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Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 24, 2026)

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the biographical musical drama Michael directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Jaafar Jackson, Nia Long, Miles Teller, Laura Harrier, Juliano Krue Valdi and Colman Domingo. Harvey Mason, Jr. serves as the project’s executive music producer. John Warhurst is the music supervisor and Lior Rosner has provided the underscore cues. Click here for the full music team credits. Columbia Records has released a soundtrack album featuring thirteen Michael Jackson songs today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the movie, which is being released by Lionsgate.

Also opening wide is the comedy thriller Over Your Dead Body directed by Jorma Taccone and starring Samara Weaving, Jason Segel, Timothy Olyphant, Keith Jardine, Paul Guilfoyle and Juliette Lewis. The film’s original score is composed by Matthew Compton (Palm Springs, MacGruber, Into the Deep, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, The Last Stop in Yuma County, Better Start Running). No word on a score release. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the movie, which is being distributed by the Independent Film Company.

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Christopher Bear Scoring Matthew Shear’s ‘Fantasy Life’

Christopher Bear (of the rock band Grizzly Bear) (Past Lives, Mother, Couch, High Maintenance, Swallowed, The Passenger) has provided the original score for the upcoming comedy Fantasy Life. The film is marks the feature directorial debut of actor Matthew Shear and stars Amanda Peet, Shear himself, Alessandro Nivola, Bob Balaban, Judd Hirsch, Andrea Martin, Holland Taylor, Zosia Mamet, Jessica Harper and Sheng Wang. The movie follows a man who – after an suffering a panic attack after losing his job as a paralegal – stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and develops a relationship with the girls’ mother.

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