Prime Video announced today that Charli XCX will serve as the executive music producer on the streamer’s upcoming original comedy series Overcompensating. The show is created by Benito Skinner and will star himself in the lead role as a closeted former football player and homecoming king who becomes fast friends with a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs. Skinner is also executive producing the A24 and Amazon MGM Studios production with Jonah Hill (Mid 90s), Matt Dines (This Place Rules) and Ali Goodwin (Stutz) of Strong Baby. Read the rest of this entry »
Charli XCX to Produce Music for Prime Video’s ‘Overcompensating’
Posted: February 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Amazon, Benito Skinner, Charli XCX, Overcompensating
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‘Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis, Daniel Sivan, Eduardo Aram, Mor Loushy, Netflix, Runner, score, Soundtrack
Mega Gram Music has released a soundtrack album for the Netflix original animated documentary short Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis. The album features the film’s original score composed by Eduardo Aram (Self/Less, El Chapo, Cocaine Godmother, The Devil Next Door). Visit iTunes/Apple Music or most other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Camp Intro) after the jump. Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis is directed by Daniel Sivan & Mor Loushy and follows a group of World War II veterans as they reveal a secret US military camp near Washington where Jewish soldiers hosted and interrogated Nazi POWs. Read the rest of this entry »
Blake Neely Scoring Max’s ‘The Girls on the Bus’
Posted: February 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blake Neely, Max, The Girls on the Bus
Blake Neely (The Pacific, The Flight Attendant, The Flash, Arrow, Greyhound, You, Everwood, Good Night Oppy) has been tapped to score the upcoming Max original series The Girls on the Bus. The show is created by Amy Chozick & Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries, Roswell, New Mexico) and stars Melissa Benoist, Carla Gugino, Natasha Behnam, Brandon Scott, Christina Elmore, Griffin Dunne, Scott Foley and Mark Consuelos. The drama follows a journalist who romanticizes a bygone era of campaign reporting and scraps her whole life for a shot at covering a presidential candidate for a paper of record. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Your Friend, Memphis’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Billy Libby, David P. Zucker, Saul Simon MacWilliams, score, Soundtrack, Your Friend Memphis
Taiga Sounds has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Your Friend, Memphis. The album features the film’s original music composed by Saul Simon MacWilliams (Gleason, Love, Antosha, Chasing Coral, King in the Wilderness, Jim: The James Foley Story) & Billy Libby (The Last Out). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ first track (Take to the Skies) below. Your Friend, Memphis is directed by David P. Zucker and centers on Memphis DiAngelis, a young man in his early 20s, living in Austin, Texas, who was born with cerebral palsy and has dealt with a lack of acceptance growing up because of his condition. Read the rest of this entry »
Anne Nikitin Scoring Dean Israelite’s ‘Little Wing’
Posted: February 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anne Nikitin, Dean Israelite, Little Wing, Paramount+
Anne Nikitin (The Dropout, American Animals, Fate: The Winx Saga, One Day, Dangerous Liaisons, Mrs. Wilson, The Pale Horse) has recently scored the upcoming Paramount+ original movie Little Wing. The film is directed by Dean Israelite (Power Rangers, Project Almanac) and stars Brian Cox, Kelly Reilly, Brooklynn Prince and Che Tafari. The coming-of-age drama inspired by The New Yorker article by Susan Orlean about the world of pigeon racing revolves around a teenager who is reeling from her parents’ divorce and the pending loss of her home and forms a bond with the owner of a valuable bird that she was planning to steal that leads her to a new outlook on life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Baghead’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alberto Corredor, Baghead, score, Soundtrack, Suvi-Eeva Äikäs
Invada Records has released a soundtrack album for the supernatural horror feature Baghead. The album features the film’s original music composed by Suvi-Eeva Äikäs (Constellation, Hanna, Matriarch). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also check out the composer’s title track below. Baghead is directed by Alberto Corredor (based on his 2017 short) and stars Freya Allan, Ruby Barker, Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Ned Dennehy, Anne Müller and Saffron Burrows. The movie revolves around a woman who learns she has inherited a run-down pub following the death of her estranged father, unaware that the deed is extricably tied to an unspeakable entity that resides in the basement, a shape-shifting creature that can transform into the dead. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami & Miles Hankins Scoring Peacock’s ‘Apples Never Fall’
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apples Never Fall, Marco Beltrami, Miles Hankins, Peacock
Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma, Logan, A Quiet Place, Scream, World War Z, Ford v. Ferrari) & Miles Hankins (The Night Before, Being Serena, Long Shot, Len & Company, No Exit) have teamed up to score the upcoming Peacock limited series Apples Never Fall. The show is developed by Melanie Marnich (A Murder at the End of the World) based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Liane Moriarty and stars Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Jake Lacy, Alison Brie, Essie Randles, Conor Merrigan-Turner, Georgia Flood, Dylan Thuraisingham and Jeanine Serralles. The 7-part drama follows two former tennis coaches who have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start spending more time with their four adult children, when a wounded young woman knocks on their door, bringing the excitement they’ve been missing. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bad Hombres’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bad Hombres, John Stalberg Jr., Nima Fakhrara, score, Soundtrack
Atlantic Screen Music/Filmtrax has released a soundtrack album for the crime thriller Bad Hombres. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nima Fakhrara (Becky, Lou, Detroit: Become Human, The Signal, The Pyramid, Alone, The Girl in the Photographs). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s “opening” track after the jump. Bad Hombres is directed by John Stalberg Jr. and stars Diego Tinoco, Hemky Madera, Tyrese Gibson, Luke Hemsworth, Nick Cassavates, Paul Johansson and Thomas Jane. The movie follows an undocumented immigrant desperate to provide for his family who is hired alongside a day-laborer to work for a brute who is also a psychopathic criminal and finds himself entangled in the aftermath of a botched drug deal. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat & Alex Heffes Scoring HBO’s ‘The Regime’
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Heffes, Alexandre Desplat, HBO, Stephen Frears, The Regime
Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The King’s Speech, The Shape of Water, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Godzilla) & Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Touching the Void, Queen of Katwe, State of Play) have composed the original music for the new HBO limited series The Regime. The show is created by Will Tracy (Succession, The Menu) and stars Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Andrea Riseborough, Guillaume Gallienne, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant. The 6-part political satire directed by Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity) & Jessica Hobbs (The Split) follows an authoritarian chancellor who has grown increasingly paranoid and unstable when she turns to a volatile soldier as an unlikely confidant. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Vigil’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Afterhere, BBC, Berenice Scott, Glenn Gregory, Peacock, score, Soundtrack, Vigil
Addict London has released a new soundtrack album for the BBC drama Vigil. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Afterhere (aka Berenice Scott & Glenn Gregory) (Liar, The Suspect, Under the Wire). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also check out the composers’ end titles track below. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring Scott’s & Gregory’s score from Season 1 back in 2021. Vigil is created by Tom Edge and stars Suranne Jones, Rose Leslie, Gary Lewis, Dougray Scott, Romola Garai, Anders Hayward, Chris Jenks, Shannon Hayes and Orla Russell. Read the rest of this entry »
