Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack album for the drama Shine. The album features the songs from the movie performed by artists including Fania, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colin, Ray Barretto, Joe Bataan & others. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, October 5 (click here to download) and physically on November 16. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version. Shine is co-written and directed by Anthony Nardolillo and stars Jorge Burgos, Gilbert Saldivar, Kimberli Flores, Jadi Collado, Alysia Reiner and David Zayas. The movie centers on two Puerto Rican brothers from New York’s Spanish Harlem and the street’s best Salsa dancers who are separated after a tragedy only to reunite years later on opposing sides of gentrification. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Anthony Nardolillo’s ‘Shine’ Announced
Posted: October 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anthony Nardolillo, Shine, Soundtrack
Marco Beltrami & Marcus Trumpp Scoring Jean-François Richet’s ‘The Emperor of Paris’
Posted: October 3, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Francois Richet, L'Empereur de Paris, Marco Beltrami, Marcus Trumpp, The Emperor of Paris
Marco Beltrami (Logan, A Quiet Place, Scream, 3:10 to Yuma) and Marcus Trumpp (The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, Little Evil) have recently composed the music for the upcoming French historical crime thriller The Emperor of Paris (L’Empereur de Paris). The film is directed by Jean-François Richet (Assault on Precint 13, Blood Father) and stars Vincent Cassel, Olga Kurylenko, August Dhiel, Freya Mavor, Denis Menochet and James Thierée. The movie tells the story of Francois Vidocq, a real-life ex-convict who became a police detective during Napoleon’s reign. Eric Besnard (Babylon A.D.) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Private War’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: October 3, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Private War, Annie Lennox, H. Scott Salinas, Matthew Heineman, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced the full details of the soundtrack album for the drama A Private War. The album features the film’s original score composed by H. Scott Salinas (Cartel Land, Birth of the Dragon, The Ballad of Lefty Brown, The Square). Also included is the original song Requiem for a Private War written and performed by Annie Lennox and co-produced by Salinas. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 2, 2018 and physically the following week. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. A Private War is directed by Matthew Heineman and stars Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci and Tom Hollander. The movie is based on Marie Brenner’s 2012 Vanity Fair story Marie Colvin’s Private War and chronicles the life of the late American-born British war reporter Marie Colvin. Read the rest of this entry »
Nate Heller to Score Marielle Heller’s Untitled Mr. Rogers Biopic
Posted: October 3, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Marielle Heller, Nate Heller
Composer Nate Heller is reuniting with Marielle Heller on the director’s upcoming, currently untitled next movie, which tells the story of the real-life friendship that blossomed between Fred Rogers and cynical journalist Tom Junod. Tom Hanks is portraying Rogers and Matthew Rhys plays Junod. They are joined by Chris Cooper who stars as Junod’s father. Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster (Transparent, The Motel Life) wrote the screenplay. Marc Turtletaub & Peter Saraf (Little Miss Sunshine, Loving) are producing the project for Big Beach, alongside Youree Henley (The Beguiled, The Bling Ring). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Capernaum’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: October 3, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Capernaum, Khaled Mouzanar, Nadine Labaki, score, Soundtrack
Decca Records will release a soundtrack album for the Lebanese drama Capernaum. The album features the film’s original music composed by Khaled Mouzanar (Where Do We Go Now?, Caramel). The soundtrack will be released on October 12, 2018 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Capernaum is written and directed by Nadine Labaki and stars Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef and Cedra Izam. The movie, which has been selected as Lebanese’s entry for the next Academy Awards, revolves around a 12-year-old boy in a fictitious Middle Eastern village who sues his parents for bringing him into a world of such suffering. Read the rest of this entry »
Ian Hultquist Scoring Karen Maine’s ‘Yes, God, Yes’
Posted: October 2, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal, Ian Hultquist, Karen Maine, Yes God Yes
Ian Hultquist (Assassination Nation, A-X-L, Animals, My Blind Brother, The Gospel According to André) is scoring the upcoming comedy drama Yes, God, Yes. The film is written and directed by Karen Maine (Obvious Child) and stars Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons, Alisha Boe, Francesca Reale, Wolfgang Novogratz and Donna Lynne Champlin. The movie is based on Maine’s 2017 short of the same title and tells the story of 16-year-old girl who discovers masturbating after an innocent AOL chat turns unexpectedly racy, compelling her to sign up for a secretive religious retreat which she hopes will put her on the path to redemption. Read the rest of this entry »
Milan Records to Release ‘Widows’ Soundtrack
Posted: October 2, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hans Zimmer, score, Soundtrack, Steve McQueen, Widows
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for Steve McQueen’s heist thriller Widows. Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, Inception, The Dark Knight, The Lion King, Dunkirk, Pirates of the Caribbean) who previously composed the music for the director’s 12 Years a Slave has composed the film’s original score. Also expected to be included are the songs from the film. As previously reported, Sade has contributed the original song The Big Unknown to the movie. The soundtrack is set to be be released physically on November 23, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Simonsen’s ‘Chu & Blossom’ Score to Be Released
Posted: October 2, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chu & Blossom, Rob Simonsen, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album will be released for the 2014 indie coming-of-age comedy Chu & Blossom. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rob Simonsen (Love, Simon, Foxcatcher, Nerve, Tully, The Spectacular Now, The Front Runner, (500) Days of Summer). The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 12, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Chu & Blossom is directed by Charles Chu & Gavin Kellyand stars Chu himself, alongside Ryan O’Nan, Caitlin Stasey, Alan Cumming, Richard Kind, Melanie Lynskey, Chris Marquette, Annie Potts and Mercedes Ruehl. The movie centers on the unlikely brotherhood between a pensive, awkwardly tall Korean foreign exchange student and a militant performance artist, both trapped together in a small town Read the rest of this entry »
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow to Score Amazon’s ‘Hanna’ TV Series
Posted: October 2, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow, Hanna
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Free Fire) have been tapped to score the upcoming Amazon original series Hanna. The show is developed by David Farr (The Night Manager, Troy: Fall of a City) and stars Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman and Esme Creed-Miles. The drama is based on Joe Wright’s 2011 feature, which was co-written by Farr and scored by The Chemical Brothers, and follows the journey of a young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is. Read the rest of this entry »
‘American Fable’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 2, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: American Fable, Anne Hamilton, Gingger Shankar, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the fantasy thriller American Fable. The album features the film’s original music composed by Gingger Shankar (Circumstance, Viper Club, Heartbeats, AWOL). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. American Fable is directed by Anne Hamilton and stars Peyton Kennedy, Kip Pardue, Zuleikha Robinson, Gavin MacIntosh, Rusty Schwimmer, Marci Miller and Richard Schiff. The movie is set in the 1980s rural Midwest where an imaginative girl is forced to choose between protecting her family’s secret and saving a man’s life. Read the rest of this entry »
