Composer Carter Burwell (Carol, The Banshees of Inisherin, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Blind Side, Twilight, Anomalisa, Being John Malkovich) is reteaming with director Ethan Coen on the upcoming comedy Honey Don’t!. The film starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Charlie Day & Billy Eichner follows a small-town private investigator who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church. Coen also co-wrote screenplay with Tricia Cooke. Read the rest of this entry »
Carter Burwell Scoring Ethan Coen’s ‘Honey Don’t!’
Posted: April 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Carter Burwell, Ethan Coen, Honey Don't!
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‘Simon of the Mountain’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Federico Luis, Hernán González Villamil, score, Simón de la montaña, Simon of the Mountain, Soundtrack
Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the coming-of-age drama Simon of the Mountain (Simón de la montaña). The album features the film’s original score composed by Hernán González Villamil (Home Team, Night Watch, Como el mar). Also included is the song Tender Dawn by Loud Neighbor. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the first score track and the song after the jump. Simon of the Mountain is co-written and directed by Federico Luis and stars Lorenzo Ferro, Pehuén Pedre, Kiara Supini, Agustín Toscano, Laura Nevole and Camila Hirane. The movie revolves around a young man grappling with the challenges of a mental disorder. Read the rest of this entry »
Fernando Velázquez Scoring Caroline Origer’s ‘Spiked’
Posted: April 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Caroline Origer, Fernando Velazquez, Spiked
Fernando Velázquez (The Impossible, A Monster Calls, Hercules, The Orphanage, Crimson Peak, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Devil) is scoring the upcoming animated feature Spiked. The film is directed by Caroline Origer (My Fairy Troublemaker) and features the voices of Matthew Goode, Kila Lord Cassidy, Charlie Reid, Teresa Gallagher, Rasmus Hardiker, Jushua Rubin and Swampy. The movie tells the story of young, courageous hedgehog sheltered by her overprotective father and an overworked, exhausted rabbit with a few dozen kids of his own who crash into each other’s lives. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mob Cops’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Danny A. Abeckaser, Lionel Cohen, Mob Cops, score, Soundtrack
DNA-Productions will release a soundtrack album for the crime thriller Mob Cops. The album features the film’s original score composed by Lionel Cohen (Mob Town, First We Take Brooklyn, Bardejov, Inside Man, Feral State, The Engineer, Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, April 25 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Mob Cops is directed by Danny A. Abeckaser and stars David Arquette, Jeremy Luke, Kevin Connolly, Abeckaser himself, Joseph Russo, Kyle Stefanski, Nathaniel Buzolic, Bo Dietl and Graham Sibley. The movie is based on true events and follows a team of NYPD detectives as they wage war on two of their own officers who have sold their souls to the city’s homicidal crime boss. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Love Is Overrated’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bachar Mar-Khalifé, L'amour c'est surcoté, Love Is Overrated, Mourad Winter, score, Soundtrack
Balcoon has released a soundtrack album for the French romantic comedy drama Love Is Overrated (L’amour c’est surcoté). The album features the film’s original music composed by Bachar Mar-Khalifé (Skies of Lebanon, Banel & Adama, My Brothers and I). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on most major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks below. Love Is Overrated is written and directed by Mourad Winter and stars Hakim Jemili, Laura Felpin and Benjamin Tranié. The movie follows a man who has been struggling for years after losing his best friend and mentor and decides to finally to get out and meet people again, when he meets the love of his life. Read the rest of this entry »
Steven Price Scoring Ilya Naishuller’s ‘Heads of State’
Posted: April 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Heads of State, Ilya Naishuller, Steven Price
Steven Price (Gravity, Fury, Last Night in Soho, Our Planet, Suicide Squad, Over the Moon, Baby Driver, The World’s End) has composed the original music for the upcoming action comedy Heads of State. The film is directed by Ilya Naishuller (Nobody, Hardcore Henry) and stars Idris Elba, John Cena, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jack Quaid, Carla Gugino, Stephen Root, Richard Coyle, Sarah Niles and Paddy Considine. The movie follows the U.S. President and the UK Prime Minister who must set aside their rivalry to thwart a global conspiracy and save the world – if they can work together. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mexico 86’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cesar Diaz, Mexico 86, Rémi Boubal, score, Soundtrack
Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the Belgian/French political thriller Mexico 86. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rémi Boubal (Plan 75, Black Tide, Our Mothers Bigger Than Us, Teach Me If You Can). 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. Mexico 86 is written and directed by César Díaz and stars Bérénice Béjo, Léonardo Ortizgris, Matheo Labbé and Julieta Egurrola. The movie follows a Guatemalan rebel activist fighting against the corrupt military dictatorship who is forced to flee to Mexico in 1976, leaving her son behind, when – 10 years later – he comes to live with her and she is forced to choose between her duties as a mother and continuing her revolutionary activism. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bullet Train Explosion’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bullet Train Explosion, Neftlix, score, Shinji Higuchi, Soundtrack, Taisei Iwasaki, Yuma Yamaguchi
Netflix Music will release the official soundtrack album for the Japanese Netflix original film Bullet Train Explosion. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Taisei Iwasaki (Belle, First Love, Blood Blockade Battlefront) and Yuma Yamaguchi. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 23 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to Iwasaki’s title track below. Bullet Train Explosion is directed by Shinji Higuchi and stars Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kanata Hosoda, Non, Machiko Ono, Jun Kaname, Hana Toyoshima, Satoru Matsuo, Daisuke Kuroda, Suzuka Ohgo and Matsuya Onoe. The action thriller based on Toei’s 1975 feature The Bullet Train directed by Junya Sato is set on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph and follows the Hayabusa No. 60’s two conductors and driver who must race against time to save the passengers. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Howe Scoring Disney Channel’s ‘Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires’
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Channel, Disney Plus, Paul Hoen, Tom Howe, Zombies, ZOMBIES 4: Dawn of the Vampires
Tom Howe (Ted Lasso, Dog Man, Knuckles, Daisy Jones & the Six, Early Man, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Book Club: The New Chapter) has signed on to score the upcoming Disney Channel original movie Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires. The film is directed by Paul Hoen (who previously helmed the first three installments) and stars Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly, Freya Skye, Malachi Barton, Kylee Russell, Chandler Kinney, Julian Lerner, Mekonnen Knife, Swayam Bhatia, Lisa Chappell and Jonno Roberts. The sequel, which features nine new original songs and two reprises of Someday & Ain’t No Doubt About It, follows Zed & Addison whose summer road trip takes an unexpected detour, landing them in the middle of yet another monster rivalry: Daywalkers vs. Vampires. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Chief of Station’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chief of Station, Jesse V. Johnson, score, Sean Murray, Soundtrack
Filmtrax/Atlantic Screen Music has released a soundtrack album for the action thriller Chief of Station. The album features the film’s original music composed by Sean Murray (The Debt Collector, Accident Man, Deep Blue Sea 2, Avengement, Boudica: Queen of War, Walk. Ride. Rodeo.) Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s main titles track after the jump. Chief of Station is directed by Jesse V. Johnson and stars Aaron Eckhart, Olga Kurylenko, Alex Pettyfer, Daniel Bernhardt, Nick Moran, Chris Petrovski, Kris Johnson and James Faulkner. The movie follows a former CIA Station Chief who – after learning the untimely death of his wife was not accidental – is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew. Read the rest of this entry »
