Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me, Minions, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Smallfoot, The Smurfs, Paw Patrol: The Movie) has recently scored the animated feature Animal Farm. The film is directed by Andy Serkis (Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle) and features the voices of Seth Rogen, Gaten Matarazzo, Laverne Cox, Kieran Culkin, Iman Vellani, Jim Parsons, Steve Buscemi, Woody Harrelson, Glenn Close, Kathleen Turner and Serkis himself. The movie based on George Orwell’s novella of the same title follows a group of farm animals who rebel against their neglectful human owners and take over the farm, only to face new challenges under the rule of a cunning pig. Read the rest of this entry »
Heitor Pereira Scoring Andy Serkis’ ‘Animal Farm’
Posted: June 9, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andy Serkis, Animal Farm, Heitor Pereira
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‘Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 9, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force, Gordy Haab, score, Soundtrack, Wuershan
Gordy Haab (Star Wars: Jedi Survivor/Fallen Order, Star Wars: Battlefront, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Halo Wars 2) has released a soundtrack album for the Chinese fantasy drama Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks below. Hangzhou Yuyinniaoniao Culture Media Co. has previously released Haab’s score for 2023’s first part of the Feng Sheng Trilogy, Kingdom of Storms. Creation of the Gods II is directed by Wuershan and stars Bo Huang, Kris Phillips, Shi Yu, Naernax, Nashi, Muchi Chen, Narana Erdyneeva, and Xuejian Li. Read the rest of this entry »
Cornel Wilczek & Thomas Rouch Scoring HBO’s ‘Surviving Ohio State’
Posted: June 9, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cornel Wilczek, Eva Orner, HBO, Surviving Ohio State, Thomas Rouch
Cornel Wilczek (Talk to Me, Apple Cider Vinegar, Bring Her Back, Clickbait, These Final Hours, Glitch, Nowhere Boys) & Thomas Rouch (Riptide, Fires, Avarice, With Intent) have teamed up to score the new HBO original documentary Surviving Ohio State. The film is directed by Eva Orner and tells the story of the male victims of Dr. Richard Strauss, a sports medicine physician and serial sex abuser employed by The Ohio State University from 1978 to 1998. The movie examines the culture that allowed the abuse to continue unchecked for nearly two decades, as well as the survivors’ present-day fight to hold the school accountable. Read the rest of this entry »
‘That Summer in Paris’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 9, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Le rendez-vous de l'été, Saint DX, score, Soundtrack, That Summer In Paris, Valentine Cadic
Because Music & Cracki Records have released a soundtrack album for the French comedy drama That Summer in Paris (Le rendez-vous de l’été). The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter Saint DX who has made his feature scoring debut on the project. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the musician’s first and final track below. That Summer in Paris is directed by Valentine Cadic and stars Blandine Madec, India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Lou Deleuze, Matthias Jacquin and Béryl Gastaldello. The movie is set during last summer’s Olympic Games in Paris and follows a 30-year-old woman from Normandy who heads to the French capital to watch the games and reunite with her half-sister, but gets swept up in the city’s chaotic and intense rhythm. Read the rest of this entry »
Jongnic Bontemps Scoring Tyler Perry’s ‘Madea’s Destination Wedding’
Posted: June 9, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jongnic Bontemps, Madea's Destination Wedding, Netflix, Tyler Perry
Jongnic Bontemps (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Redfall, My Name Is Pauli Murray, 4400, United Skates, Wedding Season, World’s Best) has composed the original score for the upcoming Netflix original film Madea’s Destination Wedding. The movie is written and directed by Tyler Perry (The Six Triple Eight, For Colored Girls) and stars Perry himself, Cassi Davis Patton, David Mann, Taja V. Simpson, Tamela Mann, Diamond White, Xavier Smalls, Jermaine Harris, Walnette Santiago and Brandon Sutton. The comedy marks the tenth installment in the Madea feature series and follows the title character as she packs her best floral dresses and a whole lot of chaos when the Simmons family heads to the Bahamas for her grandniece’s whirlwind wedding. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Gold’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 9, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, score, Simon Goff, Soundtrack, The Gold
Silva Screen Records has released a new soundtrack album for the BBC drama The Gold. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Simon Goff (Waves). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks after the jump. The label has previously released an album featuring the composer’s score from Season 1 back in 2023. The Gold is written by Neil Forsyth and stars Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Stefanie Martini, Tom Cullen, Sam Spruell, Tom Hughes, Joshua McGuire, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tamsin Topolski, Joshua Samuels, Jack Lowden and Rochelle Neil. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 8, 2025)
Posted: June 8, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Cuervo, Amazon, Andrew Skeet, Daniel Pemberton, Deep Cover, Families Like Ours, Lydia Ainsworth, Nathan Klein, Netflix, Revival, Syfy, Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, Valentin Hadjadj
Premiering in the U.S. on Tuesday, June 10, is the limited series Families Like Ours (Familier som vores) directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Magnus Millang, David Dencik, Thomas Bo Larsen, Esben Smed and Asta Kamma August. The show’s original music is composed by Valentin Hadjadj (Close, Girl, April and the Extraordinary World, A Bigger World, Under the Stars of Paris, Rialto). 22D Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past January. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the drama, which premiered in several international markets last fall and is making its domestic debut on Netflix.
