Netflix Music has released the first song from the streamer’s upcoming original series Neon. Available to stream/download now is Exagerao produced by Tainy and performed by Santi (played in the show by Tyler Dean Flores, with vocals provided by RMAND). Also listen to the track below. A full soundtrack album will be announced next month. Neon is created by Shea Serrano & Max Searle and also stars Emma Ferreira, Jordan Mendoza, Alycia Pascual-Peña, Jordana Brewster, Courtney Taylor, Genesis Rodriguez, Jhayco and Santiago Cabrera. Read the rest of this entry »
First Song from Netflix’s ‘Neon’ Released
Posted: September 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Neon, Netflix, RMAND, Tainy
Nate Wonder & Roman GianArthur Scoring Roger Ross Williams’ ‘Stamped from the Beginning’
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Nate Wonder, Netflix, Roger Ross Williams, Roman Gianarthur, Stamped from the Beginning
Record producers and songwriters Nate Wonder & Roman GianArthur have composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix original documentary Stamped from the Beginning. The film directed by Roger Ross Williams (Life, Animated, The Apollo, Cassandro) is inspired by Ibram X. Kendi’s book of the same title and explores the history of anti-Black ideas in a way that helps us grapple with present-day racism. The movie uses vivid animations that illuminate figures and moments both well-known and obscure, both historical and contemporary. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Concrete Utopia’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Concrete Utopia, Kim Haewon, score, Soundtrack, Um Tae-hwa
Leeway Music & Media has released a soundtrack album for the South Korean disaster thriller Concrete Utopia. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kim Hae-won (Moonlit Winter, Socialphobia). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the title track after the jump. Concrete Utopia is co-written and directed by Um Tae-hwa and stars Lee Byung-hun, Park Bo-young and Park Seo-jun. The movie takes place after an earthquake renders much of Seoul a smouldering ruin and follows a group of survivors who begin efforts to restore order. Read the rest of this entry »
David Wingo & Amman Abbasi Scoring David Gordon Green’s ‘The Exorcist: Believer’
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amman Abbasi, David Gordon Green, David Wingo, Jeff Nichols, The Bikeriders, The Exorcist: Believer
David Wingo (Barry, The Report, Mayans, M.C., Kidding) has teamed up with writer/director & composer Amman Abbasi (Dayveon) to score the upcoming supernatural horror movie The Exorcist: Believer. The film is directed by David Gordon Green (Halloween, Pineapple Express) and stars Leslie Odom, Jr., Ann Dowd, Norbert Leo Butz, Jennifer Nettles, Olivia Marcum, Lidya Jewett, as well as Ellen Burstyn who is reprising her role as Chris MacNeil from William Friedkin’s Academy Award-wining original 1973 original movie. The sequel follows a father who – after his daughter and her friend disappear in the woods, only to return three days later – has to confront the nadir of evil to find out what happened to them. Read the rest of this entry »
Sadie Sandler’s Song ‘Hang the Moon’ from Netflix’s ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Released
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Katelyn Tarver, Matthew Coma, Netflix, Sadie Sandler, Sammi Cohen, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
Netflix Music has released the original song Hang the Moon from the Netflix original film You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah. The track is co-written (with Matthew Koma & Katelyn Tarver) and performed by lead actress Sadie Sandler and is now available to stream/download now on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. The label has previously released the original song Outside by 3VM as a digital single and a full soundtrack album featuring the movie’s original score by Este Haim & Amanda Yamate last month. Read the rest of this entry »
Frank Ilfman to Score Christine Jeffs’ ‘A Mistake’
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Mistake, Christine Jeffs, Frank Ilfman
Frank Ilfman (Big Bad Wolves, Gunpowder Milkshake, Ghost Stories, The Operative, The Etruscan Smile) has been hired to score the upcoming suspense drama A Mistake. The film is written and directed by Christine Jeffs (Sunshine Cleaning, Sylvia) and stars Elizabeth Banks and Mickey Sumner. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Carl Shuker and revolves around an eminent female surgeon who has navigated years of casual sexism and suddenly finds herself fighting for her career and reputation following the death of a patient. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Infamy’ (‘Infamia’) Released
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Infamia, Infamy, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Zofia Jastrzębska
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Polish Netflix original series Infamy (Infamia). The album features the songs from the show co-written (with Wojtek Urbański, among others) and performed by lead actress Zofia Jastrzębska. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here. Listen to the title track after the jump. Infamy is created by Anna Maliszewska and also stars Kamil Piotrowski, Sebastian Łach, Magdalena Czerwińska and Artur Dziurman. The drama follows a 17-year-old girl who caught between her Roma roots and pressure from her friends who aspires to become a hip-hop musician despite her parents’ strict rules. Read the rest of this entry »
Isobel Waller-Bridge Scoring Thea Sharrock’s ‘Wicked Little Letters’
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Isobel Waller-Bridge, Thea Sharrock, Wicked Little Letters
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Vita & Virginia, The Phantom of the Open, Roar, Munich: The Edge of War) is scoring the upcoming British period comedy Wicked Little Letters. The film is directed by Thea Sharrock (Me Before You, The One and Only Ivan) and stars Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan and Timothy Spall. The movie follows two neighbours who get on each other’s nerves in a small English town in the 1920s, where residents start receiving anonymous letters, igniting a scandal in their community. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The War of the Worlds’ 70th Anniversary Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Byron Haskin, Leith Stevens, score, Soundtrack, The War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1953 sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds directed by Byron Haskin and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the Paramount Pictures release composed by Leith Stevens (The Wild One, Destination Moon, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, The Night of the Grizzly). Also included is the composer’s score from 1951’s When Worlds Collide directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen & John Hoyt. The 70th Anniversary Edition CD is limited to 1,000 copies and will be available to order on the label’s official website at noon today. Read the rest of this entry »
Matteo Zingales Scoring Lee Tamahori’s ‘The Convert’
Posted: September 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Lee Tamahori, Matteo Zingales, The Convert
Matteo Zingales (99 Homes, Fahrenheit 451, The Hunter, Tidelands, Mystery Road) has composed the original music for the upcoming Australian/New Zealand historical epic The Convert. The film is directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day, The Edge) and stars Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Jacqueline McKenzie, Antonio Te Maioha and Lawrence Makoare. The movie tells the story of a newly arrived preacher in a colonial town in early 19th Century New Zealand who finds himself at the center of a long-standing battle between two Māori tribes. Read the rest of this entry »