Ameo Publishing has released a soundtrack album for the French horror thriller The Deep Dark (Gueules Noires). The album features the film’s original music composed by Olivier Derivière (Remember Me, Alone in the Dark, A Plague Tale: Innocence & Requiem, Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry, Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Star Wars Visions: The Spy Dancer) who has made his feature scoring debut on the project. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Listen to the composer’s title track below. The Deep Dark is written and directed by Mathieu Turi and stars Samuel Le Bihan, Amir El Kacem, Thomas Solivéres, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Bruno Sanches, Marc Riso, Diego Martin and Philippe Torreton. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Deep Dark’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gueules Noires, Mathieu Turi, Olivier Derivière, score, Soundtrack, The Deep Dark
Dominic Lewis & Guillaume Roussel Scoring F. Gary Gray’s ‘Lift’
Posted: November 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dominic Lewis, F. Gary Gray, Guillaume Roussel, Lift, Netflix
Dominic Lewis (Bullet Train, Peter Rabbit, The King’s Man, The Man in the High Castle, Money Monster, Violent Night) has teamed up with Guillaume Roussel (3 Days to Kill, The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan, Black Beauty, The Spy, Happy!) to compose the music for the upcoming Netflix original film Lift. The movie is directed by F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton, The Fate of the Furious) and stars Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Billy Magnussen, Úrsula Corberó, Viveik Kalra, Yun Jee Kim and Sam Worthington. The heist comedy follows an international heist crew who race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nelly Rapp – The Secret of the Black Forest’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Johan Rosell, Nelly Rapp - Dödens spegel, Nelly Rapp - The Secret of the Black Forest, score, Soundtrack, Uno Helmersson
Universal Music AB has released a soundtrack album for the Swedish fantasy adventure Nelly Rapp – The Secret of the Black Forest (Nelly Rapp – Dödens spegel). The album features the film’s original music composed by Uno Helmersson (Flee, The Painter and the Thief, The Lion Woman, A Nearly Normal Family, Magnus, Bobbi Jene, The Absent One). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Nelly Rapp – The Secret of the Black Forest is directed by Johan Rosell and stars Matilda Gross, Johan Rheborg, Jens Ohlin and Marianne Mörck. The second movie based on Martin Widmark’s popular children’s books just opened in Swedish theaters last month. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 5, 2023)
Posted: November 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, Anne Kathrin Dern, Apple TV +, AVAWAVES, Chanda Dancy, Colin from Accounts, HBO, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, Marc Shaiman, Matt Blackman, Netflix, Paramount+, The Buccaneers, The Claus Family 3
Premiering today is the Paramount+ original series Lawmen: Bass Reeves created by Chad Feehan and starring David Oyelowo, Lauren E. Banks, Forrest Goodluck, Barry Pepper, Demi Singleton, Donald Sutherland and Dennis Quaid. The show’s original music is composed by Chanda Dancy (Devotion, The Defeated, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Aftershock). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced soon. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the western drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
Premiering on Wednesday, November 8, is the British Apple TV+ original series The Buccaneers created by Katherine Jakeways and starring Kristine Frøseth, Alisha Boe, Imogen Waterhouse, Christina Hendricks, Josie Totah, Aubri Ibrag, Guy Remmers and Josh Dylan. AVAWAVES (aka Aisling Brouwer & Anna Phoebe) have composed the show’s original score. Interscope Records will release a soundtrack album featuring selections of the composers’ score, as well as songs by Miya Folick, Emily Kokal, Sharon Van Etten, Lucius, Alison Mosshart, Bully, among others on Wednesday. Click here for the full album details and for more information about the drama, which will be available to stream on Apple TV+. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nuovo Olimpo’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrea Guerra, Ferzan Özpetek, Netflix, Nuovo Olimpo, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original film Nuovo Olimpo. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Andrea Guerra (The Pursuit of Happiness, Letters to Juliet, Playing the Field, Extraordinary Measures). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s main theme in two different versions after the jump. Nuovo Olimpo is directed by Ferzan Özpetek and stars Damiano Gavino, Andrea Di Luigi, Luisa Ranieri, Greta Scarano, Aurora Giovinazzo, Giancarlo Commare, Alvise Rigo and Jasmine Trinca. The romantic drama is set in 1970s Rome and tells the story of two men whose casual encounter at a movie theater turns into an unforgettable romance, until destiny pulls them apart. Read the rest of this entry »
Kevin Matley Scoring Simon Cellan Jones’ ‘The Family Plan’
Posted: November 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Kevin Matley, Simon Cellan Jones, The Family Plan
