Jonathan Sanford (Teenage Bounty Hunters, Good on Paper, Dare Me, Social Distance) has been tapped to score the upcoming sports drama National Champions. The film is directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Angel Has Fallen, Shot Caller, Greenland) and stars Stephan James, J. K. Simmons, Alexander Ludwig, Uzo Aduba, Timothy Olyphant, Andrew Bachelor, David Koechner, Tim Blake Nelson, Jeffrey Donovan, Kristin Chenoweth and Lil Rel Howery. The movie tells the story of a star quarterback who ignites a player’s strike 72 hours before the biggest game of the year to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect for the athletes who put their bodies and health on the line for their schools. Read the rest of this entry »
Jonathan Sanford Scoring Ric Roman Waugh’s ‘National Champions’
Posted: October 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jonathan Sanford, National Champions, On Our Way, Ric Roman Waugh
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‘Funny Face’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Funny Face, Phil Mossman, score, Soundtrack, Tim Sutton
Gardener Recordings has released a soundtrack album for the drama Funny Face. The album features the film’s original music composed by Phil Mossman (Cop Car, Donnybrook, Mr. Mercedes, Another Earth). 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. Funny Face is written and directed by Tim Sutton and stars Cosmo Jarvis, Jonny Lee Miller, Dela Meskienyar, Victor Garber, Dan Hedaya, Jeremy Bobb and Rhea Perlman. The movie revolves around two young outcasts-turned-avengers who meet in a late night bodega and form a bond that takes them on a journey of revenge through a maze-like Brooklyn in the midst of great change. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Korven Scoring Johannes Roberts’ ‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’
Posted: October 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Johannes Roberts, Mark Korven, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Mark Korven (The Witch, The Lighthouse, Them, Cube, The Terror: Infamy, In the Tall Grass) is composing the original music for the upcoming horror movie Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. The film is written an directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, The Strangers: Prey at Night) and stars Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Avan Jogia, Tom Hopper, Donal Logue and Neal McDonough. The seventh installment in the Resident Evil movie franchise based on the video game series is set in Raccoon City, now a dying Midwestern town, and follows a group of survivors who must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Tralala’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu, Philippe Katerine, Soundtrack, Tralala
Wagram Music & Cinq 7 have released a soundtrack album for the French musical comedy Tralala. The album features the original songs from the movie written by Philippe Katerine, Bertrand Belin, Dominique A, Jeanne Cherhal, Etienne Daho & Sein and performed by cast members including Mathieu Amalric, Mélanie Thierry, Maïwenn, Galatea Bellugi, Josiane Balasko, Belin himself & others. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out the full track list. Tralala written and directed by Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu follows a 48-year old singer/songwriter who discovers the music of Pat, a guitarist gone missing, and takes on his identity. Read the rest of this entry »
Randy Edelman Scoring Matt Greene-Delanghe’s ‘Skelly’
Posted: October 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Matt Greene-Delanghe, Randy Edelman, Skelly
Randy Edelman (Ghostbusters II, Dragonheart, xXx, Gettysburg, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, The Last of the Mohicans, Kindergarten Cop, While You Were Sleeping) is currently scoring the upcoming coming-of-age drama Skelly. The film is written and directed by Matt Greene-Delanghe and stars Brian Cox, Torrey DeVitto, John Palladino and Judah Abner Paul. The movie tells the story of a young boy dealing with grief after the death of his grandfather that triggers an obsession with mortality as he and his friends put together the annual haunted house. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Animal Kingdom’ Season 5 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alexis & Sam, Alexis Marsh, Animal Kingdom, score, Soundtrack, TNT
WaterTower Music has released a new soundtrack album for the TNT original series Animal Kingdom. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s fifth season composed by Alexis Marsh & Samuel Jones (Equity, We’ll Never Have Paris, Next Gen, Lila & Eve). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring the composers’ score from the first four seasons, as well as the main title theme Big Love earlier this year. Animal Kingdom is developed by Jonathan Lisco based on David Michod’s feature of the same name and Shawn Hatosy, Finn Cole, Jake Weary, and Ben Robson, Jon Beavers and Rigo Sanchez. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Newman Scoring Marc Forster’s ‘White Bird: A Wonder Story’
Posted: October 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Marc Forster, Thomas Newman, White Bird: A Wonder Story, Wonder
Thomas Newman (American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, 1917, Finding Nemo, Skyfall, Wall-E) has recently been recording his score for the upcoming drama White Bird: A Wonder Story. The film is directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace, Monster’s Ball) and stars Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren, Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, as well as Bryce Gheisar who is reprising his role as Julian Albans from Stephen Chbosky’s 2017 feature Wonder (scored by Marcelo Zarvos). The movie based on the book by R.J. Palacio is set in the same universe as the 2017 drama and centers on Julian who left Beecher Prep and is visited by his Grandmère from Paris who tells him stories of her childhood as a young Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Read the rest of this entry »
Justin Tranter to Write and Produce Songs for Paramount+’s ‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’
Posted: October 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, Justin Tranter, Paramount+
Deadline is reporting that Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Justin Tranter will write and produce new music for the upcoming Paramount+ original series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. The show developed by Annabel Oakes is a prequel to 1978’s hit feature Grease and will highlight the rise of the original four Pink Ladies – Rizzo, Jan, Marty and Frenchy – long before they had to whip into shape the clean-cut new girl from Australia. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Goldsmith at 20th’ Vol. IV’ & ‘Escape from L.A.’ 25th Anniversary Edition Soundtracks Announced
Posted: October 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies, Escape from L.A., Jerry Goldsmith, John Carpenter, score, Shirley Walker, Soundtrack, Tora! Tora! Tora!
La-La Land Records has announced two new soundtrack albums, including the fourth volume in the label’s Goldsmith at 20th series. The album features two classic scores from 20th Century Fox productions composed by Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Planet of the Apes, Chinatown, Patton): 1973’s Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies directed by John Erman and starring Cliff Robertson, Eric Shea & Pamela Franklin and 1970’s Tora! Tora! Tora! directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda & Kinji Fukasaku and starring Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, So Yamamura, James Whitmore and E.G. Marshall. The 2-CD set features Goldsmith’s Ace Eli score in mono, as well as additional music with contributions from Alexander Courage on the first disc, and the content of La-La Land’s previous Tora! Tora! Tora! score release on the second disc. Read the rest of this entry »
‘There’s Someone Inside Your House’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: October 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, Patrick Brice, score, Soundtrack, There's Someone Inside Your House, Zachary Dawes
Maisie Music Publishing will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original film There’s Someone Inside Your House. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Zachary Dawes (Big Time Adolescence, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Generation, Deep Murder, Company Town). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, October 6 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. There’s Someone Inside Your House is directed by Patrick Brice and stars Sydney Park, Théodore Pellerin, Dale Whibley, Diego Josef, Asjha Cooper, Jesse LaTourette, William MacDonald, Burkely Duffield, Sarah Dugdale, Andrew Dunbar and Markian Tarasiuk. The horror thriller is based on The New York Times bestselling book by Stephanie Perkins and follows a high school senior and the rest of her new school’s graduating class as they are being targeted by a masked killer intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the world. Read the rest of this entry »
