Pathé Films has released a digital version of the (expanded) soundtrack album for the 1997 film adaptation of Vladmir Nabokov’s novel Lolita directed by Adrianne Lyne and starring Jeremy Irons. Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith and Frank Langella. The album features the film’s original music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, The Hateful Eight, The Untouchables, Once Upon a Time in America, Cinema Paradiso). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lolita’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adrian Lyne, Ennio Morricone, Lolita, score, Soundtrack
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Tommy Reilly Scoring BBC’s ‘Nightsleeper’
Posted: September 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Nightsleeper, Tommy Reilly
Tommy Reilly (Anna and the Apocalypse, Our Ladies, Dinosaur) is making his solo television scoring debut on the new BBC drama Nightsleeper. The show is created by Nick Leather (Murdered for Being Different, The Control Room) and stars Alexandra Roach, Joe Cole, Alex Ferns, James Cosmo, Sharon Small, David Threlfall, Lois Chimimba, Daniel Cahill, Gabriel Howell, Leah MacRae, Katie Leung, Scott Reid, Ruth Madeley, Pamela Nomvete, Adam Mitchell, Sharon Rooney and Parth Thakerar. The 6-part thriller follows an off-duty police officer who is a passenger on a train that gets ‘hackjacked’ while traveling from Glasgow to London and has to work together with the acting technical director at the National Cyber Security Centre to work out who is behind this. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The 47’ (‘El 47’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arnau Bataller, El 47, Marcel Barrena, score, Soundtrack, The 47
Globomedia has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish drama The 47 (El 47). The album features the film’s original music composed by Arnau Bataller (The Vault, [REC] 4: Apocalypse, A Perfect Day, Killer Book Club, Wake Up, Prey, The Chosen). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. The 47 is written and directed by Marcel Barrena and stars Eduard Fernández, Clara Segura, Salva Reina, Zoe Bonafonte and Aimar Vega. The movie tells the story of a social activist bus driver as he grows increasingly outraged at the neglect faced by immigrant communities outside Barcelona’s city center whose neighborhoods had only just achieved running water. Read the rest of this entry »
Eldad Guetta Scoring Max Minghella’s ‘Shell’
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eldad Guetta, Max Minghella, Shell
Eldad Guetta (Press Play, Always Jane, In the Know, Dirty Tricks) has composed the original music for the upcoming comedy Shell. The film is directed by Max Minghella and stars Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson, Kaia Gerber, Arian Moayed, Este Haim, Elizabeth Berkley, Lionel Boyce, Peter MacNicol, Amy Landecker and Ziwe. The movie revolves around an actress who is given an opportunity to get a free trial at a pioneering health and beauty company which promises to keep its clients looking young forever and – after a group of other patients go missing under mysterious circumstances – challenges the firm’s CEO over her questionable science. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sharp Corner’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jason Buxton, score, Sharp Corner, Soundtrack, Stephen McKeon
Moonflower Records has released a soundtrack album for the Canadian/Irish thriller Sharp Corner. The album features the film’s original music composed by Stephen McKeon (Evil Dead Rise, The Hole in the Ground, Norm of the North, Pilgrimage, Rose Plays Julie, The Cellar, Queen & Country). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Sharp Corner is written and directed by Jason Buxton and stars Ben Foster, Cobie Smulders, Gavin Drea and William Kosovic. The movie follows a family man who develops an unhealthy obsession with saving the lives of the victims at the sharp road corner near his home after a car crashes into his front yard. Read the rest of this entry »
First Track from Hildur Guðnadóttir’s ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Score Released
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hildur Guðnadóttir, Joker, Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips
WaterTower Music has released the first track from the score for Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is There Is No Joker composed by Academy Award winner Hildur Guðnadóttir (Chernobyl, Women Talking, Tar). The score album will be released on September 27 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the full details. As previously reported, Interscope Records will release a soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie on October 4. Joker: Folie à Deux is directed by Phillips and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener and Zazie Beetz. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Chimp Crazy’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Chimp Crazy, HBO, Jonathan Sadoff, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the HBO documentary series Chimp Crazy. The album features the show’s original music composed by Jonathan Sadoff (The Peanut Butter Falcon, Ingrid Goes West, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Angelyne, Dollface, Incoming, Under the Boardwalk). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s opening track (feat. Gabe Witcher) after the jump. Chimp Crazy is directed by Eric Goode and explores the secretive world of raising chimpanzees and the complicated and colorful cast of characters that inhabit it. The 4-parter follows a former nurse-turned-exotic animal broker whose limitless love for one chimpanzee in particular spins into a cat-and-mouse game with authorities and an animal rights group. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Bates Scoring Alexis Bloom’s ‘The Bibi Files’
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Gibney, The Bibi Files, Will Bates
Will Bates (Dumb Money, The Magicians, Immaculate, Unbelievable, I Origins, Away, The Path, The Looming Tower, Bliss) is scoring the upcoming documentary The Bibi Files. The film is directed by Alexis Bloom and tells the backstory behind Israeli prime minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s ongoing corruption trial and how it is informing his current actions. The movie features never-before-seen leaked footage and new interviews with key Israeli figures, including Netanyahu’s former spokesman Nir Hefetz,f ormer prime minister Ehud Olmert and former Shin Bet leader Ami Ayalon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Scammers’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A l'ancienne, Guillaume Ferran, Hervé Mimran, score, Soundtrack, The Scammers
Hamburger Records has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy The Scammers (A l’ancienne). The album features the film’s original music composed by Guillaume Ferran (Take a Chance on Me, Escort Boys, Marie-Line et son juge, Jusant). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s “ouverture” and title track below. The Scammers is directed by Hervé Mimran and stars Didier Bourdon, Gérard Darmon and Chantal Lauby. The movie follows two retired friends who discover a talent for scamming and try to steal the identity of a dead lottery winner. Read the rest of this entry »
Siddhartha Khosla Wins Emmy Award for ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Score
Posted: September 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards, Only Murders in the Building, Siddhartha Khosla
Siddhartha Khosla has won his first Emmy Award for his score for the episode Sitzprobe from the third season of the Hulu original series Only Murders in the Building in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Series category at tonight’s second night of the 76th Creative Prime Emmy Awards. Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman received an Emmy for the song Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It? from the same Only Murders in the Building episode. Carlo Rafael Rivera won his third Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special category for his score from the episode Book of Calvin of the Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry. Read the rest of this entry »
