Filmtrax/Atlantic Screen Music has released a soundtrack album for the action thriller Off the Grid. The album features the film’s original music composed by Frederik Wiedmann (The Dragon Prince, Star Trek: PicardBatman: Caped Crusader, Green Lantern: The Animated SeriesDoom: AnnihilationOccupation: Rainfall). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first and final track after the jump. Off the Grid is directed by Johnny Martin and stars Josh Duhamel, Greg Kinnear, María Elisa Camargo and Peter Stormare. The movie follows a brilliant scientist who becomes the ultimate fighting force when hunted by a company trying to weaponize his technology. Read the rest of this entry »

Free Run Artists will release a soundtrack album for the dramatic thriller Ponyboi. The album features the film’s original music composed by Emmy Award winner Cristobal Tapia de Veer (The White Lotus, Utopia, Babygirl, SmileThe Girl with All the Gifts, The Third Day, National Treasure). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 27. Visit Amazon and any other major digital music services to stream/download the album and also listen to the composer’s title track below. Ponyboi is directed by Esteban Arango and stars River Gallo (who also wrote the screenplay based on his 2019 short of the same name), Dylan O’Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Murray Bartlett and Indya Moore. The movie takes place in New Jersey over the course of Valentine’s Day and revolves around a young intersex sex worker who must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past. Read the rest of this entry »

Lalo Schifrin (1932-2025)

Posted: June 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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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 for his scores for Stuart Rosenberg’s 1967 drama Cool Hand Luke, 1976 feature Voyage of the Damned & 1979 horror classic The Amityville Horror, Mark Rydell’s 1967 drama The Fox and Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 1983 comedy The Sting II and the original song People Alone from Joel Oliansky’s 1980 movie musical The Competition. He received an Honorary Oscar at the 10th Governors Awards in 2018. Read the rest of this entry »

academyThe 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 Corbet’s The Brutalist, Clément Ducol & Camille who received their first Academy Award for the original song El Mal and another nomination for the score from Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, as well as Chris Bacon (Heretic, M3GAN 2.0), Siddhartha Khosla (The Idea of You, A Family Affair), Isobel Waller-Bridge (Wicked Little Letters, Magpie), Anthony Willis (Saltburn, M3GAN), Carlos Rafael Rivera (Ezra, Chupa), Branford Marsalis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Rustin), Nami Melumad (Thor: Love and Thunder, Griffin in Summer), Toby Chu (The Monkey King, Unforgettable), Stephanie Economou (Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3), Michael A. Levine (Outbreak, Atypical Wednesday), Segun Akinola (The Bayou, Girl You Know It’s True), Diego Baldenweg (In the Land of Saints and Sinners, Zwingli), Amanda Jones (Moving On, Mea Culpa), René G. Boscio (Emergency, Lake George), Lorenz Dangel (September 5, Dying), Ré Olunuga (Drift, Girl), Maxence Dussère (Le Principal, Wild Seas), Rihards Zaļupe (Flow, Kaka, Pavasaris un Draugi), Amritha Vaz (Little Stones, Miss India America), Wei San Hsu (Invisible Nation, Another Woman), Andranik Berberyan (Amerikatsi, Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev), Kwong Wing Chan (Peg O’ My Heart, The Dumpling Queen) and Youssou N’Dour (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love). Read the rest of this entry »

The full details of the soundtrack album for the sci-fi/action adventure Jurassic World Rebirth have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Grand Budapest Hotel, GodzillaThe King’s Speech, The Queen). The soundtrack will be released digitally next Wednesday, July 2 by Back Lot Music and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Mutant will release a physical version (click here to order the CD and vinyl edition). A first track (Boat Chase) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below.  Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by Gareth Edwards, written by David Koepp and stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo,Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Ed Skrein, Philippine Velge and Bechir Sylvain. The movie follows a covert operations expert on a top-secret mission who – together with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos – gets stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. Read the rest of this entry »

RTI has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2021 Italian crime drama Yara directed by Marco Tullio Giordana and starring Isabella Ragonese, Alessio Boni, Thomas Trabacchi, Roberto Zibetti, Sandra Toffolatti, Mario Pirrello, Miro Landoni, Chiara Bono and Andrea Bruschi. The album features the film’s original music composed by Andrea Farri (Io CapitanoThose About to Die, The Hanging Sun, SecurityThe First King, Latin Lover, Italian Race). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Yara follows a determined prosecutor who becomes consumed with the case of a missing 13-year-old and goes to extreme lengths to get to the truth. Read the rest of this entry »

Atlantic Records will release a second soundtrack album for the sports action drama F1. The Cinematic Edition album features all the songs from F1 The Album (by artists including Don Toliver feat. Doja Cat, Ed Sheeran, Tate McRae, Chris Stapleton, Dom Dolla feat. Nathan Nicholson, Tiësto & others), as well as the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer (The Lion KingDune, The Dark Knight, Inception, GladiatorPirates of the Caribbean, InterstellarMan of Steel). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 27 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. A 2-CD version is also available to order on Amazon. Also listen to Zimmer’s title track below and click here to check out the project’s music team credits. F1 is directed by Joseph Kosinski and stars Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Kim Bodnia and Tobias Menzies. The movie tells the story of a former racing phenom whose career nearly ended after an accident on the track thirty years ago who gets approached by his former teammate who convinces him to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Paramount+ original series MobLand. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Matt Bellamy (of the rock band Muse) & Ilan Eshkeri (StardustLayer Cake, Still Alice, The Young Victoria, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 27 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the first track (Shake Hands) below. MobLand is created by Ronan Bennett and stars Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Paddy Considine, Lara Pulver, Joanne Froggatt, Daniel Betts, Anson Boon, Mandeep Dhillon, Jasmine Jobson, Emily Barber, Lisa Dwan, Geoff Bell and Helen Mirren. The crime drama revolves around two warring London mob families who clash in a battle that threatens to topple empires and ruin lives. Read the rest of this entry »

Back Lot Music will release the official soundtrack album for the sci-fi/horror sequel M3GAN 2.0. The album features the film’s original music composed by Chris Bacon (Wednesday, Source CodeBates Motel, Heretic, Men in Black: International, Gnomeo & Juliet, 65The Tick). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 27 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Waxwork Records will release a vinyl edition. M3GAN 2.0 is written and directed by Gerard Johnstone and stars Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jen Van Epps, Amie Donald, Jenna Davis, Ivanna Sakhno, Aristotle Athari, Timm Sharp and Jemaine Clement. The Atomic Monster & Blumhouse production is set two years after events of the 2023 original film and follows Gemma who has to resurrect the title character after the the robotic doll’s underlying technology has been stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon. Read the rest of this entry »

Sony Music Entertainment Germany will release a soundtrack album for the German teen mystery adventure The Three Investigators and the Carpathian Dog (Die Drei ??? und der Karpatenhund). The album features the film’s original music composed by David Reichelt (ParadiseLimbo8 Days, Lassie – A New AdventureLa Palma) who previously scored 2023’s The Three Investigators – Legacy of the Dragon. The soundtrack will released digitally this Friday, June 27 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Just Sad) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. The Three Investigators and the Carpathian Dog is directed by Tim Dünschede and stars Julius Weckauf, Nevio Wendt, Levi Brandl, Ulrich Tukur, Sunnyi Melles, Sira-Anna Faal, Johannes Nussbaum and Christoph Bach. Read the rest of this entry »