Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Royal Tenenbaums, 21/22 Jump Street, The Croods: A New Age, Hotel Transylvania) has composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix animated film The Magician’s Elephant. The movie is directed by Wendy Rogers and features the voices of Noah Jupe, Mandy Patinkin, Brian Tyree Henry, Pixie Davies, Natasia Demetriou, Sian Clifford, Benedict Wong, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Miranda Richardson, Aasif Mandvi and Dawn French. The animated feature is based on Kate DiCamillo’s classic novel and follows an orphaned boy searching for his long-lost sister who must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure it. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Mothersbaugh Scoring Wendy Rogers’ ‘The Magician’s Elephant’
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Mothersbaugh, Netflix, The Magician's Elephant, Wendy Rogers
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Conor McPherson to Write and Direct ‘Girl from the North Country’ Film Adaptation
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bob Dylan, Conor McPherson, Girl from the North Country
Playwright Conor McPherson is set to write and direct a film adaptation of the stage musical Girl from the North Country. Chlöe Bailey, Tosin Cole, Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson are attached to star in the movie based on McPherson’s Great Depression-set musical inspired by the songs of Bob Dylan about a group of travelers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life and hope. Read the rest of this entry »
Haim Mazar to Score Michael Tiddes’ ‘Half Baked 2’
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Haim Mazar, Half Baked 2, Michael Tiddes
Haim Mazar (The Iceman, Sneakerheads, The Taking of Deborah Logan, Woke, I Am Wrath) has been hired to score the upcoming comedy sequel Half Baked 2. The film is directed by Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House, Naked) and stars Rachel True who reprises her role as Mary Jane from the original 1998 movie (scored by Alf Clausen), as well as Dexter Darden, Moses Storm, Ramona Young, Joel Courtney, Ash Santos and David Koechner. The movie follows Thurgood Jenkins’ son and his best friends as they search for the money to bury their other best friend who died from smoking the most powerful joint in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Zodi & Tehu – Princess of the Desert’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Eric Barbier, MIKA, score, Soundtrack, Zodi & Tehu - Princess of the Desert, Zodi et Téhu frères du désert
Virgin Records has released a soundtrack album for the French family adventure Zodi & Tehu – Princess of the Desert (Zodi et Téhu, frères du désert). The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter MIKA who has made his scoring debut on the project. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Listen to the first track from the album after the jump. Zodi & Tehu – Princess of the Desert is directed by Eric Barbier and stars Alexandra Lamy, Yassir Drief, Youssef Hajdi and Nadia Benzakour. The movie tells the story of a Berber boy who bonds with a camel as they cross the Sahara desert on a journey to Abu Dhabi. Read the rest of this entry »
Morgan Kibby Scoring Amazon’s ‘The Power’
Posted: February 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Morgan Kibby, The Power
Morgan Kibby (aka White Sea) (Mothering Sunday, The Watcher, Girls of the Sun, Grand Army, Tales of the Walking Dead) is the composer of the upcoming Prime Video original series The Power. The show is based on Naomi Alderman’s novel of the same title and stars Toni Collette, John Leguizamo, Auli’i Cravalho, Josh Charles, Toheeb Jimoh, Eddie Marsan, Zrinka Cvitešić, Ria Zmitrowicz and Halle Bush. The thriller follows a group of teenage girls who develop the power to electrocute people at will as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Germaine Franco Wins Grammy Award for ‘Encanto’ Score
Posted: February 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Encanto, Germaine Franco, Grammy Awards, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Germaine Franco has won her first Grammy Award for her score for Disney’s animated feature Encanto in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category at today’s 65th Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony in Los Angeles. She previously received an Academy Award nomination for her work on the film. Lin-Manuel Miranda received the Grammy for the movie’s original song We Don’t Talk About Bruno in the Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media category. Encanto was also the winner in the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Visual Media category. The album was released by Walt Disney Records. Read the rest of this entry »
’30 for 30: Bullies of Baltimore’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: 30 for 30: Bullies of Baltimore, David Robidoux, ESPN, Jason Weber, Ken Rodgers, Ryan Scully, score, Soundtrack
NFL Films has released a soundtrack album for the ESPN original documentary 30 for 30: Bullies of Baltimore. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Robidoux (All or Nothing, Lombardi, Hard Knocks, Namath) & Ryan Scully. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download now on Amazon and any other major digital music services. 30 for 30: Bullies of Baltimore directed by Ken Rodgers & Jason Weber tells the story of the Super Bowl champion 2000 Baltimore Ravens and centers on the team’s magical season framed by a reunion of its key figures filmed in front of a live audience in Baltimore in May 2022. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 5, 2023)
Posted: February 5, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Amazon, At Midnight, Danny Bensi, Disney Channel, Grant Fonda, Joshua Mosley, Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, My Dad the Bounty Hunter, Netflix, Not Dead Yet, Paramount+, Raphael Saadiq, Saunder Jurriaans, Somebody I Used to Know, Transcenders
Premiering on Wednesday, February 8, is the ABC comedy Not Dead Yet created by Casey Johnson & David Windsor based on the book Confessions of a 40-something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter and starring Gina Rodriguez, Joshua Banday and Angela Gibbs. The show’s original music is composed by Transcenders (Gossip Girl, Madam Secretary, Black-ish, Our Family Wedding). The series, which follows a broke and newly single woman working to restart the life and career she left behind five years ago who starts getting life advice from an unlikely source, will air Wednesday nights on ABC and will also be available to stream on Hulu.
Premiering on Thursday, February 9, is the Netflix animated series My Dad the Bounty Hunter created by Everett Downing & Patrick Harbin and starring Laz Alonso, Yvonne Orji, JeCobi Swain,Priah Ferguson, Rob Riggle, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Jamie Chung and Leslie Uggams. Joshua Mosley (Tuscaloosa, Bernie the Dolphin, Mass Effect: Paragon Lost) has composed the show’s original score. Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album featuring selections of Mosley’s score and several songs from the show this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
Simon Goff Scoring BBC’s ‘The Gold’
Posted: February 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Simon Goff, The Gold
Simon Goff has composed the original music for the new BBC series The Gold. The show is written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt) and stars Hugh Bonneville, Jack Lowden, Dominic Cooper, Tom Cullen, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Ellora Torchia and Stefanie Martini. The 6-part drama tells the true story of the Brink’s-Mat robbery when six armed men broke into a security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport in 1983 and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m and the decades-long chain of events that followed. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Viking Wolf’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bjørnar Johnsen, Kjetil Schjander Luhr, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Stig Svendsen, Viking Wolf
Grappa Musikkforlag has released a soundtrack album for the Norwegian horror thriller Viking Wolf (Vikingulven). The album features the film’s original music composed by Kjetil Schjander Luhr (Hamada, Reconstructing Utøya) & Bjørnar Johnsen (Switch, Radiopiratene). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Viking Wolf is co-written and directed by Stig Svendsen and stars Elli Müller Osborne, Liv Mjönes, Arthur Hakalahti, Vidar Magnussen, Mia Fosshaug Laubacher, Sjur Vatne Brean and Øyvind Brandtzæg. The movie revolves around a teenager who starts having strange visions and bizarre desires after witnessing a grotesque murder at a party in her new town. Read the rest of this entry »
