Gondwana Records has released a soundtrack album for Joachim Trier’s drama Sentimental Value. The album features the film’s original music composed by Polish pianist, singer and composer Hania Rani (The Lost Flower of Alice Hart, Rosalie, The Summer Book, I Never Cry, Subuk). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. A limited vinyl edition will be coming out on May 22. Listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Sentimental Value is co-written and directed by Trier and stars Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning. The movie, which has recently been nominated for nine Academy Awards (including Best Picture), follows an estranged father and once-celebrated director eager to reclaim his former glory as he reconnects with his daughters and offers one of them the lead role in his new film. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sentimental Value’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 31, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hania Rani, Joachim Trier, score, Sentimental Value, Soundtrack
Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 30, 2026)
Posted: January 30, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A.G. Cook, Andrew Hulshult, Danny Elfman, Dascha Dauenhauer, David Buckley, Dylan Gamble, Iron Lung, Islands, James Newberry, Karl Steven, Kostas Christides, Matthew Rogers, Melania, Moses the Black, Natchez, Paying for It, Pike River, Send Help, Shelter, Sook-Yin Lee, The Moment, Tony Neiman, Worldbreaker
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the survival horror thriller/comedy Send Help directed by Sam Raimi and starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien. The film’s original music is composed by Danny Elfman (Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Spider-Man, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Alice in Wonderland,Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Good Will Hunting, Men in Black). Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the 20th Century Studios release.
Also opening nationwide is the action thriller Shelter directed by Ric Roman Waugh and staring Jason Statham, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Bill Nighy and Naomi Ackie. David Buckley (The Sandman, Nobody, The Good Wife, The Nice Guys, The Forbidden Kingdom, The Good Fight, The Lincoln Lawyer, Papillon, Jason Bourne) has composed the film’s original music. No word on a soundtrack release. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the movie, which is being released by Black Bear Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pike River’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 30, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Karl Sölve Steven, Pike River, Rpbert Sarkies, score, Soundtrack
Karl Sölve Steven (Come to Daddy, Uproar, The Justice of Bunny King, Bookworm, The Girl on the Bridge, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%!) has released a soundtrack album for the New Zealand drama Pike River. 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 Steven’s first track (Eurydice) below. Pike River is directed by Robert Sarkies and stars Melanie Lynskey, Robyn Malcolm and Lucy Lawless. The movie tells the true story of two women whose friendship empowered them to fight for justice after the Pike River Mine Tragedy took the lives of twenty-nine men underground. Read the rest of this entry »
Lior Rosner Scoring Zoran Lisinac’s & Domagoj Mazuran’s ‘Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead’
Posted: January 30, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Domagoj Mazuran, Erick Schroder, Lior Rosner, Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead, Zoran Lisinac
Lior Rosner (Will & Grace, AJ and the Queen, Seconds Apart, Lazy Susan, The History of Comedy) has recently composed the music for the upcoming sci-fi action adventure Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead. Erick Schroder (The Ultimate Playlist of Noise, Under the Stadium Lights, No Man’s Land, Skeletons in the Closet) has provided additional music to the film directed by Zoran Lisinac (Toma) & Domagoj Mazuran and starring Marco Ilso, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Gilles Geary, Goran Bogdan, Ivana Dudic, Neb Chupin, Billy Barratt, Caroline Goodall and James Cosmo. The movie takes place after the Great Flood has split the world into scattered islands threatened by a colossal storm and follows two renegade Riders as they dare to challenge fate and venture into the unknown,. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Simple Twist of Fate’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 30, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Simple Twist of Fate, Cliff Eidelman, Gillies MacKinnon, score, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for the 1994 comedy drama A Simple Twist of Fate directed by Gillies MacKinnon and starring Steve Martin (who also wrote the screenplay), Gabriel Byrne, Catherine O’Hara and Stephen Baldwin. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Cliff Eidelman (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, He’s Just Not That Into You, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, My Girl 2, One True Thing). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s title suite after the jump. Varese Sarabande has previously released the original 1994 soundtrack album on CD. Read the rest of this entry »
