Banijay Music has released a soundtrack album for the new ITV drama Three Little Birds. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Benjamin Burrell (Shortcut). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on most major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composer’s title track below. Three Little Birds is created by Sir Lenny Henry and stars Rochelle Neil, Yazmin Belo, Saffron Coomber, Javone Prince, Leemore Marrett Jr, Arthur Darvill, Bobby Gordon and Amy Beth Hayes. The 6-part drama executive produced by Russell T Davies is inspired by Lenny Henry’s mother’s stories about leaving Jamaica in the 1950s for Great Britain, which became her lifelong home and where she raised her family. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Three Little Birds’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Benjamin Burrell, ITV, score, Soundtrack, Three Little Birds
Volker Bertelmann Named Film Composer of the Year at World Soundtrack Awards
Posted: October 21, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: World Soundtrack Awards
Volker Bertelmann was named Film Composer of the Year at the 23rd World Soundtrack Awards, tonight’s closing event of the 50th Ghent Film Festival, for his scores for Edward Berger’s All Quiet of the Western Front (for which he also received the Academy Award earlier this year), the Norwegian World War II drama War Sailor and Saara Saarela’s sci-fi drama Memory of Water. Nicholas Britell was honored as TV Composer of the Year today for his score for the fourth and final season of the HBO original series Succession and his music for the first season of Disney+’s Star Wars series Andor. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Night of the Hunted’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 21, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: AMC, Franck Khalfoun, Mathieu Carratier, Night of the Hunted, score, Shudder, Soundtrack
Mathieu Carratier (Delirium, I Lived, For Love) has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Night of the Hunted. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Listen to the composer’s main titles and end titles tracks after the jump. Night of the Hunted is co-written and directed by Franck Khalfoun (Maniac) and stars Camille Rowe, Aleksandar Popovic and J. John Bieler. The movie produced by Alexandre Aja follows an unsuspecting woman who stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, where she encounters a sociopathic sniper with a secret vendetta and has to figure out who wants her dead. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 20, 2023)
Posted: October 21, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Another Body, Butcher's Crossing, Craig Stuart Garfinkle, Eimear Noone, Holland Andrews, James Newton Howard, John Swihart, Killers of the Flower Moon, Leo Birenberg, Michael Dean Parsons, Nyad, Pain Hustlers, Patrick Stump, Paul Leonard Morgan, Philip Glass, Robbie Robertson, Rostam Batmanglij, Sick Girl, The Canterville Ghost, The Other Zoey, The Persian Version, The Pigeon Tunnel
Opening in theaters nationwide is the crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow and Brendan Fraser. The film’s original music is composed by Robbie Robertson (The Color of Money, The Irishman) who also served as the project’s executive music producer. Sony Masterworks has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music today. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures release.
Opening in select theaters today is the comedy drama The Persian Version written and directed by Maryam Keshavarz and starring Layla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Kamand Shafieisabet, Bijan Daneshmand, Bella Warda and Chiara Stella. Rostam Batmanglij (Sound of My Voice, The OA) has composed the film’s original music. Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Sony Pictures Classics. Read the rest of this entry »
Marcelo Zarvos, Anthony Willis, Nami Melumad, Austin Wintory & Charlie Clouser to Appear at 14th Fans of Film Music Event
Posted: October 20, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Anthony Willis, Austin Wintory, Charlie Clouser, Fans of Film Music, Marcelo Zarvos, Nami Melumad
A number of major film/TV/video game composers will be participating at the 14th Annual Fans of Film Music event, which will take place on Saturday, November 4, 2023 at The Mayflower Club in North, Hollywood CA. This year’s panelists include Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, Wonder) who recently scored Antoine Fuqua’s hit thriller The Equalizer 3, Anthony Willis (Promising Young Woman, How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming) whose latest project, Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, will be released this November and Nami Melumad (Thor: Love and Thunder, An American Pickle) whose current projects include the TV shows Star Trek: Strange New World & Prodigy. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Leo: Bloody Sweet’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 20, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anirudh Ravichander, Leo: Bloody Sweet, Lokesh Kanagaraj, Soundtrack
Sony Music India has released the official soundtrack album for the Indian action thriller Leo: Bloody Sweet. The album features the songs from the film composed by Anirudh Ravichander (Petta, Kaththi, Jawan, Thiruchitrambalam). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen all tracks below. Leo is co-written and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj and stars Vijay, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun and Trisha. The movie, which is inspired by David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, follows a mild-mannered café owner who becomes a local hero through an act of violence. Read the rest of this entry »
Lucrecia Dalt to Score Bryn Chainey’s ‘Rabbit Trap’
Posted: October 20, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bryn Chainey, Lucrecia Dalt, Rabbit Trap
Colombian musician, sound artist and composer Lucrecia Dalt (The Seed, The Baby) has been hired to score the upcoming horror feature Rabbit Trap. The film is written and directed by Bryn Chainey and stars Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen and Jade Croot. The movie tells the story two married musicians who have relocated from London to an isolated cabin in Wales in order to complete their new record, when they accidentally make a field recording of a mystical sound and find themselves caught between the ancient spirits of the natural world and the lives they once knew. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Another Body’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 20, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Another Body, Holland Andrews, Reuben Hamlyn, score, Sophie Compton, Soundtrack
This Is Meru has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Another Body. The album features the film’s original music composed by Holland Andrews (Beba). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. A first track (World Opening Up) has previously been released earlier this month and can be checked out after the jump. Another Body is directed by Sophie Compton & Reuben Hamlyn and follows a college student’s search for answers and justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online. Read the rest of this entry »
Rachel Zegler’s Rendition of ‘The Hanging Tree’ from ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Released
Posted: October 20, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dave Cobb, Rachel Zegler, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Geffen Records has released the new version of The Hanging Tree from the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. The track (originally written by Collins & Wesley Schultz for 2014’s The Hunger Games: Mockinjay – Part 1) is produced by Dave Cobb and performed by lead actress Rachel Zegler and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is directed by Francis Lawrence and also stars Tom Blyth, Peter Dinklage, Josh Andrés Rivera, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman and Viola Davis. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Persian Version’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 20, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Maryam Keshavarz, Rostam Batmanglij, score, Soundtrack, The Persian Version
Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album for the comedy drama The Persian Version. The album features the film’s original music written by singer/songwriter, record producer and composer Rostam Batmanglij (The OA, Sound of My Voice). Also included is the cover version of Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want to Have Fun performed by lead actress Niousha Noor (listen to the track below). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The Persian Versionis written and directed by Maryam Keshavarz and stars Layla Mohammadi, Noor, Kamand Shafieisabet, Bella Warda, Bijan Daneshmand, Chiara Stella, Shervin Alenabi and Tom Byrne. The movie follows an Iranian-American woman who comes from two countries at odds with each other and strives to embrace her opposing cultures. Read the rest of this entry »
