Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the drama Return to Montauk. The album features the film’s original music composed by Max Richter (The Leftovers, Waltz with Bashir, Taboo, Miss Sloane, Disconnect). Also included are pieces by Thomas Bartlett, The Cian Boylan Trio, Kila, Bronagh Gallagher and The Eder Quartet. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Three full tracks are embedded after the jump. Return to Montauk is directed by Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum) and stars Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss, Susanne Wolff, Niels Arestrup, Isi Laborde, Bronagh Gallagher, Mathias Sanders and Malcolm Adams. The movie centers on an author, now in his early 60s, who is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Return to Montauk’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 16, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Max Richter, Return to Montauk, score, Soundtrack, Volker Schlöndorff
Isabella ‘Machine’ Summers’ ‘Was It Love?’ from ‘Riviera’ to Be Released
Posted: June 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Isabella 'Machine' Summers, Lena, Neil Jordan, Riviera, Sky Atlantic
Island Records will release the original song Was It Love? from the new Sky Atlantic mini-series Riviera. The track is performed by Florence + the Machine’s Isabella Summers featuring Lena. The song will be released as a digital single tomorrow, June 16 and will be available to download on Amazon. Riviera is created by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire) and stars Julia Stiles, Lena Olin, Iwan Rheon, Adrian Lester, Anthony LaPaglia, Phil Davis, Dimitri Leonidas, Roxane Duran, Amr Waked and Igal Naor. The show is set on France’s Cote d’Azur and centers on a young, recently married woman whose blissful life is torn apart when her billionaire husband is murdered in a yacht explosion. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wakefield’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: June 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aaron Zigman, Robin Swicord, score, Soundtrack, Wakefield
Decca Gold will release a soundtrack album for the drama Wakefield. The album features the film’s original music composed by Aaron Zigman (The Notebook, John Q, The Proposal, Bridge to Terabithia, The Shack). Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is featured as a soloist on the composer’s score. Also included are two classical pieces by Schubert and Chopin performed by Thibaudet. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 16 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Wakefield is written and directed by Robin Swicord and stars Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner, Jason O’Mara, Beverly D’Angelo, Ian Anthony Dale, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Isaac Leyva. The movie follows a Manhattan lawyer who unexpectedly leaves his wife and winds up staying in his attic for several months due to a nervous breakdown. Read the rest of this entry »
Craig Wedren to Score David Wain’s ‘A Futile & Stupid Gesture’
Posted: June 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Futile & Stupid Gesture, Craig Wedren, David Wain, Netflix
Craig Wedren is reteaming with director David Wain on the upcoming Netflix original movie A Futile & Stupid Gesture. The film stars Will Forte as National Lampoon co-founder Douglas Kenney, alongside Domhnall Gleeson, Joel McHale, Emmy Rossum, Matt Walsh, Martin Mull, Thomas Lennon, Matt Lucas, Seth Green, Jackie Tohn, Natasha Lyonne, Elvy Yost, John Gemberling, Rick Glassman, Camille Guaty and Jon Daly. The biopic is based on Josh Karp’s 2006 book of the same title and centers on the life and career of Kenney. Michael Colton and John Aboud (Penguins of Madagascar, The Comebacks) wrote the screenplay. Peter Principato (Central Intelligence, Keanu) and Jonathan Stern (Childrens Hospital) are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Christophe Beck’s ‘Lou’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: June 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christophe Beck, Lou, Pixar, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records will release the soundtrack for the new Pixar Animation Studios short Lou. The release features the film’s original music composed by Christophe Beck (Frozen, Paperman, The Peanuts Movie, Trolls, Ant-Man, Edge of Tomorrow, The Hangover). The soundtrack will be released as a digital single tomorrow, June 16 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. Lou marks the directorial debut of animator Dave Mullins (Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles) who also wrote the screenplay and revolves around a red hooded monster named Lou, who lives in the “Lost & Found” box, and tries to stop a bully named J.J. from destroying his classmates’ beloved toys. Read the rest of this entry »
Junkie XL to Score ‘Tomb Raider’ Reboot
Posted: June 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Junkie XL, Roar Uthaug, Tom Holkenborg, Tomb Raider
Junkie XL aka Tom Holkenborg is set to score the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot. The film is directed by Roar Uthaug (The Wave) and stars Alicia Vikander in the title role, alongside Dominic West, Daniel Wu, Hannah John-Kamen and Walton Goggins. The movie based on the video game franchise follows Lara Croft as she must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. Geneva Robertson-Dworet wrote the screenplay and Graham King (The Departed, The Aviator, Blood Diamond, The Town) is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Elfman to Score ‘Justice League’
Posted: June 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Elfman, Joss Whedon, Justice League, Zack Snyder
Danny Elfman has taken over scoring duties on the upcoming superhero movie Justice League. Junkie XL aka Tom Holkenborg who co-scored Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice for the DC movie universe was originally scoring the film before director Zack Snyder left the project. Joss Whedon is overseeing additional photography is beginning this week in London. Elfman has previously collaborated with Whedon on Avengers: Age of Ultron. Justice League starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher and Jason Momoa will be released in theaters nationwide on November 17 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
T Bone Burnett to Produce ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Soundtrack
Posted: June 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Michael Schwartz, T Bone Burnett, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Tyler Nilson
Armory Films announced today that T Bone Burnett will be producing the soundtrack for the upcoming drama The Peanut Butter Falcon. The film is written and directed by Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz (The Moped Diaries) and stars Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zachary Gottsagen and Bruce Dern. The movie follows a down on his luck crab fisherman as he embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wresting school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived most of his life. Burnett is also producing the movie with Tim Zajaros & Christopher Lemole, Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa (Little Miss Sunshine, Nebraska), Lije Sarki and David Thies. Read the rest of this entry »
Steven Price Scoring Michael Cuesta’s ‘American Assassin’
Posted: June 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: American Assassin, Michael Cuesta, Steven Price
Steven Price has been tapped to score the upcoming action thriller American Assassin. The film is directed by Michael Cuesta (Kill the Messenger) and stars Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Shiva Negar, Taylor Kitsch and Scott Adkins. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Vince Flynn and follows Mitch Rapp, a CIA black ops recruit and Cold War veteran Stan Hurley who are enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets. Stephen Schiff (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), Michael Finch (Predators) and Edward Zwick (Glory, Legends of the Fall) & Marshall Herskovitz (The Last Samurai) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dodgeball’ Reunion Charity Video Features Music by Theodore Shapiro
Posted: June 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dodgeball, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Theodore Shapiro
Theodore Shapiro has composed the original music for a charity video, which features Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Justin Long and Christine Taylor reprising their roles from the 2004 comedy hit Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, which the composer also scored. The short, which co-stars Missi Pyle, Jamal Duff and Brandon Molale is directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re the Millers, Central Intelligence) who helmed the original feature and promotes a charity dodgeball event. Donations benefit The Stiller Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports children around the world by providing educational opportunities to help them realize their full potential. Click here for more information and watch the video after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
