Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the supernatural horror movie Umma. The album features the film’s original music composed by Roque Banos (Don’t Breathe, Evil Dead, In the Heart of the Sea, The Machinist, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Sexy Beast, Come Play). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 22. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music stores to stream/download the album. Umma is written and directed by Iris K. Shim and stars Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, MeeWha Alana Lee, Odeya Rush and Tom Yi. The Sam Raimi-produced movie follows a mother and her daughter living a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, she becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Umma’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: April 21, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Iris K. Shim, Roque Banos, score, Soundtrack, Umma
Mark Korven Scoring Epix’s ‘Billy the Kid’
Posted: April 21, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Billy the Kid, Epix, Mark Korven, Michael Hirst
Mark Korven (The Witch, The Lighthouse, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Cube, Them, The Terror: Infamy, In the Tall Grass) is scoring the new Epix original series Billy the Kid. The show is written by Michael Hirst (Vikings, The Tudors) and stars Tom Blyth and Daniel Webber. The adventure drama is based on the life of famous titular American outlaw, aka William H. Bonney , from his humble Irish roots, to his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Heartstopper’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 21, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Adiescar Chase, Alice Oseman, Euros Lyn, Heartstopper, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Maisie Music Publishing will release a soundtrack album for the British Netflix original series Heartstopper. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Adiescar Chase. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 22 and will be available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Heartstopper is developed by Alice Oseman based on her own graphic novels and stars Joe Locke, Kit Connor, William Gao, Yasmin Finney and Corinna Brown. The coming-of-age drama directed by Euros Lyn is being told in eight chapter and revolves around two teens who discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Sky’s ‘The Rising’ to Be Released
Posted: April 21, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Carly Paradis, score, Sky, Soundtrack, The Rising
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Sky original series The Rising. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Carly Paradis (Line of Duty, The Innocents, Sick Note, The Pembrokeshire Murders, Prime Suspect 1973). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 22 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The Rising is based on the Belgian crime thriller Hotel Beau Séjour and stars Clara Rugaard, Nenda Neururer, Solly McLeod, Daniel Ings, Emily Taaffe, Alex Lanipekun and Robyn Cara. The 8-part supernatural thriller follows a woman who discovers that has been murdered and is determined to find her killer and get justice, believing that it was someone she knew. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 21, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Isham, score, Soundtrack, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tom Gormican
Lionsgate Records will release a soundtrack album for the action comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award nominee Mark Isham (Crash, A River Runs Through It, Once Upon a Time, Little Fires Everywhere, The Accountant, Miracle). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 22 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is co-written and directed by Tom Gormican and stars Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Ike Barinholtz, Neil Patrick Harris, Jacob Scipio, Alessandra Mastronardi, Lily Sheen and Tiffany Haddish. The movie centers on the fictionalized version of Cage as he is facing financial ruin and must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan, when he is unexpectedly recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Sea Ahead’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 20, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ely Dagher, Joh Dagher, score, Soundtrack, The Sea Ahead
A soundtrack album has been released for the Lebanese drama The Sea Ahead. The album features the film’s original score composed by Joh Dagher. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The Sea Ahead is written and directed by Ely Dagher and stars Manal Issa, Roger Azar, Yara Abou Haidar, Rabih El Zaher and Fadi Abi Samra. The movie follows a a young woman who suddenly returns to her home town of Beirut after living in Paris and finds herself reconnecting with the familiar yet strange life she had once left. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Polar Bear’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 20, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alastair Fothergill, Disney Plus, Disneynature, Harry Gregson-Williams, Jeff Wilson, Polar Bear, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Disneynature documentary Polar Bear. The album features the film’s original music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, Shrek, The Martian, Mulan, Kingdom of Heaven, The Last Duel) who previously scored the studios’ Monkey Kingdom and Penguins. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 22 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Polar Bear is directed by Alastair Fothergill & Jeff Wilson, narrated by Catherine Keener and tells the story of a new mother whose memories of her own youth prepare her to navigate motherhood in the increasingly challenging world that polar bears face today. Read the rest of this entry »
DJ Muggs to Make Film Scoring Debut on Eddie Alcazar’s ‘Divinity’
Posted: April 20, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Divinity, DJ Muggs, Eddie Alcazar
Deadline is reporting that DJ Muggs (of Cypress Hill) (aka Larry Muggerud) will make his feature film scoring debut on the upcoming indie thriller Divinity. The movie is directed by Eddie Alcazar (Perfect) and stars Stephen Dorff, Jason Genao, Moises Arias, Bella Thorne, Scott Bakula, Karrueche Tran, Mike O’Hearn, Chris Santos, Danielia Maximillian, Lydia Bielen, and Emily Willis. The film follows two otherworldly brothers that are hellbent on stopping a mogul who is close to unraveling the secrets behind immortality. Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, Contagion) serves as a producer on the project. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Firestarter’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 20, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cody Carpenter, Daniel A. Davies, Firestarter, John Carpenter, Keith Thomas, Peacock, score, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for Blumhouse’s Firestarter reboot have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Carpenter (Halloween, Assault on Precint 13, Christine, The Fog), Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies who previously co-scored Blumhouse’s Halloween and Halloween Kills. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 13, 2022 by Back Lot Music and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The end titles track is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out after the jump. A physical version is also expected. Firestarter is directed by Keith Thomas and stars Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Kurtwood Smith, John Beasley, Michael Greyeyes and Gloria Reuben. The movie is based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name and revolves around a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers who fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Heffes Piano Album ‘Sudden Light’ Announced
Posted: April 20, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alex Heffes
BAFTA-nominated composer Alex Heffes will release a collection of piano performances of his themes from cinema. The album, entitled Sudden Light, features music from such films as Dear Frankie, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Queen of Katwe, Touching the Void, One Day in September, Emperor, The Elephant Queen, Earth: One Amazing Day, Hope Gap, as well as The 24th, for which he wrote two Ragtime pieces that he expanded for the record with new sections into pieces that stand alone as a homage to that style of music he really like and grew up with. Also included is Sadie’s Theme from the Hulu limited series 11/22/63. The music on the album is performed entirely by Heffes and will be released on May 6, 2022 by Silva Screen Records. Read the rest of this entry »
