Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1975 classic Jaws directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Murray Hamilton and Lorraine Gary. The 3-CD set features the the film’s original music composed and conducted by Academy Award winner John Williams (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler’s List, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), including a remastered version of both the original score and the original soundtrack recording on the first two discs, as well as alternate and source cues, including the new track Theme From Jaws (Variation) and a never-before-heard section in Main Title and Beach Attacks, on the third disc. The album is now available to order on the Intrada’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and find out more information about the release. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Jaws’ 50th Anniversary Special Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: August 25, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jaws, John Williams, score, Soundtrack, Steven Spielberg
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring Netflix’s ‘Black Rabbit’
Posted: August 25, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Black Rabbit, Danny Bensi, Netflix, Saunder Jurriaans
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Speak No Evil, The Outsider, Enemy, Smoke, The Gift, The Staircase, Boy Erased, The White Tiger, Tokyo Vice) have composed the original music for the upcoming Netflix limited series Black Rabbit. The show is created by Zach Baylin (King Richard, Creed III) & Kate Susman and stars Jude Law, Jason Bateman, Cleopatra Coleman, Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù, Troy Kotsur and Amaka Okafor. The 8-part thriller follows a rising-star restaurateur who is forced into New York’s criminal underworld ,when his chaotic brother returns to town with loan sharks on his trail. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Built in Birmingham: Brady & the Blues’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 25, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Built in Birmingham: Brady & the Blues, Paul Saunderson, score, Soundtrack
First Artists Recordings has released a soundtrack album for the Prime Video original documentary series Built in Birmingham: Brady & the Blues. The album features the show’s original music composed by Paul Saunderson (Three Identical Strangers, Trying, Fight or Flight, Love at First Sight, Human, Picture This, The More You Ignore Me, The Grand Duke of Corsica, Starfish). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Built in Birmingham: Brady & the Blues is directed by Gotham Chopra & Claudia Corbisiero and follows the Birmingham City Football Club through the 2024/25 season after its purchase by NFL icon Tom Brady and billionaire Tom Wagner as a new ownership group suffer relegation and multiple managerial changes en route to a record-breaking season. Read the rest of this entry »
Anton Sanko Scoring Prime Video’s ‘Hotel Costiera’
Posted: August 25, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Anton Sanko, Hotel Costiera
Anton Sanko (The Possession, Rabbit Hole, Big Love, Ouija, The Silent Hour, The Half of It, Fractured) has been tapped to score the upcoming Prime Video original series Hotel Costiera. The show is directed by Adam Bernstein (The Sinner, Before) & Giacomo Martel (In ascolto) and stars Jesse Williams, Maria Chiara Giannetta, Jordan Alexandra, Sam Haygarth, Antonio Gerardi, Tommaso Ragno, Pierpaolo Spollon, Amanda Campana, Alejandra Onieva and Jean-Hugues Anglade. The 6-part action drama written by Elena Bucaccio, Matthew Parkhill (Rogue, Deep State) & Francesco Arlanch based on an idea by Luca Bernabei revolves around a half Italian former U.S. Marine who returns to his childhood home of Italy as a fixer in one of the world’s most luxurious hotels, located on the coastline of Positano, where he is also on the trail of one of the owner’s daughters who disappeared a month earlier. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Scarab Flies at Dusk’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 25, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: score, Sindre Hotvedt, Soundtrack, The Scarab Flies at Dusk, Tordyveln flyger i skymningen
Music Super Circus has released a soundtrack album for the Swedish limited series The Scarab Flies at Dusk (Tordyveln flyger i skymningen). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Sindre Hotvedt (Trio, The Snow Siser, Orps: The Movie). 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 and Emelie’s Song – Finale (co-written with and performed by Ane Brun) below. The Scarab Flies at Dusk is written by Ditta Bongenhielm & Lovisa Milles based on the classic novel of the same title by Maria Gripe and stars Hjalmar Löfmark Yilmaz, Moa Nåsander, Einar Alvarado Lönberg, Tomas von Brömsse, Pernilla August, Dag Malmberg and Lena Endre. The 8-part family adventure directed by Atle Knudsen is set in a small Swedish town during the summer of 1976 and follows three children who are drawn into a mystery involving a cursed Egyptian statue, which has been hidden for centuries. Read the rest of this entry »
Grégoire Hetzel Scoring Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘Two Pianos’
Posted: August 25, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Arnaud Desplechin, Deux Pianos, Gregoire Hetzel, Two Pianos
Composer Grégoire Hetzel (Incendies, Summertime, The Midwife, The Innocent) is reuniting with director Arnaud Desplechin (Esther Khan, Jimmy P.) on the upcoming French romantic drama Two Pianos (Deux Pianos). The film starring François Civil, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Charlotte Rampling & Hippolyte Girardot follows a pianist who returns to France after a long exile and reunites with his mentor to prepare a concert, when he encounters a child who looks just like him. Desplechin also co-wrote the screenplay with Kamen Velkovsky. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 24, 2025)
Posted: August 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, AMC, Andrea Balency-Béarn, BritBox, CJ Mirra, Clint Mansell, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story, Netflix, Playing Nice, Ruth Barrett, Terence Blanchard, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf
Premiering in the U.S. on Tuesday, August 26, is the British limited series Playing Nice developed by Grace Ofori-Attah based on JP Delaney’s bestselling novel and starring James Norton, Niamh Algar, Jessica Brown Findlay and James McArdle. The show’s original music is composed by Clint Mansell (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, Moon, The Fountain, Noah, The Wrestler, Peacemaker, Loving Vincent, Doom Patrol). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the 4-part psychological thriller, which premiered in the UK earlier this year on ITV and is making its U.S. debut on BritBox.
