Ala Bianca Records has released a soundtrack album for the Italian drama Hey Joe. The album features the film’s original music composed by Andrea Moscianese (Shadow, Tulpa: Demon of Desire) and director Claudio Giovannesi (Piranhas, Fiore). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the title track below. Hey Joe is co-written and directed by Giovannesi and stars James Franco, Francesco Di Napoli, Aniello Arena, Giulia Ercolini, Gabriel Riley Hill Antunes and Giada Savi. The movie follows an American veteran who got involved with a young woman from Naples during World War II as he returns to Italy in the early 1970s to meet his son in the same city. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hey Joe’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrea Moscianese, Claudio Giovannesi, Hey Joe, score, Soundtrack
Benjamin Wallfisch Scoring Simon McQuoid’s ‘Mortal Kombat 2’
Posted: November 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Benjamin Wallfisch, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2, Simon McQuoid
Benjamin Wallfisch (It, Twisters, Blade Runner 2049, Hidden Figures, Alien: Romulus, Shazam!, The Invisible Man) is returning to score the upcoming martial arts fantasy sequel Mortal Kombat 2. The film is directed by Simon McQuoid and stars Lewis Tan, Karl Urban, Jessica McNamee, Tadanobu Asano, Josh Lawson, Mehcad Brooks, Adeline Rudolph, Damon Herriman, Ludi Lin, Martyn Ford, Tati Gabrielle, Chin Han, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada. No plot details have been announced yet. Jeremy Slater (The Umbrella Academy, Moon Knight) wrote the screenplay based on the video game franchise created by Ed Boon and John Tobias,. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Braid’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Braid, Dying to Play, Michael Gatt, Mitzi Peirone, score, Soundtrack
Michael Gatt (DC Super Hero Girls, Batman: The Long Halloween, Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, Blood Drive, Justice League: Warworld, The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson) has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2018 psychological horror thriller Braid (aka Dying to Play) written and directed by Mitzi Peirone and starring Madeline Brewer, Imogen Waterhouse, Sarah Hay and Scott Cohen. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to Gatt’s main title track after the jump. Braid premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was released in select U.S. theaters and on VOD in early 2019 by Blue Fox Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Tyler Scoring James Vanberbilt’s ‘Nuremberg’
Posted: November 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Brian Tyler, James Vanderbilt, Nuremberg
Brian Tyler (The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Iron Man 3, Fast & Furious, Crazy Rich Asians, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor: The Dark World, Transformers One, Now You See Me) has recently been recording his score for the upcoming historical thriller Nuremberg. The film marks the second directorial effort of writer/producer James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, The Amazing Spider-Man) and stars Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Richard E. Grant, John Slattery, Colin Hanks, Lydia Peckham, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek, Mark O’Brien and Andreas Pietschmann. The movie is based on the book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai and chronicles the eponymous trials held in 1945 & 1946 by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Animal Tales of Christmas Magic’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Animal Tales of Christmas Magic, Le grand Noël des animaux, Pablo Pico, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the animated anthology feature Animal Tales of Christmas Magic (Le grand Noël des animaux). The album features the film’s original score composed by Pablo Pico (Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, Marona’s Fantastic Tale, Adama, Saving Sally). Also included is the original song Stars in the Night (in two different versions) written by the composer and performed by Emma Broughton. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the song and Pico’s first score track below. Animal Tales of Christmas Magic is directed by Caroline Attia, Ceylan Beyoglu, Olesya Shchukina, Haruna Kishi, Camille Almeras & Natalia Chernysheva and tells five different Christmas stories that take place across the globe from Japan to the Far North and the Northern Lights. Read the rest of this entry »
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch Scoring Showtime’s ‘The Agency’
Posted: November 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Showtime, The Agency
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Living, All of Us Strangers, The Strays, The Forgotten Battle, Censor) has recently scored the new Showtime original series The Agency. The show is developed by Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth (Edge of Tomorrow, Nine Perfect Strangers) based on the hit French drama Le Bureau des Legendes and stars Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, John Magaro, Katherine Waterston, Andrew Brooke, Alex Reznik, Harriet Sansom Harris, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, India Fowler, Reza Brojerdi and Richard Gere. The political thriller follows a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station whose career, real identity and mission are pitted against his heart when the love he left behind reappears. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Christmas Balls’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandra Leclère, Christmas Balls, Les Boules de Noël, score, Soundtrack, Valentin Couineau
Les Films du Kiosque has released a soundtrack album for the French family comedy Christmas Balls (Les Boules de Noël). The album features the film’s original music composed by Valentin Couineau (Little Girl Blue). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Christmas Balls is written and directed by Alexandra Leclère and stars Valérie Bonneton, Kad Merad, Noémie Lvovsky, Rosa Bursztein and Louise Massin. The movie follows a woman who is determined to not celebrate Christmas after the prior year’s festivities turned into a nightmare, but her husband and children decide to take matters into their own hands and invite her long-lost sister . Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wicked’ Score Album Details
Posted: November 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Powell, Jon M. Chu, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked
The full details of the score album for the first part of the film adaptation of the stage musical Wicked have been revealed. The album features the movie’s original score composed by John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Happy Feet, Shrek, Don’t Worry Darling, Bolt, X-Men: The Last Stand) and Stephen Schwartz (The Prince of Egypt, Pippin, Pocahontas). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 6 by Republic Records & Verve Label Group and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Arrival at Shiz University) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. The original soundtrack album featuring the songs from the movie was released last Friday. Wicked is directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater and Keala Settle. Read the rest of this entry »
Adam King Scoring MGM+’s ‘Earth Abides’
Posted: November 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam King, Earth Abides, MGM+, Todd Komarnicki
Adam King (Strays, Kim’s Convenience, Popularity Papers) has composed the original music for the new MGM+ limited series Earth Abides. The show is developed by Todd Komarnicki (Sully, Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.) based on George R. Stewart’s classic sci-fi novel of the same name and stars Alexander Ludwig, Jessica Frances Dukes, Aaron Tveit, Elyse Levesque, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Luisa D’Oliveira, Hilary McCormack, Birkett Turton and Jenna Berman. The post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama takes place after a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe and the human race is all but wiped out and follows a few shattered survivors who remain to struggle against the slide into extinction. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Gutter’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Isaiah Lester, Keegan DeWitt, score, Soundtrack, The Gutter, Yassir Lester
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the comedy The Gutter. The album features the film’s original music composed by Keegan DeWitt (Hearts Beat Loud, I’ll See You in My Dreams, The Hero, A Teacher, Divorce, Love Again, Sorry for Your Loss). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s first track (Do It Again) below. The Gutter is directed by Yassir & Isaiah Lester and stars Shameik Moore, D’Arcy Carden, Paul Reiser, Susan Sarandon, Rell Battle, Adam Brody, Adam Pally, Jackee Harry, Kim Fields, Earthquake, Jay Ellis, Paul Scheer, Langston Kerman and Nelson Franklin. The movie revolves around a frequently fired man who lands a new job at his local bowling alley, where he is pressured by a former pro-bowler and current champion drinker to accept his role as the greatest bowler ever put on this earth. Read the rest of this entry »
