Moderna Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Innocence. The album features the film’s original music composed by Snorri Hallgrímsson (Chalk the Line, Chasing the Present). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Innocence is directed by Guy Davidi and tackles the issue of militarization and its impact on the lives of young Israeli people who are forced to serve against their own identity and values. The movie shows how children and young people are being tracked and pressured from early childhood into military enrollment and away from their parents. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Guy Davidi’s ‘Innocence’ Released
Posted: June 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Guy Davidi, Innocence, score, Snorri Hallgrímsson, Soundtrack
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Nathan Halpern Scoring Jeff Celentano’s ‘Blackwater Lane’
Posted: June 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blackwater Lane, Jeff Celentano, Nathan Halpern
Nathan Halpern (The Rider, Emily the Criminal, Watcher, Swallow, In the Same Breath, Consecration, Minding the Gap) has provided the original score for the new supernatural thriller Blackwater Lane. The film is directed by Jeff Celentano (The Hill, Gunshy) and stars Minka Kelly, Maggie Grace and Dermot Mulroney. The movie is based on the bestselling novel The Breakdown by B.A. Paris and follows a young woman is visited by a ghostly presence after witnessing a tragedy on a dangerous country road and begins to question her sanity as these otherworldly experiences intensify. Read the rest of this entry »
‘City Hunter’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Eishi Segawa, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Yûichi Satô
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Japanese Netflix original film City Hunter. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Eishi Segawa (Flying Colors, Once Upon a Crime, HK: Forbidden Super Hero). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s first track (XYZ) below. City Hunter is directed by Yûichi Satô and stars Ryohei Suzuki, Misato Morita, Masanobu Ando, Ayame Misaki, Asuka Hanamura and Moemi Katayama. The action comedy is based on the serial manga by Tsukasa Hōjō and revolves around an exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy who reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner’s sister to investigate his death. Read the rest of this entry »
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul to Write Original Songs for Jon M. Chu’s & Jill Culton’s ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Benj Pasek, Jill Culton, Jon M. Chu, Justin Paul, Oh the Places You’ll Go!
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen, Spirited, La La Land, Lyle Lyle Crocodile) have been hired to compose the original songs for Warner Bros. Animation’s upcoming feature Oh, the Places You’ll Go!. The film directed by Jon M. Chu (Cray Rich Asians, In the Heights) & Jill Culton (Abominable) is based on Dr. Seuss’ final book of the same title and tells the story a young adventurer amid the peaks and valleys of life. Rob Lieber (Peter Rabbit, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween) is writing the screenplay for the animated musical. Read the rest of this entry »
‘In Fidelity’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ilan Rubin, In Fidelity, Rob Margolies, score, Soundtrack
Ilan Rubin (Monsters of California, Bobcat Moretti) has released a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy drama In Fidelity. The album features the film’s original music written by the singer/songwriter, composer and Nine Inch Nails drummer now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also check out Rubin’s opening theme after the jump. In Fidelity is written and directed by Rob Margolies and stars Chris Parnell, Cara Buono, Dennis Haysbert, Willow Shields and Illeana Douglas. The movie follows a happily married New York couple whose world is rocked when of them becomes terminally ill and asks to sleep with their well-known rock star neighbor before she dies young. Read the rest of this entry »
Ruth Barrett Scoring Netflix’s ‘The Decameron’
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Netflix, Ruth Barrett, The Decameron
Ruth Barrett (Bodyguard, Victoria, Sanditon, The Terminal List, Harry Brown, Collateral) is the composer of the upcoming Netflix original series The Decameron. The show is created by Kathleen Jordan (Teenage Bounty Hunters) and stars Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala, Tony Hale, Karan Gill, Zosia Mamet, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Douggie McMeekin, Tanya Reynolds and Jessica Plummer. The comedy is set in the Italian countryside in the year 1348 when the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence, and follows a handful of nobles as they retreat with their servants to a grand villa to wait out the plague with a lavish holiday. Read the rest of this entry »
Remastered ‘The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Black and White in Color, Gwendoline, Hothead, Just Jaeckin, La Soubrette perverse, Pierre Bachelet, score, Soundtrack, The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak
Music Box Records has announced the premiere CD release of the soundtrack for the 1984 French action comedy The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (Gwendoline) written and directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff and Zabou. The album features the film’s newly remastered original score composed by Pierre Bachelet (Emmanuelle, The Story of O, Les Bronzés font du ski). Also included is the composer’s previously unreleased music for the 1974 feature La Soubrette perverse directed by José Benazéraf, as well as the cult instrumental hit OK Chicago performed by the band Resonance (aka Pierre Bachelet & Mat Camison). The limited edition CD is now available to order on Amazon and the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full album details and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Eternal Playground’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Eternal Playground, Joseph Rozé, La Récréation de Juillet, Pablo Cotten, score, Soundtrack
Hamburger Records has released a soundtrack EP for the French comedy drama Eternal Playground (La Récréation de Juillet). The 6-track EP features the film’s original music composed by the French indie pop band Kids Return. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also check out the band’s main titles track after the jump. Eternal Playground is written and directed by Pablo Cotten & Joseph Rozé and stars Andranic Manet, Alassane Diong, Alba-Gaïa Bellugi, Carla Audebaud, Arcadi Radeff, Nina Zamzem and Noée Abita. The movie is set during the last day of the school year and follows a Parisian first-year music teacher who is planning a weekend sleepover with his childhood crew to honor his recently departed twin sister. Read the rest of this entry »
Fernando Velazquez Scoring Juan Jesús Galocha’s & Pedro Solís’ ‘Buffalo Kids’
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Buffalo Kids, Fernando Velazquez, Juan Jesús Galocha, Pedro Solís
Fernando Velazquez (The Impossible, The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, Crimson Peak, Hercules, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Devil) has composed the original music for the upcoming animated feature Buffalo Kids. The film is directed by Juan Jesús Galocha & Pedro Solís and stars (in its English language version) Alisha Weir, Stephen Graham, Gemma Arterton and Sean Bean. The movie based on the short Cuerda (Strings) is set in 1886 America and tells the story of two Irish siblings who arrive on an ocean liner to New York City where their uncle was meant to pick them up, when they decide to stow away on the Transcontinental Railroad in the hopes of making it to California to find him. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wake Up’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anouk Whissell, Arnau Bataller, François Simard, score, Soundtrack, Wake Up, Yoannn-Karl Whissell
La Cupula Music has released a soundtrack album for the French/Canadian horror thriller Wake Up. The album features the film’s original music composed by Arnau Bataller (A Perfect Day, The Vault, [REC] 4: Apocalypse, Killer Book Club, Prey, The Chosen). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Up People!) below. Wake Up is directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell (who also wrote the screenplay) & Yoannn-Karl Whissell and stars Turlough Convery, Benny O.Arthur, Jacqueline Moré, Aidan O’Hare, Charlotte Stoiber, Kyle Scudder, Alessia Yoko Fontana and Tom Gould. The movie follows a group of activists who set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a store as it closes, when they become trapped inside and must face a deranged security guard with a gruesome passion for primitive hunting. Read the rest of this entry »
