Mimami Media has released the original song Running from the documentary 3100: Run and Become. The track is written by the film’s composer Michael A. Levine (Cold Case, Siren, Served Like a Girl) and performed by Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack. The song is now available to download on Amazon and iTunes. 3100: Run and Become is directed by Sanjay Rawal and follows an unassuming paperboy from Finland as he attempts the world’s longest race all around a 1/2 mile sidewalk loop in New York City. Read the rest of this entry »
Roberta Flack’s ‘Running’ from ‘3100: Run and Become’ Released
Posted: November 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 3100: Run and Become, Michael A. Levine, Roberta Flack
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 9, 2018)
Posted: November 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andrew Lockington, Carter Burwell, Danny Elfman, Dr. Seuss' The Grinch, Jed Kurzel, Keegan DeWitt, Overlord, Rob Simonsen, Roque Banos, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Front Runner, The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Long Dumb Road, Time Freak
Three new movies are opening in theaters nationwide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the animated feature Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch directed by Scott Mosier & Yarrow Cheney and starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The film’s original music is composed by Danny Elfman (Spider-Man, Batman, Alice in Wonderland, Nightmare Before Christmas). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score (click here for the full album details). Columbia Records has released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie, including an original song by Tyler, the Creator (click here for more information).
Also opening wide is the thriller The Girl in the Spider’s Web directed by Fede Alvarez and starring Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant, Claes Bang, Christopher Convery, Synnøve Macody Lund and Vicky Krieps. Roque Banos (Don’t Breathe, Evil Dead, In the Heart of the Sea, The Machinist, The Commuter) has composed the film’s original music. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our previous article for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cargo’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cargo, Daniel Rankine P.K.A. Trials with Dr. G Yunupingu, Johnathon Mangarri Yunupingu, Michael Hohnen, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Universal Music Australia has released a soundtrack album for the Australian zombie thriller Cargo. The album features the film’s original music composed by Daniel Rankine P.K.A. Trials with Dr. G Yunupingu, Michael Hohnen and Johnathon Mangarri Yunupingu featuring additional instrumentation by John Bartlett & Paul Bartlett. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Cargo is directed by Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke and stars Martin Freeman, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter, Caren Pistorius, Kris McQuade and Bruce R. Carter. The movie follows a father who searches the wilds of Australia for someone willing to protect and care for his infant daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
Disasterpeace to Score ‘The Hole in the Fence’
Posted: November 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disasterpeace, Joaquín del Paso, Rich Vreeland, The Hole in the Fence
Variety is reporting that Disasterpeace (aka Rich Vreeland) is set to score the upcoming Mexican thriller The Hole in the Fence. The film is directed by Joaquín del Paso (Maquinaria Panamericana) and follows a group of boys from a Catholic school from Mexico’s upper-class on a school trip, on which they find a disconcerting hole in the fence which protects their camp’s perimeter. No casting announcements have been made yet. Del Paso also co-wrote the screenplay with Lucy Pawlak and will produce the project with Fernanda de la Peza. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ‘Gotham’ Season 1 Released
Posted: November 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: David Russo, Fox, Gotham, Graeme Revell, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music has released the first soundtrack album for the Fox drama Gotham. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s first season composed by David Russo (Nikita, The Tomorrow People) and Graeme Revell (The Crow, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Pineapple Express, The Chronicles of Riddick). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Gotham is developed by Bruno Heller based on the DC Comics characters and stars Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue,David Mazouz, Zabryna Guevara, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor and Erin Richards. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sadie’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: November 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Megan Griffiths, Mike McCready, Sadie, score, Soundtrack
The Orchard will release a soundtrack album for Sadie. The album features the film’s original score composed by Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready (Fat Kid Rules the World, The Glamour & the Squalor, Elvis Presley: The Searcher), as well as the original song Show Your Colors, on which McCready collaborated with Thunderpussy’s Molly Sides & Whitney Petty (already available to download here). The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 16 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Sadie is directed by Megan Griffiths and stars Sophia Mitri Schloss, Melanie Lynsky, John Gallagher. Jr, Danielle Brooks, Tony Hale and Keith L. Williams. The movie tells the story of young girl who will stop at nothing to preserve her father’s place on the home front. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Destroyer’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Destroyer, Karyn Kusama, score, Soundtrack, Theodore Shapiro
Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for Karyn Kusama’s thriller Destroyer. The album features the film’s original music composed by Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada, Ghostbusters, Spy, Tropic Thunder, A Simple Favor). The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 16, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Destroyer is directed by Kusama, written by Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi and stars Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Bradley Whitford, Jade Pettyjohn and Scoot McNairy. The movie follows the moral and existential odyssey of an LAPD detective who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for National Geographic’s ‘Free Solo’ to Be Released
Posted: November 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Free Solo, Marco Beltrami, National Geographic, score, Soundtrack
Node Records will release a soundtrack album for the National Geographic documentary Free Solo. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Marco Beltrami (Logan, Scream, 3:10 to Yuma, The Hurt Locker, World War Z). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 9 and will be available to download on Amazon. Free Solo is directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin and follows solo climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: scaling the face of the world’s most famous rock – the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park – without a rope. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Overlord’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jed Kurzel, Julius Avery, Overlord, score, Soundtrack
Paramount Music will release the official soundtrack album for the war horror movie Overlord. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jed Kurzel (Alien: Covenant, Assassin’s Creed, Macbeth, The Snowtown Murders, Son of a Gun). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 9 and will be available to download on Amazon. Overlord is directed by Julius Avery and stars Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbæk, John Magaro and Mathilde Ollivier. The movie produced by J.J. Abrams is set on the eve of D-Day during World War II and follows a group of soldiers as they realize that there’s more going on in a Nazi occupied village than a simple military operation. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami & Miles Hankins Scoring Jonathan Levine’s ‘Flarsky’
Posted: November 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Flarsky, Jonathan Levine, Marco Beltrami, Miles Hankins
Marco Beltrami (Logan, 3:10 to Yuma, Scream, The Wolverine, World War Z) & Miles Hankins (Len and Company, Being Serena) have recently composed the original score for the upcoming comedy Flarsky. The film is directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50, The Wackness) and stars Seth Rogen, Charlize Theron, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Alexander Skarsgård, Randall Park, Bob Odenkirk and Andy Serkis. The movie follows a down on his luck journalist, who through a string of comedic circumstances catches the attention of the world’s most powerful woman and becomes an important part of her inner circle in her journey to become the first female president of the United States. Read the rest of this entry »