Brett Aplin (Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, The Gloaming Surviving Georgia, The Longest Shot) will release the first soundtrack album for the Australian family comedy series The Bureau of Magical Things. The album features selections of the composer’s original music from the show’s first season and will be released digitally on December 1, 2021. Visit Amazon to pre-order the soundtrack. Three first tracks (The Bureau of Magical Things (Credits), Lily’s Mind Wipe Fail & The Last Moments of the Match) are already available to stream/download today and can be checked out after the jump. The Bureau of Magical Things is developed by Jonathan M. Shiff & Mark Shirrefs and stars Kimie Tsukakoshi, Elizabeth Cullen, Mia Milnes, Julian Cullen, Rainbow Wedell, Jamie Carter and Christopher Sommers. Read the rest of this entry »
First Soundtrack Album for ‘The Bureau of Magical Things’ to Be Released
Posted: November 1, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Brett Aplin, Nickelodeon, score, Soundtrack, The Bureau of Magical Things
‘Stargirl’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: November 1, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Pinar Toprak, score, Soundtrack, Stargirl, The CW
The details of the new soundtrack album for the CW drama Stargirl have been revealed. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Pinar Toprak (Captain Marvel, Krypton, McMillions, Us Again, Purl, The Angel). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 2 by WaterTower Music and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music platforms. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring the composer’s score from Season 1 last year. Stargirl is developed by Geoff Johns based on the DC Comics character created by himself & Lee Moder and stars Brec Bassinger, Yvette Monreal, Anjelika Washington, Cameron Gellman, Luke Wilson, Amy Smart, Hunter Sansone, Meg DeLacy and Nick Tarabay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wolka’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: November 1, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson, Atli Orvarsson, score, Soundtrack, Wolka
INNI has released a soundtrack album for the Icelandic/Polish thriller Wolka. The album features the film’s original music composed by Atli Örvarsson (The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Defending Jacob, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Edge of Seventeen, Vantage Point, Chicago Fire, FBI). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes and other digital music services. Wolka is co-written and directed by Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson (PLOEY – You Never Fly Alone) and stars Olga Bołądź, Eryk Lubos, Bernadetta Statkiewicz, Anna Moskal, Agnieszka Makowsk and Karolina Adamczyk. The movie revolves around a woman who is released after 15 years in a Polish prison and travels to a island off the coast of Iceland with a large Polish migrant community to pursue a perfidious plan. Read the rest of this entry »
Fernando Velazquez to Score Lone Scherfig’s ‘The Movie Teller’
Posted: November 1, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fernando Velazquez, Lone Scherfig, The Movie Teller
Fernando Velazquez (The Impossible, The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, Crimson Peak, Hercules, Devil) is attached to score the upcoming drama The Movie Teller. The film will be directed by Lone Scherfig (An Education, One Day) and is set to star Bérénice Bejo and Antonio de la Torre. The movie is based on Hernán Rivera Letelier’s novel of the same title and tells the story a young girl growing up in a mining town in the heart of Chile’s Atacama desert during the 1960s, where a movie house represents the sole distraction for hundreds of working class families. Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station) & Rafa Russo (Twice Upon a Yesterday, Get Her…If You Can) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Germinal’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: November 1, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Audrey Ismaël, Germinal, score, Soundtrack
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French TV series Germinal. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Audrey Ismaël (Gloria, Angel Face, Grown Ups, Chacun pour tous). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Germinal is created by Julien Lilti based on Émile Zola’s classic 19th Century novel of the same title, directed by David Hourrègue and stars Louis Peres, Alix Poisson, Thierry Goard, Guillaume de Tonquedec, Samy Bouajila, Natacha Lindinger, Rose-Marie Perreault, Jonas Bloquet, Steve Tientcheu, Aliocha Schneider and Marilou Aussiloux. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 31, 2021)
