Lakeshore Records will release the first soundtrack album for the Peacock original series One of Us Is Lying. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Ian Hultquist (Dickinson, Assassination Nation, Good Girls, Night Teeth, My Blind Brother, Animals, A.X.L). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, September 2 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. One of Us Is Lying is developed by Erica Saleh based on Karen M. McManus’ best-selling novel of the same name and stars Annalisa Cochrane, Chibuikem Uche, Marianly Tejada, Cooper van Grootel, Barrett Carnahan, Melissa Collazo, Mark McKenna and Jessica McLeod. Read the rest of this entry »
Bill Pohlad’s ‘Dreamin’ Wild’ to Feature Music by Donnie Emerson & Leopold Ross
Posted: August 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bill Pohlad, Donnie Emerson, Dreamin' Wild, Leopold Ross
Singer/songwriter Donnie Emerson and composer Leopold Ross (The Book of Eli, The Girl from Plainville, Triple 9, Dr. Death) have written the original music for the upcoming biographical drama Dreamin’ Wild. The film is written and directed by Bill Pohlad (Love & Mercy) and stars Casey Affleck, Noah Jupe, Zooey Deschanel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Chris Messina, Walton Goggins and Beau Bridges. The movie tells the true story of instrumental and vocal duo Donnie and Joe Emerson and the tumult that followed the success of their self-recorded pop-funk album of the same name. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Frozen Planet II’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Adam Lukas, Anže Rozman, Aurora, BBC, BBC America, Bleeding Fingers Music, Frozen Planet, Frozen Planet II, Hans Zimmer, James Everingham, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the BBC natural history series Frozen Planet II. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer (Dune, The Lion King, Gladiator, Inception, The Dark Knight), Adam Lukas (Primates) & James Everingham (Apollo: Missions to the Moon, The Real Right Stuff) for Bleeding Fingers Music feat. Norwegian singer/songwriter AURORA. The opening titles music is written by Zimmer and Anže Rozman (Prehistoric Planet, The Planets). Russell Emanuel serves as the score producer and Greg Rappaport & Marsha Bowe are the score supervisors. The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 7 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A 2-CD version will be coming out on October 21. Read the rest of this entry »
Craig Wedren Scoring Amy Redford’s ‘Roost’
Posted: August 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amy Redford, Craig Wedren, Roost
Craig Wedren (Role Models, Yellowjackets, School of Rock, Wet Hot American Summer, GLOW) has recently scored the upcoming thriller Roost. The film is directed by Amy Redford (The Guitar) and stars Summer Phoenix, Grace Van Dien, Kyle Gallner and Jesse Garcia. The movie centers on the relationship between a mother and her teen daughter and the troubles that arise after the latter is seduced online by a 28-year-old man. Scott Organ wrote the screenplay based on his own play. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Five Devils’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: August 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Florencia di Concilio, Léa Mysius, Les cinq diables, score, Soundtrack, The Five Devils
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French fantasy drama The Five Devils (Les cinq diables). The album features the film’s original music composed by Florencia di Concilio (Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary, Ava, Dark Blood, Just Kids). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. The Five Devils is co-written and directed by Léa Mysius and stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sally Drame, Swala Emati, Moustapha Mbengue, Patrick Bouchitey and Daphné Patakia. The movie centers on a strange and solitary girl with a magical gift who can reproduce any scent she likes and collects them in a series of carefully labelled jars. Read the rest of this entry »
Austin Wintory & Susie Seiter Scoring Netflix’s ‘Thai Cave Rescue’
Posted: August 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Austin Wintory, Netflix, Susie Seiter, Thai Cave Rescue
Austin Wintory (Journey, Captain Abu Raed, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, Abzu, Grace, The Banner Saga) & Susie Seiter (who is best known as an orchestrator and conductor on films including Minions, Jurassic World, Star Trek Into Darkness and the video game Fortnite) have teamed up to score the upcoming Netflix limited series Thai Cave Rescue. The show is created by Michael Russell Gunn & Dana Ledoux Miller and tells the untold stories of the Thai youth soccer team and their coach who got trapped in one of the most dangerous cave systems on Earth in 2018 and the efforts by their families, volunteers from all over the world and the people of Thailand as they work together to save the team. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: August 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Johnny Gandelsman, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, PBS, Sarah Botstein, Soundtrack, The U.S. and the Holocaust
In a Circle Records will release a soundtrack album for the PBS documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust. The album features original music created for the film by artists such as Kinan Azmeh, Shanir Blumenkranz, Dan Brantigan, Mathias Kunzli, Jason Moran, Dana Lyn, Michael Nicholas, Dave Nelson, Gyan Riley, Kyle Sanna and Carmen Staaf, as well as music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Achron, Ernest Bloch, Carla Kihlstedt, Osvaldo Golijov, Vartaped Komitas and Maurice Ravel. The soundtrack, which is produced by Johnny Gandelsman, will be released digitally and physically on September 23. Click here to order the digital version and visit Amazon to order the CD version. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Benstead Scoring Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Interpreter’
Posted: August 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Benstead, Guy Ritchie, The Interpreter
Chris Benstead has recently recorded his score for the upcoming action thriller The Interpreter. The film is directed by Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes, Snatch, Aladdin) and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Alexander Ludwig, Antony Starr, Bobby Schofield, Jason Wong, Sean Sagar and Emily Beecham. The movie follows a sergeant on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan who is teamed with a local interpreter to survey the region, when their unit is ambushed on patrol. Ritchie also co-wrote the screenplay with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I Came By’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Babak Anvari, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the British thriller I Came By. The album features the film’s original music composed by Isobel Waller-Bridge (Emma, Fleabag, The Phantom of the Open, Munich: The Edge of War, Roar, Vita & Virginia). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 31 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. I Came By is directed by Babak Anvari and stars George MacKay, Hugh Bonneville, Kelly Macdonald, Percelle Ascott, Franc Ashman, Varada Sethu and Anthony Calf. The movie revolves around a graffiti artist who targets homes of the elite as he uncovers a sinister secret of a prestigious judge – triggering events that put his loved ones in danger. Read the rest of this entry »
Isabella Summers Scoring Aitch Alberto’s ‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe’
Posted: August 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aitch Alberto, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Isabella Summers
Isabella Summers (aka Isa Machine of Florence + the Machine) (Little Fires Everywhere, The Offer, Panic, Sex/Life) has composed the original score for the upcoming coming-of-age comedy drama Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. The film is written and directed by Aitch Alberto and stars Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, Eugenio Derbez, Eva Longoria, Kevin Alejandro and Veronica Falcón. The movie is based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Benjamin Alire Sáenz and follows two Mexican American teenagers as they explore their friendship and the difficult road to self-discovery in 1987 El Paso. Read the rest of this entry »
