Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) (Midsommar, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, Returnal, Snowpiercer, Triple 9, Paper Girls, Seven Seconds) has been tapped to score the upcoming superhero movie Blue Beetle. The film is directed by Angel Manuel Soto (Charm City Kings) and stars star Xolo Maridueñ, Adriana Barraza, Bruna Marquezine, Belissa Escobedo, Susan Sarandon, George Lopez, Harvey Guillén, Elpidia Carrillo, Damián Alcázar and Raoul Max Trujillo. The movie based on the DC Comics character and revolves around teenager Jaime Reyes who gains superpowers when he encounters alien armor.
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‘Wild Isles’ Episode ‘Freshwater’ Soundtrack Album Released
Shogun Music has released the fourth soundtrack album for the BBC natural history series Wild Isles. The album features the original music from the show’s fourth episode (Freshwater) composed by Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner George Fenton (Dangerous Liaisons, The Blue Planet, Groundhog Day, Gandhi, Anna and the King, Hitch, Ever After). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The label three soundtracks featuring the composer’s scores from Episode 1 (Our Precious Isles), Episode 2 (Woodland) & Episode 3 (Grassland) and one more album will be coming out next week.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 2, 2023)
Premiering in the U.S. today is the Norwegian limited series War Sailor, a new version of last year’s feature of the same title, written and directed by Gunnar Vikene and starring Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sverre Hagen and Ine Marie Wilmann. The show’s original music is composed by Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet on the Western Front, Lion, Hotel Mumbai, Adrift, The Old Guard). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last December. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the war drama, which will be available to stream on Netflix.
Premiering on Wednesday, April 5, is the Disney+ original series The Crossover created by Kwame Alexander and starring Derek Luke, Jalyn Hall, Amir O’Neil, Sabrina Revelle, Deja Monique Cruz, Skyla I’Lece and Trevor Bush. KOVAS (On My Block, Freeridge, Boo, Bitch, Fantasy Football) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+.
Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952 – 2023)
Ryuichi Sakamoto has passed away this past Tuesday, March 28, at age 71. The Japanese composer has written dozens of scores for a wide range of international films since the early 1980s. He won an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award for his music for Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1987 feature The Last Emperor (shared with David Byrne & Cong Su). He was also Grammy-nominated for his scores for Bertolucci’s Little Buddha and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant (with Alva Noto).
‘The Ordinaries’ Soundtrack Released
Bandenfilm has released a soundtrack album for the German sci-fi coming-of-age comedy drama The Ordinaries. The album features the film’s original music composed by Fabian Zeidler. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. The Ordinaries is co-written and directed by Sophie Linnenbaum and stars Fine Sendel, Jule Böwe, Henning Peker, Sira Faal, Noah Tinwa and Denise M’Baye. The movie depicts a repressive three class-society, in which a simple supporting character is about to face the most important test of her life: she has to prove she deserves to be a lead.
KOVAS Scoring Disney+’s ‘The Crossover’
KOVAS (On My Block, Boo, Bitch, Freeridge, Fantasy Football, After Jackie) is the composer of the new Disney+ original series The Crossover. The show is based on the bestselling novel by Kwame Alexander and stars Derek Luke, Jalyn Hall, Amir O’Neil, Deja Monique Cruz, Sabrina Revelle, Trevor Bush and Skyla I’Lece, as well as Daveed Diggs as the narrator. The drama follows two twin middle school basketball phenoms as they struggle with growing up, growing apart, and finding themselves — on and off the court.
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 31, 2023)
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the fantasy adventure Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves directed by John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein and starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Justice Smith and Chloe Coleman. The film’s original score is composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Top Gun: Maverick, Black Widow, His Dark Materials, Black Adam). Mercury Classics has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today (click here for the full details) and Fiction Records has released Tame Impala’s end credits song Wings of Time earlier this month (click here to listen to the track).
Opening semi-wide in around 900 theaters this week is the drama A Thousand and One written and directed by A.V. Rockwell and starring Teyana Taylor, Will Catlett, Josiah Cross Aven Courtney and Aaron Kingsley Adetola. Gary Gunn (David Makes Man, Master of Light, Maggie Black). has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Focus Features release.
Expanded ‘Bride of Chucky’ Score Album Announced
Enjoy the Ride Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1998 slasher comedy Bride of Chucky directed by Ronny Yu and starring Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, John Ritter, Nick Stabile and Katherine Heigl. The album features the complete original score from the fourth installment in the Child’s Play series composed by Graeme Revell (The Crow, Daredevil, Dead Calm, Pitch Black, Tomb Raider, The Chronicles of Riddick, Pineapple Express), including almost 30 minutes of previously unreleased music. The limited edition vinyl is now available to order on the label’s official website. A digital version is expected to be released by Back Lot Music later this year (click here to stream/download).
Randy Edelman to Score Josh Webber’s ‘Athena Saves Christmas’
Randy Edelman (Ghostbusters II, Kindergarten Cop, Dragonheart, The Last of the Mohicans, xXx, Gettysburg, Twins, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) is set to score the upcoming family holiday adventure Athena Saves Christmas. The film is directed by Josh Webber (Never Heard, Secrets of Deception) and stars Paxton Kubitz, Kylie Marshall, Santiago Ramirez, Cuba Gooding Jr, Joseph Baena, Richard Portnow, Mars Callahan, Ludovica Frasca, Glenn Plummer and Kaitlyn Raymond. The movie follows a trio of friends and the titular dog who find themselves on the adventure of a lifetime as they take on a mob boss to save Christmas for their town.
Joe Hisaishi’s ‘A Symphonic Celebration’ Album Announced
Deutsche Grammophon has announced the album A Symphonic Celebration, a series of new symphonic arrangements of original soundtracks from Studio Ghibli classics directed by Hayao Miyazaki (including Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service & Castle in the Sky) written by composer Joe Hisaishi. The music was recorded in London by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Hisaishi. The album will be released digitally, on CD, Standard LP, Clear LP, Sky Blue LP & Picture disc on June 30, 2023. Visit Amazon to order the CD version (deluxe edition with extra tracks) and click here to order the vinyl edition. A first track (a new version of Merry-Go-Round of Life from Howl’s Moving Castle) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below.