Dean McGinnes (Don’t Speak) has released a soundtrack album for the British action thriller The Gardener. The album features the composer’s original music from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music services), where you can also check out audio samples. The Gardener is directed by Scott Jeffrey & Rebecca J Matthews and stars Gary Daniels, Robert Bronzi and Nicola Wright. The movie follows an immigrant living a quiet life as a gardener at an English vacation manor who must use his soldier skills to save a family from the crew of ruthless criminals planning to attack them. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Gardener’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 25, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dean McGinnes, Rebecca Matthews, score, Scott Jeffrey, Soundtrack, The Gardener
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Lennon Stella’s ‘How I Met Your Father’ Theme Song Released
Posted: January 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: How I Met Your Father, Hulu, Lennon Stella, Leroy Clampitt, The Solids
Columbia Records has released the theme song from the new Hulu original series How I Met Your Father. The new version of the How I Met Your Mother theme song Hey Beautiful (originally written by Carter Bays & Craig Thomas as The Solids) is produced by Leroy Clampitt and performed by Lennon Stella. The track is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. How I Met Your Father is created by Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and stars Hilary Duff, Kim Cattrall, Chris Lowell, Suraj Sharma, Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley and Tien Tran. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Andrews Scoring Judd Apatow’s ‘The Bubble’
Posted: January 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Bird, Judd Apatow, Michael Andrews, Netflix, The Bubble
Composer Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko, Neighbors, Daddy’s Home, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Bad Teacher, Instant Family) is reuniting with director Judd Apatow (The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Trainwreck) on the upcoming Netflix original film The Bubble. The movie’s ensemble cast includes Karen Gillan, Iris Apatow, Fred Armisen, Maria Bakalova, Keegan-Michael Key, David Duchovny, Leslie Mann, Peter Serafinowicz and Pedro Pascal. Andrew Bird (Norman, Outside In) has also contributed original music to the comedy, which revolves around a group of actors and actresses stuck inside a pandemic bubble at a hotel attempting to complete a film. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Benedetta’ Soundtrack Album to Be Released
Posted: January 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anne Dudley, Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven, score, Soundtrack
Dubois Records will release a soundtrack album for Paul Verhoeven’s drama Benedetta. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Anne Dudley (The Full Monty, The Crying Game, Elle, American History X, Poldark, Black Book, The Hustle). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 25. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album. Benedetta is co-written and directed by Verhoeven and stars Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin and Herve Pierr. The movie is based on a true story and follows a 17th-century nun who becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice and whose shocking religious vision threaten to shake the Church to its core. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Beltrami & Miles Hankins Scoring Damien Power’s ‘No Exit’
Posted: January 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Damien Power, Hulu, Marco Beltrami, Miles Hankins, No Exit
Marco Beltrami (Logan, 3:10 to Yuma, Scream, A Quiet Place, The Wolverine, The Hurt Locker, Ford v Ferrari, Hellboy) & Miles Hankins (Nine Perfect Strangers, Long Shot, The Night Before) have teamed up to score the upcoming thriller No Exit. The film is directed by Damien Power (Killing Ground) and stars Havana Rose Liu, Danny Ramirez, David Rysdahl, Mila Harris and Dennis Haysbert. The movie centers on a young woman en route to a family emergency who is stranded by a blizzard and forced to find shelter at a highway rest area with a group of strangers, when she stumbles across an abducted girl in a van in the parking lot. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Whirlybird’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: January 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Matt Yoka, score, Soundtrack, Ty Segall, Whirlybird
Drag City has announced a soundtrack album for the documentary Whirlybird. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ty Segall. The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 22, 2022 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Story of the Century) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. Whirlybird is produced and directed by Matt Yoka and centers on a husband-and-wife helicopter news team who covered some of the Los Angeles most historic events, and in doing so changed breaking news forever. The movie explores how the pair captured the city’s recent history and shines a light on the adrenaline-fueled culture of live news. Read the rest of this entry »
