Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature Funan. The album features the film’s original music composed by Thibault Kientz-Agyeman (Kirikou and the Men and Women). Also included is the original song Running written by the composer and performed by Rebecca Ferguson, which has previously been released as a digital single. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Funan is directed by Denis Do and tells the story of a young woman living in the chaos of 1975 Cambodia, amid the arrival of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. The animated drama is opening in French theaters this week. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Funan’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 7, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Denis Do, Funan, score, Soundtrack, Thibault Kientz-Agyeman
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Netflix’s ‘Love, Death + Robots’ to Feature Music by Rob Cairns
Posted: March 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Fincher, Death & Robots, Love, Netflix, Rob Cairns, Tim Miller
Rob Cairns (Dallas, The Forger, The Bachelor) has composed the original music for most episodes of the new Netflix original series Love, Death + Robots. The show presented by Tim Miller (Deadpool) & David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club, Gone Girl) is a collection of animated short stories that span the science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy genres. The 18 episodes of the show’s first season feature stories of sentient dairy products, werewolf soldiers, robots gone wild, garbage monsters, cyborg bounty hunters, alien spiders and blood-thirsty demons from hell, among others. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Newman to Score Sam Mendes’ ‘1917’
Posted: March 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 1917, Sam Mendes, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman is set to reteam with director Sam Mendes on the upcoming World War I drama 1917. George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman have been cast in the film. No plot details have been announced yet. Mendes also wrote the screenplay with Krysty Wilson-Cairns and is also producing the Amblin Partners production with Pippa Harris (Penny Dreadful, Call the Midwife), Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall (Into the Woods). Newman has previously scored most of Mendes’ previous features, including American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Skyfall and Spectre. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Apollo 11’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Apollo 11, Matt Morton, score, Soundtrack, Todd Douglas Miller
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Apollo 11. The album features the film’s original music composed by Matt Morton (Dinosaur 13). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, March 8 and will be available to download here. Apollo 11 is is directed by Todd Douglas Miller and documents NASA’s most celebrated mission – the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. The documentary premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was released in select IMAX theaters last week before expanding to more theaters this coming weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph Trapanese Scoring Michael Dowse’s ‘Stuber’
Posted: March 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Joseph Trapanese, Michael Dowse, Stuber
Joseph Trapanese (Straight Outta Compton, Oblivion, The Greatest Showman, The Raid, Allegiant, Robin Hood) is scoring the upcoming action comedy Stuber. The film is directed by Michael Dowse (Goon, What If) 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 he’s thrust into a harrowing ordeal. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Snow Wolf: A Winters Tale’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 6, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Rob, Robin Coudert, score, She Wolf, Soundtrack, The Snow Wolf: A Winter's Tale
Hippocampus has released a soundtrack album for the documentary The Snow Wolf: A Winter’s Tale. The album is being released under title She Wolf and features the film’s original music composed and performed by Rob (aka Robin Coudert) (Maniac, Revenge, Troy: Fall of a City, Horns, Amityville: The Awakening). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. The Snow Wolf is directed by Frederic Fougea, narrated by Emilia Fox and follows a she-wolf as she must flee her pack and embark on a journey through the Alps in search of a new territory and a new life. Read the rest of this entry »
Lynn Shelton’s ‘Sword of Trust’ to Feature Original Song by Marc Maron & Tal Wilkenfeld
Posted: March 5, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Lynn Shelton, Marc Maron, Sword of Trust, Tal Wilkenfeld
Marc Maron and Tal Wilkenfeld have written and recorded an original track for the upcoming indie comedy drama Sword of Trust. The track will be featured during the end credits of the film directed by Lynn Shelton (Your Sister’s Sister, Laggies, Outside In) and starring Maron himself, Jon Bass, Michaela Watkins, Jillian Bell, Toby Huss, Dan Bakkedahl, Tim Paul and Whitmer Thomas. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hotel Mumbai’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 5, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anthony Maras, Hauschka, Hotel Mumbai, score, Soundtrack, Volker Bertelmann
Varese Sarabande has announced the full details of the soundtrack album for the dramatic thriller Hotel Mumbai. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Patrick Melrose, Adrift, Gunpowder). The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 22 (click here to download) and physically the following week. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version. Hotel Mumbai is co-written and directed by Anthony Maras and stars Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Anupam Kher and Jason Isaacs. The movie recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Read the rest of this entry »
James Lavelle Scoring Netflix’s ‘Turn Up Charlie’
Posted: March 5, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Idris Elba, James Lavelle, Netflix, Turn Up Charlie
James Lavelle of the British music collective UNKLE is the composer of the new Netflix original series Turn Up Charlie. The show is created by Gary Reich and Idris Elba who also stars in the show alongside Piper Perabo, JJ Feild and Frankie Hervey. The dramedy centers on a down-and-out DJ who plots to rebuild his music career while working as a nanny for his famous best friend’s wild 11-year-old daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Gloria Bell’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 5, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gloria Bell, Matthew Herbert, score, Sebastian Lelio, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for Sebastián Lelio’s drama Gloria Bell. The album features the film’s original music composed by Matthew Herbert (Life in a Day) who previously scored the director’s A Fantastic Woman and Disobedience. The soundtrack will be released this Friday, March 8 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Gloria Bell is written and directed by Lelio and stars Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera, Caren Pistorius, Brad Garrett, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Rita Wilson, Sean Astin and Holland Taylor. The movie is based on the director’s 2013 film about a free-spirited, middle-aged divorcee hoping to find love on the dance floor. Read the rest of this entry »
