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Business Wire
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Wire
Weapons (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Available Now Digitally
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WaterTower Music proudly announces the release of the Weapons (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), featuring an original score by Ryan Holladay, Hays Holladay, & filmmaker Zach Cregger. The highly anticipated horror/thriller from New Line Cinema, Weapons will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and hits theaters and IMAX nationwide on August 8, 2025, with international release beginning August 6. The soundtrack is available digitally now. Vinyl & CD will be available for Pre-Order starting 8/8 through Waxwork Records. The LP features deluxe packaging that includes colored vinyl, heavyweight gatefold jackets, custom artwork, and a premium 3D lenticular cover. Unusually for a modern production, composing for Weapons began as soon as editing commenced. The Holladay brothers relocated to New York and set up their scoring suite just steps away from the editorial and VFX teams—allowing for a uniquely fluid, collaborative process. Music was integrated directly into the evolving picture, resulting in a score that was organically built alongside the film itself, with minimal reliance on temp tracks. ' Having known Zach since childhood and played together in a band (Sirhan Sirhan), we had a musical shorthand that helped us to work quickly,' explains Hays Holladay. 'Zach really wanted us to be there throughout the post-production process, so we flew to New York soon after filming wrapped and were part of the edit for the next five months. And because we started so early, the three of us were constructing the score as the edit was still coming together. So, Zach would jump between our room, the VFX room and the edit. As a result, there was hardly any temp score throughout the process, so even in the very first test screenings, it was all original music we were making." "We went to New York with three suitcases full of synths, sound sculptures and samplers and built everything just a few steps down the hall from where they were creating the visual effects and editing the picture. The process felt like the opposite of working remotely - we were having lunch with the whole post-production crew every day." When it came to crafting the score and building the tension, mystery and musical disorientation, Ryan Holladay had this to say: "We wanted to create a score that felt intense and energetic when it needed to be, but also captured the mystery and the longing for answers that runs throughout the story without overstaying its welcome. In some cases, it took a few tries to get the tone right. One instance that comes to mind is 'The Flight,' which happens in the big running scene where you finally see where all the kids are headed. We tried a few attempts, going dramatic and sweeping at first. But in the end, what connected was something that feels, to me, like 'Ride of the Valkyries' meets Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops.' It's very unsettling." Weapons (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Tracklisting: 1. Maddie 2. Main Theme (from Weapons) 3. Who's There? 4. Following 5. Newspaper 6. Don't You Find It Odd? 7. What Could've Happened 8. Nightmares 9. Snip 10. Daybreak 11. Troubled Person 12. Where Are You? 13. Map 14. Waiting Game 15. Gasoline 16. Stop Right There 17. Serious Hot Water 18. Donna 19. James 20. Room to Room 21. What Did I Tell You? 22. On a Mission 23. Drag 24. I Think She Cut My Hair 25. Gasoline II 26. Homesickness 27. Are You Watching? 28. Campbell's 29. If I Got Better 30. Nametag 31. The Flight 32. Into the Lair 33. One Shot 34. Locked 35. Swarm (feat. Mary Lattimore) 36. I Found You ABOUT WEAPONS From New Line Cinema and Zach Cregger, the wholly original mind behind Barbarian, comes a new horror/thriller: Weapons. When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at 2:17 a.m., a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. The film stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Cregger directs from his own screenplay, and also produces alongside Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, with Michelle Morrissey and Josh Brolin executive producing. The filmmaker's creative team behind the camera includes director of photography Larkin Seiple, production designer Tom Hammock, editor Joe Murphy and costume designer Trish Summerville. The music is by Ryan Holladay, Hays Holladay and Zach Cregger. New Line Cinema Presents A Subconscious/Vertigo Entertainment/BoulderLight Pictures Production, A Zach Cregger Film, Weapons. It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and released in theaters and IMAX nationwide on August 8, 2025, and internationally beginning August 6, 2025. ABOUT RYAN & HAYS HOLLADAY RYAN and HAYS HOLLADAY (Music by) are composers, sound artists, and producers known for their work at the intersection of music, technology, and storytelling. Based in Los Angeles, the brothers have collaborated on film scores, interactive installations, and experimental projects for over a decade. Their most recent work includes the score for Weapons, written and directed by longtime friend and musical collaborator Zach Cregger. The three grew up together in the suburbs of Washington, DC, and moved to New York around the same time, where they founded the band Sirhan Sirhan. Early demos were circulated on CD-Rs sold at shows at venues like Pianos, and after relocating to Los Angeles, the band—also featuring Malachi DeLorenzo—recorded and released its only official release, the EP Reptile Milk Flower, in 2016. The Holladay brothers have created sound installations and immersive audio experiences for companies like Dolby and Bose, as well as for the U.S. Embassy in London, where their work is part of the permanent collection. In 2010, they pioneered one of the world's first 'location-aware albums'—music composed as a mobile app and mapped to spaces like Central Park and the National Mall. The Washington Post described it as 'magical—like using GPS to navigate a dream.' Outside of their collaborative work, Hays leads Kalide, a company he founded to design and build custom audio effects plugins and creative tools for sound artists. He studied at Columbia University. Ryan, a graduate of NYU and a Senior TED Fellow, is currently composing the score for the forthcoming video game Abelina, in collaboration with visual artist Gabe Askew. ABOUT ZACH CREGGER ZACH CREGGER's (Writer / Director / Producer / Music by) feature writing and directorial debut, BARBARIAN, premiered in theaters in 2022 and stars Bill Skarsgård, Georgina Campbell and Justin Long. He just wrapped on his highly anticipated follow-up film, Weapons (also written and directed by Cregger), which is set to release in 2025. Zach was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe, THE WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW, which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The group's reputation for unpolished hit-or-miss hilarity precedes them around the New York comedy circuit, and they won the award for Best Sketch Group at Aspen's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival 2006. The group's self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC TV and Fuse. As an actor, he has appeared alongside Anthony Anderson, Jesse Bradford, Gary Cole, Megan Mullally and Krysten Ritter, and starred in TBS's hit series WRECKED. WaterTower Music, the in-house label for the Warner Bros Discovery companies, releases recorded music as rich and diverse as the companies themselves. It has been the soundtrack home to many of the world's most iconic films, television shows and games since 2001.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
