The details of the soundtrack album for Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have been revealed. The album features the songs from the movie by artists including Fleetwood Mac, Glen Campbell, George Harrison, Electric Light Orchestra, Sam Cooke, Yusuf & Cat Stevens, Looking Glass & more. Also included is the original song Guardians Inferno performed by The Sneepers feat. David Hasselhoff, which was written by the movie’s composer Tyler Bates and director James Gunn, as well as Sweet’s Fox on the Run as featured in the sci-fi adventure’s trailer. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on April 21, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A separate soundtrack featuring Bates’ original score will be announced soon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 19, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, James Gunn, Marvel, Soundtrack
‘The Witness for the Prosecution’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 19, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Acorn TV, BBC, Paul Englishby, score, Soundtrack, The Witness for the Prosecution
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the BBC mini-series The Witness for the Prosecution. The album features the film’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominee Paul Englishby (An Education, Page Eight, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Luther, The Musketeers) who received an Ivor Novello nomination in the Best Television Soundtrack category this year for his work on the project. The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 28, 2017. The download link will be added to this article within the next week. The Witness for the Prosecution based on the classic Agatha Christie book of the same title is directed by Julian Jarrod and stars Toby Jones, Andrea Riseborough, Kim Cattrall, Monica Dolan, Billy Howle and David Haig. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff & Mychael Danna to Score ‘Alias Grace’
Posted: April 18, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alias Grace, CBC, Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna, Netflix, Sarah Polley
Jeff and Mychael Danna have been hired to score the upcoming CBC and Netflix mini-series Alias Grace. The show is created Sarah Polley (Away From Her, Take This Waltz) and stars Sarah Gadon, Anna Paquin, Zachary Levi, Paul Gross, Edward Holcroft, Kerr Logan, Rebecca Liddiard and David Cronenberg. The 6-parter centers on Grace Marks, a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott, was convicted of the brutal murders of their employer in 1843. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bang! The Bert Berns Story’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 18, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bang! The Bert Berns Story, Bert Berns, Soundtrack
Legacy Recordings will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Bang! The Bert Berns Story. The album features the songs from the movie by artists including Van Morrison, Erma Franklin, The Isley Brothers, The Strangeloves, The Pussycats, Freddie Scott & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 21, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Bang! The Bert Berns Story is directed by Brett Berns & Bob Sarles and centers on the life and career of Bert Berns, the 1960s songwriter, record producer, label co-owner and enigma who along with Van Morrison found Neil Diamond and Jimmy Page and wrote songs including Twist And Shout, Hang On Sloopy and Janis Joplin’s Piece Of My Heart. Read the rest of this entry »
Laurent Perez Del Mar to Score ‘I Kill Giants’
Posted: April 18, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anders Walter, I Kill Giants, Laurent Perez Del Mar
Laurent Perez Del Mar is set to compose the music for the upcoming dramatic thriller I Kill Giants. The movie is directed by Anders Walter and stars Zoe Saldana, Madison Wolfe, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Ehle and Noel Clarke. The film is based on the 2008 graphic novel of the same title by Joe Kelly and tells the story of a young misfit girl named Barbara battling both real and imaginary monsters in her life. Kelly also wrote the screenplay. Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire) is producing the project through his 1492 Pictures/Ocean Blue Entertainment company, alongside with Kim Magnusson, Kyle Franke and Adrian Politowski. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The X-Files’ – The Event Series Soundtrack Details
Posted: April 18, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Fox, Mark Snow, score, Soundtrack, The X-Files
La-La Land Records has announced a soundtrack album for last year’s tenth season of The X-Files. The album features the music from the Fox event series composed by Emmy Award winner Mark Snow (Smallville, Millennium) who scored all episodes of the show. The 2-CD set will be released next Tuesday, April 25 and will be available to order on the label’s official website. The X-Files is created by Chris Carter and stars David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi. The revival mini-series, which also featured such guest stars as Joel McHale, Robbie Amell and Lauren Ambrose, premiered last year on Fox and is now available on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD. Read the rest of this entry »
W.G. Snuffy Walden to Score ABC’s ‘Ten Days in the Valley’
Posted: April 17, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Ten Days in the Valley, W.G. Snuffy Walden
W.G. Snuffy Walden has signed on to score the upcoming ABC drama Ten Days in the Valley. The show is created by Tassie Cameron (Rookie Blue) and stars Kyra Sedgwick, Felix Solis, Erika Christensen, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Kick Gurry, Ella Thomas and Emily Kinney. The drama follows an overworked television producer and single mother in the middle of a separation, whose life is turned upside down when her young daughter goes missing in the middle of the night. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo to Score Starz’s ‘Counterpart’
Posted: April 17, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Counterpart, Jeff Russo, Starz
Jeff Russo has been tapped to score the upcoming Starz original series Counterpart. The show is created by Justin Marks (The Jungle Book) and stars J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams, Harry Lloyd, Stephen Rea, Richard Schiff and Sarah Bolger. The spy thriller follows a lowly cog in a bureaucratic agency, who discovers that the agency he works for is really guarding a crossing into a parallel dimension. Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game, Passengers) is directing the first two episodes and is also executive producing the MRC (Media Rights Capital), Gilbert Films and Anonymous Content production with Marks, Amy Berg (Da Vinci’s Demons), Gary Gilbert & Jordan Horowitz (La La Land, The Kids Are All Right), Keith Redmon (The Revenant, Berlin Station) and Bard Dorros (Triple 9). Read the rest of this entry »
HBO’s ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ to Feature Music by Branford Marsalis
Posted: April 17, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Branford Marsalis, George C. Wolfe, HBO, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Branford Marsalis has recently composed the original score for the new HBO original movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The film is directed by George C. Wolfe (Nights in Rodanthe, Lackawanna Blues) and stars Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Rocky Carroll, Courtney B. Vance, Reg E. Cathey, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Leslie Uggams. The movie is based on the book by Rebecca Skloot and tells the story of an African-American woman who becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s. Read the rest of this entry »
Lesley Barber Scoring Rebecca Addelman’s ‘Paper Year’
Posted: April 16, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lesley Barber, Paper Year, Rebecca Addelman
Lesley Barber is composing the music for the upcoming romantic drama Paper Year. The movie marks the directorial debut of writer Rebecca Addelman (New Girl, Love) and stars Eve Hewson, Avan Jogia, Andie MacDowell and Hamish Linklater. The movie centers on a newly married couple who encounter obstacles that reveal cracks in their relationship forcing them to question whether they made a fully formed decision. Addelman also wrote the screenplay. Christina Piovesan (Regression, Amreeka, The Whistleblower) is producing the project for First Generation Films, alongside Jennifer Shin. Read the rest of this entry »
