Marvel Music and Hollywood Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Iron Fist. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Robert Lydecker (xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Designated Survivor, Sleepy Hollow, Lethal Weapon). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 7 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The labels have previously released a soundtrack featuring Trevor Morris’ score from the series’ first season. Iron Fist is based on the Marvel Comics property and stars Finn Jones, Jessica Henwick, Jessica Stroup, Tom Pelphrey, Sacha Dhawan and Alice Eve. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Iron Fist’ Season 2 Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Iron Fist, Marvel, Netflix, Robert Lydecker, score, Soundtrack
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‘The Escape’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandra Harwood, Anthony John, Dominic Savage, score, Soundtrack, The Escape
Air-Edel Records has announced a soundtrack album for the British drama The Escape. The album features the film’s original music composed by Anthony John and Alexandra Harwood (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 7 and will be available to download on Amazon. The Escape is directed by Dominic Savage and stars Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Jalil Lespert, Frances Barber and Marthe Keller. The movie centers on a housewife and mother suffocating under the weight of her domestic burdens who makes the extraordinary decision to abandon her family in order to find herself. Read the rest of this entry »
Hulu’s ‘Into the Dark’ to Feature Music by The Newton Brothers & Michael Wandmacher
Posted: September 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hulu, Into the Dark, Michael Wandmacher, The Newton Brothers
The Newton Brothers (Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil) have composed the music for the first episode of the upcoming Hulu horror anthology series Into the Dark. The episode, entitled The Body, is directed by Paul Davis and stars Tom Bateman, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Aurora Perrineau, David Hull and Ray Santiago. The Body is set in the selfie culture of Los Angeles on Halloween night and follows a sophisticated, overconfident hitman who always carries out his work in style and decides to take things even further one day by transporting his latest victim in plain sight. Michael Wandmacher (Underworld: Blood Wars, Piranha 3D) is scoring the show’s second episode, Flesh & Blood, directed by Patrick Lussier (Dracula 2000) and starring Dermot Mulroney, Diana Silvers and Tembi Locke. Read the rest of this entry »
Lalo Schifrin to Receive Honorary Academy Award at 2018 Governors Awards
Posted: September 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Lalo Schifrin
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (September 4) to present an Honorary Award to composer Lalo Schifrin. He will be honored at the Academy’s 10th Annual Governors Awards on Sunday, November 18, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center. Born and raised in Argentina, Schifrin studied classical music and jazz in France before beginning to compose for film in Buenos Aires in the mid-1950s. He has written scores for more than 100 films, including The Cincinnati Kid, Dirty Harry, Enter the Dragon and Rush Hour. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Newman Scoring John Lee Hancock’s ‘The Highwaymen’
Posted: September 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Lee Hancock, Netflix, The Highwaymen, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman is reteaming with director John Lee Hancock on the upcoming Netflix original movie The Highwaymen. The crime drama starring Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates, John Carroll Lynch, Kim Dickens, Thomas Mann and William Sadler is based on the true events of Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and ex-partner Maney Gault, who are drawn out of retirement in a last-ditch effort to hunt down Bonnie and Clyde. John Fusco (Young Guns, Hidalgo, Marco Polo) wrote the screenplay with Hancock and Scott Frank (Godless, Out of Sight, Logan). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bohemian Rhapsody, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records will release the official soundtrack album for the biographical drama Bohemian Rhapsody. The album features the songs from the film performed by Queen, including classics tracks such as We Will Rock You, Somebody to Love, We Are the Champions, Another One Bites the Dust, Under Pressure (with David Bowie), The Show Must Go On & more. The soundtrack will be released on October 19, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Bohemian Rhapsody is directed by Bryan Singer and stars Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Aiden Gillen, Tom Hollander and Mike Myers. The movie traces the meteoric rise of Queen through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound and focuses on lead singer Freddie Mercury who defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’ Announced
Posted: September 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Luca Guadagnino, score, Soundtrack, Suspiria, Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke has announced a soundtrack album for Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake. The album features the film’s original music composed by the Radiohead member who made his feature film scoring debut on the project. The soundtrack will be released on October 26, 2018 by XL Recordings and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Listen to a track from the album after the jump. Suspiria is based on Dario Argento’s 70s classic and stars Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Lutz Ebersdorf and Chloe Grace Moretz. The movie just premiered at the Venice Film Festival this past weekend and will be released in select U.S. theaters on October 26 by Amazon Studios before expanding nationwide the following week. Read the rest of this entry »
‘White Boy Rick’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Max Richter, score, Soundtrack, White Boy Rick, Yann Demange
The full details of the soundtrack album for Yann Demange’s dramatic thriller White Boy Rick have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Max Richter (The Leftovers, Taboo, Waltz with Bashir, Miss Sloane, Hostiles). The soundtrack will be released physically on September 21, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A digital version is expected to come out a week earlier and will be available to download here. White Boy Rick starring Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Rory Cochrane, RJ Cyler, Jonathan Majors, Eddie Marsan, Bruce Dern and Piper Laurie is set in 1980s Detroit and tells the true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son who became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer, before he was abandoned by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison. Read the rest of this entry »
The Newton Brothers to Score Michael Goi’s ‘Mary’
Posted: September 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mary, Michael Goi, The Newton Brothers
The Newton Brothers have been tapped to score the upcoming supernatural thriller Mary. The film is directed by Michael Goi (Megan Is Missing) and stars Gary Oldman, Emily Mortimer, Owen Teague, Jennifer Esposito, Stefanie Scott, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Chloe Perrin. The movie centers on a family that buys an old ship at auction and discovers the ship’s secrets once they are out on the isolated open waters. Anthony Jaswinski (The Shallows) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Close Enemies’ (‘Frères ennemis’) Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Close Enemies, Frères ennemis, score, Soundtrack, Superpose
Combien Mille Records will release a soundtrack album for the French crime thriller Close Enemies (Frères ennemis). The album features the film’s original music composed by Superpoze. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 28, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Close Enemies is co-written and directed by David Oelhoffen and stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Reda Kateb, Adel Bencherif, Sofiane Zermani, Nicolas Giraud, Sabrina Ouazani, Gwendolyn Gourvenec, Marc Barbe, Astrid Whettnall and Yann Goven. The movie follows two close friends who were born and raised in a suburb riddled by drug trafficking who end up taking opposite paths and meet again years later. Read the rest of this entry »
