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 »
‘Eva’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 6, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benoit Jacquot, Bruno Coulais, Eva, score, Soundtrack
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 »
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans to Score ‘The Wolf Hour’
Posted: March 5, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alistair Banks Griffin, Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans, The Wolf Hour
Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans have signed on to score the upcoming psychological thriller The Wolf Hour. The film is written and directed by Alistair Banks Griffin (Two Gates of Sleep) and stars Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen Brennan Brown and Jeremy Bobb. The movie revolves around a formerly celebrated counter-culture figure who now lives alone in her fifth floor South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world during the 1977 “Summer of Sam.” Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Wins Academy Award for ‘The Shape of Water’
Posted: March 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Alexandre Desplat, Coco, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, The Shape of Water
Alexandre Desplat was honored with his second Academy Award for his score for Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water at tonight’s 90th Oscar ceremony. The other nominated composers in the Best Original Score category were Jonny Greenwood (Phantom Thread), Hans Zimmer (Dunkirk), John Williams (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and Carter Burwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). Desplat previously won the award three years ago for The Grand Budapest Hotel. Check out his acceptance speech after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 4, 2018)
Posted: March 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Champions, Collateral, Crackle, Fred Rapoport, Hard Sun, Hulu, Jesse Novak, Life Sentence, NBC, Neil Davidge, Netflix, Rick Butler, Ruth Barrett, The CW, The Oath, WAZ-Jackson
Premiering on Wednesday, March 7, in the U.S. is the crime drama series Hard Sun created by Neil Cross and starring Agyness Deyn, Jim Sturgess and Nikki Amuka-Bird. The show’s original music is composed by Neil Davidge (Unleashed, Push, Monsters: Dark Continent, Britannia, Good People). The series, which follows detective who seeks to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction, premiered in January in the UK on BBC One and is making its U.S. debut on Wednesday on Hulu.
Also premiering on Wednesday is the new CW comedy drama Life Sentence created by Erin Cardillo & Richard Keith and starring Lucy Hale, Carlos PenaVega, Elliot Knight, Dylan Walsh, Gillian Vigman, Jayson Blair and Brooke Lyons. The composing duo of WAZ-Jackson (Cougar Town, Surviving Jack) is composing the show’s original music. The series follows a young woman who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and has to learn to live with the choices she made when she decided to “live like she was dying”. To learn more about the series, which will air Wednesday nights on the CW, visit the official show website. Read the rest of this entry »
Sergio Moure to Score ‘Feedback’
Posted: March 4, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Feedback, Pedro C. Alonso, Sergio Moure
Sergio Moure has been hired to score the upcoming thriller Feedback. The film is directed by Pedro C. Alonso and stars Paul Anderson, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake and Ivana Baquero. The movie revolves around a radio host and his team whose live broadcast is interrupted when two intruders break into their studio and must carry on with the show without ever revealing the danger they are in. Alonso has also co-written the screenplay with Alberto Marini (Sleep Tight, Retribution). Jaume Collet-Serra (Non-Stop, Unknown, The Shallows, The Commuter) & Juan Sola (Anna) are producing the project for Ombra Films, alongside Borja Pena & Emma Lustres (Cell 211, El Niño) for Vaca Films. Read the rest of this entry »
‘First We Take Brooklyn’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 3, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Danny A. Abeckaser, First We Take Brooklyn, Lionel Cohen, score, Soundtrack
DNA-Productions has released a soundtrack album for the crime drama First We Take Brooklyn. The album features the film’s original score composed by Lionel Cohen. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. First We Take Brooklyn is co-written and directed by Danny A. Abeckaser who also stars in the film with Harvey Keitel, AnnaLynne McCord, Charlotte McKinney, Edoardo Ballerini and Kathrine Narducci. The movie follows an ex-convict who moves to New York hoping for a fresh start, when he gets dragged into a brutal turf war with the Russian mob forcing him to revisit his dark past and the survival skills he learned in prison. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Strangers: Prey at Night’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 3, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adrian Johnston, Johannes Roberts, score, Soundtrack, The Strangers, The Strangers: Prey at Night
The details of the soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Strangers: Prey at Night have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Adrian Johnston (Becoming Jane, Brideshead Revisited, Lassie, Dancing on the Edge). Also included are songs as featured in the movie by Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, Mental As Anything and Air Supply. The soundtrack is expected to be released digitally on March 9 and physically in April by Varese Sarabande. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version. The Strangers: Prey at Night is directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) and stars Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman. Read the rest of this entry »