Posted: October 31, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Man Named Scott, Amazon, Love Hard, Mark Orton, Nathan Matthew David, Netflix
Premiering on Friday, November 5, is the Netflix original film Love Hard directed by Hernán Jiménez and starring Nina Dobrev, Jimmy O. Yang, Harry Shum Jr., Darren Barnet. Mikaela Hoover, James Saito, Rebecca Staab, Matty Finochio and Heather McMahan. The movie’s original score is composed by Mark Orton (Nebraska, The Good Girl, 12 Mighty Orphans, My Old Lady, The Last Shift, People Places Things) . Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the romantic comedy, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Sky’s ‘Wolfe’ Released
Posted: October 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: score, Sky, Soundtrack, Vince Pope, Wolfe
SATV has released a soundtrack album for the Sky original drama Wolfe. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Vince Pope (No Offence, Black Mirror: Be Right Back, Tigers Are Not Afraid, Resistance, Misfits). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. Wolfe is created by Paul Abbott and stars Babou Ceesay, Amanda Abbington, Natalia Tena, Adam Long, Naomi Yang, Talitha Wing, Shaniqua Okwok and and Christine Tremarco. The series revolves around a forensic powerhouse and North England’s finest crime scene expert whose brilliance comes with an appetite for bending any rule he encounters. Read the rest of this entry »
Nainita Desai Scoring ITV’s ‘The Tower’
Posted: October 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: ITV, Nainita Desai, Patrick Harbinson, The Tower
Nainita Desai (For Sama, The Reason I Jump, American Murder: The Family Next Door, Enslaved, Sophie: A Murder in West Cor, Enemy Within, Telling Lies) has recently been scoring the new ITV series The Tower. The show is adapted by Patrick Harbinson (Homeland, Fearless) based on Post Mortem, the first in Kate London’s Metropolitan series of novels, and stars Gemma Whelan, Tahirah Sharif, Jimmy Akingbola and Emmett J. Scanlan. The 3-part crime thriller follows Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins, a former Met Police Officer, who is charged to investigate after a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and a rookie police officer on the roof, only for them to go missing. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 29, 2021)
Posted: October 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 13 Minutes, A Mouthful of Air, Antlers, Ariel Marx, Devonté Hynes, Heart of Champions, Jan Miserre, Javier Navarrete, John Gürtler, Julian Scherle, Last Night in Soho, My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission, Passing, Roman Molino Dunn, Snakehead, Steven Price, Yuki Hayashi
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the psychological horror thriller Last Night in Soho co-written and directed by Edgar Wright and starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Terence Stamp, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, Michael Ajao, Rita Tushingham and Synnøve Karlsen. The film’s original score is composed by Steven Price (Gravity, Our Planet, Fury, Over the Moon, Suicide Squad, Baby Driver, The World’s End). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today (click here for the full album details), as well as a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie by artists including Dusty Springfield, The Who, The Walker Brothers, The Kinks, The Searchers & others last week (click here for more information).
Also opening wide is the supernatural horror thriller Antlers co-written and directed by Scott Cooper and starring Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas, Graham Greene, Scott Haze, Rory Cochrane and Amy Madigan. Javier Navarrete (Pan’s Labyrinth, Wrath of the Titans, Inkheart, Byzantium, Greta, Mirrors, Hemingway & Gellhorn) has composed the film’s original music. Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Searchlight Pictures release. Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph Trapanese Tapped as Composer of Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ Season 2
Posted: October 29, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Joseph Trapanese, Netflix, The Witcher
Joseph Trapanese (Oblivion, Shadow and Bone, The Greatest Showman, Lady and the Tramp, Straight Outta Compton, The Raid: Redemption) is the new composer of the Netflix original series The Witcher. He has recently been scoring the second season of the show created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich based on the book series by Andrzej Sapkowski and starring Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra, MyAnna Buring, Mimî M Khayisa, Anna Shaffer, Mahesh Jadu, Eamon Farren, Joey Batey and Royce Pierreson. Season 2 continues the story of Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, as he journeys toward his destiny. Read the rest of this entry »
