Jay Wadley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Swan Song, Indignation, Fire Island, I Carry You with Me, Olympic Dreams, Tales from the City) is providing the original score for the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series Franklin. The show is based on Stacy Schiff’s book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America and stars Michael Douglas, Noah Jupe, Thibault de Montalembert, Ludivine Sagnier, Daniel Mays, Eddie Marsan, Jeanne Balibar, Assaad Bouab and Theodore Pellerin. The 8-part historical drama tells the story of Benjamin Franklin’s greatest gamble when he embarks on a secret eight-year mission to France in 1776 as the fate of American independence hangs in the balance. Read the rest of this entry »
Jay Wadley Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Franklin’
Posted: February 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Franklin, Jay Wadley
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‘Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian Knappenberger, Garron Chang, Netflix, Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press, score, Soundtrack
Garron Chang (Home, Infamy, Hunting Lands) has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2017 Netflix original documentary Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press directed by Brian Knappenberger (The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez) centers on the trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media that pitted privacy rights against freedom of the press and examines the perils and duties of the free press in an age of inequality. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Korven Scoring Arkasha Stevenson’s ‘The First Omen’
Posted: February 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Arkasha Stevenson, Mark Korven, The First Omen
Mark Korven (The Black Phone, The Witch, The Lighthouse, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Cube, Night Swim, The Peripheral) has recently been scoring the upcoming supernatural horror prequel The First Omen. The film is directed by Arkasha Stevenson and stars Nell Tiger Free, Tawkeef Barhom, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga and Bill Nighy. The movie follows a young American woman who is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, when she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Other Side’ (‘El Otro Lado’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: El otro lado, Javier Rodero, Movistar+, score, Soundrack, The Other Side
MoviStar Sound has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish TV series The Other Side (El otro lado). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Javier Rodero Villa (Valley of the Dead, It’s for Your Own Good, Hopelessly Devout, Something Huge). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also check out the composer’s title track below. The Other Side is created by Berto Romero and stars Romero himself, Andreu Buenafuente, Nacho Vigalondo, María Botto and Eva Ugarte. The horror comedy revolves around a journalist specializing in the paranormal who – after a failed suicide attempt – comes back to life accompanied by the ghost of his mentor. Read the rest of this entry »
New ‘Soldier Blue’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: February 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ralph Nelson, Roy Budd, score, Soldier Blue, Soundtrack
Caldera Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1970 western Soldier Blue directed by Ralph Nelson and starring Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, Dana Elcar and John Anderson. The album includes the first-ever release of the original film recording of the movie’s original score composed by Roy Budd (Get Carter, The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves, Kidnapped, Flight of the Doves). Visit the label’s official website to find out more about the CD and to check out audio samples. Several of Budd’s compositions from his score re-recorded in pop arrangements have previously been released by different labels, most recently as a digital edition in 2020 by Jambo Records. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Open Season’ (‘Chasse Gardée’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Antonin Fourlon, Chasse gardée, Erwann Chandon, Frédéric Forestier, Open Season, score, Soundtrack
Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy Open Season (Chasse gardée). The album features the film’s original music composed by Erwann Chandon (Simon’s Got a Gift, A Polar Year). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s main theme below. Open Season is directed by Frédéric Forestier & Antonin Fourlon and stars Didier Bourdon, Thierry Lhermitte and Hakim Jemili. The movie follows a family who have left the city to move to the countryside, but find their dream turn into a nightmare when they realize that their friendly neighbors are allowed to hunt on their property. Read the rest of this entry »
Ludwig Göransson Wins Grammy Award for ‘Oppenheimer’ Score
Posted: February 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Barbie, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell, Grammy Awards, Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Ludwig Göransson has won the Grammy Award for his score for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category at today’s 66th Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony in Los Angeles. He was previously honored with his first Grammy in the same category for Black Panther in 2019. Check out his acceptance speech below. Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell received the award for the original song What Was I Made For from Greta Gerwig’s Barbie in the Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media category. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 4, 2024)
Posted: February 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Anne Nikitin, Bear McCreary, Halo, Isom Innis, Jessica Jones, Kevin Lax, Lover Stalker Killer, Netflix, Nick Foster, One Day, Orion and the Dark, Paramount+, Robert Lydecker, Tim Morrish, Upgraded
Premiering on Thursday, February 8, is the British Netflix limited series One Day developed by Nicole Taylor based on David Nicholls’s bestselling book and starring Ambika Mod, Leo Woodall, Amber Grappy, Essie Davis, Tim McInnerny, Jonny Weldon and Eleanor Tomlinson The show’s original music is composed by Anne Nikitin (The Dropout, American Animals, Fate: The Winx Saga, Mrs. Wilson, Dangerous Liaisons, The Pale Horse), Jessica Jones (The Tinder Swindler, Our Universe, American Nightmare Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me) and Tim Morrish (Fifteen-Love, Red Rose). Click here to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Also premiering on Thursday is the second season of the Paramount+ original series Halo developed by Kyle Killen & Steven Kane based on Xbox’s video game franchise and starring Pablo Schreiber, Jen Taylor, Natascha McElhone, Bokeem Woodbine, Natasha Culzac, Shabana Azmi, Yerin Ha, Joseph Morgan, Bentley Kalu, Cristina Rodlo, Olive Gray, Charlie Murphy, Christina Bennington, Kate Kennedy and Danny Sapani. Bear McCreary (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Outlander, The Walking Dead, God of War) is involved in scoring the new season. Check out our previous article for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Living With Wolves’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 3, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Armand Amar, score, Soundtrack, Vivre avec les loups
Long Distance has released a soundtrack album for the French documentary Living With Wolves (Vivre avec les loups). The album features the film’s original music composed by Armand Amar (The Concert, Mia and the White Lion, The Source, A Bag of Marbles, The History of Love, The Wolf and the Lion, Belle & Sebastian). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Living With Wolves is directed by Jean-Michel Bertrand (who previously collaborated with Amar on 2016’s The Valley of the Wolves and 2020’s Wolf Walk) and follows the filmmaker as he is living alongside a community of wolves in European forests and offers a lesson in how to exist alongside these mysterious yet dangerous animals. Read the rest of this entry »
Nick Foster Scoring Sam Hobkinson’s Netflix Documentary ‘Lover, Stalker, Killer’
Posted: February 3, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lover Stalker Killer, Netflix, Nick Foster, Sam Hobkinson
Nick Foster (Thunderbirds Are Go, Cuckoo, In My Skin, The A List, Greatest Days, Year of the Rabbit, Sackboy: A Big Adventure) has composed the original score for the new Netflix original true crime documentary Lover, Stalker, Killer. The film is directed by Sam Hobkinson and centers on a mechanic who tries online dating for the first time and meets a woman who takes romantic obsession to a deadly extreme. The movie features interviews with those involved – including the law enforcement officers who cracked the case – alongside reenactments that bring viewers into the paranoia of the victim’s four year nightmare. Read the rest of this entry »
