Hollywood Records has released the eighth song from the soundtrack for the FX original series The Drop: A Snowfall Saga. Available now to stream/download on all major digital music services is Ruff & Tuff (in four different versions) co-written by the project’s executive music producer Larrance “Rance 1500” Dopson and Jason “Problem” Martin (with Larry & Roger Troutman and Marcus White) and performed by Symba & Roger Troutman. Also listen to the track after the jump. The label has previously released seven first songs over the last couple of weeks. The Drop: A Snowfall Saga is created by Malcolm Spellman based on the original 2017 Snowfall series and stars Gail Bean, Isaiah John, Asante Blackk, Simmie Sims III and Peyton Alex Smith. Read the rest of this entry »
Original Song ‘Ruff & Tuff’ from FX’s ‘ The Drop: A Snowfall Saga’ Released
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: FX, Jason Martin, Larrance Dopson, The Drop: A Snowfall Saga
‘The Shards’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: David Klotz, FX, Morgan Kibby, score, Soundtrack, The Shards, Troye Sivan
Interscope Records has released a soundtrack album for the FX original series The Shards. The album features the original songs from the show, including two tracks by Troye Sivan (including the previously released LA Wants Me Dead) and two tracks by Hayes Warner who also stars in the series as Debbie Schaffer. Also included are selections of the drama’s original score composed by Morgan Kibby (Grotesquerie, Finding Emily, Mothering Sunday, Wilderness, Queens, The Power) & David Klotz (All’s Fair,The Watcher, American Sports Story, The Prom). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The Shards is developed by Ryan Murphy & Bret Easton Ellis based on Ellis’ bestselling novel of the same name and also stars Igby Rigney, Kaia Gerber, Graham Campbell, Homer Gere, Wes Bentley, Jordan Roth and Evan Rachel Wood. Read the rest of this entry »
The Decemberists’ Original Song ‘The Better Part of Bravery’ from LAIKA’s ‘Wildwood’ Released
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: LAIKA, The Decemberists, Travis Knight, Wildwood
Decca Records has released the original song The Better Part of Bravery from LAIKA Studios’ animated feature Wildwood. The track written by Colin Meloy and performed by The Decemberists is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. As previously reported, the full soundtrack album featuring the song and Dario Marianelli’s original score will be released this Friday, October 23 (visit Amazon to pre-order the digital, CD and vinyl edition). Also click here to check out the project’s music team credits and listen to a first score track below. Wildwood is directed by Travis Knight and stars Carey Mulligan, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Mahershala Ali, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, Charlie Day, Jake Johnson, Jemaine Clement, Tantoo Cardinal Maya Erskine and Richard E. Grant. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Coward’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Coward, Lukas Dhont, score, Soundtrack, Valentin Hadjadj
Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the Belgian/French/Dutch war drama Coward. The album features the film’s original score composed by Valentin Hadjadj (Close, Girl, April and the Extraordinary World, A Bigger World, Families Like Ours, Under the Stars of Paris, Rialto). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, October 21. Check back on this page for the streaming/download link. Coward is co-written and directed by Lukas Dhont and stars Emmanuel Macchia, Valentin Campagne, Willem de Schryver, Mistral Guidotti, Boris Bouchat, Anaëlle Fournier, Jonas Wertz and Jef Jacobs. The movie, which has been selected as Belgium’s entry in the International Feature category for next year’s Academy Awards, follows two World War I soldiers as they find a fragile sanctuary of love and art amid the shadows of the Belgian trenches. Read the rest of this entry »
Roger Goula Scoring Idris Elba’s & Martin Owen’s ‘Above the Below’
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Above the Below, Idris Elba, Martin Owen, Roger Goula
Roger Goula (Sense and Sensibility, Next Goal Wins, All That Breathes, The Frankenstein Chronicles, Shark Whisperer, Tiger House, Identicals) has provided the original score for the upcoming survival thriller Above the Below. The film is directed by actor Idris Elba (who made his feature directorial debut on the project) & Martin Owen (Let’s Be Evil, Twist) and stars Elba himself, Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin. The movie follows three astronauts in a race against time after an unscheduled crash-landing leaves them trapped in the crushing depths of the ocean with no contact with mission control and oxygen rapidly running out. Read the rest of this entry »
Timothée Chalamet’s & Hans Zimmer’s ‘Desert Chant’ from ‘Dune: Part Three’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Denis Villeneuve, Dune, Dune: Part Three, Hans Zimmer, Timothee Chalamet
WaterTower Music has released the first track from the soundtrack for Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming sci-fi epic Dune: Part Three. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is the Desert Chant by lead actor Timothée Chalamet and the film’s composer Hans Zimmer (Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Inception, The Lion King, Rain Man). Also listen to the track, which begins with Chalamet humming before building into an epic war chant, after the jump. Dune: Part Three is co-written and directed by Villeneuve and also stars Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinso, Isaach de Bankolé, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Rampling and Javier Bardem. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Terminator Genisys’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alan Taylor, Lorne Balfe, score, Soundtrack, Terminator: Genisys
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 2015 sci-fi/action movie Terminator Genisys directed by Alan Taylor and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Byung-Hun Lee, Matt Smith and JK Simmons. The album features the film’s expanded original score composed byLorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, Bad Boys for Life, His Dark Materials, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, The Wheel of Time). The 2-CD set, which is limited 21,000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples. Skydance Productions & Paramount Pictures have previously released the original 2015 soundtrack album. Read the rest of this entry »
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Scoring Jeremy Saulnier’s ‘Slayground’
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Atticus Ross, Jeremy Saulnier, Slayground, Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Soul, Watchmen, Challengers, Gone Girl, Soul, TRON: Ares, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mank) have been tapped to score the upcoming horror thriller Slayground. The film is written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room, Rebel Ridge) and stars Cory Michael Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Sophie Wilde, James Badge Dale, Stephen Root, Stanley Simons, Chris Sullivan, Young Mazino, Matty Matheson, Imogen Poots and Macon Blair. The movie follows a “scare-actor” who wakes up in a haunted attraction surrounded by the dead bodies of his co-workers with no memory of how they got there and – as a state-wide manhunt closes in – races to uncover the truth. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Game Master’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: October 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Éric Judor, Game Master, Le Roi du Game, Ludovic Bource, score, Soundtrack
XANADU has released a soundtrack album for the French fantasy comedy Game Master (Le Roi du Game).The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Ludovic Bource (The Artist, OSS 117, On the Other Side of the Tracks, Clear History, Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be, The Rookie Guide). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Game Master is directed by Éric Judor and stars Judor himself, Alexandra Lamy, Marc Labrèche, Hafid Benamar and Liona Bordonaro. The movie follows a father who joins a live-action medieval-fantasy role-playing game to reconnect with his estranged daughter, leading to a zany and chaotic adventure. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Bear Scoring Hulu’s ‘Phony’
Posted: October 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Bear, Hulu, Phony
Christopher Bear (of the rock band Grizzly Bear) (Past Lives, Roofman, Adults, High Maintenance, Carolina Caroline, Mother, Couch, Omaha, Swallowed, The Passenger) is scoring the new Hulu original series Phony. The show is created by Nick Paley (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) and stars Connie Britton, Sam Nivola, Meera Syala, Grace Brennan, Mahaela Park, Maliq Johnson and Colter Lee. The coming-of-age mystery revolves around a teenager who wakes up in the hospital after a car accident to discover his mom – his only parent and his best friend – appears to have been replaced by an impostor. Read the rest of this entry »
