Milan Records has released a soundtrack EP featuring music from the first part of the second season of the Netflix original series Wednesday. The 4-track EP includes the cover versions of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Bad Moon Rising and The Cranberries’ Zombie from the new season, as well as the original song Nevermore Alma Mater and an arrangement of Sergei Prokofiev’s Dance of the Knights. The soundtrack is now available on most major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to all four tracks after the jump. As previously reported, a separate score album featuring music by Chris Bacon is also being released today. Wednesday is developed by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar and stars Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Steve Buscemi, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Isaac Ordonez, Billie Piper, Joy Sunday, Georgie Farmer, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Victor Dorobantu, Moosa Mostafa,Owen Painter, Evie Templeton, Noah B. Taylor and Hunter Doohan. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wednesday’ Season 2 – Vol. 1 Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: August 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, Soundtrack, Wednesday
‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Score Album Details
Posted: August 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Highest 2 Lowest, Howard Drossin, score, Soundtrack, Spike Lee
A24 Music will release a score album for the crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest. The album features the film’s original score composed by Howard Drossin (The Man With the Iron Fists, The Protector, Pass Over, Welcome to Sudden Death, Sonic and the Black Knight). The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 15 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Two other albums featuring more music from the movie will also be coming out on the same day (check back on this page for the full details). Highest 2 Lowest is directed by Spike Lee and stars Denzel Washington Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, Ice Spice,John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters and ASAP Rocky. The movie revolves around a titan music mogul who is targeted with a ransom plot and gets jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wednesday’ Season 2 – Vol. 1 Score Album Released
Posted: August 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Chris Bacon, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, Wednesday
Milan Records has released the first score album for the second season of the Netflix original series Wednesday. The album features selections of the original music from the first four episodes of Season 2 composed by Chris Bacon (Heretic, Source Code, M3GAN 2.0, Bates Motel, Men in Black: International, Gnomeo & Juliet). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services and also listen to the first two tracks below. Lakeshore Records has previously released an album featuring Danny Elfman’s and Bacon’s score from Season 1 back in 2023. Wednesday is developed by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar based on The Addams Family characters and stars Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steve Buscemi, Luis Guzman, Billie Piper, Isaac Ordonez, Joy Sunday, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Victor Dorobantu, Owen Painter, Noah B. Taylor, Evie Templeton and Hunter Doohan. Read the rest of this entry »
Aiyana-Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Title Song Released
Posted: August 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aiyana-Lee, Apple TV +, Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee
A24 Music has released the original title song from Spike Lee’s crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest. The track produced & arranged by Howard Drossin and co-written (with Nicole Daciana Anderson) and performed by British singer/songwriter Aiyana-Lee (who also appears in the film) and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Several different soundtrack albums featuring the songs and score from the movie will be coming out on August 15. Highest 2 Lowest is directed by Lee, written by Alana Fox based on Akira Kurosawa’s feature High and Low and the novel King’s Ransom by Ed McBainand stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Halloween Kills’ & ‘Halloween Ends’ Soundtracks to Be Released
Posted: August 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies, David Gordon Green, Halloween, Halloween Ends, Halloween Kills, John Carpenter
Sacred Bones Records will release new soundtrack albums for the 2021 & 2022 slasher sequels Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends co-written and directed by David Gordon Green and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Judy Greer, Will Patton, Thomas Mann, Anthony Michael Hall, Rohan Campbell and Kyle Richards. The album features the expanded original scores from the second and third installment in Blumhouse’s Halloween trilogy composed by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies, including previously unreleased music from. Both soundtracks will be released on October 3. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and vinyl edition for Halloween Kills and click here to order the CD and vinyl edition for Halloween Ends. The label has previously released the original 2021 & 2022 soundtrack albums, as well as the original and expanded soundtracsk for 2018’s first new Halloween sequel. A CD box set featuring the expanded scores from all three films is available to order here. Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix’s ‘The Twits’ to Feature Original Songs by David Byrne and Original Score by Oli Julian
Posted: August 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: David Byrne, Netflix, Oli Julian, Phil Johnston, The Twits
Talking Heads’ David Byrne (American Utopia, Here Lies Love) has written and produced three original songs for the upcoming Netflix original animated film The Twits. The songs, entitled We’re Not Like Ev’ryone Else, Lullaby & The Problem Is You, are performed by the movie’s voice cast. In addition, he also co-wrote and -performed the end title song Open the Door with Hayley Williams (of the rock band Paramore). Oli Julian (Sex Education, Breeders, Catastrophe, Renegade Nell, The Full Monty, How to Build a Girl) has composed the original score for the animated feature directed by Phil Johnston (Ralph Breaks the Internet), co-directed by Katie Shanahan & Todd Demong and starring Johnny Vegas, Margo Martindale, Emilia Clarke, Natalie Portman, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ryan Lopez , Timothy Simons, Jason Mantzoukas, Nicole Byer, Alan Tudyk, Charlie Berens, Mark Proksch and Rebecca Wisocky. Read the rest of this entry »
Amelia Warner & Sam Thompson Scoring Haifaa Al Mansour’s ‘Unidentified’
Posted: August 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amelia Warner, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Sam Thompson, Unidentified
Amelia Warner (Young Woman and the Sea, Mr. Malcolm’s List, Wild Mountain Thyme, Mum’s List) has teamed up with Sam Thompson (Shark Whisperer, 007: Road to a Million, JFK: One Day in America, Britain and the Blitz) to score the upcoming crime thriller Unidentified. The film is directed by Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda, The Perfect Candidate) and stars Mila Al Zahrani and Shafi Al Harthi. The Saudi language movie follows a newly divorced, true crime aficionado who recently lost a child who gets obsessively involved when a lifeless body of a teenage girl is discovered in the desert and is determined to identify the body and uncover the truth. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Pickup’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Christopher Lennertz, score, Soundtrack, The Pickup, Tim Story
Sony Masterworks will release the official soundtrack album for the action comedy The Pickup. The album features the film’s original score composed by Christopher Lennertz (The Boys, Lost in Space, Ride Along, Sausage Party, Tom & Jerry, Agent Carter, Back in Action, Supernatural). Also included are the songs Make It Hot by BJ The Chicago Kid feat. Eryn Allen Kane (previously released as a digital single last month) and Feelin’ Alright by Paul Russell. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 6. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and click here to check out the project’s music team credits. Also listen to two tracks from the score below. The Pickup is directed by Tim Story and stars Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Keke Palmer, Jack Kesy, Eva Longoria, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i, Andrew Dice Clay and Marshawn Lynch. Read the rest of this entry »
Abel Korzeniowski Scoring Jan Komasa’s ‘Good Boy’
Posted: August 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Abel Korzeniowski, Good Boy, Jan Komasa
Abel Korzeniowski (A Single Man, Penny Dreadful, Nocturnal Animals, The Nun, Till, W.E., Emily, The Courier, Escape from Tomorrow, Romeo and Juliet) has been tapped to score the upcoming Polish/British thriller Good Boy. The film is directed by Jan Komasa (Corpus Christi, The Hater) and stars Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough and Anson Boon. The movie follows a 19-year old teenage criminal who leads his friends in acts of horrifying violence, until he gets kidnapped one night and finds himself at the center of a dysfunctional family dynamic. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Antidote’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Antidote, James Jones, score, Soundtrack, Uno Helmersson
Redrocca has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Antidote. The album features the film’s original music composed by Uno Helmersson (Flee, The Painter and the Thief, A Nearly Normal Family, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, The Absent One, Bobbi Jene, Magnus, The Bridge, The Lion Woman). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Antidote is directed by James Jones and follows investigative journalist Christo Grozev and political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza who put their lives on the line standing up to the Kremlin and the consequences they faced. Read the rest of this entry »