‘It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown’ & ‘Charlie Brown’s All Stars!’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: January 30, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bill Melendez, Charlie Brown's All Stars, It's Arbor Day Charlie Brown, Phil Roman, score, Soundtrack, Vince Guaraldi
Lee Mendelson Film Productions will release the first-ever soundtrack album for two classic animated television specials: 1976’s It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brow created by Charles M. Schulz and directed by Phil Roman and 1966’s Charlie Brown’s All Stars! written by Schulz and directed by Bill Melendez. The album features the premiere release of the complete scores from the second and fifteenth (and final) Peanuts specials composed by Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving). The It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown 50th Anniversary Extended Edition & Charlie Brown’s All Stars! 60th Anniversary Edition will be released digitally and physically (on CD and vinyl) on March 20. Visit Amazon to pre-order the digital, CD version and vinyl edition. A first track (Young Man’s Fancy) is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Islands’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 30, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dascha Dauenhauer, Islands, Jan Ole Gerster, score, Soundtrack
KMV has released a soundtrack album for the thriller Islands. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dascha Dauenhauer (Golda, Tatami, Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Swarm, 22 Lanes, Blood Red Sky, Bliss, A Million Minutes, Souls). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to two tracks from the composer’s score after the jump. Islands is co-written and directed by Jan-Ole Gerster and stars Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, Fatima Adoum, Pep Ambros, Ramiro Blas and Dylan Torrell. The movie follows a tennis coach at a tropical resort who teaches during the day and parties at night and finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery when an enigmatic tourist arrives. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Gray House’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: January 30, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Soundtrack, The Gray House, Willie Nelson
MCA Nashville will release a soundtrack album for the Prime Video original limited series The Gray House. The album features War and Treaty’s main title theme song Blood in the River, as well as original tracks performed by Shania Twain & Drake Milligan, Killer Mike, Adrienne Warren, Yolanda Adams, Lainey Wilson, Scott Stapp and Larkin Poe. The soundtrack will be released on February 26 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Heart of America written by Erin Enderlin, Jim ‘Moose’ Brown & Jeff Fahey and performed by Willie Nelson) is being released today and can also be checked out after the jump. A separate album featuring John Debney’s & Bruce Broughton’s original score from the historical drama will be announced soon. The Gray House is directed by Roland Joffé and stars Mary-Louise Parker, Daisy Head, Amethyst Davis, Robert Knepper, Paul Anderson, Ian Duff, Christopher McDonald, Hannah James, Rob Morrow, Colin Morgan, Colin O’Donoghue,Sam Trammell, Keith David and Ben Vereen. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Under Salt Marsh’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 30, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Ben Salisbury, Claire Oakley, score, Sky, Soundtrack, Suvi-Eeva Äikäs, Under Salt Marsh
Invada Records has released a soundtrack album for the Sky original crime drama Under Salt Marsh. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Ben Salisbury (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Devs, Civil War, Civil War, Steve, Archive 81, Luce) and Suvi-Eeva Äikäs (Hanna, Constellation, Matriarch, Baghead). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the “titles” track performed by Beadie, Salisbury & Eeva Äikäs feat. Leisa Gwellian, Gwion Moris Jones & The Beatz, as well as the composers’ Jackie’s Theme after the jump. Under Salt Marsh is created by Claire Oakley and stars Kelly Reilly, Rafe Spall, Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Yang, Dinita Gohil, Brian Gleeson, Kimberley Nixon, Harry Lawtey and Mark Stanley. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Pretty in Pink’ 40th Anniversary Vinyl Edition Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: January 29, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Howard Deutch, John Hughes, Pretty in Pink, Soundtrack
UMe has announced a new soundtrack release for the 1986 teen comedy drama classic Pretty in Pink directed by Howard Deutch, written by John Hughes and starring Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, James Spader, Annie Potts and Andrew McCarthy. The 40th Anniversary Edition reissue features the songs from the movie, including The Psychedelic Furs’ Top 5 title track, OMD’s If You Leave, Echo & The Bunnymen’s Bring on the Dancing Horses, The Smiths’ Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want and INXS’ Do Wot You Do. The soundtrack will be released as a limited-edition ‘Pretty in Baby Pink’ 1LP, housed in a gatefold sleeve featuring film photography and featuring two bonus tracks previously unavailable on the soundtrack: Otis Redding’s Try a Little Tenderness and Talk Back’s Rudy (click here to order), and as a standard-weight black 1LP featuring the original tracklist (visit Amazon to pre-order) on March 13. Read the rest of this entry »
