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 […]
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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
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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 […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 6, 2023)
Posted: October 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aaron Jackson, Agnes Obel, Amman Abbasi, Bryce Dessner, Cat Person, David Wingo, Desperation Road, Dicks: The Musical, Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman, Foe, Haim Mazar, Heather McIntosh, Holly Amber Church, Ilan Rubin, Jed Palmer, Josh Sharp, Karl Saint Lucy, Marius de Vries, Michael Abels, Miranda's Victim, Monsters of California, Nene Kang, Oliver Coates, Pablo Fuu, Park Jiha, She Came to Me, The Burial, The Exorcist: Believer, The Royal Hotel, When Evil Lurks
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the supernatural horror movie The Exorcist: Believer co-written and directed by David Gordon Green and starring Leslie Odom, Jr., Jennifer Nettles, Ann Dowd, Norbert Leo Butz, Olivia Marcus, Lidya Jewett, and Ellen Burstyn. The film’s original music is composed by David Wingo (Mud, Take Shelter, Barry, The Report, Midnight Special, Loving) […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 29, 2023)
Posted: September 29, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 57 Seconds, Brian McOmber, Charlie Clouser, Deliver Us, Fair Play, Hans Zimmer, Jason Soudah, Jessica Rose Weiss, Nathan Furst, On Fire, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, Pinar Toprak, Sacha Chaban, Saw X, The Creator, The Kill Room, Tóti Guðnason
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the sci-fi thriller The Creator directed by Gareth Edwards and starring John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson and Allison Janney. The film’s original music is composed by Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight, Inception, The Lion King, Dune, Gladiator, Interstellar). Hollywood Records has released a […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 22, 2023)
Posted: September 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms, Dark Asset, Expend4bles, Flora and Son, Gary Clark Jr., Gordy Haab, Guillaume Roussel, It Lives Inside, Jeff Cardoni, John Carney, John Debney, Michelino Bisceglia, My Sailor My Love, Philippe Brault, Pierre Lapointe, Rebel Rodriguez, Reptile, Spy Kids: Armageddon, The Origin of Evil, Wesley Hughes, Yair Elazar Glotman
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the action sequel Expend4bles directed by Scott Waugh and starring Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Dolph Lundgren, Iko Uwais, Randy Couture and Andy Garcia. The film’s original music is composed by Guillaume Roussel (Black Beauty, 3 Days to Kill, Happy!, The […]
