Grant Fonda (Down the Fence, The House That Rob Built, The Perfect Race, Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton) has released a soundtrack album for the romantic comedy Dating & New York. The album features the composer’s original music from the film and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Dating & New York is written and directed by Jonah Feingold and stars Francesca Reale, Jaboukie Young-White, Catherine Cohen and Brian Muller. The movie follows a man and a woman who meet on a dating app and draft an ironclad friends-with-benefits contract that will test the resolve of their otherwise seemingly perfect dynamic. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dating & New York’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dating & New York, Grant Fonda, Jonah Feingold, score, Soundtrack
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 30, 2022)
Posted: December 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Man Called Otto, Alice Darling, Broker, Jaeil Jung, Owen Pallett, Thomas Newman
Opening in New York and Los Angeles today before expanding nationwide on January 13 is the comedy drama A Man Called Otto directed by Marc Forster and starring Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. The film’s original score is composed by Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, 1917, Finding Nemo, Skyfall, Wall-E). Mercury Classics Soundtracks & Score has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music, as well as an original song performed by Rita Wilson & Sebastián Yatra today. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Sony Pictures release.
Opening in select theaters today before expanding nationwide on January 20 is the dramatic thriller Alice, Darling directed by Mary Nighy and starring Anna Kendrick, Wunmi Mosaku, Kaniethiio Horn and Charlie Carrick. Owen Pallett (Her, Life, The Box, Spaceship Earth, On the Count of Three) has composed the film’s original music. No word on a soundtrack release. Check out our previous news article for more information about the movie, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and is being released by Lionsgate. Read the rest of this entry »
Joe Wong Scoring ABC’s ‘Will Trent’
Posted: December 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Joe Wong, Will Trent
Joe Wong (Russian Doll, Master of None, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, The Midnight Gospel, Kenan) is composing the original music for the new ABC drama Will Trent. The show is developed by Liz Heldens (The Dropout, The Dropout) & Dan Thomsen based on Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling series of the same name and stars Ramón Rodríguez, Erika Christensen, Iantha Richardson, Jake McLaughlin and Sonja Sohn. The series revolves around a Special Agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) who endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system and is determined to use his unique point of view to make sure no one is abandoned like he was. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack EP for Netflix’s ‘The Glory’ Released
Posted: December 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, Soundtrack, The Glory
Genie Music Corporation has released a soundtrack EP for the South Korean Netflix original series The Glory. The 5-track EP features five songs from the first part of the show by artists such as Kim Yeji, Kelley McRae, SURAN, Paul Kim and Yangpa. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to all five tracks below. The Glory is created by Kim Eun-sook & An Gil-ho and stars Song Hye-kyo, Lee Do-hyun, Lim Ji-yeon, Yeom Hye-ran and Park Sung-hoon. The drama centers on a woman who – after surviving horrific abuse in high school years earlier – puts an elaborate revenge scheme in motion to make the perpetrators pay for their crimes. Read the rest of this entry »
Rachel Portman’s ‘Beyond the Screen – Film Works on Piano’ Album Announced
Posted: December 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Rachel Portman
Sony Classical will release the new record Beyond the Screen – Film Works on Piano by Rachel Portman featuring some of the composer’s most cherished film music for solo piano. The album was recorded in Berlin, with occasional accompaniment by cellist Raphaela Gromes and consists of 20 curated pieces that span Portman’s illustrious career, arranged to form an emotional and musical journey. Among the titles included are suites from the composer’s Academy Award-winning score for Douglas McGrath’s Emma, her Academy Award-nominated scores for Lasse Hallstrom’s The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, as well as her music for Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, Lone Scherfig’s One Day and Saul Dibb’s The Duchess. The album will be released digitally and physically on March 3, 2023 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the pre-order links for the CD version and vinyl edition and listen to six tracks from the record after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Eduard Artemyev (1937-2022)
Posted: December 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Eduard Artemyev
Eduard Artemyev has passed away at age 85. The Russian composer was best known internationally for his scores for the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, including the 1972 sci-fi classic Solaris, 1975’s Mirror and 1979’s Stalker. He also composed the music for numerous movies directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, including At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own, A Slave of Love, Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano, Close to Eden, Burnt by the Sun, The Barber of Siberia and 12. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ITV’s ‘Without Sin’ Released
Posted: December 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ITV, Lindsay Wright, score, Soundtrack, Tawiah, Without Sin
Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album for the ITV drama Without Sin. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Tawiah and Lindsay Wright (The Walk-In, The Whistleblowers, This Is Joan Collins, The Mystery of D.B Cooper). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Without Sin is written by Frances Poletti, directed by Al Mackay and stars Vicky McClure and Johnny Harris. The 4-part psychological thriller produced by Left Bank Pictures explores the relationship which develops between a grieving mother and the man she believes murdered her daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Grimcutty’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: December 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Grimcutty, Hulu, John William Ross, Sara Barone, score, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Grimcutty. The album features the film’s original music composed by Sara Barone (After Masks). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 30 and will be available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Grimcutty is written and directed by John William Ross and stars Sara Wolfkind, Callan Farris, Usman Ally, Shannyn Sossamon, Alona Tal and Kayden Koshalev. The 20th Digital Studio production follows a suburban teen girl and her little brother who must stop a terrifying internet meme brought to life by the hysteria of their parents. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Hulu’s ‘Welcome to Chippendales’ to Be Released
Posted: December 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Hulu, score, Siddhartha Khosla, Soundtrack, Welcome to Chippendales
Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Emmy Award nominee Siddhartha Khosla (Only Murders in the Building, This Is Us, Runaways, Looking for Alaska, Queenpins). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 30 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. The label has previously released the original song The Manster (Dr. Hunkenstein’s Theme) co-written by Khosla last week. Welcome to Chippendales is created by Robert Siegel and stars Kumail Nanjiani, Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis, Annaleigh Ashford, as well as Quentin Plair, Robin de Jesús, Spencer Boldman, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Andrew Rannells and Dan Stevens. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Joe Berlinger, Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, Netflix, score, Serj Tankian, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release the official soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary series Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Grammy Award-winning System Of A Down lead singer Serj Tankian (Truth to Power, Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields & The Time Square Killer, I Am Not Alone, Furious). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 30 and will be available to stream/download here. Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street is directed by Joe Berlinger and follows the rise and fall of financier Bernie Madoff, who orchestrated one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in Wall Street history and reveals the truth behind the ways in which a willfully blind financial system allowed it to flourish for decades. Read the rest of this entry »
