Mark Korven (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Black Phone, The First Omen, Cube, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, The Peripheral) is scoring the upcoming Canadian Netflix limited series Below. The show is created by Jesse McKeown (The Umbrella Academy) and stars Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis, Charlie Heaton, Ruby Stokes, Willow Kean, Kaleb Horn, Rohan Campbell, Mary Walsh and Natasha Henstridge. The 6-part horror thriller revolves around a hard-bitten fisherman and his family who fight to protect their close-knit community when a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a small Newfoundland town. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Korven Scoring Netflix’s ‘Below’
Posted: July 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Below, Mark Korven, Netflix
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‘Shatter’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: July 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Lindup, Michael Carreras, Monte Hellman, score, Shatter, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the 1974 action thriller Shatter directed by Michael Carreras & Monte Hellman and starring Stuart Whitman, Ti Lung, Lily Li, Anton Diffring and Peter Cushing. The album features the original music from the Hammer Films & Shaw Brothers Studio production composed by David Lindup (The Spiral Staircase, White Cargo), presented for the first time as originally intended, including alternate cues and incidental pieces. The soundtrack will be released as a limited edition 12″ LP, pressed on orange vinyl, on August 7 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Christiania’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christiania, Karl Friis Forchhammer, Marco Twellmann, score, Soundtrack
Marco Twellmann has released a soundtrack album for the Danish documentary Christiania. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to Twellmann’s first track (The Town in the Heart of Copenhagen) below. Christiania directed by Karl Friis Forchhammer chronicles over 50 years of the famous Copenhagen freetown, one of the world’s most radical social experiments, and traces its journey from a 1971 occupation of abandoned barracks to a unique community shaped by freedom, conflict, creativity, drugs, biker gangs, and political struggles. Read the rest of this entry »
Volker Bertelmann Scoring Florian Zeller’s ‘Bunker’
Posted: July 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bunker, Florian Zeller, Volker Bertelmann
Volker Bertelmann (Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front, Lion, Adrift, Pressure, The Day of the Jackal, A House of Dynamite, The Amateur, One Life) has provided the original score for the upcoming dramatic thriller Bunker. The film is written and directed by Florian Zeller (The Father, The Son) and stars Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano and Patrick Schwarzenegger. The movie follows an architect who accepts a morally ambiguous project — building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire, but his wife begins to question their marriage after almost two decades together. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Arnie & Barney: The Water Quest’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 26, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arnie & Barney: The Water Quest, Christoph Zirngibl, score, Sean Heuston, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature Arnie & Barney: The Water Quest. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christoph Zirngibl Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia, Jerry Cotton, Where’s Wanda?, Luna’s Revenge) and performed by the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg conducted by Ben Palmer. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s end credits track (feat. Umbilical Brothers) after the jump. Arnie & Barney: The Water Quest is directed by Sean Heuston and tells the story of two ants who decide to take matters into their own hands when a severe drought hits the insect community and team up with an incognito superhero mosquito to discover the real reason for the missing water. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 26, 2026)
Posted: July 26, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Acorn TV, Adult Swim, Amazon, Ariel Marx, Arli Liberman, Bear McCreary, Dream Chambers, Fightland, Furious, Hulu, Mogwai, Netflix, Paul Saunderson, President Curtis, Ryan Elder, Starz, Swindle, The Bombing of Pan Am 103, The Devil's Mouth, The Ridge
Premiering tonight is the Adult Swim original animated series President Curtis created by Dan Harmon & James Siciliano and starring Keith David, Stephanie Beatriz and Jim Rash. The show’s original music is composed by Ryan Elder (Rick and Morty, The Boss Baby: Back in Business, Haunted Hotel, Harmontown). The series, which is set in the Rick and Morty universe and follows the title character and his eccentric staff as they tackle crises from interdimensional diplomacy to paranormal investigations and unexplained phenomena, will air every Sunday night on Adult Swim and will also be available to stream the next day on HBO Max.
