Premiering tonight is the HBO limited series The Regime created by Will Tracy, directed by Stephen Frears & Jessica Hobbs and starring Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton, Guillaume Gallienne and Hugh Grant.  The show’s original music is composed by Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water, The King’s SpeechHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) & Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Queen of Katwe, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Touching the Void). WaterTower Music will release a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score in the coming weeks. Click here to learn more about the 6-part satire, which will air Sundays on HBO and will also be available to stream on Max.

Premiering tomorrow, March 4, is the National Geographic original documentary series Queens narrated by Angela Bassett and produced by Wildstar Films. Morgan Kibby (The Watcher, The Power, Mothering SundayGirls of the Sun, Wilderness, Grand Army,  Tales of the Walking Dead) has composed the show’s original music. Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score and the main title song Umi,by Alewya this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the series, which will air Mondays on National Geographic and will also be available to stream on Hulu and Disney+. Read the rest of this entry »

Composer Dave Palmer is reteaming with director Peter Farrelly (Green BookDumb and Dumber) on the new comedy Ricky Stanicky. The film starring Zac Efron, John Cena, Jermaine Fowler, Andrew Santino, Lex Scott Davis, Jeff Ross, Anja Savcic & William H. Macy follows three childhood best friends who invented the imaginary title character to get them out of trouble after they pull a prank gone wrong, but when their partners become suspicious, they have to hire a washed-up actor to portray their fictional friend. Tom Wolfe & Manish Raval serve as the movie’s music supervisors. Read the rest of this entry »

The team behind the sound mixing of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures – Live Action category at tonight’s 60th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Scoring mixer Chris Fogel, along with production mixer Willie D. Burton, re-recording mixerx Gary A. Rizzo & Kevin O’Connell and foley mixers Tavish Grade, Jack Cucci &Mikel Parraga-Wills received the award for the film scored by Ludwig Göransson. In the Motion Pictures – Animated category, scoring mixer Sam Okell was honored as part of the sound mixing team of Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (scored by Daniel Pemberton). Read the rest of this entry »

Netflix Music has released a new soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary series Full Swing. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Jeff Garber (Virgin River, Nancy DrewThe Company You KeepNo Sleep ‘Til Christmas). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to several tracks from the composer’s score below. The label has previously released a soundtrack featuring H. Scott Salinas’ score from Season 1 last year. Full Swing is executive produced by Vox Media Studios’ Chad Mumm & Mark W. Olsen & Box to Box Films’ Paul Martin, James Gay-Rees & Warren Smith and follows a diverse group of professional golfers – both returning favorites and new faces – on and off the course across a relentless season of competition on the PGA TOUR. Read the rest of this entry »

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Josh Brolin, Christopher Walken, Dave Bautista, Léa Seydoux and Javier Bardem. The film’s original music composed by Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight, Inception, The Lion KingGladiator, Pirates of the CaribbeanInterstellarThe Last Samurai). WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last Friday. Check out our previous news article for the full album details and to learn more about the Warner Bros. Pictures release.

Opening in Los Angeles and New York today before expanding to more markets in the coming weeks is the comedy Problemista written and directed by Julio Torres and starring Torres himself, Tilda Swinton, Greta Lee, RZA, James Scully, Isabella Rossellini and Catalina Saavedra. Robert Ouyang Rusli (aka OHYUNG) (Test PatternBruiser) has composed the film’s original music. A24 Music will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score on March 15. Check out our soundtrack announcement from last summer (when the movie was originally set to be released) for the full album details and for more information about the A24 release. Read the rest of this entry »

Netflix Music has released the cover version of Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire from the Netflix original film Damsel. The track is produced (with Andrew Sarlo) and performed by Lykke Li is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. A full soundtrack album featuring David Fleming’s original score from the movie will be coming out next week. Damsel is directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and stars Millie Bobby Brown, Angela Bassett, Robin Wright,Shohreh Aghdashloo, Nick Robinson, Brooke Carter and Ray Winstone, . Read the rest of this entry »

La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1986 action classic Top Gun directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt. The 2-CD set features the world premiere release of the film’s original score composed by Harold Faltermeyer (Beverly Hills Cop, Fletch, The Running Man, Thief of Hearts, Cop Out, Tango & Cash) on the first disc, and the songs from the movie, including Kenny Loggins’ Danger Zone and Berlin’s Academy Award-winning Take My Breath Away, on the second disc. The soundtrack, which is limited to 5,000 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples. Columbia Records has previously released the original 1986 soundtrack album and an expanded version in 1999 featuring the songs and two tracks from Faltermeyer’s score. Read the rest of this entry »

Hollywood Records has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for the 2010 sci-fi horror movie Predators directed by Nimrod Antal and starring Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Walton Goggins and Laurence Fishburne. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, The Jungle Book, Iron Man 2, Elf, Hocus Pocus, Bruce Almighty). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. La-La Land Records has previously released a CD version when the movie opened in theaters in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Justin Burnett (9-1-1: Lone StarJava Heat, Unit 13) is the composer of the upcoming horror trilogy The Strangers. The feature films series based on Bryan Bertino’s 2008 movie of the same title is directed by Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) and stars Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez, Rachel Shenton, Gabriel Basso, Richard Brake, Ema Horvath and Ella Bruccoleri. The first installment follows a young couple who are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin in an eerie small town after their car breaks down, when they they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive. Read the rest of this entry »

Netflix Music has released a soundtrack EP for the French Netflix original series Furies. The 6-track EP features selections of the show’s original music composed by Guillaume Roussel (Black Beauty, 3 Days to Kill, Expend4blesLift, The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan & Milday, The Spy, Happy!). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also check out the composer’s main title track below. Furies is created by Jean-Yves Arnaud & Yoann Legave and stars Lina El Arabi, Marina Foïs, Mathieu Kassovitz, Steve Tientcheu, Jeremy Nadeau and Sandor Funtek. The crime drama follows a young woman seeking to avenge her father’s death who becomes entangled in the web of the Fury, peacekeeper of the Paris criminal underworld. Read the rest of this entry »