Singer/songwriter and actor Tyler Hilton (One Tree Hill, Walk the Line, Charlie Bartlett) and songwriter/guitarist Jaco Caraco have provided the original score for the upcoming comedy My Old Ass. The film is written and directed by Megan Park (The Fallout) and stars Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White, Aubrey Plaza, Maddie Ziegler and Kebrice Brooks. The movie follows a bright-yet-irreverent teenager during the summer before college as she comes face-to-face with her older self during a mushroom trip. Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Hilton & Jaco Caraco Scoring Megan Park’s ‘My Old Ass’
Posted: January 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jaco Caraco, Megan Park, My Old Ass, Tyler Hilton
‘Evacuation: A Documentary Military Thriller’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 16, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Channel 4, Evacuation: A Documentary Military Thriller, score, Soundtrack, Vincent Watts
Wattsonic has released a soundtrack album for the Channel 4 documentary series Evacuation: A Documentary Military Thriller. The album features the film’s original music is composed by Vincent Watts (We Are the Freaks, Janapar, Who Killed the KLF?, Starsuckers). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Evacuation is directed by James W Newton and charts the 2021 evacuation of Kabul, one of the largest British military undertakings in recent times, through unparalleled access and using previously unseen footage. The 3-parter also details the impact and emotional toll of the events on all those involved. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: January 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jack Clayton, James Horner, score, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1983 fantasy drama Something Wicked This Way Comes directed by Jack Clayton, written by Ray Bradbury and starring Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Pam Grier and Diane Ladd. The album features the expanded and newly remastered original score from the Walt Disney Pictures production composed and conducted by Academy Award winner James Horner (Titanic, Braveheart, Aliens, Avatar, Field of Dreams, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Legends of the Fall), including previously unreleased music. The CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audios samples and find out more about the release. Intrada has previously released the world premiere soundtrack release for the title back in 2009, as well as a separate album featuring Georges Delerue’s unused score from the movie in 2015. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Gyeongseong Creature’ Part 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Choe Jeong In, Gyeongseong Creature, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Kakao Entertainment has released a second soundtrack for the South Korean Netflix original series Gyeongseong Creature. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Choe Jeong In, as well as additional tracks by Lim Mi Hyun, Kim Tae Seong and Yoon Chae Young. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also llisten to the opening title track below. A first soundtrack EP featuring two songs in different versions was released last month. Gyeongseong Creature is created by Kang Eun-kyung & Chung Dong-yoon and stars Park Seo-jun, Claudia Kim, Han So-hee, Cho Han-cheul, Wi Ha-jun and Kim Hae-sook. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Korven & Michelle Osis Scoring Adam Schindler’s & Brian Netto’s ‘Don’t Move’
Posted: January 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adam Schindler, Brian Netto, Don't Move, Mark Korven, Michelle Osis
Mark Korven (The Witch, The Black Phone, The Lighthouse, Cube, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, The Peripheral) and Michelle Osis (Abandoned, Bloodthirsty, True Fiction, Knuckleball) have teamed up to score the upcoming horror thriller Don’t Move. The film is directed by Adam Schindler (Intruders) & Brian Netto and stars Kelsey Asbille, Finn Wittrock and Daniel Francis. The movie follows a grieving woman who gets injected with a paralytic by a seasoned serial killer and must run, fight and hide before her body completely shuts down. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Alexander: The Making of a God’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alexander: The Making of a God, Lorne Balfe, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Taran Mitchell
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary series Alexander: The Making of a God. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Taran Mitchell (The Resurrection of Charles Manson) and produced by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning & Fallout, Black Widow, His Dark Materials, Black Adam). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the first track below. Alexander: The Making of a God is executive produced by Lucy van Beek & Nick Catliff and stars Buck Braithwaite, Mido Hamada, Agni Scott and Will Stevens. The docudrama reveals the life of Alexander the Great through his transformation from warrior prince to living god and explores his rise as an exiled young man into his obsession with defeating the mighty Persian Emperor Darius that led him to conquer the known world. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Benstead Scoring Netflix’s ‘The Gentlemen’ TV Series
Posted: January 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Benstead, Guy Ritchie, Netflix, The Gentlemen
Chris Benstead is making his television scoring debut on the upcoming British Netflix original series The Gentlemen. The show is created by Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes, Snatch, Aladdin) based on his 2019 feature of the same title (scored by Benstead) and stars Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Joely Richardson, Daniel Ings, Giancarlo Esposito, Vinnie Jones, Chanel Cresswell, Max Beesley, Michael Vu, Jasmine Blackborow, Harry Goodwins and Peter Serafinowicz. The comedy drama follows a young man who unexpectedly inherits his father’s sizeable country estate, only to discover it’s part of a cannabis empire and host of characters from Britain’s criminal underworld want a piece of the operation. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Kina & Yuk’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 15, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Guillaume Maidatchevsky, Julien Jaouen, Kina & Yuk, score, Soundtrack
Valdés Productions has released a soundtrack album for the French adventure drama Kina & Yuk (Kina & Yuk, renards de la banquise). The album features the film’s original music composed by Julien Jaouen (Ailo’s Journey, A Cat’s Life, Playground, Bis). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Listen to the composer’s first track after the jump. Kina & Yuk is directed by Guillaume Maidatchevsky, narrated by Virginie Efira and tells the story of an arctic fox couple who are separated when the male gets trapped on a piece of breakaway ice, leaving his pregnant partner to survive on her own, as hunger and predators close in. Read the rest of this entry »
Ludwig Göransson Wins Critics Choice Award for ‘Oppenheimer’ Score
Posted: January 14, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Critics Choice Awards
Ludwig Göransson was honored with his first Critics Choice Award in the Best Score category for his music for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer at tonight’s 29th Critics Choice Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The other composers nominated in the category were Jerskin Fendrix for Poor Things, Michael Giacchino for Society of the Snow, Daniel Pemberton for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Robbie Robertson for Killers of the Flower Moon and Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt for Barbie. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Craig Before the Creek’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: January 14, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Levin, Cartoon Network, Craig Before the Creek, Jeff Rosenstock, Matt Burnett, score, Soundtrack
WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album for the animated movie Craig Before the Creek. The album features the film’s original score and songs composed by Jeff Rosenstock (Craig of the Creek). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, January 15 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Craig Before the Creek is directed by Craig of the Creek creators Ben Levin & Matt Burnett and features the voices of Philip Solomon, Noël Wells, Vico Ortiz, H Michael Croner, Byron Marc Newsome, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Phil LaMarr and Lucia Cunningham. The Cartoon Network Studios production tells the origin story of Craig as he sets off on a journey into the Creek to find a lost treasure – while being pursued by a band of pirates who want to destroy the Creek itself. Read the rest of this entry »