A soundtrack album has been announced for the supernatural horror thriller Double Walker. The album features the film’s original score composed by Mark Hadley (Into the Dark: My Valentine, Linoleum, The Exes). The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 12, 2021 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music stores. Double Walker is co-written and directed by Colin West and stars Sylvie Mix, Maika Carter, Justin Rose, Tina Matthews and Quinn Armstrong. The movie follows a young Ghost as she walks the earth and haunts her cold Midwestern home town, trying to piece together the horrific flashes of memories from her past and killing the men she believes were responsible for her death, when she meets a kind movie theater usher who inadvertently intercepts as she’s stalking her next victim. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Double Walker’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: October 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Colin West, Double Walker, Mark Hadley, score, Soundtrack
Theodore Shapiro Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Severance’
Posted: October 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Ben Stiller, Severance, Theodore Shapiro
Theodore Shapiro (Bombshell, The Devil Wears Prada, Ghostbusters, Destroyer, Marley & Me, Spy) has recently been scoring the upcoming Apple TV+ original series Severance. The show is written and created by Dan Erickson, directed by Ben Stiller (Zoolander, Escape at Dannemora) and stars Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, John Turturro, Dichen Lachman, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock and Zach Cherry. The thriller revolves around Lumen Industries, a company that’s looking to take work-life balance to a new level and follows an employee with a dark past as he is trying to put himself back together. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Descendants: The Royal Wedding’ Score Suite Released
Posted: October 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Arturo Cardelús, Descendants: The Royal Wedding, Disney Channel, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records has released a new digital single for the Disney Channel animated special Descendants: The Royal Wedding. The soundtrack features a score suite composed by the special’s composer Arturo Cardelús (Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Black Beach, In a Heartbeat) and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the suite after the jump. The label has previously released the original song Feeling the Love written by Matthew Tishler & Shridhar Solanki from the Disney Television Animation Studios production. Read the rest of this entry »
Heather McIntosh Scoring Paramount+’s ‘Guilty Party’
Posted: October 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Guilty Party, Heather McIntosh, Paramount+
Heather McIntosh (Compliance, The Art of Self-Defense, Z for Zachariah, The Quarry, 6 Balloons)) is scoring the new Paramount+ original series Guilty Party. The show is created by Rebecca Addelman and stars Kate Beckinsale, Jules Latimer, Geoff Stults, Laurie Davidson, Andre Hyland, Tiya Sircar and Alanna Ubach. The comedy revolves around a discredited journalist desperate to salvage her career by latching on to the story of a young mother who has been sentenced to life in prison for maiming and murdering her husband. Read the rest of this entry »
Aaron Pierre’s ‘More Dough for the Cookin’ from M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’ Released
Posted: October 13, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aaron Pierre, Ilan Stone, M. Night Shyamalan, Old, Peter Nashel
Back Lot Music has released the song More Dough for the Cookin’ from M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller Old. The track is performed by Aaron Pierre (who also stars in the movie) feat. Ilan Stone and co-written by Pierre himself, Brad Fischer and Peter Nashel (I, Tonya, Marco Polo, Book Club). The song is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon and can also be checked out after the jump. The label has previously released a full soundtrack album featuring Trevor Gureckis’ original score and original song by Saleka this past summer. Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph LoDuca Scoring USA’s & Syfy’s ‘Chucky’ TV Series
Posted: October 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chucky, Don Mancini, Joseph LoDuca, Syfy, USA
Joseph LoDuca (The Evil Dead, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess) is returning as the composer of the new USA and Syfy original series Chucky. The show is created by Don Mancini (Child’s Play) and stars Zackary Arthur, Teo Briones, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Björgvin Arnarson, Devon Sawa, as well as Brad Dourif as the voice of Chuky. The horror series is set in an idyllic American town that is thrown into chaos after a vintage ‘Good Guy’ doll turns up at a suburban yard sale and a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s deep hypocrisies and hidden secrets. Read the rest of this entry »
John Murphy to Reteam with James Gunn on Marvel’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
Posted: October 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Guardians of the Galaxy, John Murphy
James Gunn has confirmed in a recent interview with Cinemablend that John Murphy (28 Days Later..., Sunshine, Snatch, Kick-Ass, Millions, Guess Who) is reuniting with the director as the composer of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The film written and directed by Gunn will star Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki,Sean Gunn and Will Poulter. No plot details have been announced yet. Kevin Feige (Avengers, Iron Man, Black Panther) is producing the Marvel Studios production. Read the rest of this entry »
Mateo Messina to Score Nathan Scoggins’ ‘What Remains’
Posted: October 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mateo Messina, Nathan Scoggins, What Remains
Mateo Messina (Juno, Blockers, Superstore, The Wrong Missy, Barely Lethal, Desperados) is set to score the upcoming murder mystery What Remains. The film is written and directed by Nathan Scoggins and stars Cress Williams, Kellan Lutz, Anne Heche, Marcus Gladney Jr and Stelio Sevante . The movie follows a small town pastor who is forced to contend with an act of forgiveness when the convict he forgave for murdering his wife returns to town five years later. Read the rest of this entry »
‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Betsy West, Jongnic Bontemps, Julie Cohen, My Name Is Pauli Murray, score, Soundtrack
Node Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jongnic Bontemps (United Skates, The Land, 4400, We Are: The Brooklyn Saints, The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel, The People v. The Klan). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. My Name Is Pauli Murray is directed by Julie Cohen & Betsy West (RBG) and centers on Pauli Murray, a legal trailblazer whose ideas influenced RBG’s fight for gender equality and Thurgood Marshall’s civil rights arguments. This movie focuses on their impact as a non-binary Black luminary: lawyer, activist, poet, and priest who transformed our world. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Wander Scoring Roland Emmerich’s ‘Moonfall’
Posted: October 12, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Moonfall, Roland Emmerich, Thomas Wander
Thomas Wander has recently started recording his score for the upcoming sci-fi disaster thriller Moonfall. The film is directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Stargate) and stars Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Eme Ikwuakor, Kelly Yu, Carolina Bartczak, and Donald Sutherland. The movie follows an NASA executive and former astronaut who is convinced she has the key to saving the world after a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. Emmerich also co-wrote the screenplay with Harald Kloser and Spenser Cohen (Extinction). Read the rest of this entry »