Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Victoria Monét has recorded an original end-credit song for an upcoming episode of Lucasfilm’s live-action Star Wars series The Acolyte. The track, entitled Power of Two, is co-written by Monét, Academy Award-and Grammy Award-winning producer D’Mile, and the show’s composer Michael Abels (Get Out, Us, Nope, Bad Education) and will be released on all streaming platforms tomorrow, June 14 by Walt Disney Records. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download and also listen to the full track below. Read the rest of this entry »
Victoria Monét’s Original End Credits Song ‘Power of Two’ from ‘The Acolyte’ to Be Released
Posted: June 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: D’Mile, Disney Plus, Michael Abels, Star Wars, The Acolyte, Victoria Monét
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‘Inside Out 2’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: June 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Andrea Datzman, Inside Out, Inside Out 2, Kelsey Mann, Pixar, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for Pixar Animation Studios’ sequel Inside Out 2. The album features the film’s original music composed by Andrea Datzman (Carl’s Date, Alcatraz, Dug Days). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 14 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s final track below. Click here for the project’s music team credits. The label has previously released the soundtrack for the original 2015 movie featuring music by Michael Giacchino whose themes are used in the sequel and who also co-produced the new score. Inside Out 2 is directed by Kelsey Mann and features the voices of Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Maya Hawke, Phyllis Smith, Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Ayo Edebiri, Paul Walter Hauser, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Lilimar, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Yvette Nicole Brown, Kensington Tallman, Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green and Grace Lui. Read the rest of this entry »
Christophe Beck Scoring Doug Liman’s ‘The Instigators’
Posted: June 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Christophe Beck, Doug Liman, The Instigators
Composer Christophe Beck (Ant-Man, Frozen, Free Guy, WandaVision, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Pink Panther, The Muppets) is reteaming with director Doug Liman on the upcoming heist thriller The Instigators. The film starring Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, Hong Chau, Michael Stuhlbarg, Ving Rhames, Paul Walter Hauser, Jack Harlow, Alfred Molina, Toby Jones & Ron Perlman follows a desperate father and an ex-con who are thrown together to pull off a robbery of the ill-gained earnings of a corrupt politician and find themselves engulfed in a whirlwind of chaos, pursued not only by police, but also backwards bureaucrats and vengeful crime bosses. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Long Game’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: June 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hanan Townshend, Julio Quintana, score, Soundtrack, The Long Game
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the sports drama The Long Game. The album features the film’s original music composed by Hanan Townshend (Knight of Cups, To the Wonder, Blue Miracle, Semper Fi, The Vessel, Outcry, The Book of Vision). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 14 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. The Long Game is co-written and directed by Julio Quintana and stars Jay Hernandez, Dennis Quaid, Julian Works, Oscar Nuñez, Jaina Lee Ortiz and Cheech Marin. The movie is based on Humberto G. Garcia’s novel Mustang Miracle and tells the true story of five young Mexican-American caddies in 1957 Texas who build their own golf course after being barred from playing on the courses where they worked. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 Score Album Released
Posted: June 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bridgerton, Kris Bowers, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Capitol Records has released the score album for the third season of the Netflix original series Bridgerton. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Kris Bowers (King Richard, Secret Invasion, Green Book, Haunted Mansion, The Color Purple, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Dear White People). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks (Bridgerton Main Title & Something Different) below. The label is also releasing a separate album featuring the covers from the new season today. Capitol Records has previously released a soundtrack featuring Bowers’ score from Season 2, while Lakeshore Records has released the score album for Season 1. Read the rest of this entry »
First Song from ‘The Boys’ Season 4 Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 13, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alex Karukas, Amazon, Andrew Rannells, Christopher Lennertz, James Monroe Iglehart, Shoshana Bean, The Boys
Madison Gate Records has released the first track from the soundtrack for the fourth season of the Prime Video original series The Boys. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is Let’s Put the Christ Back in Christmas produced by the show’s composer Christopher Lennertz (Lost in Space, Horrible Bosses, Sausage Party, Agent Carter) & Alex Karukas and performed by Shoshana Bean, Andrew Rannells & James Monroe Iglehart. Also listen to he full track after the jump. The Boys is developed by Eric Kripke and stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Antony Starr, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, Laz Alonso, Susan Heyward, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Valorie Curry, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, Cameron Crovetti and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 (Part 2) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bridgerton, Netflix, Soundtrack
Capitol Records has released the full soundtrack album for the third season of the Netflix original series Bridgerton have been revealed. The album features the covers from Season 3, including Ariana Grande’s POV by Strings from Paris, Demi Lovato’s Confident by Archer Marsh, Imagine Dragons’ Thunder by Thomas Mercier, Taylor Swifts’ You Belong With Me by Duomo, Coldplay’s Yellow by Vitamin String Quartet and Ellie Goulding’s Lights by Archer Marsh. Also included is an orchestral version of Tori Kelly’s original song All I Want (released as a digital single last week) arranged by the show’s composer Kris Bowers (listen to the track below). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. A double vinyl edition will be coming out later this year and is available for pre-order here. The label has previously released the Part 1 album last month. Read the rest of this entry »
Lin-Manuel Miranda to Serve as Producer on Disney’s ‘Moana’ Live-Action Film
Posted: June 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Moana, Thomas Kail
Disney announced today that Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights, Encanto) will serve as a producer on the studio’s upcoming live-action remake of the 2016 animated feature Moana. The movie will be directed by Thomas Kail (Fosse/Verdon, We Were the Lucky Ones) and star Catherine Laga‘aia in the title role of the adventurous teenager who sails out on a daring mission to save her people. Dwayne Johnson will reprise his role of demigod Maui and is joined by new cast members John Tui as Moana’s father, Chief Tui, Frankie Adams as her mother, Sina, as well as Rena Owen as Gramma Tala. Read the rest of this entry »
Quincy Jones to Receive Honorary Oscar at 15th Governor Awards
Posted: June 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Quincy Jones
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that its Board of Governors voted to present Academy Honorary Awards to two artists, including composer, songwriter and record producer Quincy Jones. He will receive the Oscar at the Academy’s Governors Awards event on Sunday, November 17, 2024, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood. Jones’ film credits include Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night and he has earned a total of seven Oscar nominations for his work on such films as Richard Brooks’ In Cold Blood, Sidney Lumet’s The Wiz and Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple, receiving a Best Picture nomination (as a producer) for the latter. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Simonsen & Duncan Blickenstaff Scoring Justin Baldoni’s ‘It Ends With Us’
Posted: June 12, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Duncan Blickenstaff, It Ends with Us, Justin Baldoni, Rob Simonsen
Rob Simonsen (Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Whale, The Age of Adaline, Foxcatcher, The Way Back, Nerve, (500) Days of Summer) has teamed up with Duncan Blickenstaff (Hollywood Stargirl, Alex, Inc., Reboot, Outmatched, Maggie) to score the upcoming romantic drama It Ends With Us. The film is directed by Justin Baldoni (Five Feet Apart, Clouds) and stars Blake Lively, Baldoni himself, Jenny Slate, Amy Morton, Hasan Minhaj and Brandon Sklenar. The movie is based on the bestselling novel by Colleen Hoover and follows a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston, where she meets and falls in love with a charming neurosurgeon, when her first love suddenly reenters her life . Read the rest of this entry »
