Paramount Music has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for The Director’s Edition of the 1979 classic Star Trek: The Motion Picture directed by directed by Robert Wise and starring Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley and James Doohan. The album features the film’s complete Academy Award-nominated original score from the film composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Chinatown, Poltergeist, Planet of the Apes, The Mummy, L.A. Confidential, Papillon). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 4, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jerry Goldsmith, score, Soundtrack, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
‘The Nameless Days’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 4, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Meecham, Christian Davis, Mattew Whedon, score, Soundtrack, The Nameless Days
Christian Davis (We Love You, Sally Carmichael!, Atomica, Behind You, The Adventures of A.R.I.: My Robot Friend, Christmas Eve) will release a soundtrack album for the horror movie The Nameless Days. The album features the composer’s original music from the film and will be released digitally next Friday, April 15 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Nameless Days is directed by Andrew Mecham & Mattew Whedon and stars Ally Ioannides, Charles Halford, Alejandro Akara and Ashley Marian Ramos. The movie follows the daughter of a Texas rancher and a young Mexican immigrant who sneak across the border to rescue his pregnant sister and are pursued by a Cihuateotl, the demonic spirit of an Aztec woman who died in childbirth. Read the rest of this entry »
Bullet Shields’ Leatherface Theme from Netflix’s ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Released
Posted: April 4, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aviva, Bullet Shields, Creating a Character, David Blue Garcia, Netflix, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Composer Bullet Shields (aka Ryan Shields) has released his Leatherface theme from the Netflix original film Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The track written and performed by Shields is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the full theme below. As previously announced, Milan Records has released the film’s official soundtrack album featuring Colin Stetson’s score from the movie. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is directed by David Blue Garcia and stars Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham, Moe Dunford, Jacob Latimore, Alice Krige, Olwen Fouéré, Jessica Allain and Nell Hudson. Read the rest of this entry »
Heitor Pereira Scoring Richard Wong’s Hulu Film ‘The Valet’
Posted: April 4, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Heitor Pereira, Richard Wong, The Valet
Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me, Minions, Smallfoot, The Angry Birds Movie, The Smurfs, Paw Patrol: The Movie, Beverly Hills Chihuahua) has recently scored the upcoming comedy The Valet. The film is directed by Richard Wong (Come As You Are) and stars Eugenio Derbez, Samara Weaving, Max Greenfield, Betsy Brandt, Carmen Salinas Lozano, Amaury Nolasco, Diany Rodriguez, Marisol Nichols, Tiana Okoye, Ravi Patel, John Pirruccello, Noemi Gonzáles, and Lunay. The movie is based on the French feature La doublure and follows a world famous movie star who faces a PR disaster when a paparazzi snaps a photo of her with her married lover and enlists a hard-working valet who accidentally appears in the same photo to pose as her new boyfriend as a cover up. Read the rest of this entry »
David Buckley Scoring Netflix’s ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’
Posted: April 4, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Buckley, David E. Kelley, Netflix, Ted Humphrey, The Lincoln Lawyer
David Buckley (Nobody, Angel Has Fallen, Papillon, The Forbidden Kingdom, The Stranger, Greenland, Unhinged) has been tapped to score the upcoming Netflix original series The Lincoln Lawyer. The show is developed by David E. Kelley (The Practice, Big Little Lies, Ally McBeal) & Ted Humphrey (Wisdom of the Crowd) based on based on Michael Connelly’s bestselling novels and stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Neve Campbell, Becki Newton, Christopher Gorham, Jazz Raycole and Angus Sampson. The drama revolves around hotshot Los Angeles lawyer Mickey Haller sidelined after an accident as he restarts his career when he takes on a murder case. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Infiniti’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 4, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Canal+, Frédéric Kooshmanian, Infiniti, score, Soundtrack, Thomas Couzinier
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the French mini-series Infiniti. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Thomas Couzinier & Frederic Kooshmanian (Black Spot, The Shiny Shrimps, Goal of the Dead). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Infiniti is created by Stéphane Pannetier & Julien Vanlerenberghe and stars Céline Sallette, Daniar Alshinov, Lex Shrapnel, Vlad Ivanov, Karina Arutyunyan, Ellora Torchia, Anatolii Panchenko, Laurent Capelluto, Jarreth Merz, Samal Yeslyamova and Mikhail Gorevoy. The 6-part sci-fi thriller directed by Thierry Poiraud follows a French astronaut and a Kazakh cop who team up to solve the mystery after the International Space Station has gone silent and a wax-covered decapitated body is found on a roof in Kazakhstan. Read the rest of this entry »
Carlos Rafael Rivera, Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Win Grammy Awards for ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ & ‘Soul’ Scores
Posted: April 3, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Atticus Ross, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Grammy Awards, Jon Batiste, Soul, The Queen's Gambit, Trent Reznor
In a tie, Carlos Rafael Rivera has won his first Grammy Award for his score for the Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit and Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross were honored for their music for Pixar’s Soul in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category at today’s 64th Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony in Las Vegas. Bo Burnham has has received the award in the Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media category for the song All Eyes On Me from the comedy special Inside. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 3, 2022)
Posted: April 3, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Bensi, H. Scott Salinas, HBO, HBO Max, Jeff Cardoni, Jeff Russo, Perrine Virgile, Saunder Jurriaans, Spectrum, The Invisible Pilot, Tokyo Vice, Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off
Premiering tomorrow, April 4 is the Spectrum original series Long Slow Exhale created by Pam Veasey and starring Rose Rollins, Josh Lucas, Ian Harding, Samantha Bartow, Shalini Bathina, Tony Gonzalez, Lyriq Bent and Famke Janssen. The show’s original music is composed by Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, The Night Of, Lucy in the Sky, The Act) & Perrine Virgile (The Umbrella Academy). The drama, which follows a successful head coach of a competitive women’s college basketball team who finds herself in the middle of a potentially career-shattering sexual abuse scandal, will be available to stream on Spectrum.
Also premiering tomorrow is the HBO docuseries The Invisible Pilot directed by Phil Lott & Ari Mark and executive produced by themselves, Adam McKay, Todd Schulman, Craig Hodges and Jon Bryant Crawford. H. Scott Salinas (The Banker, Warrior, A Private War, The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Birth of the Dragon, Cartel Land, Baghdad Central) has composed the show’s original music. The 3-parter, which tells the true story of a charismatic, daredevil husband and father who unexpectedly jumped off a bridge in 1977, despite a seemingly happy home life and a lucrative career as a pilot, will premiere on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max. Read the rest of this entry »
Jonathan Sanford Scoring Peacock’s ‘Killing It’
Posted: April 2, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jonathan Sanford, Killing It, Peacock
Jonathan Sanford (National Champions, Teenage Bounty Hunters, As We See It, Dare Me, Good on Paper) is the composer of the new Peacock original series Killing It. The show is created by Dan Goor & Luke Del Tredici (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and stars Craig Robinson, Claudia O’Doherty, Scott MacArthur, Rell Battle, Stephanie Nogueras, Wyatt Walter and Jet Miller. The comedy revolves around an underdog pursuing the American Dream, facing obstacles in order to make it big. Read the rest of this entry »
