Over the last few days, Chanda Dancy (The Defeated, Dramarama, Everything Before Us, After We Leave) has recorded her score for the upcoming Korean war drama Devotion. The film is directed by J.D. Dillard (Sleight, Sweetheart) and stars Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Joe Jonas, Thomas Sadoski, Serinda Swan, Daren Kagasoff, Spencer Neville and Nick Hargrove. The movie is based on the bestselling book Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice by Adam Makos and tells the story of two U.S. Navy fighter pilots who are initiated together into the VF-32 squadron and pushed to their limits and whose friendship is tested when one of them is shot down behind enemy lines. Read the rest of this entry »
Chanda Dancy Scoring J.D. Dillard’s ‘Devotion’
Posted: November 8, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chanda Dancy, Devotion, J.D. Dillard
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‘Freaks Out’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 8, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Freaks Out, Gabriele Mainetti, Michele Braga, score, Soundtrack
Carosello Records has released a soundtrack album for the Italian fantasy drama Freaks Out. The album features the film’s original music composed by Michele Braga (Dogman, Rose Island, Blessed Madness, Shadows, The Bad Poet, Nevia) and the movie’s director Gabriele Mainetti (They Call Me Jeeg). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Freaks Out is written and directed by Mainetti and stars Claudio Santamaria, Aurora Giovinazzo, Pietro Castellitto, Giancarlo Martini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Max Mazzotta and Franz Rogowski. The movie is set in 1943 Rome and follows four circus performers who are left to their own devices when the Eternal City is bombed by Allied Forces. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 7, 2021)
Posted: November 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Dexter: New Blood, Disney Plus, Home Sweet Home Alone, John Debney, Joshua Moshier, Kurt Farquhar, Paramount+, Pat Irwin, Showtime, The Game, The Shrink Next Door
Premiering today is the Showtime limited series Dexter: New Blood developed by Clyde Phillips based on the Dexter novels created by Jeff Lindsay and starring Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Jack Alcott, Julia Jones. Johnny Sequoyah, Alano Miller and Clancy Brown. The show’s original score is composed by Pat Irwin (The Good Cop, Feed the Beast, But I’m a Cheerleader, Nurse Jackie, Bored to Death). The crime drama also features additional music by late composer Daniel Licht who scored the original Dexter series. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 10-part series, which will air every Sunday night on Showtime.
Premiering on Thursday, November 11 is Paramount+’s reboot of The CW’s & BET’s The Game created by Mara Brock Akil and starring Wendy Raquel Robinson, Hosea Chanchez, Adriyan Rae, Vaughn Hebron, Analisa Velez and Toby Sandeman. Kurt Farquhar (Black Lightning, The King of Queens, Sister, Sister, Moesha, Being Mary Jane) who scored the original series is composing the show’s original music. The drama, which features a mix of new players and original cast and follows the pro-football team as they tackle racism, sexism, classism and more as they fight for fame, fortune, respect and love, will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Army of Thieves’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Army of Thieves, Hans Zimmer, Matthias Schweighöfer, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Steve Mazzaro
The full details of the soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Army of Thieves have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Hans Zimmer (Inception, The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Dune, The Lion King) & Steve Mazzaro (The Boss Baby, The Rhythm Section, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run). The soundtrack will be released digitally this coming Friday, November 12 by Milan Records and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Army of Thieves is directed by Matthias Schweighöfer and stars himself, alongside Nathalie Emmanuel, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Guz Khan, Jonathan Cohen, Noémie Nakai, Andreas “Nowi” Nowak, Dan Bradford, Christian Steyer, Tonya Graves and Trent Garrett. The Army of the Dead prequel produced by Zack Snyder follows small-town bank teller Dieter as he gets drawn into the adventure of a lifetime when a mysterious woman recruits him to join a crew of Interpol’s most wanted criminals, attempting to heist a sequence of safes across Europe. The film premiered last month and is now available to stream on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Albums for Netflix’s ‘League of Legends’ Series ‘Arcane’ Announced
Posted: November 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Arcane, League of Legends, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Q&A Media’s Venice Music will release multiple soundtrack albums for the Netflix animated series Arcane, based on Riot Games’ League of Legends. Three first songs from Act I of the show (Playground by Bea Miller, Our Love by Curtis Harding & Jazmine Sullivan and Goodbye by Ramsey) are already being released today. Another song featured in Act II (Enemy by Imagine Dragons & JID) has been released last week (check out the official music video after the jump). The full soundtrack album, which also features tracks by Bones UK, Woodkid, Sting, Ray Chen & others will be coming out on November 20 (visit Amazon to stream/download). Also coming out our three separate albums featuring the show’s original score written by composers such as Mako (aka Alex Seaver), Alexander Temple, Cameron Stone, Adam Michalak, Kelci Hahn, and Jett Galindo. The first album featuring the score from Act I is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and other digital music stores) and two more score albums will be coming over the next two weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
