Strings Attached Music will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Protocol 7. The album features the film’s original music composed by Will Taylor. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 31 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (He Was Where Officer?) is already available to stream/download now and can also be checked out below. Protocol 7 is co-written (with Terry Rossio) and directed by Andy Wakefield and stars Rachel Whittle, Matthew Mardsen and Eric Roberts. The movie follows a devoted mother/small-town family lawyer, a renegade doctor exiled from the medical profession and a virologist at a prominent vaccine laboratory turned corporate whistleblower who work together to hold a large pharmaceutical corporation accountable for allegedly fraudulent test results behind a failing mumps vaccine. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Protocol 7’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andy Wakefield, Protocol 7, score, Soundtrack, Will Taylor
Isabella Summers Scoring Jeremy O. Harris’ ‘Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.’
Posted: May 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO, Isabella Summers, Jeremy O. Harris, Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play
Isabella Summers (aka Isa Machine of Florence + the Machine) (Little Fires Everywhere, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Lisa Frankenstein, The Offer, Physical, Sex/Life, Call Jane) is making her documentary scoring debut on the upcoming feature Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. The film is directed by Jeremy O. Harris and follows the playwright as he deconstructs his Tony-nominated play Slave Play, which revolves around three interracial couples who undergo “Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy” when the black partners no longer feel sexual attraction to their white partners.
‘Mother of All Shows’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David James Brock, Melissa D'Agostino, Mother of All Shows, Rebecca Everett, Soundtrack
Must Be Nice Records has released a soundtrack album for the Canadian musical comedy Mother of All Shows. The album features the film’s original songs written by David James Brock, Melissa D’Agostino & Rebecca Everett and performed by the movie’s cast. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Mother of All Shows is co-directed by D’Agostino and stars Wendie Malick, D’Agostino herself, Ann Pornel, Darryl Hinds, Phil Luzi, Juan Chioran, Tara Consoli, Michael Miranda and Trevor Martin. The movie follows a woman who retreats to a ’70s variety show in her mind to cope with the impending death of her mother. Read the rest of this entry »
Moby to Score and Write Screenplay for Mark Webber’s ‘Tecie’
Posted: May 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Webber, Moby, Tecie
Variety is reporting that Moby is set to score the upcoming romance Tecie. He is also writing the screenplay for the film, which will be directed by actor Mark Webber (who previously helmed several features, including 2019’s The Place of No Words) and is set in the Los Angeles animal rights and activism scene. No casting announcements have been made yet and no plot synopsis has been revealed yet. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cottontail’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: May 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cottontail, Patrick Dickinson., score, Soundtrack, Stefan Gregory
Noisy Miner has released a soundtrack EP for the drama Cottontail. The 6-track EP features the film’s original music composed by Stefan Gregory (The Dig, The Rooster). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Akiko’s Letter) below. Cottontail is written and directed by Patrick Dickinson and stars Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Rin Takanashi, Aoife Hinds, Ryo Nishikido and Ciarán Hinds. The movie follows a widower who – after his wife passes away in Japan – embarks to the Lake District in England with his estranged son. Read the rest of this entry »
Lucas Vidal Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Women in Blue’
Posted: May 28, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Las Azules, Lucas Vidal, Netflix, Ni una más, Raising Voices, Women in Blue
Lucas Vidal (Fast & Furious 6, Elite, The Raven, Palm Trees in the Snow, The Quiet Ones, Welcome to Eden, The Cold Light of Day) has composed the original score for the upcoming Mexican Apple TV+ original series Women in Blue (Las Azules). The show is created by Fernando Rovzar (Monarca, Control Z) & Pablo Aramendi (All Wrong) and stars Bárbara Mori, Ximena Sariñana, Natalia Téllez, Amorita Rasgado, Miguel Rodarte, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Christian Tappan, and Horacio García Rojas. The 10-part crime drama is set in 1970 and tells the true story of four women who defy the ultraconservative norms of the time and join Mexico’s first female police force, only to discover that their squad is a publicity stunt to distract the media from a brutal serial killer. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Straight Story’ Soundtrack CD Reissue & Premiere Digital Release Announced
Posted: May 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, score, Soundtrack, The Straight Story
Intrada Records has announced a reissue of the soundtrack album for David Lynch’s 1999 drama The Straight Story starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton. The album features the film’s original music composed by Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, The Beach, Wild at Heart, The City of Lost Children, A Very Long Engagement). The CD, which includes the same content as the (now out of print) original 1999 soundtrack album (released by Windham Hill Records) with new liner notes and cover art, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. The soundtrack will also be released digitally for the first time (check back on this page for the streaming/download link). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Geoff Zanelli, Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps, Michael Hines, score, Soundtrack
Geoff Zanelli (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Disturbia, Christopher Robin, Leo, The Pacific, Hitman, The Intruder) will release a soundtrack album for the fantasy adventure Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and will be released digitally on July 28. Visit Amazon to pre-order the soundtrack. Man and Witch is directed by Michael Hines and stars Tami Stronach, Greg Steinbruner, Sean Astin, Christopher Lloyd, Eddie Izzard, Shoreh Aghdashloo, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Emerson, Daniel Portman, Bill Bailey, Stuart Bowman and Martha West. Read the rest of this entry »
Owen Pallett Scoring Savi Gabizon’s ‘Longing’
Posted: May 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Longing, Owen Pallett, Savi Gabizon
Owen Pallett (Her, Dream Scenario, The Box, Life, Alice/Darling, On the Count of Three, Spaceship Earth) has composed the original music for thew new Canadian drama Longing. The film is written and directed by Savi Gabizon (Nina’s Tragedies) and stars Richard Gere, Suzanne Clément and Diane Kruger. The movie is a remake of Gabizon’s 2017 Israeli feature Ga’agua and follows a bachelor who is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers that an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son twenty years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Sympathizer’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Cho Young Wuk, HBO, Park Chan-wook, score, Soundtrack, The Sympathizer
WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the HBO limited series The Sympathizer. The album features the show’s original score composed by Cho Young-Wuk (Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Lady Vengeance, Thirst, The Little Drummer Girl, Decision to Leave). Also included are songs by Maxwell Whittington-Cooper, Pham Thi Bao Tran, Duong Minh Quan, Đình Bảo, Lam Anh, as well as Robert Downey Jr.’s rendition of Helen Reddy’s You and Me Against the World and Vy Le’s Lady Marmalade cover. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track (I Spy) and the two covers after the jump. The Sympathizer is developed by Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen and stars Hoa Xuande, Downey Jr., Fred Nguyen Khan, Vy Le, Toan Le, Phanxine, Kieu Chinh, Ky Duyen, Alan Trong, Duy Nguyen and Sandra Oh. Read the rest of this entry »