Sony Classical will release the official soundtrack album for the spy thriller Red Sparrow. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, The Sixth Sense, The Fugitive, Signs, King Kong, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them). The soundtrack is expected to be released on March 2 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon (CD version) and here (digital version). Red Sparrow is directed by Francis Lawrence and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeremy Irons. The movie revolves around a young woman who is drafted against her will to become a “sparrow,” a trained seductress assigned to operate against a first-tour CIA officer who handles the agency’s most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Red Sparrow’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Francis Lawrence, James Newton Howard, Red Sparrow, score, Soundtrack
Performers of Academy Award-Nominated Songs Announced
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Andra Day, Common, Gael Garcia Bernal, Keala Settle, Mary J. Blige, Miguel, Natalie LaFourcade, Sufjan Stevens
The performers of this year’s nominated songs at the 90th Oscars ceremony have been announced today by show producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd. Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalie LaFourcade and Miguel will perform Remember Me from Pixar’s Coco written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez. Bernal provided the voice of the main character in the film and Miguel & LaFourcade recorded the end credits version of the song. Mary J. Blige will perform Might River from Dee Rees’ Mudbound, which she co-wrote with Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Insult’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Eric Neveux, score, Soundtrack, The Insult
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the Lebanese drama The Insult. The album features the film’s original music composed by Eric Neveux (Intimacy, The Attack, Zombillenium, Cezanne et moi). The soundtrack is now available digitally overseas and will be released in the U.S. on March 2, 2018. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album. The Insult is co-written and directed by Ziad Douei and stars Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Rita Hayek, Christine Choueiri, Camille Salameh, and Diamand Bou Abboud. The movie is set in today’s Beirut and revolves around an insult blown out of proportion, which finds a Lebanese Christian a Palestinian refugee in court. Read the rest of this entry »
Bobby Krlic Scoring Netflix’s ‘Seven Seconds’
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bobby Krlic, Netflix, Seven Seconds
Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) has composed the music for the first season of the new Netflix original series Seven Seconds. The show is created by Veena Sud (The Killing, Cold Case) based on the 2013 Russian movie The Major and stars Clare-Hope Ashitey, Regina King, Beau Knapp, Russell Hornsby, Michael Mosely, David Lyons, Raul Castillo and Zackary Momoh. The drama revolves around the death of a 15-year-old African American boy in Jersey City that sets off a police cover-up and a search for the truth. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Beast of Burden’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 22, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Beast of Burden, Jesper Ganslandt, score, Soundtrack, Tim Jones
Filmtrax will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Beast of Burden. The album features the film’s original music composed by Tim Jones (Chuck, Human Target, Cult, Bobby Z). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 23 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Beast of Burden is directed by Jesper Ganslandt and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Pablo Schreiber, Grace Gummer and Robert Wisdom. The movie centers on a pilot who runs drugs across the border and is faced with the burden of choosing between his allegiance to the Cartel, his deal with the Drug Enforcement Administration and saving his increasingly tense relationship with his wife. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nashville’ Season 6 – Volume 1 Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 22, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: CMT, Nashville, Soundtrack
Big Machine Records has released a new soundtrack album for the CMT original series Nashville. The album features the songs from the first half of the show’s sixth season performed by cast members including Hayden Panettiere, Charles Esten, Clare Bowen, Sam Palladio, Maisy Stella, Chris Carmack, Rainee Blake and Rhiannon Giddens. The Season 6 – Volume 1 soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. A CD version is set to come out on March 16 and is available for pre-order here. The label has previously released multiple soundtracks for the previous five seasons. Read the rest of this entry »
Jon Brion to Score Todd Strauss-Schulson’s ‘Isn’t It Romantic?’
Posted: February 22, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Isn't It Romantic?, Jon Brion, Todd Strauss-Schulson
Jon Brion has signed on to score the upcoming romantic comedy Isn’t It Romantic?. The film is directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, The Final Girls) and stars Rebel Wilson, Adam Devine, Liam Hemsworth, Priyanka Chopra and Betty Gilpin. The movie tells the story of a cynical woman who discovers that her life has become a romantic comedy, and she goes from sidekick to center stage. Erin Cardillo (Life Sentence), Dana Fox (Couple Retreat, How to Be Single) & Katie Silberman and Paula Pell (Sisters) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Cured’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 22, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Freyne, Niall Kennedy, Rory Friers, score, Soundtrack, The Cured
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Cured. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rory Friers & Niall Kennedy of the Irish rock band And So I Watch You From Afar. The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 2, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Cured is written and directed by David Freyne and stars Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Paula Malcomson. The movie is set in a future where zombies try to reintegrate with society after a plague infects mankind. The thriller premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and is being released in select theaters and on VOD this weekend by IFC Films. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Trolls: The Beat Goes On!’ to Be Released
Posted: February 22, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alana Da Fonseca, Netflix, Soundtrack, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!
RCA Records will release a soundtrack album for DreamWorks Animation’s Netflix series Trolls: The Beat Goes On!. The album features the main titles song Hair in the Air performed by Amanda Leighton & Skylar Astin and written by Jeannie Lurie, Mia Minichiello & Matias Mora. Also included are the other original songs from the show’s first two seasons written by Alana Da Fonseca and performed by the series’ voice cast. The soundtrack will be released physically on March 23, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A digital EP featuring six songs is already available to download here. Trolls: The Beat Goes On! is developed by Matthew Ireland Beans and features the voices of Leighton & Astin, as well as Ron Funches, David Fynn, David Koechner, Sean T. Krishnan and Sam Lerner. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 21, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Wrinkle in Time, Ava DuVernay, Ramin Djawadi, score, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for Disney’s fantasy drama A Wrinkle in Time have been announced. The album features the film’s original score composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Westworld, Pacific Rim, Iron Man) who recorded his music in Los Angeles with a 71-piece orchestra and a 29-person choir, as well as a 24-member children’s choir. Also included is the end-credit song I Believe performed by DJ Khaled feat. Demi Lovato and written by Khaled, Lovato, Denisia “Blu June” Andrews & Brittany “Chi” Coney. Also featured are two versions of Flower of the Universe performed by Sade and co-written by the singer/songwriter, Ben Travers & Andrew Hale, as well as Sia’s original song Magic, which she co-wrote with Jesse Shatkin, Kehlani’s Let Me Live and Warrior written and performed by sisters Chloe x Halle. Read the rest of this entry »
