Quartet Records has announced a soundtrack release for the documentary Spain in a Day. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Kite Runner, Volver, The Constant Gardener, The Skin I Live In). The soundtrack will be released on September 26, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Quartet’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. Spain in a Day directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive, Elegy, The Secret Life of Words) is based on Ridley Scott’s Life in a Day and is collective project using social media that sees everyday Spaniards contribute short clips from their lives all shot on the same day, October 24, 2015. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spain in a Day’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 13, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alberto Iglesias, Isabel Coixet, score, Soundtrack, Spain in a Day
‘Cezanne and I’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 13, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cezanne and I, Cezanne et moi, Eric Neveux, score, Soundtrack
Quartet Records will release a soundtrack album for the French drama Cezanne and I (Cezanne et moi). The album features the film’s original music composed by Eric Neveux (Intimacy, Hideaways, Borgia, The Attack, Nicholas on Holiday). The soundtrack is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio clips. Cezanne and I is directed by Danièle Thompson and stars Guillaume Canet and Guillaume Gallienne as painter Paul Cezanne and novelist Emile Zola. The movie chronicles the decade-long friendship between the friends and traces the parallel paths of their lives and careers from Aix-en-Provence to Paris. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Queen of Katwe’ Deluxe Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Heffes, Mira Nair, Queen of Katwe, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records will release a second soundtrack album for the drama Queen of Katwe. The album features the content of the original soundtrack album, as well as seventeen additional tracks from film’s original score composed by Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Roots, 11.22.63). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 23, 2016 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Queen of Katwe directed by Mira Nair and starring David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o and Madina Nalwanga will be released nationwide on September 23 by Walt Disney Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Monster Calls’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Monster Calls, Fernando Velazquez, J.A. Bayona, Keane, score, Soundtrack
Back Lot Music and Quartet Records will release the official soundtrack album for the fantasy drama A Monster Calls. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Fernando Velazquez (The Impossible, Crimson Peak, The Orphanage, Mama, Hercules, Devil). Also included is the original song Tear Up This Town by Keane. The soundtrack will be released overseas on September 26, 2016 by Quartet Records. Back Lot Music will release the album in the U.S. on December 9. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and click here to listen to audio samples. A Monster Calls is directed by J.A. Bayona and stars Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Liam Neeson and Sigourney Weaver. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundrack for Xavier Dolan’s ‘It’s Only the End of the World’ to Be Released
Posted: September 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gabriel Yared, It's Only the End of the World, score, Soundtrack, Xavier Dolan
Quartet Records will release a soundtrack album for Xavier Dolan’s drama It’s Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1408, Cold Mountain) who previously scored the director’s previous film Tom at the Farm. Also included are the songs featured in the movie by Camille, Blink-182, Grimes, Exotica and Moby. The physical version will be released later this week and is now available for pre-order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples. A digital version will be released later this year and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It’s Only the End of the World is written and directed by Dolan and stars Marion Cotillard, Lea Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye and Gaspard Ulliel. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Denial’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: September 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Denial, Howard Shore, Mick Jackson, score, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack release for the upcoming drama Denial have been released. The album features the film’s original music written by Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Aviator, The Silence of the Lambs, Hugo, The Hobbit). The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on September 30, 2016 by Howe Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Denial is directed by Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard) and stars Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson and Timothy Spall. The movie is based on the book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier and recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s legal battle for historical truth against David Irving who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mountain Cry’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 12, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mountain Cry, Nicolas Errèra, score, Soundtrack
Enka has released a soundtrack album for the Chinese drama Mountain Cry. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nicolas Errera (Shaolin, The Butterfly, The White Storm). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Mountain Cry is written and directed by Larry Yang and stars Lang Yueting, Wang Ziyi, Cheng Taishen, Yu Ailei, Guo Jin, Xu Caigen, Zhao Chendong and Li Siying. The movie based on the novel by Ge Shuiping is set in 1980s post-Cultural Revolution era China and revolves around a man who is obliged to look after a mute woman after her husband’s violent death. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film TV Music Roundup (September 11, 2016)
Posted: September 11, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adrian Johnston, Amazon, ARQ, Better Things, Bryce Mitchell, Churchill's Secret, Fleabag, Fox, FX, Isobel Waller-Bridge, James T. Sale, Jay Gruska, Keegan Jessamy, Leo Birenberg, Lifetime, Netflix, PBS, Sister Cities, Son of Zorn
Premiering tonight is the new Fox comedy Son of Zorn created by Reed Agnew & Eli Jorne and starring Johnny Pemberton, Cheryl Hines, Tim Meadows, as well as Jason Sudeikis as the voice of Zorn. The show’s original music is composed by Leo Birenberg (Red Army, Big Time in Hollywood, FL). To learn more about the series, which will air a special sneak peak tonight and return to its regular Sunday night time slot on September 25, visit our previous news article.
Also premiering tonight in the U.S. is the television movie Churchill’s Secret directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Michael Gambon, Lindsay Duncan, Romola Garai, Matthew Macfayden, Bill Paterson, Daisy Lewis, Tara Fitzgerald, James Wilby and Rachel Stirling. Adrian Johnston (Becoming Jane, Kinky Boots, Brideshead Revisited) has composed the film’s original music. The drama premiered in the UK earlier this year on ITV and premieres in the U.S. on PBS. Click here for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
Sean Callery, Victor Reyes, Mac Quayle & Danny Elfman Win Emmy Awards
Posted: September 10, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Danny Elfman, Diane Warren, Emmy Awards, Mac Quayle, Sean Callery, Victor Reyes
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards are being handed out this afternoon at the Microsoft Theatre LA LIVE in Downtown Los Angeles. Sean Callery has won his fourth Emmy Award for the main titles theme for his main titles theme for Netflix’s Jessica Jones. He previously received three Emmys for his work on 24. Victor Reyes was honored with his first Emmy Award in the Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or a Special category for his music for AMC’s The Night Manager. Mac Quayle received his first Emmy Award for his music for USA’s Mr. Robot in the Music Composition for a Series category. Read the rest of this entry »
Adam Wiltzie Scoring ‘The Yellow Birds’
Posted: September 10, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Wiltzie, Alexandre Moors, The Yellow Birds
Adam Wiltzie has recently composed the music for the upcoming drama The Yellow Birds. The film is directed by Alexandre Moors (Blue Caprice) and stars Jack Huston, Jennifer Aniston, Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Collette and Jason Patric. The movie based on the novel by Kevin Powers follows two young soldiers who are taken under the wing of an older, troubled sergeant as they are deployed to Iraq. David Lowery (Pete’s Dragon, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) has written the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
