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Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 5, 2024)

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Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the supernatural horror prequel The First Omen co-written and directed by Arkasha Stevenson and starring Nell Tiger Free, Tawkeef Barhom, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga and Bill Nighy. The film’s original music is composed by Mark Korven (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Black Phone, Cube, Night Swim, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, The Peripheral). Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the 20th Century Studios release.

Also opening nationwide is the action thriller Monkey Man directed by Dev Patel and starring Patel himself, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Vipin Sharma, Sobhita Dhulipala, Adithi Kalkunte and Ashwini Kalsekar. Jed Kurzel (Alien: Covenant, The Babadook, Overlord, Macbeth, The Oxford Murders, The Pope’s Exorcist, The Mustang, Assassin’s Creed) has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as songs by Sneha Khanwalkar today. Click here for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Universal Pictures.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 29, 2024)

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Opening in theaters nationwide this week is the monster movie Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire directed by Adam Wingard and starring Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Alex Ferns, Kaylee Hottle and Fala Chen. The film’s original music is composed by Tom Holkenborg (Mad Max: Fury Road, Deadpool, Sonic the Hedgehog, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Alita: Battle Angel) and Antonio Di Iorio. WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score last Friday. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Legendary Pictures production. Also click here to check out the project’s music team credits.

Also opening nationwide this weekend is the Irish crime thriller In the Land of Saints & Sinners directed by Robert Lorenz and starring Liam Neeson, Kerry Condon, Ciaran Hinds and Jack Gleeson. Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg (Zwingli, Head Full of Honey, Born to Spy, The Little Witch) have composed the film’s original music. Sony Masterworks will release a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score on April 26. A first track (Irish Western Ballad) is already available to stream/download now. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the movie, which is being released in the U.S. by Samuel Goldwyn Films and check back on this page for the full album details.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 22, 2024)

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Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the supernatural horror comedy Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire directed by Gil Kenan and starring Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Carrie Coon, Mckenna Grace, Kumail Nanjiani, Celeste O’Connor, Logan Kim, Patton Oswalt, Bill Murray,Dan Aykroyd, Annie Potts and Ernie Hudson. The film’s original music is composed by Dario Marianelli (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, Darkest Hour, Paddington 2, Anna Karenina, V for Vendetta). Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Sony Pictures release and click here to check out the project’s music team credits.

Also opening wide is the psychological horror movie Immaculate directed by Michael Mohan and starring Sydney Sweeney, Simona Tabasco, Benedetta Porcaroli, Alvaro Morte and Dora Romano. Will Bates (The Magicians, Dumb Money, I Origins, Unbelievable, The Looming Tower, Away, Nightflyers, The Path, Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, Bliss) has composed the film’s original music. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the Neon release.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 15, 2024)

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Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the adventure drama Arthur the King directed by Simon Cellan Jones and starring Mark Wahlberg, Nathalie Emmanuel, Simu Liu, Juliet Rylance, Bear Grylls, Ali Suliman and Paul Guilfoyle. The film’s original music is composed by Kevin Matley (The Family Plan, Cocaine Cowboy, Path of the Panther, Daniel). Lionsgate Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the movie, which is being released by Lionsgate.

Also opening wide is the satirical comedy The American Society of Magical Negroes written and directed by Kobi Libii and starring Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, Michaela Watkins, An-Li Bogan, Drew Tarver, Rupert Friend and Nicole Byer. Michael Abels (Get Out, Us, Nope, Bad Education, The Burial, Breaking, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Nightbooks, See You Yesterday) has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the Focus Features release.

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Ludwig Göransson Wins Academy Award for ‘Oppenheimer’ Score

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Ludwig Göransson was honored with his second Academy Award for his score for Christopher Nolan’s drama Oppenheimer at tonight’s 96th Oscar ceremony. He previously won his first Oscar for his music from Marvel’s Black Panther in 2019 and was also nominated last year for the song Lift Me Up from its sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Check out his acceptance speech after the jump. The other nominated composers in the Original Score category were Jerskin Fendrix (Poor Things) Laura Karpman (American Fiction), John Williams (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) and Robbie Robertson (Killers of the Flower Moon).

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 8, 2024)

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Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 4 directed by Mike Mitchell and starring Jack Black, Viola Davis, Dustin Hoffman, Awkwafina, James Hong, Ian McShane, Bryan Cranston and Ke Huy Quan. The film’s original music is composed by Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Inception, The Dark Knight, Dune, Gladiator) & Steve Mazzaro (The Boss Baby, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, The Rhythm Section). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score, as well Tenacious D’s …Baby One More Time cover from the movie today. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the DreamWorks Animation production, which is being released by Universal Pictures.

Also opening wide is the supernatural horror movie Imaginary directed by Jeff Wadlow and starring DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Pyper Braun, Taegen Burns, Betty Buck and Veronica Falcon. Bear McCreary (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Outlander, The Walking Dead) has composed the theme(s) for the project and his Sparks & Shadows team has composed the original score. Sparks & Shadows Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ music today. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and for more information about the Blumhouse production, which is being distributed by Lionsgate.

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‘Barbie’, ‘Joy Ride’ & ‘Theater Camp’ Honored at Guild of Music Supervisors Awards

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guild-of-music-supervisorsThe 14th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards were handed out tonight at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. George Drakoulias received the top honor in the Best Music Supervision in Motion Picture – Motion Picture Over 25M for his work on Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Toko Nagata received the award in the Motion Picture Under 25M category for her music supervision on Adele Lim’s Joy Ride. Lindsay Wolfington was honored in the Motion Picture Under 10M category for her music supervision on Molly Gordon’s & Nick Lieberman’s Theater Camp.

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‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award

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The team behind the sound mixing of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures – Live Action category at tonight’s 60th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Scoring mixer Chris Fogel, along with production mixer Willie D. Burton, re-recording mixerx Gary A. Rizzo & Kevin O’Connell and foley mixers Tavish Grade, Jack Cucci &Mikel Parraga-Wills received the award for the film scored by Ludwig Göransson. In the Motion Pictures – Animated category, scoring mixer Sam Okell was honored as part of the sound mixing team of Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (scored by Daniel Pemberton).

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 1, 2024)

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Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Josh Brolin, Christopher Walken, Dave Bautista, Léa Seydoux and Javier Bardem. The film’s original music composed by Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight, Inception, The Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Interstellar, The Last Samurai). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last Friday. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures release.

Opening in Los Angeles and New York today before expanding to more markets in the coming weeks is the comedy Problemista written and directed by Julio Torres and starring Torres himself, Tilda Swinton, Greta Lee, RZA, James Scully, Isabella Rossellini and Catalina Saavedra. Robert Ouyang Rusli (aka OHYUNG) (Test Pattern, Bruiser) has composed the film’s original music. A24 Music will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score on March 15. Check out our soundtrack announcement from last summer (when the movie was originally set to be released) for the full album details and for more information about the A24 release.

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