Lakeshore Records releases the single
“Quill” and its accompanying music video from the forthcoming soundtrack to the Black Bear film The Rivals of Amziah King, available now wherever you get your music. A spirited Americana track, “Quill” is performed by Matthew McConaughey and Ben Hardesty of The Last Bison, with vocals by Miranda Zickler, Angelina LookingGlass, and Andrea Pister. Written by Hardesty and produced by Blake Neely at Cow on the Wall Studios (COWS), the song offers a first taste of the film’s roots-infused musical landscape.
Hardesty is the founding member and frontman of The Last Bison, whose cinematic approach to songwriting expands into film composition with his work on The Rivals of Amziah King. Formed in Chesapeake, Virginia, The Last Bison broke onto the national music scene in 2012 with its blend of folk, chamber pop, and orchestral instrumentation. Drawing comparisons to artists including Mumford & Sons, Fleet Foxes, and The Decemberists, the band has continued to build a distinctive sound across multiple acclaimed releases and creative collaborations.
Directed by Andrew Patterson from a screenplay by James Montague, The Rivals of Amziah King stars Academy Award® winner Matthew McConaughey alongside Angelina LookingGlass, Scott Shepherd, Rob Morgan, Tony Revolori, Cole Sprouse, and Kurt Russell. The film is produced by David Heyman, Teddy Schwarzman, Jeffrey Clifford, Michael Heimler, James Montague, and Will Greenfield, and opens in theaters nationwide on August 14, 2026.
Deep within the backwoods of rural Oklahoma, charismatic and musically gifted Amziah King herds a bluegrass-playing band of misfits while overseeing the premier honey-making operation in town. Wahen Amziah’s estranged foster daughter unexpectedly returns, Amziah leaps at the possibility to renew connection and create a family business. But the honey game is ruthless, and Amziah’s rivals threaten to destroy everything he has built.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS:
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Fallout, John Wick, Whiplash, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Drive, Severance, Cyberpunk 2077 / Edgerunners, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Red Dead Redemption 2, Masters of the Universe, The Vampire Lestat, the Grammy-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
For more information, contact: www.lakeshorerecords.com
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ABOUT BLACK BEAR:
Black Bear is one of the world’s leading independent studios, producing, financing, and distributing film and television content around the world. Founded in 2011, with offices in Santa Monica and London, the studio is behind a diversified slate that blends critically acclaimed, filmmaker-driven fare with broadly commercial action and genre titles. The company directly distributes films in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, and Canada, where subsidiary Elevation Pictures is the territory’s top independent distributor. Black Bear’s original films include Academy Award nominees Train Dreams, The Imitation Game, Sing Sing, Nyad, and Mudbound, as well as Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, J Blakeson’s I Care a Lot, and David Ayer’s A Working Man. Via its international sales business, Black Bear has sold films including Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs and The Monkey, and upcoming films including Marc Forster’s Anxious People, starring Angelina Jolie, Aimee Lou Wood, and Jason Segel. The company’s distribution operations in the U.K. and Canada have been behind Academy Award and BAFTA winners including Edward Berger’s Conclave, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, and Sean Baker’s Anora.
For more information: www.blackbearpictures.com, Instagram:@blackbearpics, X: @blackbearpics
