BSX Records has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for the 1997 TV series Conan the Adventurer developed by Max A. Keller based on the Conan the Barbarian character created by Robert E. Howard and starring Ralf Möller, Danny Woodburn, Robert McRay, Jeremy Kemp, T.J. Storm and Aly Dunne. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Grammy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Charles Fox (9 to 5, Foul Play, Short Circuit 2, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Little Darlings). Also included is the original song In Love and War written by Fox, feat. lyrics by Roxanne Seeman and performed by Terry Reid. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and most other major digital music services), where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s main title track and the song after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Conan the Adventurer’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: June 2, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Charles Fox, Conan the Adventurer, score, Soundtrack
Expanded ‘Hotel America’, ‘A Bad Son’ & ‘Scene of the Crime’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: June 2, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Bad Son, André Téchiné, Claude Sautet, Hotel America, Hôtel des Amériques, Le Lieu du crime, Philippe Sarde, Scene of the Crime, score, Soundtrack, Un mauvais fils
Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album featuring three expanded and newly remastered original scores composed by Academy Award nominee Philippe Sarde (The Tenant, Quest for Fire, Lord of the Flies, Tess,Pirates, Ghost Story, Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud, Barocco). The titles include the 1981 romantic drama Hotel America (Hôtel des Amériques) co-written and directed by André Téchiné and starring Catherine Deneuve and Patrick Dewaere, the 1980 drama A Bad Son (Un mauvais fils) co-written and directed by Claude Sautet and starring Patrick Dewaere, Yves Robert & Brigitte Fossey, as well as the 1986 crime drama Scene of the Crime (Le Lieu du crime) co-written and directed by Téchiné and starring Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Wadeck Stanczak and Victor Lanoux. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Bates Scoring Eric Lin’s ‘Rosemead’
Posted: June 2, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Eric Lin, Rosemead, Will Bates
Will Bates (Immaculate, The Magicians, Dumb Money, Away, Unbelievable, The Life List, The Path, I Origins, The Looming Tower, Bliss) has composed the original score for the upcoming drama Rosemead. The film is directed by Eric Lin and stars Lucy Liu, Lawrence Shou, Orion Lee, Jennifer Lim, James Chen and Madison Hu. The movie is based on a true story and follows a Chinese immigrant mother who is driven to desperate measures by her unstable son’s escalating mental health crisis and growing obsession with mass shootings. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ernest Cole: Lost & Found’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: June 2, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexei Aigui, Ernest Cole: Lost & Found, Raoul Peck, score, Soundtrack
Music Box Records has announced a soundtrack album for the documentary Ernest Cole: Lost & Found. The album features the film’s original music composed by Alexei Aigui (I Am Not Your Negro, The Young Karl Marx, Exterminate All the Brutes, Wild Field, The Truth, Silver Dollar Road). Also included are the composer’s scores from Peck’s Murder in Pacot and Moloch Tropical (with some previously unreleased tracks). The CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also learn more about the release. A first track (Harlem) from Aigui’s Ernest Cole score has already been released as a digital single last month and can be checked out below and a digital version of the album will be coming out this Friday, June 6 (visit Amazon to stream/download). Ernest Cole: Lost & Found is directed by Raoul Peck, narrated by LaKeith Stanfield and chronicles the life of Ernest Cole whose photographs of apartheid-era South Africa and the U.S. in the 1960’s revealed countries vastly different, yet eerily similar. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Child of True Love’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: June 2, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Agnès de Sacy, Child of True Love, Gregoire Hetzel, La fille d'un grand amour, score, Soundtrack
B Original has released a soundtrack album for the French romantic drama Child of True Love (La fille d’un grand amour). The album features the film’s original music composed by Grégoire Hetzel (Incendies, Ismael’s Ghosts, Summertime, The Midwife, My Golden Days, Oh, Mercy!). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Child of True Love is co-written and directed by Agnès de Sacy and stars Isabelle Carré, François Damiens and Claire Duburcq. The movie follows a couple who separated years ago and reconnect when their daughter is screening a documentary she made about her parents. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 1, 2025)
Posted: June 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adem Ilhan, Apple TV +, Benjamin Wallfisch, BritBox, Daniel Pemberton, Dara Taylor, HBO, Hulu, Mr Loverman, Netflix, Predator: Killer of Killers, Speakers Corner Quartet, Stick, Straw, The Mortician, Zachary Dawes
