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 »
‘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
Christophe Chassol to Score Michaël R. Roskam’s ‘Le Faux Soir’
Posted: May 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christophe Chassol, Le Faux Soir, Michael Roskam
Christophe Chassol (Asylum Blackout, Sex, Love & Therapy, Dark Touch, Lamb) has signed on to score the upcoming World War II heist movie Le Faux Soir. The film is directed by Michaël R. Roskam (Bullhead, The Drop) and stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Mélanie Thierry, Karim Leklou, Mara Taquin, Julien Frison, Bouli Lanners and François Damiens. The movie is set in German-occupied Belgium in late 1943 and inspired by wartime events surrounding Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir, which came under Nazi Germany’s control following its invasion of the country in 1940. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Last Bullet’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Balle perdue, Balle perdue 3, Guillaume Pierret, Guillaume Roussel, Last Bullet, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the French Netflix original film Last Bullet (Balle perdue 3). The album features the movie’s original music composed by Guillaume Roussel (3 Days to Kill, The Three Musketeers – D’Artagnan & Milady, Black Beauty, The Spy, Expend4bles, Lift, Happy!, The Man with the Iron Heart, November). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 7 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first and final tracks after the jump. Last Bullet is co-written and directed by Guillaume Pierret and stars Alban Lenoir, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Stéfi Celma, Pascale Arbillot, Gérard Lanvin, Quentin D’Hainaut, Anne Serra and Julie Tedesco. The final installment in the action thriller trilogy follows car genius Lino as he returns to conclude his vendetta against Areski and the corrupt commander who ruined their lives. Read the rest of this entry »
Jason Lazarus & Joseph Trapanese Scoring David Midell’s ‘The Ritual’
Posted: May 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Midell, Jason Lazarus, Joseph Trapanese, The Ritual
Jason Lazarus (Skull Island, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Gates, Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans) and Joseph Trapanese (Oblivion, The Greatest Showman, The Witcher, Shadow and Bone, Brilliant Minds, Straight Outta Compton, G20, The Raid: Redemption) have teamed up to score the upcoming horror thriller The Ritual. The film is directed by David Midell (The Killing of David Chamberlain) and stars Al Pacino, Dan Stevens, Ashley Greene, Abigail Cowen and Patricia Heaton. The movie based on real events follows two priests who are divided by doubt when the Church sanctions the exorcism of a woman and must confront a force beyond comprehension…and their own faith. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Little Jaffna’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Lawrence Valin, Little Jaffna, Maxence Dussere, score, Soundtrack
B Original has released a soundtrack album for the French crime drama Little Jaffna. The album features the film’s original music composed by Maxence Dussere (Wild Seas, Houria, De Grace). 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. Little Jaffna is co-written and directed by Lawrence Valin and stars Valin himself, Kawsie Chandra, Puviraj Raveendran and Vela Ramamoorthy. The movie follows a young police officer from a Tamil family as he’s tasked with infiltrating a criminal enterprise in Paris that’s funnelling money to the Eelam liberation movement back home in Sri Lanka. Read the rest of this entry »
Main Titles Track from ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Released
Posted: May 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alfie Godfrey, Christopher McQuarrie, Max Aruj, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Sony Classical has released the first track from the soundtrack for the action sequel Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Available to stream/download now is the main titles track written by the film’s composers Max Aruj (Crawl, The Ice Road, iBoy, Lansky) and Alfie Godfrey (Marching Powder, A Town Called Malice, Horsepower) and featuring Lalo Schifrin’s classic Mission: Impossible theme. Also listen to the cue after the jump. A full soundtrack album is expected to be released on May 23. Check back on this page for the full album details. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is directed by Christopher McQuarrie and stars Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany,Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Mariela Garriga, Hannah Waddingham, Shea Whigham and Angela Bassett. Read the rest of this entry »
Remastered ‘First Blood’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: May 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: First Blood, Jerry Goldsmith, Rambo, score, Soundtrack, Ted Kotcheff
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1982 action classic First Blood directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna and Brian Dennehy. The album features the film’s newly remastered complete original score composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Chinatown, Alien, The Mummy, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Basic Instinct). The 2-CD set is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the track list, listen to audio samples and find out more about the release. The label has previously released an album featuring Goldsmith’s complete score back in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Waz & Jamie Jackson Scoring Prime Video’s ‘Motorheads’
Posted: May 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Jamie Jackson, Motorheads, WAZ, WAZ-Jackson
Jamie Jackson & Waz (aka WAZ-JACKSON) (Cougar Town, Bad Monkey, Bluff City Law, Undateable, Life Sentence, Surviving Jack, Rush Hour, Egg) are scoring the upcoming Prime Video original series Motorheads. The show is created by John A. Norris (All American) and stars Ryan Phillippe, Nathalie Kelley, Michael Cimino, Melissa Collazo, Uriah Shelton, Nicolas Cantu, Mia Healey, Drake Rodger, Josh Macqueen, Matt Lanter, Audrey Gerthoffer and Johnna Dias-Watson. The young-adult action-drama tells the story of a group of outsiders who form an unlikely friendship over a mutual love of street racing, while navigating the hierarchy and rules of high school. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Season 4 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Joseph Stephens, score, Soundtrack, The Righteous Gemstones
WaterTower Music has released a new soundtrack album for the HBO original series The Righteous Gemstones. The album features the original score from the show’s fourth and final season composed by Joseph Stephens (Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, Never Have I Ever, Running Point, Observe and Report, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Flower), as well as original songs written by Stephens, Mike Mitschele, Rick Randall & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Waxwork Records has previously released a soundtrack album featuring the music from Season 1, while Milan Records released the official Season 2 soundtrack and Rough House Records has released the Season 3 album. The Righteous Gemstones is created by Danny McBride and stars McBride himself, Adam Devine, John Goodman, Edi Patterson,Tony Cavalero, Cassidy Freeman, Tim Baltz, Greg Alan Williams, Walton Goggins, Jennifer Nettles, Skyler Gisondo, Megan Mullally, James DuMont, Troy Hogan, Valyn Hall, Jody Hill, Kelton DuMont, Gavin Munn, Arden Myrin and Seann William Scott. Read the rest of this entry »
Howard Drossin Scoring Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’
Posted: May 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Highest 2 Lowest, Howard Drossin, Spike Lee
Composer Howard Drossin (The Man With the Iron Fists, The Protector, Welcome to Sudden Death, Sonic and the Black Knight) is reuniting with director Spike Lee (Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, BlacKkKlansman) on the upcoming crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest. The film based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 classic High and Low stars Denzel Washington as a titan music mogul who is targeted with a ransom plot and gets jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, Ice Spice, Dean Winters, John Douglas Thompson and ASAP Rocky are also starring. Read the rest of this entry »
