Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary series Alexander: The Making of a God. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Taran Mitchell (The Resurrection of Charles Manson) and produced by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning & Fallout, Black Widow, His Dark Materials, Black Adam). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the first track below. Alexander: The Making of a God is executive produced by Lucy van Beek & Nick Catliff and stars Buck Braithwaite, Mido Hamada, Agni Scott and Will Stevens. The docudrama reveals the life of Alexander the Great through his transformation from warrior prince to living god and explores his rise as an exiled young man into his obsession with defeating the mighty Persian Emperor Darius that led him to conquer the known world. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Alexander: The Making of a God’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alexander: The Making of a God, Lorne Balfe, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Taran Mitchell
Chris Benstead Scoring Netflix’s ‘The Gentlemen’ TV Series
Posted: January 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Benstead, Guy Ritchie, Netflix, The Gentlemen
Chris Benstead is making his television scoring debut on the upcoming British Netflix original series The Gentlemen. The show is created by Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes, Snatch, Aladdin) based on his 2019 feature of the same title (scored by Benstead) and stars Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Joely Richardson, Daniel Ings, Giancarlo Esposito, Vinnie Jones, Chanel Cresswell, Max Beesley, Michael Vu, Jasmine Blackborow, Harry Goodwins and Peter Serafinowicz. The comedy drama follows a young man who unexpectedly inherits his father’s sizeable country estate, only to discover it’s part of a cannabis empire and host of characters from Britain’s criminal underworld want a piece of the operation. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Kina & Yuk’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Guillaume Maidatchevsky, Julien Jaouen, Kina & Yuk, score, Soundtrack
Valdés Productions has released a soundtrack album for the French adventure drama Kina & Yuk (Kina & Yuk, renards de la banquise). The album features the film’s original music composed by Julien Jaouen (Ailo’s Journey, A Cat’s Life, Playground, Bis). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Listen to the composer’s first track after the jump. Kina & Yuk is directed by Guillaume Maidatchevsky, narrated by Virginie Efira and tells the story of an arctic fox couple who are separated when the male gets trapped on a piece of breakaway ice, leaving his pregnant partner to survive on her own, as hunger and predators close in. Read the rest of this entry »
Ludwig Göransson Wins Critics Choice Award for ‘Oppenheimer’ Score
Posted: January 14, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Critics Choice Awards
Ludwig Göransson was honored with his first Critics Choice Award in the Best Score category for his music for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer at tonight’s 29th Critics Choice Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The other composers nominated in the category were Jerskin Fendrix for Poor Things, Michael Giacchino for Society of the Snow, Daniel Pemberton for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Robbie Robertson for Killers of the Flower Moon and Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt for Barbie. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Craig Before the Creek’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: January 14, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Levin, Cartoon Network, Craig Before the Creek, Jeff Rosenstock, Matt Burnett, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the animated movie Craig Before the Creek. The album features the film’s original score and songs composed by Jeff Rosenstock (Craig of the Creek). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 15 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Craig Before the Creek is directed by Craig of the Creek creators Ben Levin & Matt Burnett and features the voices of Philip Solomon, Noël Wells, Vico Ortiz, H Michael Croner, Byron Marc Newsome, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Phil LaMarr and Lucia Cunningham. The Cartoon Network Studios production tells the origin story of Craig as he sets off on a journey into the Creek to find a lost treasure – while being pursued by a band of pirates who want to destroy the Creek itself. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 14, 2024)
Posted: January 14, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Baranowski, Amazon, AMC, Andrew Underberg, Belgravia: The Next Chapter, Brian Irvine, Brocker Way, Carlos Rafael Rivera, David Holmes, Death and Other Details, Hazbin Hotel, HBO, Hulu, John Lunn, Labrinth, MGM+, Monsieur Spade, Netflix, Paramount+, Sam Haft, Showtime, The Kitchen, The Woman in the Wall, True Detective: Night Country, Vince Pope
Premiering today is the HBO original series True Detective: Night Country written and directed by Issa López and starring Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Isabella Star Lablanc, Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Christopher Eccleston, Aka Niviâna, Joel D. Montgrand, Anna Lambe and John Hawkes. The show’s original music composed by Vince Pope (No Offence, Black Mirror: Be Right Back, Misfits, Resistance,You & Me, Wolfe). Check out our previous article to learn more about the fourth installment of the True Detective anthology series, which will air Sundays on HBO and will also be available to stream on Max.
