Resident Evil, Teen Wolf, and more - Songwriting Royalties

Two names carry this asset: a Netflix series that launched worldwide in a single day, and a teen drama that refuses to fade.

Netflix dropped all eight episodes of its live-action Resident Evil worldwide on one day in July 2022, and the music written for those episodes is the earnings engine here. It is coming down, the way first-run scores do, but quarterly earnings have held their footing for five straight quarters and the last two were the strongest of them. The franchise keeps expanding around it. A new feature film arrived in 2026. New titles do not carry these cues, yet they pull audiences back to the series that do, and this catalog has lived that pattern before.

Underneath Resident Evil sits Teen Wolf, and Teen Wolf is the quiet story. MTV’s series ran from 2011 to 2017, and its cues once earned about $2,100 a year. They have paid every year since 2015, between $1,670 and $4,010, and their single best year was 2024, thirteen years after the show began and seven after it ended. A revival in 2023 is what lifted them there, and they have not come back down. Setting aside a one-time item noted below, everything outside Resident Evil earned $4,387 over the last twelve months, 76% above its own nine-year average. The older music is not fading. It is climbing.

The money arrives from 73 countries, from Germany and France through Hungary, Brazil and the Czech Republic, with the United States paying the most. Total reported earnings of $28,687 include $5,812 of one-time foreign tax refunds tied to prior-year deductions, nearly all of it from Germany. Recurring royalties came to $22,875. Streaming drove 75% of the year, and 69% was earned outside the United States.

This is music written for the screen, paid when people watch. Whatever the Resident Evil line settles at, it sits on a base that has already shown it can rise when the franchise does.

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Almost all of this catalog is music written for the screen.

Resident Evil is the core. Netflix's 2022 series is set in New Raccoon City and told across two timelines. The catalog holds cue registrations for all eight episodes, plus fourteen cues from the soundtrack album, among them "Venus Flytrap (Main Theme)," "Sea of Zeroes," and "Final Battle." Constantin Music and Milan Records released it in July 2022.

Teen Wolf is the largest block of individual works. The MTV series ran six seasons from 2011 to 2017 and built a devoted young audience. More than a hundred episode cues including: "Waking Up In The Morgue," "Parrish Comes To," "Stiles Calls The Cops." Sony Classical released the score in 2017.

deadmau5 accounts for fifteen tracks. The Canadian producer is one of the most decorated names in electronic music, with six Grammy nominations. In 2018, he reworked his own songs for a live orchestra and released them as where's the drop?. This listing holds a writer's share on all fifteen, among them "Strobe (ov)," "Luxuria (ov)" and "Imaginary Friends (ov)."

The rest are cues from the 2016 Western Brimstone, written with Tom Holkenborg, better known as Junkie XL, and placements in CBS's Criminal Minds.