Stefan L. Smith is the composer of the new DC animated movie Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham. The film is directed by Sam Liu (Batman: The Killing Joke, The Death and Return of Superman) & Christopher Berkeley (Young Justice) and features the voice talent of David Giuntoli, Tati Gabrielle, Christopher Gorham, Patrick Fabian, John DiMaggio and David Dastmalchian. The Warner Bros. Animation production is inspired by the comic book series by Mike Mignola, Richard Pace & Troy Nixey and tells a 1920s-based tale that finds explorer Bruce Wayne accidentally unleashing an ancient evil, expediting his return to Gotham City after a two-decade hiatus. Read the rest of this entry »
Stefan L. Smith Scoring DC’s ‘Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham’
Posted: March 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, Christopher Berkeley, Sam Liu, Stefan L. Smith
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‘Unruly’ (‘Ustyrlig’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: March 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lisa Montan, Malou Reymann, score, Soundtrack, Unruly, Ustyrlig
Oona Records has released a soundtrack album for the Danish drama Unruly (Ustyrlig). The album features the film’s original music composed by Lisa Montan (Euphoria, Exodus, Flocken, Beyond Dreams). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio clips. Unruly is co-written and directed by Malou Reymann and stars Emilie Kroyer Koppel, Jessica Dinnage, Lene Maria Christensen, Danica Curcic, Anders Heinrichsen, Josephine Reumert Grau and Amalie Drud Abildgaard. The movie centers on a teenager in 1930s Denmark who is forced into an institution to treat her rebellious behavior. Read the rest of this entry »
Jason Hill, David Wingo & Dan Romer Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Extrapolations’
Posted: March 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Dan Romer, David Wingo, Extrapolations, Jason Hill, Scott Z. Burns
Jason Hill (Mindhunter, Voir), David Wingo (Barry, Midnight Special) & Dan Romer (Luca, Beasts of the Southern Wild) have recently scored the new Apple TV+ limited series Extrapolations. The composers have each (individually) written the music for several episodes of the show created by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, Side Effects) and starring Meryl Streep, Edward Norton, Diane Lane, Kit Harington, Sienna Miller, Daveed Diggs, Yara Shahidi, Marion Cotillard, Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer, Adarsh Gourav, Indira Varma, Forest Whitaker, Heather Graham, Tahar Rahim, Neska Rose, Judd Hirsch, Cherry Jones, Michael Gandolfini, Tobey Maguire, Ben Harper, Murray Bartlett and MaameYaa Boafo. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Crime Is Mine’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Francois Ozon, Mon crime, Philippe Rombi, score, Soundtrack, The Crime Is Mine
Milan Records has released the official soundtrack album for the French crime comedy The Crime Is Mine (Mon crime). The album features the film’s original music composed by Philippe Rombi (Swimming Pool, Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, The Time of Secrets, Potiche, War of the Buttons, Black Box, Angel). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. A CD version is also being released overseas and will be available to order as an import here within the next few days. The Crime Is Mine is written and directed by Francois Ozon and stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert, Dany Boon, André Dussollier and Fabrice Luchini. Read the rest of this entry »
Luke Gilford’s ‘National Anthem’ to Feature Music by Perfume Genius and Nick Urata
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Luke Gilford, National Anthem, Nick Urata, Perfume Genius
Singer/songwriter Perfume Genius (aka Michael Alden Hadreas) has contributed original music to the upcoming drama National Anthem. Nick Urata (Paddington, Little Miss Sunshine, Focus, Crazy, Stupid, Love., Ruby Sparks) has composed the original score for the film directed by Luke Gilford and starring Charlie Plummer, Eve Lindley, Rene Rosado, Mason Alexander Park and Robyn Lively. The movie revolves around a 21 year-old construction worker in New Mexico who joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spinning Gold’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Evan Bogart, Harvey Mason Jr., Soundtrack, Spinning Gold, Timothy Scott Bogart
Atlantic Records has announced a soundtrack album for the biographical drama Spinning Gold. The album features the songs from the movie, including covers of such classics as Bad Girls, Midnight Train to Georgia, Give Up the Funk & Beth performed by the film’s cast, as well as two original songs written by soundtrack co-writer/producer Evan “Kidd” Bogart, who also serves as the project’s executive music producer of the film, alongside Harvey Mason Jr. The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 31 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Pink Sweat$’s cover of Ain’t No Sunshine) is already available to stream/download now and can also be checked out after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
L.U.C. (Lukasz Rostkowski) Scoring Dorota Kobiela’s ‘The Peasants’
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, L.U.C., Łukasz Rostkowski, The Peasants
Polish music producer/rapper/composer Lukasz Rostkowski (aka L.U.C.) is making his feature scoring debut on the upcoming animated feature The Peasants. The film directed by Dorota Kobiela (Loving Vincent) is set at the end of the 19th century and tells the story of a peasant girl who forced to marry a much older, wealthy farmer, despite her love for his son. Kobiela also wrote the screenplay with her Loving Vincent co-director Hugh Welchman based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same title by Wladyslaw Reymont. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Elvis’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Baz Luhrmann, Elvis, Soundtrack
RCA Records has released a deluxe edition soundtrack album for Baz Luhrmann’s biographical drama Elvis. The album features fifteen additional tracks, including four previously unreleased recordings of Presley hits performed by Austin Butler, the Toxic Las Vegas remix by Jamieson Shaw, the new mash-up Backstreet Boss Nova (Daisy O’Dell Remix), and Fly Away Weave by the film’s composer Elliott Wheeler, Butler, Gary Clark Jr., Shannon Sanders, the Nashville Urban Choir, Shonka Dukureh & Lanesha Randolph. Also included are new cover versions: G-Dragon’s and Kacey Musgraves’ & Mark Ronson’s renditions of Can’t Help Falling in Love, Paul Oakenfold’s Rubberneckin’ remix and Kodi Smit-McPhee’s How Do You Think I Feel performance. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dark Hearts’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Cœurs Noirs, Dark Hearts, Eric Neveux, score, Soundtrack, Ziad Doueiri
Mandarin Television has released a soundtrack album for the French Amazon original series Dark Hearts (Cœurs Noirs). The album features the show’s original score composed by Eric Neveux (The Attack, SamSam, Zombillennium, The Illegal, Intimacy, A Stork’s Journey). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Dark Hearts is directed by Ziad Doueiri and stars Nicolas Duvauchelle, Marie Dompnier, Tewfik Jallab, Nina Meurisse, Victor Pontecorvo, Jérémy Nadeau, Thierry Godard, Quentin Faure, and Moussa Maaskri. The 6-parter is set on the eve of the battle for Mosul in 2016 and follows the lives of the members of commando group deployed in Iraq to fight ISIS. Read the rest of this entry »
Rebel Rodriguez Scoring Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Hypnotic’
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hypnotic, Rebel Rodriguez, Robert Rodriguez
Rebel Rodriguez is reteaming with his father, director Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn, Alita: Battle Angel), to score the upcoming action thriller Hypnotic. The film starring Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, JD Pardo, Dayo Okeniyi, Hala Finley, Jeff Fahey, William Fichtner & Jackie Earle Haley follows a detective who becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of reality-bending crimes. The director also wrote the screenplay with Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla). Read the rest of this entry »
