Leopold Ross (Shogun, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Book of Eli), Nick Chuba (Thelma, The Girl from Plainville, Dr. Death) and Matt Cohen have teamed up to score the new Netflix original documentary Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. The film is directed by Chris Smith (FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, 100 Foot Wave) and centers on Bryan Johnson, a man who has dedicated his life to defy aging. The movie dives into the controversial wellness practices one man is using to maintain vitality and youth, and the effect this journey has on himself and those around him. Read the rest of this entry »
Leopold Ross, Nick Chuba & Matt Cohen Scoring Netflix’s ‘Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever’
Posted: January 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Smith, Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Foreve, Leopold Ross, Matt Cohen, Netflix, Nick Chuba
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‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: January 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Peacock, Rupert Gregson-Williams, score, Sky, Soundtrack
Sky Music will release a soundtrack album for the Sky/Peacock original limited series Lockerbie: A Search for Truth. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams (Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Hacksaw Ridge, Over the Hedge, The Legend of Tarzan, The Perfect Couple, Smallfoot, Hotel Rwanda). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 2 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s end titles track below. Lockerbie: A Search for Truth is developed by David Harrower based on Dr. Jim Swire’s & Peter Biddulph’s book The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice and stars Colin Firth, Catherine McCormack, Sam Troughton, Rosanna Adams, Jemma Carlton, Harry Redding, Selwa Jghalef, Mark Bonner and Ardalan Esmaili. The 5-parter is based on the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and chronicles the search for justice by Swire and his wife who tragically lost their beloved daughter in the event. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ca, c’est Paris!’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 31, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bertrand Burgalat, Ca c'est Paris!, score, Soundtrack
Tricatel has released a soundtrack album for the French TV series Ca, c’est Paris!. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Bertrand Burgalat (All About Yves, Golden Youth, Appearances, My Little Princess, Palais royal!). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the main title track below. The label has previously released multiple albums featuring the composer’s score from Episodes 1 & 2, Episodes 3 & 4 and Episodes 5 & 6. Ca, c’est Paris! is created by Marc Fitoussi, Edgard F. Grima & Jérôme Bruno and stars Alex Lutz, Charlotte De Turckheim, Nicolas Maury, Monica Bellucci, Anne Marivin, Xin Wang, Dominique Besnehard, Aurore Clément, Bernard Lecocq and Salomé Dewaels. The 6-part comedy follows the manager of Le Tout-Paris, a struggling Parisian cabaret that is on the verge of going under, who decides to sell the cherished family business to a big supermarket chain and has to break the news to his troupe. Read the rest of this entry »
Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber to Write New Songs for ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ Film Adaptation
Posted: December 31, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jon M. Chu, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Tim Rice
Tim Rice (The Lion King, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Road to El Dorado) has revealed in a recent interview with The Irish News that he is co-writing new original songs for the upcoming film adaptation of the stage musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Andrew Lloyd Webber (The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Evita). Jon M. Chu (Wicked, Crazy Rich Asians) is attached to direct the movie based on the duo’s Tony Award-winning show, which tells the biblical story of Jacob’s favorite son Joseph and his eleven brothers and which premiered in the West End in 1972 and on Broadway in 1983. Scott Sanders (The Color Purple, The Odd Life of Timothy Green) and Mara Jacobs (In the Heights) are producing the project for SGS Pictures and Chu and Lance Johnson (Thai Cave Rescue) are producing for Electric Somewhere. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Max & the Midknights’ Score Album Released
Posted: December 30, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Matt Mahaffey, Max & the Midknights, Nickelodeon, score, Soundtrack
Republic Records Kids & Family has released a new soundtrack album for the Nickelodeon animated series Max & the Midknights. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Matt Mahaffey (Tales & Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Karma’s World, Rock Dog 3: Battle the Beat) and members of his composer collective Cake In Space. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the first track (Welcome to Byjovia) below. The label has previously released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the series earlier this year. Max & the Midknights is based on the best-selling children’s books by Lincoln Peirce and features the voices of Blu del Barrio, Melissa Villaseñor, Zeno Robinson, Caleb Yen, Jeremy Rowley, Brian Stepanek, Gary Anthony Williams and India de Beaufort. Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph Trapanese Scoring Netflix’s ‘The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep’
