Archive for January, 2024

Plaza Mayor Company will release a soundtrack EP for the Iranian/German drama Critical Zone (Mantagheye bohrani). The 5-track EP features the film’s original music composed by Milad Movahedi (Invasion, Botox). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, January 26 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Critical Zone is written and directed by […]

Oli Julian (Sex Education, Breeders, Catastrophe, The Full Monty, How to Build a Girl) & Nick Foster (Thunderbirds Are Go, Greatest Days, Misha and the Wolves, In My Skin) have teamed up to score the upcoming Apple TV+ original series The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. The show is created by Claire Downes, Ian Jarvis & Stuart Lane and […]

96th Academy Awards Nominations Announced

Posted: January 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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This morning, the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of the last year will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center and will be televised live in the U.S. on the ABC Television Network at 7 […]

Vap will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original anime series The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse. The album features the show’s original score composed by Kohta Yamamoto (Attack on Titan: The Final Season, The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light, Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga). The soundtrack will be released digitally this […]

Nigerian composer Ré Olunuga (Girl, Up North, Coming from Insanity) has recently scored the upcoming Disney+ original event series Iwájú. The show marks the first collaboration between Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pan-African entertainment company Kugali and features the voices of Simisola Gbadamosi, Dayo Okeniyi, Siji Soetan, Femi Branch, and Weruche Opia. The 6-parter is […]

Sony Music Entertainment has released a new live version of the original song I Am by Stan Walker from Ava DuVernay’s drama Origin. The track co-written (with Vince Harder, Te Kanapu Anasta & Michael Fatkin) and performed by Walker is now available to stream/download as a digital single on all major digital music services, including Amazon. […]

Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery/Picard, Legion, For All Mankind, Love & Death) has composed the original music for the upcoming Netflix limited series Ripley. The show is written and directed by Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Searching for Bobby Fischer) and stars Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, Dakota Fanning as Marge Sherwood and Johnny Flynn as Dickie Greenleaf. […]

The Guild of Music Supervisors today announced the nominations for its 14th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, which will take place at an in-person and and virtual awards gala at The Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 3, 2024. The awards will recognize outstanding Music Supervisors representing Motion Picture, Television, Games, Trailers […]

Laurie Johnson (1927-2024)

Posted: January 22, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Laurie Johnson has passed away last Tuesday, January 16, at age 96. The British composer has written numerous scores for TV and film between the late 1950s and early 90s. His best television scoring credits include the 60s spy classic The Avengers and its 1976 sequel series The New Avengers, ITV’s The Professionals & Jason King, […]

Sky Music has released a soundtrack album for the Sky original documentary series Inside Greenpeace. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Sebastian Fillenberg (Blame Game, A Dysfunctional Cat, Wolke unterm Dach) & Marvin Miller (The Teachers’ Lounge, Balloon, Jim Button and the Wild 13, I Was, I Am, I Will […]