Premiering tomorrow, July 27, is the Hulu original series Furious created by Elizabeth Meriwether and starring Emmy Rossum, Lola Petticrew, Scoot McNairy, Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Jake Lacy. Ariel Marx (Dying for Sex, Shiva Baby, Candy, Sanctuary, A Small Light,The Last Frontier, Murdaugh: Death in the Family, A Friend of the Family, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Tale) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the crime thriller, which will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Rapture’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 26, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Dominik Scherrer, score, Soundtrack, The Rapture
Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album for the BBC drama The Rapture. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominee Dominik Scherrer (The Missing, The Tourist, The Widow, Baptiste, Ripper Street, Miss Austen, Primeval, The Assassin, The Serpent, The Confessions of Frannie Langton). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s titles track after the jump. The Rapture is written by Bryony Kimmings & Rebecca Manley based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Liz Jensen and stars Ruth Madeley, India Amarteifio, Sam Hazeldine, Stephen Campbell Moore, Iwan Rheon, Lisa Palfrey, Jack Farthing, Siena Kelly, Dean Rehman, Naby Dakhli, Robert Rhodes, Richard Elis and Ruth Jones. The series follows a grieving child psychologist recovering from a car crash left her paralyzed who takes a job working in a maximum-security juvenile facility, where she meets the unit’s most disturbed patient who was found guilty of murdering her mother and claims to possess psychic powers. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Belcher Scoring Sam Hargrave’s ‘Matchbox The Movie’
Posted: July 25, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alex Belcher, Apple TV +, Matchbox The Movie, Sam Hargrave
Alex Belcher (21 Bridges, Citadel, The Contractor, Made in Italy, All Fun and Games) has composed the original music for the upcoming action adventure Matchbox The Movie. The film is directed by Sam Hargrave and stars John Cena, Jessica Biel, Teyonah Parris, Sam Richardson, Arturo Castro, Bill Camp, Corey Stoll, Danai Gurira and Golshifteh Farahani. The movie inspired by the iconic Mattel toys revolves around a group of friends since childhood who have their lives upended when their long-absent former leader, an undercover CIA agent, returns to their small town and unwittingly gets them embroiled in a frantic international pursuit to save the world. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Burt’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 25, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Burt, Burt Berger, Joe Burke, score, Soundtrack, Tim Rutili
Jealous Butcher Records has released a soundtrack album for the indie comedy drama Burt. The album features the film’s original score composed by Tim Rutili (Monstrous, The Evening Hour, Brawler, Beauty Is Embarrassing). Also included are three original songs by Burt Berger who also stars in the title role . The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the first song (Freedom) and Rutli’s main theme below. Burt is co-written and directed by Joe Burke and stars Oliver Cooper, Berger, Steven Levy and Catlin Adams. The movie executive produced by David Gordon Green follows a street musician with Parkinson’s whose life gets turned upside down when a young man from New York arrives claiming to be his son and invites him to stay for the weekend at the house he shares with his grumpy landlord. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 24, 2026)
Posted: July 24, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Sad and Beautiful World, Andrew Scott Bell, Anthony Sahyoun, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, Brunello, Brunello the Gracious Visionary, Her Private Hell, Jeremy Zuckerman, Matthew Herbert, Motor City, Nicola Piovani, Pino Donaggio, Pinocchio: Unstrung, Rosebush Pruning, Sheep in the Box, Steve Jablonsky, Yuta Bandoh
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the action thriller Motor City directed by Potsy Ponciroli and starring Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster, Pablo Schreiber, Ben McKenzie, Lionel Boyce and Amar Chadha-Patel.The film’s original music is composed by Steve Jablonsky (Transformers, The Island, Desperate Housewives, Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor, Skyscraper, Ender’s Game, DC League of Super-Pets). No word on a soundtrack release. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the movie, which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and is being distributed by the Independent Film Company.
Opening semi-wide in around 700 theaters is the sci-fi/horror thriller Her Private Hell co-written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Sophie Thatcher, Havana Rose Liu, Kristine Froseth, Charles Melton, Aoi Yamada, Shioli Kutsuna, Dougray Scott, Diego Calva and Hidetoshi Nishijima. Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Body Double, Blow Out, The Howling) has composed the film’s original music. Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as a couple of tracks by Julian Winding who has provided additional music, today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Neon. Read the rest of this entry »
