Lifandi Records has released a soundtrack album for the Icelandic TV series The Valhalla Murders. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Petur Thor Benediktsson (End of Sentence, Fangar, Metalhead). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The Valhalla Murders is created by Thordur Palsson and stars Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Björn Thors, Bergur Ebbi, Aldís Amah Hamilton, Sigurður Skúlason, Tinna Hrafnsdóttir, Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir and Damon Younger. The 8-part thriller revolves around an Oslo detective with a painful past who returns to his native Iceland to help a dedicated cop hunt a serial killer with a link to a mysterious photo. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Valhalla Murders’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 3, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Petur Thor Benediktsson, score, Soundtrack, The Valhalla Murders
‘We Don’t Deserve Dogs’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: June 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Blake Ewing, Matthew Saleh, score, Soundtrack, We Don't Deserve Dogs
Forthwest Music will release a soundtrack album for the Australian documentary We Don’t Deserve Dogs. The album features the film’s original music composed by Blake Ewing. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 4 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. We Don’t Deserve Dogs is directed by Matthew Saleh and produced by Rose Tucker is described as a “contemplative odyssey across our planet” and looks at the simple and extraordinary ways that dogs influence our daily lives. The documentary premiered at last year’s SXSW Film Festival and was released in the U.S. on VOD earlier this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtracks for Disney’s ‘Launchpad’ Shorts Released
Posted: June 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: American Eid, Dinner Is Served, Disney Plus, Growing Fangs, Launchpad, Let's Be Tigers, Renee Goust, Robert Ouyang Rusli, score, Siddhartha Khosla, Soundtrack, Tangelene Bolton, The Last of the Chupacabras, The Little Prince(ss), Xue Ran Chen
Walt Disney Records has released multiple EPs and digital singles featuring the music from the first season of the Disney+ Launchpad live-action short films from a new generation of storytellers. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is a score suite from Aqsa Altaf’s American Eid composed by Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, Runaways, Looking for Alaska), the song Island and the score from Hao Zheng’s Dinner Is Served composed by Xue Ran Chen, the song Medio Vivo by AG from Ann Marie Pace’s Growing Fangs, Renee Goust‘s song El son del Chupa y la Chepa from Jessica Mendez Siqueiros’ The Last of the Chupacabras, the full score for Stefanie Abel Horowitz’s Let’s Be Tigers composed by Tangelene Bolton, as well as the original score from Moxie Peng’s The Little Prince(ss) composed by Robert Ouyang Rusli. Read the rest of this entry »
Marcelo Zarvos Scoring Antoine Fuqua’s ‘The Guilty’
Posted: June 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Antoine Fuqua, Marcelo Zarvos, Netflix, The Guilty
Composer Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, The Affair, Wonder, Ray Donovan, The Good Shepherd, Enough Said) is reteaming with director Antoine Fuqua on the upcoming Netflix original film The Guilty. The movie is based on the Gustav Moller’s Danish drama Den Skyldige and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Riley Keough, Byron Bowers, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Christina Vidal, Paul Dano, Ethan Hawke, David Castañeda, Adrian Martinez, Bill Burr, Beau Knapp and Edi Patterson. The thriller takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call center and follows a call operator as he tries to save a caller in grave danger, but he soon discovers that nothing is as it seems, Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
Bob Hoag’s ‘Teenage Badass’ Score to Be Released
Posted: June 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bob Hoag, Grant McCord, score, Soundtrack, Teenage Badass
Common Wall Media will release a soundtrack album for the comedy Teenage Badass. The album features the film’s original score composed by Bob Hoag. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 18 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Teenage Badass is co-written and directed by Grant McCord and stars Mcabe Gregg, Evan Ultra, Madelyn Deutch, Elsie Hewitt, Dillon Lane, Karsen Liotta, Julie Ann Emery, James Paxton, Kevin Corrigan and Jim Adkins. The movie is set in 2006 and follows a band when they score a shot to play on the local news. When all of their dreams start to become a reality, the band’s egocentric singer/songwriter threatens to make them lose everything. Read the rest of this entry »
Clint Mansell Scoring Charlotte Colbert’s ‘She Will’
Posted: June 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Charlotte Colbert, Clint Mansell, She Will
Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Fountain, Moon, Noah, Rebecca, Stoker) has composed the original score for the upcoming British thriller She Will. The film is directed by Charlotte Colbert and stars Alice Krige, Kota Eberhardt, Rupert Everett and Malcolm McDowell. The movie revolves around a glamorous actress who travels with her nurse to the remote highlands in order to attend a healing retreat, where she is given a new lease of life and finds purpose through the magical elements in the land. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Ghost Lab’ Released
Posted: June 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bill Hemstapat, Ghost Lab, Netflix, Paween Purijitpanya, score, Soundtrack
GDH 559 has released a soundtrack album for the Thai Netflix original film Ghost Lab. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Bill Hemstapat. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music stores), where you can also check out audio samples. Ghost Lab is directed by Paween Purijitpanya and stars Thanapob Leeratanakachorn, Paris Intarakomalyasut and Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich. The horror comedy follows two doctors who – after witnessing a haunting in their hospital – become dangerously obsessed with obtaining scientific proof that ghosts exist. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Seance’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 1, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: score, Seance, Sicker Man, Simon Barrett, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Seance. The album features the film’s original music composed by Sicker Man (aka Tobias Vethake). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Seance is written and directed by Simon Barrett and stars Suki Waterhouse, Madisen Beaty, Ella-Rae Smith, Seamus Patterson, Inanna Sarkis and Marina Stephenson-Kerr. The movie centers on a group of girls who invite a young woman to a late-night ritual to summon an evil spirit, when one of the girls is killed. Read the rest of this entry »
Dustin O’Halloran & Herdís Stefánsdóttir to Score Benjamin Cleary’s ‘Swan Song’
Posted: June 1, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Benjamin Cleary, Dustin O'Halloran, Herdís Stefánsdóttir, Swan Song
Dustin O’Hallloran (Lion, Like Crazy, Transparent, The Old Guard, Ammonite, The Hate U Give) & Herdís Stefánsdóttir (The Sun Is Also a Star, We’re Here) have signed on to score the upcoming drama Swan Song. The film is written and directed by Benjamin Cleary (Stutterer) and stars Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Awkwafina, Glenn Close and Adam Beach. The movie is set in the near future and follows a loving husband and father who is diagnosed with a terminal illness and is being presented with a controversial alternative solution to replace himself with a carbon copy clone. Read the rest of this entry »
‘F9’ (‘Fast & Furious 9’) Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: June 1, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: F9, Fast & Furious, Justin Lin, Soundtrack
The track list of the soundtrack album for F9, the ninth installment in the Fast & Furious series, has been announced. The album features songs by artists such as Don Toliver, Lil Durk, Latto, Ty Dolla $ign, Jack Harlow, 24kGoldn, The Prodigy feat. RZA, Lil Tecca, Skepta & Pop Smoke feat. A$AP Rocky, Juicy J & Project Pat, Anitta & others. The soundtrack will be released digitally and physically on June 17, 2021 by Atlantic Records. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version. A separate album featuring Brian Tyler’s original score from the film will be announced soon. F9 is directed by Justin Lin and stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, John Cena, Jordana Brewster, Sung Kang, Nathalie Emmanuel, Helen Mirren and Charlize Theron. Read the rest of this entry »
