The details of the soundtrack album for the seventh episode of the second season of the Prime Video original series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power have been revealed. The album features the original music from Episode 7 (entitled Doomed to Die) of Season 2 composed by Emmy Award winner Bear McCreary (Outlander, The Walking Dead, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Battlestar Galactica, Happy Death Day). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 26 by Amazon Content Services and will be available to stream/download on Amazon Music. The label has previously released the composer’s scores from the first six Season 2 episodes (Elven Kings Under the Sky, Where the Stars Are Strange, The Eagle and the Sceptre, Eldest, Halls of Stone & Where Is He?), as well as the Season 2 album featuring selections of the McCreary’s music from the new season over the last couple of weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Lord of the RIngs: The Rings of Power’ Season 2, Episode 7 (‘Doomed to Die) Soundtrack Albums Details
Posted: September 25, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Bear McCreary, score, Soundtrack, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
‘The Sparrow in the Chimney’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 25, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Balz Bachmann, Der Spatz im Kamin, Ramon Zürcher, score, Soundtrack, The Sparrow in the Chimney
iMusician & Noi Music Publishing have released a soundtrack album for the Swiss drama The Sparrow in the Chimney (Der Spatz im Kamin). The album features the film’s original music composed by Balz Bachmann (Yalom’s Cure, When We Were Sisters, Hidden Reserves). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s Sparrows Theme below. The Sparrow in the Chimney is written and directed by Ramon Zürcher and stars Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein, Luise Heyer, Lea Zoe Voss, Andreas Döhler, Milian Zerzawyand Ilja Bultmann. The movie revolves around two sisters whose reunion at a family gathering reignites old conflicts and deep-seated emotional turmoil. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Chorus’ 20th Anniversary Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 25, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bruno Coulais, Christophe Barratier, Les Choristes, score, Soundtrack, The Chorus
Peermusic France will release a new soundtrack album for the French 2004 musical drama The Chorus (Les Choristes) co-written and directed by Christophe Barratier and starring Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad and Jean-Baptiste Maunier. The album features the newly remastered score from the film composed by Bruno Coulais (Coraline, The Crimson Rivers, Winged Migration, Wolfwalkers, Wendell & Wild, Gemma Bovery) and the choir music performed by Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc, including two new tracks: an English language version of the Academy Award-nominated song Vois sur ton chemin (Children of Oblivion), as well as an instrumental version of In Memoriam (listen to the track after the jump). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, September 27 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out the track list. A CD and vinyl edition is also in the works. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pimp My Bride’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 25, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Frank Bellocq, L'heureuse élue, Maxime Desprez, Michaël Tordjman, Pimp My Bride, score, Soundtrack
BOriginal has released a soundtrack album for the French romantic comedy Pimp My Bride (L’heureuse élue). The album features the film’s original music composed by Maxime Desprez & Michael Tordjman (Babysitting, Momo, Break, Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Do You Do You Saint-Tropez, A Very Bad Friend). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composers’ first track below. Pimp My Bride is directed by Frank Bellocq and stars Camille Lellouche, Gérard Darmon, Lionel Erdogan and Michèle Laroque. The movie follows a young man who finds himself in debt and – in order to have his parents help him out financially – makes them believe he’s getting married to his model friend, but is forced to invite his Uber driver friend instead when she backs out. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Score Album Details
Posted: September 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hildur Guðnadóttir, Joker 2, Joker: Folie à Deux, score, Soundtrack, Todd Phillips
The full details of the score album for Todd Phillips’ psychological thriller Joker: Folie à Deux have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir (Chernobyl, Women Talking, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Tar, Mary Magdalene) who received her first Academy Award for 2019’s original Joker movie. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, September 27 by WaterTower Music and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (There Is No Joker) has already been released as a digital single earlier this month. Interscope Records will release a separate soundtrack featuring Lady Gaga’s songs next Friday, October 4 and a companion album by Gaga this Friday. Joker: Folie à Deux is co-written and directed by Phillips and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Catherine Keener, Brendan Gleeson and Zazie Beetz. Read the rest of this entry »
