Experimental music artist and singer/songwriter Dean Blunt has made his feature scoring debut on the upcoming documentary Dahomey. Together with French musician/composer Wally Badarou (Countryman, Boesman and Lena, The Lunatic), he has co-scored the Mati Diop-directed movie, which follows the French/Senegalese filmmaker as she explores the issue of colonization through the story of 26 precious artworks restituted to Benin in late 2021 after being stolen by French colonizers in 1892, when the African country was called the Kingdom of Dahomey. Read the rest of this entry »
Wally Badarou & Dean Blunt Scoring Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’
Posted: February 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dahomey, Dean Blunt, Mati Diop, Wally Badarou
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‘Players’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jeff Cardoni, Netflix, Players, score, Soundtrack, Trish Sie
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original film Players. The album features the movie’s original music compose by Jeff Cardoni (Silicon Valley, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, White House Plumbers, CSI :Miami, The Kominsky Method, Just Friends). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also check out the composer’s main titles track below. Players is directed by Trish Sie and stars Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis, Joel Courtney, Liza Koshy, Augustus Prew, Ego Nwodim and Marin Hinkle. The romantic comedy follows a New York sportswriter who has spent years devising successful hook-up “plays” with her friends who unexpectedly falls for a fling. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Upon Open Sky’ (‘A Cielo Abierto’) Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: February 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Cielo Abierto, Ludovico Einaudi, Mariana Arriaga, Santiago Arriaga, score, Soundtrack, Upon Open Sky
Decca Records will release a soundtrack album for the Mexican/Spanish crime thriller Upon Open Sky (A Cielo Abierto). The album features the film’s original music composed by Ludovico Einaudi (The Intouchables, The Father, La Tresse, Samba, La petite, This Is England). The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 8, 2024. Visit Amazon to check out the track list. and to pre-order the soundtrack. A first track (Confesión) is already available to stream/download now and can also be checked out below. Upon Open Sky is directed by Mariana & Santiago Arriaga and stars Theo Goldin, Maximo Hollander, Federica García, Sergio Mayer Mori, Julio César Cedillo, Julio Bracho, Manolo Cardona and Cecilia Suárez. The movie written by Guillermo Arriaga (21 Grams, Amores Perros) and follows a trio of revenge-minded siblings who head to the US–Mexico border in search of the man responsible for a family death. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Raël: The Alien Prophet’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Antoine Baldassari, David Sztanke, Manuel Guillon., Netflix, Raël: Le Prophète des Extraterrestres, Raël: The Alien Prophet, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the French Netflix documentary series Raël: The Alien Prophet (Raël: Le Prophète des Extraterrestres). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by David Sztanke (Transatlantic, Magnetic Beats, Keep an Eye Out, Sophie’s Misfortunes). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Raël: The Alien Prophet is directed by Antoine Baldassari & Manuel Guillon and traces how a UFO-inspired religion spiraled into a controversial cult. The 4-parter features interviews with Raël himself, his followers and critics. Read the rest of this entry »
Stephen Endelman to Score and Produce Derek Presley’s ‘Unholy Night’
Posted: February 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Derek Presley, Stephen Endelman, Unholy Knight
Stephen Endelman (Flirting with Disaster, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Jawbreaker, Home of the Brave, De-Lovely, Madoff, Evelyn) is set to score the upcoming thriller Unholy Night. The film is directed by Derek Presley and will star Ed Speleers, Ed Westwick and Dichen Lachman. The movie tells the story of newly ordained priest who is reunited with his ex-con older brother and – upon discovering that his ex had his child almost eight years ago – endeavors to rescue his daughter and her mother from her abusive husband. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Barbie The Movie: In Concert’ at Hollywood Bowl Announced
Posted: February 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Barbie, Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl has announced an addition to its 2024 summer schedule. Barbie The Movie: In Concert will feature the Academy Award-nominated movie directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie & Ryan Gosling accompanied live by The Barbie Land Sinfonietta, an all-women, majority women-of-color orchestra conducted by Tony Award-winner Macy Schmidt. The event will take place on Saturday, July 27. Visit the Bowl’s official website for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bob Marley, Bob Marley: One Love, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Soundtrack
Tuff Gong & Island Records will release the official soundtrack album for the biographical drama Bob Marley: One Love. The album features seventeen songs by the celebrated Jamaican singer/songwriter Bob Marley and his band The Wailers. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 9 and will be available to stream/download here. As previously reported, the labels will also release a separate EP featuring seven covers of Marley songs inspired by the movie on February 14. Bob Marley: One Love is co-written and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and stars Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Tosin Cole,Umi Myers, Anthony Welsh, Nia Ashi, Aston Barrett Jr. and Anna-Sharé Blake. The movie tells the story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Occupied City’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: February 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Occupied City, Oliver Coates, score, Soundtrack, Steve McQueen
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Occupied City. The album features the film’s original score composed by Oliver Coates (Aftersun, The Stranger, Foe, Mary & George, Significant Other). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 9. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album. Occupied City directed and produced by Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Shame) is informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945) written by Bianca Stigter. The movie follows the filmmaker as he creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Out of Darkness’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adam Janota Bzowski, Andrew Cumming, Out of Darkness, score, Soundtrack
Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the British horror thriller Out of Darkness. The album features the film’s original music composed by Adam Janota Bzowski (Saint Maud, The Marsh King’s Daughter, Black Mirror: Loch Henry, Here Before). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, February 9 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the composer’s first track (In the Beginning) below. Out of Darkness is directed by Andrew Cumming and stars Chuku Modu, Safia Oakley-Green, Kit Young, Iola Evans, Luna Mwezi and Arno Lüning. The movie is set 45,000 years in the past and follows a disparate gang of early humans who band together in search of a new land, when a malevolent, mystical being is hunting them down. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Yu Yu Hakusho’ Live-Action Series to Be Released
Posted: February 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Yu Yu Hakusho, Yutaka Yamada
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the Japanese Netflix original series Yu Yu Hakusho. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Yutaka Yamada (Alice in Borderland, Tokyo Ghoul, Kingdom, Vinland Saga, Inuyashiki, Bleach). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 9 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Yu Yu Hakusho is developed by Akira Morii & Kaata Sakamoto based on the hit manga from Weekly Shonen and stars Takumi Kitamura, Jun Shison, Kanata Hongo, Sei Shiraishi, Shuhei Uesugi and Kotone Furukawa. The 5-part fantasy adventure directed by Shô Tsukikawa follows a teen delinquent who is chosen as a Spirit Detective to investigate cases involving rogue yokai after a selfless act costs him his life. Read the rest of this entry »
