Milan Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Dear White People. The album the songs from the show’s fourth and final season produced by series composer Kris Bowers (Green Book, Bridgerton, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Mrs. America, Respect, When They See Us) and performed by cast members including Logan Browning, John Patrick Amedori, Marque Richardson, Ashley Featherson, Brandon P. Bell, Joi Collier, Quei Tann, Brandon Black & others. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 22 and is now available for pre-order here. A first song (Together All the Way) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out after the jump. Columbia Records has previously released the soundtracks for the show’s first two seasons and Lionsgate Records has released an album featuring Bowers’ score from the first three seasons. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dear White People’ Vol. 4 (The Final Season) Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: September 14, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Dear White People, Kris Bowers, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
‘The Nowhere Inn’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 14, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bill Benz, score, Soundtrack, St. Vincent, The Nowhere Inn
Loma Vista Recordings will release a soundtrack album for the indie comedy The Nowhere Inn. The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) who also co-wrote the movie’s screenplay and serves a producer on the project. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, September 17 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. St. Vincent’s title song is already available to stream/download now. Check out the official music video after the jump. The Nowhere Inn is directed by Bill Benz and stars Clark herself and Carrie Brownstein. The movie follows two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent’s music, touring life, and on-stage persona. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Bates Scoring Peacock’s ‘Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol’
Posted: September 14, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, Peacock, Will Bates
Will Bates (Unbelievable, The Magicians, The Path, I Origins, Away, The Looming Tower, Another Earth) has been tapped to score the new Peacock original series Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. The show is developed by Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie based on Dan Brown’s best-selling novel of the same title and stars Ashley Zukerman, Valorie Curry, Sumalee Montano, Rick Gonzalez, Eddie Izzard and Beau Knapp. The drama follows the early adventures of young Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Stripes’ 40th Anniversary Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 14, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Elmer Bernstein, Ivan Reitman, score, Soundtrack, Stripes
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1981 comedy Stripes directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, Sean Young and John Candy. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the Columbia Pictures production composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, Airplane, Animal House, Far from Heaven), including around 10 minutes of previously unreleased music. The CD, which is limited to 2,000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Blue Velvet’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Announced
Posted: September 14, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Angelo Badalamenti, Blue Velvet, David Lynch, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced the label’s titles for Record Store Day Black Friday 2021, including a new soundtrack album for the 1986 thriller Blue Velvet written and directed by David Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern. The double LP features the content of the original soundtrack album (including the film’s original score composed and conducted by Angelo Badalamenti and songs performed by Bobby Vinton, Bill Doggett, Roy Orbison, Ketty Lester & Julee Cruise) on the first disc and previously unreleased alternate versions, improvisations and experimentations by Badalamenti (released under the title of Lumberton Firewood) on the second disc. Blue Velvet: Deluxe Edition will be released on November 26 at participating Record Store Day retailers. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nightbooks’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: September 14, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Yarovesky, Michael Abels, Netflix, Nightbooks, score, Soundtrack
Maisie Music Publishing a soundtrack album for the Netflix original film Nightbooks. The album features the movie’s original score composed by Michael Abels (Get Out, Us, Bad Education, See You Yesterday, Fake Famous, Allen v. Farrow). Also included is CHVRCHES’s cover of Gerard McMahon’s song Cry Little Sister (written for 1987’s The Lost Boys). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 15 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Nightbooks is directed by David Yarovesky and stars Winslow Fegley, Lidya Jewett and Krysten Ritter. The movie is based on J.A. White’s horror-fantasy children’s book of the same title and follows a boy obsessed with scary stories who is trapped in a wicked witch’s magical apartment and must tell a scary story every night to stay alive. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Glory’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 14, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Edward Zwick, Glory, James Horner, score, Soundtrack
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1989 war drama Glory directed by Edward Zwick and starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the TriStar Pictures production composed and conducted by James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Field of Dreams, Aliens, A Beautiful Mind) and performed by The Boys Choir of Harlem and The Hollywood Studio Symphony. The 2-CD set features the score presentation (including previously unreleased music) and source music on the first disc and the remastered original 1989 soundtrack album, as well as additional music on the second disc. The soundtrack is limited to 5,000 copies and will be available to order at noon today on the label’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Outlier’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 14, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Acorn TV, Outlier, Raymond Enoksen, score, Soundtrack
Dreamscore Records has released a soundtrack album for Outlier. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Raymond Enoksen (Atlantic Crossing, Haunted, Ice Road Rescue). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Outlier is created by Arne Berggren & Kristine Berg and stars Hanne Mathisen Haga, Benjamin Noble and Anethe Alfsvåg. The 8-part thriller follows an acclaimed young academic in London who specializes in profiling serial killers who heads back to her hometown in the Norwegian wilderness to investigate the murder of a young women and to track down the killer. Read the rest of this entry »
First Track from Alexandre Desplat’s ‘The French Dispatch’ Score Released
Posted: September 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson
ABKCO Records has released the first track from the soundtrack for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch. Available to stream/download on all major digital music services is Obituary composed the film’s composer Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water, The King’s Speech, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Godzilla, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs). Also listen to the full track after the jump. The full soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on October 22. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version and click here to order the double vinyl edition. Also check our previous article for the full album details (updated with track times). Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Korven Scoring Santiago Menghini’s Netflix Film ‘No One Gets Out Alive’
Posted: September 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mark Korven, Netflix, No One Gets Out Alive, Santiago Menghini
Mark Korven (The Witch, The Lighthouse, Them, The Terror: Infamy, Cube, In the Tall Grass) has composed the original music for the upcoming Netflix original film No One Gets Out Alive. The movie is directed by Santiago Menghini and stars Cristina Rodlo, Marc Menchaca, David Figlioli, David Barrera and Moronke Akinola. The horror thriller is based on the novel by Adam Nevill (The Ritual) and follows an immigrant in search of the American dream who finds herself in a nightmare when she’s forced to take a room in a boarding house. Jon Croker (The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, Desert Dancer) and Fernanda Coppel wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
