Tôt Ou Tard has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy Not All Men But… (Le mélange des genres). The album features the film’s original music composed by Vincent Delerm (Spring Blossom, Out of Season, The Very Private Life of Mister Sim). Also included is a cover version of Jean-Jacques Goldman’s song Doux. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the song and the first score track below. Not All Men But… is co-written and directed by Michel Leclerc and stars Benjamin Lavernhe, Léa Drucker, Judith Chemla, Vincent Elbaz and Julia Piaton. The movie follows an undercover cop who infiltrates a group of feminist activists who she suspects are being accomplices in the murder of a violent husban . Read the rest of this entry »
‘Not All Men But…’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 21, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Le mélange des genres, Michel Leclerc, Not All Men But..., score, Soundtrack, Vincent Delerm
Lounge Version of Michael Giacchino’s ‘Marvel Studios Fanfare’ Released
Posted: April 21, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Michael Giacchino
Mutant has released the first track from the second volume of the album Exotic Themes for the Silver Screen by Michael Giacchino (Up, Lost, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Ratatouille, The Batman, Jurassic World, The Incredibles, Doctor Strange). Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is a lounge version of the Academy Award-winning composer’s Marvel Studios Fanfare, which has been featured in most Marvel movies over the last decade. Also listen to the track after the jump. A limited edition colorway vinyl is available to order on the label’s official website. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bitter Seeds’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 21, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bitter Seeds, Frank Ilfman, Micha X. Peled, score, Soundtrack
Tokyo Records Corporation & Papa Legba Recordings have released the first-ever soundtrack album for the 2011 documentary Bitter Seeds directed by Micha X. Peled. The album features the film’s original music composed by Frank Ilfman (Big Bad Wolves, Gunpowder Milkshake, A Mistake, Ghost Stories, The Operative, The Etruscan Smile). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s opening titles and end credits tracks below. Bitter Seeds explores the global fault lines of modern agriculture, from remote Indian villages grappling with genetically modified seeds to the powerful institutions that promote them. Read the rest of this entry »
Ryan & Hays Holladay and Zach Cregger Scoring Cregger’s ‘Weapons’
Posted: April 20, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hays Holladay, Ryan Holladay, Weapons, Zach Cregger
Director Zach Cregger (Barbarian) has made his feature scoring debut on his upcoming horror thriller Weapons. He has composed the score, alongside Ryan Holladay & Hays Holladay (Class Action Park), for the film written and directed by himself and starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong, Cary Christopher and Amy Madigan. The movie follows follows a small community after all but one child mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 20, 2025)
Posted: April 20, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Andor, Anne Nikitin, Brandon Roberts, Bullet Train Explosion, Disney Plus, Nainita Desai, National Geographic, Netflix, Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey, Raphaelle Thibaut, Sea Lions of the Galapagos, Secrets of the Penguins, Taisei Iwasaki, Yuma Yamaguchi
Premiering tonight is the National Geographic original documentary series Secrets of the Penguins executive produced by James Cameron, produced by Bertie Gregory and narrated by Blake Lively. The show’s original music is composed by Nainita Desai (The Deepest Breath, Nautilus, For Sama, The Tower, Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, The Reason I Jump, Funny Woman, Crossfire). Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score this past Friday. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the Talesmith & Lightstorm Earth production, which will air on National Geographic and will also be available to stream on Disney+.
