Jeff Beal (House of Cards, Pollock, Carnivale, Rome, Monk, Appaloosa, The Biggest Little Farm) has released a soundtrack album for the documentary GameStop: Rise of the Players. The album features the Emmy Award-winning composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. GameStop: Rise of the Players is directed by Jonah Tulis and tells the origin story of the GameStop stock market phenomenon. The movie features exclusive access to the original players who lit the fuse on a historic amateur investor uprising and spotlights the human side of a sensational business drama.
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 28, 2022)
Opening in select U.S. theaters this weekend is the drama Sundown written and directed by Michel Franco and starring Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Henry Goodman, Iazua Larios, Albertine Kotting McMillan and Samuel Bottomley. The film doesn’t feature an original score and no soundtrack release is expected. The movie revolves around a wealthy Briton attempting to abandon his life while vacationing in Acapulco, when a single phone call shatters his idyll and he must return to London immediately. The drama premiered at last year’s Venice and Toronto Film Festivals and is being released by Bleecker Street.
Also opening in select theaters is the comedy Rifkin’s Festival written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López and Christoph Waltz. The film’s original music is composed by Stephane Wrembel (Today’s Special). No word on a soundtrack release. The movie, which follows a cinema devotee who accompanies his publicist wife to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client might be more than professional, is being distributed by MPI Media Group.