Walt Disney Records has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for the studios’ 1993 fantasy comedy Hocus Pocus directed by Kenny Ortega and starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch and Vinessa Shaw. The album features the film’s original score composed and conducted by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, The Jungle Book, Elf, Iron Man 2, The Emperor’s New Groove, Bruce Almighty). Click here to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. Debney’s score has previously been released as a limited CD edition by Intrada Records in 2013.
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Score Album for Disney Channel’s ‘Descendants’ Announced
Walt Disney Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the Disney Channel franchise Descendants. The album features selections of the original score from all three movies in the series composed by David Lawrence (High School Musical, American Pie, Van Wilder, Julie and the Phantoms, Teen Beach Movie, Company Man). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and all other major digital music stores. The label has previously released soundtracks featuring the songs from the original 2015 Descendants film, 2017’s Descendants 2 and 2019’s Descendants 3. The albums for the first and third movie also featured a score suite by Lawrence. The Descendants trilogy is directed by Kenny Ortega, created by Josann McGibbon & Sara Parriott and stars Dove Cameron, Cameron Boyce, Sofia Carson and Booboo Stewart.
David Lawrence Scoring Disney Channel’s ‘Descendants’
David Lawrence has composed the original score for the upcoming Disney Channel original movie Descendants. The film is directed by Kenny Ortega (This Is It) and follows the benevolent teenaged son of the King and Queen (Beast and Belle from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast) who is poised to take the throne and offer a chance at redemption to the trouble-making offspring of Cruella De Vil, Maleficent, the Evil Queen and Jafar who have been imprisoned on a forbidden island with all the other villains. The movie’s cast includes Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce, Keegan Connor Tracy, Dan Payne, Mitchell Hope, Kristin Chenoweth and Booboo Stewart.