Taiga Sounds has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Your Friend, Memphis. The album features the film’s original music composed by Saul Simon MacWilliams (Gleason, Love, Antosha, Chasing Coral, King in the Wilderness, Jim: The James Foley Story) & Billy Libby (The Last Out). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ first track (Take to the Skies) below. Your Friend, Memphis is directed by David P. Zucker and centers on Memphis DiAngelis, a young man in his early 20s, living in Austin, Texas, who was born with cerebral palsy and has dealt with a lack of acceptance growing up because of his condition. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Your Friend, Memphis’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Billy Libby, David P. Zucker, Saul Simon MacWilliams, score, Soundtrack, Your Friend Memphis
Anne Nikitin Scoring Dean Israelite’s ‘Little Wing’
Posted: February 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anne Nikitin, Dean Israelite, Little Wing, Paramount+
Anne Nikitin (The Dropout, American Animals, Fate: The Winx Saga, One Day, Dangerous Liaisons, Mrs. Wilson, The Pale Horse) has recently scored the upcoming Paramount+ original movie Little Wing. The film is directed by Dean Israelite (Power Rangers, Project Almanac) and stars Brian Cox, Kelly Reilly, Brooklynn Prince and Che Tafari. The coming-of-age drama inspired by The New Yorker article by Susan Orlean about the world of pigeon racing revolves around a teenager who is reeling from her parents’ divorce and the pending loss of her home and forms a bond with the owner of a valuable bird that she was planning to steal that leads her to a new outlook on life. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Baghead’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alberto Corredor, Baghead, score, Soundtrack, Suvi-Eeva Äikäs
Invada Records has released a soundtrack album for the supernatural horror feature Baghead. The album features the film’s original music composed by Suvi-Eeva Äikäs (Constellation, Hanna, Matriarch). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also check out the composer’s title track below. Baghead is directed by Alberto Corredor (based on his 2017 short) and stars Freya Allan, Ruby Barker, Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Ned Dennehy, Anne Müller and Saffron Burrows. The movie revolves around a woman who learns she has inherited a run-down pub following the death of her estranged father, unaware that the deed is extricably tied to an unspeakable entity that resides in the basement, a shape-shifting creature that can transform into the dead. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami & Miles Hankins Scoring Peacock’s ‘Apples Never Fall’
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apples Never Fall, Marco Beltrami, Miles Hankins, Peacock
Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma, Logan, A Quiet Place, Scream, World War Z, Ford v. Ferrari) & Miles Hankins (The Night Before, Being Serena, Long Shot, Len & Company, No Exit) have teamed up to score the upcoming Peacock limited series Apples Never Fall. The show is developed by Melanie Marnich (A Murder at the End of the World) based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Liane Moriarty and stars Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Jake Lacy, Alison Brie, Essie Randles, Conor Merrigan-Turner, Georgia Flood, Dylan Thuraisingham and Jeanine Serralles. The 7-part drama follows two former tennis coaches who have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start spending more time with their four adult children, when a wounded young woman knocks on their door, bringing the excitement they’ve been missing. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bad Hombres’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bad Hombres, John Stalberg Jr., Nima Fakhrara, score, Soundtrack
Atlantic Screen Music/Filmtrax has released a soundtrack album for the crime thriller Bad Hombres. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nima Fakhrara (Becky, Lou, Detroit: Become Human, The Signal, The Pyramid, Alone, The Girl in the Photographs). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s “opening” track after the jump. Bad Hombres is directed by John Stalberg Jr. and stars Diego Tinoco, Hemky Madera, Tyrese Gibson, Luke Hemsworth, Nick Cassavates, Paul Johansson and Thomas Jane. The movie follows an undocumented immigrant desperate to provide for his family who is hired alongside a day-laborer to work for a brute who is also a psychopathic criminal and finds himself entangled in the aftermath of a botched drug deal. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat & Alex Heffes Scoring HBO’s ‘The Regime’
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Heffes, Alexandre Desplat, HBO, Stephen Frears, The Regime
Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The King’s Speech, The Shape of Water, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Godzilla) & Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Touching the Void, Queen of Katwe, State of Play) have composed the original music for the new HBO limited series The Regime. The show is created by Will Tracy (Succession, The Menu) and stars Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Andrea Riseborough, Guillaume Gallienne, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant. The 6-part political satire directed by Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity) & Jessica Hobbs (The Split) follows an authoritarian chancellor who has grown increasingly paranoid and unstable when she turns to a volatile soldier as an unlikely confidant. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Vigil’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Afterhere, BBC, Berenice Scott, Glenn Gregory, Peacock, score, Soundtrack, Vigil
Addict London has released a new soundtrack album for the BBC drama Vigil. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Afterhere (aka Berenice Scott & Glenn Gregory) (Liar, The Suspect, Under the Wire). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also check out the composers’ end titles track below. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring Scott’s & Gregory’s score from Season 1 back in 2021. Vigil is created by Tom Edge and stars Suranne Jones, Rose Leslie, Gary Lewis, Dougray Scott, Romola Garai, Anders Hayward, Chris Jenks, Shannon Hayes and Orla Russell. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ordinary Angels’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jon Gunn, Ordinary Angels, Pancho Burgos-Goizueta, score, Soundtrack
Lionsgate Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama Ordinary Angels. The album features the film’s original score composed by Pancho Burgos-Goizueta (Anonymous Killers, The Unbreakable Boy, People You May Know, God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness, Wheels). 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. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Michelle) below. Ordinary Angels is directed by Jon Gunn and stars Hilary Swank, Alan Ritchson, Nancy Travis, Tamala Jones,Drew Powell, Emily Mitchell, Amy Acker and Skywalker Hughes. The movie is based on a true story and follows a struggling hairdresser in Kentucky who discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Vestidas de Azul’ Soundtrack Albums Released
Posted: February 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Álex de Lucas, Max, Raúl Santos, score, Soundtrack, Vestidas de Azul
Atresmúsica has released two soundtrack albums for the Spanish TV series Vestidas de Azul. The albums feature the show’s original music composed by Álex de Lucas & Raúl Santos (Cardo). Both soundtracks are now available to stream/download on all major digital music services. Click here to check out the track list of the Parte 1 album and click here for the details of the Parte 2 soundtrack. Also check out the composers’ main title theme below. Vestidas de Azul is created by Los Javis (aka Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi) based on the book of the same title by Valerie Vegas and stars Lola Rodriguez, Paca La Pirana, Alex Saint, Goya Toledo, Juani Ruiz, Angeles Ortega, Desiree Vogue, Susana Abaitua, Elena Irureta, Estrella Xtravaganza, Luis Callejo, Mercedes Sampietro and Anabel Alonso. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 25, 2024)
Posted: February 25, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, Apple TV +, Atticus Ross, Bryan Winslow, Code 8: Part II, Disney Plus, FX, Hulu, Iwájú, Leopold Ross, Matthew Janszen, Megamind Rules!, Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate, Netflix, Nick Chuba, Nick Foster, Oli Julian, Peacock, Ré Olunuga, Ryan Taubert, Sam Ewing, Shogun, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Premiering today is the AMC limited series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live created by Scott M. Gimple, Danai Gurira & Andrew Lincoln and starring Lincoln, Gurira, Pollyanna McIntosh, Terry O’Quinn, Matthew August Jeffers, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Andrew Bachelor and Craig Tate. The show’s original score is composed by Sam Ewing (Last Seen Alive, The Shed, Beautiful Disaster/Wedding, Victor Crawley) who previously co-scored the final seasons of the original The Walking Dead series and produced by Bear McCreary. Check out our previous article for more information about the 6-parter, which will air Sundays on AMC and will also be available to stream on AMC+
Premiering on Tuesday, February 27, is the FX limited series Shōgun developed by Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks based James Clavell’s book and starring Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Takehiro Hira, Hiroto Kanai and Shinnosuke Abe. Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Soul), Leopold Ross (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Book of Eli) & Nick Chuba (Dr. Death, The Girl from Plainville) have composed the show’s original music. Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the historical drama, which will air on FX and will also be available to stream on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »