Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the action thriller Peppermint. The album features the film’s original music composed by Simon Franglen (The Magnificent Seven, Ice). Also included is the original song Dark Angel by Geno Lenardo and the original end credits song Push Me by Lenardo feat. Ash Costello. The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, September 7 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Peppermint is directed by Pierre Morel (Taken) and stars Jennifer Garner, John Ortiz, John Gallagher Jr. and Juan Pablo Raba. The movie tells the story of a young mother whose husband and daughter are killed in a brutal attack on the family. When the system frustratingly shields the murderers from justice, she sets out to transform herself from citizen to urban guerilla. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Peppermint’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 30, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Peppermint, Pierre Morel, score, Simon Franglen, Soundtrack
Score Album for Paul Feig’s ‘A Simple Favor’ to Be Released
Posted: August 30, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Simple Favor, Paul Feig, score, Soundtrack, Theodore Shapiro
Lakeshore Records will release a score album for Paul Feig’s thriller A Simple Favor. The album features the film’s original music composed by Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada, Marley & Me, Tropic Thunder, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) who previously scored the director’s last two features Ghostbusters and Spy. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 14, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A Simple Favor starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells, Linda Cardellini, Jean Smart and Rupert Friend centers around a mommy vlogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend’s sudden disappearance from their small town. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Nun’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 30, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Abel Korzeniowski, Corin Hardy, score, Soundtrack, The Nun
WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the supernatural horror thriller The Nun. The album features the film’s original music composed by Golden Globe nominee Abel Korzeniowski (A Single Man, Penny Dreadful, W.E., Nocturnal Animals, Romeo & Juliet). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 31 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. The Nun is directed by Corin Hardy and stars Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Charlotte Hope, Ingrid Bisu and Bonnie Aarons. The movie produced by James Wan is a spin-off of The Conjuring 2 and follows a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows who are sent by the Vatican to investigate the case of a young nun in Romania taking her own life. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Lopatin Scoring Rick Alverson’s ‘The Mountain’
Posted: August 30, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Lopatin, Oneohtrix Point Never, Rick Alverson, The Mountain
Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) has composed the original score for the period drama The Mountain. The film is directed by Rick Alverson (Entertainment, The Comedy) and stars Tye Sheridan, Jeff Goldblum, Hannah Gross, Denis Lavant and Udo Kier. The movie is set in 1950s America and follows an introverted young man who joins a renowned lobotomist as he promotes his recently debunked procedure and begins to identify with the patients, among them the daughter of a charismatic leader in the burgeoning New Age movement of the West. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Details for Bradley Cooper’s ‘A Star Is Born’ Announced
Posted: August 30, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Soundtrack
Interscope Records has announced the full details of the soundtrack album for the movie musical A Star Is Born. The album features the songs from the movie performed Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper who also co-wrote several tracks with Lukas Nelson, as well as other artists including Jason Isbell, Diane Warren and Mark Ronson. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on October 5, 2018 and is now available for pre-order here (digital version) and here (CD version). A Star Is Born marks the directorial debut of Bradley Cooper who also stars in the movie alongside Lady Gaga, Andrew Dice Clay, Anthony Ramos, Bonnie Somerville, Dave Chappelle and Sam Elliott. The movie tells the tragic love story of a seasoned musician who discovers and falls in love with a struggling artist. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Little Stranger’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 30, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lenny Abrahamson, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Rennicks, The Little Stranger
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the supernatural horror thriller The Little Stranger. The album features the film’s original music composed by Stephen Rennicks (Room, Frank, What Frank Did, Viva). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, August 31, and will be available to download on Amazon. The Little Stranger is directed by Lenny Abrahamson and stars Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling. The movie is based on Sarah Waters’ 2009 novel of the same title and takes place in post-WWII Britain, where a doctor revisits a crumbling great house where his mother once worked as a nurse maid and becomes obsessed with marrying one of the owner’s daughters. Read the rest of this entry »
Harry Gregson-Williams to Score ABC’s ‘Whiskey Cavalier’
Posted: August 29, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Harry Gregson-Williams, Whiskey Cavalier
Harry Gregson-Williams is set to score the upcoming ABC action dramedy Whiskey Cavalier. The show is created by Dave Hemingson (Kitchen Confidential) and stars Scott Foley, Lauren Cohan, Ana Ortiz, Tyler James Williams, Josh Hopkins and Vir Das. The series follows the adventures of an FBI agent who, following an emotional break-up, is assigned to work with quick, cunning and completely fearless CIA operative. Heminsgon is also executive producing the Warner Bros. Television production with Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Cougar Town) and Jeff Ingold (Life Sentence). Read the rest of this entry »
Edward Shearmur Scoring Showtime’s ‘Escape at Dannemora’
Posted: August 29, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Stiller, Edward Shearmur, Escape at Dannemora, Showtime
Edward Shearmur has been tapped to score the Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora. The show is directed by Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder, Zoolander, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), written by Brett Johnson (Ray Donovan) & Michael Tolkin (The Player, Deep Impact) and stars Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Bonnie Hunt, Eric Lange and David Morse. The 8-parter is based on the stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015 that spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers. Read the rest of this entry »
‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: August 29, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, score, Soundtrack, Vince Guaraldi
Craft Recordings has announced the world premiere CD and digital soundtrack release for the 1966 television special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The album features the original music from the animated special composed by Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Boy Named Charlie Brown), including the classic Linus and Lucy track. The soundtrack will be released physically and digitally on October 5, 2018. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version, which also included a new introduction from the TV show’s executive producer Lee Mendelson and liner notes by Peanuts historian Derrick Bang. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is written by Charles M. Schulz and directed byBill Melendez. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Bates Scoring ‘Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes’
Posted: August 29, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Gibney, Alexis Bloom, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, Will Bates
Will Bates (The Path, The Looming Tower, I Origins) has recently scored the upcoming documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Alexis Bloom and charts the rise and fall of the late Republican Party booster and controversial Fox News mogul who went down in flames amid multiple sexual harassment allegations. Bloom is also producing the project with Will Cohen. Read the rest of this entry »
