Caldera Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1971 western Catlow directed by Sam Wanamaker and starring Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy, Jo Ann Pflug and Daliah Lavi. The album features first-ever release of the original film recording of the movie’s original score composed by Roy Budd (Get Carter, The Sea Wolves, The Wild Geese, Flight of the Doves, Kidnapped, Paper Tiger, Who Dares Wins). Visit the label’s official website to find out more about the CD and to check out audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
New ‘Catlow’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: July 21, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Catlow, Roy Budd, Sam Wanamaker, score, Soundtrack
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‘A Toxic Love Story’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: July 21, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Toxic Love Story, Alexandra Lacey, Jessica Jones, Netflix, Nick Foster, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary A Toxic Love Story. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nick Foster (Thunderbirds Are Go, Renegade Nell, Misha and the Wolves, Greatest Days, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, Lover, Stalker, Killer, The Twister: Caught in the Storm) & Jessica Jones (The Tinder Swindler, Unfamiliar, One Day, American Nightmare, The Crash, Fifteen-Love, Our Universe). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 22. The streaming/download link will be added to this article within the next day. A Toxic Love Story directed by Alexandra Lacey revolves a young woman living in a glamorous California suburb whose arrest for a violent fantasy plot against her ex-boyfriend’s new wife becomes a sensational scandal. Read the rest of this entry »
Craig Armstrong Scoring Channel 4’s ‘The Undeclared War’ Season 2
Posted: July 21, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Channel 4, Craig Armstrong, Paul McGuigan, Peacock, The Undeclared War
Craig Armstrong (Moulin Rouge!, Love Actually, Romeo + Juliet, The Great Gatsby, The Incredible Hulk, Ray, The Quiet American) is the new composer of the Channel 4/Peacock original series The Undeclared War. The Grammy Award winner has written the score for the second season of the show written by Colin Teevan (Das Boot, Rebellion) and starring Simon Pegg, Siân Brooke, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Alex Jennings, Danny Sapani, Ed Stoppard and Chloe Pirrie. The 6-part thriller directed by Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin, Wicker Park) is set immediately after the end of the first season as the team in the Malware Department at GCHQ come to terms with a massive Russian cyber-attack and realize that Russia were not the real architects of the attack. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Mad Dog of Europe’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 21, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aisling Brouwer, Rubika Shah, score, Soundtrack, The Mad Dog of Europe
Manners McDade has released a soundtrack album for the French/German documentary The Mad Dog of Europe. The album features the film’s original music composed by Aisling Brouwer (The Buccaneers, Pompeii: Out of Time, White Riot, Lioness: The Nicola Adams Story). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. The Mad Dog of Europe is directed by Rubika Shah and centers on Herman Mankiewicz’s unproduced anti-Nazi feature project of the same name depicting the destruction of a German-Jewish family at the dawn of Hitler’s rise to power. Read the rest of this entry »
Cristobal Tapia de Veer Scoring Michael Dowse’s ‘The Stunt Driver’
Posted: July 21, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Michael Dowse, The Stunt Driver
Cristobal Tapia de Veer (The White Lotus, Smile, Utopia, Babygirl, The Third Day, Lord of the Flies, The Girl with All the Gifts, National Treasure) has composed the original score for the upcoming Canadian comedy The Stunt Driver. The film is written and directed by Michael Dowse (Stuber, What If) and stars Jay Baruchel, Laurence Leboeuf, Ben Foster, Dan Bakkedahl and Ed Helms. The movie is set in the mid-70s and recounts the true underdog story of Ken Carter, the Canadian world champion stunt driver who battles personal demons and public doubt to attempt what everyone considers impossible – a mile-long jump across the St. Lawrence river in a rocket car. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Forsaken’ (‘L’Abandon’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 21, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Forsaken, L'Abandon, Nicolas Errèra, score, Soundtrack, Vincent Garenq
