Composer Chris Bacon (Wednesday, Source Code, Bates Motel, Gnomeo & Juliet, Men in Black: International, The Tick) is reteaming with writers/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods on the upcoming horror thriller Heretic. The film is written and directed by Beck & Woods (A Quiet Place, Haunt) and stars Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East. The movie follows two young missionaries who become ensnared in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse after they knock on the wrong front door. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Bacon Scoring Scott Beck’s & Bryan Woods’ ‘Heretic’
Posted: June 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bryan Woods, Chris Bacon, Heretic, Scott Beck
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Lil Yachty’s Original Song ‘Lil Mega Minion’ from ‘Despicable Me 4’ Released
Posted: June 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chris Renaud, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 4, Lil Yachty
Back Lot Music has released the original song Lil Mega Minion from Illumination Entertainment’s animated sequel Despicable Me 4. The track is produced by LOTTO and co-written (with Devon Alan Smith & Cole Bennett) and performed by Lil Yachty and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also check out the official music video after the jump. Columbia Records has previously released Pharrell Williams’ original track Double Life earlier this month and a full soundtrack album featuring Heitor Pereira’s original score from the film will be released in the coming weeks. Despicable Me 4 is directed by Chris Renaud and stars Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, Pierre Coffin, Sofia Vergara, Joey King, Stephen Colbert, Chloe Fineman, Miranda Cosgrove and Steve Coogan. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Beguinas’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Beguinas, Kaelo Del Rio, score, Soundtrack
Atresmúsica has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish TV series Beguinas. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Kaelo Del Rio (3 Wise Men, Spanish Western). 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 and end credits track after the jump. Beguinas is created by Irene Rodríguez and stars Amaia Aberasturi, Yon González, Beatriz Segura, Jaime Olías, Ella Kweku and Silma López. The period drama is set in the 16th Century and revolves around a woman celebrating her engagement, when her fiancée receives a letter from a woman claiming to be her mother and requesting her to come to her deathbed. Read the rest of this entry »
Jamie Christopherson to Score Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz’s ‘The Necklace’
Posted: June 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jamie Christopherson, Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz, The Necklace
Jamie Christopherson (Running Wild, A California Christmas, Bennett’s War, Leave, Perfect Harmony, The Ride) has signed on to score the upcoming horror movie The Necklace. The film is directed by Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz and stars Henry Thomas, Sarah Lind, Madeleine McGraw, Violet McGraw, Felix Solis, Christina Moore, Jacob Moran and Brynne Kurland. The ESX Entertainment production is set in the 1960s and follows an abusive husband and father of two girls who is trying to win back his wife who left him with a beautiful antique necklace, which turns out to be a conduit for the tormented soul of an evil boy from long ago, putting his family in grave danger. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Invasion’ (‘Invasie’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 24, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bobby Boermans, Fons Merkies, Invasie, Invasion, Laurens Goedhart, score, Soundtrack
Fons Merkies (The Commune, Maxima) & Laurens Goedhart (All Inclusive, Faithfully Yours) have released a soundtrack album for the Dutch action thriller Invasion (Invasie). The album features the composers’ original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and most other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to Merkies’ & Goedhart’s first track (De laatste test) below. Invasion is directed by Bobby Boermans and stars Tarikh Janssen, Fedja van Huêt, Gijs Blom, Jasha Rudge, Ortál Vriend and Gijs Scholten van Aschat. The movie takes place in the aftermath of an unexpected attack on the Dutch overseas territories of Curaçao and Aruba by a neighboring dictatorship and follows three young marines as they embark on a daring rescue mission. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 23, 2024)
Posted: June 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Allyson Newman, Amazon, AMC, Amit May Cohen, Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, Disney Channel, Domino Day: Lone Witch, Federico Jusid, Hulu, Joy Ngiaw, Land of Women, Lindsay Wright, My Lady Jane, Netflix, Orphan Black: Echoes, Rael Jones, Sillkey, Sundance Now, Supacell, Tawiah, Trevor Yuile, WondLa, Zombies: The Re-Animated Series
Premiering today is the AMC original series Orphan Black: Echoes created by Anna Fishko and starring Krysten Ritter, Keeley Hawes, Rya Kihlstedt, Amanda Fix, James Hiroyuki Liao and Avan Jogia. The show’s original score is composed by Trevor Yuile (Into the Badlands, Killjoys, Stag) who previously scored the original Orphan Black. Julien Baker feat. Calvin Lauber has contributed the project’s theme song, which has just been released as a digital single by Boat Rocker. Click here to listen to the track and check out our scoring asssignment announcement to learn more about the sci-fi drama, which will air on AMC & BBC America and will also be available to stream on AMC+.
