The full details of the soundtrack album for the Disney+ original movie Hollywood Stargirl have been revealed. The album features the songs from the film performed by lead actress Grace VanderWaal and other cast members, including the original songs Figure It Out co-written by VanderWaal herself and Heaven Knows written by the show’s executive music producer Michael Penn (Girls), as well as covers of Blondie’s Dreaming, Brian Wilson’s Love and Mercy and Cass Elliot’s Make Your Own Kind of Music. Also included is the original song Miracle Mile written by Penn and performed by Z Berg, a cover of Penn’s No Myth performed by Jasmine Ash & Peter Adams, as well as the movie’s original score composed by Rob Simonsen (Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Love, Simon, The Way Back, The Adam Project, Nerve, The Age of Adeline) and Duncan Blickenstaff (Alex, Inc., LA to Vegas). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 3 by Walt Disney Records and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Hollywood Stargirl’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: June 1, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Duncan Blickenstaff, Grace VanderWaal, Hollywood Stargirl, Julia Hart, Michael Penn, Rob Simonsen, score, Soundtrack
Colin Stetson Scoring Mark Mylod’s ‘The Menu’
Posted: June 1, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Colin Stetson, Mark Mylod, The Menu
Colin Stetson (Hereditary, Color Out of Space, The First, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Barkskins, Mayday) is scoring the upcoming horror comedy The Menu. The film is directed by Mark Mylod (Succession, Shameless) and stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Judith Light, John Leguizamo, Hong Chau, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Arturo Castro, Aimee Carrero, Mark St. Cyr and Rob Yang. The movie revolves around a couple who travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Brian and Charles’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: June 1, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brian and Charles, Daniel Pemberton, Jim Archer, score, Soundtrack
1812 Recordings will release a soundtrack album for the British comedy Brian and Charles. The album features the film’s original music composed by Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Steve Jobs, Enola Holmes, Birds of Prey, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Ocean’s 8). The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 24 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Brian and Charles is directed by Jim Archer and stars David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey, Jamie Michie and Nina Sosanya. The movie follows a lonely inventor in rural Wales who spends his days building quirky, unconventional contraptions that seldom work, when he invents an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary and has an obsession with cabbages. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Maximilian & Marie De Bourgogne’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 1, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Andreas Prochaska, Matthias Weber, Maximilian, Maximilian & Marie De Bourgogne, score, Soundtrack, Starz
MR Film has released a soundtrack album for the 2017 German/Austrian mini-series Maximilian & Marie De Bourgogne (aka Maximilian) directed by Andreas Prochaska and starring Christa Théret, Jannis Niewöhner, Miriam Fussenegger, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Stefan Pohl, Raphaël Lenglet, Johannes Krisch, Tobias Moretti and Sylvie Testud. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Matthias Weber (Das Boot, The Dark Valley, My Best Enemy, The Forsaken, Dead in 3 Days 2). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Firebuds’ Theme Song Released
Posted: May 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Beau Black, Craig Gerber, Disney Junior, Firebuds
Walt Disney Records has released the theme song from the upcoming Disney Junior animated series Firebuds. Firebuds Let’s Roll is written and performed by songwriter Beau Black and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Firebuds is created and executive produced by Craig Gerber (Elena of Avalor, Sofia the First) and follows a team of young kids who are the children of first responders, and their talking vehicle sidekicks, as they embark on adventures together and learn what it truly means to be a hero. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Unbranded’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: May 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Noah Sorota, Phillip Baribeau, score, Soundtrack, Unbranded
Neumeark Music will release the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2015 documentary Unbranded directed by Phillip Baribeau. The album features the film’s original music composed by Noah Sorota (Falling Skies, Resident Alien, Jinn, The Gracefield Incident, Reverie). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 1 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Unbranded follows four men (Ben Masters, Thomas Glover, Jonny Fitzsimons & Ben Thamer) and sixteen mustangs on a 3,000-mile journey from Mexico to Canada through the American West to inspire adoptions for the 50,000 wild horses and burros in government captivity. Read the rest of this entry »
Cristobal Tapia de Veer Scoring Parker Finn’s ‘Smile’
Posted: May 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Parker Finn, Smile
Cristobal Tapia de Veer (The White Lotus, Utopia, The Girl with All the Gifts, The Third Day, Hunters, National Treasure) has been tapped to score the upcoming horror thriller Smile. The film is written and directed by Parker Finn and stars Sosie Bacon, Kyle Gallner, Jessie T. Usher, Kal Penn, Rob Morgan, Judy Reyes, Caitlin Stasey and Gillian Zinser. The movie is based on Finn’s short Laura Hasn’t Slept and follows a psychiatrist who begins to experience terrifying occurrences that only she can see and grows increasingly convinced that she’s being pursued by a malevolent supernatural force. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Colin Trevorrow, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Dominion, Michael Giacchino, score, Soundtrack
Back Lot Music will release the official soundtrack album for the Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Michael Giacchino (Up, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Lost, Ratatouille, Star Trek, The Incredibles, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Batman) who previously scored the first Jurassic World movie and the 2018 sequel Fallen Kingdom. The soundtrack is set be released digitally next Friday, June 10 and is now available for pre-order here. A CD version will be coming out on June 24 and is available to order on Amazon. Also listen to a first track from the album (Da Plane And Da Cycle) below. Jurassic World: Dominion is co-written (with Emily Carmichael) and directed by Trevorrow and stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, BD Wong, Justice Smith, Dichen Lachman, Scott Haze, Campbell Scott, Daniella Pineda and Omar Sy. Read the rest of this entry »
Underworld’s Rick Smith & Karl Hyde Scoring FX’s ‘Pistol’
Posted: May 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Boyle, FX, Hulu, Karl Hyde, Pistol, Rick Smith, Underworld
Rick Smith & Karl Hyde (of the electronic music group Underworld) have composed the original score for the new FX limited series Pistol. The show is created by Craig Pearce (Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby), directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later…) and stars Toby Wallace, Anson Boon, Christian Lees, Louis Partridge, Jacob Slater, Sydney Chandler, Maisie Williams, Talulah Riley, Emma Appleton and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. The 6-part drama is based on Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist Steve Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol and tells the story of a band of working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 31, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adam Gunn, Christoph Zirngibl, Matthias Temmermans, Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia
Universal Music Germany has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia. The album features the film’s original score composed by Christoph Zirngibl (Jerry Cotton, Luna’s Revenge, Victor and the Secret of Crocodile Mansion, Männerhort, Military Academy). Also included is the movie’s theme song Come and Fly With Me performed by Lisa-Marie (check out the official music video below). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download in German digital music stores. Visit the German Amazon store to check out audio samples. Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia directed by Adam Gunn & Matthias Temmermans is based on the CGI/live-action TV series and follows the title character on a journey to the most remote islands of Centopia, where she not only faces a powerful enemy, but also takes her destiny into her own hands. Read the rest of this entry »
