Robbie Robertson has passed away today at age 80. The songwriter, composer and guitarist who was best known as a member of the rock group The Band and his solo records has worked on numerous films directed by Martin Scorsese over the last couple of decades. He has scored the director’s 1986 feature The Color of Money, as well as his last two movies, 2019’s The Irishman and the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will be released in theaters on October 6. Read the rest of this entry »
Robbie Robertson (1943-2023)
Posted: August 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Robbie Robertson
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‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’ 50th Anniversary Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: August 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, score, Soundtrack, Vince Guaraldi
Lee Mendelson Film Productions has announced the world premiere release of the complete score from the 1973 animated special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving written by Charles M. Schulz and directed by Bill Melendez & Phil Roman. The album features the original music from the 10th Peanuts special composed by Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Boy Named Charlie Brown), including previously unreleased bonus material. The 50th Anniversary Special Edition will be released digitally and physically on October 20, 2023. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and vinyl editions. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mech Cadets’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Max Aruj, Mech Cadets, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original animated series Mech Cadets. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Max Aruj (Crawl, The Ice Road, iBoy, The Tank, Lansky). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 10 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Three first tracks have already been released as a digital single last week. Mech Cadets is based on the Mech Cadet Yu graphic novels created by Greg Pak & Takeshi Miyazawa and features the voices of Brandon Soo Hoo, Aparna Brielle, Victoria Grace, Daniel Dae Kim, Anairis Quiñones, Robbie Daymond, Josh Sundquist and Ming-Na Wen. The animated sci-fi action series tells the story of an underdog teen who joins a group of young Cadets who’ve been chosen to bond with Robo Mechs from space and defend Earth against alien invaders. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Extended Edition Score Album to Be Released
Posted: August 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Daniel Pemberton, Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers, score, Soundtrack, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Sony Classical will release a new “extended edition” of the score album for the animated feature Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The album features the film’s original score composed by Daniel Pemberton (Enola Holmes, Steve Jobs, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Birds of Prey, Ocean’s 8, The Trial of the Chicago 7), including three previously unreleased tracks. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 10 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. In related news, a vinyl edition of the score album is scheduled to come out on November 17 and is available for pre-order here. A CD version will be available to order here soon. The label, which has also announced a release of the album in Sony 360RA & Dolby Atmos formats on August 10, has previously released the original score album in June, while Republic Records has released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from and inspired by the movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Philippe Rombi Scoring Yann Gozlan’s ‘Visions’
Posted: August 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Philippe Rombi, Visions, Yann Gozlan
Composer Philippe Rombi (Swimming Pool, Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, Potiche, War of the Buttons, In the House, Angel) is reteaming with director Yann Gozlan (Burn Out, A Perfect Man) on the upcoming French psychological thriller Visions. The film is written and directed by Gozlan (Burn Out, A Perfect Man) and stars Diane Kruger, Mathieu Kassovitz and Marta Nieto. The movie follows a married airline captain who begins an affair with her a former flame, when she gets recurring visions, nightmares and hallucinations and starts losing grip on reality. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Paint It Gold’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Laurent Perez Del Mar, Paint It Gold, Rémi Bezançon, score, Soundtrack, Un coup de maître
Hippocampus has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy Paint It Gold (Un coup de maître). The album features the film’s original music composed by Laurent Perez Del Mar (The Red Turtle, I Kill Giants, My Son, The Mystery of Henri Pick, The Kitchen Brigade, Zarafa). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Paint It Gold is co-written and directed by Rémi Bezançon and stars Vincent Macaigne, Bouli Lanners and Bastien Ughetto. The movie follows an unscrupulous art dealer and his radical painter and longtime friend as they develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Belcher Scoring Eren Celeboglu’s & Ari Costa’s ‘All Fun and Games’
Posted: August 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Belcher, All Fun and Games, Ari Costa, Eren Celeboglu
Alex Belcher (Extraction, 21 Bridges, Citadel, Made in Italy, The Contractor) has recently scored the upcoming horror thriller All Fun and Games. The film is directed by Eren Celeboglu & Ari Costa and stars Natalia Dyer, Asa Butterfield, Laurel Marsden, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth and Annabeth Gish. The movie revolves around a group of Salem teens who discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome versions of childhood games where there can be no winners, only survivors. Read the rest of this entry »
‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’ Season 4 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Plus, Gabriel Mann, High School Musical: The Musical, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for the fourth season of the Disney+ original series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series have been revealed. The album features the songs from the final season of the show performed by cast members Joshua Bassett, Sofia Wylie, Julia Lester, Matt Cornett, Frankie Rodriguez, Dara Reneé, Liamani Segura & others. Also included is the main title “theme” by series composer Gabriel Mann (Modern Family, A Million Little Things). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 9 by Walt Disney Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label has previously released albums featuring the songs from Season 1, Season 2 & Season 3, as well as the 2020 holiday special. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan Deacon Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘The Changeling’
Posted: August 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Dan Deacon, The Changeling
Dan Deacon (Hustle, Ascension, Strawberry Mansion, Wedding Season, Twixt, All Light, Everywhere) is scoring the upcoming Apple TV+ original series The Changeling. The show is developed by Kelly Marcel (Cruella, Venom) based on the bestselling book of the same name by Victor LaValle and stars LaKeith Stanfield, Clark Backo, Adina Porter, Samuel T. Herring, Alexis Louder and Jared Abrahamson. The 8-part drama is being described as a “horror story, a parenthood fable and a perilous odyssey through New York City.” Read the rest of this entry »
‘Toopy & Binoo: The Movie’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Daniel Scott, Dominique Jolin, Raymond Lebrun, score, Soundtrack, Toopy & Binoo, Toopy & Binoo: The Movie
Écho Média has released a soundtrack album for the Canadian animated feature Toopy & Binoo: The Movie. The album features the film’s original score composed, orchestrated and conducted by Daniel Scott (The Kind Words, Troll: The Tale of a Tail). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Toopy & Binoo: The Movie is written and directed by Dominique Jolin & Raymond Lebrun based on Jolin’s children’s book series and TV series of the same name and follows the title characters as they set off on an adventure in search of the mythical land of “Lost and Found” after a funny genie accidentally makes Binoo’s stuffed animal disappear. Read the rest of this entry »
