Ludwig Göransson has won the Grammy Award for his score for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category at today’s 66th Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony in Los Angeles. He was previously honored with his first Grammy in the same category for Black Panther in 2019. Check out his acceptance speech below. Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell received the award for the original song What Was I Made For from Greta Gerwig’s Barbie in the Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media category. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 4, 2024)
Posted: February 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Anne Nikitin, Bear McCreary, Halo, Isom Innis, Jessica Jones, Kevin Lax, Lover Stalker Killer, Netflix, Nick Foster, One Day, Orion and the Dark, Paramount+, Robert Lydecker, Tim Morrish, Upgraded
Premiering on Thursday, February 8, is the British Netflix limited series One Day developed by Nicole Taylor based on David Nicholls’s bestselling book and starring Ambika Mod, Leo Woodall, Amber Grappy, Essie Davis, Tim McInnerny, Jonny Weldon and Eleanor Tomlinson The show’s original music is composed by Anne Nikitin (The Dropout, American Animals, Fate: The Winx Saga, Mrs. Wilson, Dangerous Liaisons, The Pale Horse), Jessica Jones (The Tinder Swindler, Our Universe, American Nightmare Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me) and Tim Morrish (Fifteen-Love, Red Rose). Click here to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Also premiering on Thursday is the second season of the Paramount+ original series Halo developed by Kyle Killen & Steven Kane based on Xbox’s video game franchise and starring Pablo Schreiber, Jen Taylor, Natascha McElhone, Bokeem Woodbine, Natasha Culzac, Shabana Azmi, Yerin Ha, Joseph Morgan, Bentley Kalu, Cristina Rodlo, Olive Gray, Charlie Murphy, Christina Bennington, Kate Kennedy and Danny Sapani. Bear McCreary (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Outlander, The Walking Dead, God of War) is involved in scoring the new season. Check out our previous article for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Living With Wolves’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 3, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Armand Amar, score, Soundtrack, Vivre avec les loups
Long Distance has released a soundtrack album for the French documentary Living With Wolves (Vivre avec les loups). The album features the film’s original music composed by Armand Amar (The Concert, Mia and the White Lion, The Source, A Bag of Marbles, The History of Love, The Wolf and the Lion, Belle & Sebastian). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Living With Wolves is directed by Jean-Michel Bertrand (who previously collaborated with Amar on 2016’s The Valley of the Wolves and 2020’s Wolf Walk) and follows the filmmaker as he is living alongside a community of wolves in European forests and offers a lesson in how to exist alongside these mysterious yet dangerous animals. Read the rest of this entry »
Nick Foster Scoring Sam Hobkinson’s Netflix Documentary ‘Lover, Stalker, Killer’
Posted: February 3, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lover Stalker Killer, Netflix, Nick Foster, Sam Hobkinson
Nick Foster (Thunderbirds Are Go, Cuckoo, In My Skin, The A List, Greatest Days, Year of the Rabbit, Sackboy: A Big Adventure) has composed the original score for the new Netflix original true crime documentary Lover, Stalker, Killer. The film is directed by Sam Hobkinson and centers on a mechanic who tries online dating for the first time and meets a woman who takes romantic obsession to a deadly extreme. The movie features interviews with those involved – including the law enforcement officers who cracked the case – alongside reenactments that bring viewers into the paranoia of the victim’s four year nightmare. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 2, 2024)
Posted: February 2, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Argylle, Brittany Allen, Christopher Stracey, Dan Romer, Este Haim, How to Have Sex, Jakwob, Jungle Bunch: Operation Meltdown, Lorne Balfe, Olivier Cussac, Scrambled, Suncoast, The Promised Land
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the spy action comedy Argylle directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Henry Cavill, John Cena, Dua Lipa, Bryan Cranston and Catherine O’Hara. The film’s original score is composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout/Dead Reckoning, Top Gun: Maverick, Black Widow, His Dark Materials). Platoon has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, an original song performed by Ariana DeBose, Boy George & Nile Rodgers (also available separately as a digital single), as well as an additional song today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the movie, which is being theatrically by Universal Pictures before premiering on Apple TV+ later this year.
