Such Much has released a soundtrack album for the Luxembourg TV series Capitani. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by David Sinclair (Standby, Peitruss). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring the composer’s score from Season 1 back in 2020. Capitani is created by Thierry Faber and stars Luc Schiltz, Sophie Mousel and Claude De Demo. The crime drama’s second season follows Luc Capitani as he accepts a job in Luxembourg City that soon tangles him in a murder investigation linked to the capital’s criminal underworld. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Capitani’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 19, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Capitani, David Sinclair, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Nathan Matthew David Scoring Disney+’s ‘Chang Can Dunk’
Posted: July 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chang Can Dunk, Disney Plus, Jingyi Shao, Nathan Matthew David
Nathan Matthew David (Deadly Class, The Last Word, Slice, Hypnotic, Angie Tribeca, A Man Named Scott, Surviving R. Kelly) has composed the original score for the upcoming Disney+ original movie Chang Can Dunk. The film is written and directed by Jingyi Shao and stars Bloom Li, Ben Wang, Dexter Darden, Chase Liefeld and Zoe Renee. The sports drama follows a 16-year-old Asian American high school student in the marching band who bets the school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming, which leads him on a quest to find the hops he needs to dunk in order to impress his crush and gain the attention and respect of his high school peers. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for CBBC’s & TVNZ’s ‘Mystic’ Released
Posted: July 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: David Long, Mystic, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Gallagher
David Long (The Luminaries, 6 Days, McLaren) & Stephen Gallagher (Puppet Killer) have released the first soundtrack album for the New Zealand TV series Mystic. The album features selections of the composers’ original music from the show and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Mystic is created by Amy Shindler & Beth Chalmers based on Stacy Gregg’s Pony Club Secrets book series and stars Macey Chipping, Antonia Robinson, Max Crean, Jacqueline Joe, Josh Tan, Hatty Walton, Laura Patch, Kiwis Cathy Downes, Phil Brown, Kirk Torrance, Carrie Green, Jonny Brugh, Bruce Phillips and Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne. The drama follows a group of horse-mad teenagers who have to risk everything in order to save their horses, their community and all they love about where they live. Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph Bishara Scoring HBO Max’s ‘Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’
Posted: July 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO Max, Joseph Bishara, Pretty Little Liars, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin
Joseph Bishara (The Conjuring, Insidious, Malignant, Annabelle, The Curse of La Llorona, The Unholy, Dark Skies) is making his narrative television scoring debut on the new HBO Max original series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. The show is developed by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) based on the bestselling series of books by Sara Shepard and stars Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria, Malia Pyles, Maia Reficco, Mallory Bechtel, Elena Goode, Sharon Leal, Lea Salonga, Eric Johnson and Alex Aiono. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Secrets of the Sea’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Williams, Howard Hall, Jonathan Bird, Michele Hall, score, Secrets of the Sea, Soundtrack
Quinate Publishing has released a soundtrack album for the giant screen documentary Secrets of the Sea. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Alan Williams (Cowgirls ‘n Angels, Amazon, Soul Assassin, The Velveteen Rabbit). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Secrets of the Sea is directed by Howard Hall & Jonathan Bird, produced by Michele Hall, narrated by Joelle Carter and takes viewers into the ocean to show the ways marine species interact with each other and their environment, demonstrating the critical importance of marine biodiversity to maintaining healthy oceans. Read the rest of this entry »
Olafur Arnalds Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Surface’
Posted: July 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Ólafur Arnalds, Surface
Olafur Arnalds (Broadchurch, Defending Jacob, Chasing the Present, Electric Dreams) is the composer of the new Apple TV+ original series Surface. The show is created by Veronica West (High Fidelity) and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Stephan James, Ari Graynor, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, François Arnaud and Millie Brady. The 8-part psychological thriller is set in high-end San Francisco and centers on a woman who has suffered a traumatic head injury that has left her with extreme memory loss and embarks on a quest to put the pieces of her life back together. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Haute Couture’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Haute Couture, Haute Couture - La beauté du geste, Pascal Lengagne, score, Soundtrack, Sylvie Ohayon
UGC Images & Les films du 24 have released a soundtrack album for the French comedy drama Haute Couture (Haute Couture – La beauté du geste). The album features the film’s original music composed by Pascal Lengagne (Overdrive, Fahim, Thank You for Calling). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Haute Couture is co-written and directed by Sylvie Ohayon and stars Nathalie Baye, Lyna Khoudri and Pascale Arbillo. The movie follows the head of the dressmaking studio at Christian Dior who gets her handbag stolen by a young woman and – instead of calling the police – enlists the petty thief as her dressmaking protégé. Read the rest of this entry »
James Newton Howard to Score Francis Lawrence’s ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’
Posted: July 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Francis Lawrence, James Newton Howard, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, The Hunger Games
James Newton Howard (King Kong, Maleficent, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Sixth Sense, Signs) is set to score the upcoming film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The movie, which serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games series, is directed by Francis Lawrence and stars Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Josh Andrés Rivera, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman Irene Boehm, Cooper Dillon, Luna Kuse, Kjell Brutscheidt, Athena Strates, Dimitri Abold, Dakota Shapiro, George Somner and Vaughan Reilly. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 17, 2022)
Posted: July 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Anything's Possible, Devonté Hynes, HBO Max, Leo Birenberg, Rap Sh*t, Samuel Sim, Showtrial, Sundance Now
Premiering on Thursday, July 21, is the HBO Max original series Rap Sh!t created by Issa Rae and starring Aida Osman, Jonica Booth, KaMillion, Devon Terrell and RJ Cyler. The show’s original music is composed by Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) (Queen & Slim, Passing, We Are Who We Are, Mainstream, Palo Alto, In Treatment). Check out our previous news article for more information about the comedy, which will be available to stream exclusively on HBO Max.
Also premiering in the U.S. on Thursday is the British mini-series Showtrial created by Ben Richards and starring Tracy Ifeachor, Celine Buckens, Sharon D. Clarke, Sinead Keenan, Lolita Chakrabarti and Kerr Logan. Samuel Sim (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, The Spanish Princess, Domina, The Halcyon) has composed the show’s original music. Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last fall when the drama premiered in the UK on BBC One. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details. The 5-parter is making its U.S. debut on Sundance Now. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Wohl Scoring Sanaa Lathan’s ‘On the Come Up’
Posted: July 16, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Wohl, On the Come Up, Paramount+, Sanaa Lathan
Daniel Wohl (Project Blue Book, Search Party, The Weekend Away, The Stand In, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead) has recently been scoring the upcoming drama On the Come Up. The film marks the directorial debut of actress Sanaa Lathan and stars Jamila C. Gray, Lathan herself, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Lil Yachty, Method Man, Mike Epps, GaTa, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Titus Makin Jr. and Michael Anthony Cooper Jr. The movie is based on the best-selling YA novel by Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give) and follows a young black girl who attempts to take the battle rap scene by storm in order to do right by the legacy of her father and to help her family climb out of poverty. Read the rest of this entry »