Steve Jablonsky (Transformers, Deepwater Horizon, The Island, Ender’s Game, Desperate Housewives, DC League of Super-Pets, Lone Survivor, Skyscraper) has composed the original music for the upcoming animated feature The Tiger’s Apprentice. The film is directed by Raman Hui (Monster Hunt, Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos), co-directed by Paul Watling & Yong Duk Jhun and features the voice talent of Henry Golding, Lucy Liu, Brandon Soo Hoo, Jo Koy, Bowen Yang, Leah Lewis, Sherry Cola, Sandra Oh and Michelle Yeoh. The movie is based on the children’s book series of the same title by Laurence Yep and follows a Chinese-American teenager whose life changes forever when he discovers he is part of a long lineage of magical protectors known as the Guardians. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Jablonsky Scoring Raman Hui’s ‘The Tiger’s Apprentice’
Posted: December 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Paramount+, Raman Hui, Steve Jablonsky, The Tiger's Apprentice
‘The Dive’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Maximilian Erlenwein, Raffael Seyfried, score, Soundtrack, The Dive, Volker Bertelmann
Needlewood Records has released a soundtrack album for the survival thriller The Dive. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet on the Western Front, Lion, Patrick Melrose, Hotel Mumbai, Adrift, Jules) and Raffael Seyfried (Home). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. The Dive is co-written and directed by Maximilian Erlenwein and stars Louisa Krause and Sophie Lowe. The movie follows two sisters who must make life-and-death decisions when their diving expedition goes catastrophically wrong and their oxygen runs low Read the rest of this entry »
81st Golden Globe Nominations Announced
Posted: December 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Golden Globes
The nominations for the 81st Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories and nominations:
Best Original Score:
- Poor Things – Jerskin Fendrix
- Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson
- The Boy and the Heron – Joe Hisaishi
- The Zone of Interest – Mica Levi
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Daniel Pemberton
- Killers of the Flower Moon – Robbie Robertson
‘Sputnik’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Egor Abramenko, Oleg Karpachev, score, Soundtrack, Sputnik
Cold Spring Records has released a soundtrack album for the Russian sci-fi horror thriller Sputnik. The album features the film’s original music composed by Oleg Karpachev (Trener, Karamora). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the composer’s first track (Space) after the jump. Sputnik is directed by Egor Abramenko and stars Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk and Pyotr Fyodorov. The movie revolves around a psychologist evaluating the lone survivor of a spacecraft that crashed on earth in a secluded facility who learns he may carry an alien parasite that threatens to consume them all. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 10, 2023)
Posted: December 10, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Carol & The End of The World, Carter Burwell, Finestkind, Joe Wong, Kevin Matley, Netflix, Paramount+, The Family Plan
Premiering on Friday, December 15, is the crime drama Finestkind written and directed by Brian Helgeland and starring Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones, Tim Daly, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Lolita Davidovich and Clayne Crawford. The film’s original music is composed by Carter Burwell (Carol, True Grit, Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Twilight). No word yet on a soundtrack release. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the movie, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
Also premiering on Friday is the Netflix original animated series Carol & The End of The World created by Dan Guterman and starring Martha Kelly, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Michael Chernus, Mel Rodriguez, Beth Grant and Lawrence Pressman. Joe Wong (Russian Doll, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Master of None, Will Trent, Lucky Hank, The Midnight Gospel, Krapoolis) has composed the show’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced soon. The animated comedy, which follows a woman struggling to embrace end-times chaos who searches for meaning in her last months on Earth, will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded Edition of Ennio Morricone’s ‘Bloodline’ Score Announced
Posted: December 10, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bloodline, Ennio Morricone, score, Soundtrack, Terence Young
