Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the Japanese Netflix original series Yu Yu Hakusho. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Yutaka Yamada (Alice in Borderland, Tokyo Ghoul, Kingdom, Vinland Saga, Inuyashiki, Bleach). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 9 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Yu Yu Hakusho is developed by Akira Morii & Kaata Sakamoto based on the hit manga from Weekly Shonen and stars Takumi Kitamura, Jun Shison, Kanata Hongo, Sei Shiraishi, Shuhei Uesugi and Kotone Furukawa. The 5-part fantasy adventure directed by Shô Tsukikawa follows a teen delinquent who is chosen as a Spirit Detective to investigate cases involving rogue yokai after a selfless act costs him his life. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Yu Yu Hakusho’ Live-Action Series to Be Released
Posted: February 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Yu Yu Hakusho, Yutaka Yamada
‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Isabella Summers, Lisa Frankenstein, score, Soundtrack, Zelda Williams
Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein. The album features the film’s original score composed by Isabella Summers (aka Isa Machine of Florence + the Machine) (Little Fires Everywhere, The Offer, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sex/Life, Call Jane). Also included are songs by Jeffrey Osborne, Pixies, JoJo, The Zombies & others. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 9 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Listen to Summers’ Creatures’ Love Theme below. Lisa Frankenstein is directed by Zelda Williams, written by Diablo Cody and stars Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Joe Chrest, Henry Eikenberry and Carla Gugino. The movie follows a misunderstood teenager who accidentally re-animates a handsome Victorian corpse and starts to rebuild him into the man of her dream. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Green Border’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 8, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Agnieszka Holland, Frederic Vercheval, Green Border, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the refugee drama Green Border. The album features the film’s original music is composed by Frédéric Vercheval (The Pact, This is Our Land, The Sower, Secret Name). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Elegy) below. Green Border is co-written and directed by Agnieszka Holland and stars Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Tomasz Włosok, Mohamad Al Rashi, Behi Djanati Atai and Dalia Naous. The movie follows a Syrian family hoping to cross from Belarus into Poland onto the safe haven of Sweden who end up caught in a political maelstrom, demonized by the Polish government and press and used as pawns in a deadly border game. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Suncoast’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: February 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chris Stracey, Este Haim, Hulu, Laura Chinn, score, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records will release the official soundtrack album for the coming-of-age drama Suncoast. The album features the film’s original score composed by Este Haim & Christopher Stracey (Anyone But You, Maid, Cha Cha Real Smooth). Also included is a cover version of The National’s Green Gloves performed by Monica Martin and produced by Haim & Stracey. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, February 9 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composers’ title track below. Suncoast is written and directed by Laura Chinn and stars Nico Parker, Laura Linney, Woody Harrelson, Matt Walsh, Keyla Monterosso Mejia, Ella Anderson, Scott MacArthur, Daniella Taylor, Amarr and Ariel Martin. The movie tells the story of a teenager who, while caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time. Read the rest of this entry »
Disney’s ‘Moana 2’ to Feature Music by Mark Mancina, Opetaia Foa’i, Emily Bear & Abigail Barlow
Posted: February 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News, Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Abigail Barlow, Dave Derrick Jr, Emily Bear, Mark Mancina, Moana 2, Opetaia Foa’I
Disney announced today that Mark Mancina & Opetaia Foa’i will return to compose the music for the upcoming animated musical Moana 2. They are joined by Grammy Award winners Emily Bear & Abigail Barlow (Bridgerton: The Musical) who are also contributing music to the film, which is directed by Dave Derrick Jr. and follows the title character who – after receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors – must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced. Read the rest of this entry »
Anna Drubich Scoring Shannon Triplett’s ‘Desert Road’
Posted: February 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anna Drubich, Desert Road, Shannon Triplett
Anna Drubich (Barbarian, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Fear Street Part 3: 1666, Werewolves Within) is composing the original music for the upcoming horror thriller Desert Road. The film is written and directed by Shannon Triplett and stars Kristine Froseth, Frances Fisher, Beau Bridges, D.B. Woodside, Ryan Hurst, Max Mattern, Edwin Garcia II and Ratchel Dratch. The movie follows a young woman who crashes her car and walks down the road seeking help, only to find no matter which way she walks she ends up back at her car. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix Film ‘The Black Book’ to Be Released
Posted: February 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Editi Effiong, Kulanen Ikyo, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, The Black Book
Anakle Films will release a soundtrack album for the Nigerian Netflix original film The Black Book. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Kulanen Ikyo (Lionheart, Blood Sisters). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, February 9 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The Black Book is co-written and directed by Editi Effiong and stars Richard Mofe-Damijo, Ade Laoye, Sam Dede, Alex Usifo Omiagbo, Olumide Oworu and Kelechi Udegbe. The crime thriller follows a bereaved deacon who takes justice into his own hands after his son is framed for a kidnapping and fights a corrupt police gang to absolve him. Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Bates Scoring CBS’ ‘Tracker’
Posted: February 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: CBS, Tracker, Tyler Bates
Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, John Wick, Deadpool 2, Watchmen, 300, The Punisher, X) is scoring the new CBS drama Tracker. The show is developed by Ben Winters based on the bestselling novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver and stars Justin Hartley, Fiona Rene, Robin Weigert, Abby McEnany and Eric Graise. The series revolves around a lone-wolf survivalist who roams the country as a reward seeker, using his tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Black Mass’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Devanny Pinn, Fernando Perdomo, score, Soundtrack, The Black Mass
Cleopatra Records has released a soundtrack album for the crime thriller The Black Mass. The album features the film’s original music composed by Fernando Perdomo (Frost). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. A CD version will be coming out on February 23 and is available for pre-order here. The Black Mass marks the directorial debut of actress Devanny Pinn and stars Andrew Sykes, Lisa Wilcox, Lew Temple, Eileen Dietz, Jennifer Wenger, Chelsea Gilson, Nicky Whelan, Jeremy London, Kathleen Kinmont and Susan Lanier. The movie is set over a 24-hour period in Florida during the winter of 1978 and follows a serial killer in the days leading up to his final, unhinged rampage. Read the rest of this entry »
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Scoring Sam Taylor-Johnson’s ‘Back to Black’
Posted: February 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Back to Black, Nick Cave, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Warren Ellis
Studiocanal, Monumental Pictures and Focus Features announced today that Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Dahmer: Monster – The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Hell or High Water, The Road, Blonde) have recently been recording their score for the upcoming biographical drama Back to Black. The film is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy, Fifty Shades of Grey) and stars Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse, Jack O’Connell as Blake Fielder-Civil, Juliet Cowan as Janis Winehouse, Eddie Marsan as Mitch Winehouse, as well as Lesley Manville as Amy’s grandmother, Cynthia. The movie charts Winehouse’s vibrant years living in London and her intense journey to fame. Read the rest of this entry »
