Will Blair and Brooke Blair have composed the music for the new Sundance Now original series This Close. The show is created by Josh Feldman & Shoshannah Stern who are also starring in the comedy drama with Cheryl Hines, Zach Gilford, Colt Prattes and Marlee Matlin. The 6-part series revolves around two best friends who are deaf and try to balance their personal and professional lives. Feldman and Stern are also executive producing the project with Christine Vachon (Carol, Far from Heaven), David Hinojosa (Beatriz at Dinner), Mary Pat Bentel (Animals, Goodbye World), Paul Young (Central Intelligence, Black-ish) and director Andrew Ahn (Spa Night). Read the rest of this entry »
Will & Brooke Blair Scoring Sundance Now’s ‘This Close’
Posted: January 20, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brooke Blair, Sundance Now, This Close, Will Blair
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 19, 2018)
Posted: January 19, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 12 Strong, Brett Boyett, Chris Westlake, Cliff Martinez, Dan Romer, Den of Thieves, Forever My Girl, Freak Show, Lorne Balfe, Mary and the Witch's Flower, Mom and Dad, Mr. Bill, Small Town Crime, Takatsugu Muramatsu
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the war drama 12 Strong directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and starring Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon and Michael Peña. The film’s original music is composed by Lorne Balfe (The LEGO Batman Movie, Genius, The Crown, Terminator Genisys, Home). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Click here for the full album details. The movie also features an original song, It Goes On performed by Zac Brown & Sir Rosevelt and written by Brown, Ben Simonetti & Niko Moon, which is available to download here.
Also opening wide is the heist thriller Den of Thieves directed by Christian Gudegast and starring Gerard Butler, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Pablo Schreiber, O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Evan Jones, Cooper Anderson and Maurice Compte. Cliff Martinez (Drive, Traffic, The Neon Demon, Narc, The Foreigner) has composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced. To learn more about the STX Entertainment release, which follows an elite crew of bank robbers who sets out to pull off the ultimate heist, visit the official movie website. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Details for Disney Channel’s ‘Zombies’
Posted: January 19, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Channel, Soundtrack, Zombies
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Disney Channel original movie Zombies. The album features the songs from the film performed by the movie musical’s cast including Meg Donnelly, Milo Manheim, Trevor Tordjman and Kylee Russell. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on February 16, 2018. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version and click here for the digital version. Zombies directed by Jeffrey Hornaday follows a semester at Seabrook High School in a suburban town filled with uniformity, traditions and pep rallies whose students must learn to coexist with new transfer students from Zombietown. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo & Jordan Gagne Scoring Paramount Network’s ‘Waco’
Posted: January 19, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jeff Russo, Jordan Gagne, Paramount Network, Waco
Jeff Russo (Fargo, The Night Of, Star Trek: Discovery) and Jordan Gagne are composing the score for new Paramount Network limited series Waco. Russo has also composed the main title theme for the show created by John Erick Dowdle & Drew Dowdle (No Escape, Quarantine) and starring Michael Shannon, Taylor Kitsch, John Leguizamo, Andrea Riseborough, Rory Culkin, Melissa Benoist, Paul Sparks, Shea Whigham, Camryn Manheim and Julia Garner. The 6-parter is based on the true story of the 1993 FBI siege of a religious sect in Waco, Texas that resulted in the deadly shoot out and fire. The Dowdle Brothers are also executive producing the drama with Shannon, Kitsch and Salvatore Stabile. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for TNT’s ‘The Alienist’ to Be Released
Posted: January 19, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Rupert Gregson-Williams, score, Soundtrack, The Alienist, TNT
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the new TNT original series The Alienist. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams (Wonder Woman, Hacksaw Ridge, The Legend of Tarzan, The Crown, Over the Hedge). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, January 26, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Alienist is developed by Cary Fukunaga based on the novel of same name by Caleb Carr and stars Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning, Brian Geraghty, Robert Wisdom, Douglas Smith, Matthew Shear, Matt Lintz, Brian Geraghty and Q’orianka Kilcher. The drama is set in 1896, when a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes has gripped the city and follows a newly appointed top cop who calls upon a criminal psychologist and a newspaper illustrator to conduct the investigation in secret. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Leisure Seeker’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 19, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Carlo Virzi, Paolo Virzi, score, Soundtrack, The Leisure Seeker
BMG Italy has released a soundtrack album for Paolo Virzi’s drama The Leisure Seeker. The album features the film’s original music composed by Carlo Virzi (Human Capital, The First Beautiful Thing, My Name Is Tanino). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The Leisure Seeker starring Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christian McKay, Janel Moloney, Dana Ivey and Dick Gregory follows a couple on a road trip as they travel from Boston to The Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other. The dramedy premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and will be released in select U.S. theaters on March 9 by Sony Pictures Classics (following an awards-qualifing release last month). Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for Sky’s & Amazon’s ‘Britannia’ Released
Posted: January 19, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Britannia, Neil Davidge, score, Sky, Soundtrack
7Hz Productions has released a soundtrack album for the Sky and Amazon period drama Britannia. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Neil Davidge (Push, Unleashed, Monsters: Dark Continent, Halo 4, Hard Sun). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Britannia is created by Jez Butterworth (Spectre), Tom Butterworth & James Richardson and stars Kelly Reilly, David Morrissey, Zoë Wanamaker, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Eleanor Worthington-Cox. The series executive produced by Sam Mendes is set in 43AD as the Roman Imperial Army returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia, a mysterious land ruled by wild warrior women and powerful Druids who can channel the powerful forces of the underworld. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Early Man’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 18, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Early Man, Harry Gregson-Williams, Nick Park, score, Soundtrack, Tom Howe
Mercury Records will release a soundtrack album for Aardman Animations’ feature Early Man. The album features the film’s original score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Martian, Shrek) who previously scored Aardman’s Chicken Run (with John Powell), Flushed Away & Arthur Christmas, and Tom Howe (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women). Also included are new songs by New Hope Club and The Vamps, as well as Kaiser Chiefs’ I Predict a Riot. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 26, 2018 and is now available for pore-order on Amazon. Early Man is directed by Nick Park and features the voice talent of Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall and Richard Ayoade. The movie tells the story of a courageous caveman and his best friend as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy and his Bronze Age City to save their home. Read the rest of this entry »
Score Album for ABC’s ‘Scandal’ to Be Released
Posted: January 18, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ABC, Chad Fischer, Scandal, score, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records will release a new soundtrack album for the ABC drama Scandal. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Chad Fischer (Garden State, Private Practice, Chasing Mavericks, The Catch). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 19 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The release marks the second soundtrack for the hit series following an album featuring songs from the drama that was released in 2013. Scandal is created by Shonda Rhimes and stars Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, a former media relations consultant to the President who left the White House to open her own firm, hoping to start a new career and a new personal life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Outlander’ Season 3 Soundtrack Details
Posted: January 18, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bear McCreary, Outlander, score, Soundtrack, Starz
Madison Gate Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Starz original series Outlander. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s third season composed by Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Lane, The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Happy Death Day, Colossal), including the Caribbean Version of the main titles theme The Skye Boat Song performed by Raya Yarbrough, which will be already available to download tomorrow. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on February 9, 2018 and is now available for pre-order. The label has previously released several soundtrack albums for the series’ first and second season. Outlander is created by Ronald D. Moore based on the best-selling books by Diana Gabaldon and stars Caitrona Balfe, Sam Heughan and Tobias Menzies. Read the rest of this entry »