SoundCloud faces backlash after adding an AI training clause in its user terms
SoundCloud is facing backlash after creators took to social media to complain upon discovering that the music-sharing platform uses uploaded music to train its AI systems. Trump signed an order to deregulate the U.S. fishing industry. Here's what fishermen think about it Kroger and Albertsons cut worker hours. A new report looks at the impact to workers Rite Aid store closings timeline: Which pharmacies will close first? See the list of initial locations in 9 states According to SoundCloud's terms of use, unless a separate agreement states otherwise, users 'explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop, or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services.' These terms appear to have been added to SoundCloud's website in February 2024. Futurism was the first to report on artists' concerns. Musical duo The Flight brought attention to the terms this week, alerting fellow creators. 'Ok then . . . deleted all our songs that we uploaded to SoundCloud and now closing account,' the duo posted on Bluesky. Another user replied: 'Thanks for the heads-up. I just deleted my account.' A SoundCloud spokesperson says the company believes AI can help expand artist's creative output, but must be used with consent, attribution, and fair compensation. 'SoundCloud has never used artist content to train AI models, nor do we develop AI tools or allow third parties to scrape or use SoundCloud content from our platform for AI training purposes,' the spokesperson said in an emailed statement. 'In fact, we implemented technical safeguards, including a 'no AI' tag on our site to explicitly prohibit unauthorized use. The February 2024 update to our Terms of Service was intended to clarify how content may interact with AI technologies within SoundCloud's own platform. Use cases include personalized recommendations, content organization, fraud detection, and improvements to content identification with the help of AI Technologies.' Tech companies have increasingly relied on public and private content to train AI systems, which require vast amounts of data to function effectively. To reflect this, companies have been revising their terms and conditions to include clauses about artificial intelligence and generative AI. In November, X updated its terms of service to allow training of its machine learning and AI models on user content. The Federal Trade Commission warned in February 2024 that companies risk violating the law if they quietly alter their privacy policies to use customer data for AI training without proper notice. 'It may be unfair or deceptive for a company to adopt more permissive data practices—for example, to start sharing consumers' data with third parties or using that data for AI training—and to only inform consumers of this change through a surreptitious, retroactive amendment to its terms of service or privacy policy,' the agency said in a post. Critics of such AI policy changes are urging companies to implement more transparent opt-out options or, ideally, require users to opt in. Like many other tech firms, SoundCloud has been embracing AI. In November, it launched six new AI tools designed to 'meet a wide range of creative needs.' At that time, SoundCloud also announced it had joined AI For Music's 'Principles for Music Creation With AI' pledge, committing to 'uphold ethical and transparent AI practices that respect creators' rights.' 'SoundCloud is paving the way for a future where AI unlocks creative potential and makes music creation accessible to millions, while upholding responsible and ethical practices,' CEO Eliah Seton said in a November blog post. 'We're proud to be the platform that supports creators at every level, fuels experimentation, and empowers fandom.' Update: This article has been updated to include comment from SoundCloud. This post originally appeared at to get the Fast Company newsletter: Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Fast Company
09-05-2025
- Business
- Fast Company
SoundCloud faces backlash after adding an AI training clause in its user terms
SoundCloud is facing backlash after creators took to social media to complain upon discovering that the music-sharing platform uses uploaded music to train its AI systems. According to SoundCloud's terms of use, unless a separate agreement states otherwise, users 'explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services.' These terms appear to have been added to SoundCloud's website in February 2024. Futurism was the first to report on artists' concerns. Musical duo The Flight brought attention to the terms this week, alerting fellow creators. 'ok then… deleted all our songs that we uploaded to Soundcloud and now closing account,' the duo posted on Bluesky. Another user replied, 'Thanks for the heads up. I just deleted it my account.' A SoundCloud spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Tech companies have increasingly relied on public and private content to train AI systems, which require vast amounts of data to function effectively. To reflect this, companies have been revising their terms and conditions to include clauses about artificial intelligence and generative AI. In November, X updated its terms of service to allow training of its machine learning and AI models on user content. The Federal Trade Commission warned in February 2024 that companies risk violating the law if they quietly alter their privacy policies to use customer data for AI training without proper notice. 'It may be unfair or deceptive for a company to adopt more permissive data practices—for example, to start sharing consumers' data with third parties or using that data for AI training—and to only inform consumers of this change through a surreptitious, retroactive amendment to its terms of service or privacy policy,' the agency said in a post. Critics of such AI policy changes are urging companies to implement more transparent opt-out options, or ideally, require users to opt in. Like many other tech firms, SoundCloud has been embracing AI. In November, it launched six new AI tools designed to 'meet a wide range of creative needs.' At that time, SoundCloud also announced it had joined AI For Music's ' Principles for Music Creation with AI ' pledge, committing to 'uphold ethical and transparent AI practices that respect creators' rights.' 'SoundCloud is paving the way for a future where AI unlocks creative potential and makes music creation accessible to millions, while upholding responsible and ethical practices,' CEO Eliah Seton said in a November blog post. 'We're proud to be the platform that supports creators at every level, fuels experimentation and empowers fandom.'
