Steven Price (Gravity, Fury, Last Night in Soho, Our Planet, Suicide Squad, Over the Moon, Baby Driver, The World’s End) has composed the original music for the upcoming action comedy Heads of State. The film is directed by Ilya Naishuller (Nobody, Hardcore Henry) and stars Idris Elba, John Cena, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jack Quaid, Carla Gugino, Stephen Root, Richard Coyle, Sarah Niles and Paddy Considine. The movie follows the U.S. President and the UK Prime Minister who must set aside their rivalry to thwart a global conspiracy and save the world – if they can work together. Read the rest of this entry »
Steven Price Scoring Ilya Naishuller’s ‘Heads of State’
Posted: April 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Heads of State, Ilya Naishuller, Steven Price
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‘Mexico 86’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cesar Diaz, Mexico 86, Rémi Boubal, score, Soundtrack
Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the Belgian/French political thriller Mexico 86. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rémi Boubal (Plan 75, Black Tide, Our Mothers Bigger Than Us, Teach Me If You Can). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. Mexico 86 is written and directed by César Díaz and stars Bérénice Béjo, Léonardo Ortizgris, Matheo Labbé and Julieta Egurrola. The movie follows a Guatemalan rebel activist fighting against the corrupt military dictatorship who is forced to flee to Mexico in 1976, leaving her son behind, when – 10 years later – he comes to live with her and she is forced to choose between her duties as a mother and continuing her revolutionary activism. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bullet Train Explosion’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bullet Train Explosion, Neftlix, score, Shinji Higuchi, Soundtrack, Taisei Iwasaki, Yuma Yamaguchi
Netflix Music will release the official soundtrack album for the Japanese Netflix original film Bullet Train Explosion. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Taisei Iwasaki (Belle, First Love, Blood Blockade Battlefront) and Yuma Yamaguchi. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 23 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to Iwasaki’s title track below. Bullet Train Explosion is directed by Shinji Higuchi and stars Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kanata Hosoda, Non, Machiko Ono, Jun Kaname, Hana Toyoshima, Satoru Matsuo, Daisuke Kuroda, Suzuka Ohgo and Matsuya Onoe. The action thriller based on Toei’s 1975 feature The Bullet Train directed by Junya Sato is set on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph and follows the Hayabusa No. 60’s two conductors and driver who must race against time to save the passengers. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Howe Scoring Disney Channel’s ‘Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires’
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Disney Channel, Disney Plus, Paul Hoen, Tom Howe, Zombies, ZOMBIES 4: Dawn of the Vampires
Tom Howe (Ted Lasso, Dog Man, Knuckles, Daisy Jones & the Six, Early Man, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Book Club: The New Chapter) has signed on to score the upcoming Disney Channel original movie Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires. The film is directed by Paul Hoen (who previously helmed the first three installments) and stars Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly, Freya Skye, Malachi Barton, Kylee Russell, Chandler Kinney, Julian Lerner, Mekonnen Knife, Swayam Bhatia, Lisa Chappell and Jonno Roberts. The sequel, which features nine new original songs and two reprises of Someday & Ain’t No Doubt About It, follows Zed & Addison whose summer road trip takes an unexpected detour, landing them in the middle of yet another monster rivalry: Daywalkers vs. Vampires. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Chief of Station’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chief of Station, Jesse V. Johnson, score, Sean Murray, Soundtrack
Filmtrax/Atlantic Screen Music has released a soundtrack album for the action thriller Chief of Station. The album features the film’s original music composed by Sean Murray (The Debt Collector, Accident Man, Deep Blue Sea 2, Avengement, Boudica: Queen of War, Walk. Ride. Rodeo.) Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s main titles track after the jump. Chief of Station is directed by Jesse V. Johnson and stars Aaron Eckhart, Olga Kurylenko, Alex Pettyfer, Daniel Bernhardt, Nick Moran, Chris Petrovski, Kris Johnson and James Faulkner. The movie follows a former CIA Station Chief who – after learning the untimely death of his wife was not accidental – is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew. Read the rest of this entry »
Nicholas Britell Scoring Jesse Armstrong’s HBO Movie ‘Mountainhead’
