Music Box Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 2006 French drama Le Grand Meaulnes co-written and directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe, based on the novel of the same name by Alain-Fournierand starring Nicolas Duvauchelle, Jean-Baptiste Maunier and Clémence Poésy. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Philippe Sarde (The Tenant, Tess, Quest for Fire, Lord of the Flies, Ghost Story, Pirates, Barocco, Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud) and performed by the Pro Arte Orchestra, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London. The limited edition CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the track list and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of Philippe Sarde’s ‘Le Grand Meaulnes’ Score Announced
Posted: November 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe, Le Grand Meaulnes, Philippe Sarde, score, Soundtrack
‘Seoul Busters’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Plus, Ha Geun Yeong, Hulu, score, Seoul Busters, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album for the South Korean Disney+ original series Seoul Busters. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Ha Geun Yeong, among other artists. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Seoul Busters is written by Lee Young-chul & Lee Kwang-jae and stars Kim Dong-woo, kPark Ji-hwan and Seo Hyeon-woo. The comedy follows a failing crime unit and a top chief who unite to become one unstoppable team and – after failing to catch a criminal – get exiled to a makeshift office in an abandoned daycare center. Read the rest of this entry »
Lauren Daigle’s Original Song ‘Then I Will’ from ‘Bonhoeffer’ Released
Posted: November 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin, Jason Ingram, Lauren Daigle, Todd Komarnicki
Centricity Music has released the original song Then I Will from the biographical drama Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. The track is co-written (with Jason Ingram) and performed by Lauren Daigle and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also check out the official music video after the jump. Bonhoeffer is written and directed by Todd Komarnicki and stars Jonas Dassler, Moritz Bleibtreu, August Diehl, Flula Borg, David Jonsson, Nadine Heidenreich and Lisa Hofer. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Life After Fighting’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bren Foster, Jason Fernandez, Life After Fighting, Richard Tamplenizza, score, Soundtrack
Broken Yellow has released a soundtrack album for the martial arts action thriller Life After Fighting. The album features the film’s original score composed by Jason Fernandez (RIDE, Battle Ground, Islam and the Future of Tolerance, And Mrs, My Freaky Family) and additional music by Richard Tamplenizza. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to Fernandez’s first track (The Last Dance feat. Fabien Darcy) below. Life After Fighting is written and directed by Bren Foster and stars Foster himself, Cassie Howarth, Annabelle Stephenson and Luke Ford. The movie revolves around a martial arts instructor who is confronted with the disappearance of two of his students, leading him into a direct confrontation with a group of international child traffickers. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Newman to Score Chris Columbus’ ‘The Thursday Murder Club’
Posted: November 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Columbus, Netflix, The Thursday Murder Club, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman (American Beauty, 1917, The Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo, Road to Perdition, Skyfall, Wall-E, Bridge of Spies) has signed on to score the upcoming Netflix original film The Thursday Murder Club. The movie is co-written and directed by Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Mrs. Doubtfire) and stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, David Tennant, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays,Jonathan Pryce, Richard E. Grant, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Tom Ellis, Paul Freeman, Geoff Bell, Sarah Niles and Ingrid Oliver. The crime comedy is based on the novel series of the same title by Richard Osman and follows a group of friends in a retirement home who gather to solve murders for fun, but find themselves caught in a real case. Read the rest of this entry »
‘La Cocina’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alonso Ruizpalacios, La Cocina, score, Soundtrack, Tomas Barreiro
Tomás Barreiro (La Maquina, Museo, The Good Girls, Gueros) has released a soundtrack album for the drama La Cocina. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to Barreiro’s end credits track after the jump. La Cocina is written and directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios and stars Raúl Briones, Rooney Mara, Anna Diaz, Motell Foster and Oded Fehr. The movie based on the 1957 stage play The Kitchen by Arnold Wesker follows an undocumented cook in a busy midtown Manhattan restaurant in a relationship with a server who is pregnant with his child and gets in trouble when it’s discovered that money has been stolen from the cash register. Read the rest of this entry »
Remastered Soundtrack Album for Brian De Palma’s ‘Sisters’ Announced
Posted: November 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bernard Herrmann, Brian De Palma, Ennio Morricone, Le Ruffian, score, Sisters, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1973 psychological horror thriller Sisters co-written and directed by Brian De Palma and starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, Bill Finley and Lisle Wilson. The album features the newly remastered original score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Bernard Herrmann (Vertigo, Citizen Kane, Psycho, North by Northwest, Marnie, Taxi Driver, Obsession). The CD, which also includes liner notes featuring a new interview with editor Paul Hirsch, is limited to 1,000 edition and is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and check out the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Waves’ (‘Vlny’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jirí Mádl, score, Simon Goff, Soundtrack, Vlny, Waves
Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the Czech/Slovak historical thriller Waves (Vlny). The album features the film’s original music composed by Simon Goff (The Gold). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Waves is written and directed by Jirí Mádl and stars Vojtech Vodochodský, Vojtech Kotek, Martin Hofmann, Tatiana Pauhofová, Stanislav Majer and Marika Soposká. The movie, which has been selected as the Czech entry in the International Feature category for next year’s Academy Awards, is set in Prague, 1668 and follows a radio station employee who finds himself caught between the secret services and his revolutionary brother as the station broadcasts a confidential recording, and finds himself obliged to face history. Read the rest of this entry »
Quincy Jones (1933-2024)
Posted: November 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones passed away yesterday at age 91 at his home in Bel Air. The composer, songwriter and record producer wrote numerous scores and songs for film over a six decade spanning-career. His film scoring credits include Richard Brooks’ In Cold Blood, Sidney Lumet’s The Wiz and Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple, for all of which he received Academy Award nominations, as well as Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night, Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway and Peter Collinson’s The Italian Job. In 1967, he was the first Black composer to be nominated in the Original Song category for The Eyes of Love from Banning. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nr. 24’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Andreas Andersen, Kristoffer Lo, Nr. 24, score, Soundtrack
Every Kind of Records has released a soundtrack album for the Norwegian biographical World War II drama Nr. 24. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kristoffer Lo (Hometown – Stories from a Century, Makta). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Gunnar) below. Nr. 24 is directed by John Andreas Andersen and stars Sjur Vatne Brean, Erik Hivju, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Sigurd Solheim, Philip Helgar, Flo Fagerli and Ines Høysæter Asserson. The movie tells the story of Gunnar Sønsteby’s important contribution to the resistance movement in Norway during World War II, from the time he volunteered for resistance work after the German attack on Norway on April 9, 1940, when he became the leader of the “Oslo gang,” and his commitment to peace work Read the rest of this entry »
