Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things) have been tapped to score the upcoming drama Native Son. The film is directed by Rashid Johnson and stars Ashton Sanders, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, KiKi Layne, Bill Camp and Sanaa Lathan. The movie is based on Richard Wright’s novel of the same title and centers on a young African-American man named Bigger Thomas who takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever. Read the rest of this entry »
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein to Score ‘Native Son’
Posted: December 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Kyle Dixon, Michael Stein, Native Son, Rashid Johnson
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‘Holmes & Watson’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Etan Cohen, Holmes & Watson, Mark Mothersbaugh, score, Soundtrack
Sony Classical will release the official soundtrack album for the comedy Holmes & Watson. The album features the film’s original music composed by Mark Mothersbaugh (The LEGO Movie, Thor: Ragnarok, 21/22 Jump Street, The Royal Tenenbaums, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs). The soundtrack will be released on December 21 and will be available to download on Amazon. A CD version is available to order here. Holmes & Watson is written and directed by Etan Cohen and stars Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Rebecca Hall, Rob Brydon, Kelly Macdonald and Ralph Fiennes. The movie follows legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Doctor Watson as they use their incredible deductive minds to solve a mystery. Read the rest of this entry »
Blake Neely Scoring Ryan White’s ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’
Posted: December 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ask Dr. Ruth, Blake Neely, Hulu, Ryan White
Composer Blake Neely is reteaming with director Ryan White on the upcoming documentary Ask Dr. Ruth. The film chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist, as she revisits her painful past and her career at the forefront of the sexual revolution. White is also producing the project with Rafael Marmor, Jessica Hargrave and Christopher Leggett (Becoming Bond). Neely and White have previously collaborated on 2014’s The Case Against 8 and last year’s Netflix docu-series The Keepers. Read the rest of this entry »
‘We the Coyotes’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: December 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anywhere with You, Hanna Ladoul, Juan Cortes, Marco La Via, We the Coyotes
The Orchard will release a soundtrack album for the drama We the Coyotes. The album features the music from the movie by artist including the film’s composer Juan Cortes, Dangerous Waves, DUKC and Clovis XIV. The soundtrack will be released digitally overseas next Tuesday, December 11 and in the U.S. on February 8 (under the title Anywhere with You). Visit Amazon to download the album. We the Coyotes is written and directed by Hanna Ladoul & Marco La Via and stars Morgan Saylor, McCaul Lombardi, Betsy Brandt, Khleo Thomas, Lorelei Linklater, Cameron Crovetti, Nicholas Crovetti, Vivian Bang and Ravil Isyanov. The movie centers on a young couple who moves to LA from the Midwest to start a new life together, but things don’t go exactly as planned. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Bates Scoring Michael Tyburski’s ‘The Sound of Silence’
Posted: December 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Gibney, Michael Tyburski, The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley, The Sound of Silence, Will Bates
Will Bates (The Looming Tower, The Path, I Origins, The Magicians, Nightflyers) is composing the original score for the upcoming indie drama The Sound of Silence. The film is directed by Michael Tyburski and stars Peter Sarsgaard, Rashida Jones, Tony Revolori and Austin Pendleton. The movie revolves around a successful “house tuner” in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people’s homes in order to adjust their moods, as he meets a client with a problem he can’t solve. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Doctor Who’ Season 11 Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, BBC America, Doctor Who, score, Segun Akinola, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for the new season of BBC’s Doctor Who have been revealed. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s eleventh season composed by Segun Akinola who took over scoring duties on the series this year from Murray Gold who scored the previous seasons. The soundtrack is set to be released digitally on January 11, 2019 by Silva Screen Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A physical release is also in the works. Season 11 of Doctor Who is executive produced by Chris Chibnall, Matt Strevens & Sam Hoyle and stars Jodie Whitaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill. Read the rest of this entry »
Clint Eastwood’s ‘The Mule’ to Feature Original Song by Toby Keith
Posted: December 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Clint Eastwood, The Mule, Toby Keith
Singer/songwriter Toby Keith has written an original song for Clint Eastwood’s crime drama The Mule. The track, entitled Don’t Let the Old Man In, is written and performed by Keith and was recorded at Nashville’s Ocean Way Studio. The song, which will be featured during the film’s end scene and end titles sequence, will be released as a digital single this Friday, December 7 and will be available to download here. The Mule starring Eastwood himself, alongside Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Pena, Dianne Wiest, Andy Garcia, Alison Eastwood, Taissa Farmiga, Ignacio Serricchio, Loren Dean and Eugene Cordero tells the true story of Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who signs on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Read the rest of this entry »
Mychael Danna to Score Bart Freundlich’s ‘After the Wedding’
Posted: December 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: After the Wedding, Bart Freundlich, Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Capote, The Good Dinosaur) has been hired to score the upcoming drama After the Wedding. The film is written and directed by Bart Freundlich (Trust the Man, The Rebound) and stars Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Billy Crudup and Abby Quinn. The movie is based on the Academy Award-nominated 2006 feature by Susanne Bier and centers on a woman – seeking funds for her orphanage in India – who travels to New York to meet a wealthy benefactor. Joel B. Michaels (Stargate, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) and Harry Finkel are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Reincarnation of Peter Proud’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: December 3, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Young, Hider in the House, Jerry Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Intrada Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1975 horror mystery drama The Reincarnation of Peter Proud directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O’Neill, Margot Kidder and Cornelia Sharpe. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Omen, Patton, Planet of the Apes, L.A. Confidential, Chinatown). The soundtrack is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to a couple of cues from the release. Read the rest of this entry »
Showtime’s ‘Black Monday’ to Feature Music by Kris Bowers
Posted: December 3, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bad Hair, Black Monday, Kris Bowers, Showtime
Kris Bowers (Green Book, Dear White People, Of Monsters and Men) has been tapped to score the upcoming Showtime original series Black Monday. The show is created by David Caspe (Happy Endings, That’s My Boy) & Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend’s Girl) and stars Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, Regina Hall, Paul Scheer, Yassir Lester, Michael James Scott and Eugene Cordero. The drama tells the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine and the glass ceiling. Read the rest of this entry »
