Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1971 Italian thriller Confessions of a Police Captain (Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica) co-written and directed by Damiano Damiani and starring Franco Nero, Martin Balsam and Marilù Tolo. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the film composed by Riz Ortolani (Mondo Cane, The Yellow Rolls-Royce, The 7th Dawn, The Spy with the Cold Nose, The Glory Guys), including previously unreleased music. The limited edition CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Confessions of a Police Captain’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: January 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Confessions of a Police Captain, Damiano Damiani, Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani, score, Soundtrack, Tre colonne in cronaca
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Kenny Beats Scoring Alex Russell’s ‘Lurker’
Posted: January 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Russell, Kenny Beats, Lurker
Record producer, DJ and songwriter Kenny Beats (aka Kenneth Blume) has made his feature scoring debut on the upcoming thriller Lurker. The film is written and directed by Alex Russell and stars Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Havana Rose Liu, Zach Fox, Sunny Suljic and Daniel Zolghadri. The movie revolves around a retail employee who infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom and – as he gets closer to the budding music star – access and proximity become a matter of life and death. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Kugel’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Assa Raviv, Izzy, Kugel, score, Soundtrack, Tom Armony
Kame’a has released a soundtrack album for the Israeli TV series Kugel. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Assa Raviv & Tom Meira Armony (The Motive, Sublet, Losing Alice, Beaches and Cream, Buried). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composers’ first track (Mori) below. Kugel is written and directed by Yehonatan Indursky and stars Sasson Gabai, Hadas Yaron and Mili Avital. The spin-off to the hit drama Shtisel and follows the father/daughter duo Nuchem & Libi Shtisel as they navigate hijinks and heartbreak in Europe’s ultra-Orthodox community. Read the rest of this entry »
Elliott Wheeler Scoring The CW’s & Stan’s ‘Good Cop/Bad Cop’
Posted: January 13, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Elliott Wheeler, Good Cop / Bad Cop, Stan, The CW
Elliott Wheeler (Elvis, The Get Down, Every Day, Restraint) is the composer of the upcoming CW dramedy Good Cop/Bad Cop. The show is created by John Quaintance (Hot Pursuit, Aquamarine) and stars Leighton Meester, Luke Cook, Clancy Brown, Devon Terrell, Scott Lee, Blazey Best and William McKenna. The series follows an odd couple sister and brother detective team in a small Pacific Northwest police force as they must contend with colorful residents and their very complicated dynamic with each other and their police chief who also happens to be their father. Read the rest of this entry »
‘All We Imagine as Light’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: January 13, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia, score, Soundtrack, Topshe
Topshe (aka Dhritiman Das) has released a soundtrack EP for the drama All We Imagine as Light. The 6-track EP features the composer/singer/songwriter’s original music from the film and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to Topshe’s first track (Anu’s Song 1) after the jump. All We Imagine as Light is written and directed by Payal Kapadia and stars Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Hridhu Haroon, Chhaya Kadam and Azees Nedumangad. The movie tells the story of two women in who work together in a hospital in Mumbai: a troubled nurse who receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband and her roommate who is seeking a place with her boyfriend. Read the rest of this entry »
Bear McCreary Scoring Christopher Landon’s ‘Drop’
Posted: January 13, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bear McCreary, Christopher Landon, Drop
Composer Bear McCreary (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, God of War) is reteaming with director Christopher Landon on the upcoming thriller Drop. The film starring Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, Gabrielle Ryan, Jeffery Self, Travis Nelson & Ed Weeks, follows a widowed mother who goes on her first date in years and is relieved that her date is more charming and handsome than she expected, but their chemistry begins to curdle as she begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Moominvalley’ Score Album Released
Posted: January 13, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Jarmo Saari, Moominvalley, Pekka Kuusisto, Samuli Kosminen, score, Soundtrack
Gutsy has released a new soundtrack album for the animated series Moominvalley. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Samuli Kosminen, Pekka Kuusisto & Jarmo Saari. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ first track (Moomintroll) below. Columbia Records has previously released an album featuring the songs from Season 1 back in 2019 and Gutsy has released an album featuring the songs from Season 2 the following year. Moominvalley is created by Marika Makaroff & Steve Box based on the classic Moomin books by Tove Jansson and features the voices of Taron Egerton, Jack Rowan, Rosamund Pike, Bel Powley, Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade, Warwick Davis, Akiya Henry and Kate Winslet. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Better Place’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 13, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: A Better Place, Isola Music, Jasmin Reuter, score, Soundtrack
Edition Komplizen has released a soundtrack album for the German TV series A Better Place. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Jasmin Reuter (24 Weeks, The Heartbreak Agency, Kiss Me Kosher) and Isola Music (Martin Glos & Smörre Ziegler). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ opening titles track below. A Better Place is created by Alexander Lindh & Laurent Mercier and stars Maria Hofstätter, Steven Sowah, Katharina Schüttler, Sandra Borgmann, Johannes Kienast, Richard Sammel, Alev Irmak, Ulrich Brandhoff, Youness Abbaz, Aysima Ergün and Cynthia Micas. The drama set in a fictional city, where a a scientist and liberal Mayor and introduce a revolutionary rehabilitation program that aims at closing down the city’s correctional facility and reintegrating its prisoners into society. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan Deacon Scoring Tony Benna’s ‘André is an Idiot’
Posted: January 13, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: André Is an Idiot, Dan Deacon, Tony Benna
Dan Deacon (Venom: The Last Dance, Hustle, The Changeling, Ascension, Rez Ball, Twixt, Strawberry Mansion, All Light, Everywhere,Wedding Season) has provided the original score for the upcoming documentary André is an Idiot. The film is directed by Tony Benna and centers on a brilliant idiot who is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy and chronicles his unexpected journey as he is learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor. Read the rest of this entry »
Trailer and Main Theme from Akaki Popkhadze’s ‘In the Name of Blood’ Released
Posted: January 13, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Akaki Popkhadze, Brûle le Sang, Guillaume Ferran, In the Name of Blood
Music Box Publishing has released a digital single featuring the trailer and main title theme from the French/Belgian/Georgian crime thriller In the Name of Blood (Brûle le Sang). The tracks written by the film’s composer Guillaume Ferran (Take a Chance on Me, Escort Boys, The Scammers, Marie-Line et son juge, Jusant) are now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to both versions after the jump. In the Name of Blood is co-written and directed by Akaki Popkhadze and stars Nicolas Duvauchelle, Florent Hill and Denis Lavant. The movie revolves around two brothers who plunge into the criminal underworld of Nice, where revenge and faith ignite a deadly showdown. Read the rest of this entry »
