Chanda Dancy (Devotion, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, The Defeated, Aftershock) has composed the original score for the upcoming thriller Blink Twice. The film marks the directorial debut of actress Zoë Kravitz and stars Naomie Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Christian Slater, Haley Joel Osment, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis. The movie follows a young and clever cocktail waitress who skillfully maneuvers her way into a tech billionaire’s inner circle and ultimately an intimate gathering on his private island, where strange things start to happen. Read the rest of this entry »
Chanda Dancy Scoring Zoë Kravitz’s ‘Blink Twice’
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blink Twice, Chanda Dancy, Zoë Kravitz
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‘Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jeff Wamester, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Two, Kevin Riepl, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for the DC animated movie Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Kevin Riepl (Superman: Man of Tomorrow, Cabin Fever, Green Lantern: Beware My Power, The Night Crew, Justice Society: World War II). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 23 by Gardener Recordings. Check back on this page for the streaming/download link. The label has previously released the composer’s score from Part One last December. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two is directed by Jeff Wamester and stars Jensen Ackles (as Batman/Bruce Wayne), Darren Criss (as Superman & Earth-2 Superman), Meg Donnelly (as Supergirl & Harbinger) and Stana Katic (as Wonder Woman & Superwoman). The Warner Bros. Animation production based on DC’s comic book limited series of the same title by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez is the second of three parts and marks the beginning of the end to the Tomorrowverse story. Read the rest of this entry »
Academy Announces Updates Rules in Original Score Category
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy’s Board of Governors has approved rules and campaign regulations for the 97th Academy Awards, including two changes in the Original Score category. The new rules state that “three composers will be allowed to receive individual statuettes if, in rare circumstances, they all contributed fully to the score. Previously, three composers were required to submit as a group. The rules now clarify the definition of a group as a recognized band. The shortlist will increase from 15 to 20 titles”. Visit Oscars.org for the full list of rules and regulations. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Brigands: The Quest for Gold’ (‘Briganti’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Brigands: The Quest for Gold, Briganti, Michele Braga, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original series Brigands: The Quest for Gold (Briganti). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Michele Braga (Dogman, Rose Island, Freaks Out, Strangeness, Shadows, Blessed Madness). Also included is the song Brigante se more performed by Raiz. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Listen to Braga’s score title track and the song after the jump. Brigands: The Quest for Gold is created by GRAMS and stars Michela De Rossi, Ivana Lotito, Matilda Lutz, Marlon Joubert, Pietro Micci, Orlando Cinque and Leon Faun. The period drama is set in the 19th century, when the southern lands of Italy are bandit territory, and follows a woman who escapes her wealthy but sad life to lead a risky treasure hunt. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Arsène Lupin’ 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arsène Lupin, Debbie Wiseman, Jean-Paul Salome, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 2004 French adventure crime movie Arsène Lupin co-written and directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and starring Romain Duris, Kristin Scott Thomas, Pascal Greggory, Eva Green, Robin Renucci and Patrick Toomey. The 2-CD set features the remastered expanded original score from the film composed, orchestrated and conducted by Debbie Wiseman (Wilde, Wolf Hall, Dickensian, Vampire Killers, Haunted, Father Brown, Flood) and performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Crouch End Festival Chorus, including around an hour of previously unreleased music. The 20th Anniversary soundtrack is limited to 500 copies and now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
Disneynature’s ‘Tiger’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Disneynature, Mark Linfield, Nitin Sawhney, score, Soundtrack, Tiger
Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album for Disneynature documentary Tiger. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nitin Sawhney (The Namesake, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Breathe, The Colour Room, What’s Love Got to Do With It?, Lila Says, Traitors, Settlers). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s final track (Tigers on the Rise) after the jump. Tiger is directed by Mark Linfield, co-directed by Vanessa Berlowitz & Rob Sullivan and tells the story of Ambar, a young tigress raising her cubs in the fabled forests of India who does everything she can to keep them safe from pythons, bears and marauding male tigers. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ITV’s ‘Red Eye’ to Be Released
