Jessica Jones (Our Universe, Red Rose, Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story) is the composer of the new Netflix true crime documentary series American Nightmare. The show is directed by Bernadette Higgins & Felicity Morris and unravels the mystery of a young couple’s recounting of a home invasion and abduction that is too far fetched for the police to believe. Rebecca North (The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman, Locked Up Abroad) are Fiona Stourton executive producing the RAW production. Read the rest of this entry »
Jessica Jones Scoring Netflix’s ‘American Nightmare’
Posted: January 17, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: American Nightmare, Bernadette Higgins, Felicity Morris, Jessica Jones, Netflix
‘Sugar and Stars’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 17, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: À la belle étoile, Brice Davoli, score, Sébastien Tulard, Soundtrack, Sugar and Stars
DACP Entertainment has released a soundtrack album for the French biographical drama Sugar and Stars (À la belle étoile). The album features the film’s original music composed by Brice Davoli (Mon Ange, Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me, The First Forgotten). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Listen to a track from the composer’s score below. Sugar and Stars is directed by Sébastien Tulard and stars Riadh Belaïche, Pascal Légitimus, Dycosh, Marwan Amesker and Loubna Abidar. The movie is based on the bestselling autobiographical book Un rêve d’enfant étoilé by renowned pastry chef Yazid Ichemrahem and tells the story from his rough early beginnings to working for the world’s top chefs in Paris and Monaco. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexei Aigui Film Music Collection Announced
Posted: January 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexei Aigui, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a new album featuring multiple scores composed by Alexei Aigui (The Truth, The Young Karl Marx, I Am Not Your Negro, Wild Field, Exterminate All the Brutes, Test). Titles included on the CD include the composer’s scores from Aleksandr Kott’s 2022 animated adventure The Adventures of Chuck and Huck, last year’s horror film Domovoy, Sergey Mokritskiy’s 2022 historical drama First Oscar, Yuri Zeltser’s 2017 feature Our Little Secret, Marie Surae’s 2021 drama The Anger, Nurbek Egen’s 2005 comedy drama The Wedding Chest and Nikita Vladimirov’s 2022 sci-fi comedy I’m on Rewind. The Alexei Aigui Film Music Collection is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also find out more about the release and check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Tierra Incógnita’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Plus, Loishka, score, Soundtrack, Tierra Incógnita
Walt Disney Records has released a new soundtrack album for the Argentine Disney+ original series Tierra Incógnita. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s second season composed by Loishka (Daddies on Request). Visit Amazon (or any other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. The label has previously released a first soundtrack featuring score and songs from Season 1 back in 2022. Tierra Incógnita is created by Tomás Wortley and stars Pedro Maurizi, Mora Fisz, Tomás Kirzner, Verónica Intile, Carla Pandolfi and Ezequiel Rodríguez. Read the rest of this entry »
Nick Chuba Scoring Josh Margolin’s ‘Thelma’
Posted: January 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Josh Margolin, Nick Chuba, Thelma
Nick Chuba (Dr. Death, The Girl from Plainville, Appendage, Operation Varsity Blues) has composed the original music for the upcoming comedy Thelma. The film is written and directed by Josh Margolin (Deep Murder) and stars June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Clark Gregg, Parker Posey and Malcolm McDowell. The movie follows a 93-year-old who – after getting duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson – sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Matriarch’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Steiner, Hulu, Matriarch, score, Soundtrack, Suvi-Eeva Äikäs
Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album for the horror movie Matriarch. The album features the film’s original music is composed by Suvi-Eeva Äikäs (Hanna, Baghead). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Check out the composer’s first track (The Sacrifice) below. Matriarch is written and directed by Ben Steiner and stars Jemima Rooper, Kate Dickie, Keith David Bartlett, Sarah Paul and Franc Ashman. The 20th Digital Studio production revolves around a woman afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose who returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons, but instead discovers a real one. Read the rest of this entry »
Cristobal Tapia de Veer Scoring Esteban Arango’s ‘Ponyboi’
Posted: January 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Esteban Arango, Ponyboi
Cristobal Tapia de Veer (The White Lotus, Utopia, Smile, The Girl with All the Gifts, The Third Day, Hunters, National Treasure) has recently scored the upcoming drama Ponyboi. The film is directed by Esteban Arango (Blast Beat) and stars River Gallo, Dylan O’Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Indya Moore and Murray Bartlett. The movie takes place over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey and follows a young intersex sex worker who must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hunting Elephants’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gilad Benamram, Hunting Elephants, Reshef Levi, score, Soundtrack
EverBliss Music has released a soundtrack album for the 2013 Israeli crime comedy Hunting Elephants co-written and directed by Reshef Levi and starring Sasson Gabai, Moni Moshonov and Patrick Stewart. The album features the film’s original music composed and orchestrated by Gilad Benamram (Fauda, Suspicion, Bard of Blood, Club Life, The Girl on the Train). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Hunting Elephants tells the story of a 12- year old boy who conspires with three senior citizens to rob a bank in order to save himself and his mother from losing their house. Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Hilton & Jaco Caraco Scoring Megan Park’s ‘My Old Ass’
Posted: January 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jaco Caraco, Megan Park, My Old Ass, Tyler Hilton
Singer/songwriter and actor Tyler Hilton (One Tree Hill, Walk the Line, Charlie Bartlett) and songwriter/guitarist Jaco Caraco have provided the original score for the upcoming comedy My Old Ass. The film is written and directed by Megan Park (The Fallout) and stars Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White, Aubrey Plaza, Maddie Ziegler and Kebrice Brooks. The movie follows a bright-yet-irreverent teenager during the summer before college as she comes face-to-face with her older self during a mushroom trip. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Evacuation: A Documentary Military Thriller’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Channel 4, Evacuation: A Documentary Military Thriller, score, Soundtrack, Vincent Watts
Wattsonic has released a soundtrack album for the Channel 4 documentary series Evacuation: A Documentary Military Thriller. The album features the film’s original music is composed by Vincent Watts (We Are the Freaks, Janapar, Who Killed the KLF?, Starsuckers). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Evacuation is directed by James W Newton and charts the 2021 evacuation of Kabul, one of the largest British military undertakings in recent times, through unparalleled access and using previously unseen footage. The 3-parter also details the impact and emotional toll of the events on all those involved. Read the rest of this entry »