Michael Kiwanuka has recorded the original song Beautiful Life for the new Netflix documentary Convergence: Courage in a Crisis. The track is written and performed by the Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter and will be featured in the film directed by Academy Award winner Orlando von Einsiedel (The White Helments, Virgunga) who spotlights a cross-section of global citizens in the COVID-19 crisis. A first clip from the song is featured in the trailer embedded after the jump. The director’s regular composer Patrick Jonsson (Black Earth Rising, On Her Shoulders) has written the original score for the movie, which spans eight countries and nine individual stories and reveals the power of compassion and community in the face of a crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix’s ‘Convergence: Courage in a Crisis’ to Feature Original Song by Michael Kiwanuka and Score by Patrick Jonsson
Posted: September 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Convergence: Courage in a Crisis, Michael Kiwanuka, Netflix, Orlando von Einsiedel, Patrick Jonsson
Randy Edelman to Score Anthony & Claire Bueno’s ‘Too Hot to Handle: Remembering Ghostbusters II’
Posted: September 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anthony Bueno, Claire Bueno, Randy Edelman, Too Hot to Handle: Remembering Ghostbusters II
Randy Edelman (Dragonheart, The Last of the Mohicans, xXx, Gettysburg Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Kindergarten Cop, While You Were Sleeping) has been hired to score the upcoming documentary Too Hot to Handle: Remembering Ghostbusters II. The film is directed by Anthony & Claire Bueno (Cleanin’ Up The Town) and centers on the making-of the 1989 sequel. The movie will feature interviews with director/producer Ivan Reitman, stars Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson & Sigourney Weaver, producers Joe Medjuck & Michael C. Gross and ILM’s Dennis Muren. Claire Bueno is also producing the project and Laurence Gornall is executive producing for Unannounced Films. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Apple TV+’s ‘Wolfboy and the Everything Factory’ Released
Posted: September 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Clap! Clap!, score, Soundtrack, Wolfboy and the Everything Factory, Xav Clarke
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ animated series Wolfboy and the Everything Factory. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed Xav Clarke (Elliot from Earth), as well as the theme song Excaliboom by Clap! Clap! (aka Cristiano Crisci). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other major digital music services. Wolfboy and the Everything Factory is inspired by the work of visual artist Toff Mazery, co-created by Edward Jesse, developed by Michael Ryan, executive produced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and features the voices of Kassian Akhtar, Archie Yates, Lilly Williams, Cristina Milizia and Gordon-Levitt himself. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Pemberton Scoring National Geographic’s Disney+ Series ‘Welcome to Earth’
Posted: September 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Pemberton, Disney Plus, National Geographic, Welcome to Earth
Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Steve Jobs, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Birds of Prey, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Enola Holmes, Ocean’s 8) is composing the original music for National Geopgrahic’s upcoming Disney+ docuseries Welcome to Earth. The show is hosted by Will Smith and follows the actor/filmmaker on an extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime adventure around the world to explore Earth’s greatest wonders and reveal its most hidden secrets. In each episode, he is guided by elite explorers to get up close and personal with some of the most thrilling spectacles on the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Boy Behind the Door’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anton Sanko, David Charbonier, Justin Powell, score, Soundtrack, The Boy Behind the Door
Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Boy Behind the Door. The album features the film’s original music composed by Anton Sanko (Rabbit Hole, The Possession, The Half of It, Big Love, Ouija, The Seagull). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. The Boy Behind the Door is written and directed by Justin Powell & David Charbonier and stars Lonnie Chavis, Ezra Dewey, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Scott Michael Foster and Micah Hauptman. The movie follows a twelve-year-old boy and his best friend who are abducted on their way home from school and attempt to escape their kidnapper’s house. Read the rest of this entry »
Natalie Holt to Score Adil El Arbi’s & Bilall Fallah’s ‘Batgirl’
Posted: September 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adil El Arbi, Batgirl, Bilall Fallah, HBO Max, Natalie Holt
