The full details of the soundtrack album for the romantic sports comedy drama Challengers have been revealed. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winners Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Soul, Watchmen, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mank). Also included is the original song Compress / Repress written by Reznor, Ross & director Luca Guadagnino, performed by the composers and feat. additional vocals by Mariqueen Maandig Reznor. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 26 by Milan Records and will be available to stream/download here. Listen to the composers’ score title track and the song below. The label has previously released Challengers [MIXED], a DJ set by Boyz Noise earlier this month. Challengers is directed by Guadagnino, written by Justin Kuritzkes and stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Challengers’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Atticus Ross, Challengers, Luca Guadagnino, score, Soundtrack, Trent Reznor
Jason Hill Scoring Prime Video’s ‘Them: The Scare’
Posted: April 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Jason Hill, Them, Them: The Scare
Jason Hill (Mindhunter, The Confession Killer, City on Fire, Magazine Dreams, Extrapolations, Voir, Love, Death & Robots) is the new composer of the Prime Video horror anthology series Them. Season 2, entitled Them: The Scare, is created by Little Marvin and stars Deborah Ayorinde, Pam Grier, Luke James, Jeremy Bobb, Joshua J. Williams, Wayne Knight, Charles Brice, Carlito Olivero and Iman Shumpert. The 8-parter is set in 1991 and follows an LAPD Homicide Detective who is assigned to a new case: the gruesome murder of a foster home mother that has left even the most hardened detectives shaken. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Boy Kills World’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Boy Kills World, Ludvig Forssell, Moritz Mohr, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the action thriller Boy Kills World. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ludvig Forssell (Death Stranding, P.T., Belle) who has made his live-action feature scoring debut on the project. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 26 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Boy Kills World is directed by Moritz Mohr and stars Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Andrew Koji, Famke Janssen, Michelle Dockery, Yayan Ruhian, Isaiah Mustafa, Brett Gelman and Sharlto Copley. The movie tells the story of a deaf warrior who is trained by a mysterious shaman to topple a far-flung dystopia. Read the rest of this entry »
Högni Egilsson Scoring Baltasar Kormákur’s ‘Touch’
Posted: April 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Baltasar Kormakur, Högni Egilsson, Touch
Högni Egilsson (Under the Tree, Against the Current) has recently scored the upcoming Icelandic thriller Touch. The film is directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest, 2 Guns, Adrift) and stars Egill Olafsson, Kōki, Masahiro Motoki, Sigurdur Ingvarsson, Palmi Kormakur and Yoko Narahashi. The movie is based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson and follows one widower’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out. Read the rest of this entry »
‘First Case’ (‘Première Affaire’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: First Case, Olivier Marguerit, Première affaire, score, Soundtrack, Victoria Musiedlak
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the French thriller First Case (Première affaire). The album features the film’s original music composed by Olivier Marguerit (The Night of the 12th, My Best Part, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Dark Inclusion). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. First Case is written and directed by Victoria Musiedlak and stars Noée Abita, Anders Danielsen Lie, Alexis Neises, Saadia Ben Taieb, François Morel, Andranic Manet eand Louise Chevillotte. The movie follows a young lawyer who just graduated law school and finds herself thrown into her first criminal law case and discovers the cruelty of the world that surrounds her private and professional lives. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob & Oklou to Compose Music for Phuong Mai Nguyen’s ‘In Waves’
Posted: April 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: In Waves, Oklou, Phuong Mai Nguyen, Rob
Composer Rob (aka Robin Coudert) (Maniac, Gretel & Hansel, Revenge, Horns, Oxygen, Troy: Fall of a City) and singer/DJ/music producer Oklou (aka Marylou Mayniel) have been tapped to write the original music for the upcoming animated feature In Waves. The film is directed by Phuong Mai Nguyen and features the voices of Lyna Khoudri, Rio Vega, Paul Kircher and Birana Ba. The movie is based on the graphic novel of the same name by AJ Dungo and tells the story of a shy high school student who falls in love with a surfer whose live starts falling apart when her illness becomes more severe. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Soul Eater’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, Le mangeur d'âmes, Raphaël Gesqua, score, Soundtrack, The Soul Eater
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the French horror thriller The Soul Eater (Le mangeur d’âmes). The album features the film’s original music composed by Raphaël Gesqua (The Deep House, Livid, Among the Living). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. The Soul Eater is directed by Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury and stars Virginie Ledoyen, Paul Hamy and Sandrine Bonnaire. The movie based on Alexis Laipsker’s bestselling novel of the same title is set in a mountain village, where an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces following the disappearance of local children and a series of violent deaths. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Swift Street’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Damian de Boos-Smith, Maria Alfonsine, SBS, score, Soundtrack, Swift Street
Maria Alfonsine (Wakefield) and Damian de Boos-Smith (Solo) will release a soundtrack album for the SBS original drama Swift Street. The album features selections of the composers’ original score from the show and will be released digitally tomorrow, April 24 and will be available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes and most other major digital music services. Swift Street is created by Tig Terera and stars Tanzyn Crawford, Cliff Curtis, Keiynan Lonsdale, Bernie Van Tiel, Eliza Matengu and Alfred Chuol. The crime drama follows a twentysomething woman who has to join forces with her hustler father in order to save him from debt and the dangerous criminals who are out to get him. Read the rest of this entry »
Benjamin Wallfisch to Score Lee Isaac Chung’s ‘Twisters’
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Benjamin Wallfisch, Lee Isaac Chung, Twisters
Benjamin Wallfisch (It, The Flash, Shazam!, Blade Runner 2049, Hidden Figures, The Invisible Man) has been hired to score the upcoming disaster movie Twisters. The film is directed by Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Nik Dodani and Kiernan Shipka. The sequel to Jan de Bont’s 1996 feature Twister (scored by Mark Mancina) follows two competing teams of stormchasers who find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Trust’ (‘Confidenza’) Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Confidenza, Daniele Luchetti, score, Soundtrack, Thom Yorke, Trust
XL Recordings will release the official soundtrack album for the Italian drama Trust (Confidenza). The album features the film’s original music composed by Thom Yorke (of the rock band Radiohead) who previously scored Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 Suspiria remake. The soundtrack will be released digitally this coming Friday, April 26 (click here to order). A CD and vinyl edition will be coming out on July 12 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Two first tracks (Knife Edge & Prize Giving) are already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. Trust is co-written and directed by Daniele Luchetti and stars Elio Germano, Federica Rosellini, Vittoria Puccini, Pilar Fogliati and Isabella Ferrari. The movie is based on the bestselling novel by Domenico Starnone and explores the relationship between a revered teacher and his brilliant and precocious student. Read the rest of this entry »