Also premiering today is the AMC limited series Monsieur Spade created by Scott Frank & Tom Fontana and starring Clive Owen, Cara Bossom, Chiara Mastroianni, Denis Ménochet, Louise Bourgoin, Jonathan Zaccaï, Stanley Weber, Rebecca Root and Matthew Beard. Carlos Rafael Rivera (The Queen’s Gambit, Godless, Lessons in Chemistry, A Walk Among the Tombstone, Hacks, Chupa) has composed the show’s original music. Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score in the coming weeks. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the crime drama, which will air Sunday nights on AMC and will also be available to stream on AMC+. Read the rest of this entry »
John Lunn Scoring MGM+’s ‘Belgravia: The Next Chapter’
Posted: January 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Belgravia, Belgravia: The Next Chapter, John Lunn, MGM+
John Lunn (Downton Abbey, The Last Kingdom, Shetland, The White Queen, The White Princess) is returning to score the new MGM+ original series Belgravia: The Next Chapter. The show is developed by Helen Edmundson (Dalgliesh, Mary Magdalene) based on the original 2020 series created by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and stars Harriet Slater, Benjamin Wainwright, Toby Regbo, Sophie Thompson, Hannah Onslow, Claude Perron, Alice Eve, Sophie Winkleman, Elaine Cassidy and Richard Goulding. The drama picks up in 1871, three decades after the events depicted in the original series (scored by Lunn) and tells the love story of Frederick Trenchard, the third Lord Trenchard, and his new love interest, Clara Dunn, who is a newcomer to London society. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 12, 2024)
Posted: January 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Brett Morris, David Sardy, Dominic Lewis, Driving Madeleine, Guillaume Roussel, Jared Michael Fry, Jeff Richmond, Jeymes Samuel, Lift, Mean Girls, Philippe Rombi, Ram Khatabakhsh, Ryan Kattner, The Beekeeper, The Book of Clarence, The Night They Came Home
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the musical comedy Mean Girls directed by Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr. and starring Angourie Rice, Auli’i Cravalho, Reneé Rapp, Avantika, Jaquel Spivey, Jenna Fischer, Bebe Wood. Christopher Briney, Busy Philipps, Tim Meadows and Tina Fey. The film’s original score is composed by Jeff Richmond (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Baby Mama, Girls5eva). Interscope Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the movie written by Richmond & Nell Benjamin today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures release.
Also opening wide is the biblical comedy drama The Book of Clarence directed by Jeymes Samuel (The Harder They Fall) and starring LaKeith Stanfield, Anna Diop, Omar Sy, David Oyelowo, Micheal Ward, RJ Cyler, Teyana Taylor, James McAvoy, Alfre Woodard, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Benedict Cumberbatch. Jeymes has also composed the film’s original music. Roc Nation Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the movie and Milan Records has released a separate album featuring Samuel’s score today. Click here for the details of the song album and click here for the details of the score album. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Sofia Exarchou’s ‘Animal’ Released
Posted: January 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Animal, score, Sofia Exarchou, Soundtrack, Wolfgang Frisch
Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the drama Animal. The album features the film’s original music composed by Wolfgang Frisch (Silentium, Der Knochenmann, Cops). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Check out the composer’s prologue/opening titles track below. Animal is written and directed by Sofia Exarchou and stars Dimitra Vlagopoulou, Flomaria Papadaki, Ahilleas Hariskos and Voodoo Jürgens. The movie is set in Greece and follows a group of entertainers who spend an increasingly wild summer at an all-inclusive island resort. Read the rest of this entry »
Ramin Djawadi Scoring Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’
Posted: January 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 3 Body Problem, Netflix, Ramin Djawadi
Ramin Djawadi (Westworld, Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Eternals, Uncharted, Clash of the Titans, A Wrinkle in Time) is the composer of the upcoming Netflix original series 3 Body Problem. The show is created by David Benioff (25th Hour, The Kite Runner), D.B. Weiss (The Chair), Alexander Woo (True Blood, The Terror) based on Liu Cixin’s bestselling book trilogy and stars Jess Hong, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jovan Adepo, Benedict Wong, Jonathan Pryce, Alex Sharp, Rosalind Chao and John Bradley. The sci-fi drama follows a a close-knit group of brilliant scientists who join forces with an unorthodox detective to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history.. Read the rest of this entry »
