Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Viola Davis, Josh Andrés Rivera and Jason Schwartzman. The film’s original score is composed by James Newton Howard (The Sixth Sense, King Kong, Signs, Fantastic […]
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Nile Rodgers & The-Dream to Compose Original Songs for Mark Anthony Green’s ‘Opus’
Posted: November 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Mark Anthony Green, Nile Rodgers, Opus, The-Dream
Grammy Award-winning music producer/guitarist/composer Nile Rodgers and Grammy Award-nominated singer/rapper/songwriter The-Dream (aka Terius Gesteelde-Diamant) are collaborating to write original song for the upcoming horror movie Opus. The film is written and directed by Mark Anthony Green and stars Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder, Stephanie Suganami, Young Mazino and Tatanka Means. The A24 […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 10, 2023)
Posted: November 10, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Adam Anders, Dream Scenario, Journey to Bethlehem, Kane, Laura Karpman, Matt Hutchinson, Nate Wonder, Nikki Anders, Owen Pallett, Peer Astrom, Roman Gianarthur, Ronnie Minder, Stamped from the Beginning, The Dirty South, The Marvels, Tyler Forrest, Your Lucky Day
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the superhero movie The Marvels co-written and directed by Nia DaCosta and starring Brie Larson, Iman Vellani, Teyonah Parris, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Lewis, Zawe Ashton, Seo-Jun Park, Mohan Kapur, Zenobia Shroff and Saagar Shaikh. The film’s original music is composed by Laura Karpman (Ms. Marvel, What If..?, American […]
Danny Elfman Shares Unreleased ‘The Woman in the Window’ Score
Posted: November 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Danny Elfman, Joe Wright, Netflix, The Woman in the Window
Danny Elfman (Batman, Spider-Man, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands, Good Will Hunting, Men in Black) has launched a new official website and uploaded his unreleased score for the 2021 psychological thriller The Woman in the Window directed by Joe Wright and starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Julianne Moore, Fred […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 3, 2023)
Posted: November 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Adam Janota Bzowski, Adam Taylor, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Amine Bouhafa, At the Gates, Beyond Utopia, Branford Marsalis, David Boman, Four Daughters, Juan Pablo Villa, Julia Newman, Pascual Reyes, Radical, Rustin, Taylor Page, The Marsh King’s Daughter, Victor Magro, What Happens Later
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the romantic comedy What Happens Later directed by Meg Ryan and starring David Duchovny and Ryan. The film’s original music is composed by David Boman (Wyrm, Moonshot, Please Hold). Sony Masterworks has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as songs by The Streamline Modernes, […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 27, 2023)
Posted: October 27, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: After Death, Atticus Ross, Christopher Stracey, Elliot Leung, Fernando Velazquez, Fingernails, Five Nights at Freddy's, Freelance, Geoff Zanelli, Hannah Parrott, Inspector Sun, John Debney, Jonathan Sadoff, Mark Orton, Phoenix, Priscilla, The Holdovers, The Killer, The Newton Brothers, Trent Reznor, Under the Boardwalk
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend while also premiering on Peacock today is the horror movie Five Nights at Freddy’s directed by Emma Tammi and starring Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kat Conner Sterling and Piper Rubio. The film’s original music is composed by The Newton Brothers (The Haunting of Hill House, […]
Volker Bertelmann Named Film Composer of the Year at World Soundtrack Awards
Posted: October 21, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: World Soundtrack Awards
Volker Bertelmann was named Film Composer of the Year at the 23rd World Soundtrack Awards, tonight’s closing event of the 50th Ghent Film Festival, for his scores for Edward Berger’s All Quiet of the Western Front (for which he also received the Academy Award earlier this year), the Norwegian World War II drama War Sailor and […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 20, 2023)
Posted: October 21, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Another Body, Butcher's Crossing, Craig Stuart Garfinkle, Eimear Noone, Holland Andrews, James Newton Howard, John Swihart, Killers of the Flower Moon, Leo Birenberg, Michael Dean Parsons, Nyad, Pain Hustlers, Patrick Stump, Paul Leonard Morgan, Philip Glass, Robbie Robertson, Rostam Batmanglij, Sick Girl, The Canterville Ghost, The Other Zoey, The Persian Version, The Pigeon Tunnel
Opening in theaters nationwide is the crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow and Brendan Fraser. The film’s original music is composed by Robbie Robertson (The Color of Money, The Irishman) who also served as the […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 13, 2023)
Posted: October 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexander Arntzen, Alexei Aigui, Anatomy of a Fall, Carlos José Alvarez, Christopher Willis, Danny Bensi, Dean Hurley, Divinity, DJ Muggs, Herd, Old Dads, Saunder Jurriaans, Silver Dollar Road, The Mission, The Road Dance
Opening in select U.S. theaters today is the French drama Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une chute) co-written and directed by Justine Triet and starring Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud and Milo Machado Graner. The film doesn’t feature an original score and no soundtrack release is expected. The movie, which tells the story of an author […]
‘Back to the Future: The Musical’ Deluxe Edition Cast Recording Album Announced
Posted: October 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alan Silvestri, Back to the Future, Back to the Future: The Musical, Glen Ballard, Soundtrack
Masterworks Broadway has announced a new cast recording album for the stage production Back to the Future: The Musical. The 2-CD set features the content of the original album, as well as thirteen previously unreleased demos and early versions of many of the musical’s songs written by Academy Award nominee Alan Silvestri and Grammy Award winner […]
