The full details of the album Elliot Goldenthal – Music for Film have been revealed. The album features music by this year’s recipient of the World Soundtrack Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, Elliot Goldenthal, including all-new studio recordings of selected scores by the Academy Award-winning composer performed by the Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by WAS music director Dirk Brossé. As previously reported, the record includes the world premiere release of two complete concert suites, the Grand Gothic Suite with highlights from the composer’s score for Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever and Batman & Robin and Final Fantasia with music from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Further highlights include selections from Goldenthal’s scores for Julie Taymor’s Frida & Titus, David Fincher’s Alien³, Michael Mann’s Heat and Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire. Elliot Goldenthal – Music for Film will be released digitally this Friday, October 18 by Silva Screen Records (click here to stream/download). A CD version is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Elliot Goldenthal – Music for Film’ Album Details
Posted: October 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Elliot Goldenthal, World Soundtrack Awards
‘Godzilla Minus One’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Godzilla Minus One, Naoki Sato, score, Soundtrack, Takashi Yamazaki
Milan Records has released a new soundtrack album for the Japanese monster movie Godzilla Minus One. The album features the film’s expanded original score composed by Naoki Sato (Dragon Ball Super: Super, Rurouni Kenshin, Pretty Cure, Blood-C, X). The Deluxe Edition soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Rambling Records has released a CD version in Japan (click here to order the CD as an import). The original soundtrack album was released last November. Godzilla Minus One is written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki and stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Munetaka Aoki, Sakura Ando, Yuki Yamada, Hidetaka Yoshioka and Kuranosuke Sasaki. Read the rest of this entry »
Premiere Vinyl Edition of Basil Poledouris’ ‘RoboCop 3’ Score Announced
Posted: October 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Basil Poledouris, Fred Dekker, RoboCop, RoboCop 3, score, Soundtrack
Varèse Sarabande and Craft Recordings have announced the first-ever vinyl release of the soundtrack for the 1993 action sequel RoboCop 3 directed by Fred Dekker and starring Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen and Rip Torn. The album features the film’s original score composed by Basil Poledouris (Conan the Barbarian, Starship Troopers, The Hunt for Red October, For the Love of the Game) who also scored Paul Verhoeven’s original RoboCop movie and will be available as a “Delta City Yellow” 2-LP pressing, which comes housed in a gatefold jacket featuring brand-new artwork from illustrator Estevan Silveira. The soundtrack will be released on January 17, 2025 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lyttanya Shannon, Netflix, Roshan Gunga, score, Soundtrack, Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the British Netflix original documentary Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare. The album features the film’s original music composed by Roshan Gunga (The Mother the Son the Rat and the Gun). 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 after the jump. Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare directed by Lyttanya Shannon is inspired by the hit podcast and centers on Kirat Assi who – after an online friendship blossoms into true love – finds herself turning into a detective to uncover the truth behind her mysterious fiancé, Bobby. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe Scoring Jaume Collet-Serra’s ‘Carry-On’
Posted: October 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Carry-On, Jaume Collet-Serra, Lorne Balfe, Netflix
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Black Widow, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Top Gun: Maverick, Bad Boys for Life, His Dark Materials) has composed the original music for the upcoming Netflix original film Carry-On. The movie is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Non-Stop) and stars Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Logan Marshall-Green, Sinqua Walls, Theo Rossi, Josh Brener and Dean Norris. The thriller follows an airport security agent fights to outsmart a mysterious traveler who blackmails him into letting a dangerous package slip onto a Christmas Eve flight. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The World Upside Down’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: C'est le monde a l'envers!, Matteo Locasciulli, Nicolas Vanier, score, Soundtrack, The World Upside Down
Gaumont has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy drama The World Upside Down (C’est le monde a l’envers!). The album features the film’s original music composed by Matteo Locasciulli (Weekend in Taipei, Rumba Therapy, Champagne, Home Sweet Rome!, We Have a Dream, Inestimable). 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. The World Upside Down is directed by Nicolas Vanier and stars Michaël Youn, Eric Elmosnino, Valérie Bonneton and Barbara Schulz. The movie follows Parisian trader who – after losing everything – is forced to take refuge on a country farm with his wife and child. Read the rest of this entry »
Cat Missal’s ‘Mr. Brightside’ Cover from ‘Tell Me Lies’ Season 2 Released
Posted: October 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Cat Missal, Hulu, Tell Me Lies
Hollywood Records has released the cover version of the The Killers song Mr. Brightside from the Season 2 finale of the second season of the Hulu original series Tell Me Lies. The track (originally written by Brandon Flowers & Dave Keuning) produced the show’s composer Jay Wadley and performed by Cat Missal (who stars as Bree) and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. Tell Me Lies is created by Meaghan Oppenheimer based on the novel of the same name by Carola Lovering and also stars Grace Van Patten, Jackson White, Branden Cook, Spencer House, Sonia Mena, Alicia Crowder and Tom Ellis. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Memoir of a Snail’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adam Elliot, Elena Kats-Chernin, Memoir of a Snail, score, Soundtrack
ABC Classic has released a soundtrack album for the Australian stop-motion animated feature Memoir of a Snail. The album features the film’s original music written by composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin (best known for her ballet Wild Swans) and performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the title track after the jump. Memoir of a Snail is written and directed by Adam Elliot and features the voices of Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jacki Weaver. The movie tells the story of lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books who falls into a series of misfortunes after being separated from her twin brother and strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman who is full of grit and lust for life. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of Michel Colombier’s ‘Major League II’ Score Announced
Posted: October 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David S. Ward, Major League II, Michel Colombier, score, Soundtrack
Enjoy the Ride Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1994 sports comedy sequel Major League II directed by David S. Ward and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Omar Epps, James Gammon, Eric Bruskotter, Takaaki Ishibashi and David Keith. The soundtrack is being released as a limited edition vinyl (in three different variants) and features the songs from the film by artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lyle Lovett, X, Albert King, Maurice John Vaughn, Jimmie Vaughan & Double Trouble, as well world premiere release of the movie’s original score composed by Michel Colombier (The Golden Child, Against All Odds, The Money Pit, Purple Rain, Asterix and the Big Fight). Visit the label’s official website to order the album and for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pimpinero: Blood and Oil’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Andrés Baiz, Pedro Bromfman, Pimpinero: Blood and Oil, Pimpinero: Sangre y Gasolina, score, Soundtrack
Amazon Content Services has released a soundtrack album for the Columbian crime thriller Pimpinero: Blood and Oil (Pimpinero: Sangre y Gasolina). The album features the film’s original music composed by Pedro Bromfman (Narcos, RoboCop, Elite Squad, Far Cry 6, Thumper). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and most other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Carreras) below. Pimpinero: Blood and Oil is co-written and directed by Andrés Baiz and stars Laura Osma, Alejandro Speitzer, Alberto Guerra and Juanes. The movie is set in the early 2010s and takes place in the treacherous desert bordering Colombia and Venezuela, where gasoline smugglers or pimpineros risk their lives transporting illegal fuel. Read the rest of this entry »
