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 »
‘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
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 »
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 »
Isobel Waller-Bridge Scoring Sky’s & Starz’s ‘Sweetpea’
Posted: August 20, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Isobel Waller-Bridge, Sky, Starz, Sweetpea
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, Wicked Little Letters, Vita & Virginia, The Phantom of the Open, Munich: The Edge of War, Roar) is the composer of the upcoming Sky/Starz original series Sweetpea. The show is based C.J. Skuse’s cult novel of the same name and stars Ella Purnell, Nicôle Lecky, Jon Pointing, Calam Lynch, Jeremy Swift, Leah Harvey and Dustin Demri-Burns. The 6-part comedic thriller is directed by Ella Jones and follows a quiet wallflower who develops a vengeful and intoxicatingly liberating taste for murder. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Zénithal’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 20, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jean-Baptiste Saurel, Manuel Peskine, score, Soundtrack, Zénithal
Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the French action comedy Zénithal. The album features the film’s original music composed by Manuel Peskine. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s opening theme after the jump. Zénithal is co-written and directed by Jean-Baptiste Saurel and stars Vanessa Guide, Franc Bruneau and Xavier Lacaille. The movie revolves around a Kung Fu master who is murdered by an evil villain in his destructive quest for power, and the faithful students who must avenge their great teacher’s death. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Foul Play’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: August 19, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Charles Fox, Colin Higgins, Foul Play, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1978 romantic comedy thriller Foul Play written and directed by Colin Higgins and starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, Eugene Roche, Brian Dennehy and Billy Barty. The 2-CD se features the expanded original music from the film composed and conducted by Charles Fox (9 to 5, Short Circuit 2, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Little Darlings, Love American Style), including the complete score (including previously unreleased music), source music and alternate tracks on the first disc, and a remastered version of the original soundtrack album, as well the complete suite of cues recorded for The Mikado on the second disc. Also included is the Academy Award-nominated original song Ready to Take a Chance Again written by Fox & Norman Gimbel and performed by Barry Manilow. The soundtrack is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Take My Hand’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 19, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Angela Little, John Raftopoulos, score, Soundtrack, Take My Hand
Angela Little (Never Too Late, The Clinic, Streamline, Dive Club, Swimming for Gold, Back of the Net) will release a soundtrack album for the Australian drama Take My Hand. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and will be released digitally tomorrow, August 20 (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack). Also listen to the composer’s opening titles track below. Take My Hand is co-written and directed by John Raftopoulos and stars Radha Mitchell, Adam Demos, Bart Edwards, Meg Fraser and Xavier Molyneux. The movie revolves around a successful career woman living in London who gets diagnosed with MS and – following the sudden death of her husband and the loss of her job – moves back home to Australia, where a chance encounter with her high school sweetheart gives her renewed hope in love as she battles the disease. Read the rest of this entry »
Antonio Pinto & Gabriel Ferreira Scoring Todd Komarnicki’s ‘Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.’
Posted: August 19, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Antonio Pinto, Bonhoeffer, Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin, Gabriel Ferreira, Todd Komarnicki
Antonio Pinto (City of God, McFarland, USA, Nine Days, Shot Caller, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Self/Less, Lord of War) and Gabriel Ferreira (Pele, Dom) have teamed up to score the upcoming biographical/historical drama/thriller Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. The film is written and directed by Todd Komarnicki (Resistance, Sully) and stars Jonas Dassler, Moritz Bleibtreu, August Diehl, David Jonsson, Flula Borg, Nadine Heidenreich and Lisa Hofer. The movie tells the true story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pacifist pastor determined to live his life with uncompromising political and spiritual courage while choosing to live in Berlin during the Third Reich. Read the rest of this entry »