Mateo Messina (Juno, Blockers, Tall Girl, Superstore, Butter, The Wrong Missy, Desperados, Barely Lethal) is attached to score the upcoming indie dramedy The Swimming Lesson. The film is directed by Casey Twenter and will star Heidi Gardner and William H. Macy. The movie revolves around a single mother who leaves behind her complicated life in Los Angeles to return to her childhood home, where she winds up embroiled in a custody battle over her autistic son who is obsessed with the ocean but terrified of swimming. Read the rest of this entry »
Mateo Messina to Score Casey Twenter’s ‘The Swimming Lesson’
Posted: May 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Casey Twenter, Matteo Messina, The Swimming Lesson
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‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Album to Be Released
Posted: May 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Debney, Paul Tibbitt, score, Soundtrack, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Varese Sarabande will release a new soundtrack album for the 2015 animated/live-action hybrid feature The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water directed by Paul Tibbitt and starring Antonio Banderas, Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Carolyn Lawrence and Douglas Lawrence. The album features the expanded original score from the Paramount Animation & Nickelodeon Studios production composed and conducted by Academy Award nominee John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, The Jungle Book, Elf, Iron Man 2, Hocus Pocus, The Emperor’s New Groove, Liar Liar), including previously unreleased music. The Deluxe Edition soundtrack will be released digitally and on CD on July 10. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and digital version. A first track (Burgerbeard on Island Open ) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
First Track from Volker Bertelmann’s ‘De Gaulle: Tilting Iron’ Score Released
Posted: May 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Antonin Baudry, De Gaulle: Tilting Iron, La Bataille de Gaulle - L'âge de fer, Volker Bertelmann
Milan Records has released the first track from the soundtrack for the French biographical drama De Gaulle: Tilting Iron (La Bataille de Gaulle – L’âge de fer). Available to stream/download on all major digital music services is Vive de Gaulle written by the film’s composer Volker Bertelmann (Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front, Lion, Dune: Prophecy, Adrift, The Day of the Jackal, A House of Dynamite, The Amateur, One Life). Also listen to the track after the jump. De Gaulle: Tilting Iron is directed by Antonin Baudry and stars Simon Abkarian (as legendary French army officer Charles de Gaulle), Simon Russell Beale, Florian Lesieur,Loïc Corbery, Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoît Magimel, Niels Schneider, Anamaria Vartolomei, Félix Kysyl. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Timecop’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Album to Be Released
Posted: May 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Mark Isham, Peter Hyams, score, Soundtrack, Timecop
Varese Sarabande will release a new soundtrack album for the 1994 sci-fi thriller Timecop directed by Peter Hyams and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver and Mia Sara. The album features the expanded original score from the film composed by Academy Award nominee Mark Isham (A River Runs Through It, Crash, Blade, Once Upon a Time, The Accountant, Godfather of Harlem, 42, Nell, The Black Dahlia), as well as two unused tracks. The Deluxe Edition soundtrack will be released digitally and on CD on July 10 and is now available for pre-order in both versions on Amazon. Isham’s main theme is already available to stream/download as a digital single and can also be checked out after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Wynne Bennett Scoring Apple TV’s ‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’
Posted: May 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, Wynne Bennett
Composer and record producer Wynne Bennett has made her narrative television scoring debut on the new Apple TV original series Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. The show is created by David J. Rosen (Us & Them, Citadel) and stars Tatiana Maslany, Jake Johnson, Brandon Flynn, Murray Bartlett, Jon Michael Hill, Jessy Hodges, Charlie Hall, Kiarra Hamagami Goldberg, Nola Wallace and Dolly De Leon. The comedic thriller follows a newly divorced mother who is convinced she witnessed a crime and begins her own investigation while simultaneously struggling through a custody battle and an identity crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Cotton Candy Bubble Gum’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: May 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benjamin Zecker, Cotton Candy Bubble Gum, J Pinder, score, Soundtrack