Posted: December 30, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Joseph Trapanese, Kang Hei Chul, Netflix, The Witcher, The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
Joseph Trapanese (Oblivion, Shadow and Bone, Straight Outta Compton, The Witcher, The Greatest Showman, Project Power, The Raid: Redemption) has provided the original score for the upcoming Netflix original anime film The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep. The movie is directed by Kang Hei Chul and features the voices of Doug Cockle, Joey Batey, Anya Chalotra and Christina Wren. The Studio MIR production follows Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter, as he is hired to investigate a series of attacks in a seaside village and finds himself drawn into a centuries-old conflict between humans and merpeople. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Slender Thread’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 30, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Quincy Jones, score, Soundtrack, Sydney Pollack, The Slender Thread
Mercury Records has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for the 1965 drama The Slender Thread directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Ed Asner and Steven Hill. The album features the film’s original score composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Quincy Jones (The Color Purple, Roots, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, The Italian Job, Mackenna’s Gold). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and most other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also listen the composer’s main theme after the jump. Jones’ score has previously been released as a vinyl edition when the movie opened in theaters in 1965 and as part of the The Cinema of Quincy Jones 6-CD set in 2016. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Andrews Scoring Nicholas Stoller’s ‘You’re Cordially Invited’
Posted: December 30, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Michael Andrews, Nicholas Stoller, You're Cordially Invited
Composer Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko, Bridesmaids, Freaks & Geeks, Daddy’s Home, Piece by Piece, Funny People, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Bad Teacher) is reteaming with director Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Bros) on the upcoming comedy You’re Cordially Invited. The film is written and directed by Stoller and stars Will Ferrell, Reese Witherspoon, Geraldine Viswanathan, Jimmy Tatro, Meredith Hagner, Stony Blyden, Rory Scovel, Leanne Morgan, Ramona Young, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Jack McBrayer and Celia Weston. The movie follows two bridal parties whose weddings are accidentally booked on the same day at the same venue and are challenged with preserving their family’s special moment while making the most of the unanticipated tight quarters. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Upside Down River’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: La rivière à l’envers, Pablo Pico, score, Soundtrack, The Upside Down River
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French animated TV series The Upside Down River (La rivière à l’envers). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Pablo Pico (Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, 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 the composer’s first track (Qjar) below. The Upside Down River is based on the children’s novel of the same title by Jean Claude Mourlevat and follows a girl searching for water drops from the Qjar river to heal her sacred bird and is joined by a shy boy she meets on her quest. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 29, 2024)
Posted: December 29, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ben Onono, BritBox, Dominik Scherrer, Fox, Gabe Witcher, Going Dutch, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Missing You, Peacock, Protection, Rupert Gregson-Williams
Premiering in the U.S. today is the British limited series Protection created by Kris Mrksa and starring Siobhan Finneran, Nadine Marshall, Barry Ward, Katherine Kelly, Chaneil Kular, Nichola Burley, David Hayman and Akiya Henry. The show’s original music is composed by Dominik Scherrer (The Missing, The Tourist, Requiem, The Widow, Primeval, The Serpent, Baptiste, Ripper Street, No Escape). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 6-parter, which is making its U.S. debut on BritBox and will premiere in the UK on ITV and ITVX.
Premiering on Wednesday, January 1, is the British Netflix limited series Missing You created by Harlan Coben based on his novel of the same name and starring Rosalind Eleazar, Ashley Walters, Richard Armitage, Sir Lenny Henry, Jessica Plummer, Samantha Spiro, Marc Warren, Steve Pemberton, Mary Malone, Lisa Faulkner and James Nesbitt. Ben Onono (Ridley Road, Half of a Yellow Sun, Spell, Paranoid, Safe, Trust Me) has composed the show’s original music. Click here for more information about the 5-part thriller, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
