Film Fest Gent has announced the new album Elliot Goldenthal – Music for Film featuring music by the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s World Soundtrack Awards, including all-new studio recordings of selected scores by the composer performed by the Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by the festival’s music director Dirk Brossé. The album includes two new concert suites for his Academy Award-winning score from Julie Taymor’s Frida, The Grand Gothic Suite, which includes highlights from his Grammy-nominated score for Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever and his never commercially unreleased score for Batman & Robin, the suite Final Fantasia, which celebrates his music for Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and a suite from his score for David Fincher’s Alien 3. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Elliot Goldenthal – Music for Film’ Album Announced
Posted: August 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Elliot Goldenthal, World Soundtrack Awards
‘The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hulu, Kathryn Bostic, score, Soundtrack, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, Tina Mabry
Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the comedy drama The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kathryn Bostic (Clemency, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, Women of the Movement, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, Holiday Rush). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, August 23 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Sycamore Tree) below. The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat is co-written and directed by Tina Mabry and stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sanaa Lathan, Uzo Aduba, Russell Hornsby, Julian McMahon, Vondie Curtis-Hall and Mekhi Phifer. The Searchlight Pictures production is based on Edward Kelsey Moore’s best-selling novel of the same name and follows a trio of best friends who see their bond put to the test as illness and heartbreak stir up the past and threaten to destroy their friendship. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Night Call’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: August 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: La nuit se traîne, Michiel Blanchart, Night Call, score, Soundtrack, TEPR
Gaumont will release a soundtrack album for the Belgian/French thriller Night Call (La nuit se traîne). The album features the film’s original music composed by TEPR (aka Tanguy Destable) who has made his feature scoring debut on the project. The soundtrack will be released digitally next Wednesday, August 28 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Three first tracks are already available to stream/download now and can be checked out after the jump. Night Call is directed by Michiel Blanchart and stars Jonathan Feltre, Jonas Bloquet, Romain Duris, Natacha Krief and Thomas Mustin. The movie follows a student by day and locksmith by night who sees his life take a dramatic turn when he opens a wrong door and accidentally finds himself involved with organized crime. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nice Girls’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Erwann Chandon, Netflix, Nice Girls, Noémie Saglio, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the French Netflix original film Nice Girls. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Erwann Chandon (Simon’s Got a Gift, Open Season, A Polar Year). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s main theme after the jump. Nice Girls is co-written and directed by Noémie Saglio and stars Alice Taglioni, Stéfi Celma, Baptiste Lecaplain, Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Étienne, Lucien Jean-Baptiste and Katrina Durden. The action comedy follows a maverick cop and a meticulous detective who join forces with a charming ex-hacker to solve an officer’s disappearance and save Nice from disaster. Read the rest of this entry »
Cody Fry Scoring Seth Worley’s ‘Sketch’
Posted: August 20, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cody Fry, Seth Worley, Sketch
Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Cody Fry has made his feature scoring debut on the upcoming fantasy adventure Sketch. The film is written and directed by Seth Worley and stars Tony Hale, D’Arcy Carden, Bianca Belle and Kue Lawrence. The movie, which is being described as reminiscent of family classics such as Gremlins, Jumanji & The Goonies revolves around a grieving family who has to band together to fight off a young girl’s peculiar drawings that come to life, leaving a wake of chaos and crayon dust. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 20, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: H. Scott Salinas, score, Soundtrack, Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels, Tomás Videla
H. Scott Salinas (A Private War, The Banker, Warrior, Cartel Land, Full Swing, Birth of the Dragon) has released a soundtrack album for the giant screen documentary Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels. The album features the film’s original music composed by Salinas and Tomás Videla. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ main titles track below. Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels is narrated by Matthew McConaughey and explores the inner workings of the human body. The MacGillivray Freeman Films production reveals some of the scientific breakthroughs that are changing the course of human health, as told through the stories of people who have benefitted from the innovations and the scientists and bioengineers who brought them to life. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Andrews Scoring Morgan Neville’s ‘Piece by Piece’
Posted: August 20, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Michael Andrews, Morgan Neville, Piece by Piece
Composer Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko, Bridesmaids, Freaks & Geeks, Daddy’s Home, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Bad Teacher, Funny People) is reuniting with director Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor, 20 Feet from Stardom) on the upcoming animated documentary Piece by Piece. The movie marks Neville’s animated feature debut and tells the life story of singer and producer Pharrell Williams through LEGO pieces featuring the voices of Williams himself, Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg and Pusha T. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Boneyard’ Soundtrack Album to Be Released
Posted: August 20, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Morgan Smith, Asif Akbar, Boneyard, Soundtrack
The crime thriller Boneyard is getting a soundtrack release. The album features the songs from the movie by artists such as Kyle Martin, KG, JGray, Puka, Courtney Akbar, Kruz Romer, Dermon & others. Also included are four tracks from the movie’s original score composed by Andrew Morgan Smith (Jeepers Creepers III, The Old Way, Bunker, You Might Be the Killer, The Culling). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 21 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Boneyard is directed by Asif Akbar and stars Brian Van Holt, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Nora Zehetner, Michael Sirow and Mel Gibson. The movie follows a multi-agency investigation launched when the remains of eleven women are discovered in the New Mexico desert. Read the rest of this entry »
Disasterpeace Scoring Olivier Sarbil’s ‘Viktor’
Posted: August 20, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disasterpeace, Olivier Sarbil, Rich Vreeland, Viktor
Disasterpeace (aka Rich Vreeland) (It Follows, Under the Silver Lake, Triple Frontier, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) has composed the original music for the upcoming documentary Viktor. The film is directed by Olivier Sarbil (On the President’s Order) and centers on Viktor Korotovskyi, a young deaf man in Kharkiv, who lost his hearing at age five and is frustrated by his inability to defend his country when the war breaks out in Ukraine. He convinces the local army to take him on as a volunteer photographer and embarks on a quest to find his place in the midst of a war he cannot hear. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cuckoo’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: August 20, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cuckoo, score, Simon Waskow, Soundtrack, Tilman Singer
Atlantic Screen Music/Filmtrax will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Cuckoo. The album features the film’s original music composed by Simon Waskow (Luz). The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 30 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Gretchen’s Song by Waskow & lead actress Hunter Schafer) is already available to stream/download now and can also be checked out after the jump. Mutant will release a vinyl edition. Cuckoo is written and directed by Tilman Singer and also stars Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csókás, Jan Bluthardt, Mila Lieu, Greta Fernández, Proschat Madani, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Konrad Singer and Kalin Morrow. The movie centers on a young American woman who travels to Germany, where she comes across some dark secrets and gets drawn into a conspiracy involving bizarre experiments,. Read the rest of this entry »
