Record producer/songwriter Ariel Rechtshaid is making his television scoring debut on HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot. The show is developed by Joshua Safran and stars Jordan Alexander, Eli Brown, Thomas Doherty, Tavi Gevinson, Emily Alyn Lind, Zion Moreno, Evan Mock, Whitney Peak and Savannah Lee Smith. Rob Lowry serves as the music supervisor of the series, which centers on new generation of New York private school teens as they are being introduced to social surveillance nine years after the original blogger’s website went dark. Read the rest of this entry »
HBO Max’s ‘Gossip Girl’ Reboot to Feature Music by Ariel Rechtshaid
Posted: July 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ariel Rechtshaid, Gossip Girl, HBO Max
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Joseph LoDuca Scoring IMDb TV’s ‘Leverage: Redemption’
Posted: July 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: IMDb TV, Joseph LoDuca, Leverage, Leverage: Redemption
Joseph LoDuca (The Evil Dead, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Librarians, Spartacus: Blood and Sand) is returning as the composer of the new IMDb TV original series Leverage: Redemption. The show is based on TNT’s hit series Leverage and stars Noah Wyle, Beth Riesgraf, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Aldis Hodge and Aleyse Shannon. The show follows the Hitter, the Hacker, the Grifter and the Thief who – with the help of a new tech genius and corporate fixer – take on a new kind of villain. Kate Rorick is the project’s showrunner and is also executive producing the Electric Entertainment production with Dean Devlin (Independence Day, Stargate), Marc Roskin & Rachel Olschan-Wilson (The Outpost, Bad Samaritan). Read the rest of this entry »
‘How I Became a Superhero’ (‘Comment je suis devenu super-héros’)’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adrien Prévost, Comment je suis devenu super-heros, Douglas Attal, How I Became a Superhero, Netflix, Nino Vella
L’R du Trésor has released a soundtrack album for the French superhero movie How I Became a Superhero (Comment je suis devenu super-héros). The album features the film’s original score composed by Nino Vella & Adrien Prévost. Also included is the song Super-bien by Oxmo Puccino & Nemir. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. How I Became a Superhero is directed by Douglas Attal and stars Pio Marmaï, Vimala Pons, Benoît Poelvoorde, Leïla Bekhti, Swann Arlaud, Gilles Cohen, Léonie Souchaud, Camille Japy, Louis Peres and Théo Christine. The movie is set in a world where humans and superheroes coexist and revolves around a lone wolf cop who teams up with a brilliant detective to dismantle a dark organization trafficking superpowers. Read the rest of this entry »
Steven Price Scoring Will Speck’s & Josh Gordon’s ‘Distant’
Posted: July 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Distant, Josh Gordon, Steven Price, Will Speck
Steven Price (Gravity, Our Planet, Suicide Squad, Fury, Baby Driver, Over the Moon) has recently been recording his score for the upcoming sci-fi comedy Distant. The film is directed by Will Speck & Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory, Office Christmas Party) and stars Anthony Ramos, Naomi Scott and Kristofer Hivju. The movie tells the story of an asteroid miner who crash-lands on an alien planet and must contend with the challenges of his new surroundings, while making his way across the harsh terrain to the only other survivor – a woman who is trapped in her escape pod. Spenser Cohen (Extinction) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rialto’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 7, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Peter Mackie Burns, Rialto, score, Soundtrack, Valentin Hadjadj
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the Irish drama Rialto. The album features the film’s original music composed by Valentin Hadjadj (Girl, April and the Extraordinary World, Under the Stars of Paris, A Bigger World). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (or any other major digital music platforms), where you can also check out audio samples. Rialto is directed by Peter Mackie Burns and stars Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Monica Dolan, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sophie Jo Wasson, Michael Smiley and Eileen Walsh. The movie written by Mark O’Halloran based on his stage play Trade follows a man in his mid-40s who has a comfortable life in Dublin when – after the death of his father – his emotional life cracks open, and he finds himself drawn to a 19-year-old who dabbles in prostitution. Read the rest of this entry »
‘OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: July 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen, Nicolas Bedos, OSS 117 – Alerte Rouge en Afrique Noire, OSS 117: Red Alert In Black Africa, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the French spy comedy OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa (OSS 117: Alerte Rouge en Afrique Noire). The album features the film’s original score composed by director Nicolas Bedos (La Belle Epoque) and Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen (My Cousin, I Still Hide to Smoke). Also included are songs by Indy Eka, Commodores & others. The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 30 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list. A first track (Le Freak by Tessa B.) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa is directed by Bedos and stars Jean Dujardin, Pierre Niney and Fatou N’Diaye. The third installment in the OSS 117 series created by Michel Hazanavicius follows the titular French secret agent who has been sent on a mission to Africa to help out a president under attack from rebels, covertly led by his young wife. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Impossible Things’ (‘Cosas Imposibles’) Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: July 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andrés Sánchez Maher, Cosas Imposibles, Ernesto Contreras, Gus Reyes, score, Soundtrack
Plaza Mayor Company will release a soundtrack album for the Mexican comedy drama Impossible Things (Cosas Imposibles). The album features the film’s original music composed by Andrés Sánchez Maher & Gus Reyes (El Chapo, Los Espookys, Falco, Tijuana). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, July 9 and is now available for pre-order here, where you can also check out the full track list. Impossible Things is directed by Ernesto Contreras (I Dream in Another Language) and stars Benny Emmanuel and Nora Velázquez. The movie is set in a Mexico City housing complex and revolves around a woman in her 60s whose dead abusive husband continues to torment her in her head, when she strikes an unlikely friendship with a troubled 19-year-old neighbor. Read the rest of this entry »
Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross & Nick Chuba Scoring Peacock’s ‘Dr. Death’
Posted: July 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atticus Ross, Claudia Sarne, Dr. Death, Leopold Ross, Peacock
Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Soul, Gone Girl, Watchmen, Mank, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Leopold Ross (The Book of Eli, Earthquake Bird, Broken City) & Nick Chuba (Operation Varsity Blues) are scoring the new Peacock original series Dr. Death. The show is based on Wondery’s hit podcast and stars Joshua Jackson, Grace Gummer, AnnaSophia Robb, Christian Slater and Alec Baldwin. The drama is inspired by the true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a rising star in the Dallas medical community who was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed when patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for TV Land’s ‘Younger’ Released
Posted: July 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Chris Alan Lee, Paramount+, Soundtrack, TV Land, Younger
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the TV Land original series Younger. The album features a selection of songs from the show performed by artists such as Lykke Li, Ingrid Michaelson, Leon Bridges, Gemma Hayes, Zayde Wølf, Berlin & others, as well as previously unreleased tracks by series composer Chris Alan Lee (feat. Anna Dellaria) and stars Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff & Miriam Shor. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. A vinyl edition is set to be released on August 20 and will be available to pre-order on Amazon soon. Younger is created by Darren Star based on the novel of the same title by Pamela Redmond Satran and stars Foster, Debi Mazar, Duff, Shor, Nico Tortorella, Peter Hermann, Molly Bernard and Charles Michael Davis. Read the rest of this entry »
Aska Matsumiya Scoring Halle Berry’s ‘Bruised’
Posted: July 6, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Aska Matsumiya, Bruised, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Aska Matsumiya (Skate Kitchen, I’m Your Woman, Selah and the Spades, 37 Seconds) has composed a new score for the upcoming sports drama Bruised. The film marks the feature directorial of Halle Berry who also stars in the movie, alongside Adan Canto, Sheila Atim, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Shamier Anderson. The drama follows a former MMA fighter struggling to regain custody of her son and restart her athletic career. Michelle Rosenfarb wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