Benjamin Zecker (About Fate, Home Economics, This Is the Year, Sheep and Wolves: Pig Deal) has released a soundtrack album for the coming-of-age comedy Cotton Candy Bubble Gum. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to Zecker’s first track below. Cotton Candy Bubble Gum is written and directed by J Pinder and stars Nick Darnell, Morgan Jay, R. Marcus Taylor, Jack Stone, JadaPaige, Ben Scattone, Mildred Marie Langford, Jecobi Swain, Rodney J. Hobbs and Sophia Renee Sherman. The movie follows a 21-year-old mama’s boy still living at home who – after his mother gets engaged to a vindictive cop – must secure a paid promotion at his internship by the end of the day or find a new place to live. Read the rest of this entry »
Este Haim & Amanda Yamate Scoring Leah McKendrick’s ‘Voicemails for Isabelle’
Posted: May 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amanda Yamate, Este Haim, Leah McKendrick, Netflix, Voicemails for Isabelle
Este Haim (of HAIM) (Maid, Anyone But You, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Suncoast, Tow) & Amanda Yamate (Trap House, Every Body) have teamed up to score the upcoming Netflix original film Voicemails for Isabelle. The movie is written and directed by Leah McKendrick (Scrambled) and stars Zoey Deutch, Nick Robinson, Nick Offerman, Lukas Gage, Ciara Bravo, Harry Shum Jr., Megan Danso, McKendrick herself, Toby Sandeman and Spencer Lord. The romantic comedy revolves around a young woman whose hilariously confessional voicemails to her late sister are unknowingly redirected to a stranger, who begins to fall in love from afar. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Is God Is’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aleshea Harris, Is God Is, Joseph Shirley, Moses Sumney, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for the thriller Is God Is have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by singer/songwriter Moses Sumney and Joseph Shirley (Creed III, The Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian, The Underdoggs, Bad Trip, Killer Heat, Fairfax,The Mysterious Benedict Society).The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 22 by Lakeshore Records and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. A first track, Sins of the Father performed by Sumney & Kara Jackson, is already available to stream/download now as a digital single and can also be checked out below. Is God Is is written and directed by Aleshea Harris and stars Kara Young, Mallori Johnson, Janelle Monáe, Mykelti Williamson, Josiah Cross, Erika Alexander, Vivica A. Fox and Sterling K. Brown. The movie based on Harris’ play of the same title follows two sisters who embark on a quest for revenge, confronting a charged family history that will push them to extraordinary lengths. Read the rest of this entry »
Anna Drubich to Score Josh Monkarsh’s ‘Jacob and the Wolf’
Posted: May 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Anna Drubich, Jacob and the Wolf, Josh Monkarsh
Anna Drubich (Barbarian, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Fear Street Part 3: 1666, Forbidden Fruits, Werewolves Within, Time Cut, Sting) is set to score the upcoming comedic thriller Jacob and the Wolf. The film is written and directed by Josh Monkarsh (As We Know It) and stars Sam Lerner, Camille Hyde, Nikola Djuricko, Richard Kind, Bronson Pinchot, Oliver Cooper, Louis Lombardi, Pete Gardner,Timothy Hornor and Chris Webster. The movie follows a young couple who inherit a seemingly ideal home, but soon learn of its Nazi-affiliated dark past, leading to deadly consequences as their beliefs are questioned. Read the rest of this entry »
Mitchell Leib to Serve as Executive Music Producer on John Ottman’s ‘Billy and Me’
Posted: May 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Billy and Me, John Ottman, Mitchell Leib
Mitchell Leib, president of music and soundtracks at The Walt Disney Studios, will serve as the executive music producer on the upcoming biographical drama Billy and Me. The film is directed by composer/editor John Ottman (Bohemian Rhaposdy, X2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns, Fantastic Four) who previously made his feature directorial debut on 2000’s Urban Legends: Final Cut and tells the origin story of Billy Joel before before Piano Man, the 1973 song and album that lofted him to stardom. The movie is told through the eyes of Joel’s first manager, Irwin Mazur, who discovered the singer in 1966, signed him four years later and oversaw his career up to his breakthrough deal with Columbia Records in 1972. Read the rest of this entry »