ENKA has released a soundtrack album for the French biographical drama Forsaken (L’Abandon). The album features the film’s original music composed by Nicolas Errèra (Hidden Man, Raging Fire, My Mother, God, and Sylvie Vartan, Survive, Adoring, Shaolin, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, The Serpent’s Path, Mountain Cry). The soundtrack is now available on Amazon (and any other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Forsaken is co-written and directed by Vincent Garenq and stars Antoine Reinartz, Emmanuelle Bercot, Nedjim Bouizzoul, Azize Kabouche and Emma Boumali. The movie based on Stéphane Simon’s book The Last Days of Samuel Paty chronicles the final eleven days of a French school teacher whose murder triggered by a class on free speech shook France in 2020. Read the rest of this entry »
Toby Genkel’s ‘High in the Clouds’ to Feature Themes by Paul McCartney
Posted: July 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: High in the Clouds, Michael Giacchini, Paul McCartney, Toby Genkel
Paul McCartney has composed the themes for the upcoming animated feature High in the Clouds. The Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter who was previously announced to contribute original songs to the film is also receiving credit for providing the themes to the score (presumably based on his songs) according to producer Nicolas Atlan who shared images from last week’s scoring sessions at Abbey Road Studios in London on social media. Michael Giacchino (Up, Lost, Star Trek, The Incredibles, The Batman, Ratatouille, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Jurassic World) has composed the score for the movie directed by Toby Genkel (The Amazing Maurice, Two by Two: Overboard!) and starring Himesh Patel, Celine Dion, Hannah Waddingham, McCartney himself, Lionel Richie, Ringo Starr, Idris Elba, Clémence Poésy, Jimmy Fallon, Pom Klementieff and Alain Chabat. The animated musical tells the story of a teenage squirrel who embarks on an extraordinary journey to set music free after he accidentally sparked a revolution against the bossy diva-owl who has banned all music from his town. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Il Ras del Quartiere’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: July 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Carlo Vanzina, Goblin, Il Ras del Quartiere, score, Soundtrack
Cinevox Records has announced the first-ever soundtrack release for the 1983 Italian cult comedy Il Ras del Quartiere co-written and directed by Carlo Vanzina and starring Diego Abatantuono, Lino Troisi, Isabella Ferrari, Lara Nakszyński and Mauro Di Francesco. The 4-track EP features the film’s original music composed by Goblin (Suspiria, Deep Red, Zombi, Contamination, The Heroin Busters). The soundtrack was released as vinyl edition last month (and now available from various speciality stores) and is now also available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to all four tracks, originally composed by Fabio Pignatelli & Marco Rinalduzzi, recorded at Trafalgar Recording Studios in Rome and newly remixed by Pignatelli himself, after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Newman Scoring John Madden’s ‘Onwards and Sideways’
Posted: July 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, John Madden, Onwards and Sideways, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Finding Nemo, Skyfall, Road to Perdition, 1917, Wall-E, The Horse Whisperer, Meet Joe Black, Elemental, Bridge of Spies) has provided the original score for the upcoming British drama Onwards and Sideways. The film is directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Quills) and stars Rhys Ifans, Laura Linney, Monica Dolan and Rory Kinnear. The movie explores the relationship between the deputy head of a primary school and composer and single mother of two daughters who are confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Her Private Hell’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: July 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Her Private Hell, Nicolas Winding Refn, Pino Donaggio, score, Soundtrack
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the sci-fi/horror thriller Her Private Hell. The album features the film’s original music composed by Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Body Double, The Howling, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Seed of Chucky). Also included are five tracks by Julian Winding. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, July 24 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Touch of Beauty) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. Her Private Hell is co-written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and stars Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, Havana Rose Liu, Kristine Froseth, Aoi Yamada, Diego Calva, Shioli Kutsuna, Dougray Scott and Hidetoshi Nishijima. The movie follows a troubled young woman who searches for her father after a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity. Read the rest of this entry »
