A24 Music has released the first track from the soundtrack for Ari Aster’s horror comedy Beau Is Afraid. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is Sail Away written by the film’s composer Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) (Midsommar, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, Returnal, Snowpiercer, Triple 9, Paper Girls). Also listen to the track after the jump. Check back on this page for the details of the full soundtrack album, which will be released next month. Beau Is Afraid is written and directed by Aster and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Parker Posey, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Michael Gandolfini, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Denis Ménochet, Zoe Lister-Jones and Richard Kind. Read the rest of this entry »
First Track from Bobby Krlic’s ‘Beau Is Afraid’ Score Released
Posted: March 28, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ari Aster, Beau Is Afraid, Bobby Krlic, The Haxan Cloak
‘Christian’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Christian, Giorgio Giampà, score, Sky, Soundtrack
Octopus Records has released a new soundtrack album for the Italian Sky original series Christian. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Giorgio Giampà (The Enforcer, Time Share, My Name Is Vendetta, We Are the Thousand). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring the composer’s music from Season 1 last year. Christian is created by Enrico Audenino, Valerio Cilio & Renato Sannio and stars Edoardo Pesce, Silvia D’Amico, Antonio Bannò, Giordano De Plano, Francesco Colella, Lina Sastri and Claudio Santamaria. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Akilla’s Escape’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Akilla's Escape, Robert Del Naja, Saul Williams, Soundtrack
Chrysalis Records will release a soundtrack album for the crime drama Akilla’s Escape. The album features original music from the film by Saul Williams who also stars in the lead role) and 3D/Robert Del Naja (of Massive Attack), with contributions by Trent Reznor, Euan Dickinson and Tom Ionescu, as well as tracks by Bob Marley & The Wailers, Jackie Edwards, The Gladiators and Cella Dwellas. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically this coming Friday, March 31. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version. A vinyl edition will be coming out on April 22 (Record Store Day). Akilla’s Escape is co-written and directed by Charles Officer and stars Williams, Thamela Mpumlwana, Donisha Prendergast, Olunike Adeliyi, Ronnie Rowe Jr., Colm Feore, Shomari Downer, Bruce Ramsay and Vic Mensa. Read the rest of this entry »
Este Haim & Chris Stracey to Score Laura Chinn’s ‘Suncoast’
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Stracey, Este Haim, Laura Chinn, Suncoast
Este Haim (of HAIM) & Chris Stracey have been hired to score the upcoming coming-of-age drama Suncoast. The film is written and directed by Laura Chinn (Florida Girls) and stars Nico Parker, Laura Linney and Woody Harrelson. The movie is based on Chinn’s own life and follows a teenager living with her strong-willed mother who must take her brother to live at a specialized facility, where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist. Read the rest of this entry »
Questlove to Direct and Oversee Music for Disney’s Live-Action ‘The Aristocats’ Movie
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Questlove, The Aristocats
Deadline is reporting that Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is set to direct Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the 1970 animated classic The Aristocats. He will also oversee the music for the movie, which follows a pedigreed cat and her kittens who are catnapped by a greedy butler. Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit, Easy A) is producing the project and is also co-writing the screenplay with Keith Bunin (Onward, Horns). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Godfather of Harlem’ Season 3 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Godfather of Harlem, MGM+, Soundtrack, Swiss Beatz
Epic Records has released a new soundtrack album for the MGM+ (formerly Epix) original series Godfather of Harlem. The album features the songs from the third season of the drama by the project’s executive music producer Swiss Beatz, as well as Busta Rhymes feat. Bilal, Snoop Dogg, Mike Dimes, Dave East, Lord Afrixana, Jadakiss, BEAM & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The label has previously released an album featuring the songs from Season 2, as well as multiple digital singles featuring music from all three seasons. Godfather of Harlem is created by Chris Brancato & Paul Eckstein and stars Forest Whitaker, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lucy Fry, Ilfenesh Hadera, Giancarlo Esposito, Whoopi Goldberg and Antoinette Crowe-Legacy. Read the rest of this entry »
Ian Hultquist Scoring AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, Ian Hultquist, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Dead City
Ian Hultquist (Dickinson, Assassination Nation, Rosaline, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Night Teeth, One of Us Is Lying, Good Girls) is scoring the upcoming AMC original series The Walking Dead: Dead City. The show is the first sequel to the original The Walking Dead series (scored by Bear McCreary in its first seasons and co-scored by McCreary & Sam Ewing in later seasons) and stars Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gaius Charles, Karina Ortiz, Zeljko Ivanek, Jonathan Higginbotham and Mahina Napoleon. The drama follows Maggie & Negan as they are traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan that is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wild Isles’ Episode ‘Grassland’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, George Fenton, score, Soundtrack, Wild Isles
Shogun Music has released the third soundtrack album for the BBC natural history series Wild Isles. The album features the original music from the show’s third episode (Grassland) composed by Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner George Fenton (Dangerous Liaisons, The Blue Planet, Groundhog Day, Gandhi, Anna and the King, Hitch, Ever After). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on most major digital music services, including Amazon. The label two soundtracks featuring the composer’s score from Episode 1 (Our Precious Isles) and Episode 2 (Woodland) and two more albums will be coming out next month. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 26, 2023)
Posted: March 26, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, FX, Great Expectations, Hulu, Keefus Ciancia, Mark Foster, Morgan Kibby, Netflix, Nick Sena, Paramount+, Rabbit Hole, Siddhartha Khosla, Sven Faulconer, The Big Door Prize, The Power, Unstable, Zachary Dawes
Premiering today is the Paramount+ original series Rabbit Hole created by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Charles Dance, Enid Graham, Meta Golding, Walt Klink, Jason Butler Harner and Rob Yang. The show’s original music is composed by Siddhartha Khosla (Only Murders in the Building, This Is Us, Runaways, Queenpins, Looking for Alaska, Your Place or Mine). Check out our previous article to learn more about the thriller, which will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
Also premiering today is the FX/BBC limited series Great Expectations developed by Steven Knight based on Charles Dickens’ novel and starring Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Johnny Harris, Ashley Thomas, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Tom Sweet and Matt Berry. Keefus Ciancia (Killing Eve, True Detective, Made for Love, London Spy, Nashville, Diana, The Fall) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the 6-part drama, which is premiering in the UK on BBC One and is making its U.S. debut on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »
Eoin O’Callaghan Scoring BBC’s ‘Blue Lights’
Posted: March 26, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Blue Lights, Eoin O'Callaghan
Eoin O’Callaghan (Quinn Country, Heyday – The Mic Christopher Story) is the composer of the new BBC drama Blue Lights. The show is created by Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson (The Salisbury Poisonings, Rogue Agent) and stars Siân Brooke, Nathan Braniff, Katherine Devli, Richard Dormer, Martin McCann, John Lynch, Joanne Crawford, Hannah McClean, Jonathan Harden and Andi Osho. The series in set in Belfast and follows three PSNI recruits as they fight against criminal gangs, undercover agents, their own communities and even their own police force. Read the rest of this entry »