Opening semi-wide in around 700 theaters is the comedy Scrambled written and directed by Leah McKendrick and starring McKendrick herself, Ego Nwodim, Andrew Santino, Adam Rodriguez, Clancy Brown and Laura Cerón. Brittany Allen (What Keeps You Alive, Z, Torn Hearts) has composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced. The movie, which follows a woman faced with bleak romantic prospects who begins to feel like the clock is ticking and decides to freeze her eggs, premiered at last year’s SXSW Film Festival and is being released by Lionsgate. Read the rest of this entry »
Paramount+’s ‘Halo’ Season 2 to Feature Music by Bear McCreary
Posted: February 2, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bear McCreary, Halo, Paramount+
Bear McCreary (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Walking Dead, God of War) is involved in scoring the second season of the Paramount+ original series Halo. The show based on Xbox’s video game franchise stars Pablo Schreiber, Natascha McElhone, Bokeem Woodbine, Jen Taylor, Shabana Azmi, Natasha Culzac, Yerin Ha, Olive Gray, Bentley Kalu, Charlie Murphy, Kate Kennedy and Danny Sapani, as well as new additions Joseph Morgan, Cristina Rodlo and Christina Bennington. The new season follows Master Chief John-117 as he leads his team of elite Spartans against the alien threat known as the Covenant. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 2, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Disney Channel, Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Raphael Saadiq, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records has released a new soundtrack album for the Disney Channel animated series Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. The album features twelve new songs from the second season of the show. Raphael Saadiq (Lovecraft Country, Insecure, Underground) serves as the project’s executive music producer. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. The label has previously released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from Season 1 last year. Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is developed by Steve Loter, Jeffrey M. Howard & Kate Kondell based on Marvel’s comic books and stars Diamond White Fred Tatasciore, Alfre Woodard, Libe Barer, Sasheer Zamata, Gary Anthony Williams, Jermaine Fowler and Laurence Fishburne. Read the rest of this entry »
John Murphy to Score James Gunn’s ‘Superman: Legacy’
Posted: February 2, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James Gunn, John Murphy, Superman: Legacy
Director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, Super, Slither) has confirmed that he is reuniting with composer John Murphy (28 Days Later…, Sunshine, Kick-Ass, Les Miserables, Guess Who) on the upcoming super hero movie Superman: Legacy. The film is written and directed by Gunn and will star David Corenswet in the title role, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner and is also expected to feature an appearance by Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El / Supergirl. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Crazy People’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 2, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cliff Eidelman, Crazy People, score, Soundtrack, Tony Bill
Paramount Music has released a new soundtrack album for the 1990 comedy Crazy People directed by Tony Bill and starring Dudley Moore, Daryl Hannah and Paul Reiser. The album features the original score from the film composed by Cliff Eidelman (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, He’s Just Not That Into You, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, One True Thing). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Listen to the first and final track after the jump. The world premiere release of Eidelman’s score has previously been released as a limited edition CD version back in 2013 by Quartet Records. Read the rest of this entry »
Matthew Janszen & Bryan Winslow Scoring Peacock’s ‘Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate’ & ‘Megamind Rules!’
Posted: February 2, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bryan Winslow, Dreamworks Animation, Matthew Janszen, Megamind Rules!, Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate, Peacock
Matthew Janszen (Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Fatal Affair, Bugs Bunny Builders, Love Accidentally) & Bryan Winslow (Vacation Home Nightmare) are scoring DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate and TV series Megamind Rules!. Both the movie and TV show are written/developed by Alan Schoolcraft & Brent Simons based on the studios’ 2010 Megamind feature (scored by Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe), where the title character goes from being a supervillain and the scourge of Metro City to a superhero who’s learning on the job. The projects’ voice cast includes Keith Ferguson, Laura Post, Maya Aoki Tuttle, Josh Brener, Emily Tunon, Talon Warburton, Chris Sullivan, Scott Adsit, Tony Hale, Jeanine Mason and Adam Lambert. Read the rest of this entry »
