Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into/Across the Spider-Verse, Enola Holmes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Steve Jobs, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Birds of Prey) is contributing music to the upcoming contemporary western/comedy Eddington. He will be sharing scoring credit with Bobby Krlic who previously scored director Ari Aster’s last two features. The film is written and directed by Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Clifton Collins Jr., Deirdre O’Connell, Amélie Hoeferle, Micheal Ward and William Belleau. The movie set in the titular New Mexico tow centers on a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor that sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Pemberton Co-Scoring Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
Posted: May 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Ari Aster, Bobby Krlic, Daniel Pemberton, Eddington
‘Blood of Zeus’ Season 3 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Blood of Zeus, Netflix, Paul Edward-Francis, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release a new soundtrack album for the streamer’s original animated series Blood of Zeus. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s third and final season composed by Paul Edward-Francis (Howl, Henry Danger: The Movie, The Convent). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 8 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks below. The label has previously released an album featuring the composer’s score from Season 2 last year, while Milan Records has released the first soundtrack featuring music from Season 1 in 2021. Blood of Zeus is created by Charles Parlapanides & Vlas Parlapanides and stars Derek Phillips, Jason O’Mara, Claudia Christian, Mamie Gummer, Elias Toufexis, Jessica Henwick, Chris Diamantopoulos, Matthew Mercer, Adetokumboh M’Cormack and Melina Kanakaredes. Read the rest of this entry »
Jed Kurzel Scoring Michael Pearce’s ‘Echo Valley’
Posted: May 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Echo Valley, Jed Kurzel, Michael Pearce, Tornado
Composer Jed Kurzel (Alien: Covenant,The Babadook, The Snowtown Murders, Overlord, Monkey Man, Assassin’s Creed, The Mustang, The Pope’s Exorcist) is reteaming with director Michael Pearce (Beast) on the upcoming thriller Echo Valley. The film starring Julianne Moore, Sydney Sweeney & Domhnall Gleeson follows a mother whose troubled daughter shows on up on her doorstep, hysterical and covered in someone else’s blood, and has to try to piece together the shocking truth of what happened. Brad Inglesby (Mare of Easttown, Out of the Furnace) wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ocean with David Attenborough’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Colin Butfield, Keith Scholey, National Geographic, Ocean with David Attenborough, score, Soundtrack, Steven Price, Toby Nowlan
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Ocean with David Attenborough. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Steven Price (Gravity, Our Planet, Fury, Last Night in Soho, Baby Driver, Over the Moon, The Aeronauts, Suicide Squad, Dolphin Reef, The World’s End). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 8 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks below. Ocean with David Attenborough is directed by Toby Nowlan, Keith Scholey & Colin Butfield and presented/authored by the 98-year-old broadcaster who draws on his lifetime of exploration and knowledge of the sea to take to take the audience on a journey of wonder through the planet’s most spectacular undersea habitats. The movie highlights the vital, achievable actions the world can take to restore the ocean and stabilize the climate. Read the rest of this entry »
Benjamin Wallfisch to Score Michael Chaves’ ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’
Posted: May 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Benjamin Wallfisch, Michael Chaves, The Conjuring, The Conjuring: Last Rites
Benjamin Wallfisch (It, Twisters, Alien: Romulus, Blade Runner 2049, The Flash, Hidden Figures, Shazam!) has signed on to score the upcoming horror sequel The Conjuring: Last Rites. The film is directed by Michael Chaves (The Nun II, The Curse of La Llorona) and stars Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy. The movie takes place in 1986, five years after the events of The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and follows Ed & Lorraine Warren investigating the case of the Smurl family haunting. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Musicians’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: May 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gregoire Hetzel, Grégory Magne, Les musiciens, score, Soundtrack, The Musicians
