Milan Records has released the second soundtrack album for the HBO original series Dune: Prophecy. The album features the original music from the final episodes of the show’s first season composed by Academy Award winner Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet on the Western Front, Lion, Conclave, Hotel Mumbai, The Day of the Jackal, Adrift, The Old Guard). The Volume 2 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. The label has previously released the Volume 1 soundtrack last month and has also just released an album featuring both volumes combined. Dune: Prophecy is developed by Alison Schapker & Diane Ademu-John inspired by the novel Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson and stars Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Travis Fimmel, Mark Strong, Jodhi May, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Chloe Lea, Josh Heuston, Jade Anouka and Faoileann Cunningham. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dune: Prophecy’ Volume 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 7, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Dune: Prophecy, HBO, score, Soundtrack, Volker Bertelmann
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 6, 2024)
Posted: December 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aaron Zigman, Alexandre Desplat, Ben MacDiarmid, Corey Wallace, Danny Bensi, Day of the Fight, F*** Marry Kill, Get Away, Hybrid, Jed Kurzel, Joshua Schmidt, Lake George, Marius de Vries, Nate Heller, Nightbitch, Oh Canada, Phosphorescent, Rachel Portman, René G. Boscio, Saunder Jurriaans, The End, The Newton Brothers, The Order, The Return, The Six Triple Eight, Unstoppable, Werewolves, Y2K
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the comedy Y2K co-written and directed by Kyle Mooney and starring Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Lachlan Watson, Daniel Zolghadri, Mason Gooding and The Kid Laroi. Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, Enemy, Speak No Evil, The White Tiger, The Outsider, The Staircase, The Gift, Tokyo Vice) have composed the film’s original music. No soundtrack album has been announced. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the movie, which premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival and is being released by A24.
Also opening wide is the horror thriller Werewolves directed by Steven C. Miller and starring Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, James Michael Cummings, Ilfenesh Hadera and Lou Diamond Phillips. The Newton Brothers (X-Men ’97, The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Forever Purge, The Fall of the House of Usher) have composed the film’s original music. No word on a soundtrack release. Click here for more information about the movie, which is being distributed by Briarcliff Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Darling Lili’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: December 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Blake Edwards, Darling Lili, Henry Mancini, score, Soundtrack
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1970 “musical” romantic comedy Darling Lili co-written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Michael Witney and Jacques Marin. The album features the original songs from the film written by Academy Award winner Henry Mancini (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Pink Panther, The Thorn Birds, Santa Claus: The Movie, Charade, Lifeforce) and featuring lyrics by Johnny Mercer, as well as demos played by Mercer before filming that include two unused songs, as well as instrumental versions of the songs. Also included is the premiere release of Mancini’s complete original underscore from the movie. Mancini & Mercer received two Academy Award nominations (for the original song Whistling Away the Dark and the “song score”). The 2-CD set is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘No Good Deed’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Netflix, No Good Deed, score, Siddhartha Khosla, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original series No Good Deed. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Emmy Award winner Siddhartha Khosla (Only Murders in the Building, This Is Us, The Idea of You, Rabbit Hole, Welcome to Chippendales, A Family Affair, Your Place or Mine, Looking for Alaska). Also included are two songs written and performed by Rachel Cantu. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to Khosla’s first two tracks and both songs below. No Good Deed is created by Liz Feldman and stars Lisa Kudrow, Ray Romano, Linda Cardellini, O-T Fagbenle, Abbi Jacobson, Poppy Liu, Denis Leary and Teyonah Parris. The dramedy revolves around the sale of a couple’s picture-perfect Los Angeles home that forces them to face painful family secrets – and hide them from cutthroat buyers and prying eyes. Read the rest of this entry »
New Soundtrack Album for Blake Edwards’ ‘The Pink Panther’ Announced
Posted: December 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Blake Edwards, Henry Mancini, score, Soundtrack, The Pink Panther
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the original 1964 The Pink Panther movie co-written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Claudia Cardinale and Capucine. The album features the premiere release of the original film tracks of the comedy’s original score composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Henry Mancini (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Santa Claus: The Movie, The Thorn Birds, Charade, Lifeforce), the original song It Had Better Be Tonight (Meglio Stasera) written by Mancini & Johnny Mercer and performed by Fran Jeffries, as well as alternate versions and unused music. Also included is a remastered version of the original RCA soundtrack album, which Mancini recorded with new arrangements. The 2-CD set, which is being released to coincide with the movie’s 60th anniversary, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Six Triple Eight’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Aaron Zigman, Netflix, score, Soundtrack, The Six Triple Eight, Tyler Perry
