Category: Film Music News

Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 18, 2023)

August 18, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 1 comment

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 a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as two songs today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures release.

Also opening nationwide today is the comedy Strays directed by Josh Greenbaum and starring Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Will Forte, Isla Fisher, Brett Gelman, Randall Park, Josh Gad and Sofia Vergara. Dara Taylor (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, The Invitation, The Tender Bar, Echo Boomers, The Noel Diary) has composed the film’s original score. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as song by Dave Sarazen today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the Universal Pictures release.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 11, 2023)

August 11, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the supernatural horror movie The Last Voyage of Demeter directed by André Øvredal and starring Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Jon Jon Briones, Liam Cunningham, Javier Botet and David Dastmalchian. The film’s original music is composed by Bear McCreary (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Outlander, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Walking Dead). Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Click here for the full album details for the full album details and to learn more about the Universal Pictures release.

Opening in around 800 theaters is the sci-fi comedy drama Jules directed by Marc Turtletaub and starring Ben Kingsley, Jane Curtin, Zoe Winters, Harriet Sansom Harris, Anna George, Cody Kostro and Donald Paul. Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet on the Western Front, Lion, Hotel Mumbai, Adrift, The Old Guard, Patrick Melrose) has composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced. Check out our previous article for more information about the movie, which premiered at this year’s Sonoma Film Festival and is being distributed by Bleecker Street.

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Robbie Robertson (1943-2023)

August 9, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

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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 of Money, as well as his last two movies, 2019’s The Irishman and the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will be released in theaters on October 6.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 4, 2023)

August 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Tags: 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 by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Gone Girl, Soul, Watchmen, Mank, Bone and All). The Null Corporation has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score last Friday. Check out our previous article for the full album details for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures release.

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the action sequel Meg 2: The Trench directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Sophia Cai, Skyler Samuels and Cliff Curtis. Harry Gregson-Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia, Shrek, The Martian, Kingdom of Heaven, Chicken Run, Mulan, The Last Duel). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score and a song by Page Kennedy (who also stars in the movie) last week. Click here fort he full album details and for more information about the Warner Bros. Pictures release.

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2023 World Soundtrack Awards Nominations Announced

August 4, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

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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 Ghent as the closing night of the Film Fest Gent. Nicola Piovani and Laurence Rosenthal have previously been announced to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards and. The rest of the nominations will be revealed in September.

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Carl Davis (1936-2023)

August 3, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

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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 Firth & Jennifer Ehle, Michael Caton-Jones’ 1989 feature Scandal, the 1973 documentary series World at War and John Irvin’s 1984 drama Champions and 1994 comedy Widow’s Peak.

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Jim Parker (1934-2023)

July 31, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 1 comment

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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 its two sequels. He won four BAFTA TV Awards for 1993’s second part of the House of Cards trilogy, To Play the King, 1996’s 4-part drama The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, the 1997 mini-series The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling and the 1998 TV movie A Rather English Marriage starring Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay & Joanna Lumley.

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Musical Episode ‘Subspace Rhapsody’ to Feature Original Songs by Kay Hanley & Tom Polce

July 22, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

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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 show’s second season on August 9, 2023, and is also set to feature a special version of the series’ main title.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 21, 2023)

July 21, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Tags: Andrew Wyatt, Barbie, Cobweb, Drum & Lace, George Kallis, Happiness for Beginners, Jeremy Zag, Ludwig Göransson, Mark Ronson, Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir The Movie, Nathan Matthew David, Oppenheimer, See You on Venus, Sherri Chung, Stephen Curry: Underrated

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the fantasy comedy Barbie co-written and directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Will Ferrell, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Rhea Perlman, Alexandra Shipp, Ariana Greenblatt and Michael Cera. The film’s original score is composed by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. Atlantic Records has released a soundtrack album (produced by Ronson) featuring the songs from the movie by artists including Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minjaj & Ice Spice, Charli XC & others. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures release.

Also opening wide is the historical thriller Oppenheimer written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Robert Downey, Jr. and Kenneth Branagh. Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther, The Mandalorian, Creed, Tenet) has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music 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 Universal Pictures release.

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Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 14, 2023)

July 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News 0 comments

Tags: 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, Black Adam, Top Gun: Maverick). Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music earlier this week. CD and vinyl editions will be released by La-La Land Records and Mondo. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures production.

Opening semi-wide in around 650 U.S. theaters is the Irish comedy drama The Miracle Club directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan and starring Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith, Agnes O’Casey and Stephen Rea. Edmund Butt (Life on Mars, Dalíland, Origin, Finding Alice, Bancroft, Mistress) has composed the film’s original music. Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and for more information about the Sony Pictures Classics release.

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