Matthew Herbert Scoring BBC’s ‘The Responder’
Posted: January 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, BBC, Matthew Herbert, The Responder
Matthew Herbert (A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience, The Beast Must Die, Gloria Bell, The Cave, Port Authority, Temple) is the composer of the new BBC drama The Responder. The show is written by ex-police officer Tony Schumacher and stars Martin Freeman, Ian Hart, Adelayo Adedayo, Warren Brown, MyAnna Buring, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Emily Fairn, Josh Finan, Rita Tushingham, Elizabeth Berrington and David Bradley. The series revolves around a morally compromised and unconventional urgent response officer tackling a series of night shifts on the beat in Liverpool who is forced to take on a new rookie partner while trying to keep his head above water both personally and professionally. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Gilded Age’ Main Title Theme Released
Posted: January 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Harry Gregson-Williams, HBO, Julian Fellowes, Rupert Gregson-Williams, The Gilded Age
WaterTower Music has released the main title theme from the new HBO original series The Gilded Age. The track written by the show’s composers Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Martian, Shrek, The Last Duel, Kingdom of Heaven, Mulan) & Rupert Gregson-Williams (Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Hacksaw Ridge, Smallfoot) is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the theme after the jump. A full soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score is expected to come out later this year. The Gilded Age is written by Julian Fellowes & Sonja Warfield and stars Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Denée Benton, Taissa Farmiga, Louisa Jacobson, Simon Jones, Blake Ritson, Thomas Cocquerel, Harry Richardson, Jack Gilpin, Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 23, 2022)
Posted: January 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ABC, Amazon, Apple TV +, Batu Sener, Daniel Pemberton, Disney Plus, Finneas, Gustavo Santaolalla, Harry Gregson-Williams, HBO, HBO Max, Kevin Kiner, Nami Melumad, Neal Acree, Netflix, Promised Land, Rupert Gregson-Williams, The Afterparty, The Fallout, The Gilded Age, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, The Legend of Vox Machina, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Premiering tomorrow, January 24, is the HBO original series The Gilded Age created by Julian Fellowes and starring Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Taissa Farmiga, Denée Benton, Louisa Jacobson, Harry Richardson, Blake Ritson, Simon Jones, Jack Gilpin, Thomas Cocquerel, Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski. The show’s original music is composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Martian, Shrek, Mulan, Man on Fire, The Last Duel) & Rupert Gregson-Williams (Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Hacksaw Ridge, The Legend of Tarzan). Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama, which will air Monday nights on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Also premiering tomorrow is the ABC drama Promised Land created by Matt Lopez and starring John Ortiz, Cecilia Suárez, Christina Ochoa, Augusto Aguilera, Tonatiuh, Katya Martín, Mariel Molino, Andres Velez and Rolando Chusan. The show’s original music is composed by Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, The Book of Life, Babel, The Motorcycle Diaries) & Kevin Kiner (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch & Rebels, Peacemaker, City on a Hill, CSI: Miami). Hollywood Records has released a cover version of Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine produced by Santaolalla and performed by paopao for the series last month. Click here to listen to the track and for more information about the drama, which will every Monday on ABC and will also be available to stream on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »
Toby Chu Scoring Netflix’s ‘Fistful of Vengeance’
Posted: January 23, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fistful of Vengeance, Netflix, Roel Reine, Toby Chu
Toby Chu (Bao, Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, Covert Affairs, Found, Unforgettable, Centaurworld, Henchmen) has composed the original score for the new Netflix original film Fistful of Vengeance. The movie based on the streamer’s 2019 series Wu Assassins is directed by Roel Reiné (The Admiral, Redbad, Death Race 2) and stars Iko Uwais, Lewis Tan, Lawrence Kao, Pearl Thusi, Jason Tobin, Francesca Ploypailin Corney, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam, Simon Kook and JuJu Chan Szeto. The supernatural martial arts action thriller follows super-powered assassin Kai Jin and his friends as they track a killer from San Francisco’s Chinatown to Thailand to avenge the death of a loved one. Read the rest of this entry »
