Martin Phipps (The Crown, Woman in Gold, War & Peace, The Aftermath, The Honourable Woman, Peaky Blinders) has recently been scoring the new Amazon anthology original series Solos. The show is created by David Weil (Hunters) and stars Helen Mirren, Anne Hathaway, Morgan Freeman, Uzo Aduba, Anthony Mackie, Constance Wu, Dan Stevens and Nicole Beharie. The 7-part sci-fi drama explores the depths of human connection through the lens of eight remote characters. Weil is also executive producing the project with Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy, 50 Shades of Grey) and Laura Lancaster (The Expanse, The Defiant Ones). Read the rest of this entry »
Amazon’s ‘Solos’ to Feature Music by Martin Phipps
Posted: May 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, David Weil, Martin Phipps, Solos
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Theodore Shapiro & Joseph Shirley Scoring Disney+’s ‘The Mysterious Benedict Society’
Posted: May 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, Joseph Shirley, Matt Manfredi, Phil Hay, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada, Tropic Thunder, Ghostbusters, Bombshell, Spy) & Joseph Shirley (Bad Trip, The Open House) are teaming up to co-score the upcoming Disney+ original series The Mysterious Benedict Society. The show is developed by Matt Manfredi & Phil Hay (Ride Along, Clash of the Titans) based on the bestselling book series by Trenton Lee Stewart and stars Tony Hale, Kristen Schaal, MaameYaa Boafo, Ryan Hurst, Mystic Inscho, Gia Sandhu, Seth B. Carr, Emmy DeOliveira and Marta Kessler. The series revolves around a group of orphans who are placed undercover at a boarding school and must foil a nefarious plot with global ramifications while creating a new sort of family along the way. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bad Impulse’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: May 5, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bad Impulse, Holly Amber Chutch, Michelle Danner, score, Soundtrack
Notefornote Music will release a soundtrack album for the psychological thriller Bad Impulse. The album features the film’s original music composed by Holly Amber Church (Ruin Me, The Toybox, Dark Light, Rites of Spring, The Devil’s Dolls). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 14, 2021 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Bad Impulse is directed by Michelle Danner and stars Grant Bowler, Sonya Walger, Paul Sorvino, Stephanie Cayo and Dan Lauria. The movie follows a suburban husband and father who buys a cutting edge home security system in the the aftermath of a traumatic event, only to find that it slowly destroys that which he most wants to protect. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Tyler & John Carey to Return for Adam Robitel’s ‘Escape Room 2’
Posted: May 4, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Robitel, Brian Tyler, Escape Room, Escape Room 2, John Carey
Brian Tyler (Fast & Furious, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Crazy Rich Asians, Now You See Me) & John Carey are returning as the composer of the upcoming horror sequel Escape Room 2. The film is directed by Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last Key, The Taking of Deborah Logan) and stars Taylor Russell and Logan Miller who reprise their roles from the original 2019 movie. They are joined by new cast members Isabelle Fuhrman, Thomas Cocquerel, Holland Roden, Carlito Olivero and Indya Moore. No plot details have been announced yet. Will Honley (Bloodline) and Maria Melnik & Daniel Tuch wrote the screenplay. Neal H. Moritz (S.W.A.T., Sonic the Hedgehog) is producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Andrews Scoring Morgan Neville’s ‘Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain’
Posted: May 4, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Michael Andrews, Morgan Neville, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko, Neighbors, Freaks & Geeks, Bad Teacher, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Bridesmaids, Instant Family, The Heat) has composed the original music for the upcoming documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain. The film is directed by Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead) and centers on the uncommon life of the late storyteller, explorer, and chef, Anthony Bourdain. The movie draws on the catalog of Bourdain’s on-screen work and features never-aired moments, home movies, and insights from those who knew him best. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Feral State’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 4, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Feral State, Jon Carlo, Lionel Cohen, score, Soundtrack
DNA-Productions will release a soundtrack album for the indie thriller Feral State. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lionel Cohen (Mob Town, First We Take Brooklyn, Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story, Sex and the Future). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 20, 2021 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Feral State is written and directed by Jon Carlo and stars AnnaLynne McCord, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Octavio Pisano, Jaden Piner, Baldur Thor and Sif Saga. The movie set alongside Florida’s gator-infested swamps and rundown trailer parks follows a group of gang of runaways and orphans are taken in by a dangerous grifter to be trained in the art of thievery and crime. Read the rest of this entry »
Dominic Lewis Scoring Disney+’s ‘Monsters at Work’
Posted: May 4, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Plus, Dominic Lewis, Monsters at Work
Dominic Lewis (The Man in the High Castle, Peter Rabbit, Free Birds, Money Monster) is scoring the upcoming Disney+ original series Monsters at Work. The show is developed by Bobs Gannaway (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Lilo & Stitch: The Series) based on Pixar’s feature Monsters, Inc (scored by Randy Newman) and stars Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Jennifer Tilly, John Ratzenberger & Bonnie Hunt who reprise their roles from the animated movie. They are joined by new voice cast members Ben Feldman, Henry Winkler, Mindy Kalling, Lucas Neff and Alanna Ubac. The animated series follows an eager young monster who graduated top of his class at Monsters University and always dreamed of becoming a Scarer, until he lands a job at Monsters, Incorporated and discovers that scaring is out and laughter is in. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Trying’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: May 4, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Maisie Peters, Soundtrack, Trying
Atlantic Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series Trying. The album features the original songs from the show’s second season written and performed by Maisie Peters. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 21, 2021 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Funeral feat. James Bay) is already available to stream/download now. Listen to the full track after the jump. Polydor Records has previously released a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the first season written by Guy Garvey, Peter Jobson & Paul Saunderson. Trying is created by Andy Wolton and stars Rafe Spall, Esther Smith and Imelda Staunton. Read the rest of this entry »
Volker Bertelmann to Score Stefan Jäger’s ‘Monte Verità’
Posted: May 4, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hauschka, Monte Verità, Stefan Jäger, Volker Bertelmann
Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, The Old Guard, Hotel Mumbai, Ammonite, Adrift, Stowaway, Your Honor) has been tapped to score the upcoming period drama Monte Verità. The film is directed by Stefan Jäger (Horizon Beautiful, Birthday) and stars Maresi Riegner, Max Hubacher, Julia Jentsch, Hannah Herzsprung and Joel Basman. The movie is set in the early 20th Century and tells the story of Hanna Leitner, a young woman struggling to escape bourgeois conventions who goes into therapy with the young psychoanalyst Otto Gross and follows him to Monte Verità, where she discovers the fascination of photography. Read the rest of this entry »
Remastered ‘Rio Conchos’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: May 3, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gordon Douglas, Jerry Goldsmith, Rio Conchos, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a remastered version of the 2013 soundtrack album for the 1964 western Rio Conchos directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Anthony Franciosa and Edmond O’Brien. The album features the re-recorded original score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Chinatown, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Patton, Papillon, L.A. Confidential) and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. Also included is the composer’s re-recording of his Prologue cue written for the 1965 film The Agony and the Ecstasy. The CD is now available to order on the label’s official website until June 21 (or while supplies last). Read the rest of this entry »
