Mychael Danna (Moneyball, Girl, Interrupted, Capote, Little Miss Sunshine, The Good Dinosaur, The Addams Family, Onward) has signed on to score the upcoming period drama Gold Mountain. The film is directed by Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and stars Chedi Chang, Sophia Xu, Yao, Zine Tseng and Owen Teague. The movie based on C. Pam Zhang’s novel How Much of These Hills Is Gold is set during the dying embers of the American Gold Rush and follows two newly orphaned Chinese immigrant children as they traverse a hostile California frontier to bury their father and free themselves from their past.
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Mychael Danna to Score István Szabó’s ‘Embers’
Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Girl, Interrupted, The Good Dinosaur, Capote, Little Miss Sunshine, The Addams Family, The Ice Storm) has been hired to score the upcoming period drama Embers. The film is directed by István Szabó (Sunshine, Mephisto) and stars Ralph Fiennes, Viggo Mortensen, Charlotte Rampling, Katherine Langford, Louis Hofmann, Evelyne Brochu, Gijs Blom and Jonah Russell. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Sándor Márai and revolves around two once inseparable friends, decades after one of them mysteriously disappeared and uncovers over the course of one evening the secret that tore them apart – and the woman at the center of it.
Mychael & Jeff Danna Scoring Bharat Nalluri’s ‘Flavia’
Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Little Miss Sunshine, Girl, Interrupted, Capote, The Ice Storm) and Jeff Danna (The Good Dinosaur, Onward, The Hunting Wives, Alias Grace, The Addams Family, The Boondock Saints, Storks, Julia, Silent Hill) have teamed up to score the upcoming British/Canadian family adventure Flavia. The film is directed by Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, The Crow: Salvation) and stars Martin Freeman, Jonathan Pryce, Toby Jones and Molly Belle Wright. The movie based on the bestselling Flavia de Luce series of novels by Alan Bradley is set in 1950s England and follows an 11‑year‑old chemistry prodigy who launches a fearless investigation to uncover the truth when a dead body is discovered at her family’s crumbling manor house and her father confesses to the crime.
‘Seven Veils’ Soundtrack Album Released
Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Capote, Little Miss Sunshine, Girl, Interrupted, The Good Dinosaur, Onward) has released a soundtrack album for the Canadian drama Seven Veils. The album features the film’s original music composed by the Academy Award winner and Nicholas Skalba (The Red Sea Diving Resort). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ first two tracks below. Seven Veils is written and directed by Atom Egoyan and stars Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Vinessa Antoine and Mark O’Brien. The movie revolves around an earnest theater director who gets tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome and is forced to re-examine her tangled personal history with the project, the deceased man, and her own family.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 7, 2025)
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the sci-fi comedy Mickey 17 written and directed by Bong Joon Ho and starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette and Steven Yeun. The film’s original music is composed by Jung Jaeil (Parasite, Squid Game, Okja, Broker, Twinless). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last Friday. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures release. Also click here to check out the music team credits.
Also opening in theaters nationwide is the drama Rule Breakers co-written and directed by Bill Guttentag and starring Ali Fazal, Nikohl Boosheri, Amber Afzali, Sara Malal Rowe, Nada El Belkasmi, Noorin Gulamgaus and Nina Hosseinzadeh. Jeff Beal (House of Cards, Monk, Carnivale, Pollock, The Biggest Little Farm, Rome, Appaloosa, Blackfish) has composed the film’s original music. Categorical Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as an original song performed by Aryana Sayeed and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Angel Studios.
Mychael Danna’s & Nicholas Skalba’s ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort’ Score Released
Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Little Miss Sunshine, Capote,The Good Dinosaur, Girl, Interrupted, Onward) has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2019 spy thriller The Red Sea Diving Resort written and directed by Gideon Raff and starring Chris Evans, Michael Kenneth Williams, Haley Bennett, Michiel Huisman, Alessandro Nivola, Alex Hassell, Chris Chalk, Mark Ivanir, Greg Kinnear and Ben Kingsley. The album features the film’s original score composed by Danna and Nicholas Skalba. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composers’ first track (My Country Is Broken) below.
Mychael Danna’s ‘World Without End’ Score Released
Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Capote, Little Miss Sunshine, The Good Dinosaur, Onward, Girl, Interrupted has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2012 limited series World Without End based on Ken Follett’s novel of the same title and starring Cynthia Nixon, Miranda Richardson, Ben Chaplin, Charlotte Riley, Peter Firth and Tom Weston-Jones. The album features selection of the Academy Award-winning composer’s original music from The Pillars of the Earth sequel and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s final track (New Lives) below. Danna has received his first Emmy Award for his score in 2013.
Mychael Danna Scoring Atom Egoyan’s ‘Seven Veils’
Composer Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Moneyball, Where the Crawdads Sing, Capote, The Good Dinosaur, The Addams Family) is reteaming with director Atom Egoyan on the upcoming Canadian drama Seven Veils. The film is written and directed by Egoyan and stars Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Vinessa Antoine, Mark O’Brien, Ambur Braid and Michael Kupfer-Radecky. The movie revolves around an earnest theatre director who gets tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (June 23, 2023)
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the comedy No Hard Feelings directed by Gene Stupnitsky and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti. The film’s original score is composed by Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Where the Crawdads Sing, Moneyball, Onward) & Jessica Rose Weiss (Cinderella, Don’t Make Me Go, The Independent). Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score, as well as two songs from the movie today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the Sony Pictures release.
Opening in a few hundred theaters today is the thriller God Is a Bullet directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika Monroe, Jamie Foxx, January Jones, Karl Glusman, Paul Johansson and David Thornton. Aaron Zigman (The Notebook, Bridge of Terabithia, Sex and the City, The Proposal, John Q) has composed the film’s original score. No word on a score release. Check out our previous article for more information about the movie, which is being released by Wayward Entertainment/XYZ Films.
‘No Hard Feelings’ Soundtrack Album Details
Madison Gate Records will release the official soundtrack album for the comedy No Hard Feelings. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Mychael Danna (Life of Pi, Capote, Moneyball, The Good Dinosaur) and Jessica Rose Weiss (Cinderella, The Independent, Don’t Make Me Go, Dog Gone Trouble). Also included lead actor Andrew Barth Feldman’s rendition of Hall & Oates’ Maneater and the song Back to the Start by Cary Brothers. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 23 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. No Hard Feelings is directed by Gene Stupnitsky and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Feldman, Matthew Broderick, Laura Benanti, Natalie Morales and Hasan Minhaj.