22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French/Belgian drama The Dreamer (L’homme d’argile). The album features the film’s original music composed by Amaury Chabauty (Murder Party, Year of the Shark, Teddy). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. The Dreamer is written and directed by Anaïs Tellenne and stars Raphaël Thiéry, Emmanuelle Devos, Mireille Pitot and Marie-Christine Orry. The movie tells the story of a one-eyed man who lives with his mother in a remote manor house after the owner leaves, when a lonely heiress and internationally acclaimed artist comes to visit. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Dreamer’ (‘L’homme d’argile’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amaury Chabauty, Anaïs Tellenne, L'homme d'argile, score, Soundtrack, The Dreamer
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Remastered ‘Inchon’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: February 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Inchon, Jerry Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack, Terence Young
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1981 war drama Inchon directed by Terence Young and starring Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Toshiro Mifune, Ben Gazzara and Richard Roundtree. The album features the newly remastered original score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, L.A. Confidential, Basic Instinct, Chinatown, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon). The 3-CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the track list and find out more about the release. A digital version will be released in the coming weeks (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Lanier Scoring Janeen Damian’s Netflix Film ‘Irish Wish’
Posted: February 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Irish Wish, Janeen Damian, Nathan Lanier, Netflix
Composer Nathan Lanier (Jem and the Holograms, Home Before Dark, Justin Bieber’s Believe, Max Steel) is reuniting with director Janeen Damian on the upcoming Netflix original film Irish Wish. The romantic comedy starring Lindsay Lohan, Ed Speleers, Alexander Vlahos, Jane Seymour, Ayesha Curry, Elizabeth Tan & Jacinta Mulcahy revolves around a woman whose dream guy is days away from marrying her best friend, when she makes a wish on an ancient stone in Ireland — and wakes up as his bride-to-be. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: February 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Disney Plus, Giosuè Greco, Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó, score, Sean Wang, Soundtrack
Constellation Music has released a soundtrack EP for the documentary short Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó. The 5-track EP features the film’s original score composed by Giosuè Greco (Welcome to Wrexham, Let the Right One In, Didi, Not Going Quietly). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó is directed by Sean Wang and centers on the first-generation Taiwanese American filmmaker’s grandmas who are inseparable best friends and roommates in their 80s and 90s. The short premiered at last year’s SXSW Film Festival, where it received the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, and has recently been nominated for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short category. Read the rest of this entry »
Caroline Shaw Scoring Ken Burns’ ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ Documentary
Posted: February 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Caroline Shaw, Ken Burns, Leonardo da Vinci, PBS
Pulitzer Prize- & Grammy Award winning composer Caroline Shaw (Fleishman Is in Trouble, The Sky Is Everywhere, Madeline Madeline) has recorded original music for the upcoming documentary Leonardo da Vinci. The 2-part, four hour film is directed by Ken Burns (Brooklyn Bridge, The Statue of Liberty, The Vietnam War), Sarah Burns (Muhammad Ali) & David McMahon (The Central Park Five) and explores the life and work of the titular 15th century polymath. Shaw’s score is performed by Attacca Quartet, Sō Percussion and Roomful of Teeth. Italian actor Adriano Giannini is voicing Leonardo and Keith David serves as the narrator of the movie, which brings da Vinci’s achievements to life through his personal notebooks, primary and secondary accounts of his life, and on-camera interviews with modern scholars, engineers, artists, inventors, and admirers. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Finally Dawn’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Finally Dawn, Finalmente l'alba, Massimo Martellotta, Saverio Costanzo, score, Soundtrack
Octopus Records has released a soundtrack album for the Italian coming-of-age drama Finally Dawn (Finalmente l’alba). The album features the film’s original music composed by Massimo Martellotta (Blanca, La cura). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to a track (Tema Dei Titoli) from the composer’s score after the jump. Finally Dawn is written and directed by Saverio Costanzo and stars Lily James, Rebecca Antonaci, Joe Keery, Alba Rohrwacher, Rachel Sennott and Willem Dafoe. The movie is set in 1950s and revolves around a teenage ingenue who is unwittingly cast as a lead extra in a swords and sandals film and finds herself being swept up by group of hedonistic actors and expats who take her on a chaotic tour of Rome’s night-life. Read the rest of this entry »
Armand Amar Scoring Abderrahmane Sissako’s ‘Black Tea’
Posted: February 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Abderrahmane Sissako, Armand Amar, Black Tea
Armand Amar (The Concert, Mia and the White Lion, Days of Glory, A Bag of Marbles, The Wolf and the Lion, The Source, Belle & Sebastian) has recently scored the upcoming romantic drama Black Tea. The film is directed by Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu) and stars Nina Mélo, Chang Han, Wu Ke-Xi and Michael Chang. The movie follows a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties who – after saying “no” on her wedding day – emigrates to China, when she works in a tea export shop and falls in love with a 45-year-old Chinese man. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wild Scandinavia’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Biggi Hilmars, PBS, score, Soundtrack, Wild Scandinavia
Octiive has released a soundtrack album for the BBC wildlife documentary series Wild Scandinavia. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by BΩç(Nova, Beeba Boys, Thin Ice). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Wild Scandinavia is narrated by Rebecca Ferguson who guides viewers through scenery in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark and tells the stories of lynx, orca, puffins, and wolves, alongside the experiences of the extraordinary people living in and devoted to exploring this icy wilderness. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 11, 2024)
Posted: February 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anna Drubich, Apple TV +, CBS, H. Scott Salinas, Jack Antonoff, James S. Levine, Jongnic Bontemps, Lasse Enersen, National Geographic, Netflix, The Abyss, The Dynasty: New England Patriots, The New Look, The Space Race, Tracker, Tyler Bates
Premiering tonight is the CBS drama Tracker developed by Ben Winters based on Jeffery Deaver’s bestselling novel The Never Game and starring Justin Hartley, Fiona Rene, Abby McEnany, Robin Weigert and Eric Graise. The show’s original music is composed by Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool 2, Watchmen, John Wick, 300, X, Primal, Killer Joe, The Punisher). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the series, which is premiering after the Superbowl today and will air every Sunday night on CBS.
Premiering tomorrow, February 12, is the National Geographic documentary The Space Race directed by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza & Lisa Cortés about the experiences of the first Black astronauts. Anna Drubich (Barbarian, Fear Street Part 3: 1666, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Werewolves Within) & Jongnic Bontemps (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, My Name Is Pauli Murray, 4400, Redfall) have composed the film’s original music. Click here for more information about the movie, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival and is making its debut on National Geographic and will also be available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu the following day. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Howe Scoring Paramount+’s ‘Knuckles’ Series
Posted: February 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Knuckles, Paramount+, Tom Howe
Tom Howe (Ted Lasso, Early Man, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Daisy Jones & the Six, Shrinking) has composed the original score for the upcoming Paramount+ original event series Knuckles. The show is created for television by John Whittington (The Lego Batman Movie, DC League of Super-Pets) & Toby Ascher (Spenser Confidential) based on characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog features and video game series and stars Idris Elba (as the voice of the title character), Adam Pally (as Wade Whipple), Stockard Channing, Edi Patterson, Scott Mescudi, Julian Barratt, Ellie Taylor, Cary Elwes, Rory McCann, Christopher Lloyd, Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel. The 6-parter is set between the events of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 & 3 (scored by Tom Holkenborg) and follows Knuckles on a journey of self-discovery as he agrees to train Wade as his protégé and teach him the ways of the Echidna warrior. Read the rest of this entry »
