Deadline is reporting that Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is set to direct Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the 1970 animated classic The Aristocats. He will also oversee the music for the movie, which follows a pedigreed cat and her kittens who are catnapped by a greedy butler. Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit, Easy A) is producing the project and is also co-writing the screenplay with Keith Bunin (Onward, Horns). Read the rest of this entry »
Questlove to Direct and Oversee Music for Disney’s Live-Action ‘The Aristocats’ Movie
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Questlove, The Aristocats
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‘Godfather of Harlem’ Season 3 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Godfather of Harlem, MGM+, Soundtrack, Swiss Beatz
Epic Records has released a new soundtrack album for the MGM+ (formerly Epix) original series Godfather of Harlem. The album features the songs from the third season of the drama by the project’s executive music producer Swiss Beatz, as well as Busta Rhymes feat. Bilal, Snoop Dogg, Mike Dimes, Dave East, Lord Afrixana, Jadakiss, BEAM & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The label has previously released an album featuring the songs from Season 2, as well as multiple digital singles featuring music from all three seasons. Godfather of Harlem is created by Chris Brancato & Paul Eckstein and stars Forest Whitaker, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lucy Fry, Ilfenesh Hadera, Giancarlo Esposito, Whoopi Goldberg and Antoinette Crowe-Legacy. Read the rest of this entry »
Ian Hultquist Scoring AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, Ian Hultquist, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Dead City
Ian Hultquist (Dickinson, Assassination Nation, Rosaline, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Night Teeth, One of Us Is Lying, Good Girls) is scoring the upcoming AMC original series The Walking Dead: Dead City. The show is the first sequel to the original The Walking Dead series (scored by Bear McCreary in its first seasons and co-scored by McCreary & Sam Ewing in later seasons) and stars Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gaius Charles, Karina Ortiz, Zeljko Ivanek, Jonathan Higginbotham and Mahina Napoleon. The drama follows Maggie & Negan as they are traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan that is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wild Isles’ Episode ‘Grassland’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, George Fenton, score, Soundtrack, Wild Isles
Shogun Music has released the third soundtrack album for the BBC natural history series Wild Isles. The album features the original music from the show’s third episode (Grassland) composed by Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner George Fenton (Dangerous Liaisons, The Blue Planet, Groundhog Day, Gandhi, Anna and the King, Hitch, Ever After). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on most major digital music services, including Amazon. The label two soundtracks featuring the composer’s score from Episode 1 (Our Precious Isles) and Episode 2 (Woodland) and two more albums will be coming out next month. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 26, 2023)
Posted: March 26, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, FX, Great Expectations, Hulu, Keefus Ciancia, Mark Foster, Morgan Kibby, Netflix, Nick Sena, Paramount+, Rabbit Hole, Siddhartha Khosla, Sven Faulconer, The Big Door Prize, The Power, Unstable, Zachary Dawes
Premiering today is the Paramount+ original series Rabbit Hole created by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Charles Dance, Enid Graham, Meta Golding, Walt Klink, Jason Butler Harner and Rob Yang. The show’s original music is composed by Siddhartha Khosla (Only Murders in the Building, This Is Us, Runaways, Queenpins, Looking for Alaska, Your Place or Mine). Check out our previous article to learn more about the thriller, which will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
Also premiering today is the FX/BBC limited series Great Expectations developed by Steven Knight based on Charles Dickens’ novel and starring Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Johnny Harris, Ashley Thomas, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Tom Sweet and Matt Berry. Keefus Ciancia (Killing Eve, True Detective, Made for Love, London Spy, Nashville, Diana, The Fall) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the 6-part drama, which is premiering in the UK on BBC One and is making its U.S. debut on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »
Eoin O’Callaghan Scoring BBC’s ‘Blue Lights’
Posted: March 26, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Blue Lights, Eoin O'Callaghan
Eoin O’Callaghan (Quinn Country, Heyday – The Mic Christopher Story) is the composer of the new BBC drama Blue Lights. The show is created by Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson (The Salisbury Poisonings, Rogue Agent) and stars Siân Brooke, Nathan Braniff, Katherine Devli, Richard Dormer, Martin McCann, John Lynch, Joanne Crawford, Hannah McClean, Jonathan Harden and Andi Osho. The series in set in Belfast and follows three PSNI recruits as they fight against criminal gangs, undercover agents, their own communities and even their own police force. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Gunning (1944 – 2023)
Posted: March 25, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Christopher Gunning
Christopher Gunning has passed away at age 78. The British composer has written numerous scores for film and television over a four decade-spanning career. Among his best known credits is his score for Olivier Dahan’s 2007 biopic La Vie en rose, for which he received the (BAFTA) Anthony Asquith Award. He composed the music for the first nine seasons of the long-running TV show Agatha Christie’s Poirot, for which he was honored with a BAFTA TV Award. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Shrinking’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 25, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, score, Shrinking, Soundtrack, Tom Howe
WaterTower Music has released the first soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series Shrinking. The album features the original score from the show’s first season composed by Tom Howe (Ted Lasso, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Daisy Jones & The Six, Early Man, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women). Also included is the main title theme song Frightening Fishes (by Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard & Tom Howe), which has previously been released as a digital single. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon and most other major digital music services. Shrinking is created by Jason Segel, Bill Lawrence & Brett Goldstein and stars Segel himself, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Christa Miller, Michael Urie and Lukita Maxwell. Read the rest of this entry »
Kenji Kawai Scoring Netflix’s ‘Ooku: The Inner Chambers’
Posted: March 25, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Kenji Kawai, Netflix, Ooku: The Inner Chambers
Netflix announced today at Anime Japan that Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell, Death Note, Ip Man, Resident Evil: Vendetta) is scoring the streamer’s upcoming original anime series Ooku: The Inner Chambers. The show is based on the manga of the same title by Fumi Yoshinaga, directed by Noriyuki Abe (Bleach) and written by Rika Takasugi. The Studio Deen production is inspired by the historic women’s quarters of the Edo Castle and follows the nation’s women as they are forced to take up the central roles of authority in Edo society when a mysterious plague causes a rapid decline in the male population. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 24, 2023)
Posted: March 24, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Good Person, Alexander Bornstein, Alexandre Desplat, Bryce Dessner, Florencia di Concilio, Joel J. Richard, John Wick: Chapter 4, Lorne Balfe, Murder Mystery 2, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Tetris, The Five Devils, The Lost King, The Tutor, Tyler Bates
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the action thriller John Wick: Chapter 4 directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Rina Sawayama, Bill Skarsgård, Shamier Anderson, Lance Reddick, Laurence Fishburne and Ian McShane. The film’s original score is composed by Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, 300, Deadpool 2, Watchmen) & Joel J. Richard (Quantico, Books of Blood). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score, as well as two original songs by Sawayama and In This Moment & more. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Lionsgate release.
Opening semi-wide in around 750 theaters is the British comedy drama The Lost King directed by Stephen Frears and starring Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan, Mark Addy and Harry Lloyd. Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Queen, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Queen) has composed the film’s original music. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last fall when the movie opened in the UK. Check out our previous article for the full album details and for more information about the dramedy, which is being released in the U.S. by IFC Films. Read the rest of this entry »
