Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross were honored with their third Critics Choice Award in the Best Score category for their music for Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers at tonight’s 30th Critics Choice Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. They previously received the award for The Social Network and Soul. The other composers nominated in the category were Volker Bertelmann for Conclave, Kris Bowers for The Wild Robot, Clément Ducol & Camille for Emilia Pérez, Daniel Blumberg for The Brutalist and Hans Zimmer for Dune: Part Two. Read the rest of this entry »
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Win Critics Choice Award for ‘Challengers’ Score
Posted: February 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Critics Choice Awards
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‘New Wave’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chris Upton, Elizabeth Ai, Greg Bernall, New Wave, score, Soundtrack
If This Then Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary New Wave. The album features the film’s original score composed by Greg Bernall (Social Animals) & Chris Upton (Ba). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to a track (There Is a New Wave) from the composers’ score below. New Wave is directed by Elizabeth Ai and centers on a group of displaced Vietnamese refugees who fled their country by boat and in the 1980s redefined their identities in suburban Orange County, California, through New Wave music. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan Levy to Score Alexandre Castagnetti’s ‘The Phantom of the Opera’
Posted: February 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alexandre Castagnetti, Dan Levy, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, The Phantom of the Opera
Dan Levy (I Lost My Body, Meanwhile on Earth, Breaking Point, Vesper, Star Wars Visions: Sith, Empire of the Wolves, For My Country) is set to score a new contemporary French film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s classic novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra). The movie is directed by Alexandre Castagnetti (Love Is in the Air, Tamara) and will star Deva Cassel, Julien De Saint Jean and Romain Duris. The film tells the story of a young woman newly-arrived in Paris and full of hopes and dreams as she takes up a position as a ballet dancer at the opera house, where she meets the place’s mythical phantom and they embark on an impossible love story. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: February 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: David Schweitzer, Netflix, Nic Stacey, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy. The album features the film’s original music composed by David Schweitzer (Emma, The Afterparty, The Reluctant Traveler, Tsunami: Race Against Time, Our Great National Parks, Sanditon, World War II: From the Frontline). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy is directed by Nic Stacey and pulls back the curtain on the secretive world of the most influential brands. The movie features a group of insiders and whistleblowers as they expose the covert manipulation tricks to keep you buying, no matter the cost. Read the rest of this entry »
Title Theme from Netflix’s ‘The Greatest Rivalry: India vs Pakistan’ Released
Posted: February 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: C. Girinandh, Chandradev Bhagat, Netflix, Stewart Sugg, The Greatest Rivalry: India vs Pakistan
Netflix Music has released the title theme from the new Indian Netflix original documentary series The Greatest Rivalry: India vs Pakistan. The track is written by the show’s composer C. Girinandh and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the theme below. The Greatest Rivalry: India vs Pakistan is directed by Chandradev Bhagat & Stewart Sugg and traces the cricketing rivalry between India and Pakistan. The 3-parter explores the passion, drama, and high-stakes intensity of this rivalry on the home soil of both nations. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Inheritance’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: February 7, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Inheritance, Neil Burger, Paul Leonard Morgan, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the spy thriller Inheritance. The album features the film’s original music composed by Paul Leonard-Morgan (Limitless, Dredd, Boston Strangler, Bodkin, Fellow Travelers, Tales from the Loop, Dynasty, Wormwood). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Also listen to the composer’s final track after the jump. Inheritance is directed by Neil Burger and stars Phoebe Dynevor, Rhys Ifans, Kersti Bryan, Kashyap Shangari, Necar Zadegan, Cilara Baxendale, Amit Rajindar Grover and Majd Eid. The movie follows a woman who – after learning her father was once a spy – suddenly finds herself at the center of an international conspiracy and must quickly learn the skills of her father as she becomes a target herself. Read the rest of this entry »
Zachary Dawes & Tyler Parkford Scoring Katie Aselton’s ‘Magic Hour’
Posted: February 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Katie Aselton, Magic Hour, Tyler Parkford, Zachary Dawes
Zachary Dawes (Big Time Adolescence, The Summer I Turned Pretty, The Peanut Butter Falcon, There’s Someone Inside Your House, A League of Their Own, The Big Door Prize) has teamed up with Tyler Parkford (Kate Can’t Swim) to score the upcoming drama Magic Hour. The film is directed by Katie Aselton (Black Rock, Mack & Rita) and stars Daveed Diggs, Katie Aselton, Brad Garrett and Susan Sullivan. The movie revolves around a couple who escape to the desert to navigate an unexpected and challenging new phase of their relationship. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dirty Angels’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: February 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dirty Angels, Martin Campbell, Photek, Rupert Parkes, score, Soundtrack
Filmtrax/Atlantic Screen Music will release a soundtrack album for the action thriller Dirty Angels. The album features the film’s original music composed by Rupert Parkes (aka Photek) (How to Get Away with Murder, The Protege, Station 19, Memory, Gang Related, Life in a Year, Mosul). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, February 7 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first track (A Message) below. Dirty Angels is directed by Martin Campbell and stars Eva Green, Maria Bakalova, Ruby Rose and Jojo T. Gibbs. The movie follows a combat veteran who is tasked with leading an all-woman black ops team on a perilous assignment of infiltration and extraction when a terrorist group invades an international girls’ school in Pakistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Lena Raine Scoring Elena Oxman’s ‘Outerlands’
Posted: February 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Elena Oxman, Lena Raine, Outerlands
Lena Raine, best known for her music for video game titles such as Celeste, Guild Wars 2, Minecraft & Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, is making her feature scoring debut on the upcoming indie drama Outerlands. The film is written and directed by Elena Oxman and stars Asia Kate Dillon, Louisa Krause, Ridley Asha Bateman, Daniel K. Isaac, Lea DeLaria, Melinda Meeng, Allie Heng, Safia Fredericks, Winter Dewitt and Sedrick Cabrera. The movie follows a gig worker in San Francisco who has to confront the truth of their own tumultuous childhood when asked by an alluring woman to watch her 11-year-old daughter while she goes out of town. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Cassandra’ to Be Released
Posted: February 6, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Cassandra, Mathieu Lamboley, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the German Netflix limited series Cassandra. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Mathieu Lamboley (Lupin, The Rosemaker, Between Two Worlds, Lolo, The Last Mercenary, Sisters in Arms, A Minuscule Adventure). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, February 7. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album and also check out the composer’s title track below. Cassandra is created by Benjamin Gutsche and stars Lavinia Wilson, Mina Tander, Michael Klammer, Franz Hartwig, Mary Tölle, Joshua Kantara, Filip Schnack, Elias Grünthal, Michel Koch and Pina Kühr. The 6-part sci-fi thriller follows a family who learn that their vintage smart home is under the control of a virtual assistant who was developed in the 1970s and senses a second chance after being out of service following the death of the house’s former occupants. Read the rest of this entry »
