Air-Edel Records has released a soundtrack album for the Polish drama Spoor. The album features the film’s original music composed by Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz (In Darkness, Rosemary’s Baby mini-series). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Spoor is directed by Agnieszka Holland (The Secret Garden, Washington Square, Europa Europa) and stars Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Miroslav Krobot, Jakub Giersal, Patricia Volny and Borys Szyc. The movie follows an elderly woman who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed and is convinced she knows who the murderer is, but nobody believes her story. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spoor’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Agnieszka Holland, Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz, score, Soundtrack, Spoor
George Kallis to Score ‘Cliffs of Freedom’
Posted: June 8, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cliffs of Freedom, George Kallis, The Last Knight, Van Ling
George Kallis has been hired to score the upcoming historical drama Cliffs of Freedom. The film marks the feature directorial debut of visual effects artist Van Ling and stars Christopher Plummer, Tania Raymonde, Patti LuPone, Kevin Corrigan, Jan Uddin, Billy Zane and Raza Jeffrey. The movie centers on the ill-fated romance between a Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. Ling also wrote the screenplay based on a story by Marianne Metropoulos who is producing the project with Casey Cannon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Shimmer Lake’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: June 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joseph Trapanese, Oren Uziel, score, Shimmer Lake, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original movie Shimmer Lake. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joseph Trapanese (Oblivion, Insurgent, Allegiant, Straight Outta Compton, Quantico). The soundtrack will be released digitally on Friday, June 23. Check back on this page for the download link. Shimmer Lake is written and directed by Oren Uziel and stars Benjamin Walker, Rainn Wilson, Rob Corddry, John Michael Higgins, Wyatt Russell, Ron Livingston, and Adam Pally. The crime thriller is told in reverse time and centers around a local sheriff hunting three bank robbery suspects, one of whom is his brother. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Maudie’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aisling Walsh, Maudie, Michael Timmins, score, Soundtrack
Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album for the indie drama Maudie. The album features the film’s original music composed by Cowboy Junkies member Michael Timmins (Wilby Wonderful, Niagara, Niagara). Also included is Cowboy Junkies’ Something More Besides You, as well as songs by Lisa Hannigan and Mary Margaret O’Hara. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Maudie is directed by Aisling Walsh and stars Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Zachary Bennett, Gabrielle Rose, Lawrence Barry, Greg Malone, Billy MacLellan, Kari Matchett, Marthe Bernard and David Feehan. The movie charts the unlikely romance between Maud Lewis, a folk artist who blossoms in later life, and the curmudgeonly recluse, Everett. Read the rest of this entry »
Johann Johannsson to Score Panos Cosmatos’ ‘Mandy’
Posted: June 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Johann Johannsson, Mandy, Panos Cosmatos
Johann Johannsson is attached to score the upcoming action thriller Mandy. The film will be directed by Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow) and is set to star Nicolas Cage. The movie is set in the primal wilderness of 1983 where a broken and haunted man hunts an unhinged religious sect who slaughtered the love of his life. Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller (Cooties, Camino) & Elijah Wood are producing the project for Spectrevision, alongside Nate Bolotin (The Raid 2) for XYZ Films and Adrian Politowski (Erased) for Umedia. The composer has previously scored 2013’s McCanick produced by Noah & Waller. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Amant Double’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: June 7, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amant Double, Francois Ozon, L'amant double, Philippe Rombi, score, Soundtrack
A soundtrack album will be released for Francois Ozon’s thriller Amant Double (L’amant double). The album features the film’s original music composed by Philippe Rombi who previously collaborated with the director on numerous projects including Swimming Pool, Frantz, In the House, Potiche, Young & Beautiful and Angel. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 16, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Amant Double is written and directed by Ozon and stars Jérémie Renier, Marine Vacth and Jacqueline Bisset. The movie follows a fragile young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing part of his identity. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Andrews Scoring Netflix’s ‘Friends from College’
Posted: June 6, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Friends from College, Michael Andrews, Netflix, Nicholas Stoller
Michael Andrews is composing the score for the upcoming Netflix originals series Friends from College. The show is created by Nick Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) & Francesca Delbanco and stars Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Annie Parisse, Nat Faxon, Fred Savage and Jae Suh Park. The comedy centers on a group of friends who went to Harvard together and are now facing down their forties and experiencing a range of success, or lack thereof, both professionally and domestically. Stoller directed all episodes of the show’s first season and is also executive producing the project with Delbanco. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie’ Score Album Details
Posted: June 6, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Captain Underpants, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, score, Soundtrack, Theodore Shapiro
Back Lot Music will release a score album for the DreamWorks Animation’s Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie. The album features the film’s original score composed by Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada, Ghostbusters, Tropic Thunder, Spy, Marley & Me). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 9 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. As previously reported, Virgin Records has already released a soundtrack featuring three tracks from the composer’s score, as well as the songs from the movie, several of which were co-written, arranged and produced by Shapiro. Captain Underpants is directed by David Soren and features the voices of Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Nick Kroll, Thomas Middleditch, Jordan Peele and Kristen Schaal. Read the rest of this entry »
Dominic Lewis to Score ‘DuckTales’ Reboot
Posted: June 6, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney XD, Dominic Lewis, DuckTales
Dominic Lewis has been tapped to score Disney’s upcoming animated series DuckTales. The show is developed by Marc Youngberg based on the classic 80s cartoon and features the voice talent of David Tennant, Bobby Moynihan, Ben Schwartz, Danny Pudi, Kate Micucci, Toks Olagundoye, Beck Bennett, Tony Anselmo and Lin-Manuel Miranda. The series follows the adventures of millionaire Scrooge McDuck and his nephews, as they travel around the world in search of treasure and wealth. Youngberg is also executive producing the project. Ron Jones has scored all episodes of the original TV series, which premiered in 1987. Read the rest of this entry »
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