Premiering tomorrow, April 21, is the Netflix original documentary Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey directed by Pippa Ehrlich and produced by Ehrlich, George Chignell, Jessica Grimshaw and Nick Shumaker. Anne Nikitin (American Animals, The Dropout, Hijack, Fate: The Winx Saga, I.S.S., Mrs. Wilson, Dangerous Liaisons, Lost Girls, The Pale Horse) has composed the film’s original music. Check out our previous. news article for more information about the movie, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple TV+’s ‘Lulu Is a Rhinoceros’ to Feature Original Songs by Leland and Score by Jina Hyojin An & Shirley Song
Posted: April 19, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Apple TV +, Jina Hyojin An, Leland, Lulu Is a Rhinoceros, Shirley Song
Apple TV+ announced this week that Leland (aka Brett McLaughlin) has written the original songs for the streamer’s upcoming animated musical special Lulu Is a Rhinoceros. The special, which is scored by Jina Hyojin An & Shirley Song (XO, Kitty, Exploding Kittens, BE@RBRICK, The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star, A Tourist’s Guide to Love), is developed by Jason & Allison Flom based on their children’s book of the same name and features the voices of Auliʻi Cravalho, Alex Newell, Dulé Hill, Paul Rust and Utkarsh Ambudkar. The Propagate Content & Bento Box Animation production directed by Angela Stempel follows the titular rhinoceros on a quest to spread kindness who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (April 18, 2025)
Posted: April 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen, David Longstreth, Howard Shore, Jay Wadley, John Erik Kaada, Ludwig Göransson, Sinners, Sneaks, Terrace Martin, The Legend of Ochi, The President's Wife, The Shrouds, The Ugly Stepsister, The Wedding Banquet, Vilde Tuv
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the horror movie Sinners written and directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Omar Benson Miller, Jayme Lawson and Delroy Lindo. The film’s original score is composed by Ludwig Göransson (Oppenheimer, The Mandalorian, Black Panther, Creed, Tenet, Turning Red, Venom). Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today (click here for the full album details). Sony Masterworks has also released a separate album featuring the songs from the movie performed by Rod Wave, Buddy Guy, James Blake, Brittany Howard, Don Toliver, Rhiannon Giddens & others (click here for the full album details). Also click here to check out the music team credits for the Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Also opening wide is the romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet co-written and directed by Andrew Ahn and starring Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Youn Yuh-jung and Joan Chen. Jay Wadley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Heart Eyes, Tell Me Lies, Franklin, Swan Song, Before, I Carry You with Me) has composed the film’s original score. No word on a soundtrack release. Check out our previous news article for more information about the movie, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is being distributed by Bleecker Street. Read the rest of this entry »
Bonus Songs from ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Released
Posted: April 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Minecraft Movie, Jack Black, Jared Hess
WaterTower Music has released a digital EP featuring four “bonus songs” performed by lead actor Jack Black from the fantasy comedy A Minecraft Movie. The EP, entitled I…Am Steve, features extended versions of the songs Steve’s Lava Chicken, Birthday Rap & 3 Ode to Dennis, as well as the previously unreleased track Welcome to Steve’s. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also check out the lyric videos for all four songs after the jump. The label has previously released the original soundtrack album last month. A Minecraft Movie is directed by Jared Hess and also stars Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, Sebastian Eugene Hansen and Jennifer Coolidge. Read the rest of this entry »
‘White Squall’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hans Zimmer, Jeff Rona, Ridley Scott, score, Soundtrack, White Squall
Hollywood Records has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for the 1996 survival drama White Squall directed by Ridley Scott and starring Jeff Bridges, Scott Wolf, John Savage, Jeremy Sisto, Balthazar Getty and Caroline Goodall. The album features the film’s original score composed by Jeff Rona (Chicago Hope, Exit Wounds, Generation Iron, Claws, Powers, Traffic) and produced by Rona and Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, The Dark Knight, Dune, Inception, Interstellar). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to two tracks from the composer’s music after the jump. The label has previously released the original soundtrack album, which also features seven songs (not included on the digital version), on CD in 1996. Read the rest of this entry »
Max Aruj & Alfie Godfrey Scoring Christopher McQuarrie’s ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’
Posted: April 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alfie Godfrey, Cecile Tournesac, Christopher McQuarrie, Max Aruj, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Max Aruj (Crawl, The Ice Road, iBoy, The Tank, Mech Cadets, Lansky) and Alfie Godfrey (Marching Powder, A Town Called Malice, Horsepower) have recently been scoring Christopher McQuarrie’s upcoming action sequel Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Cecile Tournesac serves as the score producer for the film directed by McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, Esai Morales, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Mariela Garriga, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Tramell Tillman, Hannah Waddingham, Shea Whigham, Charles Parnell, Greg Tarzan Davis, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk and Angela Bassett. McQuarrie also co-wrote the screenplay with Erik Jendresen (Ithaka) and is also producing the project with Cruise. Read the rest of this entry »
