2021 Emmy Awards Nominations Announced

Posted: July 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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emmysThe nominations for the 73rd Emmy Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories:

Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score):

Bridgerton – “Diamond Of The First Water” – Kris Bowers
Lovecraft Country – “Rewind 1921” – Laura Karpman & Raphael Saadiq
The Crown – “The Balmoral Test” – Martin Phipps
The Handmaid’s Tale – “The Crossing” – Adam Taylor
The Mandalorian – “Chapter 16: The Rescue” – Ludwig Goransson
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Expanded ‘Somewhere in Time’ Soundtrack Album Announced

Posted: July 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1980 romantic drama Somewhere in Time directed by Jeannot Szwarc and starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer. The album features the expanded and remastered original music composed and conducted by Academy Award winner John Barry (Dances with Wolves, Goldfinger, Out of Africa, Body Heat, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy). The soundtrack features previously unreleased score cues and additional music, including the music box arrangement of Rachmaninoff Rhapsody, Barry’s original music for Elise’s stage show & more. The CD, which is limited to 5,000 copies, will be available to order on the label’s official website at 12:00 PST today. Read the rest of this entry »

Soundtrack Album for National Theatre’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ to Be Released

Posted: July 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums
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National Theatre will release a soundtrack album for the organization’s film production of Romeo & Juliet. The album features the drama’s original music composed by Michael Bruce. The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 6 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Romeo & Juliet is directed by Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin, adapted for television by Emily Burns and stars Jessie Buckley, Josh O’Connor, Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati and Deborah Findlay. The filmed version of William Shakespeare’s classic play about two young lovers who strive to transcend a world of violence and hate was shot last year over the course of three weeks at National’s Lyttelton theater. Read the rest of this entry »

Jerry Goldsmith’s Complete ‘Extreme Prejudice’ Score to Be Released

Posted: July 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1987 neo-western Extreme Prejudice directed by Walter Hill and starring Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, María Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn, William Forsythe, and Clancy Brown. The album features the complete and remastered original score composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Total Recall, Planet of the Apes, Poltergeist, Chinatown, Patton), including previously unreleased music. Visit the label’s official website to order the 2-CD set, which includes the complete score on the first disc and the content of the original 1987 soundtrack album on the second disc, to check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. The album will also be available to order on Amazon soon. Read the rest of this entry »

Clinton Shorter Scoring Joe Carnahan’s ‘Copshop’

Posted: July 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Composer Clinton Shorter (District 9, Pompeii, The Expanse, Contraband, Colony) is reuniting with director Joe Carnahan (Narc, The Grey, The A-Team) on the upcoming action thriller Copshop. The film starring Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, Ryan O’Nan, Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau and Toby Huss follows a wily con artist who is on the run from a lethal assassin and devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station, where an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs. Read the rest of this entry »

‘The Forgotten Battle’ Soundtrack Album Released

Posted: July 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Riva Media Records has released a soundtrack album for the Dutch historical drama The Forgotten Battle (De Slag om de Schelde). The album features the film’s original music composed by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Rocks, Censor, Only You, Tiger Orange). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. The Forgotten Battle is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen and stars Gijs Blom, Susan Radder, Jamie Flatters and Tom Felton. The movie chronicles the Battle of the Scheldet, the bloody but crucial battle that claimed ten thousand lives during World War II, but secured supply lines for the Allied forces’ push to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. Read the rest of this entry »

Carter Burwell to Score Kevin Frakes’ ‘The Alchemist’

Posted: July 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Carter Burwell (Fargo, Carol, True Grit, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Twilight, In Bruges) is attached to score the upcoming drama The Alchemist. The film marks the directorial debut of producer Kevin Frakes (Hereditary, Laggies) and will star Sebastian de Souza, Tom Hollander, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jordi Molla, Youssef Kerkour and Ashraf Barhom. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Paulo Coelho and tells the story of a young Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago on an epic quest for life-changing treasure. Read the rest of this entry »

BMI Announces Winners of 37th Annual Film, TV & Visual Media Awards

Posted: July 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Today, BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc) announced its 37th annual Film, TV & Visual Media Awards celebrating the top-performing composers in film, TV and visual media of the previous year. Among the honorees, which were revealed across BMI’s social media and digital platforms, are Atli Örvarsson who received six awards for NBC’s Chicago P.D., Chicago Med and Chicago Fire, CBS’ FBI and FBI: Most Wanted, and the Apple TV+ limited series series Defending Jacob, Mark Mothersbaugh who was honored with five BMI Awards for Bravo’s Dirty John, FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, Netflix’s Tiger King and the features The Willoughbys and The Croods: A New Age, as well as Mark Isham who earned four crystals this year for his work on the movies Judas and the Black Messiah, Honest Thief, Togo and the Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »

Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ Released

Posted: July 11, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music Albums
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WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the HBO limited series The White Lotus. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Utopia, The Third Day, The Girl with All the Gifts, Hunters, National Treasure). Visit Amazon or any other digital music service to stream/download the soundtrack and listen to a first track after the jump. The White Lotus is created, written and directed by Mike White and stars Murray Barlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Hechinger, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Lacy, Brittany O’Grady, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney and Steve Zahn. Thesocial satire is set at an exclusive Hawaiian resort and follows the vacations of various hotel guests over the span of a week as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Cardoni Scoring Trent O’Donnell’s ‘Ride the Eagle’

Posted: July 11, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Jeff Cardoni (Silicon Valley, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, The Kominsky Method, CSI: Miami) has recently scored the upcoming indie comedy Ride the Eagle. The film is directed by Trent O’Donnell (No Activity, The Moodys) and stars Jake Johnson, Susan Sarandon, J.K. Simmons and D’Arcy Carden. The movie follows a man who – after his estranged mother leaves him a “conditional inheritance” following her death – has to complete her elaborate and sometimes dubious to-do list vefore he can move into her picturesque Yosemite cabin. Read the rest of this entry »

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