BMG Rights Management will release a soundtrack album for the crime drama Finestkind. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Carter Burwell (Carol, The Banshees of Inisherin, True Grit, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Fargo, Twilight). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 28 and will be available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Also listen to the composer’s final track (The Finestkind) below. Finestkind is directed by Brian Helgeland and stars Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Tommy Lee Jones, Jenna Ortega, Tim Daly, Lolita Davidovich, Ismael Cruz Cordova and Clayne Crawford. The movie revolves around two brothers, reunited under desperate circumstances, who are forced into business with a dangerous Boston crime syndicate, putting their family ties to the test.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 10, 2023)
Premiering on Friday, December 15, is the crime drama Finestkind written and directed by Brian Helgeland and starring Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones, Tim Daly, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Lolita Davidovich and Clayne Crawford. The film’s original music is composed by Carter Burwell (Carol, True Grit, Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Twilight). No word yet on a soundtrack release. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the movie, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
Also premiering on Friday is the Netflix original animated series Carol & The End of The World created by Dan Guterman and starring Martha Kelly, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Michael Chernus, Mel Rodriguez, Beth Grant and Lawrence Pressman. Joe Wong (Russian Doll, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Master of None, Will Trent, Lucky Hank, The Midnight Gospel, Krapoolis) has composed the show’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced soon. The animated comedy, which follows a woman struggling to embrace end-times chaos who searches for meaning in her last months on Earth, will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Carter Burwell Scoring Brian Helgeland’s ‘Finestkind’
Composer Carter Burwell (Carol, Fargo, True Grit,Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Twilight) is reuniting with writer/director Brian Helgeland (42, Payback) on the upcoming crime thriller Finestkind. The film starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace and Jenna Ortega takes place in New Bedford, Mass., and follows two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks who are reunited as adults over one fateful summer and are forced to strike a deal with a dangerous Boston crime syndicate.