Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1978 classic ABC sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica created by Glen A. Larson and starring Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, John Colicos, Maren Jensen, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Noah Hathaway, Tony Swartz, Laurette Spang, Terry Carter and Anne Lockhart. The 8-CD box set features the newly remastered original music from the show composed by Stu Phillips (Battlestar Galactica, Quincy, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,The Fall Guy, McCloud, The Six Million Dollar Man), as well as selections from his score for the sequel series Galactica 1980. Also included is a remastered version of the 1978 MCA Records album, alternate and cover versions of the song It’s Love, Love, Love, a disco arrangement of the main theme, and a special arrangement by Phillips for the Boston Pops album Out of This World, conducted by John Williams. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Battlestar Galactica’ Classic Series Soundtrack Collection Announced
Posted: September 28, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ABC, Battlestar Galactica, score, Soundtrack, Stu Phillips
‘Saint Clare’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 28, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mitzi Peirone, Philip Klein, Saint Clare, score, Soundtrack
Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the thriller Saint Clare. The album features music from and inspired by the film composed by Philip Klein (The Madness, Wish Dragon, The Last Full Measure, Medieval, Pig, The Revisionist, Savage Salvation). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Saint Clare is co-written and directed by Mitzi Peirone and stars Bella Thorne, Ryan Phillippe, Rebecca DeMornay, Bart Johnson and Frank Whaley. The movie follows a solitary woman who is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole. Read the rest of this entry »
Remastered ‘Jaws 2’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: September 28, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jaws 2, Jeannot Szwarc, John Williams, score, Soundtrack
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1978 thriller sequel Jaws 2 directed by Jeannot Szwarc and starring Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary and Murray Hamilton. The album features the film’s newly remastered original score composed and conducted by Academy Award winner John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, HarryPotter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Catch Me If You Can, Home Alone). The 2-CD set, which includes the complete score and bonus tracks (including some newly discovered alternates) on the first disc and the remastered 1978 soundtrack album on the second disc, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and check out the full album details, visit the label’s official website. The label has previously released an expanded soundtrack release for the title back in 2015, while MCA Records has released the original 1978 soundtrack album. Read the rest of this entry »
Bryce Dessner Scoring Tom McCarthy’s ‘A Statement’
Posted: September 28, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: A Statement, Bryce Dessner, Tom McCarthy
Bryce Dessner (of The National) (Train Dreams, Sing Sing, The Two Popes, We Live in Time, The Accountant 2, Cyrano, Bardo, She Came to Me, Manhunt, A Good Person) has provided the original score for the upcoming drama A Statement. The film is directed by Tom McCarthy (Spotlight, The Station Agent) and stars Paul Rudd, Evan Peters, Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, John Turturro, Mary Catherine Garrison, Tatiana Maslany, Nina Arianda and Zach Woods. The movie based on the book Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich is set at a beachside resort in Florida in 1980, when twenty experts gather for a weekend conference on a global issue that is starting to gain traction: the effects of Co2 emissions on the climate. Read the rest of this entry »
‘No Rest for the Wicked’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: September 28, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hettarher, Kasper Kalle, No Rest for the Wicked, score, Soundtrack
TUTL Records has released a soundtrack album for the Danish supernatural gothic romance No Rest for the Wicked. The album features the film’s original score composed by Hettarher (The Last Paradise on Earth). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Koltur) after the jump. No Rest for the Wicked is co-written and directed by Kasper Kalle and stars Egor Venned, Pilou Asbaek, Sofia Nolsoe, Kjartan Hansen, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Brimheim, Noomi Kunoy Heradottir, Bui Egason Dam and Klaus Sondergaard. The movie inspired by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs’ 1885 short story Manor is set in the 1860s in the Faroe Islands and follows a young fisherman whose isolated life is transformed by the arrival of a rugged Danish whaler. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of John Barry’s The L-Shaped Room’ Score Announced
Posted: September 28, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anthony Simmons, Four in the Morning, John Barry, score, sm, Soundtrack, The L-Shaped Room, zgiyzduyvj
