Daniel Rojas (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Hit-Monkey, Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K., Monster High, Starcrossed) will release a soundtrack album for the comedy Who Invited Charlie?. The album features the composer’s original music from the film and will be released digitally this Friday, February 17 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Who Invited Charlie? is directed by Xavier Manrique and stars Adam Pally, Jordana Brewster, Reid Scott, Peter Grosz and Peter Dager. The movie revolves around a troubled family whose bubble is popped when a cocktail-swilling, pot-smoking ‘Charlie’ from their past shows up unannounced, crashing their stay in the Hamptons. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Who Invited Charlie?’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: February 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Daniel Rojas, score, Soundtrack, Who Invited Charlie?, Xavier Manrique
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Marius de Vries, Abigail Barlow, Emily Bear & Mark Sonnenblick Join Music Team of ‘Fred & Ginger’ Biopic
Posted: February 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Abigail Barlow, Emily Bear, Fred & Ginger, Jonathan Entwistle, Marius de Vries, Mark Sonnenblick
Music producer Marius de Vries (Coda, Kick-Ass, Strange Magic, Navalny, Sucker Punch), Grammy Award-winning songwriters Abigail Barlow & Emily Bear (The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical) and Emmy Award-nominated songwriter Mark Sonnenblick (Theater Camp) have joined the music team of the upcoming biographical drama Fred & Ginger. The film is directed by Jonathan Entwistle (The End of the F*cking World, I Am Not Okay with This) and will star Jamie Bell as Fred Astaire and Margaret Qualley as Ginger Rogers. The movie centers on a life-defining point in the Hollywood icons’ early careers when their contrasting dance styles and competitive rivalry threatened to destroy their legendary partnership. Read the rest of this entry »
Stuart Earl to Score Sally El Hosaini’s & James Krishna Floyd’s ‘Unicorns’
Posted: February 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: James Krishna Floyd, Sally El Hosaini, Stuart Eartl, Unicorns
Stuart Earl (Rillington Place, Persuasion, And Then There Were None, The Accident, Angela Black, Ordeal by Innocence) is set to score the upcoming romantic drama Unicorns. The film is directed by Sally El Hosaini (The Swimmers) & James Krishna Floyd and stars Jason Patel and Ben Hardy. The movie is set against a secretive London subculture and follows a queer performer living a double life and a single father working as a mechanic whose lives collide after a chance encounter. Floyd also wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Sky’s ‘Django’ Released
Posted: February 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Django, Mokadelic, score, Sky, Soundtrack
Radiocattleya has released a soundtrack album for the Sky original drama Django. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by. the Italian psychedelic-post-rock collective Mokadelic (Gomorrah, The Immortal, Romulus) . The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Django is created and written by Leonardo Fasoli & Maddalena Ravagli loosely based on Sergio Corbucci’s cult classic, directed by Francesca Comencini and stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Lisa Vicari, Nicholas Pinnock and Noomi Rapace. The 10-part western is in late 1800s Texas and centers on a jaded cowboy in search of the daughter he thought he had lost. Read the rest of this entry »
Samuel Sim Scoring BBC’s ‘Better’
Posted: February 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Better, Samuel Sim
Samuel Sim (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, The Spanish Princess, The Long Call, Anne, The Halcyon, Home Fires) has composed the original music for the new BBC series Better. The show is created by Jonathan Brackley & Sam Vincent (Humans, MI-5) and stars Leila Farzad, Andrew Buchan, Samuel Edward-Cook, Zak Ford-Williams, Olivia Nakintu, Anton Lesser, Lucy Black and Ceallach Spellmam. The 5-part thriller followss a corrupt police detective who undergoes a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing. Read the rest of this entry »
Christophe Beck’s Theme from ‘Quantumania’ Released
Posted: February 12, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Christophe Beck, Marvel, Peyton Reed
Hollywood Records & Marvel Music have released the first track from the soundtrack for Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is the Theme from “Quantumania” written by the film’s composer Christophe Beck (Frozen, WandaVision, Free Guy, Hawkeye, The Hangover, Edge of Tomorrow). Also listen to the track after the jump. A full soundtrack album featuring Beck’s score will be released on February 15. Check back on this page for the full album details. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is directed by Peyton Reed and stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas Bill Murray and Michelle Pfeiffer. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 12, 2023)
Posted: February 12, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Frederik Wiedmann, Hello Tomorrow!, Jessica Jones, Mark Mothersbaugh, Netflix, Paramount+, Red Rose, Star Trek: Picard, Stephen Barton, Tim Morrish
Premiering in the U.S. on Wednesday, February 15, is the British horror series Red Rose written by Paul & Michael Clarkson and starring Amelia Clarkson, Isis Hainsworth, Ellis Howard, Natalie Blair, Natalie Gavin and Ali Kahn. The show’s original music is composed by Tim Morrish (Code 404, Pili) & Jessica Jones (The Tinder Swindler, Our Universe, The Surgeon’s Cut). Manners McDade has released soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score last summer when the series premiered in the UK on BBC Three. Click here for the full album details. The show is making its worldwide debut on Netflix.
