Netflix Music has announced the first score album for the British TV series Top Boy. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Brian Eno (The Lovely Bones, Dune, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl). The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 1 and physically (on both CD and vinyl) on September 29. Click here to stream/download the album and visit Amazon to pre-order the vinyl edition. A first track (Cutting Room I) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. Top Boy is created by Ronan Bennett and stars Ashley Walters, Kane Robinson, Michael Ward, Simbiatu Ajikawo, Shone Romulus and Jasmine Jobson. The crime drama two seasoned drug dealers who return to the gritty streets of London, but their pursuit of money and power is threatened by a young and ruthless hustler. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Top Boy’ Score Album Announced
Posted: August 16, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Brian Eno, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Top Boy
Meryl Streep’s & Ashley Park’s Original Song ‘Look for the Light’ from ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 3 Released
Posted: August 16, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Benj Pasek, Hulu, Justin Paul, Only Murders in the Building, Sara Bareilles
Hollywood Records has released the first song from the third season of the Hulu original series Only Murders in the Building. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is Look for the Light (as featured in the episode Grab Your Hankies) written by Sara Bareilles and Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman) and performed by cast members Meryl Streep & Ashley Park. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Only Murders in the Building is created by Steve Martin & John Hoffman and stars Martin himself, Selena Gomez, Martin Short, as well as new cast member Paul Rudd. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Animalia’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 16, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amine Bouhafa, Animalia, score, Sofia Alaoui, Soundtrack
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French/Moroccan sci-fi drama Animalia. The album features the film’s original music composed by Amine Bouhafa (Timbuktu, The Summit of the Gods, Four Daughters, Gagarine, Beauty and the Dogs, The Man Who Sold His Skin). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. Listen to the first track (Ouverture) after the jump. Animalia is written and directed by Sofia Alaoui and stars Oumaïma Barid and Mehdi Dehbi. The movie revolves around a young Moroccan woman from a modest rural background who finds herself separated from her privileged husband and new family when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency. Read the rest of this entry »
Camilo Lara Scoring Alejandra Márquez Abella’s ‘A Million Miles Away’
Posted: August 15, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Million Miles Away, Alejandra Márquez Abella, Amazon, Camilo Lara
Mexico City-based DJ, electronic music producer and composer Camilo Lara has provided the original score to the upcoming Amazon original movie A Million Miles Away. The film is directed by Alejandra Márquez Abella (The Good Girls, Northern Skies Over Empty Space) and stars Michael Peña, Rosa Salazar, Bobby Soto, Veronica Falcón, Sarayu Blue, Julio César Cedillo, Garret Dillahunt and Eric Johnson. The biographical drama is based on NASA flight engineer José Hernández’s book Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut by and chronicles his journey from a devoted family of proud migrant farm workers from a rural village in Mexico, to the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, to more than 200 miles above the Earth in the International Space Station. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Landscape with Invisible Hand’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 15, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cory Finley, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Michael Abels, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi comedy drama Landscape with Invisible Hand. The album features the film’s original score composed by Michael Abels (Get Out, Us, Nope, Bad Education, Breaking, Nightbooks, Allen v. Farrow). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, August 18 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Landscape with Invisible Hand is written and directed by Cory Finley and stars Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers and Tiffany Haddish. The movie based on M.T. Anderson’s book of the same name is set in the near-future years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth and follows a 17-year-old artist and his girlfriend as they livestream their budding romance when they discover the alien species are particularly fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it. Read the rest of this entry »
Anna Meredith Scoring Mahalia Belo’s ‘The End We Start From’
Posted: August 15, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anna Meredith, Mahalia Belo, The End We Start From
Anna Meredith (Eighth Grade, Living with Yourself) has composed the original music for the upcoming British survival drama The End We Start From. The film is directed by Mahalia Belo (Requiem, The Long Song) and stars Jodie Comer, Joel Fry, Katherine Waterston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Nina Sosanya and Gina McKee. The movie is based on Megan Hunter’s best-selling 2017 novel of the same name and follows a new mother, her partner and their infant as they are driven out of London into the English countryside by cataclysmic flooding. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for CBC’s & The CW’s ‘Moonshine’ to Be Released
Posted: August 15, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Agatha Kaspar, CBC, Moonshine, score, Soundtrack, The CW
Plentiful Organs will release the first soundtrack album for the Canadian TV series Moonshine. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first three seasons composed by Agatha Kaspar (Kodachrome, Ginny & Georgia, Copenhagen). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, August 25 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Moonshine is created by Sheri Elwood and stars Jennifer Finnigan, Emma Hunter, Anastasia Phillips, Corrine Koslo, Tom Stevens, Peter MacNeill and Alexander Nunez. The drama follows a family of dysfunctional siblings as they battling for control of their family business. Read the rest of this entry »
Ludvig Forssell Scoring Moritz Mohr’s ‘Boy Kills World’
Posted: August 15, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Boy Kills World, Ludvig Forssell, Mortiz Mohr
Ludvig Forssell (Death Stranding, P.T., Belle) is making his live-action feature scoring debut on the upcoming action thriller Boy Kills World. The film is directed by Moritz Mohr and stars Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Andrew Koji, Yayan Ruhian, Famke Janssen, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa and Sharlto Copley. The movie centers on a deaf warrior as he is trained by a mysterious shaman to topple a far-flung dystopia. Tyler Burton Smith (Child’s Play) and Arend Remmers (Snowflake) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Outpost’ & ‘Cascade’ Soundtracks Released
Posted: August 15, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cascade, Egidio Coccimiglio, Joe Lo Truglio, Outpost, score, Soundtrack, Steph Copeland
Datahead Music has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Outpost. The album features the film’s original score composed by Steph Copeland (Vicious Fun, The Retreat, The Heretics, The Oak Room, I’ll Take Your Dead, The Dwelling). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Outpost is written and directed by Joe Lo Truglio and stars Beth Dover, Ato Essandoh, Dylan Baker, Dallas Roberts, Becky Ann Baker, Ta’Rea Campbell, D.R. Anderson and Tim Neff. The movie follows a woman who – after a violent assault – asks her best friend for help escaping an abusive ex and given a job as a fire lookout in the mountains of Northern Idaho. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Scoring Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s & Jimmy Chin’s ‘Nyad’
Posted: August 15, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Netflix, Nyad
Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water, The Queen,Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The King’s Speech) has recently been scoring the upcoming Netflix original film Nyad. The movie marks the narrative feature directorial debut of documentary filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin (Free Solo, The Rescue) and stars Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans, Luke Cosgrove, Ethan Jones Romero, Eric T. Miller and Jeena Yi. The biographical drama tells the true story of Diana Nyad who, at the age of 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to the US without a shark cage. Read the rest of this entry »
