The details of the score album for the film adaptation of the stage musical The Color Purple have been revealed. The album features the film’s Academy Award-shortlisted original score composed by Kris Bowers (Bridgerton, King Richard, Green Book, Haunted Mansion, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Secret Invasion, When They See Us, Dear White People). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 25 by WaterTower Music and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. WaterTower Music and gamma. have previously released a separate album featuring the songs from the movie (in two different versions) earlier this month. The Color Purple is directed by Blitz Bazawule and stars Taraji P. Henson, Fantasia, Colman Domingo, Danielle Brooks, Corey Hawkins, H.E.R., Ciara, Aunjanue Ellis, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, Halle Bailey, Elizabeth Marvel, Jon Batiste and Louis Gossett Jr. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Color Purple’ Score Album Details
Posted: December 24, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Blitz Bazawule, Kris Bowers, score, Soundtrack, The Color Purple
‘The Heist Before Christmas’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 23, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Edward Hall, Samuel Bohn, score, Sky, Soundtrack, The Heist Before Christmas
Sky Music has released a soundtrack album for the holiday comedy The Heist Before Christmas. The album features the film’s original score composed by Samuel Bohn (The Hippopotamus, The Cleaner, Don’t Let Him In). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the composer’s first track (Into the Magical Forest) after the jump. The Heist Before Christmas is directed by Edward Hall and stars Timothy Spall, James Nesbitt, Laura Donnelly, Bronagh Waugh, Bamber Todd and Joshua McLees. The movie follows a 12-year-old Christmas-hating boy who finds two Santa Clauses in the woods, including one who has just robbed a bank and is on the run and the other one who appears to have fallen out of his sleigh. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ferrari’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 23, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Daniel Pemberton, Ferrari, Michael Mann, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for Michael Mann’s biographical drama Ferrari. The album features the film’s original score composed by Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into & Across the Spider-Verse, Steve Jobs, Enola Holmes, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Ocean’s 8, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword). The soundtrack will be released digitally on Christmas Day, December 25. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album and click here to check out the project’s music team credits. Ferrari is directed by Mann, written by Troy Kennedy Martin and stars Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gordon, Jack O’Connell and Patrick Dempsey. The movie is set in the summer of 1957 and tells the story of ex-race car driver Enzo Ferrari as he is facing bankruptcy and embarks on the Mille Miglia, 1,000 miles across Italy. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 22, 2023)
Posted: December 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: All of Us Strangers, Anyone But You, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Christopher Stracey, Coby Brown, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Este Haim, Freud's Last Session, John Powell, Michael Giacchino, Migration, Richard Reed Parry, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Society of the Snow, The Iron Claw
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the superhero movie Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom directed by James Wan and starring Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Randall Park, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Nicole Kidman. . The film’s original music is composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams (Hacksaw Ridge, Wonder Woman, The Gilded Age, Abominable, The Legend of Tarzan, Click). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score and an original song by X Ambassadors today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Also opening wide is the animated feature Migration directed by Benjamin Renner and starring Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Keegan-Michael Key, Awkafina and Danny DeVito. John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Shrek, United 93, Rio, Happy Feet) has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as cover of Destiny’s Child’s Survivor performed by Mon Laferte last week. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the Illumination Entertainment production, which is being released by Universal Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
FX’s ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’ to Feature Theme by Thomas Newman and Score by Julia Newman
Posted: December 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Feud, FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans, FX, Hulu, Julia Newman, Thomas Newman
Variety has confirmed that Thomas Newman (American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo, Skyfall, 1917) has composed the theme for upcoming FX limited series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. It has previously been revealed that the Academy Award-nominated composer’s daughter Julia Newman is scoring the show written by Jon Robin Baitz (Brothers & Sisters, Stonewall) based on the book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer and starring Tom Hollander (as Truman Capote), Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Treat Williams, Joe Mantello and Russell Tovey. Read the rest of this entry »
Megan Thee Stallion’s Song from Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth’ Season 7 Released
Posted: December 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Big Mouth, Mark Rivers, Megan Thee Stallion, Netflix
Netflix Music has released the original song P*ssy Don’t Lie from the seventh season of the streamer’s original animated series Big Mouth. The track is co-written (with the show’s composer Mark Rivers) and performed by Megan Thee Stallion and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. The label has previously released the Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Esperando Pelitos and Sofia Ashraf’s Badi Baddy from the animated comedy’s latest season over the last couple of months and a full soundtrack album featuring music from Seasons 1-6 last year. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Robot Dreams’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alfonso de Vilallonga, Pablo Berger, Robot Dreams, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Spanish/French animated feature Robot Dreams. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alfonso de Vilallonga (Transsiberian, Blancanieves, The Bookshop, Abracadabra, It Snows in Benidorm). The soundtrack is already available to stream/download overseas and will be released in the U.S. next year (visit Amazon to stream/download the album). Robot Dreams is written and directed by Pablo Berger based on the graphic novel by Sara Varon and tells the story of the friendship between a lonely dog and a robot who become separated during an ill-fated day-trip to Long Island in an imaginary 1980s New York populated by animals Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘The Gift’ (‘Atiye’) Released
Posted: December 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Atiye, Netflix, score, Sertaç Özgümüş, Soundtrack, The Gift
Netflix Music has released the first soundtrack album for the Turkish Netflix original series The Gift (Atiye). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Sertaç Özgümüş (Persona, Hot Skull, Last Call for Istanbul, Mahkum). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. The Gift is written by Jason George & Nuran Evren Şit based on a novel by Şengül Boybaş and stars Beren Saat, Mehmet Günsür, Metin Akdülger, Başak Köklükaya, Melisa Şenolsun and Civan Canova. The mystery thriller centers on a painter in Istanbul who embarks on a personal journey as she unearths universal secrets about an Anatolian archaeological site and its link to her past. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Winter King’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ITVX, MGM+, Rob Lane, score, Soundtrack, The Winter King
Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album for the MGM+/ITVX original series The Winter King. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Rob Lane (John Adams, A Discovery of Witches, Merlin, The Damned United, Atlantis, Beowulf) and performed by the Chamber Orchestra of London. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Check out the composer’s first track (Battlefield Defeat (Arthur’s Theme) after the jump. The Winter King is developed by Kate Brooke & Ed Whitmore based on the Warlord Chronicles trilogy of novels by Bernard Cornwell and stars Iain De Caestecker, Eddie Marsan, Stuart Campbell, Ellie James, Nathaniel Martello-White, Jordan Alexandra, Daniel Ings, Valene Kane and Simon Merrells. Read the rest of this entry »
Nominations for 5th Annual SCL Awards Announced
Posted: December 21, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: SCL Awards
The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) has announced the nominees for the 45h Annual SCL Awards, which will take place on February 13, 2024 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The final round of voting will commence on January 8.
Here are the nominees:
Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film:
Joe Hisaishi – The Boy and the Heron
Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
Laura Karpman – American Fiction Read the rest of this entry »
