Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, Moon, The Fountain) and Kevin Kiner (Star Wars Rebels, Narcos: Mexico, Star Wars: The Clone Wars) are the composers of the new DC Universe original series Doom Patrol. The show is developed by Jeremy Carver (Supernatural) based on the DC comics created by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney & Bruno Premiani and stars Matt Bomer, Brendan Fraser, April Bowlby, Diane Guerrero, Joivan Wade, Alan Tudyk and Timothy Dalton. The drama follows a group of outcast Super Heroes: Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Crazy Jane, led by modern-day mad scientist Dr. Niles Caulder (The Chief). Read the rest of this entry »
Clint Mansell & Kevin Kiner Scoring DC Universe’s ‘Doom Patrol’
Posted: February 12, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Clint Mansell, DC Universe, Doom Patrol, Kevin Kiner
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‘Who You Think I Am’ (‘Celle que vous croyez’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 12, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Celle que vous croyez, Ibrahim Maalouf, Safy Nebbou, score, Soundtrack, Who You Think I Am
A soundtrack album has been released for the French drama Who You Think I Am (Celle que vous croyez). The album features the film’s original music composed by Ibrahim Maalouf (Yves Saint Laurent, One Man and His Cow, Radiance). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list andlisten to audio samples. Who You Think I Am is directed by Safy Nebbou and stars Juliette Binoche, François Civil, Nicole Garcia, Marie-Ange Casta and Guillaume Gouix. The movie follows a 50-year old who creates a fake profile as a younger woman on social media to spy on her lover. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘An American Tail’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: February 11, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: An American Tail, Don Bluth, James Horner, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for Amblin Entertainment’s animated feature An American Tail directed by Don Bluth and starring Nehemiah Persoff, Erica Yohn, Amy Green, Christopher Plummer, John Finnegan, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn and Phillip Glasser. The album features the film’s expanded original score composed and conducted by James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Aliens), including over 30 minutes of previously unreleased music. Also included are all the original songs from the movie written by Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, including the Academy Award-nominated Somewhere Out There. Read the rest of this entry »
Rupert Gregson-Williams to Score Guan Hu’s ‘800’
Posted: February 11, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: 800, Ba Bai, Guan Hu, Rupert Gregson-Williams
Rupert Gregson-Williams (Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Hacksaw Ridge, The Legend of Tarzan, The Crown) is set to compose the music for the upcoming Chinese war epic 800 (Ba Bai). The film is directed by Guan Hu (Mr. Six, Cow) and tells the story of a group of Chinese soldiers and draft dodgers in 1937 who put up a four-day defense of a Shanghai warehouse complex just as Japanese forces are overwhelming China. The movie is produced by Huayi Brothers Media. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ITV’s ‘Dark Heart’ Announced
Posted: February 11, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Dan Jones, Dark Heart, ITV, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the ITV series Dark Heart. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Dan Jones (On Chesil Beach, Shadow of the Vampire, My Scientology Movie, The Miniaturist). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 22 and will be available to download here. Dark Heart is written by Chris Lang and stars Tom Riley, Charlotte Riley, Miranda Raison and Anjli Mohindra. The 6-part crime thriller directed by Colin Teague follows Detective Inspector Will Wagstaffe as he investigates brutal and mysterious murders while battling his personal demons and dealing with romantic and family relationships. Read the rest of this entry »
Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka) to Score Jessica Swale’s ‘Summerland’
Posted: February 11, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hauschka, Jessica Swale, Summerland, Volker Bertelmann
Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Adrift, Patrick Melrose, Gunpowder) has been hired to score the upcoming British romantic drama Summerland. The film marks the directorial debut of British playwright Jessica Swale and stars Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Penelope Wilton, Tom Courtenay, Lucas Bond and Dixie Egerickx. The World War II-set movie centers on a private and reclusive writer who finds herself being put responsible for the care of a young man after the London Blitz. Guy Heeley (Locke, Serenity, The Escape) and Adrian Sturges (The Escapist, The Disappearance of Alice Creed) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack EP for ‘Jane and Emma’ to Be Released
Posted: February 11, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jane and Emma, Soundtrack, The Bonner Family
Shadow Mountain Records will release a soundtrack EP for the faith-based drama Jane and Emma. The 6-track EP features songs from and inspired by the movie performed by The Bonner Family. The soundtrack will be released on March 1 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Jane and Emma is directed by Chantelle Squires and stars Danielle Deadwyler, Emily Goss, Brad Schmidt and Danor Gerald. The movie the story of two women: Emma Smith, the wife of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and Jane Manning, one of the church’s first black members. Read the rest of this entry »
Mel Elias Scoring Richard Gray’s ‘Robert the Bruce’
Posted: February 11, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: All The Little Things We Kill, Mel Elias, Richard Gray, Robert the Bruce
Mel Elias is scoring the upcoming historical drama Robert the Bruce. The film is directed by Richard Gray (Sugar Mountain, The Lookalike) and stars Angus Macfadyen who is reprising his role from Mel Gibson’s Academy Award-winning 1995 feature Braveheart (scored by James Horner). He is joined by Jared Harris, Anna Hutchison, Patrick Fugit, Zach McGowan, Gabriel Bateman, Talitha Eliana-Bateman, Shane Coffey, Emma Kenney and Kevin McNally. The movie about the nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was was crowned king of Scots in the 14th century continues the story where Braveheart left off. Read the rest of this entry »
Ludwig Goransson Wins Grammy Award for ‘Black Panther’ Score
Posted: February 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Star Is Born, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Grammy Awards, Ludwig Göransson, Terence Blanchard, The Greatest Showman
Ludwig Goransson has won the Grammy Award for his music for Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category. In the Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt won the award for the song Shallows from Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born. Read the rest of this entry »
Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga & Lukas Nelson Win BAFTA Award for ‘A Star Is Born’
Posted: February 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Star Is Born, BAFTA, Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson
Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga and Lukas Nelson have received their first BAFTA Award for their music for Cooper’s A Star Is Born in the Original Music category today at the ceremony at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. Cooper accepted the award on behalf of the full music team. They were nominated in the BAFTA music category alongside Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman), Nicholas Britell (If Beale Street Could Talk), Alexandre Desplat (Isle of Dogs) and Marc Shaiman (Mary Poppins Returns). Read the rest of this entry »