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1979 thriller Bloodline based on Sidney Sheldon’s bestseller, directed by Terence Young and starring Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Irene Papas, James Mason, James Mason, Romy Schneider and Omar Sharif. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Mission, The Untouchables, The Hateful Eight), including previously unreleased music. The 2-CD set, which is limited to 1,500 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Baby Shark’s Big Movie’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Foreman, Andrew Underberg, Baby Shark's Big Movie, Chen Neeman, Doug Rockwell, Matthew Tishler, Nickelodeon, Paramount+, Soundtrack, Tova Litvin
Pinkfong has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature Baby Shark’s Big Movie. The album features the songs from the film written and produced by Matthew Tishler, Andrew Underberg, Chen Neeman, Doug Rockwell, Tova Litvin & others and performed by the project’s voice cast and the South Korean boy band ENHYPEN. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to several tracks after the jump. Baby Shark’s Big Movie is is directed by Alan Foreman and stars Kimiko Glenn, Luke Youngblood, Natasha Rothwell, Patrick Warburton, Eric Edelstein, Debra Wilson, Ashley Tisdale, Lance Bass,Aparna Nancherla, Ego Nwodim, Chloe Fineman, Cardi B, Offset, Kulture and Wave. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 8, 2023)
Posted: December 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Anselm, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Concrete Utopia, Fast Charlie, Fil Eisler, Guillaume Roussel, Harry Gregson-Williams, Jerskin Fendrix, Joe Hisaishi, Joseph Bishara, Kim Hae-won, Leonard Küßner, Poor Things, The Boy and the Heron, The Cello, The Three Musketeers - Part I: D’Artagnan
Opening in theaters nationwide is the animated feature The Boy and the Heron written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and starring (in its English language version) Christian Bale, Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Mark Hamill, Florence Pugh, Karen Fukuhara and Luca Padovan. The film’s original music is composed by Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle). Studio Ghibli has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score (click here for the full album details). Available separately from Milan Records is the original song Spinning Globe by Kenshi Yonezu (click here to listen to the track and to learn more about the movie).
Opening in select theaters today before expanding nationwide in the coming weeks is the fantasy comedy Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott and Jerrod Carmichae. Jerskin Fendrix has composed the film’s original music and made his scoring debut on the project. Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Searchlight Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of John Barry’s ‘Seance on a Wet Afternoon’ & ‘A Doll’s House’ Scores Announced
Posted: December 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Doll's House, Bryan Forbes, John Barry, Love Among the Ruins, Patrick Garland, score, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Soundtrack, The Corn Is Green, The Glass Menagerie
Quartet Records has announced an album featuring a new recordings of five previously unreleased scores composed by Academy Award winner John Barry (Dances with Wolves, Out of Africa,Goldfinger, Somewhere in Time, Body Heat, The Man with the Golden Gun). Among the titles is the composer’s score for the 1964 British thriller Seance on a Wet Afternoon written and directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Kim Stanley & Richard Attenborough, as well as his music from the 1973 thriller A Doll’s House directed by Patrick Garland and starring Claire Bloom and Anthony Hopkins. Also included are Barry’s scores from three television movies starring Katharine Hepburn: 1975’s Love Among the Ruins and 1979’s The Corn Is Green (both directed by George Cukor) and 1973’s The Glass Menagerie directed by Anthony Harvey. All five scores have been newly recorded with the Orquesta de Córdoba conducted by composer Fernando Velázquez (The Impossible, A Monster Calls, Mama). Read the rest of this entry »
Remastered and Expanded Edition of John Williams’ ‘Heidi’ & ‘Jane Eyre’ Scores Announced
Posted: December 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Delbert Mann, Heidi, Jane Eyre, John Williams, score, Soundtrack
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album featuring two early television scores composed by Academy Award winner John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, Jaws, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) who received his first two Emmy Awards for the projects. The album features the composer’s remastered and slightly expanded original music from the 1968 NBC movie Heidi based on the classic novel by Johanna Spyri, directed by Delbert Mann and starring Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, Michael Redgrave, Jennifer Edwards and Walter Slezak, as well as a remastered edition of his score from the 1970 TV movie Jane Eyre based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, directed by Mann and starring George C. Scott and Susannah York. Read the rest of this entry »
