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 »
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
‘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 »
Hanan Townshend Scoring Julio Quintana’s Netflix Film ‘Blue Miracle’
Posted: May 3, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Blue Miracle, Drew Xanthopoulos, Fathom, Hanan Townshend, Julio Quintana, Netflix
Composer Hanan Townshend (Knight of Cups, To the Wonder, Outcry, Semper Fi) is reteaming with director Julio Quintana on the upcoming Netflix original film Blue Miracle. The movie starring Jimmy Gonzales, Dennis Quaid, Anthony Gonzalez, Bruce McGill, Raymond Cruz, Miguel Angel Garcia, Nathan Arenas, Isaac Arellanes, Steve Gutierrez, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Fernanda Urrejola and Silverio Palacios tells the true story of a guardian and his kids who partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition in order to save their cash-strapped orphanage. Quintana also co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Dowling (Run the Race, Priceless). Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Djinn’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: May 3, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Charbonier, Justin Powell, Matthew James, score, Soundtrack, The Djinn
MovieScore Media has announced a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Djinn. The album features the film’s original music composed by Matthew James (Arkansas, Useless Humans). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 21 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Djinn is written and directed by David Charbonier & Justin Powell and stars Ezra Dewey, Rob Brownstein, Tevy Poe, Donald Pitts and John Erickson. The movie centers on a mute boy who is trapped in his apartment with a sinister monster when he makes a wish to fulfill his heart’s greatest desire. Read the rest of this entry »
Ben Frost to Score Netflix’s ‘1899’
Posted: May 3, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 1899, Baran bo Odar, Ben Frost, Jantje Friese, Netflix
Netflix announced today that Ben Frost is set to score the upcoming Netflix original series 1899. The show is created by Jantje Friese & Baran bo Odar and stars Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Maciej Musial, Rosalie Craig,Maria Erwolter, Clara Rosager, Yann Gael, Mathilde Ollivier, Isabella Wei, , José Pimentão, Gabby Wong, Fflyn Edwards, Jonas Bloquet, Alexandre Willaume and Anton Lesser. The 8-parter follows the mysterious circumstances around the voyage of a group of multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new as they encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea. Read the rest of this entry »
‘I, Anna’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: May 3, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Barnaby Southcombe, David Braud, I Anna, k.i.d., score, Soundtrack
Les Disques Reset has announced the first-ever soundtrack release for the 2012 thriller I, Anna written and directed by Barnaby Southcombe and starring Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne, Eddie Marsan, Jodhi May, Ralph Brown, Max Deacon, Honor Blackman and Hayley Atwell. The 6-track EP features the film’s original score composed by k.i.d. (aka J M Derain & David Braud) and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music stores. The movie, which is based on Elsa Lewin’s novel of the same name and revolves around a beautiful divorcee and a troubled detective whose lives intersect during the investigation of a vicious murder, premiered at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival and is now available on VOD and DVD. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 2, 2021)
Posted: May 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Acorn TV, Amazon, Disney Plus, H. Scott Salinas, Harvey Mason Jr., Jupiter's Legacy, Justin Melland, Kevin Kiner, Matthew Pusti, Monster, Netflix, Sarah Warne, Sky Rompiendo, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Starz, Stephanie Economou, Sundance Now, The Boy from Medellín, The Drowning, The Girlfriend Experience, The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness
Premiering tonight is the third season of the Starz anthology series The Girlfriend Experience written and directed by Anja Marquardt (based on Steven Soderbergh’s feature of the same title) and starring Julia Goldani Telles. Matthew Pusti (A Good Woman Is Hard to Find, Whistleblower) has composed the original music for Season 3 and follows Shane Carruth and the Mondo Boys who scored the first two seasons. The third season, which is set amidst the London tech scene and follows a neuroscience major who begins to explore the transactional world of The Girlfriend Experience, only to find herself deep inside the uncanny valley with the relationships she creates, will air Sunday nights on Starz.
Premiering on Tuesday, May 4, is Lucasfilm’s Disney+ original series Star Wars: The Bad Batch created by Dave Filoni and starring Dee Bradley Baker, Ming-Na Wen, Stephen Stanton and Andrew Kishino. The show’s original music is composed by Kevin Kiner (Narcos: Mexico, Doom Patrol, CSI: Miami, Titans, City on a Hill, Making a Murderer) who previously scored all episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (and the feature of the same title) and Star Wars Rebels. A soundtrack release will be announced soon. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the animated series, which will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Viaplay’s ‘Heder’ Released
Posted: May 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Anders Herrlin, Heder, Jennie Löfgren, score, Soundtrack, Viaplay
Cosmos Music AB has released a soundtrack album for the Viaplay original series Heder. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Jennie Löfgren & Anders Herrlin (Beck, Mending Hugo’s Heart). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music outlet to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. Heder is created by Sofia Helin, Alexandra Rapaport, Anja Lundkvist & Julia Dufvenius and stars Rapaport, Lundkvist, Dufvenius, Eva Röse, Jesper Barkselius, Karin Bjurström, Björn Kjellman, Jakob Eklund, Peter Eggers, Ellen Bökman and Åsa Danielsso. The drama revolves around four partners in a Swedish law firm who have become famous for helping victims of sex crimes and speaking out against patriarchy. Read the rest of this entry »
