Decca Records has announced the premiere vinyl release of the soundtrack album for the 2005 drama Pride and Prejudice directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Jena Malone, Penelope Wilton and Judi Dench. The album, which is being released to coincide with the movie’s 20th anniversary, features the film’s Academy Award-nominated original score composed by Dario Marianelli (Atonement, Darkest Hour, Anna Karenina,V for Vendetta, Kubo and the Two Strings, Ghostbusters: Frozen EmpireBumblebee), performed by pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the English Chamber Orchestra. The soundtrack will be released on June 27 as a standard vinyl re-issue of the original soundtrack with original artwork, as well as a newly designed limited “deluxe” edition vinyl housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket featuring a 16-page booklet with rare photos. Visit Amazon to pre-oder the deluxe edition and click here to order the standard issue. Read the rest of this entry »

Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the South Korean Netflix original series Dear Hongrang. The album features three songs from the show by 4BOUT, Kwon Jin Ah & Tejong, as well as score tracks by composers including Choe Jeong In, Kim Yeon Jeong, Yoon Chae Young, Julia Jung Un Suh and Park Jung Eun. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to several tracks from the album below. Dear Hongrang is created by Kim Hong-sun & Kim Jin-a and stars Lee Jae-wook, Cho Bo-ah, Jung Ga-ram, Park Byung-eun, Uhm Ji-won and Kim Jae-uck. The mystery romance period drama follows the son of a powerful Joseon merchant who went missing as a child. When he returns to his stepsister as a grown man with no memory of his past, she accuses him of being an imposter and refuses to believe he is her long-lost brother. Read the rest of this entry »

Atlantic Records has released the third track from the soundtrack for the sports action drama F1. Available to stream/download on all major digital music services is No Room for a Saint co-written (with Toby Scott) and performed by Dom Dolla feat. Nathan Nicholson. Also listen to the track after the jump. The label has previously released two first songs (Lose My Mind by Don Toliver feat. Doja Cat & Messy by Blackpink’s Rosé) over the last few weeks and will release the full F1 The Album on June 27 (click here for the details of the album). 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 »

Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album for the British Disney+/Freeform limited series The Stolen Girl. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Ben Onono (Missing YouHalf of a Yellow Sun, Safe, Ridley RoadSpell, Paranoid, Trust Me). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Lulu Rose) after the jump. The Stolen Girl is developed by Catherine Moulton based on Alex Dahl’s bestselling novel Playdate, directed by Eva Husson and stars Holliday Grainger, Denise Gough, Ambika Mod, Jim Sturgess, Michael Workéyè and Bronagh Waugh. The 5-part psychological drama follows a couple whose mundane existence spirals into chaos when their daughter goes missing after what appears to be a normal sleepover with a school friend and the mother is forced to embark on a chase across Europe to discover the truth about her disappearance. Read the rest of this entry »

Partisan Records & Mushroom Music have released a digital single featuring two songs from the comedy Sister Midnight: cover versions of Iggy Pop’s (and The Stooges’) Gimme Danger & Sister Midnight performed by lead singer of the rock band Interpol Paul Banks who also composed the film’s original score. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the single and also check out the official music videos for both tracks after the jump. A 7″ vinyl housed in single sleeve will be released on September 5. Sister Midnight is written and directed by Karan Kandhari and stars Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Dev Raaz and Chhaya Kadaam. Read the rest of this entry »

Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album for the British Disney+/Hulu limited series Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award nominee Martin Phipps (The CrownNapoleon, Victoria, The Honourable Woman, Woman in Gold, War & Peace, The Aftermath, Peaky Blinders) and Dan Jeffries. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ “epilogue” track after the jump. Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is written by Jeff Pope, directed by Paul Andrew Williams and stars Edison Alcaide, Conleth Hill, Max Beesley, Emily Mortimer, Daniel Mays, Russell Tovey, Laura Aikman and Alex Jennings. Read the rest of this entry »

Charles Strouse (1928-2025)

Posted: May 15, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Charles Strouse passed away today at age 96 at his home in New York. The composer/lyricist, best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as Bye Bye Birdie, Annie & Applause, has also composed numerous songs and scores for film and television. His scoring credits include Arthur Penn’s 1967 classic Bonnie and Clyde, for which he received a Grammy Award nomination, as well as Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1970 western There Was a Crooked Man…, William Friedkin’s 1968 musical comedy The Night They Raided Minsky’s and Sidney Lumet’s 1980 comedy Just Tell Me What You Want. He also co-wrote Those Were the Days, the theme song for the  sitcom All in the Family, and penned original songs for Don Bluth’s 1989 animated classic All Dogs Go to Heaven. Strouse was honored with a Primetime Emmy Award for the song Let’s Settle Down (written with Lee Adams) for 1995’s television adaptation of Bye Bye Birdie. Read the rest of this entry »

Composer, performer and violinist Paris Hurley (aka Object As Subject) has made her feature scoring debut on the upcoming drama The Chronology of Water. The film marks actress Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut and stars Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Charles Carrick, Tom Sturridge, Esme Creed Miles, Susanna Flood, Kim Gordon, Michael Epp and Jim Belushi. The movie is based on Lidia Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller and follows the author’s journey to find her own voice in an “exploration of how trauma can be transformed into art through re-possessing our own bloody histories.” Read the rest of this entry »

Dragon’s Domain Records has announced two new soundtrack albums featuring classic scores composed by Honorary Academy Award winner Lalo Schifrin (Mission: Impossible, Enter the Dragon, Dirty Harry, Rush HourBullit, Cool Hand LukeThe Amityville Horror). Making its CD debut is the composer’s (newly remastered) original score from the Emmy Award-nominated 1968 television documentary The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich directed by Jack Kaufman, performed by members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Lawrence Foster. Visit the label’s official website to order the limited edition CD and to learn more about the release. The other new title is a remastered version of the soundtrack for the British 1989 war drama Return from the River Kwai directed by Andrew McLaglen and starring Edward Fox, Chris Penn and Timothy Bottoms featuring the film’s original music composed and conducted by Schifrin and performed by the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra. Read the rest of this entry »

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series Murderbot. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Amanda Jones (NaomiMea Culpa, Super/NaturalGood Trouble, Emperor of Ocean Park, The Perfect FindYoung Love). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 16 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s main title track below. Murderbot is created by Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz based on the best-selling book series of the same title by Martha Wells and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones and Tamara Podemski. The sci-fi comedic thriller is set in a high-tech future and revolves around a rogue security robot who secretly gains free will and – in order to stay hidden – reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous plane. Read the rest of this entry »