The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 59th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. For the past couple of years, scoring mixers have been recognized alongside production, re-recording, ADR and foley mixers. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Daniel Kresco for Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front (scored by Volker Bertelmann), Simon Rhodes for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water (music by Simon Franglen), Geoff Foster for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (scored by Elliott Wheeler), Kirsty Whalley for Matt Reeves’ The Batman (music by Michael Giacchino) and Stephen Lipson for Joseph Kosinki’s Top Gun: Maverick (scored by Harold Faltermeyer, Hans Zimmer, Lady Gaga & Lorne Balfe). Read the rest of this entry »
59th Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: January 10, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society
David Fleming Joins Gustavo Santaolalla to Score HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’
Posted: January 10, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Craig M, David Fleming, Gustavo Santaolalla, HBO, The Last of Us
David Fleming (Hillbilly Elegy, The Unforgivable, South of Heaven, Blue Planet II, The Perfect Guy) has joined Gustavo Santaolalla to score the new HBO original series The Last of Us. Both composer are receiving full and equal “music by” billing (credited separately) in the opening titles sequence of the show developed by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) & Neil Druckmann based on the video game of the same title and starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Anna Torv, Murray Bartlett, Nico Parker, Nick Offerman, Storm Reid, Merle Dandridge, Melanie Lynskey, Jeffrey Pierce, Keivonn Woodard, Lamar Johnson, Graham Greene and Elaine Miles. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Three Nights a Week’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 10, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benjamin Morando, Benoit de Villeneuve, Florent Gouëlou, score, Soundtrack, Three Nights a Week, Trois nuits par semaine
Yukunkun has released a soundtrack album for the French romantic comedy Three Nights a Week (Trois nuits par semaine). The album features the film’s original music composed by Villeneuve & Morando (aka Benoit de Villeneuve & Benjamin Morando) (Versus, The Great Game). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Three Nights a Week is directed by Florent Gouëlou and stars Pablo Pauly, Romain Eck, Hafsia Herzi, Harald Marlot, Mathias Jamain Houngnikpo, Holy Fatma, Calypso Baquey and Jean-Marie Gouëlou. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Silver Bullet’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: January 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Daniel Attias, Jay Chattaway, score, Silver Bullet, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1985 horror thriller Silver Bullet directed by Daniel Attias and starring Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Terry O’Quinn, Megan Follows, Bill Smitrovich, Lawrence Tierney, Kent Broadhurst, David Hart and James Gammon. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the Stephen King adaptation composed and conducted by Jay Chattaway (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine & Enterprise, Maniac, Invasion U.S.A., Red Scorpion), including previously unreleased music. Visit the label’s official website to check out audio samples and to order the CD, which will also be available on Amazon within the next couple of days. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for BBC’s ‘Casualty’ Released
Posted: January 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Casualty, Justine Barker, score, Soundtrack
Creative Destruction has released a new soundtrack album for the BBC medical drama Casualty. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s most recent seasons composed by Justine Barker (London Kills, Hope Street, Suspects). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the Volume 1 soundtrack. A second volume is expected to come out later this year. Casualty is created by Jeremy Brock & Paul Unwin and stars William Beck, Di Botcher, Milo Clarke, Amanda Henderson, Jason Durr, Shaheen Jafargholi, Elinor Lawless, Shalisha James-Davis, Kirsty Mitchell and Neet Mohan. Read the rest of this entry »
Bobby Krlic (The Haxan Cloak) Scoring Ari Aster’s ‘Beau Is Afraid’
Posted: January 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ari Aster, Beau Is Afraid, Bobby Krlic, The Haxan Cloak
Composer Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) (The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, Snowpiercer, Paper Girls, Triple 9, Seven Seconds, Returnal) is reuniting with director Ari Aster on the upcoming horror comedy Beau Is Afraid. The film is written and directed by Aster (Hereditary) and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Parker Posey, Kylie Rogers, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Michael Gandolfini, Denis Ménochet, Zoe Lister-Jones and Richard Kind. The movie is being described as an “intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time”. Read the rest of this entry »
‘White Paradise’ (‘Les Survivants’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Guillaume Renusson, Les Survivants, Rob, Robin Coudert, score, Soundtrack, White Paradise
Les Films Velvet has released a soundtrack album for the French thriller White Paradise (Les Survivants). The album features the film’s original music composed by Rob (aka Robin Coudert) (Revenge, Gretel & Hansel, Maniac, Horns, Other People’s Children, Troy: Fall of a City, Oxygen). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to to audio samples. White Paradise is co-written and directed by Guillaume Renusson and stars Denis Ménochet and Zar Amir Ebrahimi. The movie follows a widower who is taking care of his 7-year-old daughter and decides to isolate in a chalet he was renovating with his wife in the Italian Alps, when a woman who fled Afghanistan takes refuge in his house. Read the rest of this entry »
Amelia Warner Scoring Joachim Rønning’s ‘Young Woman and the Sea’
Posted: January 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amelia Warner, Disney Plus, Joachim Rønning, Young Woman and the Sea
Amelia Warner (Mary Shelley, Mr. Malcolm’s List, Wild Mountain Thyme, Mum’s List) is currently recording her score for the upcoming biographical drama Young Woman and the Sea. The film is directed by Joachim Rønning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Kon-Toki, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) and stars Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Christopher Eccleston and Stephen Graham. The movie is based on the book of the same title by Glenn Stout and chronicles the journey of Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle , the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel in 1926. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The General’s Men’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Carmelo Travia, Giuliano Taviani, Il nostro generale, score, Soundtrack
Rai Com has released a soundtrack album for the Italian historical drama series The General’s Men (Il nostro generale). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Giuliano Taviani (Black Souls, Unlikely Revolutionaries, Made in Italy) & Carmelo Travia (Rainbow: A Private Affair, Stay Away from Me). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and most other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Listen to a track from the score after the jump. The General’s Men is directed by Lucio Pellegrini, written by Monica Zappelli & Peppe Fiore and stars Sergio Castellitto and Teresa Saponangelo. Read the rest of this entry »
Dave Porter Scoring Fox’s ‘Alert: Missing Persons Unit’
Posted: January 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alert: Missing Persons Unit, Dave Porter, Fox, John Eisendrath
Dave Porter (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Preacher, The Disaster Artist) is the composer of the new Fox drama Alert: Missing Persons Unit. The show is created by John Eisendrath & Jamie Foxx and stars Scott Caan, Dania Ramirez, Ryan Broussard, Adeola Role and Graham Verchere. Porter & Eisendrath also co-wrote the theme for the series, which follows a police officer who joins Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit (MPU) to help other people find their loved ones, while she searches for her own. Read the rest of this entry »
