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 »
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
‘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 »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 30, 2025)
Posted: May 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Bring Her Back, Christopher Wong, Cornel Wilczek, Detective Kien: The Headless Horror, Dominic Lewis, Garrett Crosby, Ghost Trail, Ian Rees, Jed Kurzel, Karate Kid: Legends, Lost in Starlight, Ocean with David Attenborough, Steven Price, The Phoenician Scheme, Tornado, Yuksek
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the martial arts action adventure Karate Kid: Legends directed by Jonathan Entwistle and starring Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, Ben Wang, Sadie Stanley, Ming-Na Wen and Joshua Jackson. The film’s original music is composed by Dominic Lewis (The Fall Guy, Bullet Train, The Man in the High Castle, Money Monster, Your Friends & Neighbors,The King’s Man, Violent Night, Spirited). Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Sony Pictures release.
Also opening nationwide today is the upcoming supernatural horror thriller Bring Her Back directed by Danny & Michael Philippou and starring Sally Hawkins, Billy Barrat, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips and Sally-Anne Upton. Cornel Wilczek (Talk to Me, Apple Cider Vinegar, Together, Clickbait, Nowhere Boys, These Final Hours, Glitch, The Mule, Cut Snake) has composed the film’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced soon. Click here to check out the project’s music team credits and visit our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the A24 release. Read the rest of this entry »
Alf Clausen (1941-2025)
Posted: May 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alf Clausen
Alf Clausen passed away yesterday at age 84 at his home in Los Angeles after battling Parkinson’s disease. The composer is best known for his music for the Fox animated hit show The Simpsons, which he scored between 1990 and 2017 and for which he received two Emmy Awards and 23 Emmy Award nominations. His other scoring credits include ACB’s Moonlighting, for which he received six additional Emmy Award nominations, the NBC sitcom ALF, the ABC/Fox adult animated series The Critic, the CBS sitcom Bette, as well as the 1998 feature comedy Half Baked. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe Scoring BBC’s & Disney+’s ‘The War Between the Land and the Sea’
Posted: May 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Disney Plus, Doctor Who, Lorne Balfe, The War Between the Land and the Sea
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Black Widow, The Wheel of Time, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Top Gun: Maverick) is scoring the upcoming BBC/Disney+ drama The War Between the Land and the Sea. The first Doctor Who spin-off series is written by Russell T Davies (Doctor Who, Torchwood) & Pete McTighe (A Discovery of Witches, The Pact) and stars Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ruth Madeley, Colin McFarlane, Jemma Redgrave and Alexander Devrient. The 5-parter directed by Dylan Holmes Williams follows the international military organization UNIT who step into action when a fearsome and ancient species emerges from the ocean, dramatically revealing themselves to humanity. Read the rest of this entry »
Tate McRae’s Song ‘Just Keep Watching’ from ‘F1’ Released
Posted: May 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: F1, Joseph Kosinski, Tate McRae
Atlantic Records has released the sixth track from the soundtrack for the sports action drama F1. Available to stream/download on all major digital music services is Just Keep Watching co-written (with Ryan Tedder, Tyler Spry & Amy Allen) and performed by Tate McRae. Also check out the official music video after the jump. The label has previously released five first songs (by Don Toliver feat. Doja Cat, Rosé, Dom Dolla feat. Nathan Nicholson, Chris Stapleton & Myke Towers) over the last couple weeks and will release the full F1 The Album on June 27 (check out our previous article for the album details). F1 is directed by Joseph Kosinski and stars Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Damson Idris and Kim Bodnia. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lost in Starlight’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: 1Of1, Han Ji-won, Lost in Starlight, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
YG PLUS has released a soundtrack album for Netflix’s first-ever Korean original animated film Lost in Starlight. The album features the songs from the movie performed by artists such as CIFIKA, Meego, John Park and Wave to Earth’s Kim Daniel. Also included is the film’s original score composed by 1of1. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to several songs and the first score track below. Lost in Starlight is directed by Han Ji-won and features voice performances by Kim Tae-ri and Hong Kyung, The animated sci-fi romance is set in Seoul in 2050 and tells the romantic tale of an aspiring Mars astronaut and a reluctant musician. Read the rest of this entry »
World Premiere Release of Ira Newborn’s ‘BASEketball’ Score Announced
Posted: May 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: BASEketball, David Zucker, Ira Newborn, score, Soundtrack
Enjoy the Ride Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1998 comedy BASEketball co-written and directed by David Zucker and starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Ernest Borgnine and Robert Vaughn. The album features the premiere release of the film’s original score composed by Ira Newborn (The Naked Gun, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Uncle Buck). Also included are four songs by the ska punk band Reel Big Fish, Supersuckers’ Psyched Out, as well as the previously unreleased song Warts On Your Dick written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The soundtrack is being released as a limited vinyl edition in different variants and is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can find out more information about the release. Mojo Trax has previously released the original 1998 soundtrack album featuring the songs from the movie. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Lulu Is a Rhinoceros’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Jina Hyojin An, Leland, Lulu Is a Rhinoceros, Shirley Song
Republic Records has released a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ animated special Lulu Is a Rhinoceros. The album features the original songs from the Propagate Content & Bento Box Animation production written by Leland (aka Brett McLaughlin) and performed by voice cast members Auliʻi Cravalho, Alex Newell, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Dulé Hill and Paul Rust. Also included is a score suite by the special’s composers Jina Hyojin An & Shirley Song (XO, Kitty, The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star, A Tourist’s Guide to Love, BE@RBRICK, Exploding Kittens). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the first and final song, as well as the score suite below. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Mr. Burton’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: May 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Hardy, Marc Evans, Mr. Burton, score, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the British biographical drama Mr. Burton. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Hardy (Hidden, A Dark Place, Tree on a Hill, Steel Country, Hegus, Hinterland) and performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 13 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s end credits track below. Mr. Burton is directed by Marc Evans and stars Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey and Lesley Manville. The movie and tells the true story of the the relationship between Welsh schoolmaster Philip Burton and a wild young schoolboy called Richard Jenkins, later to become the world-famous screen legend Richard Burton. Read the rest of this entry »
