John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Shrek, Rio, United 93, Happy Feet, Bolt, Don’t Worry Darling) is currently scoring the upcoming animated feature That Christmas. The film directed by Simon Otto is based on filmmaker Richard Curtis’ best-selling series of children’s books, which tell multiple interweaved stories of love, loneliness, family and friends. Curtis (Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral) also co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Souter. Nicole P. Hearon (Once Upon a Snowman) & Adam Tandy (In the Loop, Inside No. 9) are producing the Locksmith Animation production. Read the rest of this entry »
John Powell Scoring Locksmith Animation’s ‘That Christmas’
Posted: November 30, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Powell, Locksmith Animation, Netflix, Simon Otto, That Christmas
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‘Mog’s Christmas’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 30, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, David Arnold, Mog's Christmas, Robin Shaw, score, Soundtrack
Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the Channel 4 animated special Mog’s Christmas. The album features the film’s original score composed by Grammy Award and Emmy Award winner David Arnold (Independence Day, Casino Royale, Stargate, Tomorrow Never Dies, Sherlock, Hot Fuzz, Godzilla, The World Is Not Enough, Good Omens). Also included is the project’s theme song As Long as I Belong written by Arnold, with lyrics by Don Black and performed by Sophie Ellis-Bextor. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 1 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Mog’s Christmas is directed by Robin Shaw and features the voices of Adjoa Andoh (as the narrator), Claire Foy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Maggie Steed, Miriam Margolyes, Zawe Ashton, Gareth Berliner, Charlie Higson, Tacy Kneale, Amelie Law and Teddy Skelton. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Wrath of Becky’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: November 30, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Matt Angel, Nima Fakhrara, score, Soundtrack, Suzanne Coote, The Wrath of Becky
BMG Rights Management will release a soundtrack album for the action thriller The Wrath of Becky. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nima Fakhrara (Lou, Detroit: Become Human, The Signal, Sick, The Pyramid, Alone, The Girl in the Photographs) who previously scored 2020’s original Becky movie. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 1 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The Wrath of Becky is written and directed by Matt Angel & Suzanne Coote and stars Lulu Wilson, Seann William Scott, Courtney Gains, Angel himself, Michael Sirow, Denise Burse, Aaron Dalla Villa, Jill Larson and Kate Siegel. The movie follows the title character as she returns to her old ways to protect herself after her home is broken into by a group called the Noble Men and her beloved dog is taken. Read the rest of this entry »
‘American Fiction’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 30, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: American Fiction, Cord Jefferson, Laura Karpman, score, Soundtrack
Sony Masterworks will release the official soundtrack album for Cord Jefferson’s satire American Fiction. The album features the film’s original music composed by Laura Karpman (The Marvels, Ms. Marvel, What If…?, Lovecraft Country, Taken, Underground, Set It Up, Paris Can Wait). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 15 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Family Is, Monk Is) is already available to stream/download now and can also be checked out below. Click here to check out the project’s music team credits. American Fiction is written and directed by Jefferson and stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Leslie Uggams, Erika Alexander, Keith David, Adam Brody and Issa Rae. The movie based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett follows a frustrated novelist who is fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes and uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Disney+ Short ‘The Shepherd’ to Be Released
Posted: November 30, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anne Chmelewsky, Disney Plus, Iain Softley, score, Soundtrack, The Shepherd
Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album for the Disney+ original short The Shepherd. The album features the film’s original music composed by Anne Chmelewsky (Where Hands Touch, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Only People). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 1 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The Shepherd is co-written and directed by Iain Softley and stars Ben Radcliffe, Steven Mackintosh and John Travolta. The short is set on Christmas Eve and tells the story of a young RAF pilot flying home across the North Sea who finds himself in peril when his radio and electric power cut out, leaving him stranded and running on limited fuel. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Candy Cane Lane’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 30, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Candy Cane Lane, Marcus Miller, Reginald Hudlin, score, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for the Amazon original movie Candy Cane Lane have been revealed. The album features the film’s original score composed by Marcus Miller (Boomerang, Everybody Hates Chris, Marshall, The Brothers, House Party, About Last Night, I Think I Love My Wife). Also included is the original song Miracle co-written by Raphael Saadiq and feat. vocals by Kelli-Leigh (already out now as a digital single), as well as tracks by Coco Jones, Foo Fighters and Pentatonix. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 1 by Lakeshore Records (visit Amazon or any or any other major digital music services to stream/download). Click here to check out the project’s music team credits. Available separately as a digital single (and included on the Amazon exclusive version of the album) is Chlöe’s cover of Merry Christmas Baby. Candy Cane Lane is directed by Reginald Hudlin and stars Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jillian Bell, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Robin Thede, Ken Marino, Riki Lindhome, Nick Offerman, and Stephen Tobolowsky. Read the rest of this entry »
New ‘Terrahawks’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: November 30, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Richard Harvey, score, Soundtrack, Terrahawks
Silva Screen Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1980s British sci-fi series Terrahawks created by Gerry Anderson & Christopher Burr and starring Denise Bryer, Windsor Davies, Jeremy Hitchen, Ben Stevens and Anne Ridler. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Richard Harvey (The Little Prince, Luther, Animal Farm, Arabian Nights, Death of a President), including the composer’s opening theme, the hit singles released at the time of airing (sung by the character Kate Kestrel), as well as a previously unreleased newly remastered version of the Terrahawks Suite performed by a full orchestra recorded at Birmingham Symphony Hall in April 2022. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically tomorrow, December 1. Visit Amazon to pre-order the 2-CD version and click here to stream/download the digital edition. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Obliterated’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 30, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Leo Birenberg, Netflix, Obliterated, score, Soundtrack, Zach Robinson
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Obliterated. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominees Leo Birenberg & Zach Robinson (Cobra Kai, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Florida Man, Twisted Metal, Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin). Also included is remix of the composers’ track Party Bus by Italian DJ Benny Benassi (already out now as a digital single on all major digital music services and also embedded below). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 1 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Obliterated is created by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg & Josh Heald and stars Shelley Hennig, Nick Zano, Terrence Terrell, C. Thomas Howell, Paola Lázaro, Kimi Rutledge, Eugene Kim, Alyson Gorske and Carl Lumbly. The action comedy follows a special forces team after a night of partying in the Sin City who must sober up to save Las Vegas. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Foremost by Night’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 29, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Foremost by Night, Maite Arroitajauregi, score, Sobre todo de noche, Soundtrack, Víctor Iriarte
Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish drama Foremost by Night (Sobre todo de noche). The album features the film’s original music composed by Maite Arroitajauregi (Irati). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Listen to the composer’s final track (Piano final) below. Foremost by Night is co-written and directed by Víctor Iriarte and stars Ana Torrent, Lola Dueñas and Manuel Egozkue. The movie centers on the relationship between two women who meet for the first time, one who was forced to give up her child for adoption when she was young, the other who adopted a child she raised as her own. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Sean Penn’s Documentary ‘Superpower’ to Be Released
Posted: November 29, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aaron Kaufman, Justin Melland, Paramount+, score, Sean Penn, Soundtrack, Superpower
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Superpower. The album features the film’s original music composed by Justin Melland (The Innocence Files, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, Wrong Man). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 1. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album. Superpower is directed by Sean Penn & Aaron Kaufman and centers on Ukraine’s fight to maintain freedom from Russia. The movie documents the months before the invasion, the hours leading up to the moment Vladimir Putin launched rockets into Kyiv and the aftermath that continues today. Read the rest of this entry »
