Quartet Records has announced the world premiere release of two scores from 1970s cult movies from American International Pictures. The album features the original music from the 1976 sci-fi thriller The Food of the Gods written and directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker & Jon Cypher composed by Elliot Kaplan (Fantasy Island, Cry Blood, Apache, Then Came Bronson, Voyagers), as well as the score from the 1972 horror film Frogs directed by George McCowan and starring Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke & Judy Pace composed by Les Baxter (House of Usher, Black Sunday, The Beast Within, Baron Blood). The CD is limited to 1,000 copies and is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of ‘The Food of the Gods’ & ‘Frogs’ Scores Announced
Posted: October 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bert I. Gordon, Elliot Kaplan, Frogs, George McCowan., Les Baxter, score, Soundtrack, The Food of the Gods
‘Amber Alert’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amber Alert, Don Miggs, Kerry Bellessa, score, Soundtrack
Lionsgate Records has released a soundtrack album for the thriller Amber Alert. The album features the film’s original music composed by Don Miggs (23 Blast, Skyman). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Amber Alert is co-written and directed by Kerry Bellessa and stars Hayden Panettiere, Tyler James Williams, Kevin Dunn and Saidah Arrika Ekulona. The movie follows a man and a woman whose ordinary rideshare becomes a game of cat and mouse when both receive an alert of a child abduction on their phones and quickly realize they are behind a car that matches the description of the kidnapper. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘De Sade’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: October 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Billy Strange, Cy Endfield, De Sade, score, Soundtrack
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1969 drama De Sade directed by Cy Endfield and starring Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer, John Huston, Anna Massey and Sonja Ziemann. The album features the complete original score from the American International Pictures production composed and conducted by Billy Strange (who is best known as a songwriter of hits including Elvis Presley’s A Little Less Conversation) and performed by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, including previously unreleased music, as well as several alternate tracks. The CD, which is limited to 1,000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. Tower Records has previously released the original 1969 soundtrack album on vinyl. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Trouble’ (‘Strul’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anders Niska, Jon Holmberg, Klas Wahl, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Strul, Trouble
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Swedish Netflix original film Trouble (Strul). The album features the movie’s original music is composed by Klas Wahl & Anders Niska (Swedish Dicks, Farang, Intrigo: Death of an Author, Dear Agnes & Samaria, Blackway). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ title (sequence) track below. Trouble is co-written and directed by Jon Holmberg and stars Filip Berg, Amy Deasismont, Måns Nathanaelson, Eva Melander, Dejan Čukić, Joakim Sällquist and Sissela Benn. The action comedy is based on the 1998 cult classic of the same title and follows a clumsy electronics salesman who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and faces police corruption and criminal conspiracies in an attempt to prove his innocence. Read the rest of this entry »
Jay Wadley Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Before’
Posted: October 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Before, Jay Wadley
Jay Wadley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Swan Song, Franklin, Indignation, I Carry You with Me, We Grown Now, Fire Island) is the composer of the new Apple TV+ limied series Before. The show is created by Sarah Torp (The Bounty Hunter, Twisted) and stars Billy Crystal, Judith Light, Rosie Perez, Jacobi Jupe, Maria Dizzia and Ava Lalezarzadeh. The 10-part supernatural mystery thriller follows a child psychiatrist who – after recently losing his wife – encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to his past. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Red Virgin’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Guille Galván, Juanma Latorre, La virgen roja, Paula Ortiz, score, Soundtrack, The Red Virgin
Amazon Content Services has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish biographical drama The Red Virgin (La virgen roja). The album features the film’s original music composed by Juanma Latorre (Teresa) & Guille Galván (The Daughter). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composers’ opening titles track after the jump. The Red Virgin is directed by Paula Ortiz and stars Najwa Nimri, Alba Planas, Aixa Villagrán, Pepe Viyuela and Patrick Criado. The movie tells the story of Hildegart Rodríguez, born in 1914 as a child prodigy and raised by her mother to be a model for future women, who gave conferences on sexuality and feminism from the age of 11 and accompanied H.G. Wells when he made a visit to Spain.. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 6, 2024)
Posted: October 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Apple TV +, Atticus Ross, Citadel: DIana, Disclaimer, Finneas O'Connell, Gerrit Wunder, HBO, Hulu, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Jeff Cardoni, La Máquina, Mokadelic, Pinar Toprak, Starz, Sweetpea, The Franchise, Tomas Barreiro, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, Trent Reznor
Premiering tonight is the HBO original series The Franchise created by Jon Brown and starring Himesh Patel, Aya Cash, Jessica Hynes, Darren Goldstein, Billy Magnussen, Isaac Powell and Lolly Adefope. The show’s original score is composed by Jeff Cardoni (Silicon Valley, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, The Kominsky Method, Heels, White House Plumbers, CSI :Miami, Ghosts). Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Soul, Challengers, Watchmen, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) have contributed the theme and music for the first episode. Click here to learn more about the comedy, which will air Sundays on HBO and will also be available to stream on Max.
