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 »
‘Destroyer’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Destroyer, Karyn Kusama, score, Soundtrack, Theodore Shapiro
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 »
Soundtrack Album for BBC’s ‘Dynasties’ Announced
Posted: November 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, BBC America, BBC American, Benji Merrison, Dynasties, score, Soundtrack, Will Slater
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the BBC Earth docu-series Dynasties. The album features the show’s original music composed by Benji Merrison and Will Slater (Africa, One Strange Rock, Planet Earth Live) and performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Sunday, November 11 (click here to download) and physically on December 14. Check back on this page for the CD pre-order link. Dynasties is produced by BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit and highlights five of the world’s most celebrated but endangered animals, as they do whatever it takes to survive and protect the next generation. Read the rest of this entry »
Flying Lotus to Score Netflix’s ‘Yasuke’
Posted: November 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Flying Lotus, Netflix, Yasuke
Netflix has announced that Flying Lotus will be composing the music for the upcoming Netflix anime series Yasuke. The show is created by LeSean Thomas (The Boondocks, Cannon Busters) and centers on a retired ronin (voiced by Lakeith Stanfield) who must take up his sword when he is charged with the task of transporting a mysterious child who dark forces want to eliminate. Flying Lotus and Thomas are also executive producing the project for the anime studio MAPPA (Yuri On Ice, Kakegurui). Read the rest of this entry »
ITV’s ‘Deep Water’ to Feature Music by Toydrum
Posted: November 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Deep Water, ITV, Toydrum
Toydrum (aka Pablo Clements and James Griffith) have signed on to score the upcoming ITV series Deep Water. The show is written by Anna Symon (Indian Summers) based on the Windermere series of novels by Paula Daly and stars Anna Friel, Sinead Keenan and Rosalind Eleazar. The 6-parter follows the lives of three complex and vibrant women, each struggling to keep their heads above very deep water. Symon is also executive producing the project with Karen Wilson (Utopia, MI-5, The Tunnel) and Diederick Santer (Grantchester, Flowers). Read the rest of this entry »
Francis Lai (1932 – 2018)
Posted: November 7, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Francis Lai
French composer Francis Lai has passed away at age 86. He is best known for his score for Arthur Hiller’s 1970 feature Love Story, for which he received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and also earned a Grammy Award nomination. Lai was also Golden Globe-nominated for his score and songs from Claude Lelouch’s 1966 drama A Man and a Woman and 1967 movie Live for Life. In 2014, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Soundtrack Awards. Among the composer’s other film scoring credits are Lelouch’s Bolero, David Hamilton’s Bilitis and Michael Winner’s I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Heart, Baby!’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 7, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Angela Shelton, Heart Baby!, Jackson Rathbone, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album will be released for the indie drama Heart, Baby!. The album features the songs from the movie, including original tracks by actor Jackson Rathbone who also stars in the film, as well as Andy Dixon and Doug Lowe. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 16 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Heart, Baby! is written and directed by Angela Shelton and also stars Gbenga Akinnagbe, Shawn-Caulin Young, Keir O’Donnell, Shaun Brown, Justice Leak, Quinton Aaron, Jamie Kennedy, Abraham Benrubi, Dana Gourrier and Ann Cusack. The movie tells the story of George Lee Martin, who at the age of 18 received a 40-year sentence for robbery and later became known as an unbeatable prison boxer. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Newman Scoring Dome Karukoski’s ‘Tolkien’ Biopic
Posted: November 7, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dome Karukoski, Thomas Newman, Tolkien
Thomas Newman is currently recording his score for the upcoming biographical drama Tolkien. The film is directed by Dome Karukoski (Tom of Finland) and stars Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts and Colm Meaney. The movie tells the story of author J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings books, as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school and serves as a British soldier in World War I. David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford (Pride) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
