Caitlin Yeo (Danger Close, The Rocket, The Butterfly Tree) will release a soundtrack album will be released for the documentary Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and will be released digitally tomorrow, January 20 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Playing with Sharks is directed by Sally Aitken and centers on Valerie Taylor, a living legend and icon in the underwater world whose life’s work has become the basis for much of what we know about sharks today. The Wildbear Entertainment production presented by National Geographic Films follows the ocean explorer’s trajectory from champion spearfisher to passionate shark protector and features underwater archival footage, along with interviews with Valerie herself. Read the rest of this entry »
Harry Gregson-Williams Scoring Disneynature’s ‘Polar Bear’
Posted: January 19, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alastair Fothergill, Disney Plus, Disneynature, Harry Gregson-Williams, Jeff Wilson
Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, Shrek, The Martian, The Last Duel, Kingdom of Heaven, Mulan, Man on Fire, The Equalizer) has recently scored the upcoming Disneynature documentary Polar Bear. The film is directed by Alastair Fothergill (Planet Earth, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet) & Jeff Wilson (The Mating Game) and narrated by Catherine Keener. The movie 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 »
‘Railway Heroes’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: January 19, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Min He, Railway Heroes, score, Soundtrack, Yang Feng
Plaza Mayor Company will release a soundtrack album for the Chinese war drama Railway Heroes. The album features the film’s original music composed by Min He (Summer Knight) and performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, January 21 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Railway Heroes is written and directed by Yang Feng and stars Zhang Hanyu, Fan Wei, Zhou Ye, Wei Vision and Yu Haoming. The movie is set during the late 1930s amidst the second Sino-Japanese war and chronicles the story of a group of ordinary railroad engineers, laborers and station personnel who run an underground resistance cell against the Japanese during their occupation of east China’s Shandong Province. Read the rest of this entry »
Mateo Messina to Return for Netflix’s ‘Tall Girl 2’
Posted: January 19, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Emily Ting, Mateo Messina, Netflix, Tall Girl, Tall Girl 2
Mateo Messina (Juno, Blockers, The Wrong Missy, Butter, Desperados, Superstore, Barely Lethal) is returning as the composer of the upcoming Netflix original film Tall Girl 2. The movie is directed by Emily Ting (Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, Go Back to China) and stars Ava Michelle, Griffin Gluck, Sabrina Carpenter, Anjelika Washington, Luke Eisner, Clara Wilsey, Rico Paris, Jan Luis Castellanos, Johanna Liauw, Steve Zahn and Angela Kinsey. The romantic comedy follows Jodi as she lands the lead in the school musical, until the pressure sends her confidence – and her relationship – into a tailspin. 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
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 »
‘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 »