Premiering on Tuesday, June 25, is the Hulu original documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Trish Dalton about the life of the Belgian fashion designer and cultural luminary. Allyson Newman (The L Word: Generation Q, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, Partner Track, Kusama: Infinity) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the movie, which premiered earlier this month at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival and will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »
‘See How They Fall’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Jacques Audiard, Regarde les hommes tomber, score, See How They Fall, Soundtrack
Studiocanal has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for the 1994 crime drama See How They Fall (Regarde les hommes tomber) co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne and Mathieu Kassovitz. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The King’s Speech, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Queen, Godzilla, Philomena). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title tracks after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Orphan Black: Echoes’ Theme Song Released
Posted: June 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: AMC, Calvin Lauber, Julien Baker, Orphan Black: Echoes
Boat Rocker has released the opening titles theme song from the new AMC original series Orphan Black: Echoes. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is The Lenghts written and performed by Julien Baker featuring Calvin Lauber. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Orphan Black: Echoes is created by Anna Fishko based on the original Orphan Black series created by Graeme Manson & John Fawcett and stars Krysten Ritter, Keeley Hawes, Amanda Fix, Rya Kihlstedt, Avan Jogia and James Hiroyuki Liao. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (June 21, 2024)
Posted: June 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Blackwater Lane, Chestnut, Danny Bensi, David Wingo, Fancy Dance, Frederic Vercheval, Green Border, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, Jerskin Fendrix, Keegan DeWitt, Kinds of Kindness, Nathan Halpern, Nick Chuba, Pilou, Samantha Crain, Saunder Jurriaans, The Bikeriders, The Exorcism, Thelma
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the crime drama The Bikeriders written and directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer, Norman Reedus, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Boyd Holbrook, Damon Herriman, Beau Knapp, Emory Cohen and Karl Glusman. The film’s original score is composed by David Wingo (Barry, Mayans, M.C., The Report, Our Brand Is Crisis, Kidding). Mutant and Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album featuring thirteen 60s songs from the movie by artists such as The Sonics, Gary U.S. Bonds, Dale Hawkins, The Stooges, The Staple Singers, The Shangri-Las, Mickey Murray, among others, as a vinyl edition later this summer. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Focus Features release.
Also opening wide is the horror thriller The Exorcism co-written and directed by Joshua John Miller and starring Russell Crowe, Sam Worthington, Ryan Simpkins, Chloe Bailey, David Hyde Pierce and Adam Goldberg. Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, Tokyo Vice, Fear the Walking Dead, Enemy, The White Tiger, The Staircase, Boy Erased) have composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the movie, which is being released by Vertical. Read the rest of this entry »
Federico Jusid Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Land of Women’
Posted: June 21, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Federico Jusid, Gema R. Neira, Land of Women, Ramón Campos
Federico Jusid (The Secret In Their Eyes, A Gentleman in Moscow, The English, Watership Down, Misconduct, The Head, Life Itself) has composed the original score for the new Apple TV+ original series Land of Women. The show is created by Ramón Campos & Gema R. Neira (Grand Hotel, Cable Girls) and Paula Fernández inspired by Sandra Barneda’s bestselling novel La tierra de las mujeres and stars Eva Longoria, Carmen Maura, Victoria Bazúa and Santiago Cabrera. The 6-part dramedy directed by Carlos Sedes revolves around a well-to-do New Yorker who has her life turned upside down when her husband fails to repay a debt to the wrong people and is forced to leave the city with her mother and teenage daughter and travel to her mother’s hometown in northern Spain to start life anew and hope their identities remain hidden. Read the rest of this entry »
