Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Julie’s Greenroom. The album features the songs from the show performed by Julie Andrews, Giullian Yao Gioiello, Alec Baldwin, Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, David Hyde Pierce & more. Also included are selections from the series’ original score composed by Grammy Award nominee Ryan Shore (Prime, The Shrine, Harvard Man, Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero). The soundtrack will be released digitally on April 14, 2017 and physically on May 5. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Julie’s Greenroom’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 28, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Julie's Greenroom, Netflix, Ryan Shore, Soundtrack
Antonio Pinto Scoring ‘Amazon Adventure’
Posted: March 28, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon Adventure, Antonio Pinto, Mike Slee
Antonio Pinto has composed the score for the upcoming IMAX/Giant Screen production Amazon Adventure. The movie is directed by Mike Slee and stars Calum Finlay, Bege Muniz, Ed Birch, William Postlewaithe, Robert Daws and Louis Patridge. The film tells the true story of Henry Bates, the son of a sock maker, who risked his life in the perilous Amazon in the 1850’s and discovered the “beautiful proof” for the greatest explanation ever put forward for the development of life on earth. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Becoming Warren Buffett’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 28, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Becoming Warren Buffett, Saul Simon MacWilliams, score, Soundtrack
Drawing Number One has released a soundtrack album for the HBO documentary Becoming Warren Buffett. The album features the film’s original music composed by Saul Simon MacWilliams (Gleason, Jim: The James Foley Story, Chasing Coral). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Becoming Warren Buffett is directed by Peter Kunhardt and chronicles Buffett’s evolution from an ambitious, numbers-obsessed boy from Nebraska into one of the richest, most respected men in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Hauschka Scoring ‘AlphaGo’
Posted: March 28, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: AlphaGo, Greg Kohs, Hauschka, Volker Bertelmann
Hauschka (aka Volker Bertelmann) is composing the original music for the upcoming documentary AlphaGo. The film is directed by Greg Kohs (The Great Alone) and follows Google’s DeepMind team as it takes on one of the world’s top Go (Chinese board game) players in a weeklong tournament, pitting man against machine in a competition that reveals as much about the workings of the human mind as it does the future of AI. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea & Jasha Klebe to Score BBC’s ‘Blue Planet II’
Posted: March 27, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, BBC America, Bleeding Fingers Music, Blue Planet II, Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea, Jasha Klebe
BBC America announced today that Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea and Jasha Klebe are scoring the upcoming BBC docu-series Blue Planet II for Bleeding Fingers Music. The 7-part series is presented and narrated by Sir David Attenborough and will immerse audiences in the world’s oceans, which are still the most expansive but least known parts of our planet. The show is produced by BBC Studios Natural History Unit, BBC America, WDR and France Télévisions in partnership with The Open University. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack for HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’ Announced
Posted: March 27, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Big Little Lies, HBO, Soundtrack
ABKCO Records has announced a soundtrack album for the HBO original series Big Little Lies. The album features songs from the show, including the opening title track Cold Little Heart by Michael Kiwanuka, as well as tracks by Charles Bradley, Alabama Shakes, Leon Bridges, cast member Zoë Kravitz & more. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, March 31. The download link will be added to this article later this week. Big Little Lies is directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, executive produced and written by David E. Kelley and stars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, Alexander Skårsgard, Adam Scott, James Tupper and Jeffrey Nordling. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Django’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: March 27, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Django, Django Reinhardt, score, Soundtrack, Stochelo Rosenberg, Warren Ellis
Impulse! Records will release a soundtrack album for the Django Reinhardt biopic Django. The album features the film’s music by Reinhardt, performed by Rosenberg Trio, as well as the movie’s original music composed by Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Hell or High Water, The Proposition) and Stochelo Rosenberg. The soundtrack will be released overseas on April 7, 2017 and is now available as an import on Amazon. Django is directed by Etienne Comar and stars Reda Kateb, Cécile de France, Beata Palya, Bim Bam Merstein, Gabriel Mirété, Vincent Frade, Johnny Montreuil, Raphaël Dever and Patrick Mille. Read the rest of this entry »
Gustavo Santaolalla Scoring ‘The Tribes of Palos Verdes’
Posted: March 27, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brendan Malloy, Emmett Malloy, Gustavo Santaolalla, The Tribes of Palos Verdes
Gustavo Santaolalla has recently composed the original music for the upcoming coming-of-age drama The Tribes of Palos Verdes. The film is directed by Emmett & Brendan Malloy and stars Maika Monroe, Jennifer Garner, Milo Gibson, Elisabeth Rohm, Goran Visnjic, Justin Kirk, Noah Silver, Joely Fisher and Stevie Lynn Jones. The movie is based on Joy Nicholson’s YA novel and follows two teenagers who move to the beach community of Palos Verdes with their parents as their mother teeters on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 26, 2017)
Posted: March 26, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 13 Reasons Why, ABC, BET, ESKMO, Five Came Back, Harlots, Hulu, Imaginary Mary, Jeremy Turner, John Lunn, Michael Wandmacher, Netflix, PBS, Rael Jones, Raphael Saadiq, Rebel, Shie Rozow, Thomas Newman, To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters
Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British TV movie To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters written and directed by Sally Wainwright and starring Finn Atkins, Chloe Pirrie, Charlie Murphy, Jonathan Pryce and Adam Nagaitis. The film’s original music is composed by John Lunn (Downton Abbey, The Last Kingdom, The White Queen). The drama revolves around the Bronte sisters’ battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language. The movie premiered in the UK this past December and airs in the U.S. as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series. Visit PBS’ official website for more information.
Premiering on Tuesday, March 28, is the BET original series Rebel created by John Singleton & Amani Walker and starring Danielle Moné Truitt, Giancarlo Esposito, Mykelti Williamson, Method Man, and LaTanya Richardson. Raphael Saadiq (Underground, Black Nativity, Underground) is composing the show’s original music and Shie Rozow contributed the music for the first two episodes. The drama about a racially motivated police shooting will air Tuesday nights on BET. Visit the official show website for updates. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Carrie Pilby’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: March 26, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Carrie Pilby, Michael Penn, score, Soundtrack, Susan Johnson
The Orchard will release a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy Carrie Pilby. The album features the songs from the movie by artists including Disclosure & Lorde, Louise Goffin, Moses Jordan, Chauncey Jacks & more. Also included are six tracks from the movie’s original score composed by Michael Penn (Girls, Masters of Sex, Boogie Nights). The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 31, 2017 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Carrie Pilby is directed by Susan Johnson and stars Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne, Vanessa Bayer, Colin O’Donoghue, Jason Ritter and William Moseley. Read the rest of this entry »