Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the superhero movie Blue Beetle directed by Angel Manuel Soto and starring Xolo Maridueña, Adriana Barraza, George Lopez, Bruna Marquezine, Belissa Escobedo and Susan Sarandon. The film’s original music is composed by Bobby Krlic (Midsommar, Beef, Beau Is Afraid, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, Snowpiercer, Triple 9, Returnal). WaterTower Music has released […]
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 18, 2023)
Posted: August 18, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alex Weston, Amanda Yamate, Ariel Marx, Back on the Strip, Birth/Rebirth, Blue Beetle, Bobby Krlic, Dara Taylor, Dark Windows, Dead Shot, Dontae Winslow, Este Haim, Haunting of the Queen Mary, Jason Livesay, Kim Berg, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Lionel Cohen, Madeleine Collins, Max de Wardener, Michael Abels, Nolan Livesay, Olvon Yacob, Romain Trouillet, Simone: Woman of the Century, Strays, The Adults, The Engineer, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
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Robbie Robertson (1943-2023)
Posted: August 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson has passed away today at age 80. The songwriter, composer and guitarist who was best known as a member of the rock group The Band and his solo records has worked on numerous films directed by Martin Scorsese over the last couple of decades. He has scored the director’s 1986 feature The Color […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 4, 2023)
Posted: August 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Atticus Ross, Corner Office, Craig Wedren, David Bateman, Donnie Emerson, Dreamin' Wild, Frans Bak, Gene Back, Harry Gregson-Williams, Keld Haaning Ibsen, Leopold Ross, Meg 2: The Trench, Passages, Shortcomings, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, The Collective, Trent Reznor, What Comes Around
Already playing in theaters nationwide since this past Wednesday is the animated feature Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem directed by Jeff Rowe and starring Micah Abbey, Hannibal Buress, Shamon Brown Jr, Nicolas Cantu, Rose Byrne, John Cena, Natasia Demetriou, Ice Cube, Jackie Chan, Giancarlo Esposito and Ayo Edebiri. The film’s original music is composed […]
2023 World Soundtrack Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: August 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: World Soundtrack Awards
The World Soundtrack Academy has announced the nominees for the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards in the categories of Film Composer of the Year, Television Composer of the Year and Best Original Song. The winners will be announced at the 23rd World Soundtrack Awards ceremony, which will take place on October 21, 2023 at the Capitole […]
Carl Davis (1936-2023)
Posted: August 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Carl Davis
Carl Davis has passed away at age 86. The composer has scored numerous films and TV shows over a six decade-spanning career. Among his best known scoring credits are Karel Reisz’s 1981 feature The French Lieutenant’s Woman (for which he received BAFTA’s Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music), BBC’s 1995 Pride and Prejudice mini-series starring Colin […]
Jim Parker (1934-2023)
Posted: July 31, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Jim Parker
Jim Parker has passed away at age 88. The British composer was known for scoring over a hundred episodes of ITV’s Midsomer Murders (aka Inspector Barnaby), the first seasons of ITV’s Foyle’s War, BBC’s Born and Bred and BBC’s original 1990 House of Cards series (for which he received a BAFTA TV Award nomination) and […]
‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Musical Episode ‘Subspace Rhapsody’ to Feature Original Songs by Kay Hanley & Tom Polce
Posted: July 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Kay Hanley, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Tom Polce
Paramount+ announced today (as part of the Star Trek Comic-Con presentation) that Kay Hanley and Tom Polce (of the rock band Letters to Cleo) have written ten original songs for an upcoming musical episode of the streamer’s original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The episode, entitled Subspace Rhapsody, will premiere as part of the […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 14, 2023)
Posted: July 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 20 Days in Mariupol, Alexandre Desplat, Desmond Murray, Earth Mama, Edmund Butt, Final Cut, James McAlister, Jordan Dykstra, Kelsey Lu, Lorne Balfe, Mark Sonnenblick, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Nainita Desai, Pierre Charles, The Deepest Breath, The Miracle Club, Theater Camp, They Cloned Tyrone
Opening in theaters nationwide this week is the spy/action movie Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One co-written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby and Henry Czerny. The film’s original score is composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Black Widow, […]
