Label Obscura has announced a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Crescent. The album features the film’s original music composed by Seth A. Smith who also directed the movie. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 7, 2018. A limited vinyl edition is also coming out on the same day. The Crescent is written and directed by Smith and stars Danika Vandersteen, Woodrow Graves, Terrance Murray, Brit Loder and Andrew Gillis. The movie centers on a painter and her two-year-old son as they struggle to find spiritual healing at a remote seaside cottage following a death in the family. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Crescent’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: July 26, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: score, Seth A. Smith, Soundtrack, The Crescent
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‘Slender Man’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: July 26, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brandon Campbell, Ramin Djawadi, score, Slender Man, Soundtrack, Sylvain White
Sony Classical will release the official soundtrack album for the supernatural horror thriller Slender Man. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Westworld, Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans) and Brandon Campbell (The Thinning). The soundtrack is expected to be released digitally on August 10, 2018 (click here to download) and physically the following week. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version. Slender Man is directed by Sylvain White and stars Joey King, Julia Goldani-Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso and Javier Botet. The movie is based on based on the myth created by Eric Knudsen (aka Victor Surge) and centers on a tall, thin figure with unnaturally long arms and a featureless face who stalks, abducts and traumatizes people. Read the rest of this entry »
Patrick Williams (1939 – 2018)
Posted: July 25, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Patrick Williams
Patrick Williams has passed away today at age 79. The composer has scored numerous features, TV shows and television movies over a five decade-spanning career. Among his feature film credits are John Water’s 1990 comedy Cry-Baby, the 1992 drama The Cutting Edge, Robert Zemeckis’ Used Cars, Richard Donner’s 1982 film The Toy, and Richard Lester’s Cuba. He received an Academy Award nomination for his music adaptation for Peter Yates’ 1979 movie Breaking Away. His TV scoring credits include The Streets of San Francisco, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show and Columbo. Read the rest of this entry »
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein to Score NatGeo’s ‘Valley of the Boom’
Posted: July 25, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Kyle Dixon, Michael Stein, National Geographic, Valley of the Boom
Variety is reporting that Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein are composing the score for the upcoming NatGeo original series Valley of the Boom. The show is created by Matthew Carnahan (House of Lies, Dirt) and stars Bradley Whitford, Steve Zahn, Lamorne Morris, John Karna, Dakota Shapiro and Oliver Cooper. The drama, which is being described as hybrid scripted/docu-series, chronicles the 1990s tech boom and bust cycle in Silicon Valley. Carnahan is also executive producing the STXtv production with Arianna Huffington, Jason Goldberg and David Walpert. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Ethan Hawke’s ‘Blaze’ Announced
Posted: July 25, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Blaze, Blaze Foley, Ethan Hawke, Soundtrack
Light in the Attic Records has announced a soundtrack album for the biographical drama Blaze. The album features new recordings of classic Blaze Foley compositions, as well as the Foley-inspired song Drunken Angel (Lucinda Williams) performed by Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the the Riff Raff and the original composition Blaze & Sybil’s Lullaby performed by Ben Dickey & Alia Shawkat. The soundtrack will be released digitally, on CD and on vinyl on September 21, 2018. Blaze is directed by Ethan Hawke and stars Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Josh Hamilton and Charlie Sexton. The movie tells the story of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary to Score Gregory Plotkin’s ‘Hell Fest’
Posted: July 25, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bear McCreary, Gregory Plotkin, Hell Fest
Bear McCreary has signed on to score the upcoming horror thriller Hell Fest. The film is directed by Gregory Plotkin (Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension) and stars Amy Forsyth, Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Christian James, Roby Attal, Matt Mercurio and Tony Todd. The movie revolves around a masked serial killer who turns a horror themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show. Seth M. Sherwood (Leatherface) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Hulu’s ‘The First’ to Feature Original Score by Colin Stetson
Posted: July 25, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beau Willimon, Colin Stetson, Hulu, The First
Colin Stetson is scoring the upcoming Hulu original series The First. The show is created by Beau Willimon (House of Cards, The Ides of March) and stars Sean Penn, Natascha McElhone, LisaGay Hamilton, Oded Fehr, James Ransone and Hannah Ware. The drama follows the first human mission to Mars and explores the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization, from the perspectives of the the astronauts, their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
Jesper Kyd Scoring ‘Tumbbad’
Posted: July 24, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jesper Kyd, Tumbbad
Jesper Kyd has recently composed the music for the upcoming Indian fantasy thriller Tumbbad. The film directed by Rai Anil Barve & Adesh Prasad is set in 19th-century colonial India and is being described as a “fast-paced parable about greed.” Anand L Rai, Amita Shah, Mukesh Shah and Sohum Shah are producing the project. Kyd who is best for his video game scores in the Assassin’s Creed, Hitman and Borderlands series has previously scored movies including Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe and TV shows such as Metal Hurlant Chronicles. Read the rest of this entry »
Syfy’s ‘Deadly Class’ to Feature Music by Nathan Matthew David
Posted: July 24, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Deadly Class, Nathan Matthew David, Syfy
Nathan Matthew David has been hired to score the upcoming Syfy original series Deadly Class. The show is developed by Rick Remender & Miles Orion Feldsott based on Remender’s graphic novel of the same title and stars Benjamin Wadsworth, Benedict Wong, Lana Condor, Maria Gabriela de Faria, Luke Tennie, Liam James and Michel Duval. The drama follows a homeless teen who is recruited into a storied elite private school where the world’s top crime families send their next generations. Remender and Feldsott are also executive producing the Sony Pictures TV and Universal Cable production with Joe & Anthony Russo (Avengers: Infinity War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Mike Laroca (The Drop) and Mick Betancourt. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Pemberton to Score ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’
Posted: July 24, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Daniel Pemberton is currently working on the score for the upcoming animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The film is directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey (Rise of the Guardians) & Rodney Rothman and features the voices of Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Jake Johnson, Liev Schreiber, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez and Lily Tomlin. Phil Lord wrote the screenplay and is also producing the Sony Pictures Animation production with Christopher Miller (The LEGO Movie, 21/22 Jump Street), Amy Pascal (The Post, Spider-Man: Homecoming), Avi Arad (Iron Man, The Amazing Spider-Man) and Christina Steinberg (Bee Movie). Read the rest of this entry »
