Hollywood Records has released the cover version of the holiday classic We Wish You a Merry Christmas from the second season of the Disney+ original series The Santa Clauses. The track is produced by the show’s composer Ariel Rechtshaid and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Two other songs (Dancing with My Elf & Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)) from Season 2 of the series have been released as a digital single last month and an EP featuring more tracks will be coming out next week. Read the rest of this entry »
‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ Cover from ‘The Santa Clauses’ Season 2 Released
Posted: December 2, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Ariel Rechtshaid, Disney Plus, The Santa Clauses
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 1, 2023)
Posted: December 1, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Dan Haseltine, Eileen, Family Switch, Godzilla Minus One, Holiday Twist, Marco Beltrami, Matthew S. Nelson, Naoki Sato, Pinar Toprak, Richard Reed Parry, Silent Night, Steve Dorff, The Shift
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the action thriller Silent Night directed by John Woo and starring Joel Kinnaman, Scott Mescudi, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Harold Torres. The film’s original music is composed by Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma, Logan, A Quiet Place, Scream, The Hurt Locker, Ford v. Ferrari, The Wolverine). La-La Land Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score later this month. Check back on this page for the full album details and visit our previous article for more information about the Lionsgate release.
Also opening wide is the Japanese Japanese monster movie Godzilla Minus One written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki and starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sasaki and Hidetaka Yoshioka. Naoki Sato (Rurouni Kenshin, Pretty Cure, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Masquerade Night) has composed the film’s original music. Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last month when the movie opened in Japan. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the Toho Studios production. Read the rest of this entry »
Matthew Margeson Scoring ‘RoboForce: The Animated Series’
Posted: December 1, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Matthew Margeson, RoboForce: The Animated Series
Matthew Margeson (Kingsman, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Rocketman, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, Eddie the Eagle, Pam & Tommy) has been tapped to score RoboForce: The Animated Series. The show inspired by the action figures is set in 2089 and follows Maxx 89 and the rest of RoboForce trying to save the day when a rogue code infected the Utopia Aegis 101’s to turn on humanity. Brian Volk-Weiss (Behind the Attraction) is directing and is also executive producing the project with Nacelle’s Cisco Henson, Matt Kravitsky, Michael Goodman, Tom Stern & Gavin Hignight, as well as Seven Bucks Productions’ Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Rampage) & Hiram Garcia (Black Adam, Jungle Cruise) and Brian Gewirtz (Young Rock). Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Boy and the Heron’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 1, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hayao Miyazaki, Joe Hisaishi, score, Soundtrack, The Boy and the Heron
Studio Ghibli has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for the animated feature The Boy and the Heron. The album features the film’s original score composed by Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, Departures). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. A CD/vinyl edition has previously been released in Japan this past summer. Available separately as a digital single is Kenshi Yonezu’s theme song Spinning Globe. The Boy and the Heron is written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and tells the story of a young boy yearning for his mother who ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pleasantville’ Deluxe Edition Score Album Announced
Posted: December 1, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gary Ross, Pleasantville, Randy Newman, score, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1998 comedy drama Pleasantville written and directed by Gary Ross and starring Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, William H. Macy, J. T. Walsh and Don Knotts. The album features the expanded Academy Award-nominated original score from the composed by Randy Newman (Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Marriage Story, Avalon, A Bug’s Life, Cars), including over 30 minutes of previously unreleased music. The Deluxe Edition is now available to order on Amazon and the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and learn more about the release. (Update, January 25, 2024: The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Money Heist’ (‘La Casa de Papel’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 1, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Iván M. Lacámara, La Casa de Papel, Manel Santisteban, Money Heist, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released the first soundtrack album for the streamer’s Spanish hit series Money Heist (La casa de papel). The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Manel Santisteban & Iván M. Lacámara (Sky Rojo, Vis a Vis). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Check out several tracks below. Money Heist is created by Álex Pina and stars Úrsula Corberó, Álvaro Morte, Itziar Ituño, Pedro Alonso, Jaime Lorente, Miguel Herrán, Darko Perić, Esther Acebo and Hovik Keuchkerian. The crime drama follows a group of robbers as they prepare heist on the Royal Mint of Spain and the Bank of Spain. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Serenity’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: December 1, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Newman, Joss Whedon, score, Serenity, Soundtrack
Varese Sarabande has announced a new soundtrack album for the 2005 space western Serenity written and directed by Joss Whedon and starring Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Summer Glau, Jewel Staite, Gina Torres, Sean Maher and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The album features the film’s expanded original score composed by Academy Award nominee David Newman (Ice Age, Galaxy Quest, Anastasia, The Flintstones, The Nutty Professor, The War of the Roses), including around 40 minutes of previously unreleased music. The 2-CD set is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. (Update, January 25, 2024: A digital version is now available to stream/download here.) Read the rest of this entry »
‘May December’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 1, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Marcelo Zarvos, May December, Michel Legrand, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Todd Haynes
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the drama May December. The album features the music from the film, including original score cues composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, Wonder, The Equalizer 3, Emancipation, The Affair, Ray Donovan), as well as tracks from the 1971 feature The Go-Between written by Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair, Never Say Never Again, Summer of ’42, Yentl), which have been adapted by Zarvos into his score. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Listen to the first two tracks below. May December is directed by Todd Haynes and stars Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, Cory Michael Smith, Elizabeth Yu and Piper Curda. The movie revolves around a couple whose scandalous relationship made headlines decades ago and whose lives start to unravel when a famous actor arrives to research them for her new film. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ITV’s & BritBox’s ‘Archie’ Released
Posted: December 1, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Archie, BritBox, ITV, Lindsay Wright, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album for the ITV/BritBox series Archie. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Lindsay Wright (Without Sin, The Whistleblowers, This Is Joan Collins, The Mystery of D.B Cooper). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Archie is written by Jeff Pope and stars Jason Isaacs, Harriet Walter, Laura Aikman, Dainton Anderson, Kara Tointon, Calam Lynch and Oaklee Pendergast. The 4-part drama directed by Paul Andrew Williams tells the story of Archibald Alexander Leach’s childhood, his career in Bristol, and his journey to Hollywood and becoming Cary Grant. Read the rest of this entry »
John Powell Scoring Locksmith Animation’s ‘That Christmas’
Posted: November 30, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Powell, Locksmith Animation, Netflix, Simon Otto, That Christmas
John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Shrek, Rio, United 93, Happy Feet, Bolt, Don’t Worry Darling) is currently scoring the upcoming animated feature That Christmas. The film directed by Simon Otto is based on filmmaker Richard Curtis’ best-selling series of children’s books, which tell multiple interweaved stories of love, loneliness, family and friends. Curtis (Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral) also co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Souter. Nicole P. Hearon (Once Upon a Snowman) & Adam Tandy (In the Loop, Inside No. 9) are producing the Locksmith Animation production. Read the rest of this entry »
