Hollywood Records has released a new version of Christina Vidal‘s song Take Me Away from Freakier Friday. The track (originally written by Andrew Klippel, Barry Palmer, Micaela Slayford, Belinda Reid, Jessica Bennet & Jaclyn Pearson for 2003’s Freaky Friday movie) is produced by Suzy Shinn, performed by the fictional band Pink Slip & Vidal and […]
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‘Take Me Away’ Cover from ‘Freakier Friday’ Released
Posted: July 11, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Christina Vidal, Freakier Friday, Nisha Ganatra
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 4, 2025)
Posted: July 4, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 40 Acres, Alexandre Desplat, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Pretty Thing, Tim Kvasnosky, Todor Kobakov
Opening in theaters nationwide this week is the sci-fi/action adventure Jurassic World Rebirth directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Rupert Friend, Luna Blaise, Philippine Velge, David Iacono, Ed Skrein and Bechir Sylvain. The film’s original music is composed by Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water, Harry Potter and the […]
Mark Snow passed away today at age 78 at his home in Connecticut. The composer, best known for his theme and score from the Fox mystery series The X-Files, wrote numerous scores for film and television over the last five decades. He earned six Emmy Award nominations for his music from The X-Files and received […]
Lalo Schifrin (1932-2025)
Posted: June 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin passed away today at age 93 of complications from pneumonia. The Grammy Award-winning Argentinian composer, best known his Mission: Impossible theme written for the 1960s TV series and used in the Tom Cruise-starring feature franchise, wrote numerous scores for film and television over a six decades-spanning career. He earned six Academy Award nominations […]
Daniel Blumberg, Chris Bacon, Siddhartha Khosla, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Anthony Willis, Carlos Rafael Rivera & Others Invited to Join Academy
Posted: June 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 534 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to motion pictures to join the organization. Among the invited artists this year are a number of film composers, including Daniel Blumberg who received his first Academy Award (and nomination) this year for Brady […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (June 20, 2025)
Posted: June 20, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 28 Years Later, Alma and the Wolf, Bride Hard, Chiara Costanza, Craig Wedren, Elio, Erwann Chandon, Everything's Going to Be Great, Eye for an Eye, Inside, Jherek Bischoff, KPop Demon Hunters, Marcelo Zarvos, Mr. Blake at Your Service!, Rob Simonsen, Rolfe Kent, Ryan Shore, Timothy Williams, Young Fathers
Opening in theaters nationwide is the post-apocalyptic horror movie 28 Years Later directed by Danny Boyle and starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Fulford, Edvin Ryding and Chi Lewis-Parry. The film’s original music is composed by the Scottish hip hop trio Young Fathers (Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole & Graham ‘G’ […]
Carter Burwell Elected to Academy Board of Governors
Posted: June 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Carter Burwell
Composer Carter Burwell (Fargo, Carol, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, True Grit, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Blind Side, Twilight, Being John Malkovich) has been elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2025-2026 Board of Governors. He joins Lesley Barber and Richard Gibbs who will be the other two governors of the music branch […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 30, 2025)
Posted: May 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Bring Her Back, Christopher Wong, Cornel Wilczek, Detective Kien: The Headless Horror, Dominic Lewis, Garrett Crosby, Ghost Trail, Ian Rees, Jed Kurzel, Karate Kid: Legends, Lost in Starlight, Ocean with David Attenborough, Steven Price, The Phoenician Scheme, Tornado, Yuksek
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the martial arts action adventure Karate Kid: Legends directed by Jonathan Entwistle and starring Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, Ben Wang, Sadie Stanley, Ming-Na Wen and Joshua Jackson. The film’s original music is composed by Dominic Lewis (The Fall Guy, Bullet Train, The Man in the High Castle, Money Monster, Your […]
Alf Clausen (1941-2025)
Posted: May 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alf Clausen
Alf Clausen passed away yesterday at age 84 at his home in Los Angeles after battling Parkinson’s disease. The composer is best known for his music for the Fox animated hit show The Simpsons, which he scored between 1990 and 2017 and for which he received two Emmy Awards and 23 Emmy Award nominations. His other […]
