Michael Abels (Get Out, Nope, Us, Sirens, Star Wars: The Acolyte, The Burial, Landscape with Invisible Hand, See You Yesterday, Breaking) is scoring the upcoming South Korean sci-fi/action thriller Hope. The film is directed by Na Hong-jin (The Wailing, The Yellow Sea) and stars Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon, Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell and Cameron Britton. The movie follows a local police chief who is alerted when a tiger has appeared in the town’s hills. What begins as a local emergency soon spirals into a terrifying mystery that forces the town’s residents to confront the unknown. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Abels Scoring Na Hong-jin’s ‘Hope’
Posted: May 7, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hope, Michael Abels, Na Hong-Jin
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‘The Sheep Detectives’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 7, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Christophe Beck, Kyle Balda, score, Soundtrack, The Sheep Detectives
Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for the murder mystery comedy The Sheep Detectives. The album features the film’s original music composed by Christophe Beck (Frozen, Ant-Man, Edge of Tomorrow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, WandaVision, Free Guy, The Muppets, The Hangover, The Pink Panther). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 8 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first and final track below and click here to check out the project’s music team credits. The Sheep Detectives is directed by Kyle Balda and stars Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, Nicholas Braun, Hong Chau and Emma Thompson, as well as voice cast members Bryan Cranston, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Regina Hall, Chris O’Dowd, Brett Goldstein, Patrick Stewart,Bella Ramsey and Rhys Darby. The movie based on Leonie Swann’s novel Three Bags Full tells the story of a shepherd who reads detective novels to his sheep every night, assuming they can’t possibly understand, but when a mysterious incident occurs, the sheep realize they must become the detectives. Read the rest of this entry »
Papa Roach’s & Hanumankind’s Original Song ‘See U in Hell’ from ‘Devil May Cry’ Season 2 Released
Posted: May 7, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Alex Seaver, Devil May Cry, Hanumankind, Netflix, Papa Roach
Netflix Music has released the first track from the soundtrack for the second season of the streamer’s original animated series Devil May Cry. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music services is the original song See U in Hell co-written (with Alex Seaver of Mako & Tyler Demorest) and performed by Papa Roach & Hanumankind. Also check out the official music video after the jump. Devil May Cry is created by Adi Shankar based on the hit video game franchise and features the voices of Johnny Yong Bosch, Scout Taylor-Compton, Hoon Lee, Kevin Conroy and Chris Coppola. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Citadel’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 7, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Citadel, Jeff Russo, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a new soundtrack album for the Prime Video original series Citadel. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Emmy Award winner Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, Alien: Earth, Ripley, The Night Of, Legion, Zero Day, For All Mankind, The Umbrella Academy, The Man Who Feel to Earth). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 8 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composer’s first track (Citadel Redux (Broken)) below. Sony Classical has previously released an album featuring Alex Belcher’s score from Season 1 back in 2023. Citadel is created by Josh Appelbaum, Bryan Oh & David Weil and stars Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Stanley Tucci, Lesley Manville, Ashleigh Cummings, Jack Reynor, Matt Berry, Lina El Arabi, Merle Dandridge, Gabriel Leone and Rayna Vallandingham. Read the rest of this entry »
Ben Platt to Write Music for Karim Aïnouz’s ‘Last Dance’
Posted: May 7, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ben Platt, Karim Aïnouz, Last Dance
Deadline is reporting that actor/singer Ben Platt will contribute original music to the upcoming drama Last Dance. He will also star in the movie directed by Karim Aïnouz (Firebrand, Invisible Life), alongside Adrien Brody and Rachel Zegler. The movie follows a celebrated Broadway composer who invites his daughter on a gay cruise through the Caribbean in 1991, on which the daughter, the only straight woman on board, experiences an unexpected first love with a young crew member. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Legends’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: May 7, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Legends, Netflix, score, Sion Trefor, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the British Netflix original series Legends. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Sion Trefor (Say Nothing, Toxic Town, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Waiting for the Out, Death Valley). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 8 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s title track below. Legends is created by Neil Forsyth and stars Tom Burke, Steve Coogan, Tom Hughes, Aml Ameen, Hayley Squires, Alex Jennings, Jasmine Blackborow, Douglas Hodge, Johnny Harris and Con O’Neill. The crime drama is set in the early 1990s when Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise was losing its battle with illegal drug smuggling across Britain’s borders and follows a small team of Customs employees who were sent undercover on a top-secret operation to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Fading Man’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: May 7, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Fading Man, Der verlorene Mann, Pablo Jókay, score, Soundtrack
Pablo Jókay has released a soundtrack album for the German comedy drama A Fading Man (Der verlorene Mann). The album features the composer’s original music from the film and is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to Jókay’s title track below. A Fading Man is co-written and directed by Welf Reinhart and stars Dagmar Manzel, Harald Krassnitzer and August Zirner. The movie revolves around a woman whose orderly life with her partner is upended when her ex-husband reappears, now suffering from dementia and having forgotten their divorce. Read the rest of this entry »
Dominic Lewis Scoring AMC+’s & Shudder’s ‘The Terror: Devil in Silver’
Posted: May 6, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: AMC, Dominic Lewis, Shudder, The Terror, The Terror: Devil in Silver
Dominic Lewis (Bullet Train, The Fall Guy, Peter Rabbit, Karate Kid: Legends, Money Monster, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, Dope Thief, Spirited) is the composer of the new AMC+/Shudder limited series The Terror: Devil in Silver. The third installment of the horror anthology stars Dan Stevens, Judith Light, Aasif Mandvi, Hampton Fluker, CCH Pounder, Stephen Root, b, Hayward Leach, Chinaza Uche, John Benjamin Hickey, Philip Ettinger, Michael Aronov and Marin Ireland. The 6-part show follows a working-class moving man who finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, where he must contend with patients working against him, doctors harboring grim secrets, and perhaps even the Devil himself. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Driller Killer’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: May 6, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Abel Ferrara, Driller Killer, Joe Delia, score, Soundtrack, The Driller Killer
Recently Deceased will release the first-ever soundtrack album for the 1979 slasher comedy The Driller Killer directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Ferrara (as Jimmy Laine), Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day and Harry Schultz. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joe Delia (Bad Lieutenant, Body Snatchers, King of New York, The Funeral, Padre Pio, Tommaso). The soundtrack will be released digitally and on vinyl this Friday, May 8. Visit Amazon to pre-order the vinyl edition, which is limited to 1,000 copies and includes jacket art of Douglas Metro’s paintings from the film, a printed inner sleeve of lyrics and liner notes from Delia & Ferrara. Read the rest of this entry »
Joseph Bishara Scoring Michael Gallagher’s ‘The Leader’
Posted: May 6, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Joseph Bishara, Michael Gallagher, The Leader
Joseph Bishara (The Conjuring, Insidious, Annabelle, The Curse of La Llorona, Malignant, Dark Skies, The Unholy, Tarot) has recently scored the upcoming true crime drama The Leader. The film is written and directed by Michael Gallagher (The Thinning, Funny Story) and stars Vera Farmiga, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parsons, Grace Caroline Currey and Simon Rex. The movie chronicles the true story of Heaven’s Gate, the cult that convinced dozens to abandon their lives and await evacuation from planet Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