‘One Shot’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Austin Wintory, James Nunn, One Shot, score, Soundtrack
T-65b Records has released a soundtrack album for the action thriller One Shot. The album features the film’s original music composed by Grammy Award nominee Austin Wintory (Journey, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, Captain Abu Raed, Grace, The Banner Saga, Little Help). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. One Shot is directed by James Nunn and stars Scott Adkins, Ashley Greene Khoury and Ryan Phillippe. The movie follows an elite squad of Navy SEALs and a junior CIA analyst who must retrieve a detainee from a CIA black site island prison in an effort to prevent a terrorist attack on Washington D.C. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan Romer Scoring Pixar’s ‘Ciao Alberto’
Posted: November 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ciao Alberto, Dan Romer, Disney Plus, Luca, Pixar
Dan Romer (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Superman & Lois, Maniac, Beasts of No Nation, The Good Doctor) has recently scored Pixar Animation Studios’ short Ciao Alberto. The film is directed by McKenna Harris and features the voices of Jack Dylan Grazer, Marco Barricelli and Jacob Tremblay who reprise their roles from Pixar’s feature Luca. The short follows Alberto as he is enjoying his new life in Portorosso working alongside Massimo, the imposing, tattooed, one-armed fisherman of few words. Matt DeMartini is producing the project and Enrico Casarosa & Kiri Hart serve as executive producers. Read the rest of this entry »
Green Day’s Original Song ‘Holy Toledo!’ from ‘Mark, Mary & Some Other People’ Released
Posted: November 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Green Day, Hannah Marks, Mark Mary & Some Other People
Crush Music Media has released the original song Holy Toledo! from the romantic comedy Mark, Mary & Some Other People. The track written and performed by Green Day is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services (including Amazon) and can also be checked out below. Mark, Mary & Some Other People written and directed by Hannah Marks and stars Ben Rosenfield, Hayley Law, Odessa A’Zion, Nik Dodani, Matt Shively, Sofia Bryant, Lea Thompson and Gillian Jacobs. The movie centers on two newlyweds who reluctantly decide to give ethical non-monogamy a try as their lives get increasingly complicated. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 5, 2021)
Posted: November 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andre Matthias, Austin Wintory, Dangerous, David Sardy, Eternals, Finch, Gaza mon amour, Gustavo Santaolalla, Ida Red, Jonny Greenwood, Mark, Mary & Some Other People, One Shot, Patrick Stump, Ramin Djawadi, Red Notice, Spencer, Steve Jablonsky, Todd Bryanton
Opening in theaters nationwide today is the superhero movie Eternals directed by Chloe Zhao and starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Angelina Jolie, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Barry Keoghan and Kit Harington. The film’s original score is composed by Ramin Djawadi (Games of Thrones, Iron Man, Westworld, Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans, A Wrinkle in Time). Hollywood Records and Marvel Music have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music, as well as the original song Nach Mera Hero performed by Celina Sharma earlier this week. Check out our our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Marvel Studios production.
Also opening wide in around 1,000 theaters today is the biographical drama Spencer directed by Pablo Larraín and starring Kristen Stewart, Jack Farthing, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins and Sean Harris. Jonny Greenwood (Phantom Thread, There Will Be Blood, Inherent Vice, The Master, The Power of the Dog, You Were Never Really Here) has composed the film’s original music. Mercury KX will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score digitally next week and physically in 2022. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details, to listen to a track and for more information about the Neon release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Little Ellen’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: November 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Dara Taylor, HBO Max, Jason Blackman, Jason Nesmith, Little Ellen, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack EP for the HBO Max animated series Little Ellen. The EP features four songs from the show’s first season written and produced by composed by Jason Blackman (who also serves as a producer and writer on the project) & Jason Nesmith (Teen Titans Go!), including the theme song (co-written/produced with score composer Dara Taylor (The Tender Bar, Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Echo Boomers), and performed by voice cast members Laurel Emory, Rocco Morris, Johanna Colon and JeCobi Swain. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other digital music services. Also listen to all four tracks after the jump. Little Ellen is created by Kevin A. Leman II & Jennifer Skelly and explores the world through the eyes of a seven-year-old Ellen DeGeneres and follows the character on her adventures in her musical hometown of New Orleans. Read the rest of this entry »
