MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Vault. The album features the film’s original music composed by Shaun Drew (DC Super Hero Girls, Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. The Vault is co-written and directed by Dan Bush and stars James Franco, Taryn Manning, Francesca Eastwood, Q’Orianka Kilcher, Clifton Collins and Scott Haze. The movie follows two estranged sisters who are forced to rob a bank in order to save their brother who burned down a warehouse owned by a notorious gangster. The thriller was released in select theaters and on VOD this past September by FilmRise and is now also available on Blu-ray and DVD. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Vault’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: score, Shaun Drew, Soundtrack, The Vault
Danny Mulhern Scoring ‘What They Had’
Posted: December 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Mulhern, Elizabeth Chomko, What They Had
Danny Mulhern has recently recorded his score for the upcoming drama What They Had. The film is written and directed by Elizabeth Chomko and stars Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Blythe Danner, Robert Forster, Taissa Farmiga and Josh Lucas. The movie follows a woman who returns home to Chicago at her brother’s urging to deal with her mother’s Alzheimer’s and her father’s reluctance to let go of their life together. Keith Kjarval (A Single Shot, Rudderless), Bill Holderman (A Walk in the Woods, The Company You Keep), Albert Berger (Little Miss Sunshine, Cold Mountain), Ron Yerxa (Nebraska, Election, Little Children), Alex Saks & Andrew Duncan (The Florida Project) and Tyler Jackson are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Crooked House’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Crooked House, Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Hugo de Chaire, score, Soundtrack
Filmtrax has released a soundtrack album for the thriller Crooked House. The album features the film’s original music composed by Hugo de Chaire (Capsule). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Crooked House is directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and stars Glenn Close, Terence Stamp, Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Gillian Anderson and Christina Hendricks. The movie is based on Agatha Christie’s novel of the same title and follows a spy-turned-private-detective who is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather’s murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secretd. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for BBC’s ‘Gunpowder’ to Be Released
Posted: December 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Gunpowder, Hauschka, HBO, Volker Bertelmann
Sony Masterworks will release a soundtrack album for the BBC mini-series Gunpowder. The album features the original music from the historical thriller composed by Academy Award nominee Hauschka (aka Volker Bertelmann) (Lion, In Dubious Battle, The Current War, The Boy). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 15. The download link will be added to this article within the next day. Gunpowder is created by Ronan Bennett & Daniel West and stars Kit Harington, Liv Tyler, Peter Mullan, Edward Holcroft, Shaun Dooley, Robert Emms, Derek Riddell and Mark Gatiss. The 3-parter follows British activist Guy Fawkes and a group of provincial English Catholics as they plan to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early 17th century. Read the rest of this entry »
Elliott Wheeler Scoring Michael Sucsy’s ‘Every Day’
Posted: December 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Elliott Wheeler, Every Day, Michael Sucsy
Elliott Wheeler is scoring the upcoming romantic drama Every Day. The film is directed by Michael Sucsy (The Vow, Grey Gardens) and stars Angourie Rice, Maria Bello, Debby Ryan, Jacob Batalon, Justice Smith, Owen Teague, Lucas Jade Zumann and Colin Ford. The movie is based on David Levithan’s bestselling YA novel and revolves around a shy teenage girl who falls in love with an entity named A, who inhabits a new body of another teenage boy each day. Jesse Andrews (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Father Figures’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Father Figures, Lawrence Sher, Rob Simonsen, Soundtrack
Epic Records and Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records will release the official soundtrack album for the comedy Father Figures. The album features the songs from the movie by artists including Zee Will, Neil Diamond, Lord Netty, John Hiatt, Jason Mraz, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Tim Myers & more. Also included is a track from the film’s original score composed by Rob Simonsen (Foxcatcher, (500) Days of Summer, Nerve, The Spectacular Now). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 15 and will be available to download on Amazon. Father Figures is directed by Lawrence Sher and stars Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, J.K. Simmons, Katt Williams, Terry Bradshaw, Ving Rhames, Harry Shearer, June Squibb, Christopher Walken and Glenn Close. Read the rest of this entry »
Adrian Johnston Scoring Johannes Roberts’ ‘The Strangers: Prey at Night’
Posted: December 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adrian Johnston, Johannes Roberts, The Strangers, The Strangers: Prey at Night
Adrian Johnston is composing the music for the upcoming horror thriller The Strangers: Prey at Night. The film is directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, The Other Side of the Door) and stars Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman. The movie is inspired by the 2008 feature The Strangers and follows a family that is staying in a secluded mobile home park for the night and is visited by three masked psychopaths. Bryan Bertino who helmed the original movie & Ben Ketai (The Forest, StartUp) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 14, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Williams, score, Soundtrack, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The full details of the soundtrack album for Star Wars: The Last Jedi have been announced. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Williams (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Jaws, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, E.T.). The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on this Friday, December 15 by Walt Disney Records. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and click here to pre-order the digital version. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is written and directed by Rian Johnson and stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie and Andy Serkis. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: December 13, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, Joseph Trapanese, score, Soundtrack
Amazon Content Services will release a soundtrack album for the new Amazon original series Jean-Claude Van Johnson. The album features selections from the original music from the show’s first season composed by Joseph Trapanese (Straight Outta Compton, Oblivion, The Greatest Showman, Insurgent, Only the Brave). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 15 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Jean-Claude Van Johnson is created by Dave Callaham and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kat Foster, Moises Arias and Phylicia Rashad. The comedy follows a global martial arts and film sensation who is operating under the simple alias of “Johnson,” the most dangerous undercover private contractor in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Steven Price Scoring Claire McCarthy’s ‘Ophelia’
Posted: December 13, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Claire McCarthy, Ophelia, Steven Price
Academy Award-winning composer Steven Price (Gravity, Suicide Squad, Baby Driver, Fury) has recently composed the music for the upcoming drama Ophelia. The film is directed by Claire McCarthy (The Waiting City) and stars Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, George MacKay, Tom Felton and Devon Terrell. The movie based on Lisa Klein’s 2006 book of the same name is a new take on the Hamlet story and and focuses on Ophelia, the daughter of Claudius’ chief advisor who falls for Hamlet. Semi Chellas (Mad Men) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