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO, Jesse Armstrong, Mountainhead, Nicholas Britell
Nicholas Britell (Succession, Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Don’t Look Up, Cruella, The Big Short, Vice) has been tapped to score the upcoming HBO original film Mountainhead. The movie is written and directed by Jesse Armstrong and stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef, Hadley Robinson, Daniel Oreskes, Andy Daly, Ali Kinkade, David Thompson, Ami MacKenzie and Ava Kostia. The drama revolves around a group of billionaire friends who get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Darkness’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Atli Orvarsson, Kjartan Holm, score, Sin Fang, Soundtrack, The Darkness
INNI has released a soundtrack album for the Icelandic TV series The Darkness. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Atli Örvarsson (Silo, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Vantage Point, Defending Jacob, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Edge of Seventeen, The Eagle, Rams) Kjartan Holm (The Minister, Blackport) & Sin Fang (aka Sindri Már Sigfússon) (Foscadh, Duino). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ main titles track after the jump. The Darkness is based on the best-selling thriller bookseries by Ragnar Jónasson and stars Lena Olin, Jack Bannon, Douglas Henshall, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson, Thorsteinn Bachmann, Tora Hallström, Ahd Tamimi and Árni Þór Lárusson. The noir thriller directed by Lasse Hallström follows a detective investigating a shocking murder case and faced with an impending early retirement who is forced to take on a new partner is determined to find the killer, even if it means putting her own life in danger. Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandre Desplat Scoring Gareth Edwards’ ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Gareth Edwards, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Rebirth
Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The King’s Speech, Philomena, The Queen) has recently been recording his score for the upcoming sci-fi/action adventure Jurassic World: Rebirth. The film is directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, he Creator) and stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Ed Skrein, Philippine Velge and Bechir Sylvain. The movie is set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion and follows an intrepid team racing to secure DNA samples from the three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air. Read the rest of this entry »
First Track from ‘Andor’ Season 2 Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Andor, Brandon Roberts, Disney Plus, Nicholas Britell, Star Wars
Walt Disney Records has released the first track from the soundtrack for the second season of Lucasfilm’s Disney+ original series Andor. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is Andor Onward composed by Brandon Roberts (Thanksgiving, Motherland: Fort Salem, Fear Street Part 2: 1978, Land of Bad, Chaos Walking, Underwater, On a Wing and a Prayer) who scored most of the new season and features the original Andor theme written by Season 1 composer Nicholas Britell. Also listen to the track below. The label is expected to release four full soundtrack albums featuring music from all twelve new episodes over the next couple of weeks. Andor is created by Tony Gilroy and stars Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O’Reilly, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Ben Mendelsohn and Forest Whitaker. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Dangerous Friendship’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 22, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: A Dangerous Friendship, Cryille Aufort, PBS, score, Soundtrack, Une amitié dangereuse
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the French limited series A Dangerous Friendship (Une amitié dangereuse). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Cyrille Aufort (A Royal Affair, Splice, (March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step, The Other Story, Antarctica Calling, Heart of Oak, Ombline). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Anne and Louis) below. A Dangerous Friendship is created by Alain Tasma (who also directed all four episodes) & Henri Helman and stars Nelly Depeault, Stephanie Gil, Jérémy Gillet, Arthur Dupont, Stanley Weber, Clémentine Poidatz, Raïka Hazanavicius, Jack Laskey, Grégoire Colin, Patrick D’assumçao and Maya Sansa. The drama based on Juliette Benzoni’s historical romance novels and explores the relationship that develops between two startlingly different, yet equally powerful, women in 17th century France: the free-spirited Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse and the shy, extremely proud, straight-laced Anne of Austria, Queen of France. Read the rest of this entry »
