Rael Jones (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Harlots, My Cousin Rachel, My Lady Jane, Role Play, Kids in Love) has composed the original music for the new BBC drama This City Is Ours. The show is created by Stephen Butchard (The Last Kingdom, The Child in Time) and stars Sean Bean, James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah Onslow, Jack McMullen, Julie Graham, Laura Aikman, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Kevin Harvey, Bobby Schofield, Mike Noble, Darci Shaw and Stephen Walters. The 8-part crime drama tells the story of man who for all of his adult life has been involved in organized crime who must navigate the chaos when his boss hinting is at retirement and rivals vying for control to protect the woman he loves and the child he’s always wanted. Read the rest of this entry »
Rael Jones Scoring BBC’s ‘This City Is Ours’
Posted: March 17, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Rael Jones, Saul Dibb, This City is Ours
‘Stenbeck’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 17, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Andreas Tengblad, Goran Kapetanović, score, Soundtrack, Stenbeck
Music Super Circus has released a soundtrack album for the Swedish limited series Stenbeck. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Andreas Tengblad (The Conference, Knutby, The Final Race, Second Act, Sune vs. Sune). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to a track from the composer’s score below. Stenbeck is directed by Goran Kapetanović, written by Alex Haridi, Lotta Erikson & Helene Lindholm and stars Jakob Oftebro, Zoe Boyle, Malin Crepin, Iggy Malmborg, Julia Marko Nord and Niklas Engdahl. The 5-part biographical drama chronicles the rise of a media mogul Jan Stenbeck’s journey from wall street to Nordic power player. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 16, 2025)
Posted: March 16, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Apple TV +, Ariel Marx, BE@RBRICK, BritBox, Finn Keane, Geremy Jasper, Good American Family, Happy Face, Hulu, Jason Binnick, JimiJame$, Jina Hyojin An, Ludwig, Marcelo Zarvos, Mark Mothersbaugh, Nathan Klein, Netflix, O'Dessa, Paramoun+, Shirley Song, The Residence, Tyler Perry’s Duplicity, Wow Jones
Premiering on Wednesday, March 19, is the Hulu limited series Good American Family created by Katie Robbins and starring Ellen Pompeo, Mark Duplass, Imogen Faith Reid, Sarayu Blue, Dulé Hill, Jenny O’Hara and Christina Hendricks. The show’s original music is composed by Marcelo Zarvos (Fences, The Equalizer 3, The Affair, Wonder, May December, Ray Donovan, The Good Shepherd, Emancipation). Hollywood Record will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score on Friday, March 21. Check back on this page for the full album details and check out our previous article to learn more about the drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu.
Premiering on Thursday, March 20, is the Netflix limited series The Residence created by Paul William Davies and starring Uzo Aduba, Giancarlo Esposito, Randall Park, Molly Griggs, Susan Kelechi Watson, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Ken Marino, Jason Lee, Edwina Findley and Al Mitchell. Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Lego Movie, 21/22 Jump Street, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the murder mystery comedy, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. Read the rest of this entry »
Nick Foster Scoring Netflix Documentary ‘The Twister: Caught in the Storm’
Posted: March 16, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandra Lacey, Nick Foster, Soundtrack, The Twister: Caught in the Storm
Nick Foster (Thunderbirds Are Go, Renegade Nell, Greatest Days, Lover, Stalker, Killer, Misha and the Wolves, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin) has provided the original score for the new Netflix original documentary The Twister: Caught in the Storm. The film directed by Alexandra Lacey (The Fake Sheikh) is set against a backdrop of end-of-the-world predictions on May 22, 2011, and is told from the perspective of a group of young people in Joplin, Missouri, as they encounter the extreme power of Mother Nature when a rare EF-5, monster tornado hits their hometown on high school graduation day. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Unbreakable Boy’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 15, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Jon Gunn, Pancho Burgos-Goizueta, score, Soundtrack, The Unbreakable Boy
Lionsgate Records has released a soundtrack album for the drama The Unbreakable Boy. The album features the film’s original score composed by Pancho Burgos-Goizueta (Ordinary Angels, Righteous Thieves, Wheels, God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness, People You May Know, From Embers). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. The Unbreakable Boy is written and directed by Jon Gunn and starring Zachary Levi, Meghann Fahy, Patricia Heaton and Jacob Laval. The movie tells the story of a young boy with both a rare brittle-bone disease and autism whose life-affirming world view that transforms and unites everyone around him. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (March 14, 2025)
Posted: March 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andrew Kawczynski, Black Bag, Borderline, Danny Bensi, David Holmes, Erez Koskas, High Rollers, Joshua Moshier, Leo Z, Lorne Balfe, Mondo Boys, Nile Rodgers, Novocaine, Opus, Richard Reed Parry, Ruben De Gheselle, Saunder Jurriaans, The Actor, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, The Last Supper, The World Will Tremble, The-Dream, Yagmur Kaplan, Young Hearts
Opening in theaters nationwide is the action comedy Novocaine directed by Dan Berk & Robert Olsen and starring Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Matt Walsh, Jacob Batalon, Betty Gabriel, Lou Beatty Jr., Conrad Kemp and Van Hengst. The film’s original music is composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible: Fallout, Black Widow, Black Adam, The Wheel of Time, His Dark Materials, Top Gun: Maverick) & Andrew Kawczynski (Gran Turismo, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Corrupted). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures release.
