Intrada Records has announced the release of the label’s new Kickstarter-funded recordings of three scores for 1960s/70s television movies composed by Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Mummy, Chinatown, Alien, Patton, Planet of the Apes, Basic Instinct). Titles include 1972’s drama Pursuit directed by Michael Crichton and starring Ben Gazzara, Martin Sheen & E.G. Marshall, 1970’s horror thiller Crawlspace directed by John Newland & Buzz Kulik and starring Tom Happer, Arthur Kennedy & Teresa Wright and 1968’s The People Next Door (directed by David Greene), the opening installment of the second season of CBS Playhouse. The composer’s music for three films was newly recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Adam Klemens. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Nothing Underneath’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 27, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Carlo Vanzina, Nothing Underneath, Pino Donaggio, score, Soundtrack
Rustblade Records & Bluebelldisc Past Master have released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 1985 Italian giallo movie Nothing Underneath (Sotto il vestito niente) directed by Carlo Vanzina and starring Tom Schanley, Renée Simonsen, Nicola Perring, Marie McDonald, Catherine Noyes, Paolo Tomei and Donald Pleasence. The album features the film’s original music composed by Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Body Double, Dressed to Kill, The Howling, Blow Out) and conducted by Natale Massara. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s main titles track below. A CD version and limited edition vinyl edition are available to order here. Read the rest of this entry »
First Track from John Powell’s Score for ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Live-Action Movie Released
Posted: May 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dean DeBlois, How To Train Your Dragon, John Powell
Back Lot Music has released the first track from the soundtrack for the live-action adaptation of DreamWorks Animation’s classic How to Train Your Dragon. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is Test Driving Toothless written by Academy Award nominee John Powell (The Bourne Identity, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Wicked, Happy Feet, Shrek, Bolt, Don’t Worry Darling, X-Men: The Last Stand). Also listen to the track after the jump. The full soundtrack album will be released on June 13. Check back on this page for the album details. How to Train Your Dragon is written and directed by Dean DeBlois and stars Mason Thames, Gerard Butler, Nico Parker, Julian Dennison, Nick Frost, Gabriel Howell, Ruth Codd, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Peter Serafinowicz and Murray McArthur. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘The Three Musketeers’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: May 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Michael Kamen, score, Soundtrack, Stephen Herek, The Three Musketeers
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1993 action adventure The Three Musketeers directed by Stephen Herek and starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O’Donnell, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt and Rebecca De Morna. The album features the complete and remastered original score from the Walt Disney Pictures & Caravan Pictures production composed and conducted by Academy Award nominee Michael Kamen (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, X-Men, The Iron Giant, License to Kill, Mr. Holland’s Opus), including almost an hour of previously unreleased music, as well as a couple few alternate and source cues and the content of Hollywood Records’ original 1993 soundtrack album (which includes the original song All for Love co-written by Kamen and performed by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting). Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Bacon Scoring Gerard Johnstone’s ‘M3GAN 2.0’
Posted: May 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Chris Bacon, Gerard Johnstone, M3GAN, M3GAN 2.0
Chris Bacon (Wednesday, Heretic, Source Code, Bates Motel, Gnomeo & Juliet, Men in Black: International, 65, The Tick) has composed the original music for the upcoming sci-fi/horror sequel M3GAN 2.0. The film is written and directed by Gerard Johnstone (Housebound) and stars Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Amie Donald, Jen Van Epps, Jenna Davis, Aristotle Athari, Ivanna Sakhno, Timm Sharp and Jemaine Clement. The movie is set two years after events of the original film and follows Gemma who has to resurrect M3GAN 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 »
‘Hotel Portofino’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Hotel Portofino, PBS, score, Soundtrack, Stefano Cabrera
Orange Home Records has released a new soundtrack album for the British TV series Hotel Portofino. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Stefano Cabrera (Terry Pratchett’s The Abominable Snow Baby). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks below. Silva Screen Records has previously released an album featuring Cabrera’s score from Season 1 back in 2022. Hotel Portofino is created by Matt Baker and stars Natascha McElhone, Oliver Dench, Mark Umbers, Assad Zaman, Pasquale Esposito, Adam James, Elizabeth Carling, Lucy Akhurst, Olivia Morris and Lily Frazer. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 25, 2025)
Posted: May 25, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Apple TV +, BritBox, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Death Valley, Dept. Q, HBO, Jina Hyojin An, Joseph LoDuca, Leland, Lulu Is a Rhinoceros, Mountainhead, Netflix, Nicholas Britell, Shirley Song, Sion Trefor, The Better Sister, The Librarians: The Next Chapter, TNT, Will Bates
Premiering tonight is the TNT original series The Librarians: The Next Chapter developed by Dean Devlin & John Rogers and starring Callum McGowan, Jessica Green, Bluey Robinson and Olivia Morris. The show’s original music is composed byJoseph LoDuca (The Evil Dead, Xena: Warrior Princess, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Chucky, Leverage) who previously scored the original The Librarians television movies and TV series. Check out our previous article to learn more about the fantasy adventure drama, which will air every Sunday night on TNT.
