Tag: Jed Palmer

‘Subservience’ Soundtrack Album Released

BMG Rights Management has released a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller Subservience. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jed Palmer (Upgrade, Black Snow, The Royal Hotel, OtherLife, The Infinite Man, Animals). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen a track (Alice) from the composer’s score below. Subservience is directed by S.K. Dale and stars Megan Fox, Michele Morrone, Madeline Zima, Matilda Firth, Jude Allen Greenstein and Andrew Whipp. The Millennium Media production follows a a struggling father who purchases a lifelike artificially intelligent android who has the ability to take care of any family and home after his wife becomes sick, when it suddenly becomes self-aware and wants everything her new family has to offer.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 13, 2024)

Opening in theaters nationwide is the psychological thriller Speak No Evil directed by James Watkins and starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Alix West Lefler, Aisling Franciosi and Daniel Hough. The film’s original music is composed by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, Enemy, The Outsider, Fear the Walking Dead, The Devil All the Time, The Staircase, The White Tiger, Boy Erased, Tokyo Vice). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Blumhouse production, which is being released by Universal Pictures.

Also opening wide today is the action comedy The Killer’s Game  directed by JJ Perry and starring Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Scott Adkins, Pom Klementieff, Terry Crews and Ben Kingsley. Roque Banos (Don’t Breathe, In the Heart of the Sea, Evil Dead, Sexy Beast, The Machinist, The Commuter, The Girl in the Spider’s Web) has composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced yet. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the movie, which is being distributed by Lionsgate.

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Jed Palmer Scoring S.K. Dale’s ‘Subservience’

Jed Palmer (Upgrade, The Royal Hotel, Black Snow, The Infinite Man, OtherLife, Animals) has composed the original score for the upcoming sci-fi thriller Subservience. The film is directed by S.K. Dale (Till Death) and stars Megan Fox, Michele Morrone, Madeline Zima, Jude Allen Greenstein, Matilda Firth and Andrew Whipp. The movie follows a struggling father who purchases a domestic SIM to help care for his family and house until she gains awareness and turns deadly, intent on eliminating his wife and kids.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 6, 2023)

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the supernatural horror movie The Exorcist: Believer co-written and directed by David Gordon Green and starring Leslie Odom, Jr., Jennifer Nettles, Ann Dowd, Norbert Leo Butz, Olivia Marcus, Lidya Jewett, and Ellen Burstyn. The film’s original music is composed by David Wingo (Mud, Take Shelter, Barry, The Report, Midnight Special, Loving) and Amman Abbasi (Dayveon). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Universal Pictures release.

Opening semi-wide in several hundred theaters is the romantic comedy She Came to Me written and directed by Rebecca Miller and starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Anne Hathaway, Joanna Kulig and Brian d’Arcy James. Bryce Dessner (Cyrano, The Two Popes, Bardo, A Good Person, The Kitchen, Irresistible) has composed the film’s original score. Warner Classics has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as an original score by Bruce Springsteen last week. Click here for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Vertical Entertainment.

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‘The Royal Hotel’ Soundtrack Album Details

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Australian psychological thriller The Royal Hotel. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jed Palmer (Upgrade, Black Snow, OtherLife, The Infinite Man, Animals). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, October 6 and will be now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. The Royal Hotel is co-written and directed by Kitty Green and stars Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving, Toby Wallace, Ursula Yovich, James Frecheville, Daniel Henshall and Herbert Nordrum. The movie follows two American best friends backpacking in Australia who run out of cash and must take jobs in an exploitative pub to fund their trip home.

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Jed Palmer Scoring Kitty Green’s ‘The Royal Hotel’

Jed Palmer (Upgrade, Animals, Black Snow, OtherLife, The Infinite Man) is scoring the upcoming Australian thriller The Royal Hotel. The film is directed by Kitty Green (The Assistant) and stars Julia Garner, Hugo Weaving and Jessica Henwick. The movie tells the story of two friends who run out of cash while backpacking in Australia and must take jobs in an exploitative pub to fund their trip home.

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‘OtherLife’ Soundtrack to Be Released

Lakeshore Records will release the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2017 Australian sci-fi thriller OtherLife. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jed Palmer (Upgrade, Animals, The Infinite Man). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 10 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. OtherLife is co-written and directed by Ben C. Lucas and stars Jessica De Gouw, T.J. Power and Thomas Cocquerel. The movie follows a woman working for a company that invents a drug that induces time-compressed virtual realities and grapples with her partner over how to use their powerful creation.

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Jed Palmer & Zoë Barry Scoring Sophie Hyde’s ‘Animals’

Jed Palmer (Upgrade, OtherLife) and Zoë Barry are composing the music for the upcoming comedy Animals. The film is directed by Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays) and stars Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat. The movie follows two best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when one of them gets engaged. Emma Jane Unsworth wrote the screenplay based on her novel.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (June 1, 2018)

Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:

Opening in most theaters is the survival drama Adrift directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin. The film’s original music is composed by Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Patrick Melrose, Gunpowder, The Current War). Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as Emiliana Torrini’s cover of Tom Waits’ I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You. Click here for the full album details.

Also opening wide is the sci-fi thriller Upgrade written and directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson and Benedict Hardie. Jed Palmer (OtherLife) has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the BH Tilt release.

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‘Upgrade’ Soundtrack Details

Back Lot Music will release a soundtrack album for the sci-fi thriller Upgrade. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jed Palmer (OtherLife). The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 1, 2018 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Upgrade is written and directed by Leigh Whannell (Insidious, Saw) and stars Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson and Benedict Hardie. The movie produced by Jason Blum follows a technophobe in a utopian near-future who is paralyzed in a freak mugging that leaves his wife dead. When he is offered an experimental paralysis cure – an implanted computer chip called STEM – he finds that the chip has a voice and a mind of its own.

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