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Intrada Records has announced a reissue of the soundtrack album for David Lynch’s 1999 drama The Straight Story starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton. The album features the film’s original music composed by Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, The Beach, Wild at Heart, The City of Lost Children, A Very […]

Geoff Zanelli (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Disturbia, Christopher Robin, Leo, The Pacific, Hitman, The Intruder) will release a soundtrack album for the fantasy adventure Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and will be released […]

Owen Pallett (Her, Dream Scenario, The Box, Life, Alice/Darling, On the Count of Three, Spaceship Earth) has composed the original music for thew new Canadian drama Longing. The film is written and directed by Savi Gabizon (Nina’s Tragedies) and stars Richard Gere, Suzanne Clément and Diane Kruger. The movie is a remake of Gabizon’s 2017 Israeli […]

WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the HBO limited series The Sympathizer. The album features the show’s original score composed by Cho Young-Wuk (Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Lady Vengeance, Thirst, The Little Drummer Girl, Decision to Leave). Also included are songs by Maxwell Whittington-Cooper, Pham Thi Bao Tran, Duong Minh Quan, Đình Bảo, Lam Anh, as well […]

Premiering on Wednesday, May 29, is the Hulu documentary series Camden directed by Asif Kapadia and executive produced by Dua Lipa, Dukagjin Lipa, Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Suzanne Lavery, Nick Shymansky, Jasper Waller-Bridge and Ben Friedman. The show’s original score is composed by Toydrum (Slow Horses, Detour, Prevenge, Three Pines, Platform 7, The Banishing, Future World, Sweetheart). The Lightbox […]

Studiocanal has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2006 French/Romanian horror thriller Them (Ils) written and directed by David Moreau & Xavier Palud, produced by Richard Grandpierre and starring Olivia Bonamy and Michaël Cohen. The album features the film’s original music composed by René-Marc Bini (Savage Nights, Borders, A.L.F., Black Ocean, Sounds of Sand). […]

Richard M. Sherman (1928-2024)

Posted: May 25, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Richard M. Sherman passed away today at age 95 in at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, California, due to age-related illness. Together with his brother Robert B. Sherman, the composer/lyricist wrote numerous songs for film and television and received two Academy Awards for the score and original song Chim Chim Cher-ee  from Disney’s 1964 […]

This past week, Alex Somers (Captain Fantastic, Honey Boy, Causeway, Together, Together, Aloha, Charm City Kings, Dawson City: Frozen Time) has recorded his score for the upcoming thriller Holland, Michigan. The film is directed by Mimi Cave and stars Nicole Kidman, Gael García Bernal, Matthew Macfadyen, Rachel Sennott, Jude Hill, Isaac Krasner, Lennon Parham and Jeff Pope. The movie follows […]

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the post-apocalyptic action adventure Furiosa: A Mad Max Story co-written and directed by George Miller and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke and Alyla Browne. The film’s original music is composed by Tom Holkenborg (Mad Max: Fury Road, Sonic the Hedgehog, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Godzilla x Kong: […]

Dragon’s Domain Records has announced a new soundtrack album featuring the world premiere release of four previously unreleased scores composed by David Michael Frank (Above the Law, Code of Silence, Extreme Justice, The Mole). The 2-CD includes the composer’s score from the 1992 erotic thriller Poison Ivy directed by Katt Shea and starring Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, […]