Premiering on Wednesday, October 9, is the Hulu original series La Máquina created by Marco Ramirez and starring Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Eiza González, Andrés Delgado, Jorge Perugorría, Dariam Coco, Karina Gidi and Lucía Méndez.. Tomás Barreiro (La Cocina, The Good Girls, Museo, Gueros) has composed the show’s original music. Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score on October 11. Check back on this page for the full album details and for more information about the drama, which follows a boxer struggling to mount a comeback who must also juggle his own personal demons, and will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »
Carly Paradis Scoring BBC’s ‘Showtrial’ Season 2
Posted: October 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Carly Paradis, Showtrial
Carly Paradis (The Innocents, The Rising, Line of Duty, Typist Artist Pirate King, Sick Note, Whitstable Pearl, Prime Suspect 1973) has been tapped to score the second season of the BBC drama Showtrial. The show is created by Ben Richards (The Tunnel, Cobra) and stars Adeel Akhtar, Nathalie Armin, Michael Socha, Fisayo Akinade, Joe Dempsie, Zoë Telford, Ali Khan, Nina Toussaint-White, John Light, John Marquez, Anna Wilson-Jones and Francesca Annis. The 5-part thriller centers on the death of a high-profile climate activist from in a violent hit and run who uses his dying moments to apparently identify his killer – a serving policeman. Read the rest of this entry »
Damian Lewis’ Original Song ‘Sucky My Blood’ from ‘The Radleys’ Released
Posted: October 5, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Damian Lewis, Euros Lyn, The Radleys
Iris Records has released the original song Suck My Blood from the British horror comedy The Radleys. The track is written, co-produced (with the film’s composer Keefus Ciancia) and performed by lead actor Damian Lewis and is now available to stream/download on most major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. The Radleys is directed by Euros Lyn and also stars Kelly Macdonald, Harry Baxendale, Jay Lycurgo, Bo Bragason, Siân Phillips and Shaun Parkes. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 4, 2024)
Posted: October 4, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ack Kinmonth, Arthur's Whisky, Blink, Chromosomes, Daaaaaalí!, David Newman, Frederik Wiedmann, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jan Miserre, Jimmy LaValle, John Gürtler, Joker: Folie à Deux, Keefus Ciancia, Michael A. Muller, Monster Summer, Scarygirl, Steven Argila, Tamar-Kali, The Fall, The Outrun, The Problem with People, The Radleys, Things Will Be Different, Thomas Bangalter, Thomas Newman, White Bird
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the psychological thriller Joker: Folie à Deux directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Catherine Keener, Brendan Gleeson and Zazie Beetz. The film’s original score is composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl, A Haunting in Venice, Women Talking, Tar, Sicario: Day of the Soldado). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last Friday (click here for the full album details) and Interscope Records has released a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the Warner Bros. Pictures release performed by Phoenix & Gaga, as well as a track by Nick Cave today (click here for more more information).
Also opening wide is the drama White Bird directed by Marc Forster and starring Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, Helen Mirren, Gillian Anderson and Bryce Gheisar. Thomas Newman (American Beauty, Finding Nemo, The Shawshank Redemption, Skyfall, Road to Perdition, The Horse Whisperer) has composed the film’s original music. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as an original song today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Lionsgate release. Read the rest of this entry »
