Interscope Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why. The album features a selection of songs from the show’s second season by artists including a new song by Selena Gomez, which is already available to download, as well as tracks by OneRepublic, YUNGBLUD, Billie Eilish & Khalid, New Order, HAERTS, Lord Huron & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 18 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label has previously released two soundtracks featuring the songs and score from the drama’s first season. Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why developed by Brian Yorkey based on books by Jay Asher and starring Dylan Minnette, Katherine Langford, Kate Walsh, Brian D’Arcy James and Derek Luke will premiere on May 18 on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
’13 Reasons Why’ Season 2 Soundtrack Announced
Posted: May 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: 13 Reasons Why, Netflix, Soundtrack
Gabriel Mann to Score Netflix’s ‘Prince of Peoria’
Posted: May 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gabriel Mann, Netflix, Prince of Peoria
Gabriel Mann has signed on to score the upcoming Netflix original series Prince of Peoria. The show is created by Nick Stanton & Devin Bunje (Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything) and stars Gavin Lewis, Theodore Barnes, Shelby Simmons and Cynthia McWilliams. The comedy revolves around a 13-year-old prince from a wealthy island kingdom who travels to the U.S. to live incognito as an exchange student. Stanton and Bunje are also executive producing the project with with Sharla Sumpter Bridgett (The To Do List, A Thousand Words). Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Details for Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Loro’
Posted: May 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lele Marchitelli, Loro, Paolo Sorrentino, score, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for Paolo Sorrentino’s biographical drama Loro have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lele Marchitelli who has previously scored the director’s The Great Beauty. Also included are songs by Sergio Bruni, Fink, Nicone & Sascha Braener, YACHT, Villagers & Nico Muhly, The Stooges, Sol Rising & more. The soundtrack is set to be released overseas on May 25 and is now available as an import on Amazon. A release in the U.S. is for later this year (click here to download). Loro is co-written and directed by Sorrentino and stars Toni Servillo as media mogul and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Euridice Axen and Fabrizio Bentivoglio are co-starring. Read the rest of this entry »
Dario Marianelli to Score ‘Transformers’ Spinoff ‘Bumblebee’
Posted: May 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bumblebee, Dario Marianelli, Transformers, Travis Knight
Dario Marianelli has been tapped to score the upcoming Transformers spinoff Bumblebee. The film is directed by Travis Knight and stars Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Jason Drucker, Kenneth Choi, Rachel Crow, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Schneider, Ricardo Hoyos, Abby Quinn and Grace Dzienny. The movie is set in 1987 and follows a teenage girl trying to find her place in the world as she discovers Bumblebee refuged in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Read the rest of this entry »
Mario Grigorov Scoring Lifetime’s ‘Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story’
Posted: May 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story, Karen Moncrieff, Lifetime, Mario Grigorov
Mario Grigorov is scoring the upcoming Lifetime original movie Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story. The film is directed by Karen Moncrieff (The Dead Girl, The Trials of Cate McCall) and stars Christina Ricci, Judith Light and Josh Bowman. The movie follows 19th century pioneering journalist, Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, who published under the name of Nellie Bly, on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum. Helen Childress (Reality Bites) wrote the script. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Her Smell’ to Feature Original Songs by Bully’s Alicia Bognanno & Anika Pyle
Posted: May 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alex Ross Perry, Alicia Bognanno, Anika Pyle, Her Smell
Bully frontwoman Alicia Bognanno and former Chumped lead singer Anika Pyle are writing original songs for Alex Ross Perry’s next feature, Her Smell. The film is written and directed by Perry (Queen of Earth, Listen Up Philip) and stars Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Amber Heard, Ashley Benson, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen and Dylan Gelula. The music drama revolves around the maniacally destructive punk rock star and leader of the seminal all-female rock band Something She. Read the rest of this entry »
Polydor Records to Release ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ Soundtrack
Posted: May 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: ABBA, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, Ol Parker, Soundtrack
Polydor Records will release the official soundtrack album for the movie musical Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. The album features the songs from the sequel performed by ABBA. The first song, When I Kissed the Teacher performed by Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies & Celia Imrie, is being released within the next day. The full soundtrack will be released physically and digitally on July 13, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is directed by Ol Parker and stars Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Barankski, Lily James and Josh Dylan. Read the rest of this entry »
Henry Jackman Scoring Edward Zwick’s ‘Trial by Fire’
Posted: May 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Edward Zwick, Henry Jackman, Trial by Fire
Henry Jackman has recently recorded his score for the upcoming drama Trial by Fire. The film is directed by Edward Zwick (Legends of the Fall, Glory, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond) and stars Jack O’Connell, Laura Dern, Emily Meade, Chris Coy, Jeff Perry, David Wilson Barnes and Carlos Gomez. The movie is based on David Grann’s 2009 article in The New Yorker and tells the true story of Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated devotee of heavy metal who is convicted of arson and triple homicide when a fire rips through his home and his children are trapped inside. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: May 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Powell, John Williams, Ron Howard, score, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Soundtrack, Star Wars
Composer John Powell has revealed the track list of the soundtrack album for Lucasfilm’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. The album features the film’s original score composed by Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, Shrek, Chicken Run, X-Men: The Last Stand), as well as the Han Solo theme (The Adventures of Han) composed and conducted by John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Jurassic Park). The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on May 25, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Genius: Picasso’ Soundtrack EP to Be Released
Posted: May 8, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Genius, Lorne Balfe, National Geographic, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a new EP for the National Geographic original series Genius. The soundtrack features six tracks from the original music of the show’s second season composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The Lego Batman Movie, The Crown, Pacific Rim Uprising, Terminator Genysis). The EP will be released digitally this Friday, May 11 and will be available to download on Amazon. A full soundtrack album featuring Balfe’s score and Hans Zimmer’s & Balfe’s new main titles theme for Genius: Picasso is in the works. Season 2 of Genius is executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer and stars Antonio Banderas as Pablo Picasso, as well as Alex Rich, Clémence Poésy, Samantha Colley, T.R. Knight and Seth Gabel. Read the rest of this entry »
