Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Martian, The Last Duel, Mulan, Kingdom of Heaven) has been tapped to score the upcoming thriller Retribution. The film is directed by Nimrod Antal (Predators, Control) and stars Liam Neeson, Matthew Modine, Embeth Davidtz, Arian Moayed, Noma Dumezweni, Jack Champion and Lilly Aspel. The movie is based on the Spanish feature El Desconocido and follows a banking executive whose life is thrown upside down when a bomb is placed inside his car with him and his family, and the banker’s children are forced to go through the harrowing events with him. Read the rest of this entry »
Harry Gregson-Williams Scoring Nimrod Antal’s ‘Retribution’
Posted: June 7, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Harry Gregson-Williams, Nimrod Antal, Retribution
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‘C’est magnifique!’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 7, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: C'est magnifique!, Clovis Cornillac, Guillaume Roussel, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy C’est magnifique! The album features the film’s original music composed by Guillaume Roussel (3 Days to Kill, Black Beauty, Happy!, The Spy, BAC Nord, The Takedown, The Man with the Iron Heart). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. C’est magnifique! is co-written and directed by Clovis Cornillac and stars Cornillac himself, alongside Alice Pol and Lilou Fogli. The movie follows a man raised in nature who – after learning that his parents are not his actual parents – teams up with a woman who helps him in his quest to find out where he comes from. Read the rest of this entry »
Zachary Dawes Scoring Amazon’s ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’
Posted: June 6, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Zachary Dawes
Zachary Dawes (Big Time Adolescence, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Generation, There’s Someone Inside Your House) is scoring the new Amazon original series The Summer I Turned Pretty. The show is created by Jenny Han (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) based on her bestselling book of the same title and stars Lola Tung, Jackie Chung, Christopher Briney, Rachel Blanchard, Colin Ferguson, Gavin Casalegno, Alfredo Narciso, Sean Kaufman, Minnie Mills and Tom Everett Scott. The coming-of-age drama centers on an ordinary teenage girl who spends the summer in Cousin’s Beach, where she reunites with her childhood friend, only to become tangled up in a love triangle between him and his brother. Read the rest of this entry »
Swae Lee’s & Diplo’s ‘Tupelo Shuffle’ from Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ Released
Posted: June 6, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Baz Luhrmann, Diplo, Elvis, Swae Lee
Eardruma Records and Interscope Records have released the new song Tupelo Shuffle from biographical drama Elvis. The track is performed by Swae Lee & Diplo feat. Gary Clark Jr. (who stars as Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup) & lead actor Austin Butler and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song below. Interscope has previously released Doja Cat’s Vegas from the movie and a full soundtrack album will be coming out later this month. Elvis is directed by Baz Luhrmann and also stars Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Luke Bracey, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Kelvin Harrison Jr., David Wenham, Xavier Samuel and Natasha Bassett. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeff Russo Scoring Paul Dektor’s ‘American Dreamer’
Posted: June 6, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: American Dreamer, Jeff Russo, Paul Dektor
Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery/Picard, The Night Of, Legion, Lucy in the Sky) has composed the original music for the upcoming comedy American Dreamer. The film is directed by Paul Dektor and stars Peter Dinklage, Shirley MacLaine, Matt Dillon, Danny Glover, Danny Pudi, Kimberly Quinn and Michelle Mylett. The movie follows a twice-divorced, frustrated and underpaid economics professor who gets an opportunity to fulfill his grand dream of owning a home when a lonely, childless, near-death widow offers him her sprawling estate for pennies. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Black Sands’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 6, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Black Sands, Petur Jonsson, score, Soundtrack, Svörtu sandar
Medialux Music has released a soundtrack album for the Iceland TV series Black Sands (Svörtu sandar). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Petur Jonsson (Case). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Black Sands is written by Baldvin Z, Ragnar Jónsson, Andri Óttarsson & Aldís Hamilton and stars Aldis Amah Hamilton, Pór Tulinius, Steinunn Ólina Porsteinsdóttir, Kolbeinn Arnbjörnsson, Evar Pór Benediktsson and Lára Jónsdóttir. The 8-part crime thriller directed by Baldvin Zophoníasson follows a troubled police officer as she investigates a serial killer. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Young to Score Apple TV+’s ‘Echo 3’
Posted: June 6, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Christopher Young, Echo 3, Mark Boal
Christopher Young (Spider-Man 3, Hellraiser, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister, The Hurricane, The Shipping News) has been hired to score the upcoming Apple TV+ original series Echo 3. The show is written by Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) based on the Keshet Broadcasting series When Heroes Fly created by Omri Givon and inspired by Amir Gutfreund’s novel and stars Luke Evans, Michiel Huisman, Jessica Ann Collins and Elizabeth Anweis. The 10-part drama is set in South America against the explosive backdrop of a secret war and revolves around a brilliant young scientist who goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border and follows her brother and her husband as they struggle to find her. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lancaster’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 6, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ant Palmer, Chris Roe, David Fairhead, Lancaster, score, Soundtrack
Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Lancaster. The album features the film’s original music composed by Chris Roe (Armstrong, Trigger Point, After Love, Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo, Spitfire, Death of a Gentleman). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Lancaster is directed by David Fairhead & Ant Palmer and tells the story of the iconic World War II bomber told through the words of the last surviving crew members, remastered archive material and aerial footage of the RAF’s last airworthy Lancaster. Read the rest of this entry »
John Frizzell Scoring Mike Judge’s ‘Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe’
Posted: June 5, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beavis and Butt-Head, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, John Frizzell, Mike Judge, Paramount+
John Frizzell (Alien: Resurrection, Dante’s Peak, The Following, Gods and Generals, Thirteen Ghosts, Legion) is returning as the composer of the new Paramount+ original movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe. The film is written and directed by Mike Judge (Silicon Valley, Idiocracy) and features the voices of Judge himself, Gary Cole, Chris Diamantopoulos, Nat Faxon, Chi McBride, Brian Huskey, Tig Notaro, Andrea Savage, Stephen Root, Martin Starr and Jimmy O. Yang. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 5, 2022)
Posted: June 5, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness, Disney Plus, First Kill, HBO, Irma Vep, Jasha Klebe, Kurt Farquhar, Laura Karpman, Ms. Marvel, Netflix, Peacock, Puggy, Queer as Folk, Thurston Moore
Premiering tomorrow, June 6, is the HBO limited series Irma Vep created and directed by Olivier Assayas based on his 1996 movie of the same name and starring Alicia Vikander, Vincent Macaigne, Jeanne Balibar, Lars Eidinger, Devon Ross, Vincent Lacoste, Adria Arjona, Nora Hamzawi, Carrie Brownstein, Byron Bowers and Tom Sturridge. The show’s original music is composed by Thurston Moore (Heavy). Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama, which will air Mondays on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Premiering on Wednesday, June 8, is Marvel Studios’ Disney+ original series Ms. Marvel developed by Bisha K. Ali and starring Iman Vellani, Aramis Knight, Saagar Shaikh, Zenobia Shroff, Rish Shah, Mohan Kapur and Matt Lintz. Laura Karpman (Lovecraft Country, Paris Can Wait, Underground, Step, Set It Up, Why We Hate) has composed the show’s original music. Click here for more information about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+ and check back on this page for updates on the release of music from the series. Read the rest of this entry »
