Composer Rob (aka Robin Coudert) (Maniac, Gretel & Hansel, Revenge, Horns, Oxygen, Troy: Fall of a City) and singer/DJ/music producer Oklou (aka Marylou Mayniel) have been tapped to write the original music for the upcoming animated feature In Waves. The film is directed by Phuong Mai Nguyen and features the voices of Lyna Khoudri, Rio Vega, Paul Kircher and Birana Ba. The movie is based on the graphic novel of the same name by AJ Dungo and tells the story of a shy high school student who falls in love with a surfer whose live starts falling apart when her illness becomes more severe. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob & Oklou to Compose Music for Phuong Mai Nguyen’s ‘In Waves’
Posted: April 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: In Waves, Oklou, Phuong Mai Nguyen, Rob
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‘The Soul Eater’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, Le mangeur d'âmes, Raphaël Gesqua, score, Soundtrack, The Soul Eater
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the French horror thriller The Soul Eater (Le mangeur d’âmes). The album features the film’s original music composed by Raphaël Gesqua (The Deep House, Livid, Among the Living). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. The Soul Eater is directed by Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury and stars Virginie Ledoyen, Paul Hamy and Sandrine Bonnaire. The movie based on Alexis Laipsker’s bestselling novel of the same title is set in a mountain village, where an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces following the disappearance of local children and a series of violent deaths. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Swift Street’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Damian de Boos-Smith, Maria Alfonsine, SBS, score, Soundtrack, Swift Street
Maria Alfonsine (Wakefield) and Damian de Boos-Smith (Solo) will release a soundtrack album for the SBS original drama Swift Street. The album features selections of the composers’ original score from the show and will be released digitally tomorrow, April 24 and will be available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes and most other major digital music services. Swift Street is created by Tig Terera and stars Tanzyn Crawford, Cliff Curtis, Keiynan Lonsdale, Bernie Van Tiel, Eliza Matengu and Alfred Chuol. The crime drama follows a twentysomething woman who has to join forces with her hustler father in order to save him from debt and the dangerous criminals who are out to get him. Read the rest of this entry »
Benjamin Wallfisch to Score Lee Isaac Chung’s ‘Twisters’
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Benjamin Wallfisch, Lee Isaac Chung, Twisters
Benjamin Wallfisch (It, The Flash, Shazam!, Blade Runner 2049, Hidden Figures, The Invisible Man) has been hired to score the upcoming disaster movie Twisters. The film is directed by Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Nik Dodani and Kiernan Shipka. The sequel to Jan de Bont’s 1996 feature Twister (scored by Mark Mancina) follows two competing teams of stormchasers who find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Trust’ (‘Confidenza’) Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Confidenza, Daniele Luchetti, score, Soundtrack, Thom Yorke, Trust
XL Recordings will release the official soundtrack album for the Italian drama Trust (Confidenza). The album features the film’s original music composed by Thom Yorke (of the rock band Radiohead) who previously scored Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 Suspiria remake. The soundtrack will be released digitally this coming Friday, April 26 (click here to order). A CD and vinyl edition will be coming out on July 12 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Two first tracks (Knife Edge & Prize Giving) are already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. Trust is co-written and directed by Daniele Luchetti and stars Elio Germano, Federica Rosellini, Vittoria Puccini, Pilar Fogliati and Isabella Ferrari. The movie is based on the bestselling novel by Domenico Starnone and explores the relationship between a revered teacher and his brilliant and precocious student. Read the rest of this entry »
FX’s ‘The Veil’ to Feature Music by Max Richter & Jon Opstad
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: FX, Jon Opstad, Max Richter, Steven Knight, The Veil
Max Richter (The Leftovers, Ad Astra, Hostiles, Mary Queen of Scots, Waltz with Bashir, Miss Sloane, Spaceman) and Jon Opstad (Black Mirror: White Bear & White Christmas, Bodies, The Woman in White, Safe House, We Hunt Together) have composed the original music for the new FX limited series The Veil. The show is created by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Locke, Eastern Promises) and stars Elisabeth Moss, Yumna Marwan, Dali Benssalah and Josh Charles. The 6-part spy thriller centers on the relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. Read the rest of this entry »
Remastered ‘Uncommon Valor’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Horner, score, Soundtrack, Ted Kotcheff, Uncommon Valor
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1983 action/war drama Uncommon Valor directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Randall “Tex” Cobb, Reb Brown, Patrick Swayze, Robert Stack, Harold Sylvester and Tim Thomerson. The album features the remastered (and slightly expanded) original score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, The Land Before Time, A Beautiful Mind, The Mask of Zorro, Apollo 13, Field of Dreams), including around 10 minutes of alternate takes. The CD is limited to 1,000 copies and is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘See You in Another Life’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums, TV Music AlbumsTags: Abel Hernández, Disney Plus, Hulu, Nos vemos en otra vida, Olivier Arson, score, See You in Another Life, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish Disney+/Hulu limited series See You in Another Life (Nos vemos en otra vida). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Olivier Arson (The Candidate, The Beasts, Madre, Riot Police, Piggy, The Zone) & Abel Hernández. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composers’ first track (1993-2014) below. See You in Another Life is created by Jorge & Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo and stars Roberto Gutiérrez, Quim Ávila and Pol López as Emilio Trashorras. The 6-part crime drama adaptation of the book by Manuel Jabois based on the interview he conducted with Gabriel Montoya Vidal (“Baby”) about his link to the biggest jihadist attack committed on European soil on March 11, 2004. Read the rest of this entry »
BEKA’s Original Song ‘Forever’ from Apple TV+’s ‘Trying’ Season 4 Released
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, BEKA, Trying
LAB Records has released the first song from the fourth season of the Apple TV+ original series Trying. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is Forever co-written (with Tobie Tripp) and performed by BEKA. Also listen to the full track after the jump. A soundtrack album featuring more songs by BEKA from Season 4 is expected to be released in a couple of weeks. Trying is created by Andy Wolton and stars Esther Smith, Rafe Spall, Scarlett Rayner, Sian Brooke, Darren Boyd and Cooper Turner. The new season takes place six years after events of Season 3 and follows Nikki & Jason who are now experienced adopters who have built a lovely little nuclear family. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Auction’ (‘Le Tableau Volé’) Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexei Aigui, Auction, Le tableau volé, Pascal Bonitzer, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a soundtrack album for the French drama Auction (Le tableau volé). The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexei Aigui (I Am Not Your Negro, The Truth, The Young Karl Marx, Wild Field, Exterminate All the Brutes, Silver Dollar Road). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 26 (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). A CD version, which also includes Aigui’s scores from Je pense à vous, Le Grand Alibi and Cherchez Hortense, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. Auction is written and directed by Pascal Bonitzer and stars Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi, Arcadi Radeff, Louise Chevillotte, Laurence Côte and Matthieu Lucci. The movie follows a modern art appraiser who works for an auction house whose routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost work by Egon Schiele. Read the rest of this entry »
