Dragon’s Domain Records has announced a new soundtrack album featuring two previously unreleased scores composed by Hummie Mann (Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Year of the Comet, Thomas and the Magic Railroad). The first title on the album is the composer’s music written for the unreleased “director’s cut” version of the 1999 drama Brokedown Palace directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale and Bill Pullman. Island Records has released the official 1999 soundtrack album featuring the songs from the movie and a track from the replacement score by David Newman. Also included is Mann’s score for 1997 HBO original movie The Second Civil War directed by Joe Dante and starring Beau Bridges, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones, Denis Leary, Elizabeth Peña, Joanna Cassidy, Dan Hedaya, James Coburn and Ron Perlman. Read the rest of this entry »
Hummie Mann’s ‘The Second Civil War’ & Unused ‘Brokedown Palace’ Scores to Be Released
Posted: February 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, TV Music AlbumsTags: Brokedown Palace, Hummie Mann, Joe Dante, score, Soundtrack, The Second Civil War
Tony Morales Scoring Netflix’s ‘FUBAR’
Posted: February 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: FUBAR, Netflix, Nick Santora, Tony Morales
Tony Morales (Elena of Avalor, Bloodline, The Bag Man, The Fugitive, The Endgame, In Your Eyes) has been tapped to score the upcoming Netflix original series FUBAR. The show is created by Nick Santora (Prison Break, The Longshots) and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Monica Barbaro, Milan Carter, Travis Van Winkle, Fortune Feimster, Jay Baruchel, Andy Buckley, Barbara Eve Harris, Aparna Brielle, Fabiana Udenio and Gabriel Luna. The action drama revolves around a CIA operative on the verge of retirement who discovers a family secret and is forced back into the field for one last job. Read the rest of this entry »
Hollywood Records to Release ‘The Orville: New Horizons’ Soundtrack Album
Posted: February 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Cottee, Hulu, Joel McNeely, John Debney, Kevin Kaska, score, Soundtrack, The Orville, The Orville: New Horizons
Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the Hulu original series The Orville: New Horizons. The album features selections of the original music from the third season of The Orville composed by Joel McNeely (A Million Ways to Die in the West, Holes, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles), John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2, Elf, The Jungle Book), Andrew Cottee and Kevin Kaska (Jump!, Ghost Party). The soundtrack will be released digitally next month. Check back on this page for the full album details. La-La Land Records & Hollywood Records have previously released the official soundtrack albums for Season 1 & Season 2. Read the rest of this entry »
David Byrne, Stephanie Hsu & Son Lux to Perform ‘This Is a Life’ from ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ at Oscars
Posted: February 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, David Byrne, Son Lux, Stephanie Hsu
Executive producers Glenn Weiss, Ricky Kirshner & Molly McNearney announced today that Oscar winner David Byrne, Oscar-nominated actress Stephanie Hsu and music trio Son Lux will perform the Academy Award-nominated song This Is A Life from the Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once at the 95th Oscars, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, on Sunday, March 12, 2023. The track, which is written by Ryan Lott, David Byrne & Mitski, is one of the five nominees in the Original Song category and has been released on the film’s official soundtrack album last April by A24 Music. Read the rest of this entry »
2023 ASCAP Screen Music Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: February 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: ASCAP, ASCAP Screen Music Awards
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announced today the nominees for the 2023 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards. Chosen by the ASCAP composer community, the winners will be announced as part of the 2023 ASCAP Screen Music Awards the week of May 15. Check out the nominations in the categories of Film Score of the Year, Documentary Score of the Year, Television Score of the Year, Television Theme of the Year and Video Game Score of the Year below. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Tel Aviv/Beirut’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Avishai Cohen, Michale Boganim, score, Soundtrack, Tel-Aviv/Beirut
Naïve has released a soundtrack album for the Tel Aviv/Beirut. The album features the film’s original music composed by Israeli jazz musician Avishai Cohen (C’est la vie!). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Tel Aviv/Beirut is directed by Michale Boganim and stars Zalfa Seurat, Sarah Adler, Sofia Essaïdi, Younes Bouab, Shlomi Elkabetz and Cohen himself. The movie is set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict in 1982 and 2006 and centers on two families on each side of the border whose fate intertwined because of the war raging in Lebanon. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 26, 2023)
Posted: February 26, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, CBS, Daisy Jones & the Six, Disney Plus, Joseph Shirley, Ludwig Göransson, Netflix, The Mandalorian, Toby Chu, Tom Howe, True Lies
Premiering on Wednesday, March 1, is the new CBS drama True Lies developed by Matt Nix inspired by James Cameron’s 1994 movie and starring Steve Howey, Ginger Gonzaga, Erica Hernandez, Omar Miller, Mike O’Gorman, Lucas Jaye and Annabella Didion.The show’s original music is composed by Toby Chu (Bao, Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, Covert Affairs, Found, Fistful of Vengeance, Unforgettable). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the series, which will air Wednesday nights on CBS.
Also premiering on Wednesday in the U.S. is the British horror comedy series Wreck created by Ryan J. Brown and starring Oscar Kennedy, Thaddea Graham, Jack Rowan, Anthony Rickman, Louis Boyer, Alice Noakes, Miya Ocego, Peter Claffey and Jodie Tyack. Steve Lynch (Let Us Prey, Boys from Hell) is composing the show’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score from Season 1 was released last December. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the series, which premiered in the UK on BBC Three last fall and is making its worldwide debut on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ TV Series to Be Released
Posted: February 26, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: David Fleming, Gustavo Santaolalla, HBO, score, Soundtrack, The Last of Us
Milan Records will release the first soundtrack album for the HBO original series The Last of Us. The album features the original music from the show’s first season composed by Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, Babel, The Book of Life, The Motorcycle Diaries) & David Fleming (Hillbilly Elegy, The Unforgivable, Blue Planet II, South of Heaven) . The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 27 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The Last of Us is developed by Craig Mazin & Neil Druckmann based on the hit video game and stars Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Murray Bartlett, Anna Torv, Nick Offerman, Nico Parker, Storm Reid, Melanie Lynskey and Merle Dandridge. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Howe Scoring Amazon’s ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’
Posted: February 26, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Daisy Jones & the Six, Tom Howe
Tom Howe (Ted Lasso, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Early Man, The Amazing Maurice) is the composer of the new Amazon limited series Daisy Jones & the Six. The show is created by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (500 Days of Summer, The Fault in Our Stars) based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel of the same title and starring Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse, Josh Whitehouse, Will Harrison, Nabiyah Be, Tom Wright, Sebastian Chacon, Teddy Price and Timothy Olyphant. The musical drama tells the story of how an iconic 1970s band imploded at the height of its powers. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale Win Annie Award for Music from ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’
Posted: February 25, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Annie Awards, Guillermo Del Toro, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Patrick McHale, Roeban Katz
Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale were honored with their first award Annie Award in Feature category for their music from the Netflix film Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio at tonight’s 50th Annie Awards ceremony at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Desplat composed the movie’s score and also wrote the songs with lyrics by del Toro, Katz & McHale. The official soundtrack album was released by Columbia Records. Read the rest of this entry »
