Walt Disney Records has released the original song Spirit from Jon Favreau’s The Lion King. The track is performed by Beyoncé and co-written by herself, Timothy McKenzie & Ilya Salmanzadeh. The song is now available to download as a digital single on Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Spirit is also featured as the previously listed “TBA” track 14 on the movie’s official soundtrack album, which also features the songs by Elton John & Tim Rice and the score by Hans Zimmer and which will be released digitally this Thursday, July 11. Beyoncé will also release a new album The Lion King: The Gift featuring Spirit, as well as other songs inspired by the movie on July 19. Read the rest of this entry »
Beyoncé’s Original Song ‘Spirit’ from ‘The Lion King’ Released
Posted: July 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Beyoncé, Jon Favreau, The Lion King
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Rolfe Kent Scoring Tom McCarthy’s ‘Timmy Failure’
Posted: July 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney, Rolfe Kent, Timmy Failure, Tom McCarthy
Rolfe Kent (Sideways, Wedding Crashers, Election, Legally Blonde, Up in the Air) has recently composed the music for the upcoming Disney+ original movie Timmy Failure. The film is directed by Tom McCarthy (Spotlight, The Visitor, The Station Agent) and stars Winslow Fegley, Ophelia Lovibond and Craig Robinson. The family comedy is based on Stephan Pastis’ novel of the same title and follows an 11-year boy who believes he is the CEO of his fictional detective agency, Total Failure, Inc. and whose goal is to become so rich his mother won’t have to stress out about the bills anymore. Pastis also wrote the screenplay. Jim Whitaker (Pete’s Dragon, A Wrinkle in Time) is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Korven Tapped as Composer of AMC’s ‘The Terror: Infamy’
Posted: July 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, Mark Korven, The Terror, The Terror: Infamy
Mark Korven (The Witch, Cube, Our House, Awakening the Zodiac) has been tapped as the new composer of the AMC anthology series The Terror. The show’s World War II-set second season, The Terror: Infamy, is created by Alexander Woo (True Blood) & Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla) and centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible. Read the rest of this entry »
Matthew Herbert Scoring Sky’s ‘Temple’
Posted: July 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Matthew Herbert, Sky, Temple
Matthew Herbert (Disobedience, A Fantastic Woman, Gloria Bell) is scoring the upcoming Sky original series Temple. The show is developed by Mark O’Rowe (Boy A, Broken) based on the Norwegian series Valkyrien and stars Mark Strong, Carice van Houten and Daniel Mays. The 8-part comic thriller is set in the secret world beneath London, where an illegal clinic has been set up in an abandoned subterranean network of tunnels and follows a surgeon driven by personal tragedy to treat anyone who is willing to pay for medical help outside the system. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ITV’s ‘Vera’ Announced
Posted: July 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Ben Bartlett, ITV, score, Soundtrack, Vera
Silva Screen Records has announced the first soundtrack album for the ITV original series Vera. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Ben Bartlett (Walking with Dinosaurs, The Tunnel, The Loch, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, The Mark of Cain). The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 9, 2019 and physically a few weeks later. Click here to download the album and visit Amazon to order the CD version as an import. Vera is created by Ann Cleeves and stars Brenda Blethyn, Kenny Doughty, Ibinabo Jack, Jon Morrison, Riley Jones, Paul Kaye and Steve Evets. The series follows the eccentric but brilliant DCI Vera Stanhope and her team as they face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
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Heather McIntosh Scoring Craig Zobel’s ‘The Hunt’
Posted: July 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig Zobel, Heather McIntosh, The Hunt
Composer Heather McIntosh is reuniting with director Craig Zobel on the upcoming political thriller The Hunt. The film’s cast includes Emma Roberts, Justin Hartley, Glenn Howerton, Ike Barinholtz, Betty Gilpin and Amy Madigan. No plot details have been announced yet for the movie, which will explore escalating aggressiveness between the political right and left in America. Damon Lindelof (Lost, Prometheus, The Leftovers) and Nick Cuse wrote the screenplay. Lindelof is also producing the project with Jason Blum (Get Out, Paranormal Activity, Insidious) for Blumhouse. Read the rest of this entry »
Film/TV Music Panels at 2019 Comic-Con Announced
Posted: July 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Comic-Con
The line-up for several film music-related panels at Comic-Con 2019 has been announced. On Thursday, July 18, a number of film/TV composers will participate in the 11th annual Behind the Music panel. Jeff Russo (Star Trek: Discovery, The Umbrella Academy), Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, The Prince of Egypt), Wendy Carlos (Tron, The Shining), Sean Callery (Homeland, Jessica Jones), Kurt Farquhar (Black Lightning, Black Soul) and Jim Dooley (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Pushing Daisies) will be participating in a discussion moderated by a to-be-announced celebrity moderator. Read the rest of this entry »
Dario Marianelli to Score Matteo Garrone’s ‘Pinocchio’
Posted: July 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dario Marianelli, Matteo Garrone, Pinocchio
Dario Marianelli (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, Darkest Hour, Bumblebee, Anna Karenina) is set to compose the music for Matteo Garrone’s upcoming new live-action film adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio. The film is written and directed by Garrone (Dogman, Gomorrah, Tale of Tales) and stars Roberto Begnini as Geppetto, alongside Gigi Proietti as The Cat, Rocco Papaleo as The Fox and Marcello Fonte as The Parrot, as well as Federico Ielapi, Massimo Ceccherini, Matilda De Angelis, Alida Baldari Calabria, Alessio Di Domenicantonio, Maria Pia Timo and Davide Marotta. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Gints Zilbalodis’ ‘Away’ Released
Posted: July 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Away, Gints Zilbalodis, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album has been released for the animated feature Away. The album features the film’s original music composed by Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis who also wrote, directed and produced the movie. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Away marks Zilbalodis’ feature debut and tells the story of a boy and a little bird on a journey across a strange island as they are trying to get back home. The Bilibaba production premiered last month at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, where it received the Annecy Contrechamp Award. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Blinded by the Light’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 7, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A.R. Rahman, Blinded by the Light, Gurinder Chadha, Soundtrack
Sony Music will release the official soundtrack album for the drama Blinded by the Light. The album features the songs from the movie by Bruce Springsteen. Also included are two tracks from the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours), as well as songs by Pet Shop Boys, a-ha & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on August 9, 2019 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Blinded by the Light is directed by Gurinder Chadha and stars Viveik Kalra, Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon, Kulvinder Ghir, Nell Williams, Dean-Charles Chapman and Aaron Phagura. The movie is set to the music and lyrics of Springsteen’s timeless songs and tells the story of a British teen of Pakistani descent, growing up in the town of Luton, England, in 1987 who writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. Read the rest of this entry »
