Anne Nikitin (American Animals, Lost Girls, Mrs. Wilson, Fate: The Winx Saga, The Pale Horse, This Beautiful Fantastic, Calibre) is scoring the upcoming Hulu limited series The Dropout. The show is based on ABC News’ podcast of the same name hosted by Rebecca Jarvis and produced by Victoria Thompson & Taylor Dunn and stars Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Kate Burton, LisaGay Hamilton, William H. Macy, Michel Gill, Elizabeth Marvel, Dylan Minnette, Laurie Metcalf, Alan Ruck, Sam Waterston and Michaela Watkins. The 6-part drama tells the story of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her attempt to revolutionize the healthcare industry after dropping out of college and starting a technology company. Read the rest of this entry »
Anne Nikitin Scoring Hulu’s ‘The Dropout’
Posted: January 19, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anne Nikitin, Hulu, The Dropout
‘Arthur Rambo’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: January 19, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arthur Rambo, Chloé Thévenin, Laurent Cantet, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the French drama Arthur Rambo. The album features the film’s original music composed by French electronic music artist Chloé Thévenin (Paris la blanche, A Decent Man, Passed by Censor). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, January 28 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A vinyl edition will also be coming out overseas. A first track (A la dérive) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out after the jump. Arthur Rambo is co-written and directed by Laurent Cantet and stars Rabah Naït Oufella, Antoine Reinartz and Sofian Khammes. The movie is set in modern Paris and follows a celebrated French-Arab author whose career detonates after his vicious online alter-ego is exposed. Read the rest of this entry »
Philip White Scoring ‘Tyler Perry’s A Madea Homecoming’
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Netflix, Philip White, Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
Composer Philip White (Jexi, Alex & Me, The Loud House Movie) is reteaming with Tyler Perry on the upcoming Netflix original film A Madea Homecoming. The movie is written and directed by Perry and stars himself in the title role, as well as Tamela Mann as Cora, David Mann as Mr. Brown and Cassi Davis Patton as Aunt Bam. Brendan O’Carroll makes a guest appearance as Agnes Brown. The 12th installment in the Madea series centers around Madea’s great-grandson’s college graduation that hits a halt as hidden secrets and family drama threaten to destroy the happy homecoming. Read the rest of this entry »
BMI: Score to Screen Panels at Sundance Film Festival Announced
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Alice, Amy Poehler, BMI, Common, David Schwartz, Lucy and Desi, Patrick Warren
BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) has announced its programming for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival today with two virtual Score to Screen panels featuring two conversations that will give an inside look at the creative process of incorporating music in film while delving into the relationship between a composer and the film’s director or producer. Grammy and Academy Award winner Common and composer Patrick Warren (The Chi) co-produced and curated the music for the drama/thriller Alice written and directed by Krystin Ver Linden and starring Keke Palmer, Common himself, Jonny Lee Miller & Gaius Charles about a brave young woman who escapes a life of slavery on a secluded Georgia plantation, only to realize that not everything is as it seems. Read the rest of this entry »David Schwartz Scoring Amy Poehler’s Amazon Documentary ‘Lucy and Desi’
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Amy Poehler, David Schwartz, Lucy and Desi
David Schwartz (Arrested Development, Northern Exposure, The Good Place, Veep, Lady Dynamite, Standing Up, Falling Down) has composed the original music for the upcoming documentary Lucy and Desi. The film is directed by Amy Poehler and centers on the remarkable personal and professional partnership between comedian Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz (also explored in Aaron Sorkin’s narrative feature Being the Ricardos). Poehler is also producing Imagine Documentarties production with Michael Rosenberg, Justin Wilkes (Mars, Julia), Nigel Sinclair (End of Watch, The Way Bakc) and Jeanne Elfant Festa & Mark Monroe (Pavarotti, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart). Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘La Vie en Rose’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Gunning, La Môme, La Vie en Rose, Olivier Dahan, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 2007 biographical drama La Vie en Rose (La Môme) directed by Olivier Dahan and starring Marion Cotillard (who received an Academy Award for her performance as Edith Piaf), Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gerard Depardieu and Clotilde Courau. The 15th Anniversary Edition features the expanded and remastered original score from the movie composed and conducted by Christopher Gunning (Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Grace of Monaco, Under Suspicion), including over 40 minutes of previously unreleased music. Visit the label’s official website to order the limited edition CD, for more details and to check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Isobel Waller-Bridge to Score Apple TV+’s ‘Roar’
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Carly Mensch, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Liz Flahive, Roar
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, Vita & Virginia, Vanity Fair, The Split, The ABC Murders) has been tapped to score the upcoming Apple TV+ anthology series Roar. The show is created by Liz Flahive & Carly Mensch (GLOW) and stars Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Meera Syal, Fivel Stewart and Kara Hayward. The comedy based on a book of short stories by Cecelia Ahern is being described as “a collection of eight half-hour genre-bending episodes, told from a uniquely female point of view.” Read the rest of this entry »
‘Farewell Mr. Haffmann’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 18, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adieu Monsieur Haffmann, Christophe Julien, Farewell Mr. Haffmann, Fred Cavaye, score, Soundtrack
Pathé Films has released a soundtrack album for the French drama Farewell Mr. Haffmann (Adieu Monsieur Haffmann). The album features the film’s original music is composed by Christophe Julien (Bye Bye Morons, Delicious, Nothing to Hide, See You Up There). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Farewell Mr. Haffmann is directed by Fred Cavayé and stars Daniel Auteuil, Gilles Lellouche and Sara Giraudeau. The movie is set in Paris during the 1940s and tells the story of an ordinary man who wants to start a family with the woman he loves and is forced to strike a deal with his employer, a talented Jewish jeweler. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Halpern Scoring John Patton Ford’s ‘Emily the Criminal’
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Emily the Criminal, John Patton Ford, Nathan Halpern
Nathan Halpern (The Rider, Swallow, One Percent More Humid, Minding the Gap, In the Same Breath, Rich Hill) ) has composed the original score for the upcoming thriller Emily the Criminal. The film is written and directed by John Patton Ford and stars Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Megalyn Echikunwoke and Gina Gershon. The movie follows a young woman saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record who gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Exposing Muybridge’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chad Cannon, Exposing Muybridge, Marc Shaffer, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media’s Reality Bytes has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Exposing Muybridge. The album features the film’s original music composed by Chad Cannon (American Factory, Paper Lanterns, Devil’s Tree: Rooted Evil, Chalk It Up). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples.Exposing Muybridge is directed by Marc Shaffer and centers on English photographer Eadweard Muybridge who lived the lives of a dozen men before capturing a galloping horse in a transformational series of photos one fateful day on Leland Stanford’s farm. Read the rest of this entry »
