Pearl Jam lead guitarist Mike McCready (of Pearl Jam) has provided the original score for the new Disney+ original documentary The Beach Boys. The film is directed by Frank Marshall (Alive, Arachnophobia, The Bee Gees: How Can You Bend a Broken Heart) & Thom Zimny (Sly, Western Stars) and traces the band from humble family beginnings and features never-before-seen footage and new interviews with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, David Marks, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, among other luminaries in the music business. Read the rest of this entry »
Mike McCready Scoring Disney+’s ‘The Beach Boys’ Documentary
Posted: May 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, Frank Marshall, Mike McCready, The Beach Boys, Thom Zimny
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‘The Silent Service’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Kohei Yoshino, score, Soundtrack, The Silent Service, Yoshihiro Ike
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Japanese drama The Silent Service. The album features the show’s original music composed by Yoshihiro Ike (Blood: The Last Vampire, Knights of the Zodiac, B: The Beginning, The Empire of Corpses, Vampire in the Garden). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s main title track after the jump. The Silent Service is directed by Kohei Yoshino and stars Takao Osawa, Hiroshi Tamaki, Aya Ueto, Tomoya Nakamura, Yusuke Santamaria and Aoi Nakamura. The series based on the manga franchise of the same title is set in Japan’s first nuclear submarine and depicts the unpredictable actions of its captain as he attempts to realize his ideal world. Read the rest of this entry »
Rael Jones Scoring Prime Video’s ‘My Lady Jane’
Posted: May 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, My Lady Jane, Rael Jones
Rael Jones (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Harlots, Suite Francaise, My Cousin Rachel, Role Play, Kids in Love, The Salisbury Poisonings) is the composer of the upcoming British Prime Video original series My Lady Jane. The show is created by Gemma Burgess and stars Emily Bader, Edward Bluemel, Dominic Cooper, Jordan Peters, Rob Brydon, Jim Broadbent, Anna Chancellor, Isabella Brownson, Robyn Betteridge, Henry Ashton, Kate O’Flynn and Abbie Hern. The period fantasy adventure comedy drama set in an alternate universe follows the brilliant and headstrong title character who is shocked to be crowned queen overnight and finds herself the target of nefarious villains coming for the crown. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of Stewart Copeland’s ‘Good Burger’ Score Announced
Posted: May 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian Robbins, Good Burger, score, Soundtrack, Stewart Copeland
Enjoy The Ride Records has announced the world premiere score release for the 1997 comedy Good Burger directed by Brian Robbins and starring Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, Abe Vigoda, Shar Jackson, Linda Cardellini, Sinbad and Ron Lester. The album features the film’s original score composed by Stewart Copeland (Rumble Fish, Wall Street, Fresh, The Equalizer, She’s All That, Men at Work, Dead Like Me). The soundtrack is now available as a limited edition vinyl in two different variants on the label’s official website, where you can also learn more about the releae. Capitol Records has previously released an album featuring the songs from the movie when the comedy opened in theaters in 1997. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexis Grapsas Scoring Michael Sarnoski’s ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’
Posted: May 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place: Day One, Alexis Grapsas, Michael Sarnoski
Alexis Grapsas (Monday, Trigonometry, Big Shot, Teacher) has recently been scoring the upcoming horror prequel A Quiet Place: Day One. The film is directed by Michael Sarnoski and stars Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff and Djimon Hounsou. The movie explores the beginning of the invasion, in which deadly alien creatures with hyper-sonic hearing arrive on Earth. Sarnoski also wrote the screenplay based on a story by himself and John Krasinski (who helmed the first two A Quiet Place installments scored by Marco Beltrami). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Beast Machines: Transformers’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Beast Machines: Transformers, Robert Buckley, score, Soundtrack
Hasbro has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the animated series Beast Machines: Transformers. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Robert Buckley (ReBoot, Casper’s Haunted Christmas, Storm Hawks) who also scored Hasbro’s Beast Wars: Transformers. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Pursuit) below. Beast Machines: Transformers is developed by Marty Isenberg & Robert N. Skir and follows The Maximals, led by Optimus Primal, who must battle the powerful Megatron and his new army of Vehicons while learning a whole new way of transforming that requires mind/body discipline. Read the rest of this entry »
Black Honey’s ‘Wild Thing’ Cover from Prime Video’s ‘My Lady Jane’ Released
Posted: May 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Black Honey, My Lady Jane
Milan Records has released the cover version of The Troggs’ Wild Thing from the upcoming British Prime Video original series My Lady Jane. The track (originally written by Chip Taylor) is produced by Dimitri Tikovoï & Andy Cozzaglio, performed by the rock band Black Honey and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. My Lady Jane is created by Gemma Burgess and stars Emily Bader, Edward Bluemel, Jordan Peters, Dominic Cooper, Rob Brydon, Anna Chancellor, Jim Broadbent, Isabella Brownson, Henry Ashton, Robyn Betteridge, Kate O’Flynn and Abbie Hern. Read the rest of this entry »
Jon Brion Scoring Gilles Lellouche’s ‘Beating Hearts’
Posted: May 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beating Hearts, Gilles Lellouche, Jon Brion, L’amour ouf
Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia, Lady Bird, Punch-Drunk Love, Paranormal, The Other Guys) has composed the original score for the upcoming French romantic drama Beating Hearts (L’amour ouf). The film is directed by Gilles Lellouche and stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, François Civil, Mallory Wanecque, Alain Chabat, Malik Frikah, Benoit Poelvoorde, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Vincent Lacoste, Elodie Bouchez, Raphaël Quenard, Karim Leklou and Anthony Bajon. The movie is loosely based on Neville Thompson’s 1997 novel Jackie Loves Johnser OK and follows two former childhood sweethearts from different sides of the tracks who have gone their separate ways after one of them gets caught up in gang violence and lands in jail who – against all odds – reconnect years later. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (1953-2024)
Posted: May 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek passed away today at age 71 in Krakow, Poland after a long battle with multiple system atrophy (MSA). The composer wrote numerous scores for film and television since the mid 1980s and received an Academy Award for his music for Marc Forster’s 2004 drama Finding Neverland. His other scoring credits include Adrian Lyne’s Unfaithful, Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor, Lasse Hallström’s Hachi: A Dog’s Tail, Aaron Schneider’s Get Low, Janusz Kaminski’s Lost Souls, Max Färberböck’s Aimee & Jaguar, Agnieszka Holland’s The Lost Souls & Washington Square, Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Quo Vadis and the 2007 television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace directed by Robert Dornhelm. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Dark Story’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Dark Story, Leonardo d'Agostin, Mattia Carratello, score, Soundtrack, Stefano Ratchev, Una storia nera
Edizioni Curci has released a soundtrack album for the Italian thriller A Dark Story (Una storia nera). The album features the film’s original music composed by Ratchev & Carratello (aka Stefano Ratchev & Mattia Carratello) (Padrenostro, Pantafa, Citizens of the World, The Salt of Life). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composers’ title track below. A Dark Story is co-written and directed by Leonardo d’Agostin and stars Laetitia Casta, Andrea Carpenzano, Lea Gavino, Cristiana Dell’Anna, Giordano De Plano, Mario Sgueglia and Licia Maglietta. The movie revolves around a separated couple who have both started new lives, when the ex-husband suddenly goes missing. Read the rest of this entry »
