Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, Babel, The Book of Life, The Motorcycle Diaries, Finch) has composed the original music for the new Netflix stop-motion animated anthology special The House. The Nexus Studios production is directed by Emma de Swaef & Marc Roels, Niki Lindroth von Bahr and Paloma Baeza and features the voices of Mia Goth, Jarvis Cocker, Susan Wokoma, Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Goode, Claudie Blakley, Sven Wollter, Paul Kaye, Yvonne Lombard, Will Sharpe and Mark Heap. The animated comedy is set across different eras and follows a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady who become tied to the same mysterious house. Read the rest of this entry »
Gustavo Santaolalla Scoring Netflix’s ‘The House’
Posted: January 2, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gustavo Santaolalla, Netflix, The House
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‘An Intrusion’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 1, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: An Intrusion, Andy Nelson, Nicholas Holland, score, Soundtrack
Grief Buffet has released a soundtrack album for the home invasion thriller An Intrusion. The album features the film’s original music composed by Andy Nelson of the punk band Weekend Nachos. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. An Intrusion is written and directed by Nicholas Holland and stars Dustin Prince, Scout Taylor-Compton, Sam Logan Khaleghi, Keir Gilchrist and Billy Boyd. The movie folllows a man and his family who are being terrorized and psychologically tortured by a malicious stalker, when he starts thinking the attacks may be related to secrets he has kept from his family.. Read the rest of this entry »
Siddhartha Khosla Scoring Jason Orley’s ‘I Want You Back’
Posted: January 1, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, I Want You Back, Jason Orley, Siddhartha Khosla
Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, Runaways, Queenpins, Looking for Alaska) has composed the original score for the upcoming Amazon original movie I Want You Back. The film is directed by Jason Orley (Big Time Adolescence) and stars Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Gina Rodriguez, Scott Eastwood, Manny Jacinto and Clark Backo. The romantic comedy follows two thirty-somethings who have been dumped by their respective partners and hatch a plan to win back their exes with unexpected results. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 31, 2021)
Posted: December 31, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aaron Dessner, Anthony Chue, Bryce Dessner, G Storm, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Jockey, Munich: The Edge of War
Already playing in select theaters since this past Wednesday, December 29, is the drama Jockey co-written and directed by Clint Bentley and starring Clifton Collins Jr., Molly Parker, Moises Arias, Logan Cormier, Colleen Hartnett. The film’s original music is composed by The National’s Bryce Dessner (The Two Popes, The Kitchen) & Aaron Dessner (Cyrano, C’mon C’mon). No soundtrack album has been announced yet. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the movie, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is being distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.
Opening at New York’s Paris Theatre today before coming out in more theaters in early January and before premiering on Netflix on January 21, is the spy thriller Munich: The Edge of War directed by Christian Schwochow and starring George MacKay, Jeremy Irons, Jannis Niehwöhner, Sandra Hüller, August Diehl, Liv Lisa Fries, Erin Doherty and Martin Wuttke. Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, Vanity Fair, Vita & Virginia, The Split, The ABC Murders) has composed the film’s original music. No word yet on a soundtrack release. Check out our previous news article for more information about the movie, which premiered at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
George Fenton Scoring Richard Eyre’s ‘Allelujah’
Posted: December 31, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Allelujah, George Fenton, Richard Eyre
Composer George Fenton (Dangerous Liaisons, Groundhog Day, The Blue Planet, Anna and the King, Hitch) is reuniting with director Richard Eyre (Notes on a Scandal, Iris) on the upcoming British comedy drama Allelujah. The film is based on the stage play of the same name by Alan Bennett and stars Jennifer Saunders, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Bally Gill, Russell Tovey and David Bradley. The movie is set on a geriatric ward in Yorkshire that is on the verge of closure and and follows the hospital’s attempts to fight back by inviting a news crew to film their preparations for a concert in honor of the place’s most distinguished nurse. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Best Sellers’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 31, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Best Sellers, Lina Roessler, Paul Leonard Morgan, score, Soundtrack
Rage Music has released a soundtrack album for the comedy drama Best Sellers. The album features the film’s original music composed by Paul Leonard Morgan (Limitless, Dredd, Dynasty, Tales from the Loop, Wormwood, Walking with Dinosaurs 3D). 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. Best Sellers is directed by Lina Roessler and stars Aubrey Plaza, Michael Caine, Scott Speedman and Ellen Wong. The movie follows an ambitious editor who goes on a book tour with a bitter, booze-addled author who put the publishing house on the map decades ago in a last-ditch effort to save the boutique publishing house her father has left her. Read the rest of this entry »
Samuel Sim Scoring ITV’s ‘Anne’
Posted: December 31, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anne, ITV, Samuel Sim
Samuel Sim (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, The Spanish Princess, Domina, The Long Call, The Halcyon, Home Fires) has composed the original score for the new ITV series Anne. The show is written by Kevin Sampson and stars Maxine Peake, Stephen Walters, Steve Williams, Lily Shepherd, Bobby Schofield and Clare Calbraith. The 4-part drama directed by Bruce Goodison tells the true story of Anne Williams who dedicated her life to campaigning for justice following the death of her son who was tragically killed at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989 between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Read the rest of this entry »
Miranda Lambert’s Song ‘Y’all Means All’ from ‘Queer Eye’ Season 6 Released
Posted: December 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Miranda Lambert, Netflix, Queer Eye
Vanner Records and RCA Nashville have released the original song Y’all Means All from the sixth season of the Netflix reality series Queer Eye. The track written by Shane McAnally & Luke Dick and performed by Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Miranda Lambert is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song below. Season 6 of Queer Eye created by David Collins follows the “Fab Five” (Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown & Tan France) as they head to the Lone Star state with a homebase in Austin, TX. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Halpern Scoring Chloe Okuno’s ‘Watcher’
Posted: December 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chloe Okuno, Nathan Halpern, Watcher
Nathan Halpern (The Rider, Swallow, Minding the Gap, One Percent More Humid, In the Same Breath, Rich Hill) has recently scored the upcoming psychological thriller Watcher. The film is directed by Chloe Okuno and stars Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman and Ciubuciu Bogdan Alexandru. The movie follows a young woman who moves into a new apartment in Bucharest with her husband and starts being tormented by the feeling that she is being stalked by an unseen watcher in an adjacent building. Zack Ford (Scar) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Fox’s ‘The Cleaning Lady’ to Feature Original Music by Mark Isham
Posted: December 30, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fox, Mark Isham, The Cleaning Lady
Mark Isham (Crash, Once Upon a Time, Miracle, A River Runs Through It, Warrior, The Accountant, Judas and the Black Messiah) is the composer of the new Fox drama The Cleaning Lady. The show is created by Miranda Kwok based on the Argentine series La Chica Que Limpia and stars Élodie Yung, Adan Canto, Martha Millan, Oliver Hudson, Sebastien & Valentino LaSalle, Faith Bryant and Sean Le. The series revolves around a whip-smart Cambodian doctor who comes to the U.S. for medical treatment to save her ailing son, but instead becomes a cleaning lady for organized crime, using her cunning and intelligence to forge her own path in the criminal underworld. Read the rest of this entry »