Also opening in theaters nationwide is the spy drama Black Bag directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Pierce Brosnan, Regé-Jean Page, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Marisa Abela. David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven, Out of Sight, Killing Eve, Haywire, No Sudden Move, Hunger, Analyze That, Marlowe) has composed the film’s original music. Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details for more information about the movie, which is being released by Focus Features. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The World Will Tremble’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Erez Koskas, Lior Geller, score, Soundtrack, The World Will Tremble
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the historical drama The World Will Tremble. The album features the film’s original music composed by Erez Koskas (We Die Young, The Heart of Jenin). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. The World Will Tremble is directed by Lior Geller and stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jeremy Neumark Jones, Charlie MacGechan, David Kross, Michael Epp, Michael Fox and Anton Lesser. The movie tells the true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust. Read the rest of this entry »
Amie Doherty to Score Nisha Ganatra’s ‘Freakier Friday’
Posted: March 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amie Doherty, Freakier Friday, Freaky Friday 2, Nisha Ganatra
Amie Doherty (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Undone, Please Don’t Destroy, Spirit Untamed, Happiest Season) has been hired to score the upcoming comedy Freakier Friday. The film is directed by Nisha Ganatra (Late Night, Cake) and stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto, Rosalind Chao, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Vanessa Bayer, Chad Michael Murray and Mark Harmon. The sequel to 2003’s hit movie Freaky Friday (scored by Rolfe Kent) takes place years after Tess & Anna endured an identity crisis as they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge and discover that lightning might indeed strike twice. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Opus’ Soundtrack EP Released
Posted: March 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: John Malkovich, Mark Anthony Green, Nile Rodgers, Opus, Soundtrack, The-Dream
A24 Music has released The Moretti EP featuring three songs from the horror thriller Opus. EP features the songs Dina, Simone (previously released as a digital single), Tomorrow & 35mm written by Nile Rodgers and The-Dream and performed by lead actor John Malkovich as Albert Moretti. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. A limited vinyl edition is available to order in A24’s web shop. Also listen to the two previously unreleased songs below. Opus is written and directed by Mark Anthony Green and also stars Ayo Edebiri, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett and Amber Midthunder. The movie follows a writer who is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeared decades ago and finds herself in the middle of his twisted plan. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Alto Knights’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: March 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Barry Levinson, David Fleming, score, Soundtrack, The Alto Knights
WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the crime drama The Alto Knights. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Fleming (The Last of Us, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Jim Henson: Idea Man, Damsel, The Unforgivable, Hillbilly Elegy, Blue Planet II, The Night Logan Woke Up, The Perfect Guy). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s title track after the jump. The Alto Knights is directed by Barry Levinson and stars Robert De Niro, Debra Messing, Cosmo Jarvis, Michael Rispoli, Kathrine Narducci, Michael Adler, Joe Bacino, Ed Amatrudo, Anthony J. Gallo, Louis Mustillo, Wallace Langham, Frank Piccirillo, Matt Servitto and Robert Uricola. The movie follows two of New York’s most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello & Vito Genovese, as they vie for control of the city’s streets. Read the rest of this entry »
