SATV has released a soundtrack album for the German Sky original series Drift – Partners in Crime. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Michael Kamm (Sleepless, Who Am I, Close to the Horizon) & Maximilian Stephan (Prey, Whatever Happens). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. Drift – Partners in Crime is directed by Tim Trachte & Ngo The Chau and stars Ken Duken, Fabian Busch and Mona Pirzad. The Action Concept production revolves around an unequal pair of brothers and unexpected detective duo who have been estranged for decades and find themselves at the center of an international conspiracy and are forced to work as a team. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Sky’s ‘Drift – Partners in Crime’ Released
Posted: February 20, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Drift - Partners in Crime, Maximilian Stephan, Michael Kamm, score, Sky, Soundtrack
Eric Neveux Scoring Mathieu Bonzon’s ‘Outrage’
Posted: February 20, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eric Neveux, Mathieu Bonzon, Outrage, Richard the Stork 2
Eric Neveux (The Attack, Zombillennium, Intimacy, SamSam, A Stork’s Journey,The Illegal) has composed the original music for the upcoming revenge thriller Outrage. The film is directed by Mathieu Bonzon and stars Julie Gayet, Adelaide Kane, Jay O. Sanders, Clemens Schick and Manuel Cauchi. The movie is set in a secluded French château, where a group of international media and political personalities gather for a private dinner party, when they realize that they have stumbled into a deadly trap. Read the rest of this entry »
‘For Better and for Worse’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 20, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amine Bouhafa, For Better and for Worse, score, Soundtrack, Tristan Séguéla, Un homme heureux
Gaumont has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy For Better and for Worse (Un homme heureux). The album features the film’s original music composed by Amine Bouhafa (Timbuktu, The Summit of the Gods, Beauty and the Dogs, The Man Who Sold His Skin, Gagarine). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. is directed by Tristan Séguéla and stars Fabrice Luchini, Catherine Frot, Philippe Katerine and Artus. The movie follows the conservative mayor of a small town who is in the middle of a re-election campaign when his devoted wife of forty years tells him she wants to become a man. Read the rest of this entry »
Volker Bertelmann Wins BAFTA Award for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Score
Posted: February 19, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: All Quiet on the Western Front, BAFTA, Volker Bertelmann
Volker Bertelmann has received his first BAFTA Award for his music for Edward Berger’s Netflix film All Quiet on the Western Freont in the Original Score category at today’s 2023 EE British Academy Film Awards ceremony in London. He has previously been BAFTA-nominated back in 2017 for his music from Garth Davis’ Lion (shared with Dustin O’Halloran). The composer is also nominated for an Academy Award for his All Quiet on the Western Front score. Check out his acceptance speech below. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 19, 2023)
Posted: February 19, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Amazon, Apple TV +, Bel-Air, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Jacob Yoffee, Jeff Garber, Jeff Russo, Liaison, Netflix, Peacock, Siddhartha Khosla, The Company You Keep, The Consultant, The Strays, Walter Mair
Premiering tonight is the new ABC drama The Company You Keep developed by Julia Cohen & Phil Klemmer and starring Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Sarah Wayne Callies,Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Felisha Terrell and Polly Drap. The show’s original music is composed by Jeff Garber (Virgin River, Nancy Drew) & Siddhartha Khosla (Only Murders in the Building, This Is Us). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the series, which will air Sundays on ABC and will also be available to stream on Hulu.
Premiering on Wednesday, February 22, is the British Netlix original film The Strays written and directed by Nathaniel Martello-White and starring Ashley Madekwe, Jorden Myrie, Maria Almeida and Bukky Bakray. Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Living, Rocks, The Forgotten Battle, Censor) has composed the movie’s original music. Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the thriller. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo Scoring Amazon’s ‘The Consultant’
Posted: February 18, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Jeff Russo, The Consultant
Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, Legion, The Night Of, The Umbrella Academy) is the composer of the new Amazon original series The Consultant. The show is created by Tony Basgallop (Servant) and stars Christoph Waltz, Nat Wolff, Brittany O’Grady and Aimee Carrero. The comedic thriller is based on Bentley Little’s 2015 novel of the same title and centers on a consultant who is hired to improve the business at an App-based gaming company and makes its employees experience new demands and challenges that put everything into question. Read the rest of this entry »
Gerald Fried (1928-2023)
Posted: February 18, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Gerald Fried
Gerald Fried has passed away yesterday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, CT of pneumonia at age 95. The composer was best known for his work on classic TV shows including the original Star Trek series, Gilligan’s Island, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Lost in Space, Mission: Impossible and Dynasty. He won an Emmy Award (shared with Quincy Jones) for his music for the 1977 mini-series Roots and was Emmy-nominated several other times for the 1980 TV movie The Silent Lovers (1980) and the mini-series The Mystic Warrior (1984) and Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987). Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 17, 2023)
Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 88, Abel Korzeniowski, Andrew Kawczynski, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Bear McCreary, Christophe Beck, Christophe Musset, David Holmes, Emily, Jérémie Arcache, Joe Kraemer, Lorne Balfe, Marlowe, Of an Age, Ping Pong: The Triumph, Return to Seoul, We Have a Ghost
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania directed by Peyton Reed and starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, Michelle Pfeiffer and Bill Murray. The film’s original music is composed by Christophe Beck (Frozen, Free Guy, WandaVision, The Hangover, Edge of Tomorrow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hawkeye). Hollywood Records & Marvel Music have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. Check out our previous article for the full album details.
Already playing in theaters nationwide since this past Wednesday is the noir thriller Marlowe directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, Diane Kruger, Danny Huston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Colm Meaney and Ian Hart. David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven, Out of Sight, Killing Eve, Analyze That, No Sudden Move, Haywire) has composed the film’s original score. Republic Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score and an original song by Jon Batiste last week. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Open Road Films release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ping Pong: The Triumph’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Kawczynski, Baimei Yu, Chao Deng, Lorne Balfe, Ping Pong: The Triumph, Ping-Pong of China, score, Soundtrack
Hangzhou Yuyinniaoniao Culture Media Co. has released a soundtrack album for the Chinese sports drama Ping Pong: The Triumph (aka Ping-Pong of China). The album features the film’s original score composed by Andrew Kawczynski (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Eight Hundred, Sky Hunter, The Corrupted). Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, His Dark Materials) has contributed the main theme. Also included is the “promotional” song The Road to Glory by LuHan. The soundtrack was released in China in January and is now available to stream/download in most major U.S. digital music stores, including Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Stracey Scoring John Trengove’s ‘Manodrome’
Posted: February 17, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Stracey, John Trengove, Manodrome
Christopher Stracey (Maid, Cha Cha Real Smooth) has made his solo feature scoring debut on the upcoming thriller Manodrome. The film is written and directed by John Trengove (The Wound) and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, Odessa Young, Sallieu Sesay, Philip Ettinger, Ethan Suplee, Caleb Eberhardt, Evan Joningkeit and Gheorghe Murensan. The movie revolves around an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and begins to lose his grip on reality. Read the rest of this entry »
