Nigerian singer/songwriter and record producer Tems will serve as the executive music producer of the soundtrack for the film adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone. Burna Boy is the executive music consultant of the movie co-written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King, Love & Basketball) and staring Thuso Mbedu, Damson Idris, Amandla Stenberg, Tosin Cole, Cynthia Erivo, Zackary Momoh, Idris Elba, Lashana Lynch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Regina Kin and Viola Davis. Original songs by both artists are featured in the film’s first trailer, which is embedded below. Read the rest of this entry »
Tems to Serve as Executive Music Producer of ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Soundtrack
Posted: July 28, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Burrna Boy, Children of Blood and Bone, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Tems
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‘The Call of the Toad’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 28, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Richard G. Mitchell, Robert Glinski, score, Soundtrack, The Call of the Toad, Unkenrufe
Bucks Records has released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2005 German/Polish romantic period drama The Call of the Toad (Unkenrufe) directed by Robert Gliński, based on the novel of the same title by Günter Grass and starring Matthias Habich and Krystyna Janda . The album features the film’s original score composed by Richard G. Mitchell (A Good Woman, Moby Dick, Oddity, To Kill a King, Born American, Grand Theft Parsons, Basil) and performed by the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tadeusz Karolak. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s opening credits track after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Nami Melumad Scoring Lauren Miller Rogen’s ‘Babies’
Posted: July 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Babies, Lauren Miller Rogen, Nami Melumad
Nami Melumad (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds & Prodigy, Thor: Love and Thunder, Dream Productions, Absentia, One Fast Move, An American Pickle, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window) has recently composed the music for the upcoming comedy Babies. The film is directed by Lauren Miller Rogen (Like Father, For a Good Time, Call…) and stars Anna Kendrick, Seth Rogen, Issa Rae, Dan Stevens, Zach Cherry, Sharon Stone, David Strathairn, Ed Helms, Ashley Park and Kate Berlant. The movie follows a couple struggling with the decision of whether or not to bring a child into the world who become instant co-parents when their newly-divorced friend moves into their home with her 4-year-old. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sons of Summer’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: July 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Clive Fleury, Mark J D'Angelo, score, Sons of Summer, Soundtrack
Mark D’Angelo (Crazy About You, Wog Boys Forever, Careless, The Nut Farm) has released a soundtrack album for the crime thriller Sons of Summer. The album features the composer’s original music from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to a track from D’Angelo’s score after the jump. Sons of Summer is directed by Clive Fleury and stars Temuera Morrison, Isabel Lucas, Joe Davidson, Christopher Pate, Steve Nationand Jonathan Weir. The movie follows four surfing sons who plan a tribute “surfari” to a small beach town for one of their fathers murdered three decades earlier, but plans go awry when they find themselves embroiled in a drug deal. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Korven Scoring Netflix’s ‘Below’
Posted: July 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Below, Mark Korven, Netflix
Mark Korven (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Black Phone, The First Omen, Cube, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, The Peripheral) is scoring the upcoming Canadian Netflix limited series Below. The show is created by Jesse McKeown (The Umbrella Academy) and stars Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis, Charlie Heaton, Ruby Stokes, Willow Kean, Kaleb Horn, Rohan Campbell, Mary Walsh and Natasha Henstridge. The 6-part horror thriller revolves around a hard-bitten fisherman and his family who fight to protect their close-knit community when a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a small Newfoundland town. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Shatter’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: July 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Lindup, Michael Carreras, Monte Hellman, score, Shatter, Soundtrack
Silva Screen Records has announced a soundtrack album for the 1974 action thriller Shatter directed by Michael Carreras & Monte Hellman and starring Stuart Whitman, Ti Lung, Lily Li, Anton Diffring and Peter Cushing. The album features the original music from the Hammer Films & Shaw Brothers Studio production composed by David Lindup (The Spiral Staircase, White Cargo), presented for the first time as originally intended, including alternate cues and incidental pieces. The soundtrack will be released as a limited edition 12″ LP, pressed on orange vinyl, on August 7 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Christiania’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christiania, Karl Friis Forchhammer, Marco Twellmann, score, Soundtrack
Marco Twellmann has released a soundtrack album for the Danish documentary Christiania. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to Twellmann’s first track (The Town in the Heart of Copenhagen) below. Christiania directed by Karl Friis Forchhammer chronicles over 50 years of the famous Copenhagen freetown, one of the world’s most radical social experiments, and traces its journey from a 1971 occupation of abandoned barracks to a unique community shaped by freedom, conflict, creativity, drugs, biker gangs, and political struggles. Read the rest of this entry »
Volker Bertelmann Scoring Florian Zeller’s ‘Bunker’
Posted: July 27, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bunker, Florian Zeller, Volker Bertelmann
Volker Bertelmann (Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front, Lion, Adrift, Pressure, The Day of the Jackal, A House of Dynamite, The Amateur, One Life) has provided the original score for the upcoming dramatic thriller Bunker. The film is written and directed by Florian Zeller (The Father, The Son) and stars Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano and Patrick Schwarzenegger. The movie follows an architect who accepts a morally ambiguous project — building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire, but his wife begins to question their marriage after almost two decades together. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Arnie & Barney: The Water Quest’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: July 26, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Arnie & Barney: The Water Quest, Christoph Zirngibl, score, Sean Heuston, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature Arnie & Barney: The Water Quest. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christoph Zirngibl Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia, Jerry Cotton, Where’s Wanda?, Luna’s Revenge) and performed by the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg conducted by Ben Palmer. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s end credits track (feat. Umbilical Brothers) after the jump. Arnie & Barney: The Water Quest is directed by Sean Heuston and tells the story of two ants who decide to take matters into their own hands when a severe drought hits the insect community and team up with an incognito superhero mosquito to discover the real reason for the missing water. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 26, 2026)
Posted: July 26, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Acorn TV, Adult Swim, Amazon, Ariel Marx, Arli Liberman, Bear McCreary, Dream Chambers, Fightland, Furious, Hulu, Mogwai, Netflix, Paul Saunderson, President Curtis, Ryan Elder, Starz, Swindle, The Bombing of Pan Am 103, The Devil's Mouth, The Ridge
Premiering tonight is the Adult Swim original animated series President Curtis created by Dan Harmon & James Siciliano and starring Keith David, Stephanie Beatriz and Jim Rash. The show’s original music is composed by Ryan Elder (Rick and Morty, The Boss Baby: Back in Business, Haunted Hotel, Harmontown). The series, which is set in the Rick and Morty universe and follows the title character and his eccentric staff as they tackle crises from interdimensional diplomacy to paranormal investigations and unexplained phenomena, will air every Sunday night on Adult Swim and will also be available to stream the next day on HBO Max.
Premiering tomorrow, July 27, is the Hulu original series Furious created by Elizabeth Meriwether and starring Emmy Rossum, Lola Petticrew, Scoot McNairy, Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Jake Lacy. Ariel Marx (Dying for Sex, Shiva Baby, Candy, Sanctuary, A Small Light,The Last Frontier, Murdaugh: Death in the Family, A Friend of the Family, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Tale) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the crime thriller, which will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu. Read the rest of this entry »