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album featuring three scores from British 1960s films composed by Academy Award winner John Barry (Dances with Wolves, Goldfinger, Out of Africa, Somewhere in Time, Indecent Proposal, Body Heat, The Man with the Golden Gun, Chaplin). The album features the composer’s newly remastered music from the 1965 drama Four in the Morning written and directed by Anthony Simmons and starring Ann Lynn, Judi Dench, Norman Rodway, Brian Phelan & Joe Melia, the world premiere release of his score from the 1962 British romantic drama The L-Shaped Room written and directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Bernard Lee, Brock Peters & Cicely Courtneidge, as well as his opening and closing titles music from 1966’s Dutchman directed by Anthony Harvey and starring Shirley Knight & Al Freeman, Jr.. The soundtrack is now available to order as a CD, which is limited to 1,000 copies, on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Violinist’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 28, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ervin Han, Isabel Latorre, La Violinista, Raúl García, Ricky Ho, score, Soundtrack, The Violinist
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature The Violinist (La Violinista). The album features the film’s original music composed by Ricky Ho (Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants) and Isabel Latorre (Unicorns, Valenciana). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to Ho’s end titles track after the jump. The Violinist is directed by Ervin Han & Raúl García and features the voices of Kheng Hua Tan, Ayden Sng, Kazuya Tanabe, Adrian Pang, Rong Fang and Enrique Arce. The movie follows music journalist who uncovers a decades-long mystery stretching from 1930s Singapore through World War II, tracing how a single violin bound together an affluent girl and an orphaned musical prodigy over 80 years of history. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 27, 2026)
Posted: September 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Africa Earth's Wild Home, AMC, Coven Academy, East of Eden, Freeform, HBO, Kill Jackie, Laura Karpman, Matteo Zingales, National Geographic, Netflix, Oli Julian, Pinar Toprak, Sam Watts, Starz, Tip Toe, War
Premiering on Thursday, October 1, is the Netflix limited series East of Eden developed by Zoe Kazan based on John Steinbeck’s classic novel of the same name and starring Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, Hoon Lee, Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds, Joseph Zada and Joe Anders. The show’s original music is composed by Laura Karpman (American Fiction, Captain America: Brave New World, The Marvels, Miss Marvel, Down Cemetery Road, What If…?, The Love Hypothesis, Set It Up, Paris Can Wait, Duster, Marvel Zombies). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced soon. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the 7-part drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Also premiering on Thursday is the Freeform original series Coven Academy created by Tim Federle and starring Malina Pauli Weissman, Malachi Barton, Ora Duplass, Jordan Leftwich, Louis Thresher and Tiffani Thiessen. Gabriel Mann (Modern Family, A Million Little Things, Rosewood, High School Musical: The Musical, The Series, Rectify, Better Nate Than Never, DMV, The Unicorn) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the supernatural teen drama, which will air Thursdays on Freeform and will also be available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »
‘4 Blocks Zero’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: September 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: 4 Blocks Zero, HBO Max, Schallbauer, score, Soundtrack, Stefan Will
PPG Masters has released a soundtrack album for the German HBO Max original series 4 Blocks Zero. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Stefan Will (Freud, Transit, Phoenix, The State I Am In, Burning Days) & Schallbauer (Crooks, Banksters, The Net – Promised Land). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the first track from each composer after the jump. 4 Blocks Zero is a prequel to the 2017 series 4 Blocks (scored by Will) and stars Tariq Al-Saies, Tareq Nassery, Rami Fadel Khalaf, Soufiane El Mesaudi, Fatima Khanfour, Almountaser “Monty” Alchltouh, Siana Zayed, Mohammad Eliraqui and Luis Vorbach. The 8-part crime drama written by Bernd Lange, Natalie Zoghbi & Hassan Akkouch travels back to 1990s Berlin and tells the story of the early years of the Hamady family, caught between bureaucracy, politics and social exclusion, determined to build a new life in Germany. Read the rest of this entry »
Oli Julian Scoring HBO’s & Sky’s ‘War’
Posted: September 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: George Kay, HBO, Oli Julian, Sky, War
Oli Julian (Sex Education, The Twits, Breeders, Fackham Hall, Catastrophe, How to Build a Girl, The Full Monty) is the composer of the new HBO/Sky original series War. The show is created by George Kay (Lupin, Hijack) and stars Dominic West, Sienna Miller, Phoebe Fox, James McArdle, Pip Torrens, Archie Renaux, Celia Imrie, Nick Mohammed, Emma Laird, Archie Panjabi, Aran Murphy, Adrian Scarborough, Shaheen Jafargholi, Akiya Henry, Miles Jupp, Honor Swinton Byrne, Kartanya Maynard, Dylan Edwards, Mark Quartley, Alexandra Mardell and Steve Furst. The legal drama follows the lives of London’s most powerful lawyers as two rival law firms clash over a headline-grabbing legal battle, drawing an ambitious young lawyer into a ruthless world where ambition is currency, betrayal is strategy, and winning is everything. Read the rest of this entry »