Premiering tonight is the HBO original documentary series The Mortician directed by Joshua Rofé about the Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena that took advantage of their clients at their most vulnerable moments in the early 1980s. The show’s original music is composed by Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Enola Holmes, Steve Jobs, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Birds of Prey) and Adem Ilhan (In the Loop, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Avenue 5, The Beautiful Game). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 3-parter, which will air Sundays on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Premiering in the U.S. on Wednesday, June 4, is the British TV series Mr Loverman based on the novel of the same title by Bernardine Evaristo, adapted by Nathaniel Price and starring Lennie James, Ariyon Bakare and Sharon D. Clarke. Speakers Corner Quartet have composed the show’s original music. OTIH Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the musicians’ score last fall. Visit Amazon (or any other major digital music services) to stream/download the album. The drama, which revolves around a 74-year old man whose wife of 50 years senses that he has been cheating on her with other women, when in fact he has been having a secret, passionate affair with his male best friend, premiered in the UK last October on BBC One and is making its U.S. debut on BritBox. Read the rest of this entry »
Zachary Dawes Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Stick’
Posted: June 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Stick, Zachary Dawes
Zachary Dawes (The Summer I Turned Pretty, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Big Time Adolescence, There’s Someone Inside Your House,The Big Door Prize, A League of Their Own) has recently been scoring the new Apple TV+ original series Stick. The show is created by Jason Keller (Ford v. Ferrari, Machine Gun Preacher) and stars Owen Wilson, Peter Dager, Marc Maron, Lilli Kay, Mariana Treviño, Judy Greer and Timothy Olyphant. The sports comedy follows an ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago and – after the collapse of his marriage and getting fired from his job at a sporting goods store – hedges his bets entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Friday the 13th Part VI – Jason Lives’ The Ultimate Cut Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: June 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th Part VI – Jason Lives, Harry Manfredini, Tom McLoughlin
La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1986 slasher sequel Friday the 13th Part VI – Jason Lives written and directed by Tom McLoughlin and starring Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, Renée Jones, David Kagen, Kerry Noonan and Darcy DeMoss. The album features the newly restored, remixed, remastered and expanded original score from the sixth installment in the Friday the 13th series composed by Harry Manfredini (Wishmaster, House, Swamp Thing, DeepStar Six), including previously unreleased music. The CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
Benjamin Wallfisch Scoring Dan Trachtenberg’s ‘Predator: Killer of Killers’
Posted: June 1, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Benjamin Wallfisch, Predator: Killer of Killers
Benjamin Wallfisch (Alien: Romulus, IT, The Flash Twisters, Blade Runner 2049, Shazam!, Hidden Figures, The Invisible Man) has composed the original music for the new animated action adventure Predator: Killer of Killers. The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg (Prey, 10 Cloverfield Lane), co-directed by Josh Wassung (from animation company The Third Floor) and features the voices of Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Rick Gonzalez and Michael Biehn. The movie follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a quest for revenge, a WWII pilot who to investigates an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause and a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a battle for succession. Read the rest of this entry »
‘We Are Guardians’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 31, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chelsea Greene, Edivan Guajajara, Jacob Yoffee, Roahn Hylton, Rob Grobman, score, Soundtrack, We Are Guardians
Th3rdstream Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary We Are Guardians. The album features the film’s original music composed by Roahn Hylton & Jacob Yoffee (The Wonder Years, Bel-Air, Brave the Dark, Vampire Academy, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, Sherwood, Free Meek). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ title and end credits tracks below. We Are Guardians is directed by Rob Grobman, Edivan Guajajara & Chelsea Greene and portrays the diverse group of native people who endeavor to save what is left of the Brazilian Amazon. The movie produced by Fisher Steven and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio dissects the economic drivers that fuel large-scale environmental destruction, while exposing the corruption. Read the rest of this entry »
