A24 Music has released the original song Leash from Halina Reijn’s erotic thriller Babygirl. The track co-written (with Jorge Elbrecht) and performed by Sky Ferreira is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the track after the jump. The label has previously released a digital single featuring two first tracks from Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s original score from the film last month and will release a full soundtrack album on December 12. Babygirl is written and directed by Reijn and stars Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Sophie Wilde and Antonio Banderas. Read the rest of this entry »
Sky Ferreira’s Original Song ‘Leash’ from ‘Babygirl’ Released
Posted: December 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Babygirl, Halina Reijn, Jorge Elbrecht, Sky Ferreira
‘The Bad Guy’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Francesco Cerasi, score, Soundtrack, The Bad Guy
Amazon Content Services has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Prime Video original series The Bad Guy. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s second season composed by Francesco Cerasi (My Body Will Bury You, The Dinner, Golden Men, Cosimo and Nicole). 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 below. Sony Music Italy has previously released an album featuring the composer’s music from Season 1 back in 2022. The Bad Guy is created by Ludovica Rampoldi, Davide Serino & Giuseppe G. Stasi and stars Luigi Lo Cascio, Claudia Pandolfi, Selene Caramazza, Antonio Catania, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Giulia Maenza and Fabrizio Ferracane. Read the rest of this entry »
Austin Wintory to Score Michael Russell Gunn’s ‘Reykjavik’
Posted: December 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Austin Wintory, Michael Russell Gunn, Reykjavik
Austin Wintory (Journey, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, Captain Abu Raed, Aliens; Fireteam Elite, Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, Grace, The Banner Saga) has been tapped to score the upcoming historical drama Reykjavik. The film is written and directed by Michael Russell Gunn (in his feature directorial debut) and stars Jeff Daniels, Jared Harris, J.K. Simmons, Hope Davis, Branka Katic and Aya Cash. The movie takes place in 1986 during the Cold War and chronicles the Reykjavik Summit, when political enemies Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Iceland over one long, tense weekend to decide if there will be peace or war in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘The Trunk’ Released
Posted: December 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Choi Sung-kwon, Kim Ji Soo, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, The Trunk
Genie Music Corporation has released a soundtrack album for the South Korean Netflix limited series The Trunk. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Choi Sung-kwon & Kim Ji Soo. Also included are songs by artists including Kim Han Gyeol, Isaac Hong, kyuri, NIIZ & others. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composers’ title track and two songs below. The Trunk is created by Kim Gyu-tae & Park Eun-young and stars Seo Hyun-jin, Gong Yoo, Jung Yun-ha, Jo I-geon and Kim Dong-won. The mystery drama centers on a clandestine marriage service that is uncovered when a trunk washes up on the shore of a lake, bringing to light the strange marriage between a couple in the thick of it all. Read the rest of this entry »
Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry Scoring Duke Johnson’s ‘The Actor’
Posted: December 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Duke Johnson, Richard Reed Parry, The Actor
Richard Reed Parry (of Arcade Fire) (The Iron Claw, Eileen, The Nest) has recently been scoring the upcoming drama The Actor. The film is directed by Duke Johnson (Anamolisa) and stars André Holland, Gemma Chan, Tracey Ullman, Simon McBurney, Toby Jones and Joe Cole. The movie is based on the bestselling novel Memory by Donald E. Westlake and tells the story of an actor who finds himself stranded in 1950s Ohio, suffering from severe memory loss after a brutal attack and struggling to find his way back to his life in New York. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nickel Boys’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Somers, Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross, score, Scott Alario, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama Nickel Boys. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alex Somers (Captain Fantastic, Honey Boy, Causeway, Fresh, Aloha, Together, Together, Charm City Kings, Dawson City: Frozen Time) & Scott Alario (Hale County This Morning, This Evening). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 6 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the first two tracks below. Nickel Boys is co-written and directed by RaMell Ross and stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Fred Hechinger, Hamish Linklater, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. The movie is based on the book of the same title by Colson Whitehead and follows an idealistic high schooler whose aims of attending college are upended when racist law officials falsely accuse him of a crime and he gets sent to an abusive reformatory school, where he forms a friendship and strikes up an alliance with another teen. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtracks for BBC’s ‘Dynasties’ Specials ‘Hyena’ & ‘Macaque’ Released
Posted: December 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Benji Merrison, Dynasties, Dynasties II, score, Soundtrack, Will Slater
Silva Screen Records has released two more soundtrack albums for the BBC Earth natural history series Dynasties II. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is the original music from the specials/episodes Hyena and Macaque composed by Benji Merrison (SAS: Red Notice, Strange Magic, The Beatles and India) and Will Slater (One Strange Rock, Africa, The Green Planet). Listen to the first track from each album after the jump. The label has previously released soundtracks featuring the composers’ music from the first Dynasties season back in 2018 and five separate albums for the specials Meerkat, Puma, Elephant & Cheetah. Dynasties II is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, executive produced by Mike Gunton and provides a fresh insight into the secret lives of some of the most charismatic animals on the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Return’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Rachel Portman, score, Soundtrack, The Return, Uberto Pasolini
Sony Classical will release the official soundtrack album for the drama The Return. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Rachel Portman (Emma, The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, The Manchurian Candidate, Never Let Me Go, One Day). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 6. Check back on this page for the streaming/download link and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. The Return is co-written and directed by Uberto Pasolini and stars Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari, Claudio Santamaria and Ángela Molina. The movie is based on Homer’s ancient classic The Odyssey and follows King Odysseus as he washes up on the shores of Ithaca 20 years after he left his kingdom and finds his beloved wife Penelope hounded by suitors vying to be king, and his son Telemachus facing death at the hands of these suitors, who see him as merely an obstacle to their pursuit of the kingdom. Read the rest of this entry »
‘And Their Children After Them’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amaury Chabauty, And Their Children After Them, Leurs enfants après eux, Ludovic Boukherma, score, Soundtrack, Zoran Boukherma
L’R Du Tresor has released a soundtrack album for the French coming-of-age drama And Their Children After Them (Leurs enfants après eux). The album features the film’s original music composed by Amaury Chabauty (Murder Party, Year of the Shark, The Dreamer, Teddy). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s “epilogue” track below. And Their Children After Them is written and directed by Ludovic Boukherma & Zoran Boukherma and stars Paul Kircher, Angélina Woreth, Sayyid El Alami, Gilles Lellouche, Ludivine Sagnier and Louis Memmi. The movie based on the novel of the same title by Nicolas Mathieu takes place over the course of four summers in the early 1990s and follows three teenagers growing up in a former steel town in Northern France as their destinies intersect, collide and intertwine, amid dreams of escaping the town. Read the rest of this entry »
