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 »
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
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‘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 »
Mark Kilian Scoring John Pogue’s ‘Eraser: Reborn’
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eraser: Reborn, John Poque, Mark Kilian
Composer Mark Kilian (Tsotsi, Pitch Perfect, Eye in the Sky, Traitor, Rendition, The Ward, Official Secrets) is reuniting with director John Pogue (The Quiet Ones) on the upcoming action thriller Eraser: Reborn. The film is a reboot of Chuck Russell’s 1996 feature Eraser (scored by Alan Silvestri) and stars Dominic Sherwood, Jacky Lai, McKinley Belcher III and Eddie Ramos. The movie follows a U.S. Marshal who specializes in engineering the fake deaths of witnesses that need to leave no trace of their existence. Michael Weiss (Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Butterfly Effect 2) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dead Asleep’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dead Asleep, Hulu, Rob Lewis, score, Skye Borgman, Soundtrack
Rob Lewis has released a soundtrack album for the Hulu original documentary Dead Asleep. The album features the composer’s original music from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon (or any other major digital music services), where you can also check out audio clips. Dead Asleep is directed by Skye Borgman (Abducted in Plain Sight) and explores the case of Randy Herman Jr., a young Florida man convicted of murdering his roommate…while sleepwalking. The Pulse Films production features footage of Herman and his family, the defense and prosecution attorneys, forensic psychiatrists, journalists who covered the case, and world experts in violent parasomnia. Read the rest of this entry »
Este Haim & Chris Stracey Scoring Cooper Raiff’s ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cha Cha Real Smooth, Chris Stracey, Cooper Raiff, Este Haim
Este Haim (of HAIM) & Chris Stracey have made their feature film scoring debut on the upcoming comedy drama Cha Cha Real Smooth. The film is written and directed by Cooper Raiff (Shithouse) and stars Dakota Johnson, Raiff himself, Vanessa Burghardt, Evan Assante, Brad Garrett and Leslie Mann. The movie revolves around a young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host and strikes up a friendship with a mother and her autistic daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Butcher’s Daughter’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 17, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arthur Simonini, Christopher Thompson, score, Soundtrack, Tendre et saignant, The Butcher's Daughter
L’Inlassable Disque has released a soundtrack album for the French romantic comedy The Butcher’s Daughter (Tendre et saignant). The album features the film’s original music composed by Arthur Simonini (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Hibou). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. The Butcher’s Daughter is directed by Christopher Thompson and stars Arnaud Ducret, Géraldine Pailhas, Stéphane de Groodt and Alison Wheeler. The movie follows a fashion magazine editor who inherits a butcher shop from her family that she wants to sell, when the boss’s former clerk decides to fight to get the business back. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 16, 2022)
Posted: January 16, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amanda Jones, Amazon, AMC, As We See It, Freeform, HBO, How I Met Your Father, Hulu, Jeff Cardoni, John R. Graham, Jonathan Sanford, Keir Schmidt, La Fortuna, Netflix, Roque Banos, Ryan Lott, Single Drunk Female, Somebody Somewhere, The Royal Treatment
Premiering tonight is the HBO original series Somebody Somewhere created by Hannah Bos & Paul Thureen and starring Bridget Everett, Jeff Hiller, Mary Catherine Garrison, Mike Hagerty, Danny McCarthy, Murray Hill add Jon Hudson Odom. The show’s original score is composed by Amanda Jones (Naomi, Twenties, Good Trouble, Adventure Time: Distant Lands, Cherish the Day). The comedy, which centers on a true Kansan on the surface who struggles to fit the hometown mold, will air every Sunday night on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Premiering on Tuesday, January 18, is the Hulu original series How I Met Your Father developed by Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and starring Hilary Duff, Kim Cattrall, Francia Raisa, Chris Lowell, Suraj Sharma, Tom Ainsley and Tien Tran. Jeff Cardoni (Silicon Valley, The Kominsky Method, CSI: Miami, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Heels) is composing the show’s original score. Check out our previous news article for more information about the How I Met Your Mother sequel, which will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Last Train to Christmas’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 16, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anne Nikitin, Julian Kemp, Last Train to Christmas, score, Sky, Soundtrack
SATV has released a soundtrack album for the British holiday comedy drama Last Train to Christmas. The album features the film’s original score composed by Anne Nikitin (American Animals, Fate: The Winx Saga, Lost Girls, This Beautiful Fantastic, Calibre, Mrs. Wilson, Untouchable). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music services), where you can also check out audio samples. Last Train to Christmas is written and directed by Julian Kemp and stars Michael Sheen, Nathalie Emmanuel and Cary Elwes. The movie is set in 1985 and follows a nightclub manager and local celebrity who is engaged to a much younger woman as he embarks upon the 3:17 to Nottingham for a Christmas family reunion. Read the rest of this entry »
