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With an original soundtrack by Sia and Scott Walker, Vox Lux features Natalie Portman as Celeste, a young woman whose traumatic experience at a school shooting inspires her to write a song that launches her to global pop stardom in the Madonna-Lady Gaga idiom. This trailer features two versions of a song called “Wrapped Up,” co-written […]
David Buckley’s main title theme music for The Good Fight earned CBS All Access its first Emmy nomination last year. It lost to Stranger Things, but it should get another shot this year. The piece has drawn rave reviews from fans on YouTube. The harpsichord-like notes that open the piece, joined by violins, get things off […]
Germaine Franco’s star turn as ASCAP’s Shirley Walker Award honoree had people wanting to learn more about Shirley Walker. As it turns out, she was a trailblazing female film and television composer at a time when there were even fewer than there are now. Mentor to Hans Zimmer and Mark Watters, she had a bit […]
The haunting “Lullaby for a Soldier” performed by actress Maggie Siff for the TV show Sons of Anarchy was used to memorable effect on the trailer for Twentieth Century Fox’s Alita: Battle Angel, a Dec. 21 theatrical release directed by Robert Rodriguez. “I didn’t know what to expect when Maggie came over to the studio,” […]
Katharine McPhee performs “Living in the Moment,” the theme song to Paramount Pictures’ Book Club, an ensemble comedy starring Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda, and Mary Steenburgen. McPhee was the runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol, and released her debut album on RCA Records in 2007.The tune was written by Carole Bayer Sager with Walter […]
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical led the Tony Award nominations, tied with Mean Girls with 12 each. Steppenwolf director Tina Landau co-conceived and helms the Bikini Bottom action. Re-imaginings of Angels in America and Carousel had 11 nominations each, as did the new entry The Band’s Visit. Best musical nominees are Frozen, Mean Girls, SpongeBob SquarePants, […]
Two-time Grammy-winning composer-producer Marcus Miller sets the score for Marshall, the story of the early career of Thurgood Marshall, the 96th Supreme Court Justice and the first African American on the nation’s highest court, serving from October 1967 through October 1991. Reginald Hudlin directs Chadwick Boseman as the young attorney destined to change the history of […]
“Freedom ’90” by George Michael gets creative cover treatment in this trailer for Pitch Perfect 3. A cappella songbirds the Bellas are back for one last competition on an overseas USO tour for Pitch Perfect 3. This time they’re up against arch-rivals that use instruments as well as vocals. Hailee Steinfeld, Anna Kendrick, Ruby Rose […]
Though the film score is by Carter Burwell, the trailer — produced for Fox Searchlight Pictures by Aspect Ratio — features music from two production libraries: Scorebird supplied the light piano music for the opening, which segues to orchestral swells Elephant Music. “We were looking for emotional, beautiful music that had a build and could carry […]
A cover version of The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” is the backing track to the new trailers for Walt Disney/Pixar release Coco, coming to U.S. screens Nov. 22 with a score by Michael Giacchino. The film, which is themed around Mexican Dia de Muertos folklore, premieres at the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico on Oct. 20 […]
