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Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 28, 2022)

Premiering on Tuesday, August 30, is the FX limited series The Patient created by Joel Fields & Joe Weisberg and starring Steve Carell, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Niemi, David Alan Grier, Linda Emond and Andrew Leeds. The show’s original music is composed by Nathan Barr (True Blood, The Americans, The Great, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Cabin Fever, Hollywood, Hostel). Click here for more information about the 10-part thriller, which will be available to stream on Hulu.

Premiering on Wednesday, August 31, is the British Netflix original film I Came By co-written and directed by Babak Anvari and starring George MacKay, Percelle Ascott, Kelly Macdonald, Hugh Bonneville, Franc Ashman , Varada Sethu and Anthony Calf. Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, The Phantom of the Open, Roar, Munich: The Edge of War, Vita & Virginia) has composed the movie’s original music. Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Soundtrack Album Details

The full details of the first soundtrack album for the Amazon original series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power have been revealed. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s first season composed by Emmy Award winner Bear McCreary (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Outlander, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Happy Death Day). Also included is the main title theme by Academy Award winner Howard Shore who previously scored the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 19 and will be available to stream on Amazon (featuring two Amazon Music exclusive tracks, Find the Light and The Promised King) and any other major digital music services. Physical versions are set to be released on October 14 (CD) and January 13, 2023 (vinyl) by Mondo. Click here to order the 2-CD version and click here to purchase the vinyl edition.

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‘Crimes of the Future’ Soundtrack Album Details

Decca Records & Howe Records will release the official soundtrack album for David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Silence of the Lambs, The Aviator, Hugo, The Hobbit, A History of Violence, The Fly, Ed Wood). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 10. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album. A limited vinyl edition will be coming out in 2023. Crimes of the Future is written and directed by Cronenberg and stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Don McKellar, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Tanaya Beatty, Nadia Litz and Lihi Kornowski.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (June 3, 2022)

Opening in around 800 U.S. theaters this weekend is the sci-fi horror movie Crimes of the Future written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Don McKellar, Welket Bungué, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Nadia Litz, Tanaya Beatty and Lihi Kornowski. The film’s original music is composed by Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Aviator, The Silence of the Lambs, Hugo). Howe Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check back on this page for the full details of the album and check our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the Neon release.

Also opening semi-wide is the thriller Watcher directed by Chloe Okuno and starring Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman and Burn Gorman. Nathan Halpern (The Rider, Swallow, One Percent More Humid, Minding the Gap, In the Same Breath) has composed the film’s original music. No word on a soundtrack release. Check out our previous article for more information about the movie, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is being distributed by IFC Midnight.

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Howard Shore’s Complete ‘Videodrome’ Score to Be Released

La-La Land Records has announced a soundtrack album for the 1983 sci-fi horror movie Videodrome written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky and Les Carlson. The album features the complete restored original score composed by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Kings, The Hobbit, The Aviator, The Silence of the Lambs, The Departed, Hugo, Mrs. Doubtfire, Big, Ed Wood), including previously unreleased music. The CD, which is limited to 2,000 copies, will be available to order at noon today on the label’s official website. A vinyl edition is being released by Mondo and a digital version will be released by Back Lot Music.

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Howard Shore to Score David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’

Composer Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Silence of the Lambs, The Aviator, Hugo, The Hobbit) is set to reteam with David Cronenberg on the upcoming sci-fi thriller Crimes of the Future. The film is written and directed by Cronenberg and will star Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Don McKellar and Lihi Kornowski. The movie is set in the not-so-distant future where humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings and follows a performance artist who has embraced “Accelerated Evolution Syndrome”, sprouting new and unexpected organs in his body and has turned the removal of these organs into a spectacle for his loyal followers.

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‘Pieces of a Woman’ Soundtrack Album Details

Decca Records will release the official soundtrack album for the drama Pieces of a Woman. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Aviator, The Silence of the Lambs, Hugo, The Hobbit, The Departed, Seven). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 8 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Pieces of a Woman is directed by Kornél Mundruczó and stars Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Shlesinger, Benny Safdie and Jimmie Fails. The movie executive produced by Martin Scorsese centers on a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably during a home birth at the hands of a flustered midwife who faces charges of criminal negligence.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 1, 2021)

Opening in select theaters and on VOD today is the action horror thriller Shadow in the Cloud directed by Roseanne Liang and starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Beulah Koale, Taylor John Smith, Callan Mulvey, Joe Witkowski, Benedict Wall and Byron Coll. The film’s original music is composed by Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper (The Legend of Baron To’a, Housebound, Fantail). No soundtrack album has been announced yet. The movie, which follows a female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress who encounters an evil presence on board the flight, premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and is being released by Vertical Entertainment.

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‘Funny Boy’ Soundtrack Album Details

Howe Records will release a soundtrack album for the drama Funny Boy. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Silence of the Lambs, The Aviator, Hugo, The Hobbit, Ed Wood, Mrs. Doubtfire). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 10 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and other digital music stores. Funny Boy is co-written and directed by Deepa Mehta and stars Brandon Ingram, Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Rehan Mudannayake, Agam Darshi, Shivantha Wijesinha, Arush Nand, Ruvin De Silva, Hidaayath Hazeer and Seema Biswas. The movie based on the best-selling Canadian novel of the same title by Shyam Selvadurai is set in Sri Lanka in the 1970’s and 80’s and explores the awakening of sexual identity by a young boy and chronicles his struggle to find balance and self-love despite the absence of empathy and understanding.

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Howard Shore Scoring Deepa Mehta’s ‘Funny Boy’

Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Aviator, The Silence of the Lambs, The Departed, Hugo, The Hobbit) has revealed on the latest episode of Score: The Podcast that he has completed his score for the upcoming drama Funny Boy. The film directed by Deepa Mehta (Water, Earth, Fire, Beeba Boys) is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Arjie Chelvaratnam and tells the story a young boy coming to terms with his sexual identity just as political tensions escalate in Sri Lanka in the years leading up to the 1983 riots. Chelvaratnam also wrote the screenplay.

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