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 »
Expanded ‘Foul Play’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: August 19, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Charles Fox, Colin Higgins, Foul Play, score, Soundtrack
‘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 »
‘Hunting Daze’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 19, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Annick Blanc, Hunting Daze, Jour de chasse, Peter Venne, score, Soundtrack
Studio Viking has released a soundtrack album for the Canadian thriller Hunting Daze (Jour de chasse). Hunting Daze is written and directed by. The album features the film’s original music composed by Peter Venne (The Twentieth Century, Adventures in the Land of Asha, Les barbares de La Malbaie, Avant qu’on explose). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Hunting Daze is directed by Annick Blanc and stars Nahéma Ricci, Bruno Marcil, Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi, Alexandre Landry, Marc Beaupré, Maxime Genois and Noubi Ndiaye. The movie follows a young woman who joins a group of hunters in a remote cabin. when a mysterious stranger appears and disrupts her newfound place in their male micro-society. Read the rest of this entry »
Federico Jusid Scoring Peter Cattaneo’s ‘The Penguin Lessons’
Posted: August 19, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Federico Jusid, Peter Cattaneo, The Penguin Lessons
Federico Jusid (The Secret In Their Eyes, The English, A Gentleman in Moscow, Watership Down, Misconduct, The Head, Life Itself) is scoring the upcoming comedy drama The Penguin Lessons. The film is directed by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty, The Rocker) and stars Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, Vivian El Jaber, Alfonsina Carrocio, Björn Gustafsson and David Herrero. The movie is based on Tom Michell’s nonfiction book of the same title and the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who travels to in Buenos Aires in 1976 to take up a teaching position at a prestigious English boarding school and whose life is turned upside down when he finds a small penguin washed up on an oil-slicked beach.. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Quisling – The Final Days’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 19, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Erik Poppe, Jonas Colstrup, Quisling - The Final Days, Quislings siste dager, score, Soundtrack
Aroona has released a soundtrack album for the Norwegian historical drama Quisling – The Final Days (Quislings siste dager). The album features the film’s original music composed by Jonas Colstrup (The Square, Tigers, The Gullspång Miracle, President, The Shadow Play, In the Blood). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also check out the composer’s title track after the jump. Quisling – The Final Days is directed by Erik Poppe and stars Gard Bjørnstjerne Eidsvold, Anders Danielsen Lie, Lisa Loven Kongsli and Lisa Carlehed. The movie centers on Vidkun Quisling, Prime Minister of Norway, a notorious Nazi collaborator and responsible for one of the greatest betrayals during World War II. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of ‘Island of Terror’ Score Released
Posted: August 19, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Edward Bernds, Island of Terror, Malcolm Lockyer, Ruby Raksin, Terence Fisher, Valley of the Dragons
Dragon’s Domain Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1966 British horror cult classic Island of Terror directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Edward Judd. The film’s original score written by Malcolm Lockyer (Ten Little Indians, Dr. Who and the Daleks, Night of the Big Heat, Deadlier Than the Male) is being released as part of the label’s The Golden Age of Science Fiction – Vol. 6 , which also includes the first-ever release of the music from the 1961 sci-fi movie Valley of the Dragons (written and directed by Edward Bernds based on Jules Verne’s Off on a Comet and starring Cesare Danova, Sean McClory, Joan Staley & Danielle De Metz) composed by Ruby Raksin. Visit the label’s official website for the full details of the limited edition CD, to order the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 18, 2024)
Posted: August 18, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chip Crazy, David Mitcham, Fifteen-Love, HBO, Hulu, Jessica Jones, Jonathan Sadoff, Kathryn Bostic, Marco Beltrami, Nainita Desai, National Geographic, Netflix, OceanXplorers, Peacock, Secret Lives of Orangutans, The Killer, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, Tim Morrish
Premiering today is the National Geographic original documentary series OceanXplorers and narrated by James Cameron and executive produced by Cameron, Maria Wilhelm, Roger Webb, Orla Doherty, Ray Dalio, Vincent Pieribone, Mark Dalio, Joe Ruffolo and Kevin Tao Mohs about OceanX’s state-of-the-art scientific research and exploration vessel. The show’s original music is composed by Nainita Desai (For Sama, The Deepest Breath, Nautilus, The Tower, The Reason I Jump, Crossfire, Funny Woman). Check out our previous news article for more information about the 6-parter, which will air on National Geographic and will also be available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu.
Also premiering today is the HBO documentary series Chimp Crazy directed by Eric Goode and executive produced by Jeremy McBride, Goode, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller & Tina Nguyen about the secretive world of raising chimpanzees and and the colorful and complicated cast of characters that inhabit it. Jonathan Sadoff (The Peanut Butter Falcon, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Ingrid Goes West, Dollface, Angelyne, Under the Boardwalk) has composed the show’s original music. Click here to check out the trailer for the 4-parter, which will air on HBO and will also be available to stream on Max. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Secret Lives of Orangutans’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 18, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Mitcham, Huw Cordey, Netflix, score, Secret Lives of Orangutans, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary Secret Lives of Orangutans. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Mitcham (Dancing with the Birds, The Last Orangutan Eden, The Elephant, the Emperor and the Butterfly Tree, Wonder of Song) and performed by The Dream Town Orchestra. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s opening track after the jump. Secret Lives of Orangutans is directed by Huw Cordey, executive produced by Keith Scholey and narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The Silverback Films production follows a group of orangutans in the pristine jungles of Sumatra, including an 8-year old who’s about to embark on the most challenging moment of her life. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Willis Scoring Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s ‘Goodrich’
Posted: August 17, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Willis, Goodrich, Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Christopher Willis (The Death of Stalin, Veep, The Personal History of David Copperfield, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, Schmigadoon!, The Lion Guard, Old Dads) has provided the original score for the upcoming comedy Goodrich. The film is written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer (Home Again) and stars Michael Keaton, Mila Kunis, Carmen Ejogo, Lauren Benanti, Kevin Pollak, Michael Urie, Viven Lyra Blair, Danny Deferrari, Nico Haraga and Andie MacDowell. The movie follows a man whose life is upended when his wife and mother of their 9-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. Read the rest of this entry »
