The full details of the soundtrack album for Illumination Entertainment’s animated sequel Despicable Me 4 have been revealed. The album features the film’s original score composed by Heitor Pereira (The Angry Bird Movie, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Smallfoot, The Smurfs, Paw Patrol: The Movie) who previously scored the first three installments in the series, as well as both Minions movies. Also included is a cover of Tear for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World performed by the animated comedy’s voice cast. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 28 by Back Lot Music and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to a track from Pereira’s score (A Reunion of Rivals) and the song below. Available separately as a digital singles are the original songs Double Life by Pharrell Williams and Lil Mega Minion by Lil Yachty. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Despicable Me 4’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: June 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chris Renaud, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 4, Heitor Pereira, Illumination Entertainment, score, Soundtrack
‘Made in Ethiopia’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ali Helnwein, Made in Ethiopia, Max Duncan, score, Soundtrack, Xinyan Yu
Pterodactyl Scene has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Made in Ethiopia. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ali Helnwein (Stray, Darlin’, This Much We Know, No Way to Live, Hospitality, Brut Force). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s main theme below. Made in Ethiopia is directed by Max Duncan & Xinyan Yu and centers on three women in search of prosperity who have their faith in industrialization tested to the limit when a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: June 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Quiet Place: Day One, Alexis Grapsas, Michael Sarnoski, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the horror prequel A Quiet Place: Day One. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexis Grapsas (Monday, Trigonometry, Teacher, Big Shot). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 28. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album and click here to check out the project’s music team credits. Also listen to the composer’s Samira’s Theme below. A Quiet Place: Day One is written and directed by Michael Sarnoski and stars Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou and Alex Wolff. The movie is set before the events of the first two A Quiet Place movies (scored by Marco Beltrami) and explores the beginning of the invasion, in which deadly alien creatures with hyper-sonic hearing arrive on Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Elli and Her Monster Team’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amaury Laurent Bernier, Elli - Ungeheuer Geheim, Elli and Her Monster Team, Jesper Møller, Piet De Rycker, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the German animated feature Elli and Her Monster Team (Elli – Ungeheuer Geheim). The album features the film’s original music composed by Amaury Laurent Bernier (Totem, Princess Emmy, Atomic Puppet). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to the original song It’s a Feeling (co-written by Bernier & Peters Aslanidis) and the first score track (Elli’s World) after the jump. Elli and Her Monster Team is written and directed by Piet De Rycker & Jesper Møller based on Klaus Baumgart’s best-selling book of the same title and tells the story of a homeless little ghost who knocks on the door of the eccentric residents of a Ghost Train on the lookout for a place to belong. Read the rest of this entry »
FX’s ‘The Bear’ Season 3 Features Music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Posted: June 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atticus Ross, FX, Hulu, Jeffrey “JQ” Qaiyum, The Bear, Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Challengers, Watchmen, Soul, Mank, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) have contributed music (based on the duo’s Nine Inch Nails track Together from the album Ghosts V: Together) to the first episode (entitled Tomorrow) of the third season of the FX original series The Bear. The show is created by Christopher Storer and stars Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Matty Matheson, Oliver Platt and Molly Gordon. The new season of the comedy follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, Sydney Adamu & Richard “Richie” Jerimovich as they do what it takes to elevate their beef stand turned fine dining establishment to the highest level, all while doing their best just to stay in business. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s ‘Here to Climb’ Released
Posted: June 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Annie Sundberg, Bleu, HBO, Here to Climb, Ricki Stern, Ryan Perez-Daple, score, Soundtrack
Songs of Red Bull & Third Side Music have released a soundtrack album for the HBO original sports documentary Here to Climb. The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter Bleu (aka William McAuley) and Ryan Perez-Daple (All About the Money, Never Hike Alone, The Golden Boy). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the first track (Alone at the Start) below. Here to Climb is directed by Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg and follows professional climber Sasha DiGiulian, rising from child prodigy to a champion sport climber, as she pushes the boundaries of her sport while battling mental and physical obstacles. Read the rest of this entry »
Original Song ‘Red’ from Disney+’s ‘Descendants: The Rise of Red’ Released
Posted: June 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alex Boniello, Descendants: The Rise of Red, Disney Plus, Kylie Cantrall
Walt Disney Records has released the second track and first original song from the Disney+ original movie Descendants: The Rise of Red. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is Red written by Antonina Armato, Thomas Armato Sturges, IN-Q (aka Adam Schmalholz) & Tim James and performed by Kylie Cantrall & Alex Boniello. Also check out the official music video after the jump. As previously reported, a full soundtrack album will be released on June 12. Descendants: The Rise of Red is directed by Jennifer Phang and also stars Rita Ora, Malia Baker, Brandy, Dara Reneé, Ruby Rose Turner, Joshua Colley, Morgan Dudley, Peder Lindell, Jeremy Swift, Grace Narducci, McClain, Paolo Montalban, Leonardo Nam and Melanie Paxson. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Moon Rock for Monday’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Kurt Martin, Moon Rock for Monday, Pru Montin, score, Soundtrack
Pru Montin (Dark Whispers, Dream Gardens, Heck) has released a soundtrack album for the Australian coming-of-age drama Moon Rock for Monday. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to Montin’s first track (Monday) below. Moon Rock for Monday is written and directed by Kurt Martin and stars George Pullar, Nicholas Hope, David Field, Alan Dukes, Aaron Jeffery, Bonnie Ferguson, Karina Banno, Dean Kyrwood, Rachel Romahn, Tristan McKinnon and Ashlyn Louden-Gamble. The movie is set in 1999 and tells the story of a young terminally ill girl who befriends and teams up with a fugitive teenage boy to visit a moon rock that the girl believes might heal her. Read the rest of this entry »
Rupert Gregson-Williams Scoring Julian Farino’s Netflix Films ‘The Union’
Posted: June 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Julian Farino, Netflix, Rupert Gregson-Williams, The Union
Rupert Gregson-Williams (Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Hacksaw Ridge, Smallfoot, The Legend of Tarzan, Over the Hedge, Hotel Rwanda) has recently scored the upcoming Netflix original film The Union. The movie is directed by Julian Farino (The Oranges, Ballers) and stars Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry, Mike Colter, Jessica De Gouw, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jackie Earle Haley, Alice Lee and J.K. Simmons. The action comedy follows a construction worker from Jersey who gets thrust into the world of super spies and secret agents when his high school sweetheart suddenly comes back into his life and recruits him on a high-stakes U.S. intelligence mission. Read the rest of this entry »
‘My Lady Jane’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: June 26, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, My Lady Jane, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for the British Prime Video original series My Lady Jane have been revealed. The album features the songs from the show’s first season, including Goat Girl’s Tainted Love cover, Griff’s cover of The Zombie’s She’s Not There, Black Honey’s Wild Thing cover (already out now as a digital single), CHINCHILLA’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain (embedded below), Katy J Pearson’s cover of Supertramp’s Dreamer, Lizzie Esau’s of Bo Diddlye’s I’m a Man, Yonaka’s cover of Buzzcocks’s Ever Fallen in Love and other songs. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 27 by Milan Records and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. As previously reported, the label is also releasing a separate album featuring Rael Jones’ original score on the same day. Read the rest of this entry »
