Nico Muhly (The Reader, Margaret, Kill Your Darlings, Howards End) has contributed original music to the upcoming drama The Seagull. He is sharing scoring credit with Anton Sanko who was previously announced as the film’s composer. The movie directed by Michael Mayer (A Home at the End of the World) and starring Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll, Elisabeth Moss, Brian Dennehy, Mare Winningham, Jon Tenney, Glenn Fleshler, Michael Zegen and Billy Howle is based on Anton Chekhov’s classic tragic story of eight people who fall in love with the wrong person. Stephen Karam (Speech & Debate) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Mayer’s ‘The Seagull’ to Feature Music by Nico Muhly
Posted: March 7, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anton Sanko, Michael Mayer, Nico Muhly, The Seagull
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‘Kings’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 7, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Kings, Nick Cave, score, Soundtrack, Warren Ellis
The full details of the soundtrack album for the drama Kings have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Hell or High Water, The Proposition, Wind River, Lawless). The soundtrack will be released on April 27, 2018 by Milan Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Kings is directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven and stars Halle Berry, Daniel Craig, Lamar Johnson, Kaalan “KR” Walker and Rachel Hilson. The movie is set in 1992 in South Central Los Angeles and centers on a foster family’s arrival to town just a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Golden Exits’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 7, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Ross Perry, Golden Exits, Keegan DeWitt, score, Soundtrack
Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album for the indie drama Golden Exits. The album features the film’s original music composed by Keegan DeWitt (I’ll See You in My Dreams, Divorce, The Hero, Morris From America, Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. Golden Exits is written and directed by Alex Ross Perry and stars Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Jason Schwartzman and Chloë Sevigny. The movie centers on two Brooklyn families whose lives are interrupted by the arrival of a young foreign girl. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo to Score Peter Berg’s ‘Mile 22’
Posted: March 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jeff Russo, Mile 22, Peter Berg
Jeff Russo has signed on to score the upcoming action thriller Mile 22. The film is directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor, Patriots Day, Deepwater Horizon) and stars Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, John Malkovich, Iko Uwais and Ronda Rousey. The movie centers on an elite American intelligence officer who, when aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country. Graham Roland (Jack Ryan) and Lea Carpenter have written the screenplay. Berg and Wahlberg are also producing the project with Stephen Levinson (Entourage, Boardwalk Empire, Contraband). Read the rest of this entry »
‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: How to Talk to Girls at Parties, John Cameron Mitchell, Soundtrack
Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi comedy How to Talk to Girls at Parties. The album features the songs from the movie by such artists as
The Damned, The Dyschords, The Velvet Underground, A.C. Newman, Amber Martin and Dyslexic Cnuts. Also included are selections of the original music from the movie by Nico Muhly (The Reader, Margaret), Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu and Matmos. The soundtrack will be released overseas next month. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version as an import. No word yet on a domestic release date. How to Talk to Girls at Parties is directed by John Cameron Mitchell and stars Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman and Ruth Wilson. The movie based on a short story by Neil Gaiman follows a schoolboy and punk and a female alien tourist who wants to escape her tour group and explore the most dangerous place in the galaxy, the London suburb of Croydon. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Reitzell to Score ‘Mars’ Season 2
Posted: March 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian Reitzell, Mars, National Geographic Channel
Brian Reitzell has been tapped to score the second season of the National Geographic original series Mars. The show is created by Ben Young Mason & Justin Wilkes and stars JiHAE, Sammi Rotibi, Alberto Ammann, Clémentine Poidatz, Anamaria Marinca and Cosima Shaw. They are joined by new cast members Esai Morales, Roxy Sternberg, Gunnar Cauthery, Levi Fiehler, Evan Hall, Akbar Kurtha and Jeff Hephner. The second season of the drama jumps ahead several years into the future after the Daedalus astronauts have built a full-fledged colony called Olympus Town. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Eva’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benoit Jacquot, Bruno Coulais, Eva, score, Soundtrack
EuropaCorp will release a soundtrack album for Benoit Jacquot’s psychological thriller Eva. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Bruno Coulais (The Chorus, Coraline, The Crimson Rivers, Winged Migration) who previously scored the director’s Farewell, My Queen, Diary of a Chambermaid and 3 Hearts. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 7, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out the track list. Eva is co-written and directed by Jacquot and stars Isabelle Huppert and Gaspard Ulliel. The psychological thriller is based on James Hadley Chase’s novel of the same title and centers on a playwright who encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Bates Scoring Starz’s ‘Sweetbitter’
Posted: March 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Starz, Sweetbitter, Will Bates
Will Bates is composing the original score for the upcoming Starz original series Sweetbitter. The show is created by Stephanie Danler based on her bestselling novel of the same title and stars Ella Purnell as a 22-year-old woman who arrives in New York City ready to pursue a new life and is quickly intoxicated by the chaotic, high-adrenaline environment behind-the-scenes of the restaurant world. Tom Sturridge, Caitlin FitzGerald, Paul Sparks and Evan Jonigkeit are co-starring. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Love, Simon’ Score Album Announced
Posted: March 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Greg Berlanti, Love Simon, Rob Simonsen, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a score album for the coming-of-age drama Love, Simon. The album features the film’s original score composed by Rob Simonsen (Foxcatcher, Nerve, (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now, The Way, Way Back). The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 16, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. As previously reported, RCA Records will release a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie. Love, Simon is directed by Greg Berlanti and stars Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, Alexandra Shipp, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Miles Heizer, Keiynan Lonsdale, Logan Miller and Tony Hale. Read the rest of this entry »
CBS’ ‘Instinct’ to Feature Music by James S. Levine
Posted: March 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: CBS, Instinct, James S. Levine
James S. Levine is scoring the new CBS drama Instinct. The show is created by Michael Rauch and stars Alan Cumming, Bojana Novakovic, Daniel Ings, Naveen Andrews and Sharon Leal. The series follows a former CIA operative who is lured back to his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer. Rauch is also executive producing the CBS Television Studios production with Cumming, Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek: Discovery, The Mummy), Heather Kadin (Scorpion, Sleepy Hollow), Bill Robinson, James Patterson & Leopoldo Gout (Zoo, Alex Cross) and Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man, 500 Days of Summer) who also directed the pilot episode. Read the rest of this entry »
