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 »
Ryan Miller Scoring Netflix’s ‘The Last Summer’
Posted: April 29, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Netflix, Ryan Miller, The Last Summer
‘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 »
‘She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’ Theme Song ‘Warriors’ Released
Posted: April 27, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Aaliyah Rose, Kari Kimmel, Netflix, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Back Lot Music has released the theme song for the Netflix animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. The track, entitled, Warriors, is written by Kari Kimmel and performed by Aaliyah Rose and is now available to download as a digital single on Amazon. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is developed by Noelle Stevenson based on the classic 1980s show and features the voices of Aimee Carrero, Karen Fukuhara, AJ Michalka, Marcus Scribner, Reshma Shetty and Lorraine Toussaint. The show revolves around soldier Adora as she finds a magic sword – and her identity as legendary hero She-Ra. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 26, 2019)
Posted: April 26, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alan Silvestri, Avengers: Endgame, Ben Lovett, I Trapped the Devil, Ilan Eshkeri, J.T. Leroy, The White Crow, Tim Kvasnosky
The only movie opening nationwide this week is Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame directed by Anthony & Joe Russo and stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson and Josh Brolin. The film’s original music is composed by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Croods). Marvel Music & Hollywood Records have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Click here for the full album details.
Opening in limited release is the biographical drama The White Crow directed by Ralph Fiennes and starring Fiennes himself, Oleg Ivenko, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sergei Polunin, Chulpan Khamatova and Louis Hofmann. Ilan Eshkeri (Stardust, Layer Cake, Still Alice, Kick-Ass, Johnny English Reborn) has composed the film’s original score and also arranged ballet compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Alexander Krein & Ludwig Minkus. Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the movie’s music. Check out our previous article for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Josh Lobo’s ‘I Trapped the Devil’ Released
Posted: April 26, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Lovett, I Trapped the Devil, Josh Lobo, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller I Trapped the Devil. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ben Lovett (The Signal, The Ritual, The Wind, Black Rock, Synchronicity). The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also check out audio samples. I Trapped the Devil is written and directed by Josh Lobo and stars AJ Bowen, Jocelin Donahue, Scott Poythress, Susan Burke, Chris Sullivan, Rowan Russell and Josh Marrott. The movie follows a man and his wife who show up unannounced at the home of his estranged brother to celebrate the holidays, but instead they are greeted with a man who is being held hostage in the basement. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Crypto’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 26, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Crypto, John Stalberg Jr., Nima Fakhrara, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has released a soundtrack album for the thriller Crypto. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nima Fakhrara (The Signal, Detroit: Become Human, The Pyramid, The Girl in the Photographs). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Crypto is directed by John Stalberg Jr. and stars Beau Knapp, Alexis Bledel, Luke Hemsworth, Jeremie Harris, Jill Hennessy, Malaya Rivera Drew, Vincent Kartheiser and Kurt Russell. The movie follows a Wall Street banker as he connects a small-town art gallery to a global conspiracy. Read the rest of this entry »