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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 […]

Premiering on Wednesday, January 24, is the National Geographic documentary series A Real Bug’s Life inspired by Pixar’s 1998 feature A Bug’s Life, narrated by Awkwafina and executive produced by Tom Hugh-Jones, Grant Mansfield and Martha Holmes. Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The Royal Tenenbaums, The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The […]

Atresmúsica has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish survival thriller Valley of Shadows (Valle de Sombras). The album features the film’s original music composed by Roque Banos (Don’t Breathe, In the Heart of the Sea, Evil Dead, The Machinist, The Commuter, Sexy Beast, 30 Coins, The Girl in the Spider’s Web). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, […]

Isom Innis is reteaming with actress/director Carlson Young on the new romantic comedy Upgraded. The film is directed by Young and stars Camila Mendes, Archie Renaux, Thomas Kretschmann, Aimee Carrero, Gregory Montel, Rachel Matthews, Andrew Schulz, Lena Olin and Marisa Tomei. The movie follows an ambitious intern dreaming of a career in the art world […]