Heather McIntosh (Compliance, The Art of Self-Defense, Z for Zachariah, Partner Track, The Quarry) has composed the original music for the upcoming psychological thriller Cat Person. The film is directed by Susanna Fogel (The Spy Who Dumped Me, Life Partners) and stars Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Fred Melamed and Isabella Rossellini. The movie is based on a short story by Kristen Roupenian and centers on the brief relationship between a college student working concessions at an arthouse theater and an older frequent moviegoer at the theater. Michelle Ashford (Operation Mincemeat, Masters of Sex) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Heather McIntosh Scoring Susanna Fogel’s ‘Cat Person’
Posted: December 13, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cat Person, Heather McIntosh, Susanna Fogel
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2023 Oscars Best Original Song Predictions
Posted: December 13, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
Starting today, we are publishing our predictions for the Best Original Song category of next year’s 95th Academy Awards on the left side column of this page. The selection and ranking is based on our own experience of the songs in context of the movies, reactions of Academy music branch members and others in the film music community, the level of awards campaigning and awareness of the competing titles, historical data and the response to the movies in other categories. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Leech’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 13, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Eric Pennycoff, Eric Romary, score, Soundtrack, The Leech
ETR Records has released a soundtrack album for the horror comedy The Leech. The album features the film’s original music composed by Eric Romary (Sadistic Intentions, Doomsday). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. The Leech is written and directed by Eric Pennycoff and stars Jeremy Gardner, Graham Skipper and Taylor Gardner. The movie centers on a Catholic priest struggling to fill the pews in his church who allows a homeless man into his home to escape the December chill. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Bates Scoring AMC’s ‘Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches’
Posted: December 13, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, Will Bates
Will Bates (Unbelievable, The Magicians, Away, The Path, I Origins, The Looming Tower) is the composer of the new AMC original series Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches. The show is developed by Esta Spalding (The Last Letter from Your Lover) & Michelle Ashford (Masters of Sex, Operation Mincemeat) based on Rice’s best-selling trilogy and stars Alexandra Daddario, Jack Huston, Tongayi Chirisa and Harry Hamlin. The 8-parter follows an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches and must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Litvinenko’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 13, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: AMC, Gabriel Prokofiev, ITVX, Litvinenko, score, Soundtrack, Sundance Now
Stopstart Music will release a soundtrack album for the ITVX/AMC+/Sundance Now limited series Litvinenko. The album features the show’s original music composed by Nonclassical founder Gabriel Prokofiev (OK Computer). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Thursday, December 15 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Litvinenko is written by George Kay and stars David Tennant, Margarita Levieva, Mark Bonnar and Neil Maskell. The 4-parter directed by Jim Field Smith centers on Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian Federal Security Services and KGB officer, whose death from Polonium-210 poisoning in November 2006 triggered one of the most complex investigations in the history of the UK’s Metropolitan Police. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘I Hate Christmas’ Released
Posted: December 13, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Emanuele Bossi, I Hate Christmas, Michele Braga, Netflix, Odio il Natale, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s Italian original series I Hate Christmas (Odio il Natale). The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Michele Braga (Dogman, Freaks Out, Rose Island, Shadows) & Emanuele Bossi (Strangeness, Luna Park, Una famiglia perfetta). Also included are songs by Bea Sanjust and Marco Guazzone. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. I Hate Christmas is based on the Norwegian TV show Hjem til Jul and stars Pilar Fogliati, Beatrice Arnera, Fiorenza Pieri, Massimo Rigo, Sabrina Paravicini, Glen Blackhall and Alessio Pratico’. Read the rest of this entry »
Angelo Badalamenti (1937-2022)
Posted: December 12, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti has passed away yesterday at age 85 at his home in New Jersey. The composer was best known for his scores for the films of director David Lynch, including Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, The Straight Story & Mulholland Drive, as well as the filmmaker’s TV series Twin Peaks, for which he received three Emmy Award nominations and a Grammy Award. His other scoring credits include Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The City of Lost Children & A Very Long Engagement, Danny Boyle’s The Beach, Walter Salles’ Dark Water and Neil LaBute’s The Wicker Man. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Day to Die’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 12, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Day to Die, Paul Koch, score, Soundtrack, Wes Miller
Atlantic Screen Music/Filmtrax has released a soundtrack album for the action thriller A Day to Die. The album features the film’s original music composed by Paul Koch (13 Cameras, 14 Cameras, Collusions, Lucky 7). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. A Day to Die is directed by Wes Miller and stars Kevin Dillon, Bruce Willis, Frank Grillo, Gianni Capaldi, Brooke Butler and LeonGrillo. The movie follows an ex-military ops officer who must reunite with his old crew to save his kidnapped wife from a ruthless drug lord by repaying $2 million in 12 hours. Read the rest of this entry »
‘His Dark Materials’ Season 3, Episodes 3 & 4 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 12, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, HBO, His Dark Materials, Lorne Balfe, score, Soundtrack
The full details of the third soundtrack album for the third season of the HBO/BBC fantasy series His Dark Materials have been revealed. The album features the original score from third and fourth episodes of the show’s third and final season composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Black Widow, The LEGO Batman Movie, Black Adam, Top Gun: Maverick, The Wheel of Time). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 13 by Silva Screen Records and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The label has previously released the composer’s score from Episodes 1 & 2 and the third The Musical Anthology of His Dark Materials featuring the composer’s principal themes from the new season last month. Read the rest of this entry »
‘London Kills’ Season 3 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 12, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Acorn TV, Justine Barker, London Kills, score, Soundtrack
Creation Destruction has released a new soundtrack album for the Acorn TV original series London Kills. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s third season composed by Justine Barker (Casualty, Hope Street, Suspects). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. A first soundtrack album featuring Barker’s music from the first two seasons was released last year. London Kills is created by Paul Marquess and stars Hugo Speer, Sharon Small, Bailey Patrick, Tori Allen-Martin, John Michie and Benjamin O’Mahony. Read the rest of this entry »
