Dua Lipa has recorded an original song for Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy Barbie. The track, entitled Dance the Night, will be released as a digital single this coming Friday, May 26. Dua Lipa announced the song title on social media. No songwriter/producer credits have been revealed yet, but we have learned a couple of weeks ago that Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (who both previously collaborated with Dua Lipa) are involved in producing music for the film’s soundtrack. Atlantic Records will release Barbie The Album featuring the songs from the movie, while WaterTower Music is expected to release a separate soundtrack featuring the film’s original score. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Wild One’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gaël Rakotondrabe, score, Soundtrack, Tessa Louise-Salomé, The Wild One
District 6 Music has released a soundtrack album for the documentary The Wild One. The album features the film’s original music composed by Gaël Rakotondrabe (Porto, Other People’s Children). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. The Wild One is directed by Tessa Louise-Salomé, narrated by Willem Dafoe and traces theater/film director Jack Garfein’s life: his Czechoslovakian youth, his family’s fleeing the Nazis and surviving in Auschwitz and other camps, his arrival in New York and coming under the wing of Lee Strasberg, Hollywood and his marriage to actress Carroll Baker. Read the rest of this entry »
Max’s ‘Clone High’ Revival to Feature Score and Theme Song by Tommy Walter
Posted: May 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Abandoned Pools, Clone High, Max, Tommy Walter
Tommy Walter (of the rock band Abandoned Pools) is composing the original music for the new Max original animated series Clone High. The revival of the cult 2002 show created by Phil Lord & Chris Miller (The LEGO Movie, 21/22 Jump Street) and Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Scrubs) also features Abandoned Pools’ theme song (written by Walter) from the original series. Will Forte, Nicole Sullivan, Lord & Miller themselves, Christa Miller, Donald Faison & Judah Miller are reprising their roles from the 2002 show and are joined by new cast members Ayo Edebiri, Mitra Jouhari, Kelvin Yu, Vicci Martinez, Neil Casey, Sam Richardson, Jana Schmieding, Mo Gaffney, Danny Pudi, Al Madrigal, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Michael Bolton, Mandy Moore, Ian Ziering and Steve Kerr. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Munch’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Henrik M. Dahlsbakken, Munch, score, Soundtrack, Tim Fain
Blind Bay Records has released a soundtrack album for the Norwegian biographical drama Munch. The album features the film’s original music written by violinist/composer Tim Fain (who has performed on the soundtracks for Black Swan, Moonlight & 12 Years a Slave, among other titles) who has made his narrative feature scoring debut on the project. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Munch is directed by Henrik M. Dahlsbakken and stars Alfred Ekker Strande, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Ola G. Furuseth, Anne Krigsvoll, Jesper Christensen and Anders Baasmo. The movie depicts the troubled life of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (The Scream) through four time periods, played by four different actors. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wild Life’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: May 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chai Vasarhelyi, Gustavo Santaolalla, Jimmy Chin, Juan Luqui, National Geographic, score, Soundtrack, Wild Life
Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the National Geographic documentary Wild Life. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, Babel, The Last of Us, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Book of Life) and Juan Luqui (Monsterland, The Fight). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 26 (click here to stream/download the album). Wild Life is directed by Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) and chronicles conservationists Kris and Doug Tompkins’ fight to preserve one of the last truly wild places on earth. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mavka: The Forest Song’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dario Vero, Mavka: The Forest Song, Oleg Malamuzh, Oleksandra Ruban, score, Soundtrack
FILM.UA Group has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature Mavka: The Forest Song. The album features the film’s original score composed by Dario Vero (The Stolen Princess, Once Upon a Time in Ukraine, Sissi: The Young Empress). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also available now is a separate soundtrack EP featuring the songs from the movie. Mavka: The Forest Song is directed by Oleg Malamuzh & Oleksandra Ruban and tells the story of a magical spirit protecting the forest from the outside world who faces her greatest challenge when she falls in love with a human. Read the rest of this entry »
Ibrahim Maalouf Scoring Claude Lelouch’s ‘Finalement…’
Posted: May 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Claude Lelouch, Finalement..., Ibrahim Maalouf
Ibrahim Maalouf (Yves Saint Laurent, Who You Think I Am, Leave No Traces, Radiance, One Man and His Cow) is scoring the upcoming French drama Finalement… The film is directed by Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman, Love Is a Funny Thing) and stars Kad Merad, Elsa Zylberstein, Sandrine Bonnaire, Michel Boujenah, Raphael Mezrahi and Barbara Pravi. The movie centers on a powerful lawyer who lost his ability to lie as he embarks on a road trip across France during the cycling race Les 24 du Mans and falls in love with a woman while pursuing his true passion, playing trumpet. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Good Manners’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Good Manners, Joan Martorell, Los buenos modales, Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz, score, Soundtrack
Atresmúsica has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish comedy drama Good Manners (Los buenos modales). The album features the film’s original music composed by Joan Martorell (The Awakening of the Ants, Campamento Albanta). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Good Manners is co-written and directed by Marta Díaz de Lope and stars Elena Irureta, Gloria Muñoz, Pepa Aniorte, Carmen Flores and Inma Cuesta. The movie revolves around two sisters who – after years without speaking to each other because of a family secret – unexpectedly meet again on their grandchildren’s birthday. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 21, 2023)
Posted: May 21, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: American Born Chinese, Apple TV +, Disney Plus, Fernando Velazquez, FUBAR, Ghosts of Beirut, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, Hulu, Mark Bradshaw, Max, Michael Andrews, Netflix, Platonic, Sherri Chung, Showtime, The Clearing, Tony Morales, Wendy Wang
Premiering tonight is the Showtime limited series Ghosts of Beirut created by Avi Issacharoff & Lior Raz and starring Dina Shihabi, Dermot Mulroney, Garret Dillahunt, Rafi Gavron, Hisham Suleiman, Iddo Goldberg and Amir Khoury. The show’s original music is composed by Fernando Velazquez (The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, The Impossible, Mama, Devil, Crimson Peak, Hercules). Check out our previous article to learn more about the 4-parter, which will air every Sunday night on the linear Showtime channel and Fridays for Showtime subscribers.
Premiering on Tuesday, May 23, is the (HBO) Max animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai developed by Tze Chun based on Joe Dante’s Gremlins features and starring Izaac Wang, Ming-Na Wen, James Hong, BD Wong, A.J. LoCascio, Gabrielle Green and Matthew Rhys.. Sherri Chung (Batwoman, Kung Fu, Riverdale, Blindspot, The Lost Husband) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the Warner Bros. Animation & Amblin Television production, which will be available to stream exclusively on Max. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Fishbowl’ (‘La Pecera’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 21, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Glorimar Marrero Sánchez, La Pecera, score, Sergio de la Puente, Soundtrack, The Fishbowl
Ebony and Ivory has released a soundtrack album for the Puerto Rican/Spanish drama The Fishbowl (La Pecera). The album features the film’s original music composed by Sergio de la Puente (The Awakening of the Ants, Sin fin, Oh! Mammy Blue, The Night of the Two Moons). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. The Fishbowl is directed by Glorimar Marrero Sánchez and stars Isel Rodríguez, Modesto Lacén, Maximiliano Rivas and Magali Carrasquillo. The movie follows a 40-year-old visual artist who is seeing cancer returning after years of remission as she decides to return to her native Puerto Rican Island to claim her freedom and decide her own fate. Read the rest of this entry »
