Little Twig Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal. The album features the film’s original music composed by Drum & Lace (The First Monday in May, The Gospel According to Andre) and Ian Hultquist (Assassination Nation, Animals, A.X.L.). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 3 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. At the Heart of Gold is directed by Erin Lee Carr and reveals a dangerous system that prioritized winning over everything else, including protecting young female athletes. Read the rest of this entry »
David Holmes & Keefus Ciancia Win BAFTA TV Craft Award for ‘Killing Eve’
Posted: April 29, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA TV Craft Awards, David Holmes, Keefus Ciancia, Killing Eve
David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven, Out of Sight, Haywire) & Keefus Ciancia (True Detective, The Motel Life) won their first BAFTA TV Craft Award today for her music for the BBC series Killing Eve developed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and starring Sandra Oh & Jodie Comer. The composers accepted their award in person last night at the ceremony at the Brewery in London. Check out their acceptance speech after the jump. The other nominees in the Original Music category were Cho Young-Wuk for The Little Drummer Girl, Murray Gold for A Very English Scandal and Hauschka for Patrick Melrose. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 28, 2019)
Posted: April 28, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Blau, Blake Neely, CBS, Dead to Me, Ingress: The Animation, Jacob Yoffee, Jesse Novak, Netflix, Sherri Chung, The Red Line, Tuca & Bertie
Premiering tonight is the new CBS limited series The Red Line created by Caitlin Parrish & Erica Weiss and starring Noah Wyle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Noel Fisher, Howard Charles, Aliyah Royale, Michael Patrick Thornton, Vinny Chhibber and Elizabeth Laidlaw. The show’s original music is composed by Blake Neely (The Flash, Arrow, The Pacific, Life As We Know It) & Sherri Chung (Riverdale, Blindspot). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the drama, which will air Sunday nights on CBS.
Premiering in the U.S. on Tuesday, April 30, is the anime series Ingress: The Animation based on the eponymous location-enabled game and starring Yoshiki Nakajima, Reina Ueda and Shigeo Kiyama. Jacob Yoffee (Finding Carter, Andi Mack, Best Shot) has composed the music for the global release of the show. The series, which is set after scientists discover a mysterious substance that can influence human minds, and follows two factions wage an all-out battle to control its awesome power, will be available to stream stateside and in most others markets exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
Gabriel Yared to Receive Max Steiner Award
Posted: April 28, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Gabriel Yared, Hollywood in Vienna, Max Steiner Award
It was announced today that Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, The Lives of Others) is the recipient of this year’s Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award, which will be presented at the annual Hollywood in Vienna Concert Gala at Vienna Concert Hall on October 19, 2019. The composer will be accepting the award in person and will also perform his compositions on the piano, together with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphonic Orchestra, under the baton of Keith Lockhart (Boston Pops) on stage. Read the rest of this entry »
Lior Rosner Scoring Netflix’s ‘AJ and the Queen’
Posted: April 28, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AJ and the Queen, Lior Rosner, Netflix
Lior Rosner (Will & Grace, Seconds Apart, The History of Comedy) is scoring the upcoming Netflix original series AJ and the Queen. The show is created by Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City, 2 Broke Girls) & RuPaul Charles who also stars in the series alongside Izzy G, Josh Segarra, Michael-Leon Wooley, Katerina Tannenbaum and Tia Carrere. The comedy follows a down-on-her-luck drag queen traveling across America in a van with a tough-talking 11-year-old stowaway. Read the rest of this entry »