Posted: April 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Ian Arber, ITV, Red Eye, score, Soundtrack
Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the ITV drama Red Eye. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Ian Arber (The Capture, Medici, The Chelsea Detective, My Name Is Lenny, The One, War of the Worlds). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 22 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composer’s main title track below. Red Eye is written by Peter A Dowling, directed by Kieron Hawkes and stars Jing Lusi, Richard Armitage, Lesley Sharp and Jemma Moore. The 6-part thriller follows three women who are thrown into the same life threatening conspiracy when a British doctor is arrested for murder on a red eye flight from London to Beijing. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 21, 2024)
Posted: April 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Blake Neely, Dead Boy Detectives, Disney Plus, HBO, Hulu, Knuckles, Miles Hankins, Mondo Boys, Murat Selçuk, Netflix, Nitin Sawhney, Paramount+, Thank You, Thank You Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, The Jinx - Part Two, Tiger, Tom Howe
Premiering tonight is the HBO original documentary series The Jinx – Part Two directed by Andrew Jarecki. The show’s original music is composed by Mondo Boys (She Dies Tomorrow, Phoenix Forgotten, Fatman, The Girlfriend Experience, Red Right Hand, Silk Road). The follow-up to 2015’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst continue the filmmaker’s investigation for the next eight years, uncovering hidden material, Durst’s prison calls, and interviews with witnesses who had not come forward earlier. The 6-parter will air Sundays on HBO and will also be available to stream on Max.
Premiering tomorrow, April 22, is the Disneynature documentary Tiger directed by Mark Linfield, co-directed by Vanessa Berlowitz & Rob Sullivan and narrated by Priyanka Chopra. Nitin Sawhney (Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, The Namesake, Breathe, What’s Love Got to Do With It?, Traitors, A Girl from Mogadishu) has composed the film’s original music. Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our previous news article for more information about the movie, which will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Heffes Scoring Hulu’s & Disney+’s ‘Shardlake’
Posted: April 20, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Heffes, Disney Plus, Hulu, Justin Chadwick, Shardlake
Composer Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Queen of Katwe, The Rite, Touching the Void, State of Play) is reuniting with director Justin Chadwick on the new British Hulu/Disney+ original series Shardlake. The show is written by Stephen Butchard (The Last Kingdom, Baghdad Central) based on the popular novels by C.J. Sansom, directed by Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl, Tulip Fever) and stars Arthur Hughes, Sean Bean, Anthony Boyle, Babou Ceesay, Paul Kaye, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Matthew Steer, Peter Firth, Brian Vernel, David Pearse, Irfan Shamji, Miles Barrow, Mike Noble and Kimberley Nixon. The 4-part murder mystery is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries and follows the title character whose sheltered life as a lawyer is turned upside down when he gets instructed to investigate the murder of one of his commissioners at a monastery. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 19, 2024)
Posted: April 19, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Abigail, Blood for Dust, Brian Tyler, Chris Benstead, Jay Wadley, Nick Bohun, Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver, The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Tom Holkenborg, We Grown Now
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the vampire horror movie Abigail directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett and starring Melissa Barrera, Alisha Weir, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Angus Cloud, Kevin Durand and Giancarlo Esposito. The film’s original music is composed by Brian Tyler (The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, Crazy Rich Asians, Fast & Furious, Yellowstone, Ready or Not). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as an original song by Jean Dawson today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Universal Pictures release.
Also opening wide is the action comedy The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Henry Golding, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Til Schweiger and Cary Elwes. Chris Benstead (The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Wrath of Man, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre) has composed the film’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score is expected to be released in the coming weeks by Atlantic Screen Music. Click here to check out the project’s music team credits and check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the movie, which is being released by Lionsgate. Read the rest of this entry »
