Quartet Records has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish/French horror movie The Grandmother (La abuela). The album features the film’s original music composed by Fatima Al Qadiri (Atlantics). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. A vinyl edition is available to order on Amazon and the label’s official website. The Grandmother is directed by Paco Plaza (REC), written by Carlos Vermut and stars Almudena Amor and Vera Valdez. The Apache Films production follows a Paris model who returns to Madrid where her grandmother who had brought her up, just had a stroke and whose stay with her relative turns into a waking nightmare. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Grandmother’ (‘La abuela’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 1, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Fatima Al Qadiri, La abuela, Paco Plaza, score, Soundtrack, The Grandmother
Mondo Boys Scoring Alejandro Brugués’ ‘The Last Will and Testament of Charles Abernath’
Posted: January 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alejandro Brugués, Mondo Boys, Netflix, The Last Will and Testament of Charles Abernath
Mondo Boys (She Dies Tomorrow, Fatman, The Girlfriend Experience, Phoenix Forgotten, Silk Road) are scoring the upcoming Netflix original film The Last Will and Testament of Charles Abernath. The movie is directed by Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead) and stars Bob Gunton, Rachel Nichols, Austin Stowell, Briana Middleton, David Walton, Reese Alexander and Peyton List. The horror film follows a billionaire who, on the eve of his 75th birthday, invites his four estranged children back home out of fear that tonight someone – or something – is coming to kill him and puts each of their inheritances on the line to ensure his family will help protect him. Read the rest of this entry »
ericdoa’s ‘sad4whattt’ and James Blake’s & Labrinth’s ‘Pick Me Up’ from ‘Euphoria’ Season 2 Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ericdoa, Euphoria, HBO, James Blake, Labrinth
Interscope Records has released two more songs from the soundtrack for the second season of the HBO original series Euphoria. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms are the tracks sad4whattt written and performed by ericdoa and (Pick Me Up) Euphoria by James Blake ft. series composer Labrinth. Listen to both songs after the jump. A full soundtrack album featuring both tracks, Lana Del Rey’s Watercolor Eyes, Tove Lo’s How Long & more will be released on February 25 (click here to order the CD version). Check back on this page for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Cops and Robbers Story’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Cops and Robbers Story, Ilinca Calugareanu, Ruben De Gheselle, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media’s Reality Bytes has released a soundtrack album for the documentary A Cops and Robbers Story. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ruben De Gheselle (Clara Sola). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. A Cops and Robbers Story is directed by Ilinca Calugareanu and centers on Corey Pegues who was embroiled in a life of crime as a member of New York City’s infamous Supreme Team gang in the 1980s and fled the city, only to return years later as a rising star in the NYPD. Read the rest of this entry »
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez to Write Original Songs for Hulu Musical Series ‘Up There’
Posted: January 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Hulu, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Up There
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (Frozen, WandaVision, The Book of Mormon) are writing original songs for the upcoming Hulu original series Up There. The romantic comedy musical is set in New York City in the waning days of 1999 and tells the story of one ordinary couple, as they fall in love and discover that the single greatest obstacle to finding happiness together might just be themselves. The show is written by Steven Levenson (tick, tick… BOOM!, Dear Evan Hansen) (who also serves as the project’s showrunner) & Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton, Fosse/Verdon). Read the rest of this entry »
Hildur Guðnadóttir to Score Sarah Polley’s ‘Women Talking’
Posted: January 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hildur Guðnadóttir, Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene) has been hired to score the upcoming drama Women Talking. The film is written and directed by Sarah Polley (Away from Her, Take This Waltz) and stars Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Sheila McCarthy, Judith Ivey, Michelle McLeod, August Winter, Liv McNeil, Kate Hallett and Ben Whishaw. The movie is based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Miriam Toews and follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Perfect Enemy’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: January 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Perfect Enemy, Alex Baranowski, Kike Maillo, score, Soundtrack
Sight Unseen will release a soundtrack album for the psychological thriller A Perfect Enemy. The album features the film’s original score composed by Alex Baranowski (The Windmere Children, True Things, A Christmas Carol, Staged). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 11 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (End Credits) is already available to stream/download now. A Perfect Enemy is co-written and directed by Kike Maillo and stars Athena Strates, Tomasz Kot and Marta Nieto. The movie follows a successful architect who meets a mysterious young woman after missing his flight and strikes up a conversation that grows stranger and more twisted until it turns deadly. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 30, 2022)
Posted: January 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Apple TV +, Gilad Benamram, Hulu, Matt Novack, Matthew Margeson, Murderville, Netflix, Pam & Tommy, Reacher, Showtime, Suspicion, Tony Morales, Vernon Reid, We Need to Talk About Cosby
Premiering tonight is the Showtime original docuseries We Need to Talk About Cosby directed by W. Kamau Bell about Bill Cosby’s descent from “America’s Dad” to alleged sexual predator. . The film’s original music is composed by Vernon Reid (of Living Colour) (Paid in Full, Free Angela and all Political Prisoners). The 4-parter, which features interviews with comedians, journalists and Cosby survivors about the man, his career and his crimes, premiered last week at the 2022 Sundance Festival and will debut exclusively on Showtime.
Premiering on Wednesday, February 2, is the Hulu limited series Pam & Tommy developed by Robert Siegel & DV DeVincentis and starring Lily James, Sebastian Stan, Seth Rogen, Nick Offerman, Taylor Schilling, Andrew Dice Clay, Spencer Granese, Pepi Sonuga and Mozhan Marnò. Matthew Margeson (Rocketman, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Eddie the Eagle, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 8-part drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »
Gilad Benamram Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Suspicion’
Posted: January 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Gilad Benamram, Suspicion
Gilad Benamram (Fauda, Bard of Blood, The Girl on the Train, Club Life) is the composer of the new Apple TV+ original series Suspicion. The show is developed by Rob Williams (The Victim) based on the Israeli series False Flag and stars Uma Thurman, Kunal Nayyar, Noah Emmerich, Georgina Campbell, Elyes Gabel, Elizabeth Henstridge, Tom Rhys-Harries and Angel Coulby. The 8-part thriller follows four seemingly ordinary British citizens trying to prove their innocence when the son of a prominent American businesswoman is kidnapped at the New York hotel in which they are staying. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for BBC’s & PBS Masterpiece’s ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ TV Series to Be Released
Posted: January 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Around the World in 80 Days, BBC, Christian Lundberg, Hans Zimmer, PBS, score, Soundtrack
Decca Records will release a soundtrack album for the new television adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic novel Around the World in 80 Days. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Christian Lundberg (Snatch, Earth at Night in Color, Eleven Eleven) for Bleeding Fingers Music. Also included the series’ theme by Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Inception, Dune) and Lundberg. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 30 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Around the World in 80 Days is developed by Ashley Pharoah & Caleb Ranson and stars David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma and Leonie Benesch. Read the rest of this entry »
