Buffalo 8 Music has released a soundtrack album for the action thriller Panama. The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter Mick Fury who has made his feature scoring debut on the project. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s main theme after the jump. Panama is directed by Mark Neveldine written by Daniel Adams & William Barber and stars Cole Hauser and Mel Gibson. The movie follows a former marine who is hired by a CIA operative for a top-secret arms trade mission when the U.S. is on the brink of invading Panama. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Panama’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Neveldine, Mick Fury, Panama, score, Soundtrack
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Jeff Russo Scoring Prime Video’s ‘Citadel’ Season 2
Posted: March 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Citadel, Jeff Russo
Jeff Russo (Fargo, Alien: Earth, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, Ripley, Legion, Zero Day, The Night Of, The Man Who Feel to Earth) has been tapped to score the second season of the Prime Video original series Citadel. The show is created by Josh Appelbaum, Bryan Oh & David Weil and stars Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Stanley Tucci and Lesley Manville. The new season of the spy thriller is set one month after the events of Season 1 and follows Mason Kane, Nadia Sinh & Bernard Orlick as they’re being hunted by Manticore agents around the world and are pulled out of hiding to join forces with a new team of unconventional spies. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded and Remastered ‘Cop Land’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: March 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cop Land, Howard Shore, James Mangold, score, Soundtrack
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1997 crime drama Cop Land written and directed by James Mangold and starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Janeane Garofalo, Peter Berg, Robert Patrick, Michael Rapaport and Annabella Sciorra. The album features the expanded and newly remastered original score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Silence of the Lambs, The Aviator, Hugo, The Hobbit, The Departed, The Fly, Mrs. Doubtfire, Big, A History of Violence) and performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, including around 30 minutes of previously unreleased music. Also included are numerous alternate cues. The 2-CD set, which is limited to 1,000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and find out more about the soundtrack. Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Benstead Scoring Guy Ritchie’s ‘In the Grey’
Posted: March 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Benstead, Guy Ritchie, In the Grey
Composer Chris Benstead is reteaming with director Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes, Snatch) on the upcoming action thriller In the Grey. The film is written and directed by Ritchie and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Rosamund Pike, Kristofer Hivju, Emmet J. Scanlan, Michael Vu, Jason Wong, Fisher Stevens and Carlos Bardem. The movie follows a covert team of elite operatives who live in the global shadows who is sent to retrieve a billion-dollar fortune stolen by a ruthless despot on what would be for anyone else a suicide mission. Read the rest of this entry »
Freedom Fry’s ‘Mr. Jones’ Cover from ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Released
Posted: March 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Freedom Fry, Hulu, Paradise
Hollywood Records has released the cover version of Counting Crows’ Mr. Jones from the fifth episode of the second season of the Hulu original series Paradise. The track produced and performed by Freedom Fry (Marie Seyrat & Bruce Driscoll) is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. Paradise is created by Dan Fogelman and stars Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Krys Marshall, Percy Daggs IV, Enuka Okuma, Aliyah Mastin and Charlie Evans. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Micay Scoring Apple TV’s ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’
Posted: March 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, David E. Kelley, Margo's Got Money Troubles, Nathan Micay
Nathan Micay (Industry, The Copenhagen Test, Reality, The Last Bus, Sexy Beast,Time Bomb Y2K) has provided the original score for the upcoming Apple TV original series Margo’s Got Money Troubles. The show is developed by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Big Little Lies) based on Rufi Thorpe’s bestselling novel of the same name and stars Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, Nick Offerman, Thaddea Graham, Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Kinnear, Rico Nasty, Michael Angarano and Lindsey Normington. The comedy drama revolves around a college dropout and aspiring writer as she’s forced to make her way with a new baby, a mounting pile of bills and a dwindling amount of ways to pay them. Read the rest of this entry »
‘One Piece’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: March 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Giona Ostinelli, Netflix, One Piece, score, Sonya Belousva, Soundtrack
The full details of the soundtrack album for the second season of the Netflix original series One Piece have been revealed. The album features the original music from the new season, entitled Into the Grand Line, composed by Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli (The Witcher, Red Sonja, The Thing About Pam, The Mist, The Romanoffs, Sacred Lies), including the original songs Pray to the Sun (feat. Declan de Barra & The HU) & Whisky Peak Saloon (feat. Leo P) (both previously released as digital singles), as well as Am I Enough (Tony Tony Chopper) (feat. Au/Ra). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 10 by Netflix Music. The streaming/download link will be added to this page soon. The label has previously released an album featuring the composers’ music from Season 1 back in 2023. One Piece is developed by Matt Owens & Steven Maeda based on the Manga series of the same name and stars Iñaki Godoy, Mackenyu, Taz Skylar, Emily Rudd, Jacob Romero and Charithra Chandran. Read the rest of this entry »
Main Title Theme Song ‘I Played the Fool’ from HBO’s ‘Rooster’ Released
Posted: March 8, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Watt, HBO, Michael Stipe, Rooster
WaterTower Music has released the main title theme song from the new HBO original series Rooster. Available to stream/download now on most major digital music services I Played the Fool co-written by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and record producer Andrew Watt (who is also scoring the show) and performed by Stipe. Also listen to the track after the jump. Rooster is created by Bill Lawrence & Matt Tarses and stars Steve Carell, Charly Clive, John C. McGinley, Danielle Deadwyler, Phil Dunster and Lauren Tsai. The comedy is premiering tonight on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 8, 2026)
Posted: March 8, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Andrew Watt, Apple TV +, BritBox, Gazelle Twin, HBO, Jeff Russo, Matteo Zingales, Mudtown, Perrine Virgile, Rooster, Scarpetta, Sunny Nights, Twisted Yoga
Premiering tonight is the HBO original series Rooster created by Bill Lawrence & Matt Tarses and starring Steve Carell, Charly Clive, Danielle Deadwyler, Phil Dunster, John C. McGinley and Lauren Tsai. The show’s original score is composed by Andrew Watt who also co-wrote the project’s theme song with Michael Stipe (of R.E.M.). Click here to learn more about the comedy and click here to check out the theme song (I Played the Fool) for the series, which will air every Sunday on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Premiering on Wednesday, March 11, is the Prime Video original series Scarpetta developed by Liz Sarnoff based on Patricia Cornwell’s bestselling book series and starring Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bobby Cannavale, Ariana DeBose, Rosy McEwen, Simon Baker, Hunter Parrish, Amanda Righetti and Jake Cannavale. Jeff Russo (Fargo, Alien: Earth, Ripley, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, The Night Of, Legion, Zero Day, The Man Who Feel to Earth) & Perrine Virgile (The Umbrella Academy, Long Slow Exhale) have composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous article for more information about the crime thriller, which will will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video. Read the rest of this entry »
HBO’s ‘Rooster’ to Feature Score by Andrew Watt and Theme Song by Michael Stipe
Posted: March 8, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andrew Watt, Bill Lawrence, HBO, Michael Stipe, Rooster
Record producer/songwriter Andrew Watt has made his television scoring debut on the new HBO original series Rooster. He also co-wrote the theme song with R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe who also performs the song. The show is created by Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Scrubs) & Matt Tarses (Bad Monkey) and stars Steve Carell, Charly Clive, Danielle Deadwyler, John C. McGinley, Phil Dunster and Lauren Tsai. The comedy is set on a college campus and explores an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
