Paramount Music will release a new soundtrack album for the Prime Video original series Reacher. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Emmy Award nominee Tony Morales (FUBAR, Scorpion, Elena of Avalor, The Fugitive, Bloodline, The Bag Man, In Your Eyes, Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 15 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The label has previously released an album featuring the composer’s score from Season 1 last year. Reacher is developed by Nick Santora based on Bad Luck and Trouble, the 11th book in Lee Child’s best-selling series and stars Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Serinda Swan, Shaun Sipos, Ferdinand Kingsley, Domenick Lombardozzi and Robert Patrick. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Reacher’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Reacher, score, Soundtrack, Tony Morales
Lorne Balfe Scoring Mark Molloy’s ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’
Posted: December 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beverly Hills Cop 4, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Lorne Balfe, Mark Molloy, Netflix
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, His Dark Materials, Black Widow, The Wheel of Time, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) has been tapped to score the upcoming Netflix original film Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley. The movie is directed by Mark Molloy and stars Eddie Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judge Reinhold, Taylour Paige, Paul Reiser, John Ashton, Kevin Bacon and Bronson Pinchot. The fourth installment of the action comedy series follows Foley’s criminal defense attorney daughter who pulls her dad into a new case and teams up with a new partner to solve the crime. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benoît Chieux, Pablo Pico, score, Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, Sirocco et le Royaume des Courants d'Air, Soundtrack
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French/Belgian animated feature Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds (Sirocco et le Royaume des Courants d’Air). The album features the film’s original music composed by Pablo Pico (Adama, Marona’s Fantastic Tale, Saving Sally). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to two tracks from the composer’s score below. Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds is co-written and directed by Benoît Chieux and follows two sisters who discover a secret passage to the world of their favorite book and – after being transformed into cats and separated from each other – have to find their way back home. Read the rest of this entry »
Segun Akinola Scoring BBC’s ‘Murder Is Easy’
Posted: December 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Murder Is Easy, Segun Akinola
Segun Akinola (Doctor Who, The Last Tree, 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room, Stephen) has recently scored the new BBC drama Murder Is Easy. The 2-parter is written by Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre based on Agatha Christie’s classic novel and stars David Jonsson, Penelope Wilton, Morfydd Clark, Tom Riley, Douglas Henshall, Mathew Baynton, Mark Bonnar, Nimra Bucha, Phoebe Licorish and Tamzin Outhwait. The thriller directed by Meenu Gaur (Zinda Bhaag) follows a man who arrives in England and unexpectedly finds himself investigating a series of suspicious deaths, determined to prove that they are not accidents but murders. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Hulu Documentary ‘We Live Here: The Midwest’ Released
Posted: December 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dario Forzato, Hulu, Melinda Maerker, score, Soundtrack, We Live Here: The Midwest
Evoq Music has released a soundtrack album for the Hulu original documentary We Live Here: The Midwest. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dario Forzato (It Hits You When You Know It, Sharkskin). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and listen to the composer’s title track below. We Live Here: The Midwest is directed by Melinda Maerker, produced by David Clayton Miller and profiles families who hope to stay in a part of the country they love and have established deep roots: a trans/queer family in Iowa who must find a new community after being expelled from their church; a gay Black couple with a young child in Nebraska; a gay teacher in Ohio who creates a safe space for LGBTQI+ students; a lesbian couple who homeschool their bullied son on a farm in Kansas and a Minnesotan couple who struggles to rebuild their families following both of their transitions. Read the rest of this entry »
Elyssa Samsel Scoring Jade Halley Bartlett’s ‘Miller’s Girl’
Posted: December 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Elyssa Samsel, Jade Halley Bartlett, Miller's Girl
Songwriter Elyssa Samsel is making her feature film scoring debut on the upcoming comedy drama Miller’s Girl. The film is written and directed by Jade Halley Bartlett and stars Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Domińczyk, Bashir Salahuddin, and Gideon Adlon. The movie follows a talented young writer who embarks on a creative odyssey when her teacher assigns a project that entangles them both in an increasingly complex web. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, Rebel Moon, Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire, score, Soundtrack, Tom Holkenborg, Zack Snyder
The full details of the soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire have been revealed. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) (Mad Max: Fury Road, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Deadpool, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Alita: Battle Angel, Sonic the Hedgehog, Godzilla vs. Kong). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 15 by Netflix Music and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. A first track (A Call to Courage) has already been released last month. Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire is co-written and directed by Zack Snyder and stars Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Anthony Hopkins, Charlie Hunnam, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Fra Fee, Cleopatra Coleman, Staz Nair, Jena Malone and Corey Stoll. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Platform 7’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ITV, ITVX, Platform 7, score, Soundtrack, Toydrum
Bold Model has released a soundtrack album for the ITVX drama Platform 7. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Toydrum (Detour, Slow Horses, Prevenge, Three Pines, The Banishing, Future World, Sweetheart). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composers’ title track below. Platform 7 is written by Paula Milne based on the bestselling novel by Louise Doughty and stars Jasmine Jobson, Toby Regbo, Yaamin Chowdhury and Phil Davis. The 4-part psychological thriller directed by Geoffrey Sax follows a woman who – after witnessing a cataclysmic event on a train platform – finds her fragmented memory jogged to reveal a connection between her own life and that of the event she has just witnessed. Read the rest of this entry »
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow Scoring Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’
Posted: December 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Garland, Ben Salisbury, Civil War, Geoff Barrow
Composers Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow(Luce, Archive 81, Hanna, Free Fire) are reteaming with writer/director Alex Garland on the upcoming action drama Civil War. The film is written and directed by Garland and stars Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Nick Offerman. The movie is being described as revolving around a race to the White House in a near-future America balanced on the razor’s edge. Read the rest of this entry »
29th Critics Choice Film Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: December 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Critics Choice Awards
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the film category nominations for the 29th Critics Choice Awards this morning. The film music-related categories are listed below. For a full list of nominations, click here. The awards will be given out on January 14, 2024 at the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles and will broadcast in the U.S. live on The CW.
The Best Score nominees are:
Jerskin Fendrix – Poor Things
Michael Giacchino – Society of the Snow
Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
Daniel Pemberton – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Read the rest of this entry »
