Chiara Costanza (Totally Completely Fine, Long Story Short, Plum, Heartbreak High) has released a soundtrack album for the Australian crime drama Inside. The album features the composer’s original score from the film and 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. Inside is written and directed by Charles Williams and stars Guy Pearce, Cosmo Jarvis, Vincent Miller, Toby Wallace, Chloé Hayden, Tara Morice  and Michael Logo. The movie tells the story of a young man who gets transferred from juvenile to adult prison, where he is taken under the wing of both Australia’s most despised criminal and a soon-to-be-a-paroled inmate. Read the rest of this entry »

Isabella Summers (aka Isa Machine of Florence + the Machine) (Little Fires Everywhere, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Lisa Frankenstein, KAOS, Physical, The Offer) has recently scored the upcoming comedy drama The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick. The film is directed by Pete Ohs (Jethica, Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) and stars Zoë Chao, Callie Hernandez, James Cusati-Moyer and Jeremy O. Harris. The movie follows a young woman who drives down to a friend’s bucolic new home for some time away after a tragic accident and begins developing troubling symptoms from a tick bite.

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B Original has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Missing from Fire Trail Road. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christophe La Pinta (Through the Fire, The State of Texas vs. Melissa, SK1Un flicAnything for Alice) & Antone George. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first score track and their (original) MMIW Song (feat. vocals by Cheryl George) below. Missing from Fire Trail Road is directed by Sabrina Van Tassel and details the case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, a Native American woman who disappeared in 2020. The movie exposes how hundreds of indigenous women continue to go missing in the U.S., perpetuating trans-generational trauma on Indian reservations. Read the rest of this entry »

Hollywood Records and Searchlight Pictures have announced the official soundtrack album for the rock opera O’Dessa. The album features thirteen original songs written and produced by the film’s writer and director Geremy Jasper (Patti Cake$) with Jason Binnick and performed by lead actors Sadie Sink and Kelvin Harrison Jr., with additional performances by Pokey LaFarge, Bree Elrod, Murray Barlett and Emily Forsythe. The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 14 (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). A special violet colored vinyl version will be coming out this summer. Check out the music video for the first track (Here Comes the Seventh Son performed by Sink) below. O’Dessa is set in a post-apocalyptic future and follows a farm girl on an epic quest to recover a cherished family heirloom whose journey leads her to a strange and dangerous city where she meets her one true love. Read the rest of this entry »

Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix limited series The Leopard (Il Gattopardo). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Paolo Buonvino (MediciFathers & DaughtersFatimaRomanzo Criminale, Here Now, Quiet Chaos). 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. The Leopard is created by Richard Warlow based on based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s classic novel of the same name and stars Kim Rossi Stuart, Benedetta Porcaroli, Deva Cassel, Francesco Colella, Saul Nanni, Paolo Calabresi and Astrid Meloni. The 6-part period drama is set amid the unification of 1860s Italy and follows a Sicilian prince as he grapples with the collision between his family’s ancient privilege and revolutionary change. Read the rest of this entry »

Hollywood Records has released the original song Jeet Hai Hamari from the “Hollywood vs Bollywood” musical number of the second episode (What If… Agatha Went to Hollywood?) of the third season of Marvel Studios Animation’s Disney+ original series What If…?. The track written & produced by Gaayatri, Brandon Brown & Ishaan Chhabra and performed by Gaayatri & Benny Dayal is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. The label has previously released a full soundtrack album featuring selections of the original score from Season 3 composed by Laura Karpman & Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum this past January. Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko, Neighbors, Bridesmaids, Freaks & Geeks, Daddy’s HomePiece by Piece, Bad Teacher, Me and You and Everyone We KnowFunny People) has composed the original music for the upcoming thriller American Sweatshop. The film is directed by Uta Briesewitz (The Wheel of Time) and stars Lili Reinhart, Daniela Melchior, Jeremy Ang Jones, Tim Plester, Josh Whitehouse, Christiane Paul and Joel Fry. The movie follows a young woman dealing with a chaotic personal life who finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet and – together with a motley group of coworkers – toils in a cottage industry of agencies that evaluate harmful videos and pictures uploaded to social media. Read the rest of this entry »

Wendy Wang (American Born ChineseDoogie Kamealoha, M.D., Clipped, Man Up) has provided the original score for Onyx Collective’s new Hulu original series Deli Boys. The show is created by Abdullah Saeed (who also composed the series’ theme song), developed by Jenni Konner (Girls, Welcome to Chippendales) & Nora Silver (Single Drunk Female) and stars Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh, Poorna Jagannathan, Brian George and Alfie Fuller. The comedy follows a a pair of pampered Pakistani American brothers who lose everything when their father suddenly dies and are forced to reckon with their his secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld. Read the rest of this entry »

22D Music has released a new soundtrack album for the historical drama series Marie Antoinette. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Guillaume Roussel (Black Beauty, The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan & Milady, 3 Days to Kill, Lift,  The SpyExpend4bles, Happy!, NovemberThe Man with the Iron Heart). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. The label has previously released an album featuring Roussel’s music from Season 1 back in 2022. Marie Antoinette is created by Deborah Davis and stars Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Freya Mavor, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow, Crystal Shepherd-Cross, Oscar Lesage, Roxane Duran and Caroline Piette. The period drama continues to chronicle the life of one of history’s most influential and controversial figures. Read the rest of this entry »

Music Highlights from the 97th Academy Awards

Posted: March 3, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The 97th Academy Awards ceremony was held last night. While none of the Oscar-nominated original songs were performed live, the show featured several other musical performance. Highlights include Cynthia Erivo’s & Ariana Grande’s performance of Defying Gravity from the Academy Award-nominated Wicked (as well as their rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow & Home),  a James Bond musical tribute featuring LISA, Doja Cat and RAYE performing the Bond theme songs Live and Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever & Skyfall, as well as Queen Latifah’s rendition of Ease on Down the Road from the musical The Wiz as a tribute to composer/music producer Quincy Jones who passed away last year. Check out all three performances after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »