Andrew Scott Bell (Psycho Storm Chasers, Witness Infection, See You Next Christmas, Home Sweet Home) will release a soundtrack album for the British slasher/horror film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. The album features the composer’s original score from the movie and will be released digitally on February 15 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is written and directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and stars Nikolai Leon, Craig David Dowsett, Maria Taylor, Chris Cordell, Natasha Rose Mills, Amber Doig-Thorne and Danielle Ronald. The movie follows follows the 6-foot Pooh and his sidekick Piglet who – after being left to fend for themselves by Christopher Robin – go on a murderous rampage through the Hundred Acre Wood . Read the rest of this entry »
‘Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Scott Bell, Rhys Frake-Waterfield, score, Soundtrack, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
Remastered ‘The Human Factor’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: February 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Edward Dmytryk, Ennio Morricone, Il giustiziere, L'ultimo uomo di Sara, score, Soundtrack, The Human Factor
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1975 thriller The Human Factor (Il giustiziere) directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring George Kennedy, John Mills, Raf Vallone, Barry Sullivan, Rita Tushingham & Haydee Politoff and starring. The album features the newly remastered original score from the film composed by Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso, The Hateful Eight). The CD, which is limited to 500 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full album details and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Bryce Dessner Scoring Rebecca Miller’s ‘She Came to Me’
Posted: February 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bryce Dessner, Rebecca Miller, She Came to Me
Bryce Dessner (Cyrano, The Two Popes, Bardo, Irresistible, The Kitchen) of the rock band The National has composed the original music for the upcoming romantic comedy She Came to Me. The film is written and directed by Rebecca Miller (Maggie’s Plan, The Ballad of Jack and Rose) and stars Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Brian d’Arcy James, Joanna Kulig and Anne Hathaway. The movie is set in New York City and follows a composer suffering from writer’s block and unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera who – at the behest of his wife/formerly his therapist – sets out in search of inspiration. Read the rest of this entry »
Hollywood Bowl 2023 Season Schedule Announced
Posted: February 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl has announced this summer’s season schedule, which includes a number of film music concerts. On June 24, CineConcerts will present Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in Concert with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performing Alexandre Desplat’s score live-to-picture (click here for more details). John Williams will return to the Bowl on July 7, 8 & 9 for the concert Maestro of the Movies. The composer himself and his colleague Gustavo Dudamel will share the podium for three nights of movie music performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, including selections with film clips (visit the Bowl’s website for more information). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Heartbeast’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aino Suni, Heartbeast, JB Dunckel, Pulse, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Publishing has released a soundtrack album for the French/Finnish dramatic thriller Heartbeast (Pulse). The album features the film’s original score composed by JB Dunckel (Summer of 85, K.O., The Summer of Sangaile, Capital in the Twenty-First Century) of AIR. Also included are songs performed by lead acturess Elsi Sloan, as well as Chilla, Mercedes Bentso, Rim Laurens & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Heartbeast is written and directed by Aino Suni and also stars Carmen Kassovitz, Camille, Lucille Guillaume and Adel Bencherif. The movie follows a 17-year-old aspiring rapper who is forced to leave her home country of Finland and move to the South of France, where she meets a charismatic ballet dancer who leads a double life full of boys and drugs. Read the rest of this entry »
Dickon Hinchliffe Scoring Sonja Heiss’ ‘When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before’
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dickon Hinchliffe, Sonja Heiss, Wann wird es endlich wieder so wie es nie war, When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before
Dickon Hinchliffe (The Lost Daughter, Winter’s Bone, Leave No Trace, Locke, Out of the Furnace, Father Stu, Last Chance Harvey) has recently scored the upcoming German comedy drama When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before (Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war). The film is directed by Sonja Heiss (Hotel Very Welcome) and stars Arsseni Bultmann, Laura Tonke, Pola Geiger, Devid Striesow and Casper von Bülow. The movie is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Joachim Meyerhoff and tells the story of a childhood and youth spent on the grounds of a psychiatric clinic. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Shattered’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Silvestri, score, Shattered, Soundtrack, Wolfgang Petersen
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1991 psychological thriller Shattered written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley and Corbin Bernsen. The album features the remastered and expanded original score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award nominee Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forest Gump, Avengers: Endgame, Captain America: The First Avenger, Cast Away, The Polar Express), including previously unreleased music. The soundtrack is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring Wendy Rogers’ ‘The Magician’s Elephant’
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Mothersbaugh, Netflix, The Magician's Elephant, Wendy Rogers
Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Royal Tenenbaums, 21/22 Jump Street, The Croods: A New Age, Hotel Transylvania) has composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix animated film The Magician’s Elephant. The movie is directed by Wendy Rogers and features the voices of Noah Jupe, Mandy Patinkin, Brian Tyree Henry, Pixie Davies, Natasia Demetriou, Sian Clifford, Benedict Wong, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Miranda Richardson, Aasif Mandvi and Dawn French. The animated feature is based on Kate DiCamillo’s classic novel and follows an orphaned boy searching for his long-lost sister who must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure it. Read the rest of this entry »
Conor McPherson to Write and Direct ‘Girl from the North Country’ Film Adaptation
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bob Dylan, Conor McPherson, Girl from the North Country
Playwright Conor McPherson is set to write and direct a film adaptation of the stage musical Girl from the North Country. Chlöe Bailey, Tosin Cole, Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson are attached to star in the movie based on McPherson’s Great Depression-set musical inspired by the songs of Bob Dylan about a group of travelers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life and hope. Read the rest of this entry »
Haim Mazar to Score Michael Tiddes’ ‘Half Baked 2’
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Haim Mazar, Half Baked 2, Michael Tiddes
Haim Mazar (The Iceman, Sneakerheads, The Taking of Deborah Logan, Woke, I Am Wrath) has been hired to score the upcoming comedy sequel Half Baked 2. The film is directed by Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House, Naked) and stars Rachel True who reprises her role as Mary Jane from the original 1998 movie (scored by Alf Clausen), as well as Dexter Darden, Moses Storm, Ramona Young, Joel Courtney, Ash Santos and David Koechner. The movie follows Thurgood Jenkins’ son and his best friends as they search for the money to bury their other best friend who died from smoking the most powerful joint in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