Premiering on Thursday, May 29, is the Prime Video limited series The Better Sister created by Olivia Milch & Regina Corrado based on Alafair Burke’s book and starring Jessica Biel, Elizabeth Banks, Corey Stoll, Matthew Modine, Kim Dickens, Gloria Reuben, Maxwell Acee Donovan, Gabriel Sloyer, Bobby Naderi and Lorraine Toussaint. Will Bates (Immaculate, Dumb Money, The Magicians, The Life List, Unbelievable, Away, I Origins, The Path, The Looming Tower) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the 8-part crime thriller, which will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Pemberton & Adem Ilhan Scoring HBO’s ‘The Mortician’
Posted: May 25, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Adem Ilhan, Daniel Pemberton, HBO, Joshua Rofé, The Mortician
Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into/Across the Spider-Verse, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Enola Holmes, Steve Jobs, Birds of Prey) and Adem Ilhan ((Avenue 5, In the Loop, The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Beautiful Game) have teamed up to score the new HBO original documentary series The Mortician. The show is directed by Joshua Rofé (Sasquatch, Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed) and centers on the Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena that hid behind a façade of decency and propriety to take advantage of loved ones at their most vulnerable moments in the early 1980s. The 3-parter features interviews with families of the funeral home’s victims, former employees, as well as David Sconce, scion of the Lamb family, newly released from prison, who tells his side of the story. Read the rest of this entry »
’37 Seconds’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: 37 Seconds, Clément Tery, score, Soundtrack
B Original has released a soundtrack album for the French limited series 37 Seconds (37 Secondes). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Clément Tery (Drone Games, Coka Chicas, The Hunted, Deep Fear, Les papillons noirs, Maroni). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s “epilogue” and end credits tracks below. 37 Seconds is created by Anne Landois & Sophie Kovess-Brun and stars Nina Meurisse, Mathieu Demy, Jonas Bloquet, Léonie Simaga, Anna Cervinka and Laurent Poitreneaux. The 6-part drama directed by Laure de Butler revisits the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the Bugaled Breizh, a Breton trawler that suddenly sank off the English coast in 2014, causing the death of its five sailors. Read the rest of this entry »
Digital Version of Cliff Eidelman’s ‘My Girl 2’ Orchestral Suite Released
Posted: May 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cliff Eidelman, Howard Zieff, My Girl 2
Sony Classical has released a digital single featuring the orchestral suite from the 1994 comedy drama My Girl 2 directed by Howard Zieff and starring Anna Chlumsky, Austin O’Brien, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. The track written and conducted by the film’s composer Cliff Eidelman (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, He’s Just Not That Into You, One True Thing, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) is making its streaming debut and is now available on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. The suite has previously been included on the original soundtrack album (featuring the songs from the movie), which was released on CD by Epic Soundtrax in early 1994. Also listen to the full track after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