Premiering on Wednesday, June 11, is the Netflix original documentary Titan: The OceanGate Disaster directed by Mark Monroe about OceanGate’s Titan tourist submersible that imploded in 2023 on a deep-sea dive to the Titanic. Andrew Skeet (MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, The Body Next Door) & Nathan Klein (Ludwig, The Beast Within, 101 Dalmatian Street) have composed the film’s original music. The movie, which examines CEO Stockton Rush’s quest to become the next billionaire innovator and the doomed underwater endeavor that called into question the price of ambition in the depths of the ocean, just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this week and will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sara – Woman in the Shadows’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 8, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, Ralf Hildenbeutel, Sara - La Donna nell'Ombra, Sara - Woman in the Shadows, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original series Sara – Woman in the Shadows (Sara – La Donna nell’Ombra). The album features the selections of the show’s original music composed by Ralf Hildenbeutel (Supersex, Shiverstone Castle, Everybody Loves Diamonds, Maltese – Il Romanzo del Commissario). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s main theme below. Sara – Woman in the Shadows is based on the crime novel of the same title by Maurizio De Giovanni and stars Teresa Saponangelo, Claudia Gerini, Flavio Furno, Carmine Recano, Chiara Celotto, Giacomo Giorgio, Antonio Gerardi, Massimo Popolizio, Martina Pia Gambardella and Haroun Fall. The 6-part thriller follows a former internal secret service agent who gets pushed back into action to shed light on the untimely death of her son, investigating a series of crimes that grows increasingly sinister. Read the rest of this entry »
Ryan Bingham’s Original Song ‘Dangerous’ from ‘Dangerous Animals’ Released
Posted: June 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dangerous Animals, Ryan Bingham, Sean Byrne
Ryan Bingham has released the original song Dangerous from the survival horror thriller Dangerous Animals. The track is written and performed by the Academy Award-winning songwriter and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. As previously reported, Range Music has released a full soundtrack album featuring Michael Yezerski’s original score from the film yesterday. Dangerous Animals is directed by Sean Byrne and stars Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, Ella Newton, Rob Carlton and Liam Greinke. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (June 6, 2025)
Posted: June 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ballerina, Barron's Cove, Dangerous Animals, Danny Bensi, Gavin Brivik, I Don't Understand You, Jacob Yoffee, Jacques Brautbar, James Newberry, Jason Lazarus, Joel J. Richard, Joseph Trapanese, Michael Yezerski, Resurrection Road, Roahn Hylton, Saunder Jurriaans, The Life of Chuck, The Newton Brothers, The Ritual, Tyler Bates, We Are Guardians
Opening in theaters nationwide today is the action movie Ballerina directed by Len Wiseman and starring Ana de Armas, Gabriel Byrne, Anjelica Huston, Ian McShane, Keanu Reeves, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Norman Reedus. The film’s original score is composed by Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, Watchmen, Deadpool 2, 300, X, Atomic Blonde) & Joel J. Richard (John Wick, Quantico, Books of Blood). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ music today (click here for the full album details). Always Never Records has released a separate EP featuring three tracks by Le Castle Vania and Columbia Records has released two digital singles featuring the end credits songs (click here to listen to all tracks and to learn more about the Lionsgate release).
Also opening wide this weekend is the survival horror thriller Dangerous Animals directed by Sean Byrne and starring Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, Liam Greinke, Rob Carltonand Ella Newton. Michael Yezerski (The Tax Collector, Blindspotting, The Devil’s Candy, The Vigil, Corporate Animals, Feel the Beat) has composed the film’s original music. Range Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by the Independent Film Company & Shudder. Read the rest of this entry »
