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 »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 8, 2023)
Posted: January 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, Craig DeLeon, Dog Gone, Ellen Reid, Emily Bear, HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Nima Fakhrara, Peacock, Sick, The Drop, Velma, Will Bates
Premiering today is the AMC original series Mayfair Witches developed by Esta Spalding & Michelle Ashford based on Anne Rice’s best-selling trilogy and starring Alexandra Daddario, Jack Huston, Harry Hamlin and Tongayi Chirisa. The show’s original music is composed by Will Bates (The Magicians, Unbelievable, Away, The Path, I Origins, The Looming Tower). Check our previous article to learn more about the 8-parter, which will air Sundays on AMC and will also be available to stream on AMC+.
Premiering on Thursday, January 12, is the HBO Max animated series Velma developed by Mindy Kaling & Charlie Grandy based on characters from the Scooby-Doo franchise and starring Kaling, Constance Wu, Glenn Howerton and Sam Richardson. Craig DeLeon (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Music, End of the Road, The Last Survivors) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the animated comedy, which will be available to stream on HBO Max. Read the rest of this entry »
’99 Songs’ Score Album Released
Posted: January 8, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 99 Songs, A.R. Rahman, score, Soundtrack, Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy
Sony Music Entertainment India has released a new soundtrack album for the musical romance 99 Songs. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Million Dollar Arm, The Hundred-Foot Journey) and is now available to stream on Spotify. The label has previously released a soundtrack for the featuring Rahman’s songs from the movie back in 2020. 99 Songs is directed by Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy, co-written and produced by Rahman and stars Ehan Bhat, Edilsy Vargas, Lisa Ray, Aditya Seal, and Manisha Koirala. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Micay Scoring Tina Satter’s ‘Reality’
Posted: January 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Nathan Micay, Reality, Tina Satter
Nathan Micay (Industry, The Last Bus) has recently scored the upcoming drama Reality. The film is directed by Tina Satter and stars Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis. The movie is based on the director’s play This Is a Room features unedited original dialogue from an FBI recording and to re-enact the 2017 search of whistle-blower and former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner’s home. Satter also co-wrote the screenplay with James Paul Dallas (The Plagiarist). Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 6, 2023)
Posted: January 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andrew Morgan Smith, Anthony Willis, Candy Land, David Sardy, M3GAN, The Old Way
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the sci-fi/horror thriller M3GAN directed by Gerard Johnstone and starring Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Ronny Chieng, Jen Van Epps, Stephane Garneau-Monten and Lori Dungey.. The film’s original music is composed by Anthony Willis (Promising Young Woman, One Last Night, How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the Universal Pictures release.
Opening in select theaters and on VOD today is the horror thriller Candy Land directed by John Swab and starring Olivia Luccardi, Sam Quartin, Owen Campbell, Eden Brolin, Guinevere Turner, Virginia Rand and William Baldwin. David Sardy (Zombieland, End of Watch, 21, Bright, Monster Trucks, Premium Rush) has composed the film’s original music. No word on a soundtrack release. The movie, which follows a young woman who finds herself cast out from her religious cult and immerses herself into the underground world of truck stop sex workers, is being released by Quiver Distribution. Read the rest of this entry »
