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 »
2022 ASCAP Screen Music Awards Winners Announced
Posted: May 2, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: ASCAP, ASCAP Screen Music Awards
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 »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 1, 2022)
Posted: May 1, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anna Waronker, Ben Onono, Danny Bensi, HBO Max, Heather McIntosh, I Love That for You, Jeff Russo, Nami Melumad, Netflix, Orbital, Paramount+, PBS, Ridley Road, Saunder Jurriaans, Sheryl, Showtime, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Pentaverate, The Staircase
Premiering today is the Showtime original series I Love That for You created by Vanessa Bayer & Jeremy Beiler and starring Bayer herself, Molly Shannon, Jenifer Lewis, Paul James, Matt Rogers, Ayden Mayeri and Punam Patel. The show’s original music is composed by Anna Waronker (Yellowjackets, Shrill, Call Me Kat, Santa, Inc., The Republic of Sarah, Harriet the Spy). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the comedy, which will air every Sunday on Showtime.
Also premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British mini-series Ridley Road written by Sarah Solemani based on Jo Bloom’s novel of the same title and starring Agnes O’Casey, Tom Varey, Rory Kinnear, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Tamzin Outhwaite, Eddie Marsan, Samantha Spiro and Rita Tushingham. Ben Onono (Half of a Yellow Sun, Spell, Safe, Paranoid, Trust Me) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the drama, which premiered in the UK last fall on BBC One and is making its U.S. debut on PBS as part of the Masterpiece series. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Roaring 20’s’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 1, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Années 20, Elisabeth Vogler, Jaune, Jean-Charles Bastion, Roaring 20's, score, Soundtrack
Jean-Charles Bastion (Paris Is Us) has released a soundtrack album for the the French drama Roaring 20’s (Années 20). The album features the composer’s music from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Roaring 20’s is co-written and directed by Elisabeth Vogler and stars Vladimir Seguin, Alice de Lencquesaing, Aurore Déon, Noémie Schmidt, Manuel Severi, Zoé Fauconnet, Adil laboudi, Léo Poulet and Fanny Santer. The drama was shot in one uninterrupted single sequence in Paris in the summer of 2020 and follows a group of Parisians as they they rejoice and make unexpected encounters. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Danny Elfman, Doctor Strange, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Marvel, Sam Raimi, score, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records & Marvel Music will release the official soundtrack album for Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The album features the film’s original music composed by Danny Elfman (Batman, Spider-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). The soundtrack is set to be released on Wednesday, May 4 and will be available to stream on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is directed by Sam Raimi and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Elizabeth Olsen, Michael Stühlbarg, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez and Rachel McAdams. The movie follows the title character who, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Leave No Traces’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ibrahim Maalouf, Jan P. Matuszyński, Leave No Traces, score, Soundtrack
Mister Ibé has released a soundtrack album for the Polish drama Leave No Traces (Zeby nie bylo sladów). The album features the film’s original music composed by Ibrahim Maalouf (Yves Saint Laurent, One Man and His Cow, Who You Think I Am, In the Forests of Siberia, Radiance). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Leave No Traces is directed by Jan P. Matuszyński and stars Tomasz Ziętek, Sandra Korzeniak and Mateusz Górski. The movie, which was Poland’s submission in the International Feature category for this year’s Academy Awards, is set in 1983 and tells the true story of a young man who becomes an enemy of the state after he’s the sole witness to the violent murder of a high school student at the hands of militia. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 29, 2022)
Posted: April 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Anaïs in Love, Conrad Pope, David Bertok, Hatching, Memory, Nicola Piovani, Peace by Chocolate, Photek, Rupert Parkes, Stein Berge Svendsen, The Sound of Violet
The only movie opening in theaters nationwide this week is the action thriller Memory directed by Martin Campbell and starring Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce, Monica Bellucci, Taj Atwal, Ray Fearon, Harold Torres and Ray Stevenson. The film’s original music is composed by Rupert Parkes (aka Photek) (How to Get Away with Murder, Station 19, The Protege, Gang Related, Life in a Year, Mosul). Music.Film Recordings/Lakeshore Records have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the Open Road Films/Briarcliff Entertainment release.
Opening in limited release is the Finnish horror drama Hatching (Pahanhautoja) directed by Hanna Bergholm and starring Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä and Jani Volanen. Stein Berge Svendsen (The Crossing, Happy, Happy) has composed the film’s original music. No word on a soundtrack release. The movie, which follow a 12-year girl who is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family, who finds a strange egg. premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is being released in the U.S. by IFC Midnight. Read the rest of this entry »
Anna Waronker Scoring Showtime’s ‘I Love That for You’
Posted: April 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anna Waronker, I Love That for You, Showtime
Anna Waronker (Yellowjackets, Shrill, Santa, Inc., Harriet the Spy, The Republic of Sarah) is scoring the new Showtime original series I Love That for You. The show is created by Vanessa Bayer & Jeremy Beiler and stars Bayer herself, Molly Shannon, Jenifer Lewis, Paul James, Ayden Mayeri, Matt Rogers and Punam Patel. The comedy is inspired by Bayer’s own story of overcoming childhood leukemia and centers on a woman who dreams of becoming a host at a home-shopping channel. Read the rest of this entry »
Harry Connick Jr. to Write and Perform Original Songs for Stelana Kliris’ ‘The Islander’
Posted: April 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Harry Connick Jr., Stelana Kliris, The Islander
Deadline is reporting that Harry Connick Jr. is writing and performing original songs for the upcoming romantic comedy The Islander. The singer/songwriter will also star in the movie, which revolves around a has-been musician who moves, sight unseen, to a remote cliffside house on an island, only to discover his new home has an unfortunate notoriety. Stelana Kliris (Committed) will direct the film, which also stars Mira Sorvino and Ali Fumiko Whitney. Kliris also wrote the screenplay and is producing the project with Keith Arnold (Spinning Man) and Steven Shapiro. Read the rest of this entry »
