Gaumont & Légende Films have released a soundtrack album for the French family comedy Santa & Cie. The album features the film’s original music composed by Matthieu Gonet (Madame, Les profs). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples and check out the track list. Santa & Cie is directed by Alain Chabat (Asterix and Obelix Meet Cleopatra, HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami) and stars Golshifteh Farahani, Audrey Tautou and Pio Marma. The movie follows the journey of Santa Claus when he is forced to travel to Earth to find a cure for his sick elves a few days before Christmas and across a young Parisian family who help him complete his mission. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Santa & Cie’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alain Chabat, Matthieu Gonet, Santa & Cie, score, Soundtrack
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Kevin Lax Scoring Netflix’s ‘Juanita’
Posted: December 3, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Clark Johnson, Juanita, Kevin Lax, Netflix
Kevin Lax is scoring the upcoming Netflix original movie Juanita. The film is directed by Clark Johnson (S.W.A.T., The Sentinel) and stars Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood, Adam Beach, Marcus Henderson and LaTanya Richardson. The drama is based on Sheila Williams’ book Dancing on the Edge of the Roof and centers around a woman who is fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence and takes a Greyhound bus to Montana, where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo. Roderick Spencer wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 3, 2017)
Posted: December 3, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Cohen, Andy Price, Blair Mowat, Christopher Lennertz, El Camino Christmas, Happy!, History, John Robert Wood, Knightfall, Netflix, Psych: The Movie, Syfy, USA
Premiering on Wednesday, December 6, is the History original series Knightfall created by Don Handfield & Richard Rayner and starring Tom Cullen, Bobby Schofield, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Padraic Delaney, Simon Merrells and Olivia Ross. The show’s original music is composed by Andy Price (Robin Hood, Law & Order: UK). The drama chronicles the true accounts of the Knights Templar, the elite warriors of the Crusades during the 14th century. Check out our scoring assignment announcement and History’s official show website to learn more about the series.
Also premiering on Wednesday is the new Syfy original series Happy! developed by Grant Morrison & Brian Taylor and starring Chris Meloni, Lili Mirojnick, Joseph Reitman, as well as Patton Oswalt as the voice of the title character. Blair Mowat (Class) is composing the show’s original music. The series is based on Morrison’s & Darick Robertson’s graphic novel of the same name and follows an intoxicated, corrupt ex-cop turned hit man who is adrift in a world of casual murder, soulless sex and betrayal. For more information about the comedy drama, visit Syfy’s official show website. Read the rest of this entry »
John Ottman to Score Animated Series ‘The Gang’s All Here’
Posted: December 2, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Ottman, The Gang's All Here
John Ottman is attached to compose the music for the upcoming animated series The Gang’s All Here. The show developed by Byron Burton and voice actor Rob Paulsen centers on an animal cast of actors as they star in their own films and navigate the pitfalls of the entertainment industry. Voice actors Kevin Conroy, Cal Dodd and Andrea Romano are also involved in the project. Burton has previously served as an assistant to Ottman and wrote the lyrics to the song Rest Young Child (performed by Michael Fassbender’s Magneto) from X-Men: Apocalypse. Read the rest of this entry »
David Cieri’s Score from ‘The Vietnam War’ & Other Documentaries Released
Posted: December 2, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Baseball, David Cieri, Ken Burns, PBS, Prohibition, score, Soundtrack, The Address, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, The Vietnam War
Ropeadope Records has released a new soundtrack album featuring music composed by David Cieri (Oklahoma City) from several docu-series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick & produced by Florentine Films. Notes from the Underscore: 10 Years with Florentine Films includes selections of his scores from this year’s PBS series The Vietnam War, 2011’s Prohibition and 2014’s The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon and iTunes, where you can also listen to audio samples. Separate soundtrack albums for The Vietnam War, featuring Trent Reznor’s & Atticus Ross’ contributions to the series, the pop/rock songs as featured in the show, as well as The Silkroad Ensemble & Yo-Yo Ma’s arrangements of traditional Vietnamese songs have been released earlier this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 1, 2017)
Posted: December 1, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 24 Hours to Live, Alexandre Desplat, Dave Porter, The Disaster Artist, The Shape of Water, Tyler Bates, Wonder Wheel
No movies are opening nationwide this week.
Opening in New York before being released in Los Angeles next week and in other markets later this month is the fantasy drama The Shape of Water co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones and Octavia Spencer. The film’s original music is composed by Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The King’s Speech, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as tracks by Andy Williams, Carmen Miranda & more. Click here for the full album details.
Also opening in limited release is the comedy drama The Disaster Artist directed by James Franco who also stars in the movie alongside Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Josh Hutcherson, Zax Efron, Ari Graynor, Jacki Weaver and Alison Brie. Dave Porter (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Preacher, The Blacklist) has composed the film’s original score. WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score within the next couple of weeks. Visit Film Music Magazine for a recent interview with the composer about his work on the film and check out the official movie website to learn more about the A24 release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Molly’s Game’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 1, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aaron Sorkin, Daniel Pemberton, Molly's Game, score, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut Molly’s Game have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Golden Globe nominee Daniel Pemberton (Steve Jobs, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, The Counselor, Gold). The soundtrack will be released on January 5, 2018 by Sony Classical and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Molly’s Game is written and directed by Sorkin and stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O’Dowd and Bill Camp. The movie tells the true story of Molly Bloom an Olympic-class skier who ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 1, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: H. Scott Salinas, Jared Moshé, score, Soundtrack, The Ballad of Lefty Brown
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the western The Ballad of Lefty Brown. The album features the film’s original music composed by H. Scott Salinas (Birth of the Dragon, City of Ghosts, Cartel Land, Murder in the First). Also included is the original title song written and performed by Maiah Wynne. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 15, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Ballad of Lefty Brown is written, directed, and produced by Jared Moshé and stars Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Joseph Lee Anderson, Jim Caviezel, Tommy Flanagan and Kathy Baker. The movie is set in 1889 after Congress declared the frontier closed and follows a 63 year old sidekick who confronts the ugly realities of frontier justice. The western premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival and was picked up by A24 and DirecTV for domestic distribution. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 1, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: George Streicher, Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has released a soundtrack album for the animated movie Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom. The album features the film’s original music composed by George Streicher who previously scored last year’s Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom is written, directed and produced by Sean Patrick O’Reilly and features the voice talent of Mark Hamill, Jeffrey Combs, Christopher Plummer and Doug Bradley. The movie based on Bruce Brown and Dwight L. MacPherson’s bestselling graphic novel follows a young Howard Lovecraft and his friend ‘Spot’ on an adventure from the frozen wasteland to the depths of a mysterious ocean. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Crown’ Season 2 Soundtrack Details
Posted: November 30, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Lorne Balfe, Netflix, Rupert Gregson-Williams, score, Soundtrack, The Crown
The full details of the soundtrack album for the second soundtrack album for the Netflix original series The Crown have been revealed. The album features selections from the original music from the show’s second season composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams (Wonder Woman, Hacksaw Ridge, The Legend of Tarzan) who was honored with an Emmy Award nomination for his work on the drama’s first season (available here) and Lorne Balfe (The Lego Batman Movie, Terminator Genisys, Genius, Home). The soundtrack will be physically and digitally on December 8 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