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original film The Six Triple Eight. The album features the movie’s original score composed by Aaron Zigman (The Notebook, The Proposal, Bridge to Terabithia,Sex and the City, John Q, Wakefield, Escape from Planet Earth, The Ugly Truth). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Trenches) below and click here to check out the project’s music team credits. The Six Triple Eight is written and directed by Perry and stars Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Milauna Jackson, Kylie Jefferson, Shanice Shantay, Sarah Jeffery, Gregg Sulkin,Pepi Sonuga, Scott Daniel Johnson, Dean Norris, Susan Sarandon, Sam Waterston and Oprah Winfrey. The historical drama is inspired by the first and only Women’s Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in World War II and tells the story of an army captain who leads her historic battalion as they face a mission unlike any other: to restore hope to WWII’s frontlines by delivering over 17 million backlogged letters. Read the rest of this entry »
First Songs from ‘A Complete Unknown’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Complete Unknown, James Mangold, Timothee Chalamet
Columbia Records has released two first tracks from the soundtrack for the biographical drama A Complete Unknown. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is a digital single featuring the Bob Dylan songs Girl from the North Country performed by Timothée Chalamet & Monica Barbaro and Like a Rolling Stone performed by Chalamet. Also listen to both tracks (produced by Nick Baxter) below. A full soundtrack album will be released digitally on December 25 and on vinyl on January 24, 2025. Visit Amazon to pre-order the vinyl edition and check back on this page for the full album details. A CD version (to be released in early 2025) is also in the works will be available to order here within the next couple of days. A Complete Unknown is directed by James Mangold and stars Timothée Chalamet (as Bob Dylan), Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The End’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Joshua Oppenheimer, Joshua Schmidt, Marius de Vries, score, Soundtrack, The End
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the movie musical The End. The album features the film’s original songs written by Joshua Schmidt, with lyrics by director Joshua Oppenheimer and performed by cast members including Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Bronagh Gallagher, Lennie James, Tim McInnerny & Michael Shannon, as well as the original score composed by Schmidt and Marius de Vries (Coda, Kick-Ass, Strange Magic, Navalny) who also serves as an executive producer on the project. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to Schmidt’s “overture”, the first song (A Wonderful Gift) and score track (Son) after the jump. The End co-written and directed by Oppenheimer is set 25 years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable and follows a family who are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life – until the arrival of a stranger upends their happy routine. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Julian Nott, Lorne Balfe, Merlin Crossingham, Netflix, Nick Park, score, Soundtrack, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Sony Masterworks will release the official soundtrack album for Aardman Animations’ feature Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Black Adam, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, Bad Boys for Life, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, His Dark Materials) and Julian Nott who previously scored the original Wallace & Gromit shorts and the first feature, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Also included is vocal track from the Norbots and an 8-bit version of Nott’s classic theme. The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, December 13 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The composers’ title track is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is directed by Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham and stars Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel, Diane Morgan, Reece Shearsmith, Muzz Khan, Adjoa Andoh and Lenny Henry. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Children’s Train’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 6, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cristina Comencini, Il Treno dei Bambini, Nicola Piovani, score, Soundtrack, The Children's Train
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original film The Children’s Train (Il Treno dei Bambini). The album features the movie’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Nicola Piovani (Life Is Beautiful, The Tiger and the Snow, The Traitor, The Best Years, Pinocchio, Hungry Hearts). 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 after the jump. The Children’s Train is directed by Cristina Comencini and stars Barbara Ronchi, Serena Rossi, Christian Cervone, Francesco Di Leva, Stefano Accorsi and Antonia Truppo. The drama based on Viola Ardone’s novel of the same title is set in late 1940s Italy and tells the story of a mother who makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty. Read the rest of this entry »