Rue Jacob Records has released a soundtrack EP for the French drama The Musicians (Les musiciens). The 6-track EP features the film’s original music composed by Grégoire Hetzel (Ismael’s Ghosts, Incendies, Summertime, My Golden Days, The Midwife, Oh, Mercy!) and performed by soloists including Petteri livonen, Daniel Garlitsky, Beatrice Muthelet, Cyrille Lacrouts, Nina Tonji & Tatiana Uhde. Also included is Garlitsky’s cover of Nirvana’s My Girl. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to Hetzel’s first track below. The Musicians is written and directed by Grégory Magne and stars Valérie Donzelli, Frédéric Pierrot, Mathieu Spinosi, Garlitsky, Emma Ravier and Marie Vialle. The movie follows a woman who brings together four Stradivarius for a unique concert, but when the four virtuosos recruited for the occasion are incapable of playing together, she decides to go and find the only person who can still save the event: the composer of the score. Read the rest of this entry »
BMI Announces Launch of Composer Lab to Foster the Next Generation of Media Composers
Posted: May 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BMI
BMI today announced the launch of its inaugural Composer Lab, designed to provide emerging composers with a one-of-a-kind experience to foster artistic growth and professional development. Under the guidance of composer (and former director of the Sundance Film Music Program) Peter Golub, and BMI’s VP of Film, TV & Visual Media Tracy McKnight, the program will select ten composers to participate in a two-week online workshop followed by a nine-day onsite intensive in Los Angeles. Throughout the lab, participants will be advised by BMI composers including Thomas Newman, James Newton Howard, Harry Gregson-Williams, Rob Simonsen, Blake Neely, Mark Isham, Christopher Lennertz, Nathan Barr, Sean Callery, Ed Shearmur, Sherri Chung, Chanda Dancy, William Ross, Nami Melumad, Bryce Dessner, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Nami Melumad, George S Clinton, Stephanie Economou, Tony Morales, Dara Taylor, Kathryn Bostic, Fil Eisler, Kurt Farquhar, William Ross, among others to be announced., Read the rest of this entry »
‘Electra’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ali Helnwein, Electra, Hala Matar, score, Soundtrack
Pterodactyl Scene will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Electra. The album features the film’s original score composed by Ali Helnwein (Stray, Darlin’, No Way to Live, This Much We Know, Hospitality, Brut Force). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 7 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Hotel Room) below. Electra is co-written and directed by Hala Matar and stars Maria Bakalova, Abigail Cowen, Jack Farthing and Daryl Wein. The movie follows an American couple who travels to Italy to interview a fading rockstar at his girlfriend’s opulent countryside estate, but their glamorous escape becomes a labyrinth of unspoken desires, tortured relationships, and dark secrets. Read the rest of this entry »
Theme Song from Peacock’s ‘Laid’ Released
Posted: May 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Laid, Michael Andrews, Miya Folick, Peacock
Nettwerk Music Group has released the theme song from the Peacock original series Laid. The cover version of James’ Laid (originally written by Tim Booth, Larry Gott & Jim Glennie) is produced by the show’s composer Michael Andrews, performed by Miya Folick and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Laid is developed by Nahnatchka Khan & Sally Bradford McKenna based on the Australian series of the same title and stars Stephanie Hsu, Zosia Mamet, Michael Angarano and Tommy Martinez. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Detective Kien: The Headless Horror’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Wong, Detective Kien: The Headless Horror, Garrett Crosby, Ian Rees, score, Soundtrack, Victor Vũ
MovieScore Media will release a soundtrack album for the Vietnamese supernatural thriller Detective Kien: The Headless Horror. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christopher Wong (Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass, Sword of the Assassin, The Immortal, Maika: The Girl from Another Galaxy) and Ian Rees & Garrett Crosby (The Last Wife, Girl from the Past, The Royal Bride). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 7. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album and also listen to Wong’s “Opening” track below. Detective Kien: The Headless Horror is directed by Victor Vũ and stars Quoc Huy, Dinh Ngoc Diep and Quoc Anh. The movie is set against the backdrop of 19th Century Vietnam during the Nguyễn Dynasty and follows a detective investigating the mystery of a headless corpse that sends shockwaves through a rural village. Read the rest of this entry »
