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 »
‘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
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Owen Pallett Scoring Kristoffer Borgli’s ‘Dream Scenario’
Posted: August 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dream Scenario, Kristoffer Borgli, Owen Pallett
Owen Pallett (Her, The Box, On the Count of Three, Life, Alice/Darling, Spaceship Earth) is scoring the upcoming comedy Dream Scenario. The film is written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli and stars Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Dylan Gelula, Tim Meadows and Dylan Baker. The movie revolves around an inconspicuous academic who is thrust into the limelight after he starts inexplicably appearing in people’s dreams. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Breaking Point’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Breaking Point, Dania Pasquini, Max Giwa, Soundtrack
Rhino Records has released a second soundtrack album for the British drama Breaking Point. The album features thirteen songs from the film performed by artists such as Mark Morrison, Kojey Radical, Pa Salieu, Luude, Nate Brazier, Sean Paul, Martin Kohlstedt, Tion Wayne & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. As previously reported, the label has also released a separate album featuring Ollie Howell’s & C Palmer’s original score from the movie. Breaking Point is directed by Max Giwa & Dania Pasquini and stars Karam Singh, Kelvin Clarke, Jilou, Hannah John-Kamen, Emily Carey and Lucian Msamati. Read the rest of this entry »
Ramin Djawadi Scoring Pixar’s Disney+ Series ‘Win or Lose’
Posted: August 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, Pixar, Ramin Djawadi, Win or Lose
Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Iron Man, Westworld, Pacific Rim, Eternals, Uncharted, Clash of the Titans) has been tapped to score the upcoming Disney+ original animated series Win or Lose. The show marks Pixar Animation Studios’ first-ever long-form animated series and follows a coed middle school softball team, in the week leading up to their championship game. Each episode offers a look inside the off-the-field life of a character – a player, their parent, the umpire. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of David Shire’s ‘Killer Bees’ Score Announced
Posted: August 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Curtis Harrington, David Shire, Harpy, Isn't It Shocking?, Killer Bees, score, Soundtrack
Caldera Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1974 television movie Killer Bees directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Gloria Swanson, Kate Jackson, Craig Stevens, John Getz and Edward Albert. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by David Shire (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Conversation, All the President’s Men, Zodiac, Return to Oz, Short Circuit). Also included are selections of the composer’s scores from two other TV movies: 1973’s Isn’t It Shocking? (directed by John Badham) and 1971’s Harpy. Visit the label’s official website for more information about the CD release and to check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Lane Scoring MGM+’s ‘The Winter King’
Posted: August 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ITVX, MGM+, Rob Lane, The Winter King
Rob Lane (John Adams, Merlin, Atlantis, The Damned United, Beowulf) has recently scored the new MGM+ original series The Winter King. The show is developed by Kate Brooke (Bancroft, Mr Selfridge) & Ed Whitmore (Manhunt, Identity) based on Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord Chronicles and stars Iain De Caestecker, Eddie Marsan, Ellie James, Stuart Campbell, Nathaniel Martello-White, Daniel Ings, Jordan Alexandra, Valene Kane and Simon Merrells. The drama is set in the fifth century, long before Britain was united, and follows Arthur Pendragon as he evolves from outcast to legendary warrior and leader. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 13, 2023)
Posted: August 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Freevee, Hannah Parrott, Harlan Coben’s Shelter, Ian Livingstone, Puppy Love
Premiering on Friday, August 18, is the Freevee original movie Puppy Love directed by Richard Alan Reid & Nicholas Fabiano and starring Lucy Hale, Grant Gustin, Michael Hitchcock, Nore Davis and Jane Seymour. The film’s original music is composed by Ian Livingstone (Battlefield 1943, Book of Love, 97 Minutes, Total War: Warhammer, The Messenger, The King Maker). The comedy, which is inspired by BuzzFeed’s viral digital series Puppyhood about a man who found his soulmate in a puppy, will be available to stream exclusively on Freevee. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Revolver Lily’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Isao Yukisada, Revolver Lily, score, Soundtrack, Yoshihiro Hanno
Toei Company has released a soundtrack album for the Japanese action adventure Revolver Lily. The album features the film’s original music composed by Yoshihiro Hanno (Mountains May Depart, The Best Is Yet to Come, Winter Boy). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. Check out the composer’s opening theme after the jump. Revolver Lily is directed by Isao Yukisada and stars Haruka Ayase, Hiroki Hasegawa, Shishido Kavka, Jinsei Hamura and Kotone Furukawa. The movie is set in 1924 and centers on a woman who killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel, where she encounters an orphan who holds the key to finding a large sum of money reported missing by the Imperial Japanese Army. Read the rest of this entry »
Hannah Parrott Scoring Amazon’s ‘Harlan Coben’s Shelter’
Posted: August 12, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Hannah Parrott, Harlan Coben’s Shelter
Hannah Parrott (Head Count, The Croods: Family Tree, When Jeff Tried to Save the World, Last Three Days, Golden Arm) is the composer of the new Amazon original series Harlan Coben’s Shelter. The show is created by Coben (The Stranger, Stay Close) and stars Jaden Michael, Constance Zimmer, Adrian Greensmith, Tovah Feldshuh, Abby Corrigan, Sage Linder and Brian Altemus. The 8-part thriller follows a teenager who – after the sudden death of his father – leads him to start a new life in Kasselton, New Jersey, where he quickly finds himself tangled in the mysterious disappearance of a new student at his school, which leads to uncovering unimaginable secrets within their quiet suburban community. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 11, 2023)
Posted: August 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aporia, Bear McCreary, Between Two Worlds, Evgueni Galperine, Frank Hall, H. Scott Salinas, Heart of Stone, Inside Man, Jules, Lionel Cohen, Mathieu Lamboley, Miranda y Tobar, Operation Napoleon, Sacha Galperine, Steven Price, The Eternal Memory, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, The Monkey King, The Pod Generation, Toby Chu, Volker Bertelmann
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the supernatural horror movie The Last Voyage of Demeter directed by André Øvredal and starring Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Jon Jon Briones, Liam Cunningham, Javier Botet and David Dastmalchian. The film’s original music is composed by Bear McCreary (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Outlander, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Walking Dead). Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Click here for the full album details for the full album details and to learn more about the Universal Pictures release.
Opening in around 800 theaters is the sci-fi comedy drama Jules directed by Marc Turtletaub and starring Ben Kingsley, Jane Curtin, Zoe Winters, Harriet Sansom Harris, Anna George, Cody Kostro and Donald Paul. Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet on the Western Front, Lion, Hotel Mumbai, Adrift, The Old Guard, Patrick Melrose) has composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced. Check out our previous article for more information about the movie, which premiered at this year’s Sonoma Film Festival and is being distributed by Bleecker Street. Read the rest of this entry »