Natalie Holt (Loki, Journey’s End, Herself, Knightfall, Beecham House, Press) has announced that she is set to compose the music for the upcoming HBO Max original movie Batgirl. The film is directed by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys for Life) and stars Leslie Grace in title role of Barbara Gordon. J. K. Simmons is attached to star as Commissioner James Gordon. No plot details have been announced yet. Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey, Bumblebee) wrote the screenplay based on the DC characters. Kristin Burr (Cruella, Dora and the Lost City of Gold) is producing the Warner Bros. Pictures production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Three Floors’ (‘Tre piani’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 27, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Franco Piersanti, Nanni Moretti, score, Soundtrack, Three Floors, Tre piani
Radiofandango has released a soundtrack album for the Italian/French drama Three Floors (Tre piani). The album features the film’s original music composed by Franco Piersanti (Me and You, The Caiman, Terraferma, Lamerica). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Three Floors is co-written and directed by Nanni Moretti and stars Riccardo Scamarcio, Margherita Buy, Alba Rohrwacher, Denise Tantucci, Anna Bonaiuto, Moretti himself, Alessandro Sperduti, Paolo Graziosi and Stefano Dionisi. The movie is based on the novel Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo and tells the story of three families living in three apartments in the same bourgeois condominium. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 26, 2021)
Posted: September 26, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ada Twist Scientist, Amazon, Bingo Hell, Black as Night, BMF, Chase Horseman, Jacques Brautbar, James S. Levine, La Brea, Meshell Ndegeocello, NBC, Netflix, Starz, Welcome to the Blumhouse
Premiering tonight is the new Starz original series BMF (Black Mafia Family) created by Randy Huggins and starring Russell Hornsby, Demetrius Flenory Jr., Michole Briana White, Da’Vinchi, Ajiona Alexus, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Myles Truitt and Steve Harris. The show’s original score is composed by Meshell Ndegeocello (Queen Sugar, Our Kind of People, Lackawanna Blues, Disappearing Acts). G-Unit Records has released the drama’s theme song Wish Me Luck by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson feat. Snoop Dogg, Moneybagg Yo and Charlie Wilson. Check out our previous article to listen to the track and to learn more about the series, which will air every Sunday on Starz.
Premiering on Tuesday, September 28, is the Netflix animated series Ada Twist, Scientist developed by Chris Nee based on Andrea Beaty’s book series and starring Amanda Christine, Nicholas Crovetti, Candace Kozak, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, Susan Kelechi Watson and Taye Diggs. Milan Records has released the show’s theme song written by Kay Hanley, Michelle Lewis & Dan Petty and performed by Renée Elise Goldsberry last month. Click here to check out the track and for more information about the series, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
50 Cent’s ‘BMF’ (‘Black Mafia Family’) Main Title Theme Song ‘Wish Me Luck’ Released
Posted: September 26, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: 50 Cent, BMF, Starz
G-Unit Records has released the opening titles song Wish Me Luck from the new Starz original series BMF (Black Mafia Family). The track is performed by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (who also serves as an executive producer on the drama) feat. Snoop Dogg, Moneybagg Yo and Charlie Wilson. The track is now available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Also check out the official lyric video below. BMF is created by Randy Huggins and starring Russell Hornsby, Demetrius Flenory Jr., Steve Harris, Da’Vinchi, Michole Briana White, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Ajiona Alexus and Myles Truitt. The drama is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the streets of Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »
James S. Levine Scoring NBC’s ‘La Brea’
Posted: September 26, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: James S. Levine, La Brea, NBC
James S. Levine (Glee, Nip/Tuck, Damages, American Horror Story, Star, Bloodline, Rizzoli & Isles) is scoring the new NBC drama La Brea. The show is created by David Appelbaum and stars Natalie Zea, Eoin Macken, Jon Seda, Nicholas Gonzalez, Karina Logue, Chiké Okonkwo, Zyra Gorecki, Veronica St. Clair, Jack Martin, Rohan Mirchandaney, Josh McKenzie, Lily Santiago and Chloe De Los Santos. The series centers on a family who is torn apart after a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths, and has to unlock the secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other. Read the rest of this entry »
