Air-Edel Records has released a soundtrack album for the Italian drama 100 Preludi. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari (Italia – Fire and Ashes) & Lisa Gerrard (Gladiator, Whale Rider, Ali, The Insider, Jane Got a Gun, City of Dreams). Cellist Erica Piccotti is the featured soloist. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also check out the official music video for the track Nowhere after the jump. 100 Preludi is co-written and directed by Alessandra Pescetta and stars Piccotti, Giovanni Calcagno and Margherita Fortini. The movie follows a young cellist who sets extremely strict rules for composing 100 preludes to assert her genius, denied by an unscrupulous master. Read the rest of this entry »
‘100 Preludi’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 25, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 100 Preludi, Alessandra Pescetta, Lisa Gerrard, Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari, score, Soundtrack
John Lunn Scoring Simon Curtis’ ‘Downton Abbey 3’
Posted: March 25, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey 3, John Lunn, Simon Curtis
Earlier this month, John Lunn (The Last Kingdom, The White Queen, Belgravia, Jamestown, The White Princess) has recorded his score for the upcoming drama sequel Downton Abbey 3. The film is directed by Simon Curtis (Woman in Gold, My Week With Marilyn) and stars Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle Dockery, Paul Giamatti, Laura Carmichael, Joely Richardson,Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Alessandro Nivola, Robert James-Collier, Joanne Froggatt, Allen Leech, Penelope Wilton, Simon Russell Beale, Lesley Nicol, Michael Fox, Arty Froushan, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Sophie McShera, Harry Hadden-Paton, Douglas Reith and Dominic West. Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park, The Gilded Age) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ghost Cat Anzu’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ghost Cat Anzu, Keiichi Suzuki, Nobuhiro Yamashita, score, Soundtrack, Yōko Kuno
NBCUniversal Entertainment has released a soundtrack album for the Japanese animated feature Ghost Cat Anzu. The album features the film’s original music composed by Keiichi Suzuki (Outrage, Beyond Outrage, Okko’s Inn, EarthBound). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to check out the track list and to stream the soundtrack. Also listen to a track from the composer’s score below. Ghost Cat Anzu is directed by Yōko Kuno & Nobuhiro Yamashita and follow a young girl whose father abandons her at a temple in rural Japan, when she meets a giant and notoriously lazy “ghost cat” tasked with looking after her who accidentally makes a deal with the devil. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe Scoring Jaume Collet-Serra’s ‘The Woman in the Yard’
Posted: March 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jaume Collet-Serra, Lorne Balfe, The Woman in the Yard
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Black Widow, His Dark Materials, The Wheel of Time, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Top Gun: Maverick) has recently scored the new horror thriller The Woman in the Yard. The film is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Jungle Cruise, Non-Stop) and stars Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, Russell Hornsby, Estella Kahiha and Peyton Jackson. The movie centers follows a woman crippled by grief after she survives a car accident that takes her husband who now must care for their 14-year-old son and 6-year-old-daughter, when – one day – a lone, spectral woman shrouded entirely in black appears on their front lawn without explanation. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Monolith’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benjamin Speed, Matt Vesely, Monolith, score, Soundtrack
Benjamin Speed (The Portable Door, 52 Tuesdays, Embrace, Make It Look Real) has released a soundtrack album for the Australian sci-fi thriller Monolith. The album features the composer’s original score from the film, as well as the original song Monos Lithos written by Speed & Leigh Marsh and is now available to stream/download on most major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song and Speed’s first score track below. Monolith is directed by Matt Vesely and stars Lily Sullivan and (the voices of) Erik Thomson, Damon Herriman, Kate Box, Terence Crawford & Ling Cooper Tang. The movie revolves around a disgraced journalist trying to salvage her career who begins investigating a strange alien conspiracy theory. Read the rest of this entry »
Anne Nikitin Scoring Pippa Ehrlich’s ‘Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey’
Posted: March 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anne Nikitin, Netflix, Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey, Pippa Ehrlich
Anne Nikitin (American Animals, The Dropout, Fate: The Winx Saga, Hijack, I.S.S., Dangerous Liaisons, Mrs. Wilson, Lost Girls, The Pale Horse) has provided the original score for the upcoming Netflix original documentary Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey. The film is directed by Pippa Ehrlich (My Octopus Teacher) and follows a man finds new purpose when he helps rescue a baby pangolin, one of the most trafficked animals in the world, in a sting operation in South Africa and embarks on a mission to rehabilitate and prepare the vulnerable animal for a life of freedom in the wild. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: March 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, BritBox, ITV, Samuel Sim, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the BritBox/ITV drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Samuel Sim (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, The Bay, Anne, The Spanish Princess, The Halcyon, Domina, Home Fires). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, March 28 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s final track (Ruth Ellis) below. A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story is written by Kelly Jones based on Carol Ann Lee’s biography A Fine Day for Hanging and stars Lucy Boynton, Toby Jones, Laurie Davidson, Mark Stanley and Bessie Carter. The 4-part true crime drama directed by Lee Haven Jones tells the story of the last woman in Britain to be hanged and reveals hidden truths about a love triangle that ultimately ended in tragedy. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Breaking Walls’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aránzazu Calleja, Borja Cobeaga, Breaking Walls, Los aitas, score, Soundtrack
Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish comedy drama Breaking Walls (Los aitas). The album features the film’s original music composed by Aránzazu Calleja (The Platform, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, Coven, Irati). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to a track from the composer’s score below. Breaking Walls is co-written and directed by Borja Cobeaga and stars Quim Gutiérrez, Juan Diego Botto, Iñaki Ardanaz, Ramón Barea, Mikel Losada and Laura Weissmahr. The movie follows a group of fathers who must chaperone their daughters at a rhythmic gymnastics tournament in Berlin, despite having no experience or enthusiasm for the sport. Read the rest of this entry »
Laurent Couson’s ‘Blind Man’ Score Released
Posted: March 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: À l'aveugle, Blind Man, Laurent Couson, score, Soundtrack, Xavier Palud.
EuropCorp has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2012 French thriller Blind Man (À l’aveugle) directed by Xavier Palud, produced by Luc Besson and starring Jacques Gamblin, Lambert Wilson, Raphaelle Agogue, Antoine Levannier and Arnaud Cosson. The album features the film’s original score composed by Laurent Couson (Closer to the Moon, The Rest is Silence, What War May Bring, Everyone’s Life). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and most other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s main title and end credits tracks below. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sarah, Plain and Tall’ & ‘Skylark’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: March 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: CBS, David Shire, Glenn Jordan, Joseph Sargent, Sarah Plain and Tall, score, Skylark, Soundtrack
Caldera Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for Hallmark Hall of Fame’s 1991 Emmy Award-nominated television movie Sarah, Plain and Tall directed by Glenn Jordan based Patricia MacLachlan’s book of the same name and starring Glenn Close & Christopher Walken and its 1993 sequel Skylark directed by Joseph Sargent. The album features the films’ original music composed and conducted by David Shire (The Conversation, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Zodiac, All the President’s Men, Return to Oz, Short Circuit). Visit the label’s official website to check out audio samples and to learn more about the CD release. Read the rest of this entry »
