Hollywood Records and Marvel Music will release the official soundtrack album for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump) who previously scored the original Avengers movie, as well as last year’s Avengers: Infinity War and Captain America: The First Avenger. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 26 and will be available to download here. A CD version is set to come out on May 24 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. Avengers: Endgame is directed by Anthony & Joe Russo and stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Benedict Wong, Jon Favreau, Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow and Josh Brolin. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Avengers: Endgame’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 25, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, Avengers, Avengers: Endgame, Marvel, score, Soundtrack
‘The Dig’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 25, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andy Tohill, James Everett, Ryan Tohill, score, Soundtrack, The Dig
A soundtrack album has been released for the Irish thriller The Dig. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Everett. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The Dig is directed by Ryan & Andy Tohill and stars Moe Dunford, Emily Taaffe, Francis Magee and Lorcan Cranitch. The movie centers on a paroled, amnesiac killer as he is confronted by his victim’s father. The thriller was shown at various film festivals over the last year (including at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Galway Film Fleadh, where it won Best Irish Feature) and is being released in Irish theaters this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
Ryuichi Sakamoto to Score Ferdinando Cito Filomarino’s ‘Born to Be Murdered’
Posted: April 24, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Born to Be Murdered, Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, Luca Guadagnino, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Revenant, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Snake Eyes) is attached to score the upcoming thriller Born to Be Murdered. The film is directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino (Antonia) and stars John David Washington, Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook and Vicky Krieps. The movie set in Athens and the Epirus region of Greece, where a vacationing couple fall trap to a violent conspiracy with tragic consequences. Kevin Rice wrote the screenplay. Luca Guadagnino & Marco Morabito (Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria) are producing the project for their Frenesy Films production company. Read the rest of this entry »
CBS All Access’ ‘Why Women Kill’ & ABC’s ‘Happy Accident’ to Feature Music by Mateo Messina
Posted: April 24, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, CBS All Access, Happy Accident, Marc Cherry, Mateo Messina, Why Women Kill
Mateo Messina (Juno, Blockers, Superstore, Barely Lethal) has been tapped to compose the music for the upcoming CBS All Access original series Why Women Kill. The show is created by Marc Cherry (Desperate Housewives, Devious Minds) and stars Ginnifer Goodwin, Lucy Liu, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Alexandra Daddario, Jack Davenport, Sadie Calvano, Reid Scott and Sam Yaeger. The comedy drama details the lives of three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the ‘60s, a socialite in the ‘80s and a lawyer in 2018, each dealing with infidelity in her marriage. Read the rest of this entry »
Cristobal Tapia de Veer to Score Amazon’s ‘The Hunt’
Posted: April 24, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Cristobal Tapia de Veer, The Hunt
Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Utopia, The Girl with All the Gifts, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, National Treasure) has signed on to score the upcoming Amazon original series The Hunt. The show is created by David Weil and stars Al Pacino, Logan Lerman, Jerrika Hinton, Lena Olin, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Tiffany Boone, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Greg Austin, and Dylan Baker. The drama follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City who have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »
Academy Confirms Return of Short Lists in Music Categories
Posted: April 24, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy has announced the updated rules for next year’s 92nd Academy Awards and confirmed that the short lists that were reintroduced last year in both “Original Score” and “Original Song” music categories will return for next year’s Oscars. The new procedure in the nomination phase generated mixed reactions last year, with some parties feeling movies and their respective songs/scores that are released at the very end of the year are being disadvantaged, while others welcomed the spotlight placed on ten additional scores/songs that appeared on the short lists but ultimately were not nominated. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Farewell to the Night’ (‘L’adieu à la nuit’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 24, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexis Rault, Farewell to the Night, L'adieu à la nuit, score, Soundtrack
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French drama Farewell to the Night (L’adieu à la nuit). The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexis Rault (Being 17, Ladies). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Farewell to the Night is directed by André Téchiné and stars Catherine Deneuve, Kacey Mottet Klein, Oulaya Amamra, Stéphane Bak, Kamel Labroudi and Mohamed Djouhri. The movie follows a woman who breeds horses in France and runs an almond plantation and who finds out about her grandson’s secrets when comes to visit her for one last time before he leaves for Canada. Read the rest of this entry »
Keegan DeWitt’s ‘Her Smell’ Score to Be Released
Posted: April 23, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Ross Perry, Her Smell, Keegan DeWitt, score, Soundtrack
Waxwork Records has announced a release of the original score from Alex Ross Perry’s musical drama Her Smell. The score is written by the director’s regular composer Keegan DeWitt (Hearts Beat Loud, I’ll See You in My Dreams, Gemini, The Hero, Divorce). Visit the label’s official website to order the vinyl set, which also includes the original songs from the movie (also available separately as a digital EP as reported last week). The score album is also expected to be released digitally. Her Smell is written and directed by Perry and stars Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Ashley Benson, Dylan Gelula, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Amber Heard, Dan Stevens, Virginia Madsen and Eric Stoltz. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for Pixar’s ‘Smash and Grab’ Released
Posted: April 23, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Barney Jones, Pixar, score, Smash and Grab, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack EP for the Pixar animated short Smash and Grab. The EP features the film’s original music composed by Barney Jones. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Smash and Grab is directed by Brian Larsen, produced by David Lally and follows two antiquated robots who risk everything for freedom and for each other after years of toiling away inside the engine room of a towering locomotive. The short, which is the second title in Pixar’s SparkShorts program opened at Disney’s El Capitan Theater in January and is now available to stream on YouTube. Watch the full short after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Atticus & Leopold Ross Scoring Wash Westmoreland’s ‘Earthquake Bird’
Posted: April 23, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atticus Ross, Earthquake Bird, Leopold Ross, Wash Westmoreland
Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Leopold Ross (The Book of Eli, Triple 9) have recently scored the upcoming Netflix original movie Earthquake Bird. The film is written and directed by Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice, Colette) and stars Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough, Jack Huston and Naoki Kobayashi. The thriller is based on Susanna Jones’ novel of the same title and tells the story of young female expat who is suspected of murder after her friend goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle with a handsome local photographer. Kevin Walsh (Manchester by the Sea, All the Money in the World) & Michael Pruss (Equals, Zoe) are producing the project for Scott Free, alongside Ann Ruark (Wildlife, The Beaver) and Georgina Pope. Read the rest of this entry »
