MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the British thriller Red Joan. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Academy Award nominee George Fenton (Groundhog Day, Dangerous Liaisons, Hitch, You’ve Got Mail, Blue Planet). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 10 and will be available to download here. A CD version will be released by Quartet Records. Red Joan is directed by Trevor Nunn and stars Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore and Tom Hughes. The movie tells the story of Joan Stanley, the seemingly demure physicist who was also a long-serving British spy for the KGB.
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‘The Professor and the Madman’ Soundtrack Details
Sparks & Shadows will release a soundtrack album for the historical drama The Professor and the Madman. The album features the film’s original music composed by Bear McCreary (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Outlander, Happy Death Day). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 10 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. A CD version is also in the works and is available to pre-order here. The Professor and the Madman starring Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Eddie Marsan, Natalie Dormer, Jennifer Ehle, Steve Coogan, Stephen Dillane, Ioan Gruffudd and Jeremy Irvine. The movie is based on the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester and tells the true story of professor James Murray, who began compiling the Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 and Dr. William Chester Minor, who submitted more than 10,000 entries while he was an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.
‘Queen of Hearts’ Soundtrack Released
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the Danish/Swedish drama Queen of Hearts (Dronningen). The album features the film’s original music composed by Jon Ekstrand (Life, Easy Money, Child 44, Slaughterhouse Rulez). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Queen of Hearts is co-written and directed by May el-Toukhy and stars Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh and Magnus Krepper. The movie follows a woman who embarks on a dangerous affair with her stepson. The drama premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the audience award in the World Cinema – Dramatic section and was released in Scandinavian theaters over the last two months.
‘The Shiny Shrimps’ (‘Les Crevettes Pailletées’) Soundtrack Released
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy The Shiny Shrimps (Les Crevettes Pailletées). The album features the film’s original music composed by Thomas Couzinier & Frédéric Kooshmanian (Black Spot, Goal of the Dead). Also included are songs by R.E.M., The Music Yard, Harshman & others. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. A CD version will also be released overseas. The Shiny Shrimps is directed by Cedric Le Gallo & Maxime Govare and stars Nicolas Gob, Alban Lenoir, Michaël Abiteboul, David Baiot, Romain Lancry and Roland Menou.
‘XY Chelsea’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Pop Noire will release a soundtrack album for the documentary XY Chelsea. The album features the film’s original music composed by Savages front woman Jehnny Beth & Johnny Hostile. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 7 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Let It Out) is already available to download here. A vinyl edition is also in the works and will be available to order here. XY Chelsea is directed by Tim Travers Hawkins and tells the historic story of whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in a maximum security prison was commuted by President Obama in 2017.
‘Strike Back’ Season 7 Soundtrack Released
Madison Gate Records has released a new soundtrack album for the British action series Strike Back. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s seventh season composed by Scott Shields & Paul Saunderson (Three Identical Strangers, 100 Streets, The More You Ignore Me). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Varese Sarabande has previously released a soundtrack album featuring Shields’ score from the third and fourth season of the drama. Season 7 of Strike Back starring Daniel MacPherson, Warren Brown, Alin Sumarwata, Jamie Bamber and Yasemin Allen premiered earlier this year in the UK on Sky One and in the U.S. on Cinemax.
‘Hostile Planet’ Vol. 3 Soundtrack Album Released
Milan Records has the third and final soundtrack album for the National Geographic docu-series Hostile Planet. The album features more music from the show composed by Benjamin Wallfisch (It, Shazam!, Blade Runner 2049, Hidden Figures, Annabelle Creation). The Vol. 3 album, entitled Deserts and Polar, is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The first album (Mountains and Oceans) was released in early April and the second album (Jungles and Grassland) is now also available. Hostile Planet executive produced by Guillermo Navarro and hosted by Bear Grylls looks at animals surviving at the extremes of different environments, in mountains, oceans, grasslands, jungles, deserts, and polar regions.
‘The River and the Wall’ Soundtrack Released
A soundtrack album has been released for the documentary The River and the Wall. The album features the film’s original music composed by Noah Sorota (Falling Skies, Jinn, The Gracefield Incident, Reverie). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. The River and the Wall is directed by Ben Masters and follows five friends on a 1,200 mile journey along the US-Mexico border from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico. The documentary premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival and is being released in select theaters and on VOD this weekend by Gravitas Ventures.
‘Backdraft 2’ Soundtrack Details
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the action drama sequel Backdraft 2. The album features the film’s original music composed and performed by Randy Edelman (The Last of the Mohicans, Dragonheart, Gettysburg, While You Were Sleeping, Kindergarten Cop). The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 10 and is now available for pre-order on iTunes. A CD version will be released by Intrada Records and will be available to order here. Backdraft 2 is directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego and stars Donald Sutherland and William Baldwin who their roles as Ronald Bartel and Brian McCaffrey from the 1991 original Backdraft movie, as well as Joe Anderson, Alisha Bailey and Jessamine-Bliss Bell.
‘Knock Down the House’ Soundtrack Released
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the Netflix documentary Knock Down the House. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ryan Blotnick and Tyler Wood. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Knock Down the House is directed by Rachel Lears and follows four women political candidates from around the country – a young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri – during the 2018 mid-term elections as they took to the campaign trail, built and engaged their bases, and built a movement.