Moonflower Records has released a soundtrack album for the Canadian/Irish thriller Sharp Corner. The album features the film’s original music composed by Stephen McKeon (Evil Dead Rise, The Hole in the Ground, Norm of the North, Pilgrimage, Rose Plays Julie, The Cellar, Queen & Country). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Sharp Corner is written and directed by Jason Buxton and stars Ben Foster, Cobie Smulders, Gavin Drea and William Kosovic. The movie follows a family man who develops an unhealthy obsession with saving the lives of the victims at the sharp road corner near his home after a car crashes into his front yard. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sharp Corner’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jason Buxton, score, Sharp Corner, Soundtrack, Stephen McKeon
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First Track from Hildur Guðnadóttir’s ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Score Released
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hildur Guðnadóttir, Joker, Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips
WaterTower Music has released the first track from the score for Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is There Is No Joker composed by Academy Award winner Hildur Guðnadóttir (Chernobyl, Women Talking, Tar). The score album will be released on September 27 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the full details. As previously reported, Interscope Records will release a soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie on October 4. Joker: Folie à Deux is directed by Phillips and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener and Zazie Beetz. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Chimp Crazy’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Chimp Crazy, HBO, Jonathan Sadoff, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the HBO documentary series Chimp Crazy. The album features the show’s original music composed by Jonathan Sadoff (The Peanut Butter Falcon, Ingrid Goes West, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Angelyne, Dollface, Incoming, Under the Boardwalk). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s opening track (feat. Gabe Witcher) after the jump. Chimp Crazy is directed by Eric Goode and explores the secretive world of raising chimpanzees and the complicated and colorful cast of characters that inhabit it. The 4-parter follows a former nurse-turned-exotic animal broker whose limitless love for one chimpanzee in particular spins into a cat-and-mouse game with authorities and an animal rights group. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Bates Scoring Alexis Bloom’s ‘The Bibi Files’
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Gibney, The Bibi Files, Will Bates
Will Bates (Dumb Money, The Magicians, Immaculate, Unbelievable, I Origins, Away, The Path, The Looming Tower, Bliss) is scoring the upcoming documentary The Bibi Files. The film is directed by Alexis Bloom and tells the backstory behind Israeli prime minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s ongoing corruption trial and how it is informing his current actions. The movie features never-before-seen leaked footage and new interviews with key Israeli figures, including Netanyahu’s former spokesman Nir Hefetz,f ormer prime minister Ehud Olmert and former Shin Bet leader Ami Ayalon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Scammers’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A l'ancienne, Guillaume Ferran, Hervé Mimran, score, Soundtrack, The Scammers
Hamburger Records has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy The Scammers (A l’ancienne). The album features the film’s original music composed by Guillaume Ferran (Take a Chance on Me, Escort Boys, Marie-Line et son juge, Jusant). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s “ouverture” and title track below. The Scammers is directed by Hervé Mimran and stars Didier Bourdon, Gérard Darmon and Chantal Lauby. The movie follows two retired friends who discover a talent for scamming and try to steal the identity of a dead lottery winner. Read the rest of this entry »
Siddhartha Khosla Wins Emmy Award for ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Score
Posted: September 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards, Only Murders in the Building, Siddhartha Khosla
Siddhartha Khosla has won his first Emmy Award for his score for the episode Sitzprobe from the third season of the Hulu original series Only Murders in the Building in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Series category at tonight’s second night of the 76th Creative Prime Emmy Awards. Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman received an Emmy for the song Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It? from the same Only Murders in the Building episode. Carlo Rafael Rivera won his third Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special category for his score from the episode Book of Calvin of the Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 8, 2024)
Posted: September 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blake Neely, How to Die Alone, Hulu, Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Netflix, Starz, Three Women, Wendy Wang
Premiering on Thursday, September 12, is the Netflix original documentary Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter directed by Ryan White and produced by Charlize Theron about a mother who discovers the daughter she gave up for adoption many years ago has disappeared. The 2-part film’s original music is composed by Blake Neely (Masters of the Air, The Flight Attendant, The Flash, Arrow, Everwood, Greyhound, The Pacific, Life As We Know It, Riverdale). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the movie, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Premiering on Friday, September 13, is the Starz limited series Three Women created by Lisa Taddeo based on her own novel and starring Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, Blair Underwood, Gabrielle Creevy, Jason Ralph and John Patrick Amedori. Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Wicked Little Letters, Emma, The Phantom of the Open, Munich: The Edge of War, Vita & Virginia, Roar) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the drama, which will air every Friday on Starz. Read the rest of this entry »
David Fleming Wins Emmy Award for ‘Jim Henson Idea Man’ Score
Posted: September 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: David Fleming, Emmy Awards, Jim Henson Idea Man, Rickey Minor
David Fleming has received his first Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score) category for his score for Ron Howard’s Disney+ original documentary Jim Henson Idea Man at today’s first night of the 76th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. He is also up for an Emmy this year in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) category for his Mr. & Mrs. Smith score. Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s Jim Henson score this past May. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Paramount+’s ‘Zorro’ TV Series Released
Posted: September 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Julie Roué, Paramount+, score, Soundtrack, Zorro
Lakeshore Records has released for the French Paramount+ original series Zorro. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Julie Roué (Montparnasse Bienvenue, The (Ex)perience of Love, The Bare Necessity, Fragile). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Also listen to the project’s title song ( Qui est Zorro ?) after the jump. Zorro is created by Benjamin Charbit & Noé Debré and stars Jean Dujardin, Salvatore Ficarra, Audrey Dana, Eric Elmosnino, André Dussollier and Grégory Gadebois. The adventure comedy is set in 1821 as Don Diego de la Vega becomes mayor of Los Angeles and has to face off a corrupt businessman, Don Emmanuel. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 6, 2024)
Posted: September 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Danny Elfman, Dominique Plante, His Three Daughters, Marcelo Zarvos, Ray Suen, Red Rooms, Rodrigo Amarante, The Front Room, The Thicket
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the fantasy comedy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega, Justin Theroux, Catherine O’Hara, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti and Willem Dafoe. The film’s original score is composed by Danny Elfman (Spider-Man, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands, Avengers: Age of Ultron). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s main title theme and end credits track, as well as the songs from the movie by artists such as Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Richard Marx, Tess Parks & others today. Click here to check out the full album details and to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Also opening wide is the psychological horror thriller The Front Room directed by Max Eggers & Sam Eggers and starring Brandy Norwood, Kathryn Hunter, Neal Huff and Andrew Burnap. Marcelo Zarvos (The Equalizer 3, May December, Fences, Emancipation, The Good Shepherd, Wonder, The Affair, Ray Donovan) has composed the film’s original music. A24 Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by A24. Read the rest of this entry »
