Johan Söderqvist (Let the Right One In, Kon-Tiki, Anatomy of a Scandal, After the Wedding, Things We Lost in the Fire, Battlefield V) has composed the original music for the upcoming Danish war drama Before It Ends (Når Befrielsen kommer). The film is written and directed by Anders Walter (I Kill Giants) and stars Pilou Asbæk, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Peter Kurth, Morten Hee Andersen and Ulrich Thomsen. The movie tells the story of a headmaster couple whose high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees during World War II and have to decide whether to help the refugees or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans. Read the rest of this entry »
Johan Söderqvist Scoring Anders Walter’s ‘Before It Ends’
Posted: July 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anders Walter, Before It Ends, Johan Söderqvist, Når Befrielsen kommer
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‘Mr. Putifar’s Wacky Plan’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: K.ZIA, Les vengeances de Maître Poutifard, Martin Laval, Mr. Putifar's Wacky Plan, Pascal Lengagne, Pierre François, score, Soundtrack
Les Films du 24 has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy Mr. Putifar’s Wacky Plan (Les vengeances de Maître Poutifard). The album features the film’s original score composed by Pascal Lengagne (Overdrive, Haute Couture, Fahim, Thank You for Calling). Also included are five original songs by K.ZIA. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Mr. Putifar’s Wacky Plan is directed by Pierre François & Martin Laval and stars Christian Clavier and Isabelle Nanty. The movie is based on the best-selling book by Jean-Claude Mourlevat and follows a retired school teacher who is plotting a revenge on the kids who made his life hell two decades earlier and destroyed his one chance at love. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack EP for Netflix Series ‘Celebrity’ Released
Posted: July 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Celebrity, Netflix, Soundtrack
Genie Music Corporation has released a soundtrack EP featuring three songs from the South Korean Netflix original series Celebrity. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services (including Amazon) are the tracks Blindness by Sole, Ball Buster by Aleesia and Who Dat Girl by Athena G. Also listen to all three songs below. Celebrity is created by Kim Cheol-kyu, Kim Yi-young and stars Park Gyu-young, Kang Min-hyuk, Lee Chung-ah, Jun Hyo-seong and Lee Dong-gun. The drama depicts the true reality of the glamorous and competitive life of celebrities encountered by a young woman who jumps into their world where fame will bring riches. Read the rest of this entry »
’97 Minutes’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 97 Minutes, Ian Livingstone, score, Soundtrack, Timo Vuorensola
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the action thriller 97 Minutes. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ian Livingstone (Battlefield 1943, Total War: Warhammer, The Pebble and the Boy, Book of Love, The Messenger, The King Maker). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. 97 Minutes is directed by Timo Vuorensola and stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Alec Baldwin and MyAnna Buring. The movie follows the director of the NSA as he prepares to shoot down a hijacked 767 that will crash in 97 minutes when its fuel runs out. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for BBC’s ‘The Gallows Pole’ to Be Released
Posted: July 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Goat, score, Shane Meadows, Soundtrack, The Gallows Pole
Rocket Recordings will release a soundtrack album for the BBC period drama The Gallows Pole. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by the Swedish psychedelic rock band Goat. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, July 7 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Gallows Pole is written and directed by Shane Meadows and stars Michael Socha, Sophie McShera, Thomas Turgoose, Anthony Welsh, Yusra Warsama, Samuel Edward-Cook, Adam Fogerty, Joe Sproulle, Nicole Barber-Lane, Fine Time Fontayne and Ralph Ineson. The 3-parter is based on the novel of the same title by Benjamin Myers and tells the true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners – a community of weavers and land-workers in 18th Century Yorkshire that embarked upon one of the biggest frauds in British history. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Orton Scoring Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers’
Posted: July 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexander Payne, Mark Orton, The Holdovers
Composer Mark Orton (The Good Girl, 12 Mighty Orphans, My Old Lady, Love Hard) is reuniting with director Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Election, Sideways) on the upcoming comedy drama The Holdovers. The film starring Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph & Dominic Sessa is set in the early 1970s and follows a universally disliked professor at a prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go and forms an unlikely bond with one of them. Read the rest of this entry »
Justin Jesso’s ‘Sound of Freedom’ Title Song Released
Posted: July 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alejandro Monteverde, Justin Jesso, Sound of Freedom
Angel Studios has released the original title song from the thriller Sound of Freedom. The track is co-written (with Fernando Garibay, Daniel Padilla, Ramiro Padilla & Paul Ahlstrom) and performed by Justin Jesso and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also check out the official music video after the jump. Sound of Freedom is directed by Alejandro Monteverde and stars Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp, Kurt Fuller, José Zúñiga and Eduardo Verástegui. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Idol’ Episode 5 Part 2 Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: July 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, The Idol, The Weeknd
Republic Records has released a digital EP featuring three songs from the fifth episode of the HBO original series The Idol. The 3-track EP includes the tracks Dollhouse written by Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Mike Dean & Ramsey and performed by The Weeknd & Lily-Rose Depp, Troye Sivan’s cover of George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord, as well as Crocodile Tears written and performed by Suzanna Son. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to all three tracks below. The label has previously released two other songs from the episode last Friday and four other singles featuring the music from the first four episodes over the last few weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 2, 2023)
Posted: July 2, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adult Swim, Amazon, Daniel Futcher, Dominic Lewis, Garrett Gonzales, My Adventures with Superman, Siddhartha Khosla, The Horror of Dolores Roach
Premiering on Thursday, July 6 (at midnight), is the Adult Swim animated series My Adventures with Superman based on the DC characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster and starring Jack Quaid, Alice Lee and Ishmel Sahid. The show’s original music is composed by Dominic Lewis (The Man in the High Castle, Bullet Train, Peter Rabbit, The King’s Man, Violent Night, Money Monster) and Daniel Futcher. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the Warner Bros. Animation production, which will air weekly on Adult Swim and will also be available to stream on Max. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Magnificat’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 2, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Magnificat, Nathaniel Mechaly, score, Soundtrack, Virginie Sauveur
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French thriller Magnificat. The album features the film’s original score composed by Nathaniel Méchaly (Taken, Colombiana, The Grandmaster, Taxi Brooklyn, Shut In, Transporter: The Series). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Magnificat is co-written and directed by Virginie Sauveur and stars Karin Viard, François Berleand, Maxime Bergeron and Anaïde Rozam. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Anne-Isabelle Lacassange about the head of the Paris Diocese of the catholic church who is called to a priest’s deathbed and finds out the the priest was a woman. Read the rest of this entry »