Premiering on Thursday, February 16, is the third season of the Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Picard created by Alex Kurtzman, Kirsten Beyer, Akiva Goldsman & Michael Chabon and starring Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, Michelle Hurd, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan and Ed Speleers. Stephen Barton (Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, 12 Monkeys, Titanfall) and Frederik Wiedmann (The Dragon Prince, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Occupation: Rainfall, Field of Lost Shoes) have composed the original music for the new season. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Mountain’ (‘La Montagne’) Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: February 12, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chloé Thévenin, La montagne, score, Soundtrack, The Mountain, Thomas Salvador
Lumière Noire Records has released a soundtrack EP for the French adventure drama The Mountain (La montagne). The 6-track EP features the film’s original music composed by Chloé Thévenin (Arthur Rambo, A Decent Man). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. The Mountain is co-written and directed by Thomas Salvador and stars Salvador himself, Louise Bourgoin, Martine Chevallier, Andranic Manet, Laurent Poitrenaux and Sylvain Frendo. The movie follows a Parisian engineer who decides to leave his everyday life behind and set up a bivouac in the French Alps, where he discovers a shifting luminescence in the darkness and sets out to get to the bottom of the mysterious phenomenon. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Hello Tomorrow!’
Posted: February 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Hello Tomorrow!, Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The LEGO Movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Croods: A New Age, 21/22 Jump Street) is the composer of the new Apple TV+ original series Hello Tomorrow!. The show is created by Amit Bhalla & Lucas Jansen and stars Billy Crudup, Haneefah Wood, Alison Pill, Dewshane Williams, Nicholas Podany, Hank Azaria, Matthew Maher and Jacki Weaver. The dramedy is set in a retro-futuristic world and follows a charismatic salesman as he leads a team of fellow sales associates determined to revitalize their customers’ lives by hawking timeshares on the moon. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 10, 2023)
Posted: February 10, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Clint Mansell, Consecration, Magic Mike's Last Dance, Nathan Halpern, Sharper, She Came from the Woods, Siddhartha Khosla, Timothy Williams, Your Place or Mine
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the comedy drama Magic Mike’s Last Dance directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek, Ayub Khan Din, Jemelia George, Juliette Motamed and Vicki Pepperdine. The movie doesn’t feature an original score. Season Kent is the film’s music supervisor. Keep Cool & RCA Records have released the song Careful co-written and performed by Lucky Daye today. Click here to listen to the track and to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Opening in select theaters today is the horror thriller Consecration co-written and directed by Christopher Smith and starring Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Thoren Ferguson, Will Keen and Janet Suzma. Nathan Halpern (The Rider, Emily the Criminal, Watcher, Swallow, Minding the Gap) has composed the film’s original music. No word on a soundtrack release. The movie, which follows a woman who goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what happened to her priest brother after he died, is being released by IFC Films. Read the rest of this entry »
