Frank Ilfman (Big Bad Wolves, Gunpowder Milkshake, Ghost Stories, The Operative, The Etruscan Smile) has been hired to score the upcoming suspense drama A Mistake. The film is written and directed by Christine Jeffs (Sunshine Cleaning, Sylvia) and stars Elizabeth Banks and Mickey Sumner. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Carl Shuker and revolves around an eminent female surgeon who has navigated years of casual sexism and suddenly finds herself fighting for her career and reputation following the death of a patient. Read the rest of this entry »
Frank Ilfman to Score Christine Jeffs’ ‘A Mistake’
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Mistake, Christine Jeffs, Frank Ilfman
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Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Infamy’ (‘Infamia’) Released
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Infamia, Infamy, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Zofia Jastrzębska
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Polish Netflix original series Infamy (Infamia). The album features the songs from the show co-written (with Wojtek Urbański, among others) and performed by lead actress Zofia Jastrzębska. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. Listen to the title track after the jump. Infamy is created by Anna Maliszewska and also stars Kamil Piotrowski, Sebastian Łach, Magdalena Czerwińska and Artur Dziurman. The drama follows a 17-year-old girl who caught between her Roma roots and pressure from her friends who aspires to become a hip-hop musician despite her parents’ strict rules. Read the rest of this entry »
Isobel Waller-Bridge Scoring Thea Sharrock’s ‘Wicked Little Letters’
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Isobel Waller-Bridge, Thea Sharrock, Wicked Little Letters
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Vita & Virginia, The Phantom of the Open, Roar, Munich: The Edge of War) is scoring the upcoming British period comedy Wicked Little Letters. The film is directed by Thea Sharrock (Me Before You, The One and Only Ivan) and stars Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan and Timothy Spall. The movie follows two neighbours who get on each other’s nerves in a small English town in the 1920s, where residents start receiving anonymous letters, igniting a scandal in their community. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The War of the Worlds’ 70th Anniversary Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Byron Haskin, Leith Stevens, score, Soundtrack, The War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1953 sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds directed by Byron Haskin and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the Paramount Pictures release composed by Leith Stevens (The Wild One, Destination Moon, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, The Night of the Grizzly). Also included is the composer’s score from 1951’s When Worlds Collide directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen & John Hoyt. The 70th Anniversary Edition CD is limited to 1,000 copies and will be available to order on the label’s official website at noon today. Read the rest of this entry »
Matteo Zingales Scoring Lee Tamahori’s ‘The Convert’
Posted: September 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lee Tamahori, Matteo Zingales, The Convert
Matteo Zingales (99 Homes, Fahrenheit 451, The Hunter, Tidelands, Mystery Road) has composed the original music for the upcoming Australian/New Zealand historical epic The Convert. The film is directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day, The Edge) and stars Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Jacqueline McKenzie, Antonio Te Maioha and Lawrence Makoare. The movie tells the story of a newly arrived preacher in a colonial town in early 19th Century New Zealand who finds himself at the center of a long-standing battle between two Māori tribes. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Yann Gozlan’s ‘Visions’ Announced
Posted: September 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Philippe Rombi, score, Soundtrack, Visions, Yann Gozlan
Music Box Records has announced a soundtrack album for the French psychological thriller Visions. The album features the film’s original music composed by Philippe Rombi (Swimming Pool, Potiche, Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, In the House, War of the Buttons, Angel). The soundtrack is expected to be released digitally this Wednesday, September 6 (click here to stream/download). A CD version is available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Visions is written and directed by Yann Gozlan and stars Diane Kruger, Mathieu Kassovitz and Marta Nieto. The movie centers on a married airline captain who begins an affair with her a former flame, when she gets recurring visions, hallucinations and nightmares and starts losing grip on reality. Read the rest of this entry »
Naoki Sato Scoring Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Godzilla Minus One’
Posted: September 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Godzilla Minus One, Naoki Sato, Takashi Yamazaki
Toho has confirmed today that Naoki Sato (Rurouni Kenshin, Pretty Cure, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Masquerade Night, X, Blood-C) is reuniting with director Takashi Yamazaki to score the upcoming Japanese monster movie Godzilla Minus One. The film is written and directed by Yamazaki (Lupin III: The First) and stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Sakura Ando, Hidetaka Yoshioka and Kuranosuke Sasaki. The movie is set in post-war Japan as the economic state has been reduced to zero, when the titular monster appears and plunges the country into a negative state. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of Bill Conti’s ‘Boys on the Run’ Score Announced
Posted: September 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bill Conti, Boys on the Run, Pol Cruchten, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 2003 adventure thriller Boys on the Run directed by Pol Cruchten and starring Jesse Littlejohn, James Lafferty, Raquel Beaudene and Ron Perlman. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Bill Conti (Rocky, The Karate Kid, The Right Stuff, For Your Eyes Only, Masters of the Universe, The Thomas Crown Affair). The limited edition CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
JB Dunckel Scoring Céline Rouzet’s ‘For Night Will Come’
Posted: September 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Céline Rouzet, En attendant la nuit, For Night Will Come, JB Dunckel
JB Dunckel (Summer of 85, The Summer of Sangaile, K.O., Capital in the Twenty-First Century) of the electronic pop duo AIR has recently scored the upcoming French/Belgian fantasy drama For Night Will Come (En attendant la nuit). The film marks the narrative feature directorial debut of documentary filmmaker Céline Rouzet (A Distant Thud in the Jungle) and stars Mathias Legoût-Hammond, Elodie Bouchez, Céleste Brunnquell, Jean-Charles Clichet and Laly Mercier. The movie is set in a small town and follows a normal, friendly family hiding their teenage son’s dark secret and thirst for blood. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 3, 2023)
Posted: September 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Bryan Adams, Comedy Central, Dan Deacon, Dear Child, Gustavo Santaolalla, Juan Luqui, Nainita Desai, Netflix, Office Race, Predators, The Changeling
Premiering tomorrow, September 4, is the Comedy Central original movie Office Race co-written and directed by Jared Lapidus and starring Beck Bennett, Joel McHale, Kelsey Grammer, Erinn Hayes, Kylie Bunbury, J.B. Smoove and Alyson Hannigan. Academy Award-nominated and Grammy-Award winning singer/songwriter Bryan Adams has contributed two original songs to the film. Click here to listen to both tracks, which were released this past Friday, and for more information about the comedy.
Premiering on Wednesday, September 6, is the Netflix documentary series Predators executive produced by Wendy Darke & Vanessa Coates and narrated by Tom Hard about a group of cheetahs, polar bears and more of the planet’s most powerful hunters as they fight against the odds to survive. The show’s original music is composed by Nainita Desai (For Sama, The Deepest Breath, Crossfire, The Tower, Funny Woman, The Reason I Jump). The 5-parter premiered in the UK last December on Sky Nature and will be available to stream in the U.S. and most other major markets exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
