Varèse Sarabande has announced three new 40th Anniversary vinyl reissues of the original soundtrack album for the 1986 sci-fi action/horror classic Aliens written and directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen and Carrie Henn. The album featuring the film’s original score composed and conducted by Academy Award winner James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, An American Tail, Legends of the Fall, The Amazing Spider-Man) and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra will be released as a wide 40th-Anniversary Edition LP on Silver color vinyl, a Barnes & Noble Exclusive 40th-Anniversary Edition LP on “Alien Green” color vinyl, and a Varèse Sarabande 40th-Anniversary Edition LP on “Xenomorph Glow” glow in the dark vinyl on November 13. Visit Amazon to pre-order the silver vinyl edition. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Aliens’ 40th Anniversary Vinyl Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 15, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aliens, James Cameron, James Horner, score, Soundtrack
‘The Last Kiss’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 15, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: score, Soundtrack, Tangelene Bolton, The Last Kiss, Yoko Okumura
Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller The Last Kiss. The album features the film’s original music is composed by Tangelene Bolton (Warrior Nun, Unseen, Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, Let’s Be Tigers). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. The Last Kiss is co-written and directed by Yoko Okumura and stars Mckenna Grace, Arkira Chantaratananond, Jaden Michael, Kate Drummond, Riley Davis, Ash Lee, Eve Edwards, Cooper Levy, Samantha Espie and Stephanie Moore. The Blumhouse production follows a teenager cursed with the ability to foresee the death of anyone she kisses who races to unmask a serial killer after a vision reveals her crush is targeted in an upcoming massacre. Read the rest of this entry »
Nainita Desai Scoring BBC’s ‘The Split Up’
Posted: September 15, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Nainita Desai, The Split, The Split Up
Nainita Desai (Nautilus, For Sama, The Deepest Breath, The Tower, The Reason I Jump, Funny Woman, Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, The Tower, Crossfire, Secrets of the Penguins) has composed the original score for the new BBC drama The Split Up. The show’s story and characters are created by Ursula Rani Sarma (Delicious) based on the 2018 series The Split (created by Abi Morgan and scored by Isobel Waller-Bridge & Evan Jolly) and stars Ritu Arya, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Aysha Kala, Arian Nik, Dimitri Leonidas, Danny Ashok, Mawaan Rizwan, Shalini Peiris, Sindhu Vee and Tom Forbes. The 6-part series is set in the charged world of Manchester’s high net worth divorce circuit and revolves around a powerhouse British South Asian family firm, and the go-to for the city’s elite. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Oasis’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 15, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benedikt Palier, Jannis Lenz, Oase, Oasis, score, Soundtrack
Benedikt Palier (Breaking the Ice, Soldat Ahmed) has released a soundtrack album for the German/Austrian drama Oasis (Oase). The album features the composer’s original music from the film and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to Palier’s (extended) credits track after the jump. Oasis is co-written and directed by Jannis Lenz and stars Florian Geißelmann, Anton Petzold, Mathilda Smidt and Godehard Giese. The movie follows three outcasts, crushed by the pressure of teachers and parents when a viral video of a student threatening his classmates surfaces online, as they seek sanctuary in a nearby forest where ritualistic survival games and shared pain force them to confront their deepest wounds. Read the rest of this entry »
‘1780’ Score Album to Be Released
Posted: September 14, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 1780, Antonio Celotto, Dustin Fairbanks, score, Soundtrack
Antonio Celotto will release a soundtrack album for the historical action thriller 1780. The album features the multi-instrumentalist/composer/filmmaker’s original score from the film and will be released digitally tomorrow, September 15 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to a track from Celetto’s score below. 1780 is directed by Dustin Fairbanks and stars Kevin Spacey, DJ Qualls, PJ Marshall, R. Keith Harris, Kamilo Alonzo, Vince Eisenson and Conor Kowalski. The movie follows a reclusive trapper and his son who take in a wounded Patriot fleeing the Queen’s Rangers and – when the soldiers surround their cabin – are forced into a tense, violent standoff that tests loyalty, morality, and a father’s resolve to protect his child. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Spacewoman’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 14, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hannah Berryman, Marcelo Zarvos, score, Soundtrack, Spacewoman
MovieScore Media’s Reality Bytes has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Spacewoman. The album features the film’s original music composed and produced by Emmy Award nominee Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, KPop Demon Hunters, The Good Shepherd, May December, Wonder, Emancipation, The Affair, Ray Donovan, Nonnas). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s first and final track after the jump. Spacewoman is directed by Hannah Berryman and centers on astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft who smashed many glass ceilings in the US Air Force and at NASA during her career, culminating in four increasingly dramatic and dangerous space shuttle missions. Read the rest of this entry »
Koji Endo Scoring Takashi Miike’s ‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’
Posted: September 14, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, Koji Endo, Takashi Miike
Composer Koji Endo is reteaming with director on the upcoming action thriller Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo. The film starring Shun Oguri, Lily James, Shotaro Mamiya, Liv Morgan, Hiroshi Tachi & Jun Kunimura follows a disgraced Tokyo detective who spirals into a world of corruption, addiction, and violence as he becomes entangled in a twister investigation involving an enigmatic FBI agent, a vengeful ex-Yakuza, and a missing daughter of a powerful American family. Daisuke Tengan wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cathedrals’ (‘Catedrales’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 14, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Catedrales, Cathedrals, Hernán Segret, score, Soundtrack
Amazon Content Services has released a soundtrack album for the Latin American Prime Video original series Cathedrals (Catedrales). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Hernán Segret (Maledictions, Club Hooligans, Cromañon, Nothing Between Us, The Broken Land). Also included is the original song Volverán las Oscuras Golondrinas written by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, produced by Segret and performed by Sandra Mihanovich. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and most other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to a score track and the song after the jump. Cathedrals is developed by Silvina Fredjkes & Alejandro Quesada based on the novel of the same title by Claudia Piñeiro and stars Alfredo Castro, Ignacia Baeza, Amparo Noguera, Marcelo Alonso, Vivianne Dietz, Octavia Bernasconi and Paulina García. Read the rest of this entry »
Bryce Dessner Scoring Netflix’s ‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’
Posted: September 14, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bryce Dessner, Monster, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, Netflix, Ryan Murphy
Bryce Dessner (of The National) (Train Dreams, The Two Popes, Sing Sing, We Live in Time, Cyrano, The Accountant 2, Bardo, She Came to Me, Manhunt, A Good Person, Widow Cliquot) has recently composed the original music for the new Netflix limited series Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. The show is created by Ian Brennan (Glee, Hollywood) and stars Ella Beatty, Vicky Krieps, Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, Joey Pollari, Jessica Barden, Billie Lourd and Sarah Paulson. The fourth installment of the Monster anthology series (following 2022’s The Jeffrey Dahmer Story scored by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, 2024’s The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story scored by Thomas & Julia Newman and last year’s The Ed Gein Story scored by Mac Quayle) explores the case of Lizzie Borden who – trapped in a cruel Victorian-era household – kills her parents in a gory ax murder that shocks the nation. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Babylon Berlin’ Season 5 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 14, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Babylon Berlin, Johnny Klimek, MHz Choice, score, Soundtrack, Tom Tykwer
umn Entertainment has released a new soundtrack album for the German TV series Babylon Berlin. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s fifth and final season composed by Tom Tykwer & Johnny Klimek (Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas, The Matrix Resurrections, The International, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer). The Vol. IV soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the title and final track after the jump. BMG has previously released three soundtracks featuring the music from Season 1 & 2, Season 3 & Season 4 over the last decade. Read the rest of this entry »
