MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature My Love Affair with Marriage. The album features the film’s original score and songs composed by Kristian Sensini (Rocks in My Pockets, All Against All, Hyde’s Secret Nightmare). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. My Love Affair with Marriage is written and directed by Signe Baumane and stars Dagmara Dominczyk, Michele Pawk, Matthew Modine, Cameron Monaghan, Kristine Pastare, Ieva Katkovska, Iluta Alsberga and Stephen Lang. The adult animated comedy drama revolves around a woman confronting society’s expectations of her as she grows from being a girl into womanhood. Read the rest of this entry »
‘My Love Affair with Marriage’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 12, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Kristian Sensini, My Love Affair With Marriage, score, Signe Baumane, Soundtrack
Expanded ‘MacArthur’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: December 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jerry Goldsmith, Joseph Sargent, MacArthur, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1977 biographical war drama MacArthur directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders, Ivan Bonar, Dan O’Herlihy, Ward Costello and Nicolas Coster. The album features the expanded original score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Papillon, Basic Instinct, Chinatown, Patton), including previously unreleased music and alternate cues. The 2-CD set is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and for more information about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
Nigel Westlake’s ‘The Nugget’ Score Released
Posted: December 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bill Bennett, Nigel Westlake, score, Soundtrack, The Nugget
Nigel Westlake (Babe, Miss Potter, Babe: Pig in the City, Ali’s Wedding, Paper Planes, Blueback) has released a digital single featuring his music from the 2002 Australian comedy The Nugget written and directed by Bill Bennett and starring Eric Bana, Stephen Curry, Dave O’Neil, Belinda Emmett and Vince Colosimo. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is a 15-track suite featuring the composer’s Australian Screen Music Awards-winning score and themes from the film. Also listen to the full track below. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix Film ‘The Archies’ Released
Posted: December 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ankur Tewari, DOT, Netflix, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Soundtrack, The Archies, The Islanders, Zoya Akhtar
Netflix Music & Sony Music Entertainment India have released the official soundtrack album for the streamer’s Indian Netflix original film The Archies. The album features the original songs from the movie written by Ankur Tewari, The Islanders, the composer trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and DOT (aka Aditi Saigal). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to several tracks below. The Archies is directed by Zoya Akhtar and stars Agastya Nanda, Suhana Khan, Khushi Kapoor, Dot., Mihir Ahuja and Vedang Raina. The musical comedy based on the Archie comics characters is set in 1960s India and follows Archie and the gang as they navigate friendship, romance and the future of Riverdale as developers threaten to destroy a beloved park. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Goblin Song’ from ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special Episode ‘The Church on Ruby Road’ Released
Posted: December 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Disney Plus, Doctor Who, Murray Gold, Russell T. Davies
Silva Screen Records has released the original song The Goblin Song from the Doctor Who Christmas special The Church on Ruby Road. The track written by series composer Murray Gold (Gentleman Jack, Torchwood, Dead Ringers, It’s a Sin, A Very English Scandal, Quiz) and featuring lyrics by writer/producer Russell T Davies and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also check out the official lyric video after the jump. The Church on Ruby Road is written by Davies, directed by Mark Tonderai and stars Ncuti Gatwa as the fifteenth Doctor, as well as Davina McCall, Michelle Greenidge, Anita Dobson and Angela Wynter. 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
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 »
‘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 »