A24 Music will release a soundtrack album for the supernatural horror thriller Bring Her Back. The album features the film’s original score composed by Cornel Wilczek (Talk to Me, Apple Cider Vinegar, Together, Clickbait, Glitch, These Final Hours, Nowhere Boys, Cut Snake). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 20 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Click here to check out the project’s music team credits and also listen to the composer’s title track below. Bring Her Back is directed by Danny Philippou (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Bill Hinzman) & Michael Philippou and stars Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips and Sally-Anne Upton. The movie follows a brother and sister who uncover a terrifying ritual at their new foster mother’s secluded home. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bring Her Back’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: June 19, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bring Her Back, Cornel Wilczek, Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, score, Soundtrack
’28 Years Later’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: June 19, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle, score, Soundtrack, Young Fathers
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the post-apocalyptic horror movie 28 Years Later. The album features the film’s original music composed by the Scottish hip hop trio Young Fathers (Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole & ‘G’ Hastings). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 20 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the band’s first and final track below. Click here to check out the project’s music team credits. 28 Years Later is directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland and stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Ralph Fiennes, Alfie Williams, Edvin Ryding, Chi Lewis-Parry and Christopher Fulford. The third installment in the 28 Days Later series takes place 28 years after the events of the original movies and follows a member of a group of survivors who have found ways to exist amidst the infected on a small island who leaves the place on a mission into the heart of the mainland, where he discovers wonders, secrets, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘The Waterfront’ to Be Released
Posted: June 19, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: John Frizzell, Kevin Williamson, score, Soundtrack, The Waterfront
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original series The Waterfront. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by John Frizzell (Alien: Resurrection, Dante’s Peak, Office Space, Thirteen Ghosts, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, The Following, Gods and Generals, Legion). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 20 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s end credits track below. The Waterfront is created by Kevin Williamson and stars Holt McCallany, Melissa Benoist, Jake Weary, Maria Bello, Brady Hepner, Humberly González, Rafael L. Silva and Danielle Campbell. The drama follows revolves around a prominent fishing family as their attempts to retain control of their crumbling North Carolina fishing empire drive them to increasingly dangerous means to keep themselves afloat. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Elio’ Soundrack Album Details
Posted: June 19, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Adrian Molina, Domee Shi, Elio, Madeline Sharafian, Pixar, Rob Simonsen, score, Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records will release the official soundtrack album for Pixar Animation Studios’ feature Elio. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rob Simonsen (Deadpool & Wolverine, The Whale, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Foxcatcher, The Way Back, It Ends with Us, The Age of Adaline, (500) Days of Summer, Nerve). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 20 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also click here to check out the project’s music team credits and listen to the composer’s Elio Suite below. Elio is directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi & Adrian Molina and features the voices of Yonas Kibreab, Zoe Saldaña, Remy Edgerly, Jameela Jamil, Brad Garrett and Shirley Henderson. The movie follows a space fanatic with a huge alien obsession who is mistakenly identified as Earth’s leader and must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions, and somehow discover who and where he is truly meant to be. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ange’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 19, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ange, Delphine Mantoulet, Soundtrack, Tony Gatlif
Princes Production has released a soundtrack album for the French drama Ange. The album features the film’s original music written by director Tony Gatlif, singer/songwriter and lead actor Arthur H, as well as Delphine Mantoulet (Korkoro, Geronimo, Indignados), among other artists. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to several tracks from the albumbelow. Ange is co-written and directed by Gatlif and also stars Suzanne Aubert, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric and Christine Citt. The movie tells the story of a 60-year old-musician who decides to track down and reconnect with an old friend and – together with he daughter of his former lover who joins him on his journey – rediscovers the path to joy. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Desire: The Carl Craig Story’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: June 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Carl Craig, Desire: The Carl Craig Story, Jean-Cosme Delaloye, Soundtrack
Planet E Communications will release a soundtrack album for the documentary Desire: The Carl Craig Story. The album features music by the film’s subject, techno producer, DJ & record label creator Carl Craig, and includes tracks across his many monikers (69, Psyche/BFC, Innerzone Orchestra). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, June 20 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A CD and vinyl edition will be coming out next month and is available for pre-order here (vinyl edition) and here (CD version) Two first tracks are already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. Desire: The Carl Craig Story is directed by Jean-Cosme Delaloye and follows Craig’s journey from Detroit’s middle-class roots to global stardom, set against the city’s decline and recovery, and explores his work at the intersection of music, art, and culture, from his collaborations with Bottega Veneta to his Party/After-Party installation, acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts and exhibited at MOCA Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Kite Man: Hell Yeah!’ Soundtrack Albums Released
Posted: June 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, Max, Michael Gatt, score, Soundtrack
Michael Gatt (DC Super Hero Girls, Batman: The Long Halloween, Braid, Justice League: Warworld, The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, Blood Drive) has released two soundtrack albums for the (HBO) Max original animated series Kite Man: Hell Yeah! The albums feature the original songs, as well as selections of the original score from the Harley Quinn spin-off’s first season written by the composer. Visit Amazon (or most other major digital music services) to stream/download the score album and click here for the song album. Kite Man: Hell Yeah! is developed by Dean Lorey, Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker and features the voices of Matt Oberg, Stephanie Hsu, James Adomian, Jonathan Banks, Janelle James, Michael Imperioli, Natasia Demetriou, Lance Reddick, Keith David, Rory Scovel and Judith Light. The Warner Bros. Animation productionfollows the Kite Man & Golden Glider who level up their relationship by purchasing Noonan’s , Gotham’s seediest dive bar. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe Scoring Akiva Schaffer’s ‘The Naked Gun’
Posted: June 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Akiva Schaffer, Lorne Balfe, The Naked Gun
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, His Dark Materials, Black Widow, The Wheel of Time, Black Adam, Bad Boys for Life, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Top Gun: Maverick) has taken over scoring duties on the upcoming action comedy The Naked Gun. The reboot of the 1988 classic (scored by Ira Newborn) is directed by Akiva Schaffer (Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) and stars Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, CCH Pounder, Liza Koshy, Cody Rhodes, Eddie Yu and Danny Huston. The film follows Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. as he follows in the footsteps of his father. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dark Sea’ (‘Mare Nero’) Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dark Sea, Mare Nero, Roberta Torre, score, Shigeru Umebayashi, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2006 Italian drama Dark Sea (Mare Nero) directed by Roberta Torre and starring Luigi Lo Cascio, Anna Mouglalis, Maurizio Donadoni and Massimo Popolizio. The album features the film’s original music composed by Shigeru Umebayashi (House of Flying Daggers, In the Mood for Love, The Grandmaster, 2046,Curse of the Golden Flowers). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s main theme after the jump. The label is also releasing a CD version, which also includes Umeyashi’s score from Torre’s In the Mirror (check out the cover art below). Read the rest of this entry »
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 in the next term. It will mark Burwell’s first term serving on the music branch board. The Academy’s 19 branches are each represented by three governors, who may serve up to three consecutive three-year terms, followed by a two-year hiatus, after which eligibility renews for up to two additional three-year terms for a lifetime maximum of 12 years. The Board of Governors sets the Academy’s strategic vision, preserves the organization’s financial health, and assures the fulfillment of its mission. Read the rest of this entry »
