Tindersticks are reuniting with director Claire Denis on the upcoming thriller Stars at Noon. The film starring Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Danny Ramirez, Nick Romano, Benny Safdie and John C. Reilly is set in 1984 during the Nicaraguan Revolution and follows a mysterious English businessman and a headstrong American journalist who strike up a passionate romance and become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies. Read the rest of this entry »
Tindersticks Scoring Claire Denis’ ‘Stars at Noon’
Posted: May 3, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Claire Denis, Stars at Noon, Tindersticks
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‘Broadway’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 3, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Broadway, Christos Massalas, Gabriel Yared, score, Soundtrack
Plaza Mayor Company will release a soundtrack album for the Greek/French drama Broadway. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Judy, Cold Mountain, Betty Blue, 1408). Also included is the song Snow Leopard by Sillyboy’s Ghost Relatives. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 20, 2022 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A CD version is also in the works. Broadway is written and directed by Christos Massalas and stars Elsa Lekakou, Foivos Papadopoulos, Stathis Apostolou and Rafael Papad. The movie is set in contemporary Athens and centers on a young woman who starts working at a strip club, where she meets a a small-time gangster who brings her to Broadway, an abandoned complex squatted by a community of artists and thieves living on the margins of society. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded and Remastered ‘Flesh and Bone’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: May 3, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Flesh and Bone, score, Soundtrack, Steve Kloves, Thomas Newman
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1993 thriller Flesh and Bone directed by Steve Kloves and starring Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan and Gwyneth Paltrow. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from film composed by Academy Award nominee Thomas Newman (American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, 1917, Finding Nemo, Skyfall, Wall-E, The Green Mile, Road to Perdition), including previously unreleased music from the movie and alternate cues. The CD, which is limited to 1,000 copies, will be available to order on the label’s official website at noon today. Varese Sarabande has previously released the original 1993 soundtrack album. Read the rest of this entry »
Lady Gaga’s Original Song ‘Hold My Hand’ from ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Released
Posted: May 2, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: BloodPop, Joseph Kosinski, Lady Gaga, Top Gun: Maverick
Interscope Records has release the original song Hold My Hand from the action drama Top Gun: Maverick. The track is co-written (with BloodPop) and performed by Lady Gaga and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. A full soundtrack album for the movie will be announced soon. Top Gun: Maverick is directed by Joseph Kosinski and stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Lewis Pullman and Ed Harris. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Jumanji’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: May 2, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Horner, Joe Johnston, Jumanji, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1995 fantasy adventure Jumanji directed by Joe Johnston and starring Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, David Alan Grier, Jonathan Hyde, Bradley Pierce and Bonnie Hunt. The album features the film’s expanded original score composed and conducted by Academy Award winner James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, A Beautiful Mind, Field of Dreams, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Aliens, The Rocketeer), including around 20 minutes of previously unreleased music, as well as the content of the original 1995 soundtrack album (released by Epic Soundtrax). The 2-CD set is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Paper Birds’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 2, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cyrille Marchesseau, Federico Carlini, German Heller, Paper Birds, score, Soundtrack
BOriginal has released a soundtrack album for the VR film Paper Birds. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Cyrille Marchesseau (Gloomy Eyes, A Barge on the Ocean). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Paper Birds is directed by Federico Carlini & German Heller and features the voices of Archie Yates, Edward Norton and Joss Stone. The 3DAR & Baobab Studios production follows a short-sighted child with an exceptional talent for music who must embark on a journey through the world of darkness and rescue his sister, taken by an obscure shadow. Read the rest of this entry »
Hans Zimmer Scoring Florian Zeller’s ‘The Son’
Posted: May 2, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Florian Zeller, Hans Zimmer, The Son
Hans Zimmer (Dune, The Lion King, Inception, Gladiator, Interstellar, The Dark Knight) has composed the original music for the upcoming drama The Son. The film is directed by Florian Zeller (The Father) and stars Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, Laura Dern, Zen McGrath and Anthony Hopkins. The movie is based on Zeller’s stage play of the same name and follows a man whose life is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife turns up with their troubled, distant and angry teenage son. Zeller also co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement). Read the rest of this entry »
2022 ASCAP Screen Music Awards Winners Announced
Posted: May 2, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: ASCAP, ASCAP Screen Music Awards
ASCAP has announced the winners of the 2022 ASCAP Screen Music Awards, recognizing its top film, television and video game composers. The event runs May 2-5 across @ASCAP social media and @ASCAPScreen on Instagram. The ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards, voted on exclusively by the ASCAP composer and songwriter community, are presented to Germaine Franco for Film Score of the Year for Disney’s Encanto; to Cristobal Tapia de Veer for Television Score of the Year & Television Theme of the Year for HBO’s The White Lotus; to Amanda Jones for Documentary Score of the Year for Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street; and to Wataru Hokoyama for Video Game Score of the Year for his work on Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart . Read the rest of this entry »
Anne Dudley Scoring Acorn TV’s ‘Signora Volpe’
Posted: May 2, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Acorn TV, Anne Dudley, Signora Volpe
Anne Dudley (The Crying Game, The Full Monty, Poldark, American History X, The Hustle, Benedetta) is the composer of the new Acorn TV series Signora Volpe. The show is created by Rachel Cuperman & Sally Griffiths and stars Emilia Fox, Tara Fitzgerald, Giovanni Cirfieran, Jamie Bamber and Mehdi Meskar. The drama revolves around a disillusioned British spy turned detective who heads off to visit her sister in Italy and becomes involved in a murder investigation when her sister’s daughter’s fiancé disappears and a dead body is found near his house. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Small Body’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 2, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Fredrika Stahl, Laura Samani, Piccolo corpo, score, Small Body, Soundtrack
BOriginal has released a soundtrack for the Italian/French/Slovenian drama Small Body (Piccolo corpo). The 2-track single features the film’s original music composed by Fredrika Stahl (Tomorrow) and is now available to stream/download on all digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to both track after the jump. Small Body is co-written and directed by Laura Samani and stars Celeste Cescutti and Ondina Quadri. The movie is set in northeastern Italy in 1900 and follows a grieving mother on a mythopoetic journey to give her stillborn child a name. Read the rest of this entry »
