WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the animated feature Storks. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Surf’s Up, Capote, The Ice Storm) and Jeff Danna (The Good Dinosaur, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk). Also included is the original song Holdin’ Out by The Lumineers. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 16, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Storks is directed by Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) & Doug Sweetland (Presto) and features the voice talent of Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Katie Crown, Ty Burrell and Jennifer Aniston. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Storks’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 2, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna, score, Soundtrack, Storks
‘Snowden’ Score Album Announced
Posted: September 2, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adam Peters, Oliver Stone, score, Snowden, Soundtrack
Deutsche Grammophon will release a second soundtrack album for Oliver Stone’s biographical drama Snowden. The album features the film’s orchestral score composed by Craig Armstrong (Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet, World Trade Center, The Incredible Hulk). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 16, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. As previously reported, the label will also release a separate soundtrack featuring the film’s music by Armstrong and Adam Peters. Snowden starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage chronicles Edward Snowden’s time in Russia hoping to get asylum while the United States was demanding his extradition. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Night Of’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Jeff Russo, score, Soundtrack, The Night Of
The details of the soundtrack album for the HBO original series The Night Of have been revealed. The album features the show’s original music composed by Jeff Russo (Fargo, Power, Time After Time, CSI: Cyber, American Gothic). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 2 (click here to download the album) and physically within the next couple of weeks. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD. The Night Of created by Richard Price & Steven Zaillian is based on Peter Moffat’s British TV series Criminal Justice and stars John Turturro, Riz Ahmed, Michael Kenneth Williams, Bill Camp and Payman Maadi. The 8-parter follows an ambulance-chasing New York City attorney who gets in over his head when he takes on the case of a Pakistani man accused of murdering a girl on the Upper West Side. Read the rest of this entry »
‘When the Bough Breaks’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Frizzell, score, Soundtrack, When the Bough Breaks
Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the thriller When the Bough Breaks. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Frizzell (Alien: Resurrection, Dante’s Peak, Office Space, The Following, Gods and Generals). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 2 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. When the Bough Breaks is directed by Jon Cassar and stars Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall, Romany Malco, Michael K. Williams, Theo Rossi and Jaz Sinclair. The movie follows a professional couple that is unable to conceive a child and decides to hire a young blue collar woman as a surrogate, before she develops a psychotic fixation on the husband. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans to Score Charlie McDowell’s ‘The Discovery’
Posted: September 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans, The Discovery
Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans are reteaming with director Charlie McDowell on the upcoming sci-fi drama The Discovery. The film stars Rooney Mara, Robert Redford, Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons, Riley Keough and Ron Canada. The movie is set one year after the existence of the afterlife is scientifically verified and follows the scientist responsible for the discovery and a woman haunted by a tragic past who Will falls in love with his son. McDowell has also written the screenplay with Justin Lader. Endgame Entertainment’s James Stern (Looper, I’m Not There) is producing the project with Alex Orlovsky (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 1, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ira Newborn, John Hughes, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has announced the details of the first soundtrack release for the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck and Mia Sara. The album features the film’s original score composed by Ira Newborn (The Naked Gun, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck), as well as the songs from the movie by The Flowerpot Men, Blue Room, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Yello, The Dream Academy and Wayne Newton. Also included as bonus tracks are source cues and alternate score cues. The soundtrack, which is limited to 5000 copies, will be available to pre-order on September 13 on the label’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
Behind the Music of Netflix’s ‘Luke Cage’
Posted: August 31, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Composer InterviewsTags: Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Luke Cage, Marvel, Netflix
Netflix has published a video featurette on the music for Marvel’s upcoming series Luke Cage. The video features interviews with composers Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, executive producer Cheo Hodari Coker, actor Mike Colter, as well as A$AP Ferg and Method Man who talk about how each episode is shaped by its score and musical influence. Luke Cage starring Colter, Mahershala Ali, Alfre Woodard, Simone Missick, Theo Rossi, Frank Whaley and Sônia Braga follows Cage as he becomes a fugitive trying to rebuild his life in modern day Harlem, New York City after a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin. Read the rest of this entry »
Henry Jackman & Matthew Margeson to Return for ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’
Posted: August 31, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Henry Jackman, Kingsman, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Matthew Margeson, Matthew Vaughn
Henry Jackmanand Matthew Margeson are reuniting with director Matthew Vaughn on the upcoming spy action comedy sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle. The film starring Taron Egerton, Julianne Moore, Halle Berry, Mark Strong, Pedro Pascal, Channing Tatum and Jeff Bridges. The movie follows Eggsy, Merlin and Roxy as they head to the United States to join forces with Statesman, their US counterpart, to save the world. Vaughn has also written the screenplay with Jane Goldman and is producing the project with Adam Bohling & David Reid (Layer Cake). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Manhattan Night’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 31, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian DeCubellis, Joel Douek, Manhattan Night, score, Soundtrack
Nocturne Pictures has released a soundtrack album for the dramatic thriller Manhattan Night. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joel Douek (Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie, The Wildest Dream). Also included are the jazz songs featured in the movie by director Brian DeCubellis, as well as the end credits song Click by Cuban Missile Crisis. The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio samples. Manhattan Night starring Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Jennifer Beals, Campbell Scott, Steven Berkoff and Linda Lavin follows a man who as he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail – one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Legends of Tomorrow’ Season 1 Soundtrack Details
Posted: August 30, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Blake Neely, Legends of Tomorrow, score, Soundrack, The CW
La-La Land Records has announced the details of the first soundtrack album for the CW drama Legends of Tomorrow. The album features selections of the original score from the series’ first season composed by Blake Neely who is also scoring the network’s other superhero shows, including The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl. The soundtrack is now available to order on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. Legends of Tomorrow is developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg & Marc Guggenheim based on the DC Comics characters and stars Brandon Routh, Victor Garber, Caity Lotz, Arthur Darvill, Ciara Renée, Franz Drameh, Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller. The drama will return for a second season on October 13, 2016. Read the rest of this entry »