Nami Melumad Scoring Pixar’s Disney+ Series ‘Dream Productions’
Posted: September 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, Dream Productions, Nami Melumad, Pixar
Nami Melumad (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds & Prodigy, Thor: Love and Thunder, An American Pickle, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, Absentia) has composed the original music for Pixar Animation Studios’ upcoming Disney+ original series Dream Productions. The show is written and directed by Mike Jones (screenwriter of Soul & Luca) and features the voices of Paula Pell, Richard Ayoade, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Kensington Tallman, Alli Maki, Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Phyllis Smith and Lewis Black. The series is set between the events of Pixar’s features Inside Out & Inside Out 2 and follows Riley who gets sent to Dream Productions, where acclaimed director Paula Persimmon is trying to create the next hit dream after being paired up with a smug daydream director looking to step up into the big leagues of night dreams. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Never Let Go’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: September 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Aja, Never Let Go, Rob, Robin Coudert, score, Soundtrack
Waxwork Records will release the official soundtrack album for the psychological horror thriller Never Let Go. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rob (aka Robin Coudert) (Maniac, Gretel & Hansel, Revenge, Horns, Other People’s Children, Amityville: The Awakening, Troy: Fall of a City). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 25 and will be available to stream/download here. Also listen to the first track (Opening Forest) below. A vinyl edition is also expected. Never Let Go is directed by Alexandre Aja and stars Halle Berry, Percy Daggs IV and Anthony B. Jenkins. The movie follows a mother and her twin sons who have to fight for their survival when an Evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep and they are forced to stay connected at all times. Read the rest of this entry »
Lady Gaga’s ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Companion Album ‘Harlequin’ Announced
Posted: September 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joker, Joker: Folie à Deux, Lady Gaga, Todd Phillips
Lady Gaga has announced Harlequin, a companion album to Todd Phillips’ psychological thriller Joker: Folie à Deux. The album features thirteen songs performed by the singer/songwriter who stars in the film as Harley Quinn. Harlequin will be released digitally this Friday, September 27 by Interscope Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The label will also release the official soundtrack album featuring songs by Gaga next Friday, October 4. A separate album featuring Hildur Guðnadóttir’s original score from the movie is being released this Friday by WaterTower Music. Joker: Folie à Deux is co-written and directed by Phillips also stars Joaquin Phoenix, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener and Zazie Beetz. Read the rest of this entry »
Timothy Williams Scoring D.J. Caruso’s ‘Mary’
Posted: September 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: D.J. Caruso, Mary, Netflix, Timothy Williams
Timothy Williams (Pearl, Brightburn, Agent Elvis, Walking with the Enemy, Finding You, Wild Horses) has recently recorded his score for the upcoming biblical thriller Mary. The film is directed by D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) and stars Anthony Hopkins as King Herod and Noa Cohen in the title role of Mary, as well as Ido Tako, Mila Harris and Stephanie Nur. The movie tells the coming-of-age story of the title character who is shunned following the otherworldly conception of her child and forced into hiding as King Herod’s relentless drive to maintain power at any cost ignites the pursuit of the newborn child that he believes is a threat to his reign on the throne. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded and Remastered ‘The Browning Version’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Isham, Mike Figgis, score, Soundtrack, The Browning Version
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1994 British drama The Browning Version directed by Mike Figgis, produced by Ridley Scott and starring Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Michael Gambon, Julian Sands, Ben Silverstone, Oliver Milburn and Jim Sturgess. The album features the expanded and newly remastered original score from the film composed by Academy Award nominee Mark Isham (A River Runs Through It, Crash, Once Upon a Time, Miracle, 42, The Black Dahlia, Nell), including previously unreleased music. The CD, which is being released to coincide with the movie’s 30th anniversary, is limited to 1,000 copies and is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