Kevin Matley (Concrete Cowboy, Path of the Panther) has recently scored the upcoming action comedy The Family Plan. The film is directed by Simon Cellan Jones (Some Voices, Years and Years) and stars Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, Zoe Colletti, Saïd Taghmaoui, Van Crosby, Ciarán Hinds and Maggie Q. The movie follows a father of three and successful car salesman who used to be an elite government assassin tasked with eliminating the world’s deadliest threats and is now living a quiet suburban life, when enemies from his past show up and try to track him down. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Godzilla Minus One’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Godzilla Minus One, Naoki Sato, score, Soundtrack, Takashi Yamazaki
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the Japanese monster movie Godzilla Minus One. The album features the film’s original music composed by Naoki Sato (Rurouni Kenshin, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Masquerade Night, Pretty Cure, Blood-C, X). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the composer’s three Godzilla Suites after the jump. Rambling Records has released a CD version in Japan (click here to order the CD as an import). Godzilla Minus One is written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki and stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Munetaka Aoki, Yuki Yamada, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sasaki and Hidetaka Yoshioka. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 3, 2023)
Posted: November 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Adam Janota Bzowski, Adam Taylor, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Amine Bouhafa, At the Gates, Beyond Utopia, Branford Marsalis, David Boman, Four Daughters, Juan Pablo Villa, Julia Newman, Pascual Reyes, Radical, Rustin, Taylor Page, The Marsh King’s Daughter, Victor Magro, What Happens Later
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the romantic comedy What Happens Later directed by Meg Ryan and starring David Duchovny and Ryan. The film’s original music is composed by David Boman (Wyrm, Moonshot, Please Hold). Sony Masterworks has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as songs by The Streamline Modernes, Luscious Bandit, The Brentwood Hellows, The Four Words & Sage today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Bleecker Street release.
Also opening wide is the thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter directed by Neil Burger and starring Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Garrett Hedlund, Brooklynn Prince, Caren Pistorius and Gil Birmingham. Adam Janota Bzowski (Saint Maud, Black Mirror: Loch Henry, Here Before, Femme) has composed the film’s original music. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the Lionsgate release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dave Cobb, Francis Lawrence, Soundtrack, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The track list of the soundtrack album for the prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes has been revealed. The album features seventeen songs from and inspired by the film performed by lead actress Rachel Zegler (including her previously released rendition of The Hanging Tree), Flatland Cavalry, Sierra Ferrell, Molly Tuttle, Bella White, Billy Strings, The Covey Band, Charles Wesley Godwin & others. Already available now on all major digital music platforms is the original song Can’t Catch Me Now co-written (with Dan Nigro) and performed by Olivia Rodrigo (listen to the full track after the jump). Dave Cobb serves as the project’s executive music producer. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 17 by Geffen Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A CD version is set to be released on January 19, 2024 (click here to order) and a vinyl edition will be coming out a few weeks later (click here to pre-order). As previously reported, Sony Masterworks will release a separate album featuring James Newton Howard’s original score on the same day. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Under the Boardwalk’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: November 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ariel Rechtshaid, David Soren, Jonathan Sadoff, Sean Douglas, Soundtrack, Under the Boardwalk
Sony Masterworks has released a soundtrack EP for the animated feature Under the Boardwalk. The 6-track EP features the film’s original songs written by Jonathan Sadoff (Ingrid Goes West, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, The Peanut Butter Falcon) & Grammy Award-winning songwriter Sean Douglas, produced by Ariel Rechtshaid (The Santa Clauses, Gossip Girl) and performed by the movie’s voice cast, including Keke Palmer, Michael Cera and Bobby Cannavale. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to all six songs after the jump. Under the Boardwalk is directed by David Soren and also stars Gideon Adlon, John Magaro, Cassandra Scerbo, Vanessa Bell Calloway and Steve Schirripa. The Nickelodeon Movies & A Big Kid Pictures follows a shy crab and his new friend trying to find a way home, when they discover a whole world beyond the boardwalk. Read the rest of this entry »
