Decca Records has released the original song The Better Part of Bravery from LAIKA Studios’ animated feature Wildwood. The track written by Colin Meloy and performed by The Decemberists is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. As previously reported, the full soundtrack album featuring the song and Dario Marianelli’s original score will be released this Friday, October 23 (visit Amazon to pre-order the digital, CD and vinyl edition). Also click here to check out the project’s music team credits and listen to a first score track below. Wildwood is directed by Travis Knight and stars Carey Mulligan, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Mahershala Ali, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, Charlie Day, Jake Johnson, Jemaine Clement, Tantoo Cardinal Maya Erskine and Richard E. Grant. Read the rest of this entry »
The Decemberists’ Original Song ‘The Better Part of Bravery’ from LAIKA’s ‘Wildwood’ Released
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: LAIKA, The Decemberists, Travis Knight, Wildwood
‘Coward’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Coward, Lukas Dhont, score, Soundtrack, Valentin Hadjadj
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Belgian/French/Dutch war drama Coward. The album features the film’s original score composed by Valentin Hadjadj (Close, Girl, April and the Extraordinary World, A Bigger World, Families Like Ours, Under the Stars of Paris, Rialto). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, October 21. Check back on this page for the streaming/download link. Coward is co-written and directed by Lukas Dhont and stars Emmanuel Macchia, Valentin Campagne, Willem de Schryver, Mistral Guidotti, Boris Bouchat, Anaëlle Fournier, Jonas Wertz and Jef Jacobs. The movie, which has been selected as Belgium’s entry in the International Feature category for next year’s Academy Awards, follows two World War I soldiers as they find a fragile sanctuary of love and art amid the shadows of the Belgian trenches. Read the rest of this entry »
Roger Goula Scoring Idris Elba’s & Martin Owen’s ‘Above the Below’
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Above the Below, Idris Elba, Martin Owen, Roger Goula
Roger Goula (Sense and Sensibility, Next Goal Wins, All That Breathes, The Frankenstein Chronicles, Shark Whisperer, Tiger House, Identicals) has provided the original score for the upcoming survival thriller Above the Below. The film is directed by actor Idris Elba (who made his feature directorial debut on the project) & Martin Owen (Let’s Be Evil, Twist) and stars Elba himself, Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin. The movie follows three astronauts in a race against time after an unscheduled crash-landing leaves them trapped in the crushing depths of the ocean with no contact with mission control and oxygen rapidly running out. Read the rest of this entry »
Timothée Chalamet’s & Hans Zimmer’s ‘Desert Chant’ from ‘Dune: Part Three’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Denis Villeneuve, Dune, Dune: Part Three, Hans Zimmer, Timothee Chalamet
WaterTower Music has released the first track from the soundtrack for Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming sci-fi epic Dune: Part Three. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is the Desert Chant by lead actor Timothée Chalamet and the film’s composer Hans Zimmer (Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Inception, The Lion King, Rain Man). Also listen to the track, which begins with Chalamet humming before building into an epic war chant, after the jump. Dune: Part Three is co-written and directed by Villeneuve and also stars Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinso, Isaach de Bankolé, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Rampling and Javier Bardem. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Terminator Genisys’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Taylor, Lorne Balfe, score, Soundtrack, Terminator: Genisys
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 2015 sci-fi/action movie Terminator Genisys directed by Alan Taylor and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Byung-Hun Lee, Matt Smith and JK Simmons. The album features the film’s expanded original score composed byLorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, Bad Boys for Life, His Dark Materials, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, The Wheel of Time). The 2-CD set, which is limited 21,000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples. Skydance Productions & Paramount Pictures have previously released the original 2015 soundtrack album. Read the rest of this entry »
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Scoring Jeremy Saulnier’s ‘Slayground’
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atticus Ross, Jeremy Saulnier, Slayground, Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Soul, Watchmen, Challengers, Gone Girl, Soul, TRON: Ares, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mank) have been tapped to score the upcoming horror thriller Slayground. The film is written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room, Rebel Ridge) and stars Cory Michael Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Sophie Wilde, James Badge Dale, Stephen Root, Stanley Simons, Chris Sullivan, Young Mazino, Matty Matheson, Imogen Poots and Macon Blair. The movie follows a “scare-actor” who wakes up in a haunted attraction surrounded by the dead bodies of his co-workers with no memory of how they got there and – as a state-wide manhunt closes in – races to uncover the truth. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Game Master’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Éric Judor, Game Master, Le Roi du Game, Ludovic Bource, score, Soundtrack
XANADU has released a soundtrack album for the French fantasy comedy Game Master (Le Roi du Game).The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Ludovic Bource (The Artist, OSS 117, On the Other Side of the Tracks, Clear History, Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be, The Rookie Guide). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Game Master is directed by Éric Judor and stars Judor himself, Alexandra Lamy, Marc Labrèche, Hafid Benamar and Liona Bordonaro. The movie follows a father who joins a live-action medieval-fantasy role-playing game to reconnect with his estranged daughter, leading to a zany and chaotic adventure. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Bear Scoring Hulu’s ‘Phony’
Posted: October 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Bear, Hulu, Phony
Christopher Bear (of the rock band Grizzly Bear) (Past Lives, Roofman, Adults, High Maintenance, Carolina Caroline, Mother, Couch, Omaha, Swallowed, The Passenger) is scoring the new Hulu original series Phony. The show is created by Nick Paley (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) and stars Connie Britton, Sam Nivola, Meera Syala, Grace Brennan, Mahaela Park, Maliq Johnson and Colter Lee. The coming-of-age mystery revolves around a teenager who wakes up in the hospital after a car accident to discover his mom – his only parent and his best friend – appears to have been replaced by an impostor. Read the rest of this entry »
The Ivors Composer Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: October 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: The Ivors Composer Awards
The Ivors Academy has announced the nominees for The Ivors Composer Awards, sponsored by PRS for Music in association with BBC Radio 3, which celebrate excellence in composition across genres and disciplines, from film, television and video games to concert halls, community engagement and live performance. The Academy’s categories for Best Original Film Score and Best Original Television Score, historically recognized at The Ivors in spring – have been moved to a new awards ceremony, The Ivors Composer Awards in November. A brand-new category celebrating Best Original Documentary Score has been added for the first time this year. The Ivors Composer Awards will held on November 17 in London, hosted by radio presenter Petroc Trelawny, with BBC Radio 3 as broadcast partner. The ceremony will be part of The Ivors Composer Week, taking place from November 16-20 to broaden the celebration and empowerment of composers further. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘An American Tail: Fievel Goes West’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: October 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, James Horner, Phil Nibbelink, score, Simon Wells, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1991 animated feature An American Tail: Fievel Goes West directed by Phil Nibbelink & Simon Wells and starring Phillip Glasser, James Stewart, Erica Yohn, Cathy Cavadini, Dom DeLuise, Nehemiah Persoff, Amy Irving, John Cleese and Jon Lovitz. The album features the newly remastered and expanded original score from the Amblin Entertainment production composed and conducted by Academy Award winner James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Field of Dreams, Aliens, Legends of the Fall), including previously unreleased music. Also included are all original songs from the film written by Horner & Will Jennings, including the Golden Globe-nominated Dreams to Dream. The 2-CD set is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. MCA Records has released the original 1991 soundtrack album. Intrada has previously released an expanded version of Horner’s score from the 1986 original An American Tail movie back in 2019. Read the rest of this entry »
