Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Meghan Trainor will contribute original songs to the upcoming animated feature Margie Claus. The film is directed by Kirk DeMicco (Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, The Croods) and features the voices of Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Andrew Scott, Annie Mumolo, Octavia Spencer, Cole Escola, Georgette Falcone, Gary Farmer, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Cedric Yarbrough and Maria Bakalova. The movie follows Santa’s wife Margie who has to spring into action when Santa Claus goes missing on Christmas Eve and puts together a wildly unqualified rescue team and ventures to the South Pole where good cheer can get you killed.
Category: Film Music Events
‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Soundtrack Album Released
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original film Remarkably Bright Creatures. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Dickon Hinchliffe (Leave No Trace, Winter’s Bone, The Lost Daughter, Out of the Furnace, Daddio, Locke, Last Chance Harvey). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Remarkably Bright Creatures is directed by Olivia Newman and stars Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, Colm Meaney, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Beth Grant, Joan Chen, Kathy Baker, Brandon McEwan, Donald Sales and Mapuana Makia. The drama is based on Shelby Van Pelt’s bestselling novel of the same title by and tells the story of a widow who bonds with a clever octopus and an adrift young man while working nights at a small-town aquarium.
‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout – in Concert’ Announced
City Light Concerts has announced the world premiere performance of Mission: Impossible – Fallout – in Concert. Grammy Award-winning composer Lorne Balfe will conduct the City Light Symphony Orchestra for two performances of his original score from the sixth Mission: Impossible film directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Michelle Monaghan & Alec Baldwin performed live to projection. The concerts will be held on two consecutive nights on January 7 & 8, 2027 at the KKL Luzern Concert Hall in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Music Highlights from the 98th Academy Awards
The 98th Academy Awards ceremony was held last night. Two of the five nominees in the Original Song category were performed live. Check out the performances of the Oscar-winning Golden from KPop Demon Hunters by Ejae, Audrey Nuna & Rei Ami (the singing voices behind HUNTR/X), as well as the Oscar-nominated I Lied to You from Sinners performed by Miles Caton & Raphael Saadiq (joined by Misty Copeland, Eric Gales, Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Bobby Rush, Shaboozey & Alice Smith) after the jump.
Hollywood Bowl 2026 Summer Season Schedule Announced
The Hollywood Bowl has announced this summer’s season schedule, which includes a number of film music concerts. On July 10, 11 & 12, the Bowl will host Music from the Films of Wes Anderson, a concert featuring Thomas Wilkins conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a celebration of the music from the Academy Award-winning director (click here for more information). On July 21, 22 & 23, the Bowl’s 2026 Composer in Focus Joe Hisaishi will conduct the LA Phil for an evening of his compositions from Studio Ghibli movies and other projects, accompanied by some of his favorite film clips (visit the Bowl’s website for more information). On August 9, How to Train Your Dragon in Concert will make its Bowl debut with the live-to-picture performance of John Powell’s Academy Award-nominated score for the DreamWorks Animation production (click here for more details).
16th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards Nominations Announced
The Guild of Music Supervisors today announced the nominations for its 16th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, which will take place at an in-person awards gala at The Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 28, 2026. The awards will recognize outstanding Music Supervisors representing Motion Picture, Television, Games, Trailers and Advertising. Below are the nominations for the major film and television categories. For more information and the complete list of nominations, visit the organization’s official website.
Nominations for 7th Annual SCL Awards Announced
The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) has announced the nominees for the 7th Annual SCL Awards, which will take place on February 6, 2026 at the Skirball Cultural Center, hosted by Kevin Bacon & Michael Bacon, in Los Angeles. Composer Ludwig Göransson and director Ryan Coogler will receive the Spirit of Collaboration Award at the event. The final round of voting will commence on January 19.
Here’s are the nominations (numerous misspelled names from press release have been fixed):
Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film:
Ludwig Göransson – Sinners
2026 Oscars Best Original Score Predictions
Starting today, we are publishing our predictions for the nominees in the Best Original Score category of next year’s 98th Academy Awards on the left side column of this page. The selection and ranking is based on our own experience of the scores in context of the movies, historical data, reactions of Academy music branch members and others in the film music community, the level of awards campaigning and awareness of the competing titles, and the response to the movies and their chances in other categories.
John Du Prez, W.G. Snuffy Walden, Jay Chattaway, Dara Taylor & William T. Stromberg to Appear at 16th Fans of Film Music Event
A number of major film and TV composers will be participating at the 16th Annual Fans of Film Music event, which will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at Evergreen Studios in Burbank, CA. This year’s panelists include John Du Prez (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, A Fish Called Wanda, The Meaning of Life, Oxford Blues, Once Bitten), W.G. Snuffy Walden (The West Wing, Friday Night Lights, The Wonder Years, My So-Called Life, Felicity, Thirtysomething,Nashville, The Stand ) and Jay Chattaway (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager & Enterprise, Maniac, Silver Bullet, Invasion U.S.A., Red Scorpion) who recently released his autobiography Journey to the Inner Light, which will be available to purchase at the event.
‘Future Ruins’ Music Festival Announced
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Gone Girl, Challengers) have announced Future Ruins, a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage. The musical festival will be set across three stages at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center this November and is designed to feel thoughtful and immersive, bringing this music to light in an environment where it has never been heard before. Ranging from electronic sets and live bands to orchestral performances, the audience will have the chance to experience live debuts from composers who rarely appear onstage.