Tag: Amy Poehler

‘Lucy and Desi’ Soundtrack Album Released

Amazon Content Services has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Lucy and Desi. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Schwartz (Arrested Development, The Good Place, Northern Exposure, Veep, Standing Up, Falling Down, Lady Dynamite) who has recently received his fourth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his work on the project. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Lucy and Desi is produced and directed by Amy Poehler and explores the remarkable personal and professional partnership between comedian Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz and the power couple’s enduring legacy.

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BMI: Score to Screen Panels at Sundance Film Festival Announced

BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) has announced its programming for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival today with two virtual Score to Screen panels featuring two conversations that will give an inside look at the creative process of incorporating music in film while delving into the relationship between a composer and the film’s director or producer. Grammy and Academy Award winner Common and composer Patrick Warren (The Chi) co-produced and curated the music for the drama/thriller Alice written and directed by Krystin Ver Linden and starring Keke Palmer, Common himself, Jonny Lee Miller & Gaius Charles about a brave young woman who escapes a life of slavery on a secluded Georgia plantation, only to realize that not everything is as it seems.

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David Schwartz Scoring Amy Poehler’s Amazon Documentary ‘Lucy and Desi’

David Schwartz (Arrested Development, Northern Exposure, The Good Place, Veep, Lady Dynamite, Standing Up, Falling Down) has composed the original music for the upcoming documentary Lucy and Desi. The film is directed by Amy Poehler and centers on the remarkable personal and professional partnership between comedian Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz (also explored in Aaron Sorkin’s narrative feature Being the Ricardos). Poehler is also producing Imagine Documentarties production with Michael Rosenberg, Justin Wilkes (Mars, Julia), Nigel Sinclair (End of Watch, The Way Bakc) and Jeanne Elfant Festa & Mark Monroe (Pavarotti, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart).

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The Linda Lindas’ Cover Songs from Netflix’s ‘Moxie’ Released

Maisie Music Publishing has released the cover versions of Bikini Kill’s Rebel Girl and The Muffs’ Big Mouth from the Netflix original film Moxie. The tracks are performed by the punk rock band The Linda Lindas. Click here to stream/download Rebel Girl and click here to stream/download Big Mouth. Also listen to both tracks after the jump. Moxie is directed by Amy Poehler and stars Hadley Robinson, Lauren Tsai, Alycia Pascual-Pena, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sydney Park, Josephine Langford, Nico Hiraga, Ike Barinholtz, Marcia Gay Harden, Anjelika Washington, Clark Gregg, Josie Totah, Charlie Hall and Sabrina Haskett.

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Mac McCaughan Scoring Amy Poehler’s Netflix Film ‘Moxie’

Mac McCaughan of the rock bands Superchunk and Portastatic has composed the original score for the new Netflix original film Moxie. The movie is directed by Amy Poehler (Wine Country) and stars Hadley Robinson, Lauren Tsai, Alycia Pascual-Pena, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Nico Hiraga, Sydney Park, Josephine Langford, Clark Gregg, Anjelika Washington, Josie Totah, Charlie Hall, Sabrina Haskett, as well as Ike Barinholtz and Marcia Gay Harden. The teen comedy drama is based on the novel by Jennifer Mathieu and follows a shy 16-year-old who – inspired by her mom’s rebellious past and a confident new friend – publishes an anonymous zine calling out sexism at her school.

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Wendy & Lisa Scoring Amy Poehler’s ‘Wine Country’

Wendy & Lisa (aka Wendy Melvoin & Lisa Coleman) (Heroes, Nurse Jackie, Dangerous Minds) have composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix original movie Wine Country. The film marks the feature directorial debut of actress Amy Poehler who also stars in the movie alongside Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer, Rachel Dratch, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey and Tina Fey.. The comedy revolves around a group of longtime girlfriends who go to Napa for the weekend to celebrate their friend’s 50th birthday, when tensions from the past boil over.

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