Amazon Content Services has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Lucy and Desi. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Schwartz (Arrested Development, The Good Place, Northern Exposure, Veep, Standing Up, Falling Down, Lady Dynamite) who has recently received his fourth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his work on the project. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Lucy and Desi is produced and directed by Amy Poehler and explores the remarkable personal and professional partnership between comedian Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz and the power couple’s enduring legacy. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lucy and Desi’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 25, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Amy Poehler, David Schwartz, Lucy and Desi, score, Soundtrack
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‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Prologue Soundtrack Single Released
Posted: July 25, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: amaarae, Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Kendrick Lamar, Ludwig Göransson, Marvel, Ryan Coogler, Santa Fe Klan, Tems
Hollywood Records & Marvel Music have the first tracks from the soundtrack for Marvel Studios’ upcoming feature Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The 3-track Wakanda Forever Prologue single features the cover of Bob Marley’s No Woman No Cry performed by Nigerian singer Tems (as featured in the movie’s first teaser trailer), as well as A Body, A Coffin by amaarae and Soy by Santa Fe Klan. The film’s composer Ludwig Göransson produced all three songs and also co-wrote A Body, A Coffin with Kyu Steed, KZ, Cracker Mallo, Maesu & Amaarae. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the single. Also listen to all three tracks and watch the trailer after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Theme Song from Cartoon Network’s & HBO Max’s ‘Bugs Bunny Builders’ Released
Posted: July 25, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bugs Bunny Builders, Cartoon Network, HBO Max, Matthew Janszen
WaterTower Music has released the theme song from the new HBO Max animated series Bugs Bunny Builders. The track written by Matthew Janszen (Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Fatal Affair, Archibald’s Next Best Thing) (with elements of the classic Merrily We Roll Along song written by Charlie Tobias, Murray Mencher & Eddie Cantor) is performed by Jeff Lewis and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also watch the full opening titles sequence after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan the Automator Scoring Jay Chandrasekhar’s ‘Easter Sunday’
Posted: July 25, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dan the Automator, Easter Sunday, Jay Chandrasekhar
Dan the Automator (Booksmart, Control, Dash & Lily, Holidate) has composed the original score for the new comedy Easter Sunday. The film is directed by Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers, The Dukes of Hazzard) and stars Jo Koy, Jimmy O. Yang, Tia Carrere, Brandon Wardell, Eva Noblezada, Lydia Gaston, Asif Ali, Rodney To, Eugene Cordero, Chandrasekhar himself, Tiffany Haddish and Lou Diamond Phillips. The movie follows a Filipino-American man returning home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Shania Twain – Not Just a Girl’ Documentary Announced
Posted: July 25, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joss Crowley, Netflix, Shania Twain, Shania Twain - Not Just a Girl, Soundtrack
Mercury Nashville will release the official soundtrack companion album for the Netflix documentary Shania Twain – Not Just a Girl. The album features the Shania Twain songs (including hits such as Man! I Feel Like a Woman!, That Don’t Impress Me Much, You’re Still The One, as well as the new title track) in order of appearance in the movie. Not Just A Girl (The Highlights) will be released digitally on this Tuesday, July 26 and physically on September 2. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version. Shania Twain – Not Just a Girl directed and produced by Joss Crowley traces the singer/songwriter’s emergence as a crossover artist and takes viewers through her vision during Come On Over to become a global pop phenomenon. Read the rest of this entry »
Ramin Djawadi’s ‘Perfect Day’ Cover from ‘Westworld’ Season 4 Released
Posted: July 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Ramin Djawadi, Westworld
WaterTower Music has released the cover version of Lou Reed’s song Perfect Day by composer Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Eternals, Uncharted, A Wrinkle in Time) from the fifth episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series Westworld. The track is now available to stream/download as a digital single on all major digital music platform, including Amazon. Also listen to the full cover after the jump The label has previously released the composer’s covers of Video Games, Bad Guy and Enter Sandman from the new season in recent weeks and a full soundtrack album for Season 4 is expected to come out next month. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Vengeance’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: July 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: B.J. Novak, Finneas, Finneas O'Connell, score, Soundtrack, Vengeance
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the comedy thriller Vengeance. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award-winning songwriter Finneas O’Connell (aka FINNEAS) (No Time to Die, The Fallout). The soundtrack will be released digitally this coming Friday, July 29 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. Vengeance is written and directed by B.J. Novak (in his feature directorial debut) and stars himself, alongside Boyd Holbrook, Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher, J. Smith-Cameron, Lio Tipton and Dove Cameron. The Blumhouse production follows a journalist and podcaster who travels from New York City to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 24, 2022)
Posted: July 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Amber Brown, Apple TV +, Ben Zeadman, Bobby Krlic, Daniel Markovich, Disney Plus, Federico Jusid, Gabriel Mann, HBO Max, Hulu, James Newton Howard, Joseph Bishara, Light and Magic, Netflix, Nicholas Pike, Not Okay, Ólafur Arnalds, Paper Girls, Paramount+, Pierre-Philippe Côté, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Santa Evita, Surface, Uncoupled
Premiering on Tuesday, July 26, is the Argentine limited series Santa Evita developed by Marcela Guerty & Pamela Rementaria and starring Natalia Oreiro, Ernesto Alterio, Francesc Orella, Diego Velázquez and Darío Grandinetti. The show’s original music is composed by Federico Jusid (The Secret In Their Eyes, Watership Down, Kidnap, The Head, Loving Pablo, Life Itself). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream in the U.S. on Hulu.
Premiering on Wednesday, July 27, is the Disney+ documentary series Light & Magic directed by Lawrence Kasdan, executive produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Justin Wilkes, Kathleen Kennedy & Michelle Rejwan about Industrial Light & Magic, the special visual effects, animation and virtual production division of Lucasfilm. James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, King Kong, The Fugitive, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Sixth Sense, Maleficent) has composed the show’s original music. The 6-parter will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe Scoring Jaume Collet-Serra ‘Black Adam’
Posted: July 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Black Adam, Jaume Collet-Serra, Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe (Black Widow, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Top Gun: Maverick, His Dark Materials, The Wheel of Time, The LEGO Batman Movie) is composing the original music for the upcoming superhero movie Black Adam. The film is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Jungle Cruise, Non-Stop) and stars Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo, Quintessa Swindell, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari and Bodhi Sabongui. The movie tells the story of the titular anti-hero who first appeared in DC Comics in the 1940s as a power-corrupt villain and slowly became an anti-hero by the 2000s, known for his disregard of rules and conventions. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 22, 2022)
Posted: July 22, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alone Together, Graham Reynolds, Matei Bratescot, Michael Abels, My Donkey My Lover & I, Nope
Opening in theaters nationwide this week is the horror epic Nope written, directed and produced by Jordan Peele and starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Brandon Perea and Michael Wincott. The film’s original music is composed by Michael Abels (Get Out, Us, Allen v. Farrow, Bad Education, Nightbooks, See You Yesterday). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as the songs from the movie today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the Universal Pictures release.
Opening in select U.S. theaters today is the French adventure comedy My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes) written and directed by Caroline Vignal and starring Laure Calamy, Benjamin Lavernhe and Olivia Côte. Matei Bratescot (Les vetos) has composed the film’s original music. Chapka Films & La Filmerie have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score when the movie opened in France last year. Click here to stream/download the soundtrack. The film is being distributed in the U.S. by Greenwich Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