Premiering on Wednesday, August 27, is the Prime Video original series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf created by Jack Carr & David DiGilio and starring Chris Pratt, Taylor Kitsch, Luke Hemsworth, Tom Hopper, Dar Salim, Shiraz Tzarfati, Rona-Lee Shimon, Robert Wisdom and Jared Shaw. Ruth Barrett (Bodyguard, The Decameron, The Old Guard 2, Victoria, Harry Brown, Collateral, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Sanditon) who previously scored the original The Terminal List series has composed the show’s original music. Click here for more information about the prequel, which will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video. Read the rest of this entry »
Högni Egilsson Scoring BBC’s ‘King & Conqueror’
Posted: August 24, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Baltasar Kormakur, BBC, Högni Egilsson, King & Conqueror
Högni Egilsson (Touch, Under the Tree, Against the Current) has composed the original score for the new BBC drama King & Conqueror. The show is created by Michael Robert Johnson (Sherlock Holmes, Pompeii) and stars James Norton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emily Beecham, Eddie Marsan, Clémence Poésy, Juliet Stevenson, Clare Holman, Bo Bragason, Luther Ford and Indy Lewis. The 8-part historical drama tells the story of Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy, two allies who were destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown. Read the rest of this entry »
‘RoboDoc’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Griffiths, Eastwood Allen, RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop, score, Sean Schafer Hennessy, Soundtrack
Sean Schafer Hennessy (The Lazarus Papers, Pennywise: The Story of IT, The Trouble with the Truth, The Id) has released a soundtrack album for the documentary series RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop. The album features selections of the composer’s original music from the show and is now available to stream/download on Amazon or any other major digital music services. Also listen to the first two tracks after the jump. RoboDoc is directed by Eastwood Allen & Christopher Griffiths and takes an in-depth look into the groundbreaking franchise. The 4-parter features new interviews with cast and crew, including RoboCop director Verhoeven, actors Peter Weller, Diane Robin, Ronny Cox, Nancy Allen, Ray Wise & others. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 22, 2025)
Posted: August 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Atli Orvarsson, Carter Burwell, Dabney Morris, David Wingo, Dongji Rescue, Eden, Frederik Wiedmann, Hans Zimmer, Hollywood Grit, Honey Don't!, Isom Innis, Joe Stockton, Kenny Beats, Lurker, Nick Gomez, Primitive War, Relay, Splitsville, The Thursday Murder Club, Thomas Newman, Tom Schraeder, Tony Doogan, Trust, We're Not Safe Here
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the comedy Honey Don’t! co-written and directed by Ethan Coen and starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Charlie Day and Billy Eichner. The film’s original score is composed by Carter Burwell (Carol, Fargo, The Banshees of Inisherin, True Grit, The Blind Side, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Twilight, Anomalisa). Shadow of the City has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music, original songs written by Jack Antonoff & Coen and other songs from the movie today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Focus Features release.
Also opening wide is the thriller Relay directed by David Mackenzie and starring Riz Ahmed, Lily James, Sam Worthington and Willa Fitzgerald. Tony Doogan (Starred Up, Outlaw Kings) has composed the film’s original music. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as songs by Bush Tetras & Karen Marks, Kenneth James Gibson & Alison Cotton today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Bleecker Street. Read the rest of this entry »
