Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend while also premiering on Peacock today is the horror movie Five Nights at Freddy’s directed by Emma Tammi and starring Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kat Conner Sterling and Piper Rubio. The film’s original music is composed by The Newton Brothers (The Haunting of Hill House, […]
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 27, 2023)
Posted: 27th October 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: After Death, Atticus Ross, Christopher Stracey, Elliot Leung, Fernando Velazquez, Fingernails, Five Nights at Freddy's, Freelance, Geoff Zanelli, Hannah Parrott, Inspector Sun, John Debney, Jonathan Sadoff, Mark Orton, Phoenix, Priscilla, The Holdovers, The Killer, The Newton Brothers, Trent Reznor, Under the Boardwalk
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 22, 2023)
Posted: 22nd October 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Curses!, Everyone Else Burns, Jesi Nelson, Life on Our Planet, Lorne Balfe, Milli Vanilli, Mondo Boys, Netflix, Paramount+, Sarah Lynch, Sundance Now, The CW, The Enfield Poltergeist, The Vanishing Triangle, Thomas Ross Fitzsimons, Vincent Watts
Premiering on Tuesday, October 24, is the documentary Milli Vanilli directed by Luke Korem about the titular superstar duo. The film’s original music is composed by Mondo Boys (She Dies Tomorrow, The Girlfriend Experience, Fatman, Phoenix Forgotten, Silk Road). The movie, which explores the duo’s ascension to success that came with a devastating price that ultimately led […]
Volker Bertelmann Named Film Composer of the Year at World Soundtrack Awards
Posted: 21st October 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: World Soundtrack Awards
Volker Bertelmann was named Film Composer of the Year at the 23rd World Soundtrack Awards, tonight’s closing event of the 50th Ghent Film Festival, for his scores for Edward Berger’s All Quiet of the Western Front (for which he also received the Academy Award earlier this year), the Norwegian World War II drama War Sailor and […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 20, 2023)
Posted: 21st October 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Another Body, Butcher's Crossing, Craig Stuart Garfinkle, Eimear Noone, Holland Andrews, James Newton Howard, John Swihart, Killers of the Flower Moon, Leo Birenberg, Michael Dean Parsons, Nyad, Pain Hustlers, Patrick Stump, Paul Leonard Morgan, Philip Glass, Robbie Robertson, Rostam Batmanglij, Sick Girl, The Canterville Ghost, The Other Zoey, The Persian Version, The Pigeon Tunnel
Opening in theaters nationwide is the crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow and Brendan Fraser. The film’s original music is composed by Robbie Robertson (The Color of Money, The Irishman) who also served as the […]
Marcelo Zarvos, Anthony Willis, Nami Melumad, Austin Wintory & Charlie Clouser to Appear at 14th Fans of Film Music Event
Posted: 20th October 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Anthony Willis, Austin Wintory, Charlie Clouser, Fans of Film Music, Marcelo Zarvos, Nami Melumad
A number of major film/TV/video game composers will be participating at the 14th Annual Fans of Film Music event, which will take place on Saturday, November 4, 2023 at The Mayflower Club in North, Hollywood CA. This year’s panelists include Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, Wonder) who recently scored Antoine Fuqua’s hit thriller The Equalizer 3, Anthony Willis (Promising Young […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 15, 2023)
Posted: 15th October 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bodies, Christopher Bear, Gavin Friday, If You Were the Last, Jon Opstad, Maurice Seezer, Max, Neon, Netflix, Nicolas Snyder, Peacock, Peter and the Wolf, Scavengers Reign
Premiering on Thursday, October 19, is the animated special Peter and the Wolf directed by Elliot Dear and Stephen McNally. The Blink Industries’ music is arranged by Maurice Seezer & Gavin Friday (based on Sergei Prokofiev’s symphony) and performed by The Friday-Seezer Ensemble. BMG will release a soundtrack album featuring the animated short’s music this coming Friday. […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 13, 2023)
Posted: 13th October 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexander Arntzen, Alexei Aigui, Anatomy of a Fall, Carlos José Alvarez, Christopher Willis, Danny Bensi, Dean Hurley, Divinity, DJ Muggs, Herd, Old Dads, Saunder Jurriaans, Silver Dollar Road, The Mission, The Road Dance
Opening in select U.S. theaters today is the French drama Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une chute) co-written and directed by Justine Triet and starring Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud and Milo Machado Graner. The film doesn’t feature an original score and no soundtrack release is expected. The movie, which tells the story of an author […]
Disney+’s ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ TV Series to Feature Music by Bear McCreary
Posted: 13th October 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bear McCreary, Disney Plus, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Sparks & Shadows
Bear McCreary (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Walking Dead, 10 Cloverfield Lane) has recently been composing music for the upcoming Disney+ original series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The Emmy Award-winning composer and members of his Sparks & Shadows team have been recording the show’s […]
Archive’s Original Song ‘Time on My Hands’ from Netflix Film ‘Wingwomen’ (‘Voleuses’) Released
Posted: 13th October 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Archive, Melanie Laurent, Netflix, Voleuses, Wingwomen
Netflix Music has released the original song Time on My Hands from the French Netflix original film Wingwomen (Voleuses). The track is written by Darius Keeler, Daniel Griffiths, Pollard Berrier & Dave Pen and performed by the London-based band Archive and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also […]