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 »
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
‘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 »
‘Billie’s Magic World’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 15, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Billie's Magic World, Emanuele Frusi, Francesco Cinquemani, score, Soundtrack
The Designers/Strag have released a soundtrack album for the Italian family comedy Billie’s Magic World. The album features the film’s original music composed by Emanuele Frusi (A Bunch of Bastards, Jackhammer, Underworld, Calibro 9). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. Listen to the composer’s main theme after the jump. Billie’s Magic World is co-written and directed by Francesco Cinquemani and stars Alec Baldwin, Valeria Marini, Soraya Azzabi, Mia McGovern Zaini, Elva Trill and William Baldwin. The movie follows a young girl who accepts an invitation from two strangers to a mysterious castle, where she soon discovers that it’s the trap of a supervillain who uses the anger and sadness of his captives as fuel. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Bear Scoring Niclas Larsson’s ‘Mother Couch’
Posted: August 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Bear, Mother Couch, Niclas Larsson
Christopher Bear (of the indie rock band Grizzly Bear) (Past Lives, High Maintenance, Swallowed) has composed the original score for the upcoming comedy drama Mother Couch. The film is directed by Niclas Larsson and stars Ewan McGregor, Taylor Russell, Ellen Burstyn, Lara Flynn Boyle, F. Murray Abraham and Rhys Ifans. The movie is based on the novel Mamma I Soffa by Jerker Virdborg and centers on three estranged children who come together when their mother refuses to move from a couch in a furniture store. Read the rest of this entry »
‘How Will I Know’ Cover from Paramount+’s ‘Love in Taipei’ Released
Posted: August 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arvin Chen, dv/sn, Love in Taipei, Paramount+, Priska
Lionsgate Records has released the cover version of Whitney Houston’s How Will I Know from the Paramount+ original movie Love in Taipei. Zhe Shi Bu Shi Ai is performed by Priska & dv/sn and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. Love in Taipei is directed by Arvin Chen and stars Ashley Liao, Ross Butler, Nico Hiraga, Cindy Cheung and Chelsea Zhang. The YA romance (scored by Roger Suen) based the best-selling novel byAbigail Hing Wen premiered last Thursday and is now available to stream on Paramount+. Read the rest of this entry »