Fabtone has released a soundtrack album for the Netflix anime series Vampire in the Garden. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Yoshihiro Ike (Ergo Proxy, B: The Beginning, The Empire of Corpses). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. A 2-CD version is also being released in Japan. Vampire in the Garden is produced by Wit Studio and features the voices of Megumi Han, Yu Kobayashi, Chiaki Kobayashi, Rica Fukami, Hiroki Touchi and Ari Ozawa. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Vampire in the Garden’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Vampire in the Garden, Yoshihiro Ike
Heitor Pereira Scoring DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’
Posted: June 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dreamworks Animation, Heitor Pereira, Joel Crawford, Puss in Boots, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me, Minions, Smallfoot, The Smurfs, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, The Angry Birds Movie, Paw Patrol: The Movie) is currently recording his score for the upcoming animated comedy adventure Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The film is directed by Joel Crawford (The Croods: A New Age) and stars Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Olivia Colman, Samson Kayo, Harvey Guillén, Wagner Moura, John Mulaney, Anthony Mendez, Florence Pugh, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Ray Winstone. The movie follows the title character who discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll and – in order to get all his nine lives back – takes on his grandest quest yet. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Sea Beast’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: June 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chris Williams, Laurence O’Keefe, Mark Mancina, Nell Benjamin, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, The Sea Beast
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Netflix animated film The Sea Beast. The album features the movie’s original score composed by Grammy Award winner Mark Mancina (Moana, Speed, Twister, Tarzan, Bad Boys, Brother Bear, Con Air, August Rush, Cry Macho). Also included and already available to stream/download now is the original song Captain Crow written by Nell Benjamin & Laurence O’Keefe (Legally Blonde: The Musical) and produced by Mancina. The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 8 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Sea Beast is directed by Chris Williams and features the voices of Karl Urban, Zaris-Angel Hator, Jared Harris, Dan Stevens, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Kathy Burke. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Revealer’ Soundtrack Single Released
Posted: June 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Cuervo, Atlant 87, Luke Boyce, Revealer, Shudder, Soundtrack
Burning Witches Records has released a soundtrack for the indie horror thriller Revealer. The 2-track single features the original song Saint & Sinner by Atlant 87, as well as a track from the film’s original score composed by Alex Cuervo (The Pale Door, Scare Package). The soundtrack is now available digitally on all major digital music platforms (including Amazon) and as a limited edition cassette on the label’s official website. Also listen to both tracks after the jump. Revealer is directed by Luke Boyce and stars Caito Aase and Shaina Schrooten. The movie follows a stripper and religious protester who are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in 1980s Chicago. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: June 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amelia Warner, Emma Holly Jones, Mr. Malcolm's List, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the period romantic comedy Mr. Malcolm’s List. The album features the film’s original music composed by Amelia Warner (Mary Shelley, Wild Mountain Thyme, Mum’s List). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, July 1 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Mr. Malcolm’s List is directed by Emma Holly Jones and stars Freida Pinto, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ashley Park, Zawe Ashton and Theo James. The movie is set in 19th Century England and follows a society lady who gets jilted by London’s most eligible bachelor when she fails to meet one of the items on his list of requirements for a bride and convinces her friend to play the role of his ideal match. Read the rest of this entry »
Alberto Iglesias to Score Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Strange Way of Life’
Posted: June 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alberto Iglesias, Extraña forma de vida, Pedro Almodovar, Strange Way of Life
Alberto Iglesias (The Constant Gardener, The Kite Runner, Parallel Mothers, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Volver, The Skin I Live In) is set to compose the music for the upcoming western Strange Way of Life (Extraña forma de vida). The short directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Ethan Hawke & Pedro Pascal will be shot in English and centers on a man riding on a horse across a desert to Bitter Creek, where he has traveled to visit a Sheriff, with whom he worked together as hired gunmen 25 years earlier. Agustín Almodóvar is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 28, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, Kazuma Jinnouchi, Netflix, Nobuko Toda, score, Soundtrack
JVCKENWOOD Victor Entertainment has released a new soundtrack album for the Netflix anime series Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Nobuko Toda & Kazuma Jinnouchi (Ultraman, Star Wars: Visions: The Ninth Jedi). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring the composers’ score from Season 1 back in 2020. Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 is created by Masamune Shirow and features the voices (in the English language version) of Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, William Knight, Richard Epcar, Crispin Freeman, Michael McCarty, Dave Wittenberg, Bob Buchholz and Dean Wein. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Aliens, Clowns & Geeks’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: June 28, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aliens Clowns & Geeks, Danny Elfman, Ego Plum, Richard Elfman, score, Soundtrack
Elfmaniac Media will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi comedy Aliens, Clowns & Geeks. The album features the film’s original music composed by Danny Elfman (Batman, Spider-Man, Alice in Wonderland, Nightmare Before Christmas, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Edward Scissorhands) & Ego Plum (The Cuphead Show!, Harvey Beaks, Jellystone). The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically this Friday, July 1. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and digital version. Aliens, Clowns & Geeks is written and directed by Richard Elfman and stars Bodhi Elfman, Verne Troyer, Steve Agee, French Stewart, George Wendt, Anastasia Elfman, Malcolm Foster Smith and Rebecca Forsythe. The movie follows an out-of-work actor who stumbles upon key to the universe and is drawn into intergalactic war between clowns and aliens. Read the rest of this entry »
Billie Eilish, Finneas, Dan Romer, Nathan Johnson, Natalie Holt, Amie Doherty & Others Invited to Join Academy
Posted: June 28, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Amie Doherty, Ariel Marx, Billie Eilish, Dan Romer, Finneas O'Connell, Hesham Nazih, Jacobo Lieberman, Leo Heiblum, Natalie Holt, Nathan Johnson, Nerida Tyson-Chew
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 397 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures to join the organization. Among the invited artists this year are a number of film composers, including Dan Romer (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Luca), Nathan Johnson (Knives Out, Looper), Natalie Holt (Journey’s End, Herself), Amie Doherty (Spirit Untamed, Happiest Season), Ariel Marx (Shiva Baby, Rebel Hearts), Nerida Tyson-Chew (H Is for Happiness, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid), Hesham Nazih (The Guest, Born a King), Leo Heiblum & Jacobo Lieberman (Maria Full of Grace) and Lili Haydn (Strip Down, Rise Up, Broken Kingdom). Read the rest of this entry »
Steven Price Scoring Sally El Hosaini’s ‘The Swimmers’
Posted: June 28, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Netflix, Sally El Hosaini, Steven Price, The Swimmers
Steven Price (Gravity, Our Planet, Suicide Squad, Last Night in Soho, Over the Moon, Fury, The Aeronauts) has composed the original score for the upcoming biographical drama The Swimmers. The film is directed by Sally El Hosaini (My Brother the Devil) and stars Manal & Nathalie Issa, Ali Suliman, Matthias Schweighöfer, Elmi Rashid Elmi, Ahmed Malek, Kinda Alloush and James Krishna Floyd. The movie tells the story of the journey made by swimming sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini who fled as refugees from war-torn Syria all the way to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Read the rest of